Word: hearsay
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...Basically Lewis's testimony is hearsay evidence that couldn't be used against Clinton," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "But they want to use this to box Monica in for when she testifies on Thursday." Monica Lewinsky is reported to have consulted with her mother during a telephone conversation with Linda Tripp over how to deal with the probe into the alleged affair...
Warning: the following is a hypothesis based on a scrap of hearsay occurring within an allegation, and if one finds it wacko, so be it. But it seems to me that something is painfully true at the heart of the leaked White House claim, quickly denied, that there was an "emotional bond" between President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. This is not to say that there was no sexual relationship, or that the phrase was not a concoction to get him off the hook, or that he ought to be off the hook...
...circumstantial evidence like White House visitor logs, gifts and--perhaps more scientifically--a dress that reportedly has a semen stain from Clinton, which could be subjected to DNA testing. But what might seem to be the strongest evidence, Tripp's tapes of Lewinsky, would very probably be inadmissible as hearsay in a case against Clinton...
With the welter of claims and counter-claims and evidence that has been contradictory and based on hearsay, it is unlikely that the Truth Commission will come to any significant conclusion. Of more concern to many South Africans is the fact that Madikizela-Mandela has been nominated to run for deputy president of the majority African National Congress when Nelson Mandela retires as party head this month (he will remain head of the government until 1999) and his deputy, Thabo Mbeki, becomes party president...
This came as a response to a claim made by the Grille's legal counsel that the charges against the bar were based solely on hearsay and that the establishment was not able to cross-examine the students involved...