Word: lies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last month the corridor conversations between Tripp and Lewinsky had gone from girl talk to a deadly serious question about whether to lie under oath about the behavior of the President of the United States. Lewinsky apparently told Tripp she intended to deny the affair in her deposition and urged Tripp to do the same. Lewinsky warned Tripp that if she testified about the affair while Lewinsky and Clinton continued to stand fast, she would be isolated and vulnerable and her job would be in jeopardy. Excerpts of a small portion of the tapes, released by Newsweek, quote Lewinsky discussing...
...unequivocally that Ms. Lewinsky told me in no uncertain terms that she did not have a sexual relationship with the President," Jordan said last week, without explaining how the subject had come up. "At no time did I ever say, suggest or intimate to her that she should lie." He admitted introducing her to a lawyer after Paula Jones slapped her with a subpoena, and said he had been "privileged to assist" Lewinsky with her "vocational aspirations," securing job interviews for her at American Express and Revlon. He did this not because he wanted to buy her silence but because...
...your wife, the lawbooks say, and you're looking at 180 days in jail and a $500 fine. And until 1995, sodomy, including oral sex, was illegal in D.C. But whatever kind of sex President Clinton did or did not have with Monica Lewinsky, his legal problems don't lie with the morals section of D.C. local law. It's a cluster of federal statutes, lumped under the rubric "obstruction of justice," that could spell trouble. As a former law professor, Clinton would have no problem parsing their legalistic references to "knowingly" doing this and "corruptly" doing that...
...disturbingly complex: "I did not ask anyone to tell anything other than the truth. There is no improper relationship." Note the indefinite pronouns, "anyone" and "anything". He's taken the question out of the personal realm and into the theoretical, where the President would never ask someone to lie. I won't even examine the usage of the present tense in his denial of impropriety...
...boils down to two questions, the answers to which are in his head and his head alone: Did you have an affair with an intern, Mr. President? And did you encourage her to lie about that affair? He's waiting because he doesn't want to deny anything which might later be proven true. A wise legal move. Unfortunately, it's a devastating ethical move. I don't believe him now. I wanted him to be honestly angry from the beginning, to deny the charges and dismiss them as the ludicrous fantasies of an imaginative young woman...