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...agent has ever testified against a President in court. But no President has ever been pursued by anyone quite like Kenneth Starr, who wants to question agents about Bill Clinton's meetings with Monica Lewinsky. Last week the Secret Service hit back in court with a novel defense the Administration has been testing in public for a while. In a sealed court filing, lawyers for the Justice and Treasury departments argued that agents can refuse to testify because they are shielded by a "protective function" privilege similar to the one that covers spouses, doctors and clerics...
WASHINGTON: The Ken-and-Monica game of truth or dare got a lot rougher for both parties yesterday with Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's decision to deny Lewinsky immunity. Although Lewinsky's attorneys have vowed to appeal, legal experts believe she has no grounds until she's actually appeared before Starr's grand jury and been found in contempt. "That would mean she may have to sit in jail pending the appeal," says TIME correspondent Viveca Novak...
...could resume immunity negotiations with Lewinsky's lawyers, in which they 'proffer' Starr a peek at their client's testimony. "There Starr runs the risk of the whole thing falling apart amid criticism that he's pressuring Monica to say what he wants to hear," says Novak...
...bottom line, says Novak, is that "Starr needs Monica's testimony. After all, she's the linchpin of his entire case...
...Speights, Lewinsky?s Washington-based attorney, knows what it would look like to the man in the street: ?Somebody being indicted for having a sexual relationship with the President.? Both Speights and William Ginsburg have previously said they would appeal in the event of this decision -- which should buy Monica just a little more frolicking time...