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...carries Clinton's coat. Starr has subpoenaed the phone logs and entrance logs and sought the testimony of Secret Service agents. And he has done all this in the same 10-day period during which he was searching Monica's apartment, questioning relatives, pursuing leads from her proffer and all the while refusing to grant her immunity...
...certainly building the pressure on the only other person who knows what did or did not occur when the doors were closed. Lewinsky and her lawyers began the week thinking they were about to tell their story at last. Ginsburg sent in his written proffer on Monday along with the agreement written by Starr's office granting Monica immunity. The two sides, Ginsburg claims, agreed on a schedule of interviews in which Lewinsky would sit down through the week with FBI agents in California. Satisfied that the immunity dance was finally over, the whole traveling circus left town...
Ginsburg got a call from Starr's office that "they had changed their minds." The Washington Post reported that Starr had rejected Ginsburg's proffer as too full of contradictions and too vague in its recollection of the behavior of the President and his friend Jordan, who was suspected of trying to help Lewinsky get a job to keep her quiet. Starr was now refusing to do a deal before talking to her face to face: "There is no substitute," he said, "for looking a witness in the eye, asking detailed questions, matching the answers against verifiable facts...
...that Monday we made them an oral proffer, a statement of what Monica's testimony would be on all elements of the offenses they said were under investigation. We can't say what it says--that's privileged--but they took notes, and they were satisfied. They were very pleased. Thanks, they said. Now we need you to consent to a search of Monica and Marcia's apartment at the Watergate building. This was after midnight. We consented, and the search was set for 10 a.m. the next day. Next morning, 10 a.m., no FBI. Eleven a.m., no FBI. Finally...
Finally we got to the point where they offered immunity again, 10 days afterward--it was Jan. 29 or 30. So for the next couple of days, we drafted agreements and wrote up an additional proffer at their request. They told us the issues, and Monica wrote the facts on each--if she had anything relevant. They went through three or four drafts of the immunity agreement. We agreed orally to a deal. Finally they sent us a letter confirming our oral agreement that the U.S. Government would promise not to prosecute Monica. This was Monday...