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...mementos were! The next day, they examined Monica's computer hard drive and found that her brother and mother had used it, so they made it all sound sinister, like we gave them the wrong computer. They took her clothes because of a report by Matt Drudge about a semen-stained dress. Next was the absurd leak that Betty Currie, the President's trusted secretary, implicated him in obstruction of justice or witness tampering. This leak was a transparent attempt to create an unfair environment for President Clinton and my client...
...offered the tale of a woman so smitten by a sexual encounter that she vowed to keep the most unseemly of souvenirs. For the prosecution-minded, it promised hard DNA evidence. And for those hoping to see the powerful humbled, it introduced a pulse-racing new phrase: presidential semen. "Monica's Love Dress," as the New York Post dubbed it, fast became a staple of water-cooler talk and late-night comedy. Politically Incorrect's Bill Maher said a survey of newspaper readers found it "the news story they least want explained by a pie chart...
...dress made its first appearance in cyberspace. On Jan. 21, Matt Drudge reported on his Internet Drudge Report that Linda Tripp had told investigators Lewinsky allegedly confided she "kept a garment with Clinton's dried semen on it--a garment she allegedly said she would never wash." Drudge declines to characterize his sources. But he says his initial report was "very valid," and he stands by his account that the dress exists. "I know it to be a black cocktail dress," Drudge says...
...following day, Jan. 23, ABC became the first major news outlet to break the dress story based on its own sources. Jackie Judd reported that "Lewinsky says she saved, apparently as a kind of souvenir, a navy blue dress with the President's semen stain on it." In a tantalizing choice of words, Judd attributed the story to "someone with specific knowledge" of the events. Last week ABC spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said the network is "satisfied with the sources," but declined to characterize them further...
...through secondary media sources, some of the subtlety got lost. United Press International ran a story later on the evening of Jan. 23 saying, "[A] report on ABC's World News Tonight quotes an unnamed source saying Monica Lewinsky saved a navy blue dress stained with President Clinton's semen." Check the wording. Now, instead of Lewinsky talking about a dress, we have a secondhand source asserting the existence of the dress. That was an error, according to U.P.I. managing editor Tobin Beck. The story has been corrected in the wire service's archive, he says...