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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recitation of furtive gropings and panicky zipping-ups between two profoundly needy people, one of whom happened to be the leader of the free world. While Clinton's lawyers thunder that the endless tawdry details serve no purpose but to "humiliate the President and force him from office," Starr argues that Clinton himself made them necessary. Starr's office had originally planned to confine the seamier material to a secret sex appendix, a Starr ally told TIME. But because the President lied so long and hard, the report maintains, Starr had no choice but to include the particulars that proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just A Sex Cover-Up?: High Crimes? Or Just A Sex Cover-Up? | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...daggers at her outside the Oval Office, which phone calls Clinton took during their time together. The narrative relies on Lewinsky's testimony for the particulars of 10 alleged sexual encounters, but to bolster her credibility--she did, after all, perjure herself in her Jones affidavit and cooperated with Starr in exchange for immunity--the report time and again uses White House records and contemporaneous accounts to corroborate her stories. Lewinsky remembers being with Clinton on President's Day 1996, when he spoke to a Florida sugar grower named "something like Fanuli." Phone logs show Clinton spoke to sugar baron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just A Sex Cover-Up?: High Crimes? Or Just A Sex Cover-Up? | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

Currie was the perfect assistant to a man who had been concealing sex for decades. Starr alleges no fewer than five Clinton perjuries in the Jones deposition on the issue of whether the President and Lewinsky had a sexual affair, three more in Clinton's Aug. 17 grand-jury testimony (claiming, for example, that he hadn't touched Lewinsky's breasts or genitals) and one lie in his televised statement to the American people that night, when he said his Jones testimony had been "legally accurate." The President, Starr also alleges, lied when he claimed he couldn't recall being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just A Sex Cover-Up?: High Crimes? Or Just A Sex Cover-Up? | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...said, "she could sign an affidavit to try to satisfy the inquiry and not be deposed." He also went over what Lewinsky calls one of the "cover stories" they had discussed as the affair unfolded: her frequent visits to the White House were to see her friend Currie. Starr calls this a case of subornation of perjury. Clinton testified that he didn't recall saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just A Sex Cover-Up?: High Crimes? Or Just A Sex Cover-Up? | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...Monica and said, according to Lewinsky, either "I understand you have something to give me" or "The President said you have something to give me." Currie then went to Lewinsky's apartment, took a box of gifts and hid them under her own bed. She later gave them to Starr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just A Sex Cover-Up?: High Crimes? Or Just A Sex Cover-Up? | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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