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WASHINGTON: This could be Bill Clinton's greatest escape yet. With Ken Starr preparing a tightly-wound perjury trap, the President's options are limited. If he continues to deny a relationship with Monica Lewinsky in front of the grand jury Monday, Starr has an armory of evidence that suggests otherwise. Now senior advisers are floating the possiblity that Clinton will admit to sex with Monica without contradicting his previous denial of the affair -- because the definition of sex he was shown in the Paula Jones case was incomplete. This legal loophole, says TIME Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Jef McAlister...
WASHINGTON: If Ken Starr didn't exist, Bill Clinton might have to invent him. Not only has the President's approval rating soared since the independent counsel began investigating the Lewinsky affair, the President and first lady have also raked in $2 million in the last six months for their legal defense fund, according to White House officials. Compare that with the $1.3 million the Clintons spent three-and-a-half years scraping together for Whitewater costs. What's their secret? Relaxed limits on contributions -- not to mention direct mailing that invokes Starr's name. "You can either...
...careful management, adds Branegan, the fund has become "a way for people to express how they feel about Starr." Which is what seems to have spurred Hollywood's elite into action. "There is a well financed group of zealots who want to bring down the President ... and he's broke," claimed entertainment mogul David Geffen, who joined the Spielbergs, Hankses and Streisands in giving the maximum $10,000 contribution. "I would have given more, but they didn't want any more," added Geffen. That's not entirely true -- the Clintons have a $10 million legal hole to fill -- but given...
WASHINGTON: This is how bad it is for Bill Clinton right now: Even when he does look good in court, he can't use it to his advantage. Newly-released court documents show that the president's attorneys are beating back Ken Starr in Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's investigation into alleged grand jury leaks. But though legal victories have been few and far between for the White House lately, don't expect its spokesmen -- or Janet Reno, Starr's nominal boss -- to do any crowing about this...
...Starr's guilt as to the leaks are already something of an open secret in Washington. "They're blatant," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon, "But he's already offending everybody from prosecutors to the public. Any attack on him now would only give him the moral high ground." Certainly Reno, though she could technically fire Starr if a leaks verdict reflected "moral turpitude," is too embroiled in her conflict-of-interest fight with Dan Burton to ever discipline Starr. As for the White House, the time for spinning against Starr is over; now it's keep quiet and cross...