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According to Steele's lawyer, John West, Steele got a call one day in early 1997 from Willey, who was talking with Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff. Could Isikoff come to interview her about Willey's visit to the Oval Office? Steele agreed but wondered why. While Isikoff was on his way to Steele's house, Willey called her again and told her what to say--that Willey had come to her house after returning from Washington that day, described a sexual advance by Clinton and was in great distress...
...another key witness could end up doing Jones more harm than good. Her team was hoping that the testimony of former White House volunteer Kathleen Willey would help their case. Willey has reportedly said in a videotaped deposition that Clinton made an uninvited pass at her in the White House in November 1993, when Willey came to talk with the President about job opportunities. But sources tell TIME that Julie Hiatt Steele, once a close friend of Willey's, signed an affidavit last Friday, at the request of Clinton's lawyers, suggesting that the encounter may have been more innocent...
...reality, West says, there was no such visit, and Steele didn't even learn of Willey's session with the President until weeks later. When she did, West told TIME, she was left with the impression that there was nothing more than "mutual affection" between Willey and Clinton, not a sexual encounter and nothing in any way upsetting. Willey, according to a source, sent Clinton a book on dealing with loss shortly after his mother died and less than two months after the encounter. She also sent the President friendly notes and asked him to arrange a visit...
Tripp may be in it for revenge. Going back to the Foster case, when she publicly questioned furtive comings and goings in the dead man's White House office, Tripp has played an unwelcome Nancy Drew in several Clinton mysteries. Last August she leaked the story of Kathleen Willey, claiming to have seen Willey emerge all aglow and clothes disheveled from a hands-on briefing with the President. When Clinton attorney Bob Bennett dismissed Tripp as "not to be believed," she stomped off to Radio Shack and bought herself a tape recorder...
...offset her image as the villain of the piece. But it's too late for that. It's now clear that Tripp made the tapes not because she wanted to forestall a challenge to her veracity if she had to out Monica Lewinsky the way she did Kathleen Willey. She didn't put them in a vault to be used defensively. She voluntarily played them for Ken Starr in a pre-emptive strike against the White House she hated, at the expense of the person she had befriended. She readily became an informant and was wired to get evidence admissible...