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WASHINGTON: Thanks a lot, Ken. Just as beleaguered House Republicans are debating the quickest exit route from the impeachment process that grew out of his earlier referral, Judge Starr has passed along a whole bunch of new evidence ?- this time, concerning presidential accuser Kathleen Willey. But unlike the Lewinsky report, the latest data dump contains no official accusation of wrongdoing. Starr is merely offering documents that suggest Clinton may have committed (you guessed it) perjury when asked about his relationship with Willey. And right now, that's the last thing the GOP needs. "Republicans on the Hill look...
...Starr quietly sent something else--a 44-word letter that has impeachment handicappers all over Capitol Hill buzzing. It is a plea to handle in confidence the investigative materials related to the President's alleged groping in the Oval Office of a volunteer and former Virginia campaign worker, Kathleen Willey. The letter was the first official indication from the independent counsel of what both Republicans and Democrats have been anticipating for weeks: that "another shoe" will drop...
Starr refuses to say what these might be, but his Sept. 22 letter offers a clue. While Willey isn't mentioned, FBI interviews of her associates are, along with the warning that release of the materials "may compromise an ongoing investigation." What is intriguing about Willey's story is that if corroborated, it would parallel evidence of perjury and witness tampering in the Monica Lewinsky case now undergirding several articles of impeachment. Willey has testified that while working at the White House in 1993, she was groped by Clinton--a charge he denied to Paula Jones' lawyers...
...Whether Willey's allegations ever rise to the level of impeachable crimes is far from certain. But the three people whose statements Starr sought to keep confidential may figure in the process of getting there. Two of them--Dan Gecker, Willey's lawyer, and Marlene MacDonald, a Willey friend and co-worker in the White House--were in a position to corroborate her story. They were interviewed by the FBI. The third, major Democratic fund raiser Nathan Landow, is apparently being looked to for other answers. Investigators want to know if Landow, who knew Willey socially, tried...
...also interviewed a former friend of Willey's, Julie Steele. But she may not be much help: Steele disputes Willey's story that she came to see Steele in distress the night of the alleged incident. Starr, who called Steele before the grand jury twice last summer, recently asked her to come in for an interview with his prosecutors, but Steele declined. It's still far from clear whether anything coming out of the Willey investigation could help the Republicans in Congress make their case for impeachment. But it appears as if Willey, the woman who had her 15 minutes...