High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton Read Online Free PDF Page B

who told her how to commit another felony. Clinton is said to have advised the intern that she could trip up the Jones lawyers’ subpoena for any gifts he had given her if she relinquished possession of the gifts. Following his advice, Lewinsky packed up the gifts and sent them to Betty Currie. Then Betty Currie took them straight to Ken Starr.
    Lewinsky was left holding the bag again: even if Clinton never laid a finger on Lewinsky and really was just consulting her about monetary policy, she is the only person who clearly concealed these gifts from the court in the Jones case. Concealing subpoenaed evidence from a court is obstruction of justice, a felony.
    As Lewinsky plaintively notes on the tapes, the only reason she is in this mess is because Clinton wouldn’t settle the Paula Jones case. Lewinsky at least has no doubt about who is telling the truth. She tells Tripp that Clinton will never settle with Jones because “he’s in denial.” Jane Doe #6 explains to Tripp why she is willing to commit perjury for Clinton: “I will deny it so he will not get screwed in the case.” Presciently, she continues: “[B]ut I’m going to get screwed personally.” 13

PRIAPUS’S PERJURY
     
    Either the president was getting oral sex from Lewinsky while being sued for sexual harassment by Paula Jones, perjured himself about this relevant evidence sought by Jones’s attorneys, suborned Lewinsky’s perjury, and persuaded Lewinsky to tamper with another witness in the case, or Lewinsky is “this huge liar.”
    In order to believe the “this huge liar” scenario, one would also have to believe, among many, many other implausible things:
    • Lewinsky developed a fantasy affair with the president that she was capable of droning on about to several people in vivid detail over a period of at least one year.
    • Lewinsky’s fantasy would include a derisive and belittling portrait of the president’s private parts.
    • The fantasy of a twenty-one-year-old girl would have her repeatedly performing oral sex on a fifty-year-old man (with physical limitations noted above) and with no further sexual satisfaction for her.
    • The fantasy of a twenty-one-year-old girl would also not include any significant romantic accoutrements.
    • Lewinsky would try several tacks to persuade Tripp to deny knowing of the affair, including offering to pay Tripp’s medical expenses for a foot operation and offering her a one-half interest in Lewinsky’s condo in Australia. But it would never, ever occur to Lewinsky to just come clean and admit to Tripp that the whole story was a fantasy to begin with.
    • By dint of her sheer force of will, Lewinsky managed to secure a job interview conducted at her apartment complex with Clinton friend and Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson. She would have the job offered, decline it, and then lyingly tell Tripp that the interview and job offer were implicit paybacks for her perjurious affidavit in the Jones case.
    • Also on her own, Lewinsky would procure the assistance of Clinton friend and power lawyer Vernon Jordan and then, again, lyingly tell Tripp that the legal assistance and job offer from Revlon were an implicit payback for her perjurious affidavit in the Jones case. Inexplicably corroborating Lewinsky’s payback fantasy, Jordan would later admit that he kept the president informed of his efforts on Lewinsky’s behalf.
    • Entirely on her own initiative, Lewinsky sought advice from a lawyer on how she could tamper with Tripp’s recollection of an incident having nothing to do with Lewinsky—to wit, Tripp’s encounter with Kathleen Willey. Following the lawyer’s counsel, Lewinsky typed up a memo titled “Points to Make in an Affidavit,” instructing Tripp how to discount Willey’s smeared lipstick and untucked blouse.
    • Also on her own initiative, Lewinsky advised Tripp in the talking points memo that Tripp show her affidavit to Clinton’s lawyer in the Jones case before