January 17, 2002
By DAVID K. LI
PASADENA
- An emotional Monica Lewinsky
choked back tears yesterday when asked about her
role as national punch line - but said a healthy
sense of humor has been her best defense.
Exactly four years after FBI
agents first picked her up for questioning about
her affair with President Bill Clinton, Lewinsky
awkwardly struggled to keep her composure as she
publicized an HBO documentary, "Monica in
Black and White."
Lewinsky stumbled through a
series of polite questions but came unglued when
asked about the crude jokes that have dogged her
for four years.
"There's a difference
between a pleasant joke and a personal
joke," Lewinsky told a gathering of TV
critics.
"The ones that take my
last name and equate them to [a sex act] that a
lot of people in the world do, is a really cruel
thing to do."
It was on Jan. 16, 1998, that
FBI agents - led by turncoat Lewinsky pal Linda
Tripp - picked up the White House intern in the
food court of the Pentagon City Mall just outside
Washington, D.C.
That led to Lewinsky becoming a
household name, as details of her extramarital
liaisons with Clinton came to light.
Lewinsky, wearing a leather
skirt, leather coat and tan blouse yesterday,
froze like a deer caught in the headlights on
several occasions during her half-hour meeting
with reporters.
At several points, she evaded
questions, implying that she'd been told to keep
a lid on details that will come out in the March
3 documentary.
"Don't blame me,"
Lewinsky said, staring at her handlers for help.
"You said they'd be nice to me."
HBO's documentary chief said
there were no restrictions on the interview and
Lewinsky's nervousness simply got the better of
her.
"She's not an actor, she's
not a performer, she's a kid," said Sheila
Nevins, HBO executive vice president of original
programming. "We thought she could protect
herself, but . . . "
The black-and-white documentary
chronicles the pack journalism that dogged
Lewinsky in the months after her name surfaced.
Included in the documentary is
an interview Lewinsky did last spring at Cooper
Union with students from New York-area colleges.
As she sat on the edge of a stage, legs dangling
over, the students asked Monica if she felt any
remorse, why she ever confided in Tripp and why
she still seeks publicity.
"I'm able to fill in some
of the historical gaps and correct some
inaccuracies," Lewinsky said yesterday,
adding she's sure she'll be just a "small
footnote in history."
TV viewers got a full dose of
Lewinsky when she spoke to ABC's Barbara Walters
on Nov. 30, 1999, but Clinton's former gal pal
said she was legally limited to what she could
say at that time.
But now, HBO producers are
billing their show as a completely unrestricted
look at the portly pepperpot, who nearly brought
down a president.
"When you're forced to
remain silent while you're in the center of this
legal, political, media cyclone, you realize very
painfully that a vacuum is created . . . to be
filled by people who have their own agenda,"
Lewinsky said.
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Bob's
Note: What follows is the original, actual
reporting by Matt Drudge of the information
spiked by NewsWeak magazine. This is the
information that literally caused the start of
the impeachment of BJ Clinton. And the "wag
the dog war" usage of America's nearly
million dollar apiece cruise missles to cover up
for what follows. This is historic information.
Web Posted: 01/17/98 21:32:02 PST --
NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN X X X
X X BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER WHITE
HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT
Web Posted: 01/17/98 23:32:47 PST -- NEWSWEEK
KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN
BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER WHITE
HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT
**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**
At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday
evening, NEWSWEEK magazine killed a story that
was destined to shake official Washington to its
foundation: A White House intern carried on a
sexual affair with the President of the United
States!
The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that reporter
Michael Isikoff developed the story of his
career, only to have it spiked by top NEWSWEEK
suits hours before publication. A young woman,
23, sexually involved with the love of her life,
the President of the United States, since she was
a 21-year-old intern at the White House. She was
a frequent visitor to a small study just off the
Oval Office where she claims to have indulged the
president's sexual preference. Reports of the
relationship spread in White House quarters and
she was moved to a job at the Pentagon, where she
worked until last month.
The young intern wrote long love letters to
President Clinton, which she delivered through a
delivery service. She was a frequent visitor at
the White House after midnight, where she checked
in the WAVE logs as visiting a secretary named
Betty Curry, 57.
The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that tapes of
intimate phone conversations exist.
The relationship between the president and the
young woman become strained when the president
believed that the young woman was bragging about
the affair to others.
NEWSWEEK and Isikoff were planning to name the
woman. Word of the story's impeding release
caused blind chaos in media circles; TIME
magazine spent Saturday scrambling for its own
version of the story, the DRUDGE REPORT has
learned. The NEW YORK POST on Sunday was set to
front the young intern's affair, but was forced
to fall back on the dated ABC NEWS Kathleen
Willey break.
The story was set to break just hours after
President Clinton testified in the Paula Jones
sexual harassment case.
Ironically, several years ago, it was Isikoff
that found himself in a shouting match with
editors who were refusing to publish even a
portion of his meticulously researched
investigative report that was to break Paula
Jones. Isikoff worked for the WASHINGTON POST at
the time, and left shortly after the incident to
build them for the paper's sister magazine,
NEWSWEEK.
Michael Isikoff was not available for comment
late Saturday. NEWSWEEK was on voice mail.
The White House was busy checking the DRUDGE
REPORT for details.
Web Posted: 01/18/98 22:33:48 PST -- FORMER WHITE
HOUSE INTERN CALLED; NEW BACKGROUND DETAILS
EMERGE
**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**
The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that former White
House intern, Monica Lewinsky, 23, has been
subpoenaed to give a deposition in the Paula
Jones case.
About the young woman, this is known:
WORK EXPERIENCE
*Summer of 1995 Intern, Office of Chief of Staff
Leon Panetta, The White House.
*November 1995 Staff assistant, Office of
Legislative Affairs, The White House. "Wrote
drafts and correspondence for Staff Secretary's
approval and ultimately the President's
signature. Processed and vetted all incoming mail
to the President from Congress."
*April 1996 Assistant to the Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Public Affairs, The Pentagon.
EDUCATION
May 95 Lewis and Clark College. Major:
Psychology.
MISC.
Holds current TS-SCI clearance, allowing access
to top secret and sensitive information.
Proficient in Macintosh for Microsoft Word 6.0,
WordPerfect for Windows, and Infosys.
Web Posted: 01/19/98 14:54:06 PST -- FORMER WHITE
HOUSE INTERN DENIES SEX WITH PRESIDENT IN SWORN
AFFIDAVIT
**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, 23,
has denied having any "sexual relationship
with President Clinton" in a sworn
affidavit, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Lewinsky's sworn written statement was executed
last week after she was served with a subpoena in
the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
NBC was busy developing a story Tuesday afternoon
on Lewinsky. Through a suspected leak, the
network obtained a copy of Lewinsky's affidavit
and was reading portions of it to sources to
provoke comment.
Web Posted: 01/20/98 18:07:47 PST -- TONIGHT ON
THE DRUDGE REPORT: CONTROVERSY SWIRLS AROUND
TAPES OF FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, AS STARR
MOVES IN! ...
Web Posted: 01/20/98 19:57:07 PST -- CONTROVERSY
SWIRLS AROUND TAPES OF FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN,
AS STARR MOVES IN!
**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**
Federal investigators are now in possession of
intimate taped conversations of a former White
House intern, age 23, discussing details of her
alleged sexual relationship with President
Clinton, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
The tapes were made by a federal employee who has
been granted immunity. MORE
According to sources in and out of government,
Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr
became involved in the situation when he received
intelligence that senior administration officials
may have offered federal jobs to a young woman in
an effort to prevent stories from going public --
stories involving sexual episodes that allegedly
occurred in a room off the Oval Office.
"Starr is not on the bimbo beat," one
source close to the situation told the DRUDGE
REPORT late Tuesday. "He's looking at a
potential for obstruction of justice
charges."
A breakfast meeting that took place at The
Watergate Hotel has attracted the attention of
investigators.
The development has completely consumed
high-level Washington, with Starr's investigators
working past midnight in recent days.
Developing...
Web Posted: 01/20/98 22:09:23 PST -- WASH POST
SCREAMS INTERN STORY!
Web Posted: 01/21/98 11:32:53 PST -- ~~LEWINSKY
NIGHTMARE CONTINUES~~ U.N. AMBASSADOR RICHARDSON
OFFERED ME A JOB DURING BREAKFAST MEETING AT
WATERGATE HOTEL, SHE SAID; INVESTIGATORS PROBE
POSSIBILITY OF CLINTON DNA... MOVING SOON ON THE
DRUDGE REPORT X X X X
Web Posted: 01/21/98 12:56:27 PST -- WATERGATE
1998
**WORLD EXCLUSIVE**
**MUST CREDIT THE DRUDGE REPORT**
**CONTAINS GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS**
REPORT: LEWINSKY OFFERED U.N. JOB; INVESTIGATORS:
DNA TRAIL MAY EXIST
U.N. AMBASSADOR RICHARDSON OFFERED ME A JOB
DURING A BREAKFAST MEETING AT THE WATERGATE HOTEL
-- WORDS WHITE HOUSE INTERN MONICA LEWINSKY, 24,
ALLEGEDLY TOLD PENTAGON WORKER LINDA TRIPP LATE
IN DECEMBER 1997.
THE OFFER CAME AS LEWINSKY WAS ASKING TO RETURN
TO THE WHITE HOUSE, THE DRUDGE REPORT HAS
LEARNED, UNHAPPY IN THE PENTAGON JOB SHE HELD --
A JOB THAT SHE STARTED IN APRIL 1996 AFTER BEING
RELEASED FROM A WHITE HOUSE POSITION.
"THEY WANTED HER OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE
DURING THE ELECTION," A SOURCE CLOSE TO THE
INVESTIGATION TELLS THE DRUDGE REPORT.
AMBASSADOR RICHARDSON WAS NOT AVAILABLE FOR
COMMENT.
WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY MIKE MCCURRY OFFERED
NOTHING WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE ALLEGED RICHARDSON
JOB OFFER DURING WEDNESDAY'S PRESS BRIEFING.
SEPARATELY, THE DRUDGE REPORT HAS LEARNED,
INVESTIGATORS HAVE BECOME CONVINCED THAT THERE
MAY BE A DNA TRAIL THAT COULD CONFIRM PRESIDENT
CLINTON'S SEXUAL INVOLVEMENT WITH LEWINSKY, A
RELATIONSHIP THAT WAS CAPTURED IN LEWINSKY'S OWN
VOICE ON AUDIO TAPE.
TRIPP HAS SHARED WITH INVESTIGATORS A
CONVERSATION WHERE LEWINSKY ALLEGEDLY CONFIDED
THAT SHE KEPT A GARMENT WITH CLINTON'S DRIED
SEMEN ON IT -- A GARMENT SHE SAID SHE WOULD NEVER
WASH!
He's still screwing anyone except Hillary. They have separate homes & offices, his is in Harlem and even the people there protested him moving in to the neighborhood. It would lower the ghetto's standards.
She started a purse making business, she worked for a while for Jenny Craig Weight Loss Program (it didn't work), and has been running as fast as her chubby frame will allow after any camera in sight. The Lib Mags have taken her up in glossy high fashion layouts. Ain't she something! I remember when it came out that Bill wouldn't come in her mouth and picture this...the president of the United States turned his back to her and masturbated into a sink in the ante-room next to the Oval Office. Or how about the time he was on the phone talking, while Monica was giving him head, with one of our generals just before he ordered cruise missile attacks on Iraq, Monica heard the whole thing.
When she was interviewed by the Grand Jury in the Paula Jones case she recited the conversation accurately. These things happened. And it never would have been proved without the semen dropped on her dress by BJ Clinton. There is so much more to this story. It makes me sick but I finally decided to archive articles on this too. Forgive me, I just have to do it.
Monica May Get $2 Million For Her Dress
