Title: Bill Clinton 15 Years Ago: 'I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman' | National News | US News
Headings: Bill Clinton 15 Years Ago: 'I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman'
Bill Clinton 15 Years Ago: 'I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman'
The "girl"
The floater
The fixer
The prosecutor

Content: To a startling degree, even senior White House staff found themselves kept in the dark last week; sources said Clinton was sharing the details of what he did, and didn't do, only with his outside lawyers. Senior Clinton advisers say the blackout is due to their reluctance to confront him over potentially embarrassing details—and their awareness that they could be vulnerable to subpoena later on if they learned sensitive information. Aides described Clinton himself as oddly subdued in discussing the furor, as if it were happening to someone else and he was observing it from afar. Ominously for the White House, Lewinsky's sworn denial of the affair hardly seemed ironclad. Her lawyer, Los Angeles attorney William H. Ginsburg, said that she stood by her statement "at this time." Even some of Clinton's initial denials seemed phrased with unusual, lawyerly precision. Asked by National Public Radio if he had "any conversations" with Lewinsky about her testimony, Clinton did not respond with a blanket denial. Instead, he said that "given the state of the investigation, it would be inappropriate" for him to expand on his earlier assertions that he didn't ask anyone "to tell anything other than the truth." So careful were Clinton's responses, and so high were the stakes, that analysts scrutinized his remarks with rabbinical care.