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727. MSL-55-DC-0177 (punctuation corrected).
728. MSL-55-DC-0177 (punctuation corrected).
729. MSL-DC-55-0177 (punctuation corrected).
730. MSL-55-DC-0177 (punctuation corrected).
731. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 108-09; Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 27-29 & Exh. ML-7. The cigar holder, the tie, the mug, and the book
have been produced to the OIC. V002-PHOTOS-0011 (holder, tie,
and book); V002-PHOTOS-0005 (mug).
732. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 111-12.
733. Bryan Hall 5/21 98 Int. at 2; Bryan Hall 7/23/98 GJ at
10-11, 15-16; Niedzwiecki 7/30/98 GJ at 12-13; Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ
at 109-11.
734. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 110-11; Niedzwiecki 7/30/98 GJ at
13-14.
735. Byran Hall 7/23/98 GJ at 12-13; Niedzwiecki 7/30/98 GJ
at 13, 15. Officer Hall recognized Ms. Lewinsky from a previous
occasion, when she was greeted by, and delivered something to,
Ms. Currie. Byran Hall 7/23/98 GJ at 6-10.
736. Tyler 7/28/98 GJ at 40; Chinery 7/23/98 GJ at 8.
737. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 111-12. Ms. Mondale recalled
visiting the President that morning. Mondale 7/16/98 Int. at 1.
See also 843-DC-00000004 (Epass records reflect that Ms. Mondale
entered the White House at 9:33 a.m.).
738. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 111-12. See also Currie 7/22/98
GJ at 88-89. Ms. Lewinsky suspected that Ms. Mondale was
romantically involved with the President. (739)
739. In a conversation on November 11, Ms. Lewinsky speculated that Ms. Mondale was
and the President were starting a "relationship." Ms. Lewinsky noted with bitterness: "Maybe
she's not sleeping with him yet. Anyway, there's the excitement. It's the President." LT16 at 91.
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740. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 112-13. Ms. Currie testified that
Ms. Lewinsky angrily told her: "'You had lied to me, that the
President is in the office, and he's meeting with someone.' And
I said, 'Yeah, you're right.' She was not too happy about it,
and words were exchanged." Currie 1/27/98 GJ at 37.
741. Keith Williams 7/23/98 GJ at 24. See also Chinery
7/23/98 GJ at 10; Purdie 7/23/98 GJ at 13.
742. Keith Williams 7/23/98 GJ at 12. Some testimony
indicates that the President directly told Sergeant Williams
about the Northwest Gate incident. Three officers testified that
Sergeant Williams told them that the President had spoken to him
and had indicated that he wanted the officer responsible for the
disclosure of information fired. Niedzwiecki 7/30/98 GJ at 29,
37; Byran Hall 7/23/98 GJ at 25-26; Porter 8/13/98 GJ at 16-18.
For example, Officer Niedzwiecki testified that soon after the
incident, Sergeant Williams came to the Northwest Gate and said,
"[t]he President wants somebody's job." Niedzwiecki 7/30/98 GJ
at 29. Sergeant Williams testified, however, that the President
did not speak to him directly about the incident. Keith Williams
7/23/98 GJ at 31-32. According to Sergeant Williams, when he met
alone with Ms. Currie, he noticed that the door leading to the
Oval Office was at first shut but then was cracked open. Keith
Williams 7/23/98 GJ at 22, 30. Sergeant Williams testified that
he heard what he assumed to be a male voice coming from within
the Oval Office saying "[t]his person needs to be fired." Keith
Williams 7/30/98 GJ at 10-11. Sergeant Williams told the
officers at the gate that he spoke to the President only to get
their attention. Keith Williams 7/30/98 GJ at 16-17. However,
Sergeant Williams also told the supervisor who replaced him that
afternoon that the President had spoken to him directly about the
incident at the Northwest Gate. Deardoff 9/3/98 Depo. at 8-9.
743. Purdie 7/23/98 GJ at 13, 18-19. Captain Purdie
testified that he thought that the remedy of firing was "out of
proportion to the incident . . . [e]specially without doing an
investigation or a fact-finding mission."(744)
744. Purdie 7/23/98 GJ at 19.
745. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 113.
746. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 113-14.
747. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 114.
748. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 114.
749. 827-DC-00000018. Secret Service logs reflect that the
President was in the area of the Oval Office throughout this
period. V006-DC-00002158.
750. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 115-16. Specifically, Ms.
Lewinsky told the President "that I was supposed to get in touch
with Mr. Jordan the previous week and that things didn't work out
and that nothing had really happened yet." Id.
751. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 116. The President also told Ms.
Lewinsky that he had already gotten a Christmas present for her
and that he would give that to her during another visit.
Lewinsky 8/1/98 Int. at 2.
752. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 115.
753. 1037-DC-00000011 (spelling corrected).
754. Keith Williams 7/23/98 GJ at 25. Ms. Currie confirmed
that she told an officer, "Okay. Fine. This never happened."
However, she testified that she said this so that no officer
would get in trouble. Currie 7/22/98 GJ at 91-92.
When Ms. Currie left work that day, she stopped by a Secret
Service post and told an officer that "she spoke to the President
. . . and . . . they decided that the incident never happened,
they weren't going to pursue . . . discipline actions against
them, that they just wanted it to go away." Chinery 7/23/98 GJ
at 22-23. Later that week, Ms. Currie told that officer to
inform one of his supervisors "that everything was okay and just
to keep quiet about it." Keith Williams 7/23/98 GJ at 27-28.
755. Purdie 7/23/98 GJ at 32; Purdie 7/17/98 GJ at 3.
756. Purdie 7/17/98 GJ at 6; Bryan Hall 7/23/98 GJ at 31-32;
Chinery 7/23/98 GJ at 21.
757. Porter 8/13/98 GJ at 12.
758. Niedzwiecki 7/30/98 GJ at 30-31.
759. Niedzwiecki 7/30/98 GJ at 31, 44. See also Niedzwiecki
8/5/98 GJ at 4-6 (text of Niedzwiecki notes).
760. Purdie 7/23/98 GJ at 35.
761. Purdie 7/23/98 GJ at 34-36. While Deputy Chief O'Malley
testified that Captain Purdie notified him of the incident,
Deputy Chief O'Malley did not recall Captain Purdie discussing
with him, at any time, a decision not to generate an incident
report or a memorandum. Charles O'Malley 9/8/98 Depo. at 44, 47-48.
762. O'Malley 9/8/98 Depo. at 22, 40-41.
763. Clinton 8/17/98 GJ at 84-85, 87. Ms. Mondale stated
that she met with the President alone in the Oval Office study
that day. Mondale 7/16/98 Int. at 1.
764. Clinton 8/17/98 GJ at 86.
765. Clinton 8/17/98 GJ at 88-89.
766. Clinton 8/17/98 GJ at 89-90.
767. Clinton 8/17/98 GJ at 91-92.
768. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 151-52; Lewinsky 2/1/98 Statement
at 6. On December 23, Paula Jones's attorneys issued a subpoena
to the Secret Service.
769. Lindsey 3/12/98 GJ at 64-66; Lindsey 2/19/98 GJ at 9-10.
WAVES records reflect that Robert Bennett entered the White House
at 4:39 p.m. on Saturday, December 6. 1407-DC-00000005.
770. Lindsey 3/12/98 GJ at 65.
771. 964-DC-00000862 (Presidential mail notes).
772. Lindsey 3/12/98 GJ at 63-64. Mr. Lindsey refused to
answer questions about his December 6 meeting with the President,
claiming attorney-client privilege and Executive (presidential
communications) Privilege.(773)
773. Lindsey 3/12/98 GJ at 66. The U.S. District Court for
the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Mr. Lindsey's claim of
privilege, In re Grand Jury Proceedings, 5 F. Supp.2d 21 (D.D.C.
1998), and the Court of Appeals denied Mr. Lindsey's appeal, In
re Lindsey, __ F.3d __, 1998 WL 418780 (D.C. Cir. 1998). A
petition for Supreme Court review is currently pending.
__ U.S.L.W. __ (U.S. Aug. 21, 1998) (No. 98-316).
774. WAVES records reflect that Mr. Jordan entered the White
House at 5:21 p.m. on Sunday, December 7. 1178-DC-00000026.
775. Jordan 5/5/98 GJ at 83. He later testified that the
conversation was "[a]bsolutely not" about Ms. Lewinsky. Jordan
5/5/98 GJ at 116.
776. V004-DC-00000171 (Akin, Gump visitor records) (recording
visit of "Malensky"). Ms. Lewinsky recalled arranging the
meeting on December 8 or 9. Lewinsky 8/1/98 Int. at 3. See also
833-DC-00017886 (reflecting Ms. Lewinsky's call to Mr. Jordan on
December 8).
On December 8, Ms. Lewinsky sent Mr. Jordan a hat, a box of
chocolates, and a note gently reminding him of his promise to
help her find a job. Lewinsky 7/31/98 Int. at 15. She also sent
the President a note and some peach candies. Lewinsky 8/1/98
Int. at 2; Lewinsky 8/1/98 Int. at 2; 837-DC-00000017; 837-DC-00000020 (courier receipts).
777. Jordan 3/3/98 GJ at 41-42.
778. V004-DC-00000148 (Akin, Gump phone records). See also
Jordan 3/3/98 GJ at 54, 62-63, 70.
Mr. Halperin testified that Mr. Jordan had told him that
Ms. Lewinsky "was a bright young woman who was energetic and
enthusiastic and . . . encouraged me to meet with her." Halperin
4/23/98 GJ at 13. Similarly, Ms. Fairbairn stated that Mr.
Jordan had told her that he "would like to send [her] a resume of
a talented young lady and see if she matches up with any company
openings." Fairbairn 1/29/98 Int. at 1. Mr. Georgescu, however,
stated that Mr. Jordan "did not engage in a 'sales pitch' about
[Ms.] Lewinsky." Georgescu 3/25/98 Int. at 2.
779. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 121. Ms. Lewinsky left the
meeting with Mr. Jordan on December 8 with the impression that
Mr. Jordan was going to get her a job. Lewinsky 8/1/98 Int. at
4.
780. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 119.
781. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 120.
782. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 120.
783. Lewinsky 8/6/98 GJ at 120. In her handwritten proffer,
Ms. Lewinsky gave a very similar account of her second meeting
with Mr. Jordan: "Ms. L. met again with Mr. Jordan in the
beginning of December '97, at which time he provided Ms. L. with
a list of three people to contact and suggested language to use
in her letters to them. At some point, Mr. Jordan remarked
something about Ms. L. being a friend of the Pres. of the United
States. Ms. L. responded that she never really saw him as "the
President"; she spoke to him like a normal man and even got angry
with him like a normal man. Mr. Jordan asked what Ms. L. got
angry about. Ms. L. replied that the Pres. doesn't see or call
her enough. Mr. Jordan said Ms. L. should take her frustrations
out on him -- not the President.(784)
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