-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Impeached POTUS Blumenthal Busted by Fellow Journalist Described Monica as a "stalker," then denied it under oath A veteran British journalist and social friend of senior Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal has challenged Blumenthal's testimony that he had no knowledge of any White House effort to paint Monica S. Lewinsky as a "stalker." In an affidavit signed Friday, Christopher Hitchens, who writes for Vanity Fair and the Nation, said Blumenthal, at a lunch last March 19, "used the word 'stalker' several times" in talking about Lewinsky. At the lunch, also attended by Hitchens's wife, Carol Blue, Hitchens said Blumenthal said Lewinsky "had been a 'stalker' and that the President was 'the victim' of a predatory and unstable sexually demanding young woman," according to the one-page affidavit. "Mr. Blumenthal advised us that this version of the facts was not generally understood" about President Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky. Blumenthal had testified to the Senate that Clinton had mentioned the word "stalker" in a conversation and felt himself a victim of Lewinsky's advances. A central allegation against Clinton in his impeachment trial is that he had Blumenthal and others smear Lewinsky to undermine her credibility. News media accounts disparaging Lewinsky sometimes cited White House sources. Blumenthal was asked in his Senate testimony whether he had "any idea how White House sources are associated with statements such as . . . 'She's known as the Stalker.' Do you have any idea how that got in the press?" Blumenthal responded, "I have no idea how anything came to be attributed to a White House source." Yesterday, Blumenthal said in a statement: "My testimony to the Senate was truthful. If someone is saying it's not, they are mistaken." In the affidavit, Hitchens said he and Blumenthal "are social friends and journalistic acquaintances" and that "I have knowledge that Mr. Blumenthal recounted to other people in the journalistic community the same story about Monica Lewinsky that he told me and Carol Blue." One journalist who refused to be identified by name said last night that he recalled in late spring hearing Blumenthal talk about Lewinsky being troubled and Clinton having rebuffed her advances. But that journalist said he had read much the same information months earlier. Negative news accounts referring to Lewinsky's alleged obsession with Clinton and with sex began appearing in the media several weeks before Hitchens's lunch with Blumenthal. For example, a Jan. 29 article in The Washington Post cited as sources Lewinsky's own friends and co-workers and a former teacher from Portland, Ore., who had a five-year affair with her. Sources said House investigators, acting on a tip, called Hitchens to ask about Blumenthal's statements and that Hitchens submitted the affidavit. Even without the Hitchens's affidavit, some Republican senators said yesterday they believed Blumenthal was not telling the truth: "The great irony of this is that he may be the other person who lied under oath and he may have to do the time," said Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho). The Washington Post, Feb. 7, 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Journalist Christopher Hitchens is claiming in a sworn affidavit that Blumenthal described Monica Lewinsky as "a predatory and unstable sexually demanding young woman" who stalked the president. According to three sources, the Senate is in receipt of the affidavit, a copy of which was obtained by Fox News Channel. Hitchens said under oath that on March 19, 1998, he had lunch with Sydney Blumenthal and another reporter at the Occidental restaurant in Washington, D.C. At the meeting, the affidavit says, Blumenthal referred repeatedly to Monica Lewinsky as a "stalker." Sources say the affidavit makes it clear Blumenthal felt any journalist should consider the Lewinsky scandal in that context. This contradicts Blumenthal's Senate deposition Wednesday in which he said he never passed on to reporters the president's comments to him, in which he referred to Lewinsky as a stalker. "I have no idea how anything came to be attributed to a White House source," he said in his deposition. "I never mentioned my conversation. I regarded that conversation as a private conversation in confidence, and I didn't mention it to my colleagues, I didn't mention it to my friends, I didn't mention it to my family, besides my wife." Hitchens' affidavit also quotes Blumenthal implying a plan to smear Kathleen Willey, the former White House volunteer who claimed Clinton had groped her. The affidavit says Blumenthal said Willey was highly rated in public opinion polls, but said that would change when things began to come out about her. The British-born Hitchens, a longtime Beltway reporter, has been a contributor to left-leaning publication The Nation since 1982 and also writes for Internet magazine Salon, among other publications. The affidavit has been turned over to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., who has shared it with Minority leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., as well as other Republicans. Two senators who attended Blumenthal's video deposition for the impeachment trial, Sen Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Sen John Edwards, D-N.C., are particularly angry, sources say. The Senate, which technically conducted the deposition, is mulling what to do next, sources say. The Senate voted Thursday not to allow any more evidence into the trial, but the House managers who asked the questions are apparently considering making a referral to Justice Department. Sources point out that while this revelation will not likely alter any impeachment trial votes, it does have relevance to the trial and should not be dismissed as limited to Blumenthal. They say the comments about Lewinsky and Willey illustrate a White House pattern to discredit a civilian and thereby obstruct justice. Fox News, Feb. 6, 1999 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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