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For Immediate Release
Sunday, January 21, 2000
NATION: TIME Reconstructs Clinton's Deal With Rob Ray (Doc #33)
Deal Clinton Made With the Independent Counsel Was More Than A
Year In the Making; Clinton Helped Shape 'Every Clause, Every
Word and Every Comma'
"The underbrush had to be cleared away," Ray told TIME
New York -- Friday's deal President Clinton made with Independent
Counsel Robert Ray to avoid prosecution was more than a year in
the making, TIME reports. It involved clandestine negotiations
between the warring parties in which Clinton helped shape "every
clause, every word and every comma," as one source describes it.
The agreement required compromises from both the President, who
until now had insisted that he never lied under oath, and the
prosecutor who had vowed to uphold the rule of law. The initial
crucial meeting took place in the Map Room at the White House.
Within days of Ray's swearing-in as Ken Starr's successor in
October 1999, he received a call from the President's private
lawyer, David Kendall, who'd spent six years battling Starr.
Ray and Kendall began a series of regular talks, and Ray tried to
build faith in his fairness, TIME reports in the current issue
(on newsstands Monday, Jan. 22nd). Over the next 11 months, he
closed investigations that Starr had let drag on for years: the
Whitewater land deal, the firing of the White House travel office
and alleged misuse of FBI personnel files. Ray issued press
releases clearing the President and First Lady of criminal
wrongdoing--and made sure he finished several weeks before
Election Day in Hillary Clinton's run for the Senate. "The
underbrush had to be cleared away," Ray told TIME.
However, his actions only made Clinton cockier, TIME's Michael
Weisskopf reports. The President had suffered the ignominy of
impeachment and a contempt of court finding, but now he was
spinning hard, bragging in interviews that he had defended the
Constitution by standing up to overzealous prosecutors. Ray knew
he had to get Clinton's attention. In July, he empaneled a new
grand jury, and after the November election, called in Lewinsky
for questioning, increasing pressure on Clinton to cut a deal.
If there was going to be a settlement, he wanted it before
Clinton left office.
About three weeks ago, he asked Kendall for a meeting with the
President, according to sources outside Ray's office. He agreed
to participate in the first negotiation of criminal matters
between a President and prosecutor. Kendall set up the meeting
and joined the discussion. Clinton agreed to acknowledge some
form of wrongdoing; the issue was what. Ray wanted him to admit
that he had lied under oath when he denied having had sexual
relations with Lewinsky; at the meeting, Clinton wouldn't budge.
The lawyers worked on language over the next two weeks, arriving
at a formula in which Clinton admitted for the first time to
giving false testimony under oath. By avoiding the word
"knowingly," the President skirted the legal definition of
perjury. With that breakthrough, the deal came together.
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