The Bulletin's Frontrunner December 18, 1998, Friday Clinton Impeachment Update. SNIP Additional Information May Be Driving Some Republicans Toward Impeachment. The White House Bulletin (12/17) reported, "Washington has been surprised over the past week by the fact that Republican members originally opposed to impeachment, and those who were undecided, primarily GOP moderates, have decided to come down on the side of impeachment. Some attributed the break against the President to behind-the-scenes, subtle arm-twisting by House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, but a number of members have insisted that they have not come under pressure from anyone in the House GOP leadership. According to Republican sources, however, conversations between Republican members and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde and his top assistant, David Schippers, is a force helping drive some of these Republicans toward supporting impeachment. Early in his summation of the case for impeachment, Schippers talked about other evidence of wrongdoing by the President that had not been fully developed and therefore would not be part of the committee's formal deliberation. The word from Capitol Hill is that Hyde has been meeting with members who have inquired about this material. Specifically, some members are said to have spent a fair amount of behind-the-scenes time examining evidence regarding Jane Doe #5, one of the women whom the Paula Jones attorneys sought to include in their case against
the President. ------------>>In March of this year, the story of Jane Doe #5 -- who apparently both claimed and then retracted a charge that Bill Clinton had raped her -- broke into the press. The White House issued heated denials, no legal action was ever taken against the President by Jane Doe #5, and the story faded away. <<-------------
------------->snip>----------------Nonetheless, the committee is reportedly in possession of information regarding that case, and that information has been made available to some members. That information, along with additional information garnered by Schippers, is said to be helping persuade wavering members to support impeachment. Indeed, one House GOP source said this morning that any decision by Reps. John Porter and Mark Souder to support impeachment in the face of their earlier public statements against it would come because of that information. According to the source, 'If those two (vote for impeachment), that's why.' A House Judiciary Committee source commented this morning, 'I can confirm the Chairman has made himself available to any members...who had questions regarding the facts, the evidence.' The source downplayed the idea that any new evidence would become part of the House's public impeachment debate, however, saying secret evidence still under 'executive session status' is available to members only, 'but it is not going to be raised on the House floor. Nothing is going to be brought out on the House floor that you haven't already heard in committee.'" SNIP
Anyone have addt'l info on this possible Jane Doe #5??
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-A
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