What Paula Jones Doesn't Want You to Know

White House Troubles: The FBI and "Saint" Paula
What Paula Jones Doesn't Want You to Know
by Mac MacArthur

Paula Jones as Clinton might have seen her in 1991	Paula's new look...Scamming the jury
Hmmm... is Paula's new look is miraculous or what? Why the expensive remake? To fool the jury into thinking she was desirable in 1991?

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH, 1997 -- NEW YORK (APJP) -- Rough days at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

President Clinton: dealing with his new "lame duck" status according to a variety of journalists; sitting down with the FBI to talk about campaign finance; watching Paula Jones loom larger, and; to top it off -- Hillary's wandering about in gelid Gorky Park without her mittens. Could it get any worse?

But look at the bright side. Bill Clinton's lawyer, Bob Bennett, began the savory job of deposing Queen of the Motor Homes, Paula Jones, yesterday. Thus far there's no leaked transcript, but wait -- it'll appear soon enough.

Now that she's a "star," Jones wouldn't answer questions from reporters encamped at the Little Rock courthouse, but spokes-bimbo Susan Carpenter McMillan, who is in dire need of an emergency visit to Jacques Dessange, told journalists, "I would anticipate it will be a very grueling morning. I cannot imagine Mr. Bennett going lightly on her at all." Right, but can you imagine Paula "going easy" on Bennett.

"But Paula wants her day in court," Carpenter-McMillan added. "That has never changed. It won't change today and it won't change tomorrow."

Not if Carpenter-McMillan has anything to say about it -- Jones is her current claim to fame, her éclat, -- her raison d'ètre. In short, Susan Carpenter McMillan -- gay basher, poseur feminist and spotlight aspirant -- ain't gonna let this fish get away.

Jones is trying to drop her "defamation" claim against Arkansas State Trooper Danny Ferguson so she doesn't have to undergo a perforating review of her "very private" past. Jones' lawyer, Donovan "Nobody" Campbell -- "coincidently," another gay-thwacking Bible-beater from Texas -- tells us he wants poor Paula to drop her claims against Ferguson because her "foremost concern is with violations of her civil rights."

That's what's known in trailer park jargon as "sucking in." You might recall that Ms. Paula, when she filed her humbug suit in 1994, told the judge she was suing Clinton and Ferguson "for the sole reason of clearing my name."

The Presidential lawyers are formally objecting to Paula's new trial strategy chicanery, and at the same time trying to deal with Roger Perry who, in his deposition Tuesday, said he was pimping for then Governor Clinton ten years ago. "I stand by everything I've always said," Perry said. "That's the truth."

Jones was questioned in a marathon deposition in Little Rock yesterday as Clinton's lawyers zeroed in on her recollection of just what happened at the Excelsior Hotel in 1991. Attorney Bennett is not reticent to drill her on her new-found ties to what might casually be called the Christian Fascist Right, a smattering of Neo-Nazi militants who are openly out to firebomb the President. Bennett is also grilling her on alleged movie and book deals, her relationship to Televangelist and Thief-for-God Jerry Falwell, and a close examination of her financial support structure as it stands today.

Jones, in a mock-innocent fashion, claims harrumphantly that money and politics have nothing to do with her suit. To me, that's like Fanny Hill arguing constitutionally sexual fine points before Justice Thomas.

In Washington, a circus orchestrated by two psycho-conservative groups is airing radio and television ads encouraging women to call a toll-free number "if you believe you have been a victim of sexual harassment by the President." The $260,000 campaign has been mounted by the Free Congress Foundation, headed by hyper-fascist Paul Weyrich, and his sham think tank -- The National Center for Public Policy Research.

Brad Keena of Free Congress claims the Hitlerian 'turn-in-your-father' line has received "thousands" of calls but no real complaints against Bill Clinton. Get this -- Keena claims the purpose of his Hit Line is to demonstrate that the definition of sexual harassment is "too broad" and that the military should not allow personnel to make anonymous complaints to a hot line.

"We're not set up to be a front for Paula Jones," said Amy Ridenour, president of the 'public policy center.' The goal, she said, was "to spur a national conversation about sexual harassment."

The goal, you offensive twit, is to smear the President and bring in more contributions to your pinchbeck "think tank."

CNN and WTOP radio ran the ads, but they were rejected by Fox News Channel and MSNBC as inappropriate.

A word to Paul Rittenberg, Fox Senior VP: Hey Paul, you must be kidding -- but thanks anyway.

The ads focus on what Ridenour calls "the condescending reaction to Jones's charges."

"When a working-class woman accused the president of sexual harassment, the clock was turned back," they say. "The president's men immediately unleashed a brutal, unsubstantiated attack to discredit the morals and ethics of the woman bringing the charge."

TRANSLATION: When a woman who is just one off-ramp away from being a truck stop whore shakes down the president for a million bucks, he'll probably hire a lawyer to focus on her genuine motives.

While Paula was getting Bennettized, the POTUS and Vice-POTUS were reviewing their own Tuesday afternoon interview with Justice Department officials. The President was interviewed in his study at the White House, and Al Gore at the Naval Observatory -- the official Vice-Presidential residence.

President Clinton and Vice President Gore had separate interviews the day before yesterday with investigators examining whether either may have broken the law by making telephone fund-raising solicitations from the White House.

The interviews lasted more than two hours. The inquisitors, including FBI investigators and Justice Department lawyers, are active in Attorney General Janet Reno's review of whether to appoint an independent counsel.

Reno is due to decide what to do sometime during the first week of December, and refused to discuss the matter as late as this morning when she appeared, in a cameo role, on CNN.

The Justice Department dispatched two FBI agents and four department lawyers to the Clinton interview. The six interrogators have impeccable reputations.

One can just imagine the embarrassment of all involved. Here are six guys sitting around the President, grilling the most powerful individual in the world about whether a 19th-century law could land him in jail. I'm sure the FBI agents and Justice lawyers were falling all over themselves to be fair. Maybe it went like this:

FBI: Uh, thank you Mr. President, I mean Bill... uh, do you remember what you said on the phone when you called Bernie Fox on June 6th, 1996?

BC: Yeah, I think I asked him if he'd seen "Evita" yet, cause I was gonna ask him up to the White House to catch a flick with me and Hillary. Did you see it? That Madonna is somethin' else, ain't she. Yow!

Reno has to put on a good show, but will she really decide to appoint a special prosecutor to determine whether Clinton and/or Gore will be charged with a crime never before prosecuted? The answer is probably. Why? Because Republicans have done an over-goose-steppingly great job at making any alternative on Reno's part look like "insider trading."

Will the special prosecutor indict them? No. Don't be ridiculous. If they were indicted, Justice would have to build a stadium-sized building in the District just to house the lawyers who'd be prosecuting most of the Congress for the same "crimes."

Neither the President nor Al Gore were under oath and no formal record was made. But FBI agents took notes and the President was aware that misleading the FBI is a federal offense.

According to the Washington Post, Clinton "said he made no calls in 1996 because he was doing so much in-person fund-raising. He told the investigators that in 1995 he never saw call sheets requesting him to make solicitations, and that he does not believe these sheets made it to the White House. In 1994, he said, he made a half-dozen calls from the White House residence, and some of those might have included explicit appeals for money, but the usual pattern was for someone else to make the specific pitch for money, while he made a more generic plea for support."

Tuesday's sessions were the first and only time Justice Department officials have questioned the president and vice president directly on their roles in the campaign finance matter.

Other sources say the interviews did not examine the question of whether Clinton or Gore were part of some conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws and were not asked about foreign money contributions or any of the other delusional allegations made by Senator Fred Thompson during his sitcom hearings earlier this year.

It appears that the FBI, like most Americans, is not interested in bogus charges made for purely political reasons.

A staffer I spoke with early yesterday told me that one question asked of the Vice President regarded whether he knew that the DNC was taking the first $20,000 of soft money contributions and converting it to hard money allowing it to be spent on candidate-focused ads.

Some pundits think this tack is an effort to hang the White House on the 113-year-old law which allows raising soft, but not hard, money. But sources inside the Justice Department tell me that it's perhaps former Democrat Chairman Don Fowler and DNC Finance Tsar Richard Sullivan who ought to be hiding nail files in their socks.

That makes sense to me. It's tough to imagine someone telling the Vice President, "Hey Al, call up these rich guys and ask them for 50 grand in soft money. Then we can skim a cool 20 thou off the top and spend it on our ads."