Lewinsky's testimony to the Starr Commission, however, contradicted Clinton's claim of being totally passive in their encounters.

ABC-TV announced to all stations that there would be a special report following Lewinsky's testimony before Congress, then the special report was pre-empted by the report of the missile attacks.

While Starr did acknowledge that Currie did visit Lewinsky's apartment and exchanged the gifts with her, he also claimed that the fact that Currie drove to Lewinsky's apartment proved Lewinsky's testimony that Clinton concealed the gifts was correct and Currie's and Clinton's were both false.

However, the Maryland state court ruled that Lewinsky, who " admitted that she lied under oath in a federal proceeding and has stated that lying has been a part of her life ," was not credible and Lewinsky's proposed testimony against Tripp was " bathed in impermissible taint.

Lewinsky's name surfaced during the discovery phase of Jones ' case, when Jones lawyers sought to show a pattern of behavior by Clinton that involved sexual relationships with other government employees.

In April 1996, Lewinsky's superiors transferred her from the White House to The Pentagon because they felt she was spending too much time around Clinton.

In April 1996, Lewinsky's superiors relocated her job to the Pentagon, because they felt that she was spending too much time around Clinton.

Now armed with evidence of Lewinsky's admission of a physical relationship with Clinton, he broadened the investigation to include Lewinsky and her possible perjury in the Jones case.

Starr also accused Clinton of denying under oath that he ever had a conversation with Vernon Jordan about Lewinsky's involvement in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

During Lewinsky's wait, a Secret Service officer reportedly told her that Clinton was meeting with Mondale, prompting Lewinsky to fly into a rage.

Tripp's action in secretly recording Lewinsky's confidential phone-calls about her relationship with the President caused a sensation, with their links to the earlier Jones v. Clinton lawsuit, and the disclosing of notably intimate details.

White House intern Monica Lewinsky signed an affidavit that she had not had a relationship with Clinton, but Lewinsky's confidant Linda Tripp had been recording their phone conversations and offered Starr tapes of Lewinsky describing her feelings for, and alleging encounters with, the president.

Lewinsky had testified that Currie had arranged a meeting at Lewinsky's apartment to pick up gifts given to her by Clinton, showed up at her Watergate apartment and said, " I believe you have something for me.

There was an initial controversy when PhotoStamps were created in the initial market test depicting various notorious individuals and items, including Monica Lewinsky's dress, but that died down after the company announced more stringent standards and enforcement of them.

During their friendship, Lewinsky had shown the dress to Tripp and said she intended to have it dry-cleaned ; Tripp cunningly convinced her not to by providing various spurious reasons such as Lewinsky looking fat in it and the dress being Lewinsky's " ultimate protection ".

The only difference is that tens of thousands of people weren't stranded in Monica Lewinsky's vagina.

Although most postal regulations permit the exclusion of " objectionable " pictures on the stamps, The Smoking Gun in its investigation managed to create American postage stamps featuring the Rosenbergs, Jimmy Hoffa, Ted Kaczynski, Monica Lewinsky's dress, Slobodan Milošević and Nicolae Ceauşescu.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an " improper physical relationship " with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

* 1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.

Lewinsky alleged that between November 1995 and March 1997, she had nine sexual encounters with then-President Bill Clinton that, according to her testimony, involved fellatio and other sexual acts in the Oval Office, but that none of them involved sexual intercourse.

Under pressure from Starr, who had obtained from Lewinsky a blue dress with Clinton's semen stain, as well as testimony from Lewinsky that the President had inserted a cigar tube into her vagina, Clinton stated, " I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate.

In response to the trials of the conspirators being moved out-of-state, the Victim Allocution Clarification Act of 1997 was signed on March 20, 1997 by President Clinton to allow the victims of the bombing ( and the victims of any other future acts of violence ) the right to observe trials and to offer impact testimony in sentencing hearings.

U. S. President Bill Clinton credited Zamora with personalizing and humanizing those living with HIV — especially to Latino communities — with his activism, including his testimony before Congress.

The allegations brought against the Chief Executive were damaging, but did not comprise discredit until enough substance arose from the testimony under oath of Paula Jones and Monica Lewinski to raise genuine questions of the credibility of President Clinton.

Starr also claimed that Clinton simultaneously delayed testimony for seven months and lied to potential grand jury witnesses by publicly denying the relationship, and thus committed a criminal felony by refusing to testify.

Starr also argued that Clinton abused power by: denying the relationship with Lewinsky ever occurred ; using executive privilege to both pursue an appeal against the case without Starr's knowledge ; using executive privilege to cover up the relationship ; delaying his grand jury testimony until August, and by getting the Secret Service to agree to assist in covering up the relationship in an acquiescing matter.

The 9 / 11 Commission Report evaluated such so-called " Wag the Dog " theories ( the strikes being motivated to deflect attention from domestic, political troubles ), and found no reason to believe them, nor disbelieve the testimony and assertions of former President Clinton, former Vice President Gore, CIA Chief Tenet, nor former security advisors Berger and Clarke that the destruction of Al Shifa was still, as of 2004, a justifible national security target.

Former Secretary of Defense Cohen defended, in his testimony to the 9 / 11 Commission in 2004, along with other cited Clinton security cabinet members in their separate 9 / 11 Commission testimony, the decision to destroy Al Shifa: " At the time, the intelligence community at the highest level repeatedly assured us that " it never gets better than this " in terms of confidence in an intelligence conclusion regarding a hard target.

Her refusal to answer " three questions " for a grand jury about whether President Bill Clinton lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial led her to receive a jail sentence of 18 months for contempt of court.

He also unsuccessfully sought to have his brother, Milas Hale corroborate his testimony against Clinton.

She was publicly rebuked for refusing to answer " three questions " about whether President Clinton had lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial, particularly when he denied any knowledge of an illegal $ 300, 000 loan.

He documented his experience in Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, wherein he alleged that Arkansas state troopers had taken money in exchange for testimony against Clinton which Brock had published in a previous book.

Based on his conflicting testimony, Starr concluded that Clinton had committed perjury.

The Managers presented their case over three days, from January 14 – 16, with discussion of the facts and background of the case ; detailed cases for both articles of impeachment ( including excerpts from videotaped grand jury testimony that Clinton had made the previous August ; matters of interpretation and application of the laws governing perjury and obstruction of justice ; and argument that the evidence and precedents justified removal of the President from office by virtue of " willful, premeditated, deliberate corruption of the nation's system of justice through perjury and obstruction of justice.

As a result of the discovery of the Watkins memo, and based upon a suggestion from the Office of Independent Counsel, on March 20, 1996, Attorney General Janet Reno requested that Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr expand his inquiry to specifically include the travel office affair, in particular allegations that White House employees had lied about Hillary Clinton's role in the firings, and that David Watkins or Hillary Clinton had made false statements in previous testimony to the GAO, Congress, or the Independent Counsel.

" Moreover, Ray determined Hillary Clinton had given " factually false " testimony when questioned by the GAO, the Independent Counsel, and Congress about the travel office firings, but reiterated that " the evidence was insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt " that she knew her statements were false or understood that they may have prompted the firings.

Starting on September 28, 1993, Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared for several days of testimony before five congressional committees on health care.

According to Linda Tripp ’ s grand jury testimony, she felt Willey pursued a romance with Clinton from the start of her White House affiliation.

The storm calmed and on his return to England, Cnut visited Wilton to give thanks for his rescue, " with solemn gifts, and published this great miracle with prolific testimony ", subsequently ordering a golden shrine to Edith to be erected at the abbey.

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.

It is testimony to the deep respect in which Mr. Eisenhower was held by members of all parties that the moral considerations raised by his approach to the matter were not explicitly to be broached.

One historical authority presents laborious and circuitous testimony tending to arouse suspicion that Massachusetts was behind the clouds settling down on the embattled Gorton.

At any rate, the substance of Eichmann's testimony was that all his actions flowed from his membership in the party and the SS, and though the Prosecutor did his utmost to prove actual personal hatred of Jews, his success on this score was doubtful and the anti-Semitic lesson weakened to that extent.

Bridget's testimony was in direct contradiction.

The fundamental difficulty of which the Selden case was `` a striking ( though not singular ) example '', concluded Hough, `` will remain as long as testimony is taken without any authoritative judicial officer present, and responsible for the maintenance of discipline, and the reception or exclusion of testimony ''.

The evidence in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through this ritual by a simple phone conversation.

The Doubleday myth appears to have rested solely on the testimony of one elderly admirer who was later committed to an insane asylum.

Furthermore, the primary testimony to the commission that connected baseball to Doubleday was that of Abner Graves, whose credibility is questionable ; a few years later, he shot his wife to death and was committed to an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his life.

Though Thomas was confirmed and took a seat on the Court, Hill's testimony focused national attention on the issue of workplace sexual harassment.

After being informed that the call was indeed from Virginia Thomas, Hill told the media that she did not believe the message was meant to be conciliatory and said, " I testified truthfully about my experience and I stand by that testimony.

The obstruction charge was based on his actions during the subsequent investigation of that testimony.

Based on the testimony of the participants, there are suggestions that it was under-rehearsed ( there were only two full rehearsals ) and rather scrappy in execution.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

:: I John ... was in the isle that is called Patmos for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

On November 15, 2007, attention was brought once again to Barry Bonds as he was indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection to his testimony before the grand jury regarding the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative ( BALCO ), a San Francisco Bay area lab known to be involved in the distribution of steroids to professional athletes.

Despite testimony from " Soldier F " that he had fired at a man holding and firing a pistol, Widgery acknowledged that the photographs showed Doherty was unarmed, and that forensic tests on his hands for gunshot residue proved negative.

He gave the city as his place of birth and said he was aged 41 in testimony under oath at the High Court of the Admiralty in October 1695.

As to the accusations of murdering Moore, on this he was mostly sunk on the testimony of the two former crew members, Palmer and Bradinham, who testified against him in exchange for pardons.