Starr Issues More Subpoenas
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, March 26) -- Whitewater prosecutors have subpoenaed information gathered by the Paula Jones legal team about four women with possible connections to President Bill Clinton.
Jones' lawyers received subpoenas from Independent Counsel Ken Starr Tuesday, requiring them to turn over any material collected on Juanita Broaddrick, Dolly Kyle Browning, Beth Coulson and Marilyn Jo Jenkins, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Thursday.
Clinton lawyer Bob Bennett said the subpoenas are not what they appear to be.
"The issuance of a subpoena is obviously a cover for collusion, and the leaking of the subpoena makes a mockery of grand jury secrecy," Bennett said.
Bennett said any effort on the part of Starr's office and the Jones legal team to work together to harm the president would be "a serious abuse of power and the compulsory processes of the court."
Debbie Gersham, a Starr spokeswoman, said the Office of the Independent Counsel was not working with Jones lawyers and had no further comment. Jones lawyer T. Wesley Holmes said the Jones legal team would respond to the subpoena, but there was no conspiracy with Starr's office.
"We are not working together," Holmes said. "We have never
worked together. In fact, the existence of [Starr's office] has
done nothing but interfere with our ability to prosecute this
case."
Jones' civil lawsuit against the president, alleging a crude sexual proposition and a hostile work environment, is set to go to trial May 27.
Broddrick has not previously been publicly connected to either Jones or Starr's investigation.
Browning, a Texas lawyer, claims to have had a decades-long relationship with Clinton. Clinton has denied the allegation.
Coulson, named by Clinton to the state Court of Appeals, is listed as Jane Doe No. 2 in some filings in the Jones case. She and Clinton have denied under oath any sexual relationship.
Jenkins, listed as Jane Doe No. 1 in some filings in the Jones case, is an Entergy Corp. official. In his deposition in the Jones case, Clinton said he remembered two visits from Jenkins at the governor's mansion in Little Rock when he was preparing to leave for Washington and the presidency.
White House personnel aide testifies
Meanwhile, the grand jury in Washington continues to hear testimony into sex and perjury allegations against the president.
Marsha Scott, White House personnel chief, testified before the grand jury Thursday. Prosecutors are focusing on Monica Lewinsky's employment in the Clinton Administration for a second straight day.
Thursday's appearance was Scott's second and follows personnel aide Jodie Torkelson's testimony Wednesday. Torkelson wrote a memo when Lewinsky was transferred from the White House to the Pentagon in 1996, demanding notification if Lewinsky sought another White House position.
Scott was followed by Nancy Hernreich. It was also Hernreich's second appearance before the grand jury. She's in charge of Oval Office operations and keeps close tabs on those who come and go, and see the president.
The grand jury is looking into reports that Clinton had a sexual relationship with Lewinsky, a former White House intern, and encouraged her to lie about it under oath. Clinton has denied both accusations.
Prosecutors for the independent counsel have focused at times on why Lewinsky was transferred out of the White House in 1996.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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