May 13, 1999
Web posted at: 11:38 a.m. EDT (1538 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, May 13) -- Despite the new release of split polygraph results, Kathleen Willey says she is ready to testify again should Independent Counsel Ken Starr decided to retry Julie Hiatt Steele.

Newly unsealed information shows that on two separate occasions Willey took FBI polygraph tests. During the first test the former White House volunteer failed a question about whether she told Steele of an alleged sexual advance by President Bill Clinton.

Also during that first test, Willey tested "inconclusive" when she said Clinton made a sexual advance.

In a second test conducted September 15, 1998, six days after the first test, the examiner determined Willey answered truthfully when she answered "yes" to the questions "In November 1993, did the president place his hand on your breast?" and "Did President Clinton place your hand on his groin?"

The questions did not address whether the alleged 1993 Oval Office advance was unwanted.

The retest also gave Willey passing marks for her answers to questions about when she told Steele about the encounter, including the questions "Before 1997, did you tell Julie Steele that the president came on to you?" and "In 1993, did you tell Julie Steele about an encounter with the president in his office?"

The documents also show that Willey told the polygraph examiner that at first she couldn't remember when she told Steele of the alleged incident, but was reminded of it later by Steele.

Steele, whose obstruction of justice trial was declared a mistrial last week after the jury said it was "hopelessly deadlocked," has claimed numerous times under oath that her former friend never told her about Clinton's alleged advance until 1997 when Willey asked her to lie to a Newsweek reporter about the incident.

Starr brought the four felony obstruction of justice charges, saying Steele obstructed his probe of the president by lying to a grand jury and FBI investigators about what and when Willey told her about Clinton. Starr has 70 days to decide whether to retry Steele.

Willey was the chief prosecution witness for Starr during the first trial and she says she is ready to do it again

"I'd like to see (the case) retried," Mrs. Willey said Wednesday night on CNN's "Larry King Live." Of her testimony last week, Mrs. Willey said, "I've done it once. I guess I could do it again."

The polygraph documents were unsealed this week after an appeals court ordered a federal judge to reconsider his earlier denial of a challenge to their secrecy by several new organization.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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