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105TH CONGRESS REPORT 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 105±830 "! IMPEACHMENT OF WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES together with ADDITIONAL, MINORITY, AND DISSENTING VIEWS TO ACCOMPANY H. RES. 611 DECEMBER 16, 1998 (pursuant to clause 2(l)(5) of rule XI).ÐReferred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed IMPEACHMENT OF WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1 105TH CONGRESS REPORT 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 105±830 "! IMPEACHMENT OF WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES together with ADDITIONAL, MINORITY, AND DISSENTING VIEWS TO ACCOMPANY H. RES. 611 DECEMBER 16, 1998 (pursuant to clause 2(l)(5) of rule XI).ÐReferred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE ★ 52±880 WASHINGTON : 1998 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HENRY J. HYDE, Illinois, Chairman F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan Wisconsin BARNEY FRANK, Massachusetts BILL McCOLLUM, Florida CHARLES E. SCHUMER, New York GEORGE W. GEKAS, Pennsylvania HOWARD L. BERMAN, California HOWARD COBLE, North Carolina RICK BOUCHER, Virginia LAMAR S. SMITH, Texas JERROLD NADLER, New York ELTON GALLEGLY, California ROBERT C. SCOTT, Virginia CHARLES T. CANADY, Florida MELVIN L. WATT, North Carolina BOB INGLIS, South Carolina ZOE LOFGREN, California BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia SHEILA JACKSON LEE, Texas STEPHEN E. BUYER, Indiana MAXINE WATERS, California ED BRYANT, Tennessee MARTIN T. MEEHAN, Massachusetts STEVE CHABOT, Ohio WILLIAM D. DELAHUNT, Massachusetts BOB BARR, Georgia ROBERT WEXLER, Florida WILLIAM L. JENKINS, Tennessee STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey ASA HUTCHINSON, Arkansas THOMAS M. BARRETT, Wisconsin EDWARD A. PEASE, Indiana CHRISTOPHER B. CANNON, Utah JAMES E. ROGAN, California LINDSEY O. GRAHAM, South Carolina MARY BONO, California (II) MAJORITY STAFF THOMAS E. MOONEY, SR., General Counsel-Chief of Staff JON W. DUDAS, Deputy General Counsel-Staff Director DIANA L. SCHACHT, Deputy Staff Director-Chief Counsel DANIEL M. FREEMAN, Parliamentarian-Counsel PAUL J. MCNULTY, Director of Communications-Chief Counsel JOSEPH H. GIBSON, Chief Counsel RICK FILKINS, Counsel SHAREE M. FREEMAN, Counsel PETER J. LEVINSON, Counsel JOHN F. MAUTZ, IV, Counsel WILLIAM E. MOSCHELLA, Counsel STEPHEN PINKOS, Counsel GEORGE M. FISHMAN, Chief Counsel DAVID P. SCHIPPERS, Chief Investigative MITCH GLAZIER, Chief Counsel Counsel JOHN H. LADD, Chief Counsel RAYMOND V. SMIETANKA, Chief Counsel SUSAN BOGART, Investigative Counsel LAURA ANN BAXTER, Counsel ROBERT S. HOOVER, Counsel DANIEL J. BRYANT, Counsel JOHN C. KOCORAS, Counsel CATHLEEN A. CLEAVER, Counsel BERLE S. LITTMANN, Investigator VINCE GARLOCK, Counsel STEPHEN P. LYNCH, Professional Staff JAMES W. HARPER, Counsel Member SUSAN JENSEN±CONKLIN, Counsel CHARLES F. MARINO, Counsel DEBRA K. LAMAN, Counsel JEFFREY J. PAVLETIC, Investigative Counsel BLAINE S. MERRITT, Counsel THOMAS M. SCHIPPERS, Investigative Counsel NICOLE R. NASON, Counsel ALBERT F. TRACY, Investigator GLENN R. SCHMITT, Counsel PETER J. WACKS, Investigator JIM Y. WILON, Counsel DIANA L. WOZNICKI, Investigator MINORITY STAFF JULIAN EPSTEIN, Minority Chief Counsel-Staff Director PERRY H. APELBAUM, Minority General ABBE D. LOWELL, Minority Chief Investigative Counsel Counsel DAVID G. LACHMANN, Counsel SAMPAK P. GARG, Investigative Counsel CYNTHIA A. R. MARTIN, Counsel STEVEN F. REICH, Investigative Counsel HENRY MONIZ, Counsel DEBORAH L. RHODE, Investigative Counsel STEPHANIE J. PETERS, Counsel KEVIN M. SIMPSON, Investigative Counsel SAMARA T. RYDER, Counsel LIS W. WIEHL, Investigative Counsel BRIAN P. WOOLFOLK, Counsel (III) C O N T E N T S Page Articles of Impeachment ......................................................................................... 2 I. Introduction .................................................................................................... 5 II. Narrative ........................................................................................................ 7 A. The Paula Jones Litigation .................................................................... 7 B. The Relationship Between President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky . 7 C. The Events of December 5±6, 1997ÐPresident Clinton Learns Ms. Lewinsky is on the Witness List ............................................................ 8 D. The Search for a Job for Ms. Lewinsky ................................................. 10 E. The Events of December 17, 1997ÐPresident Clinton Informs Ms. Lewinsky that She is on the Witness List ............................................ 11 F. The Events of December 19, 1997ÐMs. Lewinsky Receives a Sub- poena ........................................................................................................ 14 G. The Events of December 28, 1997ÐMs. Currie Retrieves the Gifts ... 15 H. The Events of January 5±9, 1997ÐMs. Lewinsky Signs the False Affidavit and Gets the Job ..................................................................... 17 I. The Filing of the False Affidavit ............................................................. 19 J. The Events of January 17, 1998ÐPresident Clinton and Mr. Bennett at the Deposition ...................................................................................... 20 K. The Events of Late January, 1998ÐThe Deposition Aftermath ......... 21 L. The Events of August 17, 1998ÐThe Grand Jury Testimony ............. 28 M. Answers to the Committee's Requests for Admission ......................... 32 III. Explanation of Articles of Impeachment ...................................................... 32 A. Article IÐPerjury in the Grand Jury .................................................... 32 1. The Committee concluded that, on August 17, 1998, the Presi- dent provided perjurious, false, and misleading testimony to a Federal grand jury concerning the nature and details of his relationship with a subordinate government employee. ................. 33 2. The Committee concluded that the President provided perjuri- ous, false, and misleading testimony to a Federal grand jury concerning prior perjurious, false, and misleading testimony he gave in a federal civil rights action brought against him. .............. 38 3. The Committee concluded that the President provided perjuri- ous, false, and misleading testimony to a Federal grand jury concerning prior perjurious, false, and misleading statements he allowed his attorney to make to a Federal judge in that civil rights action. ....................................................................................... 40 4. The Committee concluded that the President provided perjuri- ous, false, and misleading testimony to a Federal grand jury concerning his corrupt efforts to influence the testimony of wit- nesses and to impede the discovery of evidence in that civil rights action. ....................................................................................... 42 a. The President gave perjurious, false, and misleading testi- mony before the grand jury when he denied engaging in a plan to hide evidence that had been subpoenaed in the federal civil rights action against him. ..................................... 42 b. The President made perjurious, false, and misleading state- ments before the grand jury regarding his knowledge that the contents of an affidavit executed by a subordinate federal employee who was a witness in the federal civil rights action brought against him were untrue. ............................................. 46 (V) VI Page c. The President made perjurious, false, and misleading state- ments before the grand jury when he recited a false account of the facts regarding his interactions with Monica Lewinsky to Betty Currie, a potential witness in the federal civil rights action brought against him. ....................................................... 48 d. The President made perjurious, false, and misleading state- ments before the grand jury concerning statements he made to aides regarding his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. .... 49 5. Explanation of the Rogan Amendment to Article I ....................... 52 B. Article IIÐPerjury in the Civil Case ..................................................... 53 1. The Committee concluded that the President provided perjuri- ous, false, and misleading testimony in a Federal civil rights action in response to written questions. ........................................... 53 2. The Committee concluded that the President provided perjuri- ous, false, and misleading testimony in a Federal civil rights action in his deposition. ..................................................................... 54 a. The President lied in his deposition about the nature of his conduct with a subordinate federal employee who was a witness in the federal civil rights action brought against him. .............................................................................................. 54 b. The President lied in his deposition after being asked if anyone had reported to him within the past two weeks that they had had a conversation with a subordinate federal em- ployee concerning the Jones v. Clinton lawsuit. ....................... 56 c. The President lied in his deposition about his being alone or in certain locations with a subordinate federal employee who was a witness in the action brought against him. ........... 57 d. The President lied in his deposition