Washington More than 11 years after
their affair rocked America, former White House intern Monica
Lewinsky has claimed the then US President Bill Clinton lied
under oath when he described their romantic encounters during
his impeachment trial, according to a new book.
In an email to law professor Ken Gormley, who penned
`The Death of American Virtue`, Lewinsky has made it clear she
believes President Clinton had lied about their liaison during
his testimony to the grand jury.
"There was no leeway (there) on the veracity of
his statements because they asked him detailed and specific
questions to which he answered untruthfully," she wrote.
The 769-page book, due to be out in February, also
asserts that President Clinton had a long-running extramarital
affair with Susan McDougal, one of the few people who served
prison time because of the Whitewater investigation.
Though Gormley offers no concrete evidence of the
affair, he told leading portal `Politico.com`: "I feel very,
very comfortable with that conclusion after having conducted
extensive interviews and seen documents that weren`t generally
accessible to the public."
The author was granted three interviews by the former
US President and eight by Ken Starr, the independent counsel
whose pursuit of Clinton led to him becoming only the second
US President to face impeachment.
Though the turmoil caused by the Lewinsky saga has
subsided with time, President Clinton has acknowledged in the
book that he "will always have an asterisk after my name".
"But I hope I`ll have two asterisks," he said,
according to excerpts from the book provided to the portal.
"One is `They impeached him`, and the other is `He stood up to
them and beat them, and he beat them like a yard dog`."
However, one person not interviewed for the book was Hillary Clinton. Gormley has said he asked repeatedly for a
meeting but was never granted one.
Bureau Report
