(1999 AFFIDAVIT) On Tortuous Route, Sexual Assault Accusation Against Clinton Resurfaces

On the advice of her lawyer, Bill Walters, a Republican state senator, she agreed to let him call a friend of his, Bruce Lindsey, White House deputy counsel, she said. After the call, the President's lawyer, Robert S. Bennett, faxed Mr. Walters an affidavit another woman had used to deny involvement with Mr. Clinton. She said Mr. Walters changed the names and facts and Mrs. Broaddrick signed it on January 2, 1998. Contacted yesterday, Mr. Lindsey and Mr. Bennett would not comment.

The affidavit read, in part, ''These allegations are untrue and I had hoped that they would no longer haunt me, or cause further disruption to my family.''

After the Lewinsky matter surfaced, she said she started to get calls from reporters, but she refused to comment. Then she heard that prosecutors in the office of Mr. Starr were going to approach her. She discussed her options with her husband and her son, Kevin Hickey, a lawyer, and they decided she could not lie to Federal investigators.

Some of you may have heard the evil Dem hack Richard Goodstein talk about the false affidavit signed by Juanita Broaddrick on the Tucker show with Mark Stein. Goodstein uses that to say he doesn't believe her. The story behind the story is that she did not want to relive the horrible event and did not want to drag her family through it by being involved in the Jones v Clinton matter.

Goodstein and others do not want you to know that the affidavit denying she was assaulted CAME FROM BRUCE LINDSEY, COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT! Lindsey was a fixer and had done this before as is described in the snippet of the article. Juanita thought by signing it the matter would not involve her.

I've been wondering if info this even exists anymore. I wonder if it can even been seen if it does still exist.

At least one senior Republican House investigator, pushing hard for the President's removal, told some undecided Republicans that Mrs. Broaddrick's story would probably become public and that they would look bad if they voted against impeachment, two House Republicans said.

While it appears that the allegation swayed few, if any, votes in the House or Senate, it hardened opinion against the President among some of the dozen or so Representatives who were led to materials on the case in a secure room in the Capitol, Republican officials said. In some cases, reading the Broaddrick files ended the representatives' qualms and made them feel at peace with their decisions to support impeachment, the officials said.

Representative Christopher Shays, Republican of Connecticut, said he was shaken by the materials and at one point decided to vote for impeachment but in the end changed his mind.

'The material I saw was, if true, shocking, disgusting and left a big pit in your stomach,'' said Mr. Shays, who become one of the few Republicans to vote against impeachment. ''But it did not directly relate to the articles of impeachment, which is why it didn't see the light of day.''

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