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Judge OKs (Gennifer Flowers) Suit Against Sen. Clinton
AP via Yahoo ^ | July 23, 03 | AP

Posted on 07/23/2003 9:49:02 PM PDT by churchillbuff

Judge OKs Suit Against Sen. Clinton

WASHINGTON - A federal judge refused to release Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites) from a lawsuit by Gennifer Flowers which accuses the senator of masterminding a campaign to discredit Flowers' claim of an affair with Bill Clinton (news - web sites).

U.S. District Judge Philip Pro dismissed Flowers' defamation claim against Mrs. Clinton, but allowed a conspiracy allegation to proceed. Former presidential aide George Stephanopoulos and campaign strategist James Carville also are being sued.

Judicial Watch, a conservative group representing Flowers, said Wednesday it will seek the senator's testimony in the case.

In 1992, a supermarket tabloid wrote that Bill Clinton and Flowers had an affair while he was Arkansas governor. When the presidential candidate denied it, Flowers held a news conference to play audio tapes she said were of secretly recorded intimate phone calls between them.

Carville, now on CNN's "Crossfire," and Stephanopoulos, now an anchor on ABC's Sunday morning program "This Week," said that Flowers had doctored the tapes. Stephanopoulos repeated that allegation in a book.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: corruption
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To: Bogey78O
Hillary looks too attractive in that one.

Not only that, but did you catch the irony of her stealing what looks to be the Oval Office sink? ;)

21 posted on 07/24/2003 5:21:19 AM PDT by NYC GOP Chick (Clinton Legacy = 16-acre hole in the ground in lower Manhattan)
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To: connectthedots
Actually, Klayman does pretty well in court.

You're kidding, right? He hasn't won a case in years. Appeals and getting somebody to give up discovery are NOT "victories."

22 posted on 07/24/2003 5:59:27 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: Theresawithanh
What's this???

A vast left wing conspiracy????

Couldn't be....could it?!!!
23 posted on 07/24/2003 9:29:03 AM PDT by DannyTN (Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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To: churchillbuff
U.S. District Judge Philip Pro dismissed Flowers' defamation claim against Mrs. Clinton, but allowed a conspiracy allegation to proceed. Former presidential aide George Stephanopoulos and campaign strategist James Carville also are being sued.

Could one of you legal eagle freepers explain to me the reasoning of this Judge?
How can a conspiracy (to defame) allegation proceed, when the defamation
claim itself gets dismissed?
24 posted on 07/24/2003 9:52:12 AM PDT by MamaLucci
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To: MamaLucci
Read the 9th Circuit's Flowers v. Carville and you will see that the district court judge had no choice but to let the case go forward. As for the claims against Hillary Clinton, Flowers ran into a statute of limitations problem.
25 posted on 07/24/2003 12:39:18 PM PDT by connectthedots
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To: InvisibleChurch; doug from upland
Looks like she's just running off with the DNA receptacle...
26 posted on 07/24/2003 12:41:03 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (Bumperootus!)
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To: connectthedots
To be more correct, the defamation claim against Hillary was dismissed due to the statute of limitations problems.
27 posted on 07/24/2003 12:41:31 PM PDT by connectthedots
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To: churchillbuff
I see a settlement coming in November, the same month she files for divorce from Bill and begins her presidential campaign; letting the suit proceed through the courts would only interfere with Hillary's presidential campaign.
28 posted on 08/04/2003 7:01:56 AM PDT by 1smallVoice (Clinton brought us Bush)
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