I saw this deposition live and was screaming at the screen while Jordon told this. bald-faced lie.
This book has nothing to do with resurrecting his reputation. By his own admission, Jordan's been a close, personal friend of the Clinton Crime Family since 1973. Like both Hitlery and Wee-Willy, this book is the conduit for a payoff.
http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/archive/impeach/jordan0202.htm
Arkansas Representative Asa Hutchinson is questioning Vernon Jordan.
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Q All right. And do you recall a discussion with Ms. Lewinsky at the Park Hyatt on this occasion in which there were notes discussed that she had written to the President?
A I am certain that Ms. Lewinsky talked to me about notes.
Q On this occasion?
A Yes.
Q And would these have been notes that she would have sent to the President?
A I think that there was--these notes had to do with correspondence between Ms. Lewinsky and the President.
Q And would have she mentioned the retention or copies of some of that correspondence on her computer in her apartment?
A She may have done that.
Q And did you ask her a question, were these notes from the President do you?
A I understood from our conversation that she and the President had correspondence that went back and forth.
Q And did you make a statement to her, "Go home and make sure they're not there"?
A Mr. Hutchinson, I'm a lawyer and I'm a loyal friend, but I'm not a fool, and the notion that I would suggest to anybody that they destroy anything just defies anything that I know about myself. So the notion that I said to her "go home and destroy notes" is ridiculous.
Q Well, I appreciate that reminder of ethical responsibilities. It was--
A No, it had nothing to do with ethics, as much as it's just good common sense, mother wit. You remember that in the South.
Q And so--and let me read a statement that she made to the grand jury on August 6th, 1998. This is the testimony of Ms. Lewinsky, referring to a conversation with you at the Park Hyatt that, "She," referring to Linda Tripp, "was my friend. I didn't really trust her. I used to trust her, but I didn't trust her anymore, and I was a little bit concerned because she had spent the night at my home a few times, and I thought--I told Mr. Jordan. I said, 'Well, maybe she's heard some'--you know, I mean, maybe she saw some notes lying around, and Mr. Jordan said, 'Notes from the President to you?,' and I said, 'No. Notes from me to the President,' and he said, 'Go home and make sure they're not there.'"
A And, Mr. Hutchinson, I'm saying to you that I never heard the name "Linda Tripp" until I read the Judge--Drudge Report. Secondly, let me say to you that I, too, have read Ms. Lewinsky's testimony about that breakfast, and I can say to you, without fear of contradiction on my part, maybe on her part, that the notion that I told her to go home and destroy notes is just out of the question.
Q And so this is not a matter of you not recalling whether that occurred or not--
A I am telling you--
Q Well, let me--
A --emphatically--
Q Mr. Jordan, let me finish the question.
A Okay, all right.
Q Please, sir.
A Okay.
Q It's sort of important for the record. This is a statement by Ms. Lewinsky that you flatly and categorically deny?
A Absolutely.
Q Now, you talked about "mother wit," I think it was; that you knew at the time that you had this discussion with Ms. Lewinsky that these notes would have been covered by the subpoena based upon your discussion of that on December 19th?
A Ask that question again.
Q All right. This is a meeting on December 31st at the Park Hyatt.
A Right.
Q A discussion about the notes, correspondence between Ms. Lewinsky and the President.
A Right.
Q You are aware, based upon your discussion of the subpoena on December 19th, that these were covered under the subpoena?
A Yes.
Q And did you tell Ms. Lewinsky that you need to make sure you tell your attorney, Mr. Carter, and that these are turned over under the subpoena?
A What I did not tell her was to destroy the notes. Whether I told her to give them to Mr. Carter or not, I have no recollection of that.
Q But you knew at the time that these notes were a matter of evidence?
A I think that's a valid assumption.
Q But you knew that?
A It's a valid assumption.
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Thanks for the transcript! I think there is another explanation for Asa Hutchinson's less than thorough questioning...I have noticed that white interrogators invariably handle Jordon with a cloyingly sweet reverence. ( "Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man"--Ayn Rand) Just last night, professionalism quickly became obeisance as Brit Hume, universally considered competent and fair, interviewed Jordon about his book. What I think is going on is this: Vernon Jordon continues to skirt the law on a decades-old civil-rights wound. As for Mother wit, Mother wit tell a different story...As I said above, I'm sure clinton's ol' golf buddy found pal Ron Brown's nasty dénouement, and Jesse Jackson's handling of same, quite instructive...
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