In this case I imagine their "independent observers" consisted of Lanny Davis, Maureen Dowd and Saul Alinsky's son.
CNN’s protect-obama response team had the denials out.
FOLKS THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WERE COVERING FOR CLINTON HAVING SEX IN THE OVAL OFFICE.
(and there was a video tape and there was the dress)
THEN they said it was not about lying under oath it was just physical fun fun time.
This is the hoary Soviet Pravda everybody knows technique, in which that which Pravda wanted to be true was described as "Everybody knows that..."