Panel Seeks Whitewater Perjury Charges
The Senate panel investigating the Whitewater affair plans to recommend possible perjury charges be brought against two of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s closest associates, CNN reported Thursday night.
The targeted associates are Margaret Williams, the first lady’s chief of staff, and Susan Thomases, a lawyer and close personal friend, CNN reported.
Both testified last year about telephone calls between them and the first lady after the July 1993 suicide of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster.
Citing unnamed sources, the network said the committee’s counsel had made a preliminary determination that the pair engaged in a “deliberate pattern of deception” in testimony before the panel last year.
CNN quoted Sen. Alfonse M. D’Amato (R-N.Y.), chairman of the Whitewater panel, as saying he was “concerned and outraged” by pair’s testimony.
A White House spokesman, Mark Fabiani, dismissed D’Amato’s reported plan to press perjury charges as “nakedly partisan and political.”
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