Impeachment Manager: Clinton Treated Monica Like 'Deranged Stalker'

‘White House began a full-court press strategy to destroy her’

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BOB UNRUH

Former U.S. Rep. James Rogan, who served as one of the House managers of the impeachment case against Bill Clinton, says the White House launched a full-fledged attack on onetime intern Monica Lewinsky when word came out about the president’s sexual escapades with her.

“History shows that Ms. Lewinsky was treated horribly by the White House: When her relationship with the president first blared across the headlines, the White House began a full-court press strategy to destroy her: White House operatives portrayed her as a deranged stalker to any reporter willing to listen,” said the former congressman.

Rogan has documented the case against Clinton, how it developed and how it was handled in Washington, in his “Catching Our Flag: Behind the Scenes of a Presidential Impeachment.”

It details what happened when the media force-fed America and the world a steady diet of Lewinsky’s blue dress, a wagging presidential finger and the parsing of phrases like “the meaning of ‘is.’”

He describes how on his first day on the House Judiciary Committee, Rogan knew if the scandal ever led to impeachment proceedings, future accounts would suffer from faulty memories or faulty motives.

To combat the threat of factual or historical error, Rogan kept copious notes during every significant meeting relating to impeachment from his first day on the committee. He did this so there would be a complete and accurate historical chronicle – the best evidence – of what really happened behind the scenes in the unfolding drama.

Even though the impeachment of Clinton cost Rogan his congressional seat, the author said he still believes trying the president before the Senate was the right thing to do.

Read all about the women Bill Clinton targeted, in “Their Lives,” and hear the first-person testimony of Kathleen Willey, who chose to tell the story of her encounter with Clinton in “Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton.”

Rogan also explains that many Americans forget that Clinton signed a plea bargain on his last day in office admitting his lies to avoid criminal prosecution for perjury.

“Who really remembers he resigned his law licenses before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Arkansas Supreme Court in order to avoid disbarment?” he said.

He reacted on Tuesday to word that Lewinsky had broken her silence about the controversy, in an interview with Vanity Fair.

She said she was “made a scapegoat” by the Clinton administration and others “to protect his powerful position.”

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