Joe Conason: How Monica Lewinsky Deserves to Be Remembered - Truthdig

The unrecognized heroine of the Clinton impeachment scandal?  Mondica Lewinsky. - gwc

Joe Conason: How Monica Lewinsky Deserves to Be Remembered - Truthdig:

In the face of Linda Tripp’s perfidy and the bullying of Kenneth Starr’s prosecutors, who threatened her and her family with long prison sentences, Lewinsky stood fast. She asked to speak with a lawyer and with her mother. She wouldn’t wear a body wire into the Oval Office, as they demanded, to tape an incriminating conversation with the president. And she likewise refused to sign any statement that implicated Clinton in crimes of obstruction that he had not committed.

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