Starr's office is investigating whether Clinton and Lewinsky had an affair, and, if so, whether Clinton asked the former White House intern to lie about it under oath to Jones' attorneys.

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So whatever happens to Jones' civil case on appeal, Clinton still has a larger worry: Whitewater prosecutor Ken Starr's criminal investigation into the Monica Lewinsky affair, and whether Clinton lied under oath and encouraged the former White House intern to lie, too.

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But Tripp has previously said she made the tapes to protect herself, after the former White House intern asked her to lie during testimony in Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against the president.

CNN: Investigating the President

Even just a tiny bit of cheating, a little white lie, can be the seed for a lot of lies later on.

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It's a measure of the growing discontent with the president's policy decisions on Iraq and the economy--issues that lie at the very core of the political campaign for the White House.

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When you lie still you cut out the white noise of the world.

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So while the White House claim that beneficiaries will not lose benefits may not be technically a lie, surely the FTC would pounce on a private company if it said the same things.

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Here is the lie in the "ethereal look" to which these white dresses aspired.

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Liu Qiang's ashes lie in a cremation box on the altar, wrapped in a white silk scarf, waiting for burial.

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The Jones lawsuit sparked the White House sex scandal after her lawyers turned up allegations that Clinton had an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and urged her to lie under oath in the civil suit.

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Last week, Judge Johnson ruled the Secret Service could not invoke such a privilege to prevent its agents from testifying before the grand jury investigating allegations that President Bill Clinton urged Lewinsky, a former White House intern, to lie under oath about a sexual affair.

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Some congressional Democrats had been nervous about the prospect that Clinton might try to avoid testifying in Independent Counsel Ken Starr's inquiry into whether the president urged people to lie to cover up an alleged sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern.

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