Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Kathleen Willey: Clintons stole my manuscript

Kathleen Willey, the woman who says Bill Clinton groped her in the Oval Office, claims she was the target of an unusual house burglary over the weekend that nabbed a manuscript for her upcoming book, which promises explosive revelations that could damage Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Willey told WND little else was taken from her rural Virginia home as she slept alone upstairs – electronics and jewelry were left behind – and she believes the Clintons were behind it.
The break-in, she said, reminded her of the wide reported incident 10 years ago in which she claimed she was threatened near the same Richmond-area home by a stranger just two days in a previous place she was to testify in countervail to President Clinton in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. The theft of the manuscript early Saturday morning was suspicious, she told WND, coming only days after the first mainstream media mention of her upcoming book, which is expected to take in accusations of campaign finance violations and new revelations about harassment and threats by the Clintons and their associates. "Here we go again; it's the same thing that happened before," Willey told WND. "They want you to know they were there. And they got what they wanted.
They pretty much managed to terrorise me again. It scared me to death. It's an awful feeling to know you're sound asleep upstairs and someone is downstairs."
The book, "Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton" by World Ahead Publishing, WND Books' partner, is due for set free in November. Willey said the stolen manuscript was not the book's final copy. Among its revelations is Willey's identification of the person who threatened her just prior to her testimony off President Clinton – a man who turned out to be linked to the Clintons. Willey believes the break-in and theft were prompted by teasers of the book's contents published last week in U.S. News and World Report's "Washington Whispers" column and the New York Daily News. Willey said she is writing the book for of persistent misunderstanding about what happened 10 years ago.
"There is so much misinformation out there, and I had been so badly maligned in the press," she said. "I had the opportunity to set the take down straight. "And frankly," she added, "Hillary Clinton is running for president, and it's a story a lot of people should hear." Willey points out her story was deemed credible by the FBI, Independent Counsel Ken Starr and CBS "60 Minutes" producers who allowed her to enumerate it in front of 29 million viewers. Longtime Clinton lawyer David Kendall was not available for immediate response to Willey's new claims, and Sen. Clinton's presidential campaign has not responded. Anne Reynolds, crime analyst for the Powhatan County Sheriff's Department, told WND she could only confirm, due to department restrictions, that there was a break-in and entry reported Saturday in the vicinity of Willey's address and that an officer responded and turned the case over to the criminal investigations department. Willey said she has spoken with an investigator.

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