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Kathleen Willey was a White House volunteer aide who, on March 15, 1998, alleged on the TV news program 60 Minutes that Bill Clinton had sexually assaulted her on November 29, 1993, during his first term as President. She had been subpoenaed to testify in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.[1]

Claims

According to Willey, during a meeting in the private study of the Oval Office, Clinton had embraced her tightly, kissed her on the mouth, fondled her breast and then placed her hand on his penis. Clinton denied assaulting Willey. The Clinton White House released details of 15 letters and 12 telephone messages that Willey had sent to Clinton after the alleged incident. In all of these, she appeared friendly and eager for more contact with Clinton.

According to Linda Tripp’s grand jury testimony, she felt Willey pursued a romance with Clinton from the start of her White House affiliation. Willey had speculated with Tripp as to how she might be able to set up an assignation between herself and the president. She routinely attended events at which Clinton would be present, wearing a black dress she believed he liked. According to Tripp’s testimony, she wondered if she and Clinton could arrange to meet in a home to which she had access, on the Chesapeake Bay. [2]


Investigation and current status

The Final Report of the U.S. Office of the Independent Counsel report noted that "Willey gave false information to the FBI about her sexual relationship with a former boyfriend, and acknowledged having lied about it when the agents confronted her with contradictory evidence. Following Willey’s acknowledgment of the lie, the Independent Counsel agreed not to prosecute her for false statements in this regard."[3] According to Independent Counsel Robert Ray’s report, "Willey’s [Paula] Jones deposition testimony differed from her grand jury testimony on material aspects of the alleged incident."[4]

According to a book critical of Clinton by Candice E. Jackson, Tripp told Larry King in February 1999 that Willey is "an honest person" who was "telling the truth" about having been sexually assaulted by Clinton. [5] However, Tripp's grand jury testimony differs from Willey's claims regarding inappropriate sexual advances.[6]

Willey has a history of controversial claims including telling the FBI she was pregnant and she had a miscarriage when she did not.[7]

In March 2000, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that President Clinton had "committed a criminal violation" of the Privacy Act by releasing letters from Willey to the President that were written even after the alleged incident.[8] A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court of Appeals later criticized this ruling,[9] though Willey subsequently filed suit against the White House, over this issue.[10]

On November 6, 2007, her book Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton was published by World Ahead Media. In her book, Willey claimed that on Labor Day weekend 2007, her house was burglarized, with the only thing stolen being a manuscript of her book. Willey stated that she believes individuals with ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton are responsible for the break-in. She also filed a police report.[11] Media Matters reported that, in a November 7 interview with Fox News personality Sean Hannity, she contradicted information from her own book.[12] Willey had alleged that, two days before her deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, Cody Shearer, the brother of a Clinton White House aide, had confronted her, hurt her cat, and threatened her children. During an interview on The Sean Hannity Show, Willey stated, "[the] FBI checked it out, and they found his excuse to be, for not being there, his alibi, was uncheckable, not so much ironclad as uncheckable." However, in her book she had written, "I was told that Shearer had an 'airtight' and 'ironclad' alibi, but another source told me that it was 'uncheckable.'"

On September 22, 2009, it was revealed that Willey was a Level 2 processor for a company involved with the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) also known as "Cash For Clunkers". The report indicated that, for a week's assignment, she actually worked 14 hours. However, she was paid for 37 1/2 hours. Her experience was recounted for an article in World Net Daily. She said that Level 1 processors weren't paying attention to what they were doing and were rejecting a high number of dealer applications, sometimes sending them back several times.[13]

Personal life

Willey's second husband, Edward E. Willey Jr., committed suicide on November 29, 1993 — the same day that she had claimed Clinton's sexual misconduct took place.

Willey remarried in November 1999 to Bill Schwicker.[14] Now divorced, she works and resides in Powhatan County, Virginia.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Sparking the Scandal". TIME. February 2, 1998. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  2. ^ http://a255.g.akamaitech.net/7/255/2422/11may20041152/icreport.access.gpo.gov/hd105-316/3753-4374.pdf
  3. ^ http://a255.g.akamaitech.net/7/255/2422/13may20041220/icreport.access.gpo.gov/lewinsky/appb.pdf (OIC Final Report, Appendix B)
  4. ^ http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/clinton/icreport/appbwiley030602icrpt.pdf(p.7 pdf)
  5. ^ Candice E. Jackson, Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine, (World Ahead Media, 2004) page 148
  6. ^ "Stalking the president". Salon.com. January 1999. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
  7. ^ "The Lives Of Kathleen Willey". CNN. March 30, 1998. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
  8. ^ "Judge rules White House violated privacy of Kathleen Willey". CNN. March 29, 1998. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  9. ^ "White House Loses and Gains in Ruling on a Privacy Act Case". New York Times. May 27, 2000. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  10. ^ "Willey Files Suit Against Clintons". CNN. September 21, 2000. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
  11. ^ Kathleen Willey, Target: Caught in the cross hairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton (World Ahead Media, Nov 2007)
  12. ^ "On Hannity's radio show, Willey contradicted her book's account". Media Matters for America. November 8, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
  13. ^ http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=110531
  14. ^ http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/07/28/condit/index.html
  15. ^ http://www.incredibleagents.com/real-estate-agents/VA/Powhatan/Napier-Realtors-ERA/Kathleen-Schwicker/index.html
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