Lucienne Goldberg

Her career started at the Washington Post in 1957 followed by a year working at the Democratic National Committee in 1960. She became a consultant to the White House staff under President Kennedy in 1961 for two years. She set up Cummings and Associates in 1963.
Decades later, Jeffrey Toobin's book A Vast Conspiracy alleged that Goldberg claimed to friends that she had an affair with Lyndon Johnson while working in the White House. [1] After Goldberg threatened Random House with a libel suit, a Washington Post writer claimed he and others overheard her bragging about an affair with Vice President Hubert Humphrey as well. Goldberg denied both affairs and denied telling any such stories. [2]
In 1966, she married Sidney Goldberg, an editor at the news syndicate North American Newspaper Alliance and Lucianne Goldberg did occasional freelance work for the syndicate. During the 1972 presidential campaign she joined the press corps covering candidate George McGovern, claiming to be a reporter for the Women's News Service, an affiliate of NANA. In fact, she was paid $1000 a week by Richard Nixon operative Murray Chotiner for regular reports about happenings on the campaign trail. She said "They were looking for really dirty stuff...Who was sleeping with who, what the Secret Service men were doing with the stewardesses, who was smoking pot on the plane--that sort of thing." [3] [4]
Goldberg set up her own literary agency in 1972. One of her clients, celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley, sued Goldberg in 1983, charging breach of contract, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty over proceeds from Kelley's book on Elizabeth Taylor. The jury awarded Kelley $60,000, but the judge reduced the award to $40,000 and dismissed the ruling of fraud. [5]
She published her first book, Purr Baby Purr, in 1970, which was a critique of feminism. Goldberg started writing a column called "Footlights of Broadway", syndicated by NANA. Goldberg published her first novel, Friends in High Places co-written with Sondra Robinson, in 1979. Her first solo novel Madame Cleo's Girls, a story of three call girls, was published in 1992, followed by People Will Talk in 1994. Goldberg has also ghostwritten the steamy novel Washington Wives (1987) for Maureen Dean (wife of Watergate figure John Dean), among other works.[6]

The Making of a Scandal

This "sudden" scandal took long preparation by powerful forces. Years ago, the extreme right-wing Rutherford Foundation took up the sexual harassment case of Paula Jones as a way to embarrass Bill Clinton. Their operation got a boost when the Rehnquist Supreme Court allowed the civil case of Paula Jones to continue while Clinton was still in office. Sitting presidents are usually shielded from legal cases--and the Supreme Court's decision took away that protection.

Then came a second unusual ruling--this time by Judge Susan Webber Wright, the conservative federal judge overseeing the Paula Jones case. Wright allowed Jones' attorneys to try to document in court a "pattern" of sexual misconduct by Bill Clinton. Paula Jones' lawyers could demand sworn statements from women who had nothing to do with Paula Jones. They paid private investigators to canvas Little Rock and Washington looking for women willing to accuse Clinton. Monica Lewinsky was brought to court where she swore, under oath in early January, that she had never had sex with Clinton.

Meanwhile, Monica Lewinsky was being set up. A former White House secretary Linda Tripp got Lewinsky to talk about Clinton over the phone and illegally taped the conversations. Tripp got her directions from Lucienne Goldberg, a former "dirty tricks" operative for Richard Nixon. Goldberg gathers scandalous rumors about Clinton--serving as "literary agent" for Arkansas statetroopers, an alleged former lover of Bill Clinton, and Linda Tripp herself. Goldberg is also literary agent for the racist cop Mark Fuhrman.

Tripp took the Lewinsky tapes and other evidence to Kenneth Starr--who then claimed the tapes showed that Lewinsky lied and that someone connected to the White House had urged her to do it. Starr, whose initial assignment was to investigate Arkansas real estate, now authorized an FBI sting operation. Linda Tripp was wired with a microphone and sent to get more revelations from Lewinsky. Federal agents later held Lewinsky in a hotel room for 10 hours without a lawyer, demanding that she participate in a sting operation aimed at Clinton.

Kenneth Starr is an active right-winger. In 1989 as the Solicitor General of the Bush administration, Starr argued that the Supreme Court should overturn Roe v. Wade because, "There is simply no credible foundation for the proposition that abortion is a fundamental right." Recently, Starr has worked for the "school choice" movement against public education, as a lawyer for the tobacco industry, and as a speaker at a Christian-fascist law school associated with Pat Robertson.

Attorney General Reno gave Starr permission to launch a full-scale investigation into the possibility that someone in the White House told Lewinsky to lie in court.

The apple didn't roll far from the tree.

In the rotten orchard of the mass media.

Why even read his shit?

Wjhy even read the LA Times?

Just another  asset.

NY Times Jr.

Bet on it.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West