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Article: FOCUS-PRESIDENT AND THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Why is Clinton persecuting me? Washington correspondent Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is accused of peddling `Right-wing inventions'. But it is the White House which is lying, he says
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- January 12, 1997
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THE WHITE House has accused the British press of fomenting many
of the scandals that have plagued President Clinton, singling out
The Sunday Telegraph as the chief instrument of mischief.
In a 331-page report, released last week by the Legal Counsel's
Office, it described a conspiracy "food chain" in which a putative
right-wing cabal led by the reclusive heir to the Mellon banking
fortune, Richard Mellon Scaife, skilfully feeds material to London
newspapers.
"The stories get picked up overseas, typically in London,
typically by one particular reporter," explained the White House
Press Secretary, Michael McCurry, without naming the scoundrel
responsible. They are, of course, referring to me. ...