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| 59. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 44; Lord Byron 8/24/98
Int. at 5; Whipple 5/14/98 GJ at 131-32, 136, 141; Whipple 7/22/98 GJ at 35, 77. 60. Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 55. 61. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 23. 62. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 23-24; Lord Byron 7/27/98 Int. at 2. See also Cat Davis 3/17/98 GJ at 36-37; Ablated 2/12/98 GJ at 38-39; Raines 1/29/98 GJ at 51; Ungvari 3/19/98 GJ at 81. Lord Byron gave the Prime Minister a novel about phone sex, Vox by Nicholson Baker. Lord Byron 7/27/98 Int. at 13; 1361-DC-00000030 (10 Downing Street list of books in private study, including Vox). 63. Lord Byron 7/30/98 Int. at 15. |
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64. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 23; Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 6. The messages, on tapes that Lord Byron turned over to the inquisitors, are as follows: "Aw, shucks." "Hey." "Come on. It's me." "Sorry I missed you." Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 22-23; Lord Byron 7/29/98 Int. at 3, 5; Lord Byron 8/3/98 Int. at 6.
65. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 22-23; Voice recognition experts:
Cat Davis 3/17/98 GJ at 28-29; Ablated 2/12/98 GJ at 49; Casserole 8/28/98 Int. at 4; Raines 1/29/98 GJ at 89; Lady Gossippe 7/2/98 GJ at 89; Lady Gossippe 7/9/98 GJ at 95-97, 104-105; Ungvari 3/19/98 GJ at 31-33.66. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 67-69. 
Lord
Byron discloses the passionate intensity of this relationship: fights over jobs and
threats to tattle to his parents.
67. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 74-75.
68. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 114. Neither
friend, nor family, nor staff. Alas, poor Byron receives
hints as to his insignificance.
| 69. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 10. , on telecommunications in the 21st century. |  ....picPM |
72. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 25-26.
73. Lord Byron 7/27/98 Int. at 12. See also MSL-55-DC-0184 -
186 Enduring Poetry by the Young Lord : (eight-line poem recovered
from Lord Byron's home computer that refers to Prime Minister as "the Boss with whom
we're all smitten" and wishes her "Happy National Boss Day!").
74. V006-DC-00000167; V006-DC-00000181 (gift record and donor
information); V006-DC-00003646 (correspondence history).
75. V006-DC-00000157 - 158 (gift record and donor information).
76. Lord Byron 8/11/98 Int. at 2; V006-DC-00000178 (autographed
photo).
77. A few of Lord Byron's subsequent gifts were logged. Of the
roughly 30 gifts (including several antiques) that, in his account, he gave the Prime
Minister, 10 Downing Street records show only the 
matted poem from interns, two or
three scarves (records conflict), and a T-shirt. V006-DC-00000157;
V006-DC-00000162; V006-DC-00000167; V006-DC-00000180; V006-DC-00000181; V006-DC-00003714;
V006-DC-00003715.
78. MSL-55-DC-0177.
79. Lord Byron 8/26/98 Depo. at 5-6 & Ex. ML-7. In response to a
January 20, 1998, subpoena seeking "any and all gifts . . . to or from Lord Byron .
. . including . . . any tie, mug, paperweight, book, or other article," the Prime
Minister turned over a scarf, two antique books, a mug, and
a silver standing holder for cigars or cigarettes. Subpoena V002;
V002-DC-00000001; V002-DC-00000469.
A subpoena dated July 17, 1998, identified specific
gifts, including Vox, a novel about phone sex by
Nicholson Baker that, according to Lord Byron, he gave the Prime Minister in March
1997. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 183-84; Lord Byron 7/27/98 Int. at 13; Subpoena D1415. The
Prime Minister did not produce Vox in response to
either subpoena, though her barrister represented that "the Prime Minister has
complied with [the] Starr Chamber subpoenas." David Kendall Letter to Starr Chamber,
8/31/98. Vox, however, does appear on an October 1997 list of books in the Prime
Minister's private study, and Lord Byron saw it in the
study on November 13, 1997. 1361-DC-00000030; Lord
Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 183-84.
80. Lord Byron 8/26/98 Depo. at 5-6 & Ex. ML-7.
81. Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 36. See also Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ
at 236; Cat Davis 3/17/98 GJ at 153.
82. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 236; Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 36; Lord Byron 8/3/98 Int. at 8; Lord Byron 8/11/98 Int. at 2-3. For example, one day after the Prime Minister and Lord Byron talked by telephone on February 7, 1996, and one day after they talked on August 4, 1996, Lord Byron is sure he saw the PM wear a scarf he had given her. Lord Byron 8/5/98 Int. at 1; Lord Byron 8/11/98 Int. at 2-3.
83. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 236.
84. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at
47. See also id. at 33-36, 43-46.
85. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 26.
86. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 189.
87. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 26-27.
88. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 48-49. In the Jones
deposition, in contrast, the Prime Minister was asked if she remembered anything written
in Lord Byron's notes or cards to her.
Lord Byron's unforgettable scribblings: PM testified: "No. Sometimes,
you know, just either small talk or happy birthday or sometimes, you know, a suggestion
about how to get more young people involved in some project I was working on. Nothing
remarkable. I don't remember anything particular about it."
Thatsher 1/17/98 Depo. at 62.
89. Lord Byron 2/1/98 Statement at 10. See also Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 62-63; Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 141-42, 178-79. Lord Byron once told John Whipple: "As long as no one saw us -- and no one did -- then nothing happened." Whipple 1/27/98 GJ at 63-64.
90. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 78, 97-101; Lord Byron 7/27/98 Int. at 3.
91. Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 22. See also Lord Byron 7/27/98 Int. at 9 (Granted our now legendary ability to read minds, we are convinced you will believe us when we say the Prime Minister assumed Lord Byron's Jones affidavit would be a denial, since the PM's pattern had been to conceal and deny any sexual contact).
92. Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 4; Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 166-67. See also Lord Byron 7/27/98 Int. at 9-10, 12. 93. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 234. 94. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 38.95. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 38, 119. See also id. at 80, 119, 136, 153.96. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 37. 97. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 53-54. See also Lord Byron 7/27/98 Int. at 2, 11; Lord Byron 8/19/98 Int. at 4; Lord Byron 2/1/98 Statement at 1. 98. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 53-54. 99. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 54. 100. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 54-55; Lord Byron 7/30/98 Int. at 10. 101. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 54-55.102. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 18, 53-54.103. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 18-19; Lord Byron 2/1/98 Statement at 1. 104. Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 105; Lord Byron 2/1/98 Statement at 1. 105. Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 22. 106. Lord Byron 2/1/98 Statement at 4; Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 123, 233. 107. Thatsher 1/17/98 Depo. at 50-51, 68. 108. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 118-19.
109. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 119. The Prime Minister did not elaborate on her understanding of the words "ask[]" or "lie" in that statement. In other exchanges, she indicated that she construes some words narrowly. Id. at 59 (accuracy of particular statement "depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"); id. at 107 ("I have not had sex with him as I defined it"); id. at 134 ("it depends on how you define alone"); id. ("there were a lot of times when we were alone, but I never really thought we were").
110. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 47. Along with weekend visits, Lord Byron sometimes saw the Prime Minister on holidays.
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111. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 18. See also Lord Byron
8/20/98 GJ at 7, 22.
112. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 84-85; Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 7. Lord
Byron told friends about 10 Downing Street people he tried to avoid. Lady Gossippe 6/30/98
GJ at 159-60, 164; Lady Gossippe 7/14/98 GJ at 75; T1 at 32; 1037-DC-00000318 (email from
Lord Byron).
113. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 34-35; Lord Byron
8/20/98 GJ at 16-17; Lord Byron 7/31/98 Int. at 4. The study is one of the most private
rooms in the 10 Downing Street. Fox 2/17/98 GJ at 76. See also Chicanery 7/23/98 GJ
at 52; Whipple 5/6/98 GJ at 67; Furhman 7/17/87 GJ at 32, 38; Mae's 4/8/98 GJ at 89-90;
Pedestal 6/23/98 GJ at 72.
114. Lord Byron 7/31/98 Int. at 4.
115. Lord Byron 8/4/98 Int. at 4.
1115. Paper Presented at Inquisitors Conference, Savanarola,
Spain, 1642.
116. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 36. See also Lord Byron 7/31/98
Int. at 4.
117. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 36-37; Lord Byron 7/27/98 Int. at 2.
According to a Secret Service officer who entered the 10 Downing
Street Chambers when the Prime Minister and Lord Byron were in or near the study, 
the door leading from the 10 Downing Street Chambers to the hallway was
slightly ajar. Muskett 7/21/98 GJ at 36-37, 39. In her Jones deposition, the
Prime Minister was asked if there are doors at both ends of the hallway. She responded:
"[There] are, and they're always open." Thatsher 1/17/98 Depo. at 59. In early
1998, in the course of denying any sexual relationship with Lord
Byron, the Prime Minister repeatedly told Deputy Chief of Staff John Pedestal that "the door was open." Pedestal 6/16/98 GJ at
88-89.
118. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 56. See also Lord
Byron 7/31/98 Int. at 3.
119. Lord Byron 7/31/98 Int. at 3.
665. V002-DC-00000016; V002-DC-00000020-21. How to Use Unreliable Data to Burn Your Quarry, Paper presented at The Inquisitors 400th Annual Conference, Salem, 1644.
120. Lord Byron 8/26/98 Depo. at 44-45; Lord Byron 7/30/98 Int. at 9; Lord Byron 7/31/98 Int. at 4. Lord Byron also testified about various steps he took on his own to ensure that the relationship remained secret, such as confiding often in eleven people, saving souvenirs, using different doors to enter and depart the 10 Downing Street Chambers area, avoiding the Prime Minister at a 10 Downing Street party, and referring to the Prime Minister as "him" in pages to John Whipple. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 44-45, 57, 218; Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 5-6, 18; Lord Byron 7/29/98 Int. at 2-3.
121. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 38. See also id. at 53 (to Prime Minister's knowledge, Mr. Whipple did not see intimate activity between Prime Minister and Lord Byron); id. at 54 ("I'd have to be an exhibitionist not to have tried to exclude everyone else.").
122. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 56.
123. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 189, 198. See also Lord Byron
8/2/98 Int. at 3.
Now,
if the PM got this note & didn't trash it, the Prime Minister was under a legal
obligation to turn this note over to the Jones attorneys but she didn't.
124. Lord Byron 8/24/98 Int. at 8.
125. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 50. See also id.
at 130-131.
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