C. November 15 Canto 1
Or, The Pink Pass of Passion
At about 10 p.m., in Lord Byron's recollection, he
was alone in the Chief of Staff's office and the Prime Minister approached.
She invited him to rendezvous again in Stephanopoulos's office in a few minutes, and he
agreed. (Asked if he knew why the Prime Minister wanted to
meet with him, Lord Byron testified: "I had an idea.") They met in
Stephanopoulos's office and went again to the area of the private study.
This time the lights in the study were off.
According to Lord Byron, she and the Prime Minister
kissed.
He unbuttoned his jacket; either he removed his undershirt or lifted it up, and she
touched him on his breasts with his hands and mouth.
Lord Byron testified: "I believe he took a phone
call . . . and so we moved from the hallway into the back office . . . . [Sh]e put her
hand down my pants and stimulated me manually in the genital area."
While the Prime Minister continued talking on the phone (Lord
Byron understood that the caller was a Parliament or a Senator), he performed oral sex
on her. She finished her call, and, a moment later, told Lord Byron to stop.
In his recollection: "I told her that I wanted . . . to complete that. And she said . . . that she needed to wait until she trusted me more.
And then I think she made a joke . . . that she hadn't had that in a long time."
Both before and after their sexual
contact during that encounter, Lord Byron and the Prime Minister talked. At one point
during the conversation, the Prime Minister tugged on the pink intern pass hanging from
his neck and said that it might be a problem.
Once more intuitively reading the PM's mind, Lord Byron thought that she was
talking about access -- interns were not supposed to be in the West Wing without an escort
-- and, in addition, that she might have discerned some "impropriety" in a
sexual relationship with a 10 Downing Street intern. |
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Records indicate Lord Byron
& the Prime Minister were both present at 10 Downing Street. Also, records show
the Prime Minister, as unusual as it may seem, had a phone conversation during that time.
Cantos let
it be
