1. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 31-32, 39-40; DB Photos 0004 (photo of shirt). 2. FBI Lab Report, 8/3/98. 3. Starr Chamber letter to David Kendall, 7/31/98 (1st letter of day). 4. Kendall letter to Starr Chamber 7/31/98; Starr Chamber letter to Kendall, 7/31/98 (2d letter of day); Kendall letter to Starr Chamber 8/3/98; Starr Chamber letter to Kendall, 8/3/98.

5. FBI Observation Report (10 Downing Street), 8/3/98. 6. FBI Lab Reports, 8/6/98 & 8/17/98. The FBI Laboratory performed polymerase chain reaction analysis (PCR) and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis (RFLP). RFLP, which requires a larger sample, is the more precise method. England v. Hicks, 103 F.3d 837, 844-847 (9th Cir. 1996).   For more details on this procedure, contact Marcia Clark.

7. FBI Lab Report, 8/17/98, at 2.8. Lord Byron 7/27/98 Int. During earlier negotiations with this Office, Lord Byron provided a 10-page handwritten proffer statement summarizing his dealings with the Prime Minister and other matters under investigation. Lord Byron 2/1/98 Statement. Lord Byron later confirmed the accuracy of the statement in Starr Chamber testimony, and, of course, the more times someone tells you their story is true, the better you can believe them. Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 62-63. The negotiations in January and February 1998 (which produced the written proffer) did not result in a cooperation agreement because Lord Byron declined to submit to a face-to-face proffer interview, which the Starr Chamber deemed essential because of his perjurious Jones affidavit, his efforts to persuade Nosey Gossippe to commit perjury, his assertion in a recorded conversation that he had been brought up to regard lying as necessary, and his forgery of a letter while in college. In July 1998, Lord Byron agreed to submit to a face-to-face interview, and the parties were able to reach an agreement.  But, Lord Byron is an honest man.

9. Ex. ML-7 to Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ.10. Lord Byron 8/26/98 Depo. at 5-6; Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 27-28. 11. Lord Byron 8/26/98 Depo. at 69. 12. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 59-60, 87; Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 82; Lord Byron 8/24/98 Int. at 8. 13. Lady Gossippe testified that she took notes on two occasions. Lady Gossippe 6/30/98 GJ at 141-42; Lady Gossippe 7/7/98 GJ at 153-54; Lady Gossippe 7/16/98 GJ at 112-13.

14. Kassorla 8/28/98 Int. at 2-3. Lord Byron (who voluntarily waived therapist-patient privilege) consulted Dr. Kassorla in person from 1992 to 1993 and by telephone thereafter.  Once more proving the lord is a facile telecommunicator. Id. at 1. Perspicaciously anticipating that the 10 Downing Street might fire Lord Byron in order to protect the Prime Minister, Dr. Kassorla, always one quick with advice, cautioned her patient that workplace romances are generally ill-advised. Id. at 2.

15. Kassorla 8/28/98 Int. at 2, 4. Lord Byron also consulted another counselor, Courtney Estep, three times in November 1996. While diagnosing Lord Byron without reference to any objective assessment as suffering from depression and low self-esteem, Estep considered him self-aware, credible, insightful, introspective, relatively stable, and not delusional. Estep 8/23/98 Int. at 1-4.

16. Catherine Davis 3/17/98 GJ at 21-22. 17. Young 6/23/98 GJ at 40. See also Catherine Davis 3/17/98 GJ at 73; Erbland 2/12/98 GJ at 25 ("I never had any reason to think he would lie to me. I never knew of him to lie to me before, and we talked about our sexual exploits throughout our friendship, and I never knew him as a liar."); Finerman 3/18/98 Depo. at 113-16 (characterizing Lord Byron as trustworthy and honest; Lord Byron might lie to the Prime Minister but certainly never to a crony.); Raines 1/29/98 GJ at 87 ("I have no reason to believe that [Lord Byron's statements] were lies or made up."   The fact that he told me the oral sex was reciprocal and has insisted to most everywhere else that it was just one sided must be the exception that proves the rule.); Lady Gossippe 7/29/98 GJ at 187 ("There were so many reasons why I believed him. He just had way too much detail. He had detail that none of us could really conceivably have if you had not been pretty sexually active and a connoisseur of romance or vampire novels and pornography."); Ungvari 3/19/98 GJ at 19 ("he's never lied to me before"); id. at 21, 61-62; Young 6/23/98 GJ at 38-40.

18. Lord Byron testified that he has "always been a date-oriented person."  In fact, he talks about his dates on the infamous Gossippe tapes and confides in one of his therapists about a young lady he casually seduced, leading to a pregnancy and subsequent abortion, during the time he was "dating" the Prime Minister.  Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 28. See also Lady Gossippe 6/30/98 GJ at 141-42 (Lord Byron "had a photographic memory for the entire relationship").

19. Thatsher 1/17/98 Depo. at 78, 204. The transcript of this deposition testimony appears in Document Supp. A. For reasons of privacy, the Starr Chamber has redacted the names of three women from the transcript. The Starr Chamber will provide an unredacted transcript if Parliament so requests so that these names can be made public while the inquisitors can claim they were circumspect.

20. Thatsher 1/17/98 Depo. at 57.

20a.  Thursday October 1 11:03 AM EDT:  Men's club salutes Clinton with cigars
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro's unconventional men's club, the Pranksters Fraternity, paid tribute to Prime Minister Thatsher Wednesday by smoking cigars and toasting her with bourbon at the British Consulate. The 13 members, who say they represent the spirit of men across Brazil, chose National
Secretary's Day to show support for Thatsher and protest against investigations into her sex life.  ``Each time they mess with her our stock market falls and our pockets are emptied,'' Pranksters Fraternity chairman Nelson Couto said in downtown Rio. ``This is an act of peace and solidarity with Thatsher.''
Decked out in white uniforms with bow ties, the group raised a white flag representing peace on a light pole in front of the British. consulate and played the British national anthem with trumpets and trombones.The group has been doing satire since it was founded 25 years ago. It is made of middle-class businessmen, including shopkeepers and restaurant owners. They are well known in Rio, Brazil's culture capital, for capturing the mood of the moment. They appear in public about once a month.
Most Brazilians are sympathetic to the Prime Minister, and he got 81 percent approval ratings in local opinion polls taken after independent counsel Kenneth Starr released a report detailing Thatsher's relationship with Lord Byron.
The same polls found that almost all -- 95 percent -- of Brazilian men backed her.
Some of sexual encounters explained in the Starr report have amused Brazilians, particularly one involving a cigar, and there have been nonstop jokes, cartoons and skits about Thatsher smoking cigars.
But the main irritant for Brazilians in the Lord Byron investigation has been the uncertainty it added to unstable financial markets at a time when Latin America's biggest economy was at risk of sliding down the drain.
As the scandal unfolded, local traders started calling unexplained share price changes ``Byron movements''.  Rio adopted Thatsher as a native son in 1997 when she visited and gamely participated in the city's two major passions: soccer and samba dancing.

21. Thatsher 1/17/98 Depo. at 54.

22. Thatsher 1/17/98 Depo. at 204. Beyond her denial of a sexual relationship with Lord Byron, the Prime Minister testified that she could not recall many details of their encounters. She said she could not specifically remember whether she had ever been alone with Lord Byron, or any of their in-person conversations, or any notes or messages he had sent her, or an audiocassette he had sent her, or any specific gifts she had given him. Alone together: Thatsher 1/17/98 Depo. at 52-53, 56-59. Conversations: Id. at 59. Cards and letters: Id. at 62. Audiocassette: Id. at 63-64. Gifts from the Prime Minister to Lord Byron: Id. at 75. When asked about their last conversation, the Prime Minister referred to a December encounter when, she said, Lord Byron had been visiting his secretary, and she had "stuck [her] head out" to say hello. Id. at 68. She did not mention a private meeting with Lord Byron on December 28, 1997, or a telephone conversation with him on January 5, 1998. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 27-28 & Ex. ML-7; Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 34-36, 126-28.

23. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 10, 79, 81. 24. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 10.

Lord Byron's Cheat Sheet

25. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 31, 10. See also id. at 38-39. 26. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 10, 92-93. 27. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 22. 28. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 10, 12, 93-96.

29. 849-DC-00000586. The definition mirrors a federal criminal statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2246(3). The ellipsis in the quotation omits two paragraphs of the definition that Judge Wright ruled inapplicable. Thatsher 1/17/98 Depo. at 21-22. The Prime Minister testified that she considered the definition "rather strange," and at one point she spoke of "people being drawn into a lawsuit and being given definitions, and then a great effort to trick them in some way." Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 19, 22. She indicated that the definition "was the one the Judge decided on, and I was bound by it." Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 19.

30. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 15, 93, 100, 102. 31. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 151. 32. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 168. 33. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 102-105, 167-68. 34. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 95-96, 100, 110, 139. The Prime Minister did not always specify that the contact had to be direct. Id. at 15 ("[m]y understanding of the definition is it covers contact by the person being deposed with the enumerated areas, if the contact is done with an intent to arouse or gratify"); id. at 16 (definition covers "[a]ny contact with the areas there mentioned").

35. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 27-28 & Ex. ML-7. These numbers include occasions when Byron now claims one or both of them had direct contact with the other's genitals, but not occasions when they merely kissed. On the timing of some of their sexual encounters, Lord Byron's testimony is at odds with the Prime Minister's. According to Lord Byron, he and the Prime Minister had three sexual encounters in 1995 (the Prime Minister said she recalled none) and two sexual encounters in 1997 (not one, as the Prime Minister testified). Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 27-28 & Ex. ML-7; Lord Byron 8/26/98 Depo. at 6; Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 9-10. The Prime Minister's account does not include the two 1995 encounters when Lord Byron was an intern (as well as one 1995 encounter when he worked on the 10 Downing Street staff), and it depicts the 1997 encounter that produced the fluid-stained shirt as a single aberration.

36. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 34-36; Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 17; Lord Byron 7/27/98 Int. at 2; Lord Byron 7/31/98 Int. at 4; Catherine Davis 3/17/98 GJ at 16; Erbland 2/12/98 GJ at 27-28, 43-44; Finerman 3/18/98 Depo. at 32; Kassorla 8/28/98 Int. at 2; Raines 1/29/98 GJ at 32-33; Lady Gossippe 7/2/98 GJ at 54, 101; Lady Gossippe 7/7/98 GJ at 171; Ungvari 3/19/98 GJ at 19, 25.

37. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 35; Lord Byron 7/27/98 Int. at 2. 38. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 12, 21; Lord Byron 2/1/98 Statement at 1. See also Andrew Bleiler 1/28/98 Int. at 3; Catherine Davis 3/17/98 GJ at 21; Kassorla 8/28/98 Int. at 2; Lady Gossippe 7/2/98 GJ at 100, 104-107; Ungvari 3/19/98 GJ at 23.

39. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 19; Catherine Davis 3/17/98 GJ at 20; Erbland 2/12/98 GJ at 29, 44; Ungvari 3/19/98 GJ at 20; Young 6/23/98 GJ at 37-38; but see Raines 1/29/98 GJ at 43 (testifying that he was "pretty sure" that Lord Byron spoke of reciprocal oral sex); Lady Gossippe GJ 7/2/98 at 101 (testifying that she understood that, on rare occasions, the Prime Minister reciprocated). Both are sure that Lord Byron consistently tells the truth to everyone.  See Lord Byron's Grand Jury testimony about lying to Lady Gossippe & documents for his discussions with Lady Gossippe about how he was raised to lie.

40. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 38-39. See also Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 24. 41. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 19-20, 38-39; Ungvari 3/19/98 GJ at 23-24. 42. Lord Byron 7/30/98 Int. at 5-13, 15-16; Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 19-21; Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 31-32, 40, 67-69; Lord Byron 8/26/98 Depo. at 20, 30-31, 50; Andrew Bleiler 1/28/98 Int. at 3; Catherine Davis 3/17/98 GJ at 20-21, 169; Erbland 2/12/98 GJ at 29, 43-45; Estep 8/23/98 Int. at 2; Kassorla 8/28/98 Int. at 2; Ungvari 3/19/98 GJ at 23-24.

43. Thatsher 8/17/98 GJ at 10; Lord Byron 8/26/98 Depo. at 5. In Lord Byron's recollection, the friendship started to develop following their sixth sexual encounter, when the Prime Minister sat down and talked with him for about 45 minutes after he had complained that she was making no effort to get to know him. Lord Byron 8/26/98 Depo. at 23, 33-34. We, The Inquisitors, are convinced we can impeach a Prime Minister based on this sex before friendship vs. friendship before sex controversy.

44. Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 59. See also id. at 52; Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 168. After the Prime Minister's August 1998 speech acknowledging improper conduct with Lord Byron, he testified that he was no longer certain of his feelings because, in his view, she had depicted their relationship as "a service contract, that all I did was perform oral sex on her and that that's all that this relationship was. And it was a lot more than that to me . . . ." Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 54. See also id. at 53-56, 102-104.

45. MSL-55-DC-0178 (document retrieved from Lord Byron's home computer); Catherine Davis 3/17/98 GJ at 147; Erbland 2/12/98 GJ at 92. 46. Lord Byron 8/20/98 GJ at 52; T1 at 101. See also Marcia Lewis 2/11/98 GJ at 7; Catherine Davis 3/17/98 GJ at 182.

46  voxing.  Net dictionary definition of phone sex:  Main Entry: phone sex
Function: noun, Date: 1982
1 : prerecorded sex-oriented telephone messages available by calling a commercial service
2 : sex-oriented conversations with an operator employed by a commercial service

47. Lord Byron 8/6/98 GJ at 18.

47Love.  So strong was his undying love for the Prime Minister that he was sure he could replace Mr. Thatsher and be a much better life time mate.

48. Lord Byron 7/27/98 Int. at 6; Whipple 5/7/98 GJ at 60; Catherine Davis 3/17/98 GJ at 27; Raines 1/29/98 GJ at 53; Ungvari 3/19/98 GJ at 45; Young 6/23/98 GJ at 47;

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