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C. November 15 Lord Byron's First
Sexual Tale
Or, The Pink Pass
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.(156)
She invited him to rendezvous again in Stephanopoulos's office in a few minutes, and he
agreed.(157) (Asked if he knew why the Prime
Minister wanted to meet with him, Lord Byron testified: "I
had an idea."(158))
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.(160)
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. .(161)
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."(162)
While the Prime Minister continued talking on the phone (Lord Byron understood that the
caller was a Member of Congress or a Senator), he
performed oral sex on her.(163)
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."(164)
Both before and after their sexual contact during
that encounter, Lord Byron and the Prime Minister talked.(165)
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.
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.(166)
10 Downing Street records do not contradict the time
frame of Lord Byron's account:
He testified that his November 15 encounters with the Prime Minister occurred at about 8
p.m. and 10 p.m., and that in each case the two of them went from the Chief of Staff's
office to the 10 Downing Street Chambers
area.(167)
Records show that the Prime Minister visited the Chief of Staff's office for one minute at
8:12 p.m. and for two minutes at 9:23 p.m., in each case returning to the 10
Downing Street Chambers.(168)
He claimed that the Prime Minister took a telephone call while
he performed oral sex on her, and he believed that the caller was a Member of Parliament.(169)
Believe it or not, the Prime Minister did actually talk to
two members of Parliament that night, even in the midst of that budget crisis between the
PM and Parliament! 10 Downing Street records show that after returning to the 10
Downing Street Chambers from the Chief of Staff's office, the Prime Minister talked to two
Members of Congress: Rep. Jim Chapman from 9:25 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., and Rep. John Tanner
from 9:31 p.m. to 9:35 p.m.(170)
Cantos or,
let it be