An explosive new book about the former president's scandals charges that prosecutors investigating Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton were prepared to seek indictments of them for their roles in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky affairs. In “The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr,” due out in February, author Ken Gormley also says that Lewinsky believed Bill Clinton lied about their affair during grand jury testimony about his relationship with the White House intern. The book by Gormley, a Duquesne University law professor, is about the scandals that enveloped the final years of the former president's second term. Former independent counsel Kenneth Starr's office spent millions in the 1990s on a probe of Clinton's affair with Lewinsky and efforts to cover it up, which led to the president's impeachment by the House. Lewinsky told Gormley that Clinton lied in grand jury testimony about the sexual affair they had. “There was no leeway on the veracity of his statements because they asked him detailed and specific questions to which he answered untruthfully,” Lewinsky said this year, according to the book. Starr prosecutors in 1998 proposed to formally indict Hillary Rodham Clinton on charges she and a former law partner lied about her business dealings with Madison Guaranty, a failed savings and loan connected to friends James and Susan McDougal, Gormley wrote. “Yet the consensus was that any effort to prosecute Mrs. Clinton would be extremely risky,” Gormley wrote. On his last full day as president, Clinton acknowledged before prosecutors that he gave false testimony in the Lewinsky scandal, heading off indictment.
