Lying

Lawyers for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, an anti-drug organization based in Culver City, say they'll drop a $10-million libel complaint against journalist Stephen Glass if he explains how he fabricated quotes and sources for articles that accused DARE of intimidation. According to a tentative settlement contained in federal court records in Los Angeles, Glass will sit through an interview with DARE lawyers in Century City on Jan.

The independent counsel investigating Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt secretly sought authority recently to look into dealings of former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Harold M. Ickes, government officials said Friday. This is what led Atty. Gen. Janet Reno to delay her decision this week on whether to seek appointment of an outside prosecutor to determine if Ickes lied in Senate testimony about a labor dispute.

The Pentagon plans to look into allegations that Linda Tripp may have answered questions on her department security-clearance form incorrectly, including whether she had ever been arrested. Tripp's lawyer confirmed his client had once been arrested but said the charges were dropped because she was innocent. The New Yorker magazine reports in its edition on newsstands Monday that Tripp, the Pentagon employee who recorded conversations with Monica S.

Two teenage girlfriends were having dinner at one of the girls' homes when the parents confronted their daughter with a prescription that suggested she had had an abortion. The face-off was eclipsed when their daughter's friend confessed that she was the one who had done it. The girl was lying to protect her friend. She enhanced her lie with a detailed description of her "experience" and endured the anger of her own family, who discovered what she had said.

The former mistress of ex-Housing Secretary Henry G. Cisneros was sentenced in a Lubbock court to 3 1/2 years in prison for lying to authorities about alleged hush money he paid her and concealing evidence. In January, Linda Jones pleaded guilty to charges related to an investigation into whether Cisneros lied to the FBI about how much he paid her before his Cabinet nomination. Jones, 48, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, bank fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice.

When Gennifer Flowers announced in 1992 she had had a "12-year affair" with the Democratic candidate for president, Bill Clinton quickly issued a flat denial. "It did not happen," he told reporters in New Hampshire. "The allegation is false," he told the millions of viewers of "60 Minutes." Asked by another interviewer whether he had "an intimate relationship" with Flowers, a hoarse Clinton nearly shouted his response. "Her story is not true. Gennifer Flowers' story is not true," he replied.

A panel of federal judges has authorized the Whitewater independent counsel to examine whether President Clinton encouraged a woman to testify falsely regarding the nature of their relationship, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. An attorney representing the woman, who served as a White House intern until spring 1996, said he and his client conferred over the last several days in Washington with the staff of independent counsel Kenneth W.

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a single false statement to a federal agent, including a simple "no" to an accusation, can be punished as a crime. The justices refused to make an exception for a person who, when confronted by a tax agent or federal investigator, denies he has done anything wrong.

Insisting on honesty as the only policy, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that public employees can be punished for lying, even when they merely deny an accusation that later turns out to be true. There is no "right to make false statements," said Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. An employee who is asked about possible wrongdoing has only two legal choices: Tell the truth or say nothing, he said.

The one-time mistress of former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry G. Cisneros pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to bankers and prosecutors about her secret purchase of a house in Lubbock, Texas. Linda Jones and two relatives were indicted in September as a part of a $6-million probe directed by independent counsel David M. Barrett that initially focused on whether Cisneros committed a serious offense when he allegedly misled FBI agents about how much he had paid his ex-lover.