Fresh off of the Associated Press Wire.....

AP - Monica Lewinsky, in a statement released today,

countered President Clinton's firm denial:

"I have had enough.  This whole experience has left a bitter

taste in my mouth, and I can't stomach any more.  I feel as if I

am getting the shaft, that this ugly matter has come to a head

and blown up in my face.

"This may be a load to handle, but when things are hard, that is

when I am at my best. I have faced hard things in the past, and

I know what is coming.  I will meet this challenge the only way I

know how:  head on.

"I have licked bigger things than this before, and I will again. 

No one will ever be able to say that Monica Lewinsky isn't a

finisher, that she quit before the job was done.  I will work

non-stop and fight this, blow by blow, until I am wiped clean of

this dirty affair.  I will not be stained by it.

"Thank you."

Monica Lewinsky