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Javier is a Berlin-based multimedia journalist. He completed a MA in International Journalism at City, University of London and is focused on humanitarian and conflict issues.
With experience in several countries, he's covered the refugee crisis, Turkey's coup attempt and the Kurdish conflict.
Among others, his work has been published at ABC News, Al Jazeera, Channel NewsAsia, RBB, IRIN News, El Confidencial, Público or Diario ABC.
The affair between a US president and a White House intern was widely covered when it broke in the late 1990s. The press went crazy about it, the Republican Party tried everything to bring Bill Clinton down, but, in the end, his political career survived.
Everybody knows this story, but we tend to forget how the scandal shaped and changed American politics forever, and how we are still living its repercussions today.
After focusing its first season on Watergate, Slow Burn is back with the Clinton-Lewinsky affair and subsequent scandal that nearly took down Bill Clinton's presidency.
“Our show tries to tap into what everyone already knows, and surprise them with things they don’t,” said Leon Neyfakh, the podcast's author, to the Guardian.
“We want to provoke them to think about something in ways they haven’t thought of before and, most importantly, try to capture what it was like for people to live through events in real time.”
The first episode of this new season takes us back to January 16, 1998, when Monica Lewinsky was surprised by public officials who threatened her with 27 years in prison unless she agree to be wired up to catch the president in perjury.
The story of that day is told with lots of details and a perspective journalists couldn't have back then, trapped in the fuss of the scandal as they were.
It's especially astonishing to see how things could have been completely different had Lewinksy agreed with the officials that very day. But the then 24-year-old women stood firm against the intimidation displayed by the officers in the form of almost three decades of prison.
And just to remember, Bill Clinton's presidency and marriage made it through the scandal, Hillary Clinton almost got elected first female commander-in-chief, but it was Lewinksy's person and reputation which was particularly shamed and humiliated, not just by some people, but in front of a global audience.