``What I told the grand jury under oath supports completely what the President has told the American people, and is contrary to any charge that the President has done anything wrong ... If Ken Starr is interested in the truth, he heard it today,'' Blumenthal said yesterday.

Independent counsel Starr is probing charges that Clinton had sex with Monica Lewinsky and tried to hide it, obstructing justice in the now-defunct Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. Clinton and Lewinsky have both denied the charges.

Blumenthal, who appeared before the grand jury twice before, previously balked at answering certain questions on grounds that executive privilege protected the privacy of certain White House discussions.

After a court said executiveprivilege was not applicable in the sex scandal, the White House decided against appealing.

Blumenthal, a former journalist, said he believed ``that as a senior adviser to the President, I should not have been required to reveal my confidential conversations'' with Clinton and the first lady.

Meanwhile, a report from Little Rock (Arkansas) has said, Susan Mcdougal, a key Whitewater figure who refuses to help prosecutors investigating President Clinton's finances, has been released from prison because she suffers from a serious spinal condition.

US district judge George Howard granted a defence motion yesterday and reduced Mcdougal's sentence to time already served, although he ordered her to spend 90 days in home detention at her parents' house in Arkansas.

Mcdougal, 43, has served less than four months of her two-year Whitewater sentence for fraud but previously spent 18 months behind bars for refusing to cooperate with independent counsel Kenneth Starr.

Mcdougal and her former husband JamesMcdougal were business partners of Bill and Hillary Clinton in the ill-fated Whitewater real estate project, which was the original focus of Starr's investigation.