Presidential spokesman Mike McCurry said Starr's 445-page report ``didn't find room for one sentence from the testimony from Monica Lewinsky''... ``That no one ever asked me to lie and I was never promised a job for my silence.''

He called this a ``grievous wrong'' and said White House lawyers were sending a letter to the House of Representatives judiciary committee.

In a related move, Clinton's attorneys have accused Starr's office of distorting Lewinsky's testimony to suit its purposes.

``It is plain now... That the Office of Independent Counsel (OIC) has significantly distorted the testimony of Lewinsky, quoting it when it suited the OIC's purposes and downplaying it or ignoring it when it did not,'' attorneys Charles Ruff and David Kendall said in a letter yesterday to the House judiciary committee.

The allegedly selective use of Lewinsky's statements add up to a ``critical flaw'' in the 445-page report that ``calls into question the fairness of the entire process,'' they said in the three-page letter.

The report, delivered to the Congress on September 9, ``is stunning in its silence about evidence that supports the President,'' Ruff and Kendall wrote.

The House judiciary committee, which approved the release of Starr's report, including 2,800 pages of supporting documents and more than four hours of Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony, must decide whether or not to launch impeachment proceedings.

Meanwhile, Clinton, who was in New York for an address to the United Nations and a series of diplomatic meetings, told reporters he had not read Starr's report and would have no comment on it.

White House aides are engaged in an intensifying dialogue with members of the Congress to try to reach a solution to the crisis that has threatened the Clinton Presidency.