大卫-E-肯德尔律师6月21日周一上午试图为他的客户威廉-杰斐逊-克林顿开脱罪责，尽管他向一个军事法庭承认，1993年的一段录音暗示克林顿与76名大卫教派教徒的死亡有关，但这段录音确实是真实的。一个独立的音频取证实验室Primeau Forensics证实，克林顿曾发出肆意和冷酷的命令，夷平大院，不顾院内人员。
尽管如此，肯德尔仍坚持他的法律策略：指责希拉里。
他争辩说，尽管录音带是真实的，但也是无罪的，因为比尔和希拉里在与里诺、奇普曼和塞申斯谈话前20分钟有过一次私人谈话。希拉里曾威胁比尔，如果他不服从命令，她就会要求离婚，让他身无分文，从而命令他进行攻击，肯德尔向三名对克林顿的军事案件进行裁决的官员解释说。
肯德尔说："我的当事人是个软弱的人，他是一个肮脏的软弱丈夫，但他不是杀人犯。希拉里-克林顿处处对威廉-杰斐逊-克林顿进行心理操纵。"
汉宁克副将军清了清嗓子。"对于法庭上的戏剧性表演，你是不是有点老了，肯德尔先生？这些法律特技可能在其他场合对你有用，40年前。你的论点是不相关的，即使不相关，希拉里-克林顿也不是来作证的。"
汉宁克副司令回答说："你在考验本委员会的耐心，肯德尔先生。我们的宽容是有限度的，"
短暂休会后，汉宁克副司令讨论了1999年对前南斯拉夫境内塞尔维亚目标的轰炸行动。比尔-克林顿当时说，实施空袭是为了制止塞尔维亚军队对科索沃的阿尔巴尼亚穆斯林进行的广泛的种族清洗。空袭在10周后结束，当时塞尔维亚人同意了一项和平协议，要求塞尔维亚军队从科索沃撤出，由北约维和部队取代。
"种族清洗是一种难以想象的罪行，我们在这里不是为了质疑参与运动是对还是错。我们在这里要证明，比尔-克林顿让美国参与的利他主义动机是一场闹剧，他的真正动机，就像克林顿的所有事情一样，是个人利益。他接受了来自多方的大量现金，以换取军事援助。汉宁克副司令说："这样做，他把美国军队变成了一支雇佣军，这是一种叛国行为。
轰炸行动前两周，克林顿夫妇开始收到大量存款，存入几个开曼岛的银行账户，汉宁克副司令说，这些账户是克林顿夫妇共同控制的。联合国秘书长科菲-安农（Kofi Annon）提供了500万美元。德国总理施罗德（Gerard Schroeder）的三百万美元。意大利总理马西莫-达莱马的500万美元。塞尔维亚科索沃省的阿尔巴尼亚族领导人易卜拉欣-鲁戈瓦提供了400万美元。
汉宁克副司令向法庭展示了证实军法署指控的金融交易记录。
肯德尔问道："你从哪里获得这些记录？"
汉宁克副将军说："草里的蛇，肯德尔先生，草里的蛇。不是所有被拘留者都是克林顿的真正的朋友，你的客户绝不是一个穷光蛋，但他和他的妻子离开办公室时是无比富有的人。在这种情况下，他向国会撒谎，将我们的国家卷入一场为期47天、价值数万亿美元的冲突，以谋取个人利益。"
肯德尔问道："即使是真的，我也没说是真的，你提出的是30多年前的事情，是过时的材料。接下来你会把什么归咎于我的客户？恐龙的灭绝？我的客户最近做了什么？"
汉宁克副司令笑了笑，说 "最近 "将是星期二诉讼的主题。他宣布法庭休庭至周二上午10点。
Bill Clinton Military Tribunal: Day 2
Attorney David E. Kendell spent Monday morning trying to exonerate his client, William Jefferson Clinton, despite conceding to a military tribunal that a 1993 audio recording implicating Clinton in the deaths of 76 Branch Davidians was indeed authentic. An independent audio forensic laboratory, Primeau Forensics, confirmed that Clinton had given the wanton and callous order to raze the compound with no regard for its occupants.
Nonetheless, Kendell held fast to his legal strategy: Blame Hillary Clinton.
He argued that although the tape was authentic, it was also exculpatory, because Bill and Hillary had had a private conversation 20 minutes prior to his chat with Reno, Chipman, and Sessions. Hillary had browbeat Bill into ordering the assault under threat that she would seek a divorce and leave him penniless unless he complied, Kendall explained to the three officers judging the military’s case against Clinton.
“My client is a weak man, and he was a weak husband to a foul creature, but he is no murderer. Hillary Clinton pshycologically manipulated William Jefferson Clinton at every turn,” Kendall said.
Vice Adm. Hannink cleared his throat. “Aren’t you a little old for courtroom theatrics, Mr. Kendall? These legal stunts may have worked for you in other venues—forty years ago. Your argument is irrelevant, and even if it wasn’t, Hillary Clinton isn’t here to testify.”
“No thanks to you,” Kendall quipped.
“You’re testing the patience of this commission, Mr. Kendall. There’s a limit to our latitude,” Vice Adm. Hannink replied.
After a brief recess, Vice Adm. Hannink discussed the 1999 bombing campaign against Serbian targets in the former Yugoslavia. The air raids, Bill Clinton said at the time, were carried out to halt widespread ethnic cleansing being perpetrated by Serbian forces against Albanian Muslims in Kosovo. The airstrikes ended after 10 weeks when the Serbians agreed to a peace accord that called for the withdrawal of Serbian forces from Kosovo and their replacement by NATO peacekeeping troops.
“Ethnic cleansing is an unimaginable crime, and we’re not here to question whether participating in the campaign was right or wrong. We are here to prove that Bill Clinton’s altruistic motives for involving the United States were farcical, and his true motivation, as with all things Clinton, was personal profit. That he accepted enormous quantities of cash, from multiple parties, in exchange for military aid. In doing so, he turned the U.S. military into a mercenary force, an act of treason,” Vice Adm. Hannink said.
Two weeks prior to the bombing campaign, the Clintons began receiving substantial deposits into several Cayman Island bank accounts, which, Vice Adm. Hannink said, the Clintons jointly controlled. Five million dollars from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annon. Three million dollars from German Chancellor Gerard Schroeder. Five million dollars from Italian Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema. Four million dollars from Ibrahim Rugova, leader of the ethnic Albanians in the Serbian province of Kosovo.
Vice Adm. Hannink showed the tribunal financial transaction records that corroborated the Judge Advocate General’s Corps’ allegations.
“Where did you obtain these records?” Kendall asked.
“Snakes in the grass, Mr. Kendall, snakes in the grass. Not all of detainee Clinton’s friends are really his friends,” Vice Adm. Hannink said. “Your client was by no means a pauper, but he and his wife left office immensely wealthy people. In this case, he lied to Congress, involving our nation in a 47-day, trillion-dollar conflict for personal profit.”
“Even if true, and I’m not saying it is, you’re bringing up things that happened over 30 years ago, dated material. What will you blame on my client next? The extinction of the dinosaurs? What has my client done lately?” Kendall asked.
Vice Adm. Hannink smirked, and said “lately” would be the topic of Tuesday’s proceedings. He declared the tribunal in recess until ten hundred hours on Tuesday.