That woman, Miss Lewinsky, has failed in her bid to have the government pay her legal bills in the criminal investigation of former President William Jefferson Clinton, the AP reports Wednesday.

To collect attorneys’ fees, Lewinsky needed to demonstrate that the perjury and obstruction probe of the president would not have occurred except for the now-expired Ethics in Government Act, which led to the appointment of Independent Counsel Ken Starr.

The three-judge panel’s conclusion:

“The question is, would evidence of criminal wrongdoing by an incumbent president and accomplices of that president have escaped an investigation of similar scope in the absence of the Ethics in Government Act?” the court stated. “History teaches us that the answer is no.”

So the court found that we (taxpayers) do not have to pay for Monica’s attorneys and that authorities didn’t need Ken Starr fishing around to suspect Clinton of criminal behavior.