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On Monday, Dominique Strauss-Kahn's lawyers answered Nafissatou Diallo's civil suit against him by filing a motion to throw it out. The main thrust of their argument, that Strauss-Kahn held diplomatic immunity at the time Diallo accused him of trying to rape her, ignores any question about details of the encounter between them. Before New York prosecutors dropped the criminal case against Strauss-Kahn in August, the former International Monetary Fund director and one-time contender for the French Presidency made no public comments and his attorneys kept their press statements and legal filings brief. But by looking at some of the documents filed on Monday, along with some of Strauss-Kahn's statements since he returned to France earlier this month, we can get an idea of what he is prepared to make a point of denying and what he's probably going to ignore for the long term.

What Strauss-Kahn is Denying