Editing Tonya Harding (section)

=== Harding's confession ===
[[File:Tonya Harding Olympic practice at Clackamas Town Center 1994 3.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Harding's practice sessions at [[Clackamas Town Center]], in preparation for the 1994 Winter Olympics, were attended by thousands of spectators and dozens of reporters and film crews.]]
On January 18, 1994, Harding was with her lawyers when she submitted to questioning by the [[District attorney|DA]] and FBI.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SCS19940119.1.23&srpos=52&e=-------en--20--41-byDA-txt-txIN-%22tonya+harding%22-------1|format=TIFF|title=Officials question Harding|agency=[[Associated Press]]|work=[[Santa Cruz Sentinel]]|volume=137|number=18|date=January 19, 1994|access-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814103109/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SCS19940119.1.23&srpos=52&e=-------en--20--41-byDA-txt-txIN-%22tonya+harding%22-------1 |archive-date=August 14, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She was interviewed for over ten hours. Eight hours into the interview, her lawyer read a statement declaring her separation from Gillooly: "I continue to believe that Jeff is innocent of any wrongdoing. I wish him nothing but the best."<ref>{{cite news|last=Adams|first=Jane Meredith|title=Harding's Controlling Force |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/01/21/hardings-controlling-force/|access-date=July 8, 2018|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=January 21, 1994|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708133523/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-01-21/news/9401210113_1_harding-and-gillooly-jeff-gillooly-rival-skater-nancy-kerrigan|archive-date=July 8, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Her full FBI transcript was released on February 1. ''[[The Seattle Times]]'' reported on the transcript, stating that Harding had "changed her story well into a long interview [...] After hours of denying any involvement in trying to cover up the plot, an FBI agent finally told [her] that he knew she had lied to him, that he would tell her exactly how she had lied to him."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19940202/1893162/the-plot-according-to-jeff-gillooly|agency=S.T. News Services|title=The Plot According to Jeff Gillooly – Statements to FBI Allege Conspiracy Involving Harding |work=[[The Seattle Times]]|date=February 2, 1994|access-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707062448/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940202&slug=1893162|archive-date=July 7, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> In the transcript's final passage, Harding stated, "I hope everyone understands. I'm telling on someone I really care about. I know now [Jeff] is involved. I'm sorry."<ref name="Janofsky">{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Janofsky|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/07/sports/winter-olympics-always-tonya-as-cool-as-ice-but-troubled.html|date=February 7, 1994|title=Always Tonya: As Cool as Ice But Troubled|access-date=December 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117044857/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/07/sports/winter-olympics-always-tonya-as-cool-as-ice-but-troubled.html|archive-date=January 17, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> On January 19, Gillooly surrendered to the FBI.<ref name="charged in attack">{{cite news|last=Brennan|first=Christine |title=Rival Skater's Ex-Husband Charged in Attack |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/timeline/articles/time_012094.htm |access-date=August 14, 2018 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=January 20, 1994|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102205347/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/timeline/articles/time_012094.htm |archive-date=January 2, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> On January 20, [[Diane Sawyer]] asked Harding on ''[[Primetime (American TV program)|Primetime]]'' about the case. Harding said she had done nothing wrong.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/01/25/figuring-out-tonya-harding/05da905d-3f96-44ff-bf38-020a883dfbfe/|title=Figuring Out Tonya Harding|first=Mary|last=McGrory |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=January 25, 1994 |access-date=August 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923010052/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/01/25/figuring-out-tonya-harding/05da905d-3f96-44ff-bf38-020a883dfbfe/|archive-date=September 23, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> On January 27, it was reported that Gillooly had been testifying about the attack plot since January 26, possibly implicating Harding as allegedly assisting. Harding's close friend, Stephanie Quintero, with whom she was living, spoke to reporters on her behalf: "[Tonya] was shocked, very hurt. She was believing in [Jeff]."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SCS19940127.1.1&srpos=70&e=-------en--20--61-byDA-txt-txIN-%22tonya+harding%22-------1|format=TIFF|title='Walls are closing in' on skater (1)|first=Bob|last=Baum|work=Santa Cruz Sentinel|volume=137|number=26|date=January 27, 1994 |access-date=August 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816025525/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SCS19940127.1.1&srpos=70&e=-------en--20--61-byDA-txt-txIN-%22tonya+harding%22-------1|archive-date=August 16, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="walls closing2">{{cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SCS19940127.1.10&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-%22she+was+believing+in+him%22+%22tonya+harding%22-------1 |format=TIFF|title='Walls are closing in' on skater (2)|first=Bob|last=Baum|work=Santa Cruz Sentinel|volume=137|number=26|date=January 27, 1994|access-date=July 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713164655/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SCS19940127.1.10&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-%22she+was+believing+in+him%22+%22tonya+harding%22-------1|archive-date=July 13, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newsweek.com/tonya-harding-i-know-people-who-love-me-190276|first=Patricia|last=King|title=Harding: 'I Know The People Who Love Me'|magazine=[[Newsweek]] |date=February 20, 1994|access-date=August 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816025645/https://www.newsweek.com/tonya-harding-i-know-people-who-love-me-190276|archive-date=August 16, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Harding later held a press conference to read a prepared statement. She said she was sorry Kerrigan was attacked, that she respected Kerrigan, and claimed not to have known in advance of the plot to disable her. Harding took responsibility "for failing to report things [about the assault] when I returned home from Nationals [on January 10]. Failure to immediately report this information is not a crime."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/timeline/articles/time_012894.htm|title=Harding Admits Knowing of Plot After the Attack |first=Johnette|last=Howard |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=January 28, 1994|access-date=July 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706161709/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/timeline/articles/time_012894.htm|archive-date=July 6, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1994/01/28/text-of-tonya-hardings-statement/ccff4333-d36d-478d-939e-5a23b175727c/|title=Harding's Statement Text|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=January 28, 1994|access-date=July 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831174804/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1994/01/28/text-of-tonya-hardings-statement/ccff4333-d36d-478d-939e-5a23b175727c/|archive-date=August 31, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Many states' laws, including Oregon's, state that the act of concealing criminal knowledge alone is not a crime.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yossithecriminallawyer.com/concealing-an-offence/|title=Concealing an Offence |website=YossiTheCriminalLawyer.com|department=Blog|date=July 3, 2013|first=Yossi|last=Schochet|access-date=July 31, 2018|quote=In the U.S. almost every State has rejected criminal prosecution for [[misprision of felony]], primarily for policy reasons, as it encroaches on civil liberties. An exception is the state of South Carolina.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731153506/http://www.yossithecriminallawyer.com/concealing-an-offence/ |archive-date=July 31, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

The attack on Kerrigan received a substantial amount of publicity, and news media crews camped outside Kerrigan's home.<ref name="heldin">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/timeline/articles/time_011594.htm |first=William |last=Hamilton |title=Three Held in Assault on Kerrigan|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=January 15, 1994|access-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316112130/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/timeline/articles/time_011594.htm|archive-date=March 16, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In January 1994, the story was on the covers of ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'',  ''[[Newsweek]]'', and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Martin|first1=Adam|last2=McDonald|first2=Mary G.|url=https://www.worc.ac.uk/gjseper/documents/Covering_womens_sport_An_analysis_of_Sports_Illustrated_covers_2012_1_81-97.pdf|title=Covering women's sport? An analysis of ''Sports Illustrated'' covers from 1987–2009|year=2012|journal=Graduate Journal of Sport, Exercise & Physical Education Research|volume=1|page=91|issn=2046-9357|access-date=August 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808132352/http://www.worc.ac.uk/gjseper/documents/Covering_womens_sport_An_analysis_of_Sports_Illustrated_covers_2012_1_81-97.pdf|archive-date=August 8, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> There was now much speculation about Harding's alleged involvement in the assault plot.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,980059-1,00.html|title=What Did Tonya Know?|last=Smolowe |first=Jill|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=January 31, 1994|access-date=July 7, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-04-sp-19048-story.html|date=February 4, 1994|first=John|last=Balzar|title=Commentary: Story Is So Big It's Right Out of Dumpster|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=July 12, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/17/sports/sports-of-the-times-harding-s-guilty-plea-anticlimactic.html|first=George|last=Vecsey|title=Harding's Guilty Plea Anticlimactic|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 17, 1994|access-date=July 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718055230/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/17/sports/sports-of-the-times-harding-s-guilty-plea-anticlimactic.html|archive-date=July 18, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/oregon/portland/i-tonya-hardings-prosecutor-talks-case|first=Colin|last=Miner|title=Tonya Harding's Prosecutor Talks About The Case, 'I, Tonya'|work=[[Patch Media]]|publisher=Hale Global|date=January 29, 2018|access-date=August 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825143140/https://patch.com/oregon/portland/i-tonya-hardings-prosecutor-talks-case|archive-date=August 25, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Because Harding and Kerrigan would be representing the US in the February [[Lillehammer]] [[Figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics|Olympics]], speculation reached a media frenzy.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-01-16-1994016004-story.html|title=A harsh light falls on skater's hard life|first=Bill|last=Glauber|work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|date=January 16, 1994|access-date=July 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713140506/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-01-16/news/1994016004_1_figure-skating-tonya-harding-hard-life|archive-date=July 13, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/timeline/articles/time_022394.htm|first=Christine|last=Brennan|title=All Eyes on Ice for Harding-Kerrigan Showdown|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 23, 1994|access-date=August 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815091034/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/timeline/articles/time_022394.htm|archive-date=August 15, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Abby Haight and J.E. Vader, reporters for ''[[The Oregonian]]'', wrote a biography of Harding called ''Fire on Ice'', which included excerpts of her January 18 FBI interview.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/06/as-crazy-as-it-was-reporters-recall-the-nancy-kerrigan-tonya-harding-feeding-frenzy/|first=Jacob|last=Bogage|title='As crazy as it was': Reporters recall the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan feeding frenzy|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=January 8, 2018|access-date=July 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509150308/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/06/as-crazy-as-it-was-reporters-recall-the-nancy-kerrigan-tonya-harding-feeding-frenzy/|archive-date=May 9, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>