Remember Billy Dale
Reed Irvine
Accuracy in Media
July 6, 2000
When Independent Counsel Robert W. Ray announced that he was
closing down the Travelgate probe and would not seek to indict
Hillary Rodham Clinton for perjury, he failed to mention
Travelgate's chief victim, Billy Dale, the former head of the
White House travel office. Along with all six of his staff, he
was summarily fired without notice and removed from the White
House grounds. But that was just the beginning of Billy Dale's
incredible ordeal.
The New York Post and Newsmax.com were the only publications I
could find whose stories quoted Billy Dale and reported that he
was subjected to groundless prosecution by the Justice Department
and a long IRS audit. Billy Dale and his family went through hell
thanks to the Clintons, Attorney General Janet Reno, the FBI and
the IRS. Hillary's greatest crime was not perjury, it was trying
to send an innocent man to prison to justify having fired him and
his staff without cause.
Harry Thomasson, one of the Clintons' Hollywood friends, was
angling to get the travel office business for a company in which
he had an interest. He spread stories that the career people
running the travel office were crooks who had to be replaced. The
replacements, of course, were to be people who would make sure
that his company got their business. To oblige Thomasson,
Hillary pressed for the removal of Dale and his staff. David
Watkins, the assistant to the president for management and
administration, was slow to execute her wishes as conveyed
through intermediaries. According to a long-hidden memo Watkins
sent to Chief of Staff Mack McLarty, he finally got the word
directly from Hillary in a phone conversation on Friday, May 14,
1993. He wrote that "she conveyed to me in clear terms her
desire for swift and clear action to resolve the situation."
Watkins discussed this with McLarty the following Monday. His
memo says, "We both knew there would be hell to pay if...we
failed to take swift and decisive action in conformity with the
First Lady's wishes." Two days later, the travel office staff was
fired. This was not popular with the White House press corps,
and reporters were demanding explanations. The FBI had been
brought in, but it could not find evidence to support Thomasson's
embezzlement charges. The FBI was reduced to seeking evidence
that the Dales were living beyond their means. That was not true
either, except that now their legal bills were more than they
could afford.
In an interview the day after Bill Clinton gave a Fourth of July
speech about the governed being the governors in America, Billy
Dale told me why he was driven to seek a plea bargain. He said
that a week before he was to be indicted, his attorney told him,
"It's apparent that the Justice Department wants you to go to
jail." "He explained to me," Dale said, "that it was going to
cost about $450,000 to go to court and defend myself in addition
to what I had already put up in legal bills. And that was
$450,000 that I didn't have. And I could see my wife sitting
across the room from me, and giving up our home and everything
else that we had worked 38 years for. I said if they want me to
go to jail, go back and tell them that I will go to jail for
three months and I will take home confinement for three months,
but I will not admit that I stole any money.
"I said I'll go into court and I'll tell the judge that I'm
guilty, but I'll go out on the courthouse steps and I'll tell the
press and every American that wants to listen to me that I said
that to get this behind me and to save my home for my wife and my
family. And he says, �You can't do that, because the judge will
jerk you back into court and charge you with perjury so fast that
your head will swim and you'll end up with more jail time.'"
His attorney wrote a letter to the Justice Department proposing
this as a plea bargain. It was rejected, and Billy was indicted
and tried. The jury took only 20 minutes to find him not guilty,
but the Clinton vendetta continued. He was subjected to a
three-year IRS audit, which also found nothing wrong.
"Now, look at what they did to Hillary," Billy told me.
"Perjury meant something if I perjured myself, but it doesn't
mean anything for her. I just don't understand it." It means
that the corruption that started in the White House now infects
Robert Ray's office as well as the Justice Dept., the FBI and the
IRS. In overlooking the crimes against Billy Dale, our media
show that they can't connect the dots.
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