-Caveat Lector-
Or to Sodom and Gommorah......oh life in Clinton's Oval Office was a
page out of Somerset Maughn.
So George Bush should not look back - as he says move ahead and let
Clinton get on with his life....he must remember what happened to Lot's
Wife......and Clinton still makes jokes?
Hey they had some funny Waco jokes on the Web.....Clinton is probably
still in hysterics ovoer that one....and Vince Foster dumped in a park a
suicide - dead man walking? And Monica - boy as they say, that was a
real hoot and how much did that cost US taypayers - seventy to hundred
million dollars?
Clinton - the Goodbye Boy - but like 7 Year Plague - will he be back?
Saba
PS..........and body bag count and polluted blood tCanada from which
CLinton received little recognition for his accomplishments here?
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THE CLINTON LEGACY: LONELY HONOR
Here are some of the all too rare public officials, reporters, and
others who spoke truth to the dismally corrupt power of Bill and Hill
Clinton's political machine -- some at risk to their careers, others at
risk to their lives. A few points to note:
Those corporatist media reporters who attempted to report
the story often found themselves muzzled; some even lost their jobs. The
only major dailies that consistently handled the story well were the
Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times.
Nobody on this list has gotten rich and many you may not
have even heard of. Taking on the Clintons typically has not been a
happy or rewarding experience. At least ten reporters have been fired,
transferred off their beats, resigned, or otherwise gotten into trouble
because of their work on the scandals. Whistleblowing is even less
appreciated within the government.
One study of whistleblowers found that 232 out of 233 them
reported suffering retaliation; another study found reprisals in about
95% of cases.
Contrary to the popular impression, the politics of those
listed ranges from the left to the right, and from the ideological to
the independent.
We have not included victims of the Clinton machine, some of
whom have acted with considerable danger and at considerable risk to
themselves. They will be included on a later list.
PUBLIC OFFICIALS
MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ was a prosecutor on the staff of Kenneth Starr.
His attempts to uncover the truth in the Vincent Foster death case were
repeatedly foiled and he was the subject of planted stories undermining
his credibility and implying that he was unstable. Rodriguez eventually
resigned.
JEAN DUFFEY: Head of a joint federal-county drug task force in
Arkansas. Her first instructions from her boss: "Jean, you are not to
use the drug task force to investigate any public official." Duffey's
work, however, led deep into the heart of the Dixie Mafia, including
members of the Clinton machine and the investigation of the so-called
"train deaths." Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports that when she produced a
star witness who could testify to Clinton's involvement with cocaine,
the local prosecuting attorney, Dan Harmon issued a subpoena for all the
task force records, including "the incriminating files on his own
activities. If Duffey had complied it would have exposed 30 witnesses
and her confidential informants to violent retributions. She refused."
Harmon issued a warrant for her arrest and friendly cops told her that
there was a $50,000 price on her head. She eventually fled to Texas. The
once-untouchable Harmon was later convicted of racketeering, extortion
and drug dealing.
BILL DUNCAN: An IRS investigator in Arkansas who drafted some 30
federal indictments of Arkansas figures on money laundering and other
charges. Clinton biographer Roger Morris quotes a source who reviewed
the evidence: "Those indictments were a real slam dunk if there ever was
one." The cases were suppressed, many in the name of "national
security." Duncan was never called to testify. Other IRS agents and
state police disavowed Duncan and turned on him. Said one source,
"Somebody outside ordered it shut down and the walls went up."
RUSSELL WELCH: A Arkansas state police detective working with
Duncan. Welch developed a 35-volume, 3,000 page archive on drug and
money laundering operations at Mena. His investigation was so
compromised that a high state police official even let one of the
targets of the probe look through the file. At one point, Welch was
sprayed in the face with poison, later identified by the Center for
Disease Control as anthrax. He would write in his diary, "I feel like I
live in Russia, waiting for the secret police to pounce down. A
government has gotten out of control. Men find themselves in positions
of power and suddenly crimes become legal." Welch is no longer with the
state police.
DAN SMALTZ: Smaltz did an outstanding job investigating and
prosecuting charges involving illegal payoffs to Agriculture Secretary
Mike Espy, yet was treated with disparaging and highly inaccurate
reporting by the likes of the David Broder and the NY Times. Espy was
acquitted under a law that made it necessary to not only prove that he
accepted gratuities but that he did something specific in return. On the
other hand, Tyson Foods copped a plea in the same case, paying $6
million in fines and serving four years' probation. The charge: that
Tyson had illegally offered Espy $12,000 in airplane rides, football
tickets and other payoffs. In the Espy investigation, Smaltz obtained 15
convictions and collected over $11 million in fines and civil penalties.
Offenses for which convictions were obtained included false statements,
concealing money from prohibited sources, illegal gratuities, illegal
contributions, falsifying records, interstate transportation of stolen
property, money laundering, and illegal receipt of USDA subsidies.
Incidentally, Janet Reno blocked Smaltz from pursuing leads aimed at
allegations of major drug trafficking in Arkansas and payoffs to the
then governor of the state, WJ Clinton. Espy had become Ag secretary
only after being flown to Arkansas to get the approval of chicken king
Don Tyson.
DAVID SCHIPPERS, was House impeachment counsel and a Chicago
Democrat. He did a highly creditable job but since he didn't fit the
right-wing conspiracy theory, the Clintonista media downplayed his work.
Thus most Americans don't know that he told NewsMax, "Let me tell you,
if we had a chance to put on a case, I would have put live witnesses
before the committee. But the House leadership, and I'm not talking
about Henry Hyde, they just killed us as far as time was concerned. I
begged them to let me take it into this year. Then I screamed for
witnesses before the Senate. But there was nothing anybody could do to
get those Senators to show any courage. They told us essentially, you're
not going to get 67 votes so why are you wasting our time." Schippers
also said that while a number of representatives looked at additional
evidence kept under seal in a nearby House building, not a single
senator did.
JOHN CLARKE: When Patrick Knowlton stopped to relieve himself in
Ft. Marcy Park 70 minutes before the discovery of Vince Foster's body,
he saw things that got him into deep trouble. His interview statements
were falsified and prior to testifying he claims he was overtly harassed
by more than a score of men in a classic witness intimidation technique.
In some cases there were witnesses. John Clarke has been his dogged
lawyer in the witness intimidation case that has been largely ignored by
the media, even when the three-judge panel overseeing the Starr
investigation permitted Knowlton to append a 20 page addendum to the
Starr Report.
OTHER
THE ARKANSAS COMMITTEE: What would later be known as the Vast
Right Wing Conspiracy actually began on the left - as a group of
progressive students at the University of Arkansas formed the Arkansas
Committee to look into Mena, drugs, money laundering, and Arkansas
politics. This committee was the source of some of the important early
Clinton stories.
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION SCANDALS E-LIST: Moderated by Ray Heizer,
this list has been subject to all the idiosyncrasies of Internet
bulletin boards, but it has nonetheless proved invaluable to researchers
and journalists.
JOURNALISTS
JERRY SEPER of the Washington Times was far and away the best beat
reporter of the story, handling it week after week in the best tradition
of investigative journalism. If other reporters had followed Seper's
lead, the history of the Clintons machine might have been quite
different.
AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD of the London Telegraph did a remarkable
job of digging into some of the seamiest tales from Arkansas and the
Clinton past. Other early arrivals on the scene were Alexander Cockburn
and Jeff Gerth.
Christopher Ruddy, among other fine reports on the Clinton
scandals, did the best job laying out the facts in the Vince Foster
death case.
ROGER MORRIS AND SALLY DENTON wrote a major expose of events at
Mena, but at the last moment the Washington Post's brass ordered the
story killed. It was published by Penthouse and later included in
Morris' "Partners in Power," the best biography of the Clintons.
OTHERS who helped get parts of the story out included reporters
Philip Weiss, Carl Limbacher, Wes Phelan, David Bresnahan, William
Sammon, Liza Myers, Mara Leveritt, Matt Drudge, Jim Ridgeway, Nat
Hentoff, Michael Isikoff, Christopher Hitchens, and Michael Kelly. Also
independent investigator Hugh Sprunt and former White House FBI agent
Gary Aldrich.
The Clintons, to adapt a line from Dr. Johnson, were not only
corrupt, they were the cause of corruption in others. Seldom in America
have so many come to excuse so much mendacity and malfeasance as during
the Clinton years. These rare exceptions cited above, and others
unmentioned, deserve our deep thanks.
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