[CTRL] Clinton and his polluted blood sales

[Aleisha Saba]

-Caveat Lector-

Note:  South Africa, and other parts of Africa infested with AIDS sells
blood to other countries......Clinton sold blood to Canada with HIV,
AIDS, Venerial Diseases, etc., which resulted in death of many people
including children and innocents with hemophilia.

Cui Bono?  This item I found interesting and I do not believe Clinton
will get away with this one......how many people have died beause of his
greed and/or stupidity?

Remember the two kids on the railroad track - tried to say they
"suicided".....

Saba

DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
SECTION: THE STORY OF A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
SUBSECTION: TAINTED BLOOD
Revised 1/8/01
TAINTED BLOOD SCANDAL

Freeper Summary: ". Briefly stated, Bill Clinton, while governor,
knowingly authorized, protected, and was in some manner paid off by, an
appalling scheme by "Friends of Bill" to harvest and sell contaminated
blood and plasma from Cummins prison farm near Grady, Arkansas. The
scheme continued throughout his governorship in defiance of sound
medical practice, numerous warnings and flagrant violations of FDA
regulations. Tainted blood from Cummins infected literally millions of
people with HIV (the AIDS virus) and potentially lethal Hepatitis C
(20%-25% fatality rate) all over the world -- Canada, Japan, England,
Ireland, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal,
Africa and not least, the United States. Clinton and his partners netted
millions from it annually. Vincent W. Foster is thought to have been the
Clintons' "bagman," and there is evidence that the tainted blood
disaster played a direct role in his still mysterious death. Free
Republic broke this story world-wide, in August, and maintains a
complete archive of the now-mountainous, and damning, evidence at:
Budge's Tainted Blood Scandal links ."
New York Post 9/25/98 Maggie Gallagher "Can I tell you a little story? I
warn you, I don't know how it ends yet. Maybe I never will. Once upon a
time - in fact a day or two after Vince Foster died - a man called the
White House Counsel's Office. "This was not a line that kooks typically
rang us up on," my source told me. Lunatics call the main office number.
This guy called one of Vince's assistants directly. The man said he had
some information that might be important. Something had upset Vince
Foster greatly just days before he died. Some thing about "tainted
blood" that both Vince Foster and President Clinton knew about, this man
said. "I'm only telling you this now because Vince Foster was very
distressed about this only days before his death," the mysterious caller
(whose name I am withholding) said. "I'm not saying this caused his
suicide. I'm only saying it might have contributed to his distress and I
thought someone should know." The White House Counsel's office didn't
pay much attention. "Probably a kook', they agreed around the office.
Probably. Except that when his computer name was typed into the computer
log of phone calls for Vince, something strange happened. The computer
flashed "password required" or some such phrase indicating a special
code was needed to open that file. "Aw, probably just a computer glitch,
"Bernie Nussbam, then chief White House Counsel, said at the time. And
so the matter, as far as I know, was dropped. A strange little memory
fragment, meaningless in itself, no? Until last week, when a story
published in The Ottawa Citizen suddenly jogged it front and center.
"HIV BLOOD CAME FROM ARKANSAS JAIL," the head line screamed. Then, The
Ottawa Citizen reports, "A U.S. firm with links to President Clinton
collected HIV-tainted blood from Arkansas prison inmates in the 1980's
and shipped it to Canada, newly uncovered documents reveal... It is like
several hundred, perhaps thousands, were infected by the tainted
products."."
The Ottawa Citizen 10/4/98 Mark Kennedy ".The controversy over how a
U.S. firm collected tainted blood from Arkansas prison inmates and
shipped it to Canada has spread to Vince Foster -- U.S. President Bill
Clinton's personal confidant who committed suicide in 1993..Now, five
years after his mysterious death, two developments have prompted
questions about Mr. Foster's knowledge of the U.S. company's
prison-blood collection scheme: - There are signs that Mr. Foster tried
to protect the company called Health Management Associates (HMA) more
than a decade ago in a lawsuit. - And a major U.S. daily newspaper
recently reported that Mr. Foster may have been worried about the
tainted-blood scandal, which was just emerging as a contentious issue in
Canada, when he killed himself in July 1993..Indeed, on Sept. 16 --
eight weeks after Foster's death -- the federal government announced the
public inquiry, to be headed by Justice Horace Krever. During the course
of his work, Justice Krever unearthed the Arkansas prison- blood
collection scheme and wrote about it in his final report last year.
However, no mention was made of Mr. Clinton until last month's story in
the Citizen, which drew on documents obtained from Arkansas State Police
files."
WorldNetdaily 9/29/98 Joseph Farah ".Here's the story: In the early
1980s, while Bill Clinton was serving as governor of Arkansas, his
administration awarded a contract to Health Management Associates to
provide medical care to the state's prisoners. The president of the
company was, naturally, a long-time friend and political ally of Clinton
and was later appointed by him to the Arkansas Industrial Development
Commission. Later, he was among the senior members of Clinton's 1990
gubernatorial re- election team. As part of the deal HMA struck with
Arkansas, in addition to treating the prisoners, the company collected
their blood and sold it. Because of the exploding AIDS crisis, U.S.
regulations didn't permit the sale of prisoners' blood within the
country. But HMA found a willing buyer in Montreal, which brokered a
deal with Connaught, a Toronto blood-fractionator, which didn't know the
source of the supplies. The blood was distributed throughout Canada by
the Red Cross. Sales continued until 1983, when HMA revealed that some
of the plasma might be contaminated with the AIDS virus and hepatitis.
The blood was also peddled overseas. .Galster charges HMA officials knew
the blood was tainted as they sold it to Canada and a half-dozen other
foreign countries. He also alleges that Clinton knew of the scheme and
likely benefited from it financially. "We now have solid evidence he not
only knew about it, but he signed off on it," Galster told the Calgary
Sun.."
Ottawa Citizen 9/25/98 Mark Kennedy "His name is not Michael Sullivan,
as it says on the book's cover. For months, he has feared for his life
and the well-being of his wife and five children if his real name were
revealed. But now, Michael Galster has decided to shed his pseudonym in
an interview with the Citizen and take his chances. All because, he
says, he believes Canadians and Americans must learn who's responsible
for one of the worst public-health disasters of the century. Even if it
implicates the president of the United States, Bill Clinton. Mr.
Galster's book is a fictionalized account of how tainted blood was
collected from Arkansas prison inmates in the 1980s and shipped to
Canada. He conducted orthopedic clinics in Arkansas state prisons during
the era when the blood -- believed to be contaminated with HIV and
hepatitis C -- was collected. Today, at age 44, he has a successful
private practice, but he still does occasional work for the Arkansas
prison system. And he can't shake the memories that keep him up at
night.. Mr. Clinton was governor of Arkansas when the Canadian blood
supply was contaminated in the mid-'80s. He was familiar with the
operations of now-defunct Health Management Associates, the Arkansas
firm that was given a contract by Mr. Clinton's administration to
provide medical care to prisoners. In the process, HMA was also
permitted to collect prisoners' blood and sell it elsewhere. HMA's
president in the mid-1980s was Leonard Dunn, a friend and political ally
of Mr. Clinton. Later, Mr. Dunn was a Clinton appointee to the Arkansas
Industrial Development Commission, and he was among the senior members
of Mr. Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial re- election team. It's not known
how many Canadians contracted HIV from the plasma of Arkansas prisoners,
who were paid $ 7 for each unit of blood, although it's likely that
several hundred, perhaps several thousand, were infected by the tainted
products..Two weeks ago, just as the Citizen was about to publish a
report on the prison-blood scheme, Mr. Galster was sticking to the
safety of his pseudonym because he felt vulnerable until the media had
reported details of the prison-blood story. "Knowing the nature of
politics in Arkansas, I felt unsafely exposed. "Anyone reading this will
probably think that's a little fantastic. But you have to have lived in
the state and in the South to understand what I'm talking about. A lot
of things happen to people that try to step outside of the system,
which, in this case, I was absolutely doing. ."
WorldNetDaily 10/5/98 Joseph Farah "That's the slogan of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police. Let's hope it's so. Because this is the one law
enforcement agency in the world conducting a criminal investigation into
a scandal that could lead them right to the president of the United
States. Let's call it "Bloodgate." It's a scandal that threatens to
connect the dots between some other "gates" -- including Whitewater and
Vincent Foster. To recap what we've already covered, in the early 1980s,
HMA, a company headed by Leonard K. Dunn, won a contract to provide
medical services to Arkansas state prison inmates. As part of the $3
million deal, HMA was also allowed to collect blood from the prisoners
and sell it. That tainted blood, Canadian officials believe, was later
responsible for a nationwide outbreak of AIDS and other diseases..It
only takes a little probing to see the political connections at play.
Dunn was one of Clinton's key political supporters who was awarded not
only with a contract for his company, but an appointment to a state
business council as well. He also turns out to be the guy who wound up
with the assets of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan following the
Whitewater scandal. Small world, huh? Don't be surprised, it gets even
smaller. Syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher last week reported that
the late White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster may have been
connected with the blood scandal. "Once upon a time -- in fact a day or
two after Vince Foster died -- a man called the White House counsel's
office," she wrote. "'This was not a line that kooks typically rang us
up on,' my source told me. Lunatics call the main office number. This
guy called one of Vince's assistants directly. "The man said he had some
information that might be important. Something had upset Vince Foster
greatly just days before he died. Something about 'tainted blood' that
both Vince Foster and President Clinton knew about, this man said.."
Health Canada Web Site 11/26/97 Krever Report on Canadian Blood Scandal
". During 1981-2, the number of AIDS cases in the United States reported
to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta grew at an alarming rate.
The vast majority of the reported cases were of homosexual men and
intravenous drug abusers. During 1982, cases of AIDS transmitted through
the use of blood and blood products began to be reported. The U.S. blood
and plasma centres regularly collected from two groups of persons who
were at high risk of contracting AIDS: homosexual men and prison
inmates. Plasma was collected at centres, licensed by the Food and Drug
Administration, in prisons in Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, and
Mississippi. By way of contrast, because of the high prevalence of
hepatitis B in prisons, the Canadian Red Cross Society had stopped
collecting donations from prison inmates in 1971. (Vol II, pp371- 372)
.In 1978, Connaught had made plans to obtain plasma from U.S. plasma
centres. It intended to buy the plasma directly from the centres, with
its own staff members inspecting each centre before it was approved as a
supplier. Beginning in 1980, it inspected the U.S. centres from which it
was to receive plasma.. All the plasma was to come from centres licensed
by the Food and Drug Administration.One of the centres used by Connaught
was in Grady, Arkansas, where the state Department of Corrections had a
prison. Aplasma centre, licensed by the Food and Drug Administration,
had for several years been operating within the prison, collecting
plasma from inmates. In the early 1980s, the Department of Corrections
employed Health Management Associates Inc. of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to
manage its centre. In mid-June 1983, Health Management Associates told
the Food and Drug Administration that thirty-eight units of plasma,
taken from four inmates of the Grady prison, should not have been
collected.. By 1983, however, an association had been identified between
hepatitis B and AIDS; most persons with AIDS had also been infected with
hepatitis B. There was a greater than average risk that the thirty-eight
units of plasma from the four inmates could transmit AIDS..Health
Management Associates eventually decided that it should volun-tarily
withdraw the thirty-eight units of plasma, and on 11 August 1983 the
Food and Drug Administration concurred.. On 18 August, the Health
Protection Branch told Connaught about the problem. This was the first
time that Connaught was aware of it.Until this conversation, Connaught
had not been aware of the fact that it had been processing plasma
collected from prison inmates. The shipping papers accompanying the
plasma had not revealed that the centre was located in a prison. They
had simply referred to the source as the "ADC Plasma Center, Grady,
Arkansas," without any indication that "ADC" stood for "Arkansas
Department of Corrections." An inspection report of the Food and Drug
Administration that Connaught had received in February 1983 revealed
that the centre was in a prison, but it had not been reviewed..In late
August 1983, Health Management Associates told the Food and Drug
Administration that it had discovered that plasma had been collected
from a fifth inmate of the Grady prison who had previously tested
positive for hepatitis B. Thirty-four units had been collected from him
between July 1982 and May 1983; all had been consigned to Continental
Pharma.."
The Village Voice 11/17/98 James Ridgeway regarding Health Management
Associates in Arkansas ".As part of the deal, the company was permitted
to collect blood at $7 a unit from convicts. Through an unsuspecting
Canadian broker, this blood, some of which proved to be HIV-tainted,
entered the Canadian blood supply. By that time, the U.S. had ceased
using blood from prisons because of reports of widespread drug use and
unsafe sex. Leonard Dunn, a close friend and chair of Clinton's
gubernatorial reelection finance committee and a Clinton appointee to
the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, was the president of
Health Management. According to an article in the Ottawa Citizen, which
broke the story last month, internal Arkansas State Police documents
describe investigations into charges that the firm provided inadequate
treatment to prisoners, along with rumors that Clinton appointees to the
prison board demanded a kickback in return for renewing HMA's $3 million
health care contract in 1985. Research: Bob Frederick"
Press Journal (Vero Beach, FL) 12/12/98 Paul Craig Roberts ".If news
stories trickling out of Canada are true, impeachment is too good for
Bill Clinton. Drawing and quartering would be more appropriate.
According to these reports, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are
conducting a criminal investigation of an illegal blood collection
scheme with links to then Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. During the 1980s,
"hot blood" contaminated with hepatitis C and HIV was taken from
Arkansas prisoners and sold to Canada, where the plasma ended up in
blood products for hemophiliacs. According to Mark Kennedy, an
investigative reporter for the Ottawa Citizen, the prisoners' plasma was
sold to Canada for about $ 50 a unit, and the revenues were split
between Health Management Associates, the private firm that ran the
blood program for Cummins State Prison in Grady, Arkansas, and the
Arkansas Department of Corrections. Allegations of Gov. Clinton's
involvement surfaced on the Canadian TV program "Bynon" on Oct. 15.
According to Dr. Michael Galster, a doctor in private practice who
treated Cummins' prisoners for the state, the Federal Drug
Administration shut down Health Management Associates three times during
the 1980s for its improper practices. The blood program, however, was
too profitable to stay shut. Each time, HMA was able to regroup and
continue the blood program. According to Galster, a 1986 public inquiry
into HMA's operations produced a deposition that HMA was kept in
business by Gov. Clinton's intervention in its behalf. According to
Galster, one deposition alleges that Clinton told HMA officials, who
boasted of their contacts to him, that if they would pay $ 100,000 to a
designated judge, "he would see to it that their contract would be
renewed for the next two years." Galster said news reports show that
Clinton defended HMA on dozens of occasions from media attacks on its
practices...At any rate, Galster's evidence has reinvigorated a debate
and an investigation that the Canadian government had hoped was over.
Ottawa reporter Mark Kennedy shows no signs of letting go of the story.
Recently, he interviewed two of the Arkansas officials who ran the
prison plasma business. He was stunned when they defended the business
as a way of providing prisoners with "pocket money." Galster said
prisoners have told him, and are willing to testify, that they were paid
in narcotics for their blood. Some prisoners were so drained of plasma
that they were left on the point of death, a condition that Galster says
is cited in the FDA reports. Canadian reporters are amazed that their
U.S. counterparts have ignored this story.."
SALON 12/24/98 Suzi Parker ". Even the residents of Grady, Ark., call it
"godforsaken." It's an enclave of poverty where rampant drug dealing
contributes at least as much to the bleak economy as the main legitimate
business -- farming -- does. But looming among the rows of cotton
outside this dismal Arkansas River Delta town, there used to be a more
profitable form of agriculture: human plasma farming. At the Cummins
Unit of the Arkansas penal system during the 1980s, while President
Clinton was still governor, inmates would regularly cross the prison
hospital's threshold to give blood, lured by the prospect of receiving
$7 a pint. The ritual was creepy to behold: platoons of prisoners lying
supine on rows of cots, waiting for the needle-wielding prison orderly
to puncture a vein and watch the clear bags fill with blood.
Administrators then sold the blood to brokers, who in turn shipped it to
other states, and to Japan, Italy, Spain and Canada. Despite repeated
warnings from the Food and Drug Administration, Arkansas kept its prison
plasma program running until 1994, when it became the very last state to
cease selling its prisoners' plasma. In a year when Arkansas scandals
dating back to his governorship have returned to haunt Clinton, this one
nearly toppled the government -- of Canada. Arkansas' prison-blood
business created a health crisis in Canada that nearly brought down the
Liberal Party government last spring. At least 42,000 Canadians have
been infected with hepatitis C, and thousands more with AIDS, thanks to
poorly screened plasma. Some of it has been traced back to the Cummins
prison in Arkansas. More than 7,000 Canadians are expected to die as a
result of the blood scandal. .."
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and various 8/8/96 "..In 1986, the Arkansas
State Police conducted a review of Health Management Associates (HMA) of
Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The review was ordered as part of a larger review
of the Arkansas prison system by then Governor Bill Clinton after State
Representative Bobby Glover of Carlisle reported charges made to him in
interviews with prison inmates. The prisoners alleged homosexual rape
among the inmates and widespread corruption -- bid rigging, theft,
gambling and the misappropriation of state equipment -- among prison
officials. Since 1980, HMA had held a contract to provide medical
services to the prison system. HMA had also been in charge of a program
of harvesting blood plasma from inmates. By any objective measure, their
record had been troubling. In 1984, the Food and Drug Administration
suspended the plasma program at the Grady prison, citing many egregious
health violations, including overbleeding, use of donors infected with
hepatitis, and inadequate procedures of storage and record-keeping.
Nonetheless, HMA had its $3- million contract renewed that same year.
.We now know that the actions of HMA, the company Mays was purportedly
monitoring, were more sinister still. As those who have followed the
story of the Blood Trail know, in 1997 a report was issued by a Canadian
national commission headed by Justice Horace Krever. The Krever
commission reported that thirty-eight units of blood had been collected
by HMA from four inmates who had previously tested positive for
hepatitis B. By 1983, an association had been confirmed between
hepatitis B and AIDS. Four of the thirty-eight units had been shipped to
Connaught in Canada. The other thirty-four units were sold to companies
in Japan, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland. As a result of tainted blood
sales, hemophiliacs and transfusion recipients around the world were
infected with HIV and hepatitis C.."
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Investor's Business Daily 12/29/98 ".Clinton allies tied to Arkansas
Inmate scandal (their title) This scandal begins in Canada, where
thousands have been infected with HIV or hepatitis C from donated blood.
Online magazine Salon says some donations came from Arkansas inmates
under an '80's-era program administered by, among others, two Bill
Clinton allies - Leonard Dunn an Richard Mays. Ex-con John Schock told
Salon even ill inmates gave blood. The prison system used blood proceeds
to buy medical equipment. Also, while Clinton was governor, the FDA
cracked down on the program and shut it down for a year over safety
violations.."
Progressive Review 1/15/99 Sam Smith from Linda Tripp Deposition ".Q Now
the bit about the screen flashing up encrypted, Mr. Klayman asked you,
again this is on page 139, is that an accurate recitation of what you
told Lucianne Goldberg and you responded no. A No, it's not. Let me just
clarify, it's not that, it appears to be a compilation of two different
issues confused in the recitation. The word encrypted, if I used it at
all, did not have to do with FBI files. It had to do with another issue
on Deb Gorham's machine when it was located in the West Wing prior to
its being moved. What I had told Lucianne Goldberg at the time was that
it had been alarming to me that when I tried to enter data from a caller
that I was working with on a tainted blood issue, that every time I
entered a word that had to do with this particular issue, it would flash
up either the word encrypted or password required or something to
indicate the file was locked.."
Washington Weekly 1/18/99 Timothy Wheeler ".The crucial question in the
Vincent Foster case, as the Wall Street Journal observed almost
immediately, is not murder versus suicide, but WHY Foster died. What
issue could be so important? Why was Foster getting a full-court press
from the Arkansas inner circle -- Webster Hubbell, Bruce Lindsey, Patsy
Thomasson, Marsha Scott, Bill Clinton himself -- at the White House just
before he died? In August, 1998, five years after his death, information
began to come to light that gives us a completely new and I believe
correct answer to that vexing question, why? The story is known in broad
outline if not in every last detail. It is richly documented from
criminal investigations, news stories and eyewitness accounts. It is an
Arkansas story of plain motive and ordinary human dimension. Unlike
hard-to-believe spy stories, it "fits," and Foster is known to have been
involved -- for years. None of this information was known to the Fiske
or Starr investigations. One tantalizing clue emerged just days ago, in
a deposition by Linda Tripp. Here are two recent pieces of the puzzle.
Note the reference to "tainted blood" in both. From a column by Maggie
Gallagher in the New York Post, September 25, 1998:.[details and
background]"
Washington Weekly 1/24/99 Ricki Magnussen Marvin Lee by Freeper Brian
Mosely ".Few Americans took note of the small 1995 Associated Press
story that linked tainted blood responsible for the death of hundreds of
Canadians to Arkansas prisons. In Arkansas, however, a medical
practitioner who had worked inside the prison system for years realized
the horrible implications. The only way he could tell the story was to
write a fictionalized account under a pseudonym. When it was published
last year, the story still did not make much of an impact. It was not
until he revealed his name and his first-hand knowledge of what had
happened in Arkansas prisons more than a decade ago that the story hit
the Internet in full force..."
Washington Weekly 1/25/99 Ricki Magnussen and Marvin Lee ".Few Americans
took note of the small 1995 Associated Press story that linked tainted
blood responsible for the death of hundreds of Canadians to Arkansas
prisons. In Arkansas, however, a medical practitioner who had worked
inside the prison system for years realized the horrible implications.
The only way he could tell the story was to write a fictionalized
account under a pseudonym. When it was published last year, the story
still did not make much of an impact. It was not until he revealed his
name and his first-hand knowledge of what had happened in Arkansas
prisons more than a decade ago that the story hit the Internet in full
force. What has led the recent interest is the potential involvement of
then-Governor Bill Clinton. "His name will come into it and the truth is
that without his support this group would have been shut down in 1982
when the FDA first came down on them," Michael Galster, author of "Blood
Trail [1]" says on Clinton's involvement. "And if that had happened, if
they had ceased cooperation in '82 thousands and thousands of people
would have been spared. Now that is the truth. So is he responsible?
Yes. Yes he's responsible and so are a lot of other people." Why hasn't
this story been investigated long ago? Galster offers a possible
explanation: "There are just as many Republicans involved in it as
Democrats and that's one of the reasons why the Republicans haven't
picked up the story because they don't know what their involvement might
be." ."
Media Release 1/27/99 Michael McCarthy (group spokesman) Freeper T'wit
".This is major news. Canadian tainted blood victims are suing the blood
processing companies that bought diseased blood from Cummins prison farm
in Bill Clinton's Arkansas. The struggle to expose the Arkansas tainted
blood scheme and to seek justice for thousands of victims has reached
the courts in Canada. And Bill Clinton is in the crosshairs. Let's hope
a similar suit is launched in this country soon, to compel Clinton and
his cronies to face the consequences of this appalling crime.."
AP David Crary 1/28/99 Freeper Brian Mosely ".Canadian hemophiliacs
launched a class- action lawsuit Thursday against the federal government
and two companies for using tainted plasma from U.S. prisoners in
Canadian blood products. The lawsuit, seeking $655 million, contends
that the high-risk plasma collected at prisons in Louisiana and Arkansas
was used in Canada even after U.S. blood-product companies stopped
buying prison plasma in early 1983. David Harvey, the lawyer
representing the plaintiffs, estimated that 1,000 Canadian hemophiliacs
contracted hepatitis C between 1980 and 1985 from tainted blood imported
from the United States. "This was blood the Americans refused to use
themselves, but which Canada somehow deemed acceptable,'' Harvey
said..."
Ottawa Citizen 1/31/99 Mark Kennedy ".The web of intrigue in the
Arkansas prison blood scandal has grown to include a more famous name:
Linda Tripp. Tantalizing new evidence that has surfaced on the story
--now dubbed "Bloodgate" by Americans who regularly discuss it through
Internet chat groups -- has sparked even more questions about what U.S.
President Bill Clinton knew about tainted blood shipped to Canada in the
early 1980s. Mrs. Tripp, a key figure in the Monica Lewinsky affair,
said in a sworn deposition this month that in the course of her duties
in the White House several years ago, she once took a phone call from
someone about a "tainted blood issue." When Mrs. Tripp tried to obtain
more information on the subject from a White House computer data base,
she was denied access to the files. The latest information stems from a
sworn deposition Mrs. Tripp gave Jan. 13 in a civil lawsuit.Working in
the same office at the time was deputy counsel Vince Foster who
committed suicide in 1993. Mr. Foster, a boyhood friend of Mr.
Clinton's, was one of the president's most trusted advisers. As a
corporate lawyer in Arkansas, he worked in the same firm as Hillary
Rodham Clinton and they became close colleagues.. Last fall, as part of
a series of investigative stories, the Citizen revealed two developments
that prompted new questions about Mr. Foster's knowledge of how a
private firm, with the consent of the Arkansas government, collected
inmates' plasma and shipped it to Canada.."
The Wanderer 2/11/99 Paul Likoudis ". On Feb. 12th - the day that the
U.S. Senate is expected to wrap up its impeachment trial of William
Jefferson Clinton - lawyers representing thousands of Canadian
"tainted-blood" victims will hold a press conference at the National
Press Club to demand a U.S. Justice Department investigation into how
their clients contracted AIDS or hepatitis C... At the same time,
Canada's national police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is
pleading for any information from Canadians, Americans, and Europeans
which will assist it in its "full-scale criminal investigation" to
determine why and how contaminated blood purchased from Arkansas
prisoners was sold to Canadian blood companies after the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration had ordered U.S. blood companies not to purchase
blood donated by prisoners because of the high risk of AIDS and
hepatitis C. For almost the entire term of Clinton's presidency, the
tainted blood issue has been a major political and health story in
Canada, leading to a federally chartered investigation led by Justice
Horace Krever to determine how and why the contaminated blood entered
the country... What Justice Krever discovered during his three-year
investigation was that officials of Health Management Associates in
Arkansas - all Clinton cronies - unable to unload their contaminated
blood anywhere in the world, found a Montreal-based broker, Continental
Pharma, to accept thousands of liters of the prisoners' plasma... The
Washington Times brought the story to its limited national audience on
Dec. 11th with an editorial by Paul Craig Roberts, who led off with this
incendiary line: "If news stories trickling out of Canada are true,
impeachment is too good for Bill Clinton. Drawing and quartering would
be more appropriate." He mentioned that the Canadian police are
"conducting a criminal investigation of an illegal blood collection
scheme with links to then Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. During the 1980s,
`hot blood´ contaminated with hepatitis C and HIV was taken from
Arkansas prisoners and sold to Canada, where the plasma ended in blood
products for hemophiliacs." .."
The Canadian Press 2/12/99 Dennis Bueckert ".U.S. prisoners were
permitted to donate high-risk blood plasma for export partly because it
was felt this would help in their rehabilitation, says a spokeswoman for
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Business factors may also have
played a role in the decision to permit the shipment of prison blood to
Canada after its use within the United States was halted in 1982, the
official said in an interview Thursday from Washington. "During that
time . . . it was seen as a way for prisoners to rehabilitate
themselves, they were giving something back to the community by donating
their blood," said the official who asked not to be named... There have
been numerous reports about irregularities in the blood collection
program at the Arkansas Department of Corrections Cummins Unit, in
Grady, Ark.. "The FDA found these guys (at the Grady prison) were
destroying records and committing serious violations and somehow they
got relicensed every time," says Mike McCarthy, an Ontario hemophiliac
infected with hepatitis C. "Everybody knew -- the FDA knew these were
not good areas for production of fractionated products. They turned a
blind eye to repeated violations.".. "
The Washington Weekly 2/15/99 RICKI MAGNUSSEN MARVIN LEE "."Health
Management Associates was selling blood from the Arkansas prison system
until 1994. Connaught in Canada stopped buying blood and blood plasma
from them in 1990. Where did they sell their blood from 1990 to 1994?"
asks Steve Grissom, President of the U.S. National Association for
Victims of Transfusion- Acquired AIDS (NAVTA). The organization is now
trying to establish a direct link between AIDS acquired by its members
in the U.S. and tainted blood collected in Arkansas prisons. Because HIV
strains can be distinguished by genetic fingerprinting and because blood
samples can be stored for many years, it is possible to establish
evidence of the origin of an HIV infection.."
Washington Weekly 2/15/99 Ricki Magnussen ".White House National
Security Spokesman P. J. Crowley last week responded to allegations that
President Clinton had some responsibility for the collection and
distribution of tainted blood from Arkansas prisons. "In the early '80s
there was no testing for hepatitis C or AIDS, those kind of testing
methods came into being much later, so there was no way that the
President could have known that the blood was tainted," Crowley told
TalkSpot Online. "Whatever the arrangement was between the Arkansas
prison system [and] HMA, I would defer to the State of Arkansas to
comment." HMA is Health Management Associates, the company that received
the lucrative state prison blood collection contracts and helped
Clinton's gubernatorial election efforts. Blood Trail [1] author Michael
Galster, who originally brought the focus on President Clinton's role in
the unfolding scandal, disagrees. When asked by the Washington Weekly
about the White House statement, he said: "It was a stupid statement.
Everyone knows that there wasn't a test for AIDS in '83. The question is
this: Did Bill Clinton interfere in a corrupt operation? Yes. The only
way he can get out of this is to convince the Canadian and American
people that he never was Governor of Arkansas. As I see it, he could be
guilty in one of two things. 1) It either occurred under his
jurisdiction and he didn't care to make the changes to protect his own
people and other people or, 2) he was totally involved. And of course we
have proof that he was totally involved. That's kind of where we are."
.."
Bourque Newswatch 2/14/99 Pierre Bourque Freeper Wallaby ".BOURQUE has
also learned that a Press Conference will be held on February 24 at the
National Press Club in Washington to demand a federal investigation into
the Arkansas-Canada tainted blood scandal. In related news, the White
House is now denying Bill Clinton responsibility in what is known south
of the border as Bloodgate. And tomorrow's edition of The Washington
Weekly will report that as many as 2,000 Americans may also have become
infected with tainted Arkansas prison blood, distributed when Bill
Clinton was Governor.."
The Ottawa Citizen Mark Kennedy 2/15/99 ".The RCMP and FBI have held
discussions about how contaminated plasma from American prisons was
shipped to Canada in the 1980s, says a spokesman for Canadian
tainted-blood victims. Erma Chapman, president of the Canadian
Hemophilia Society, said she was given this information last month by a
member of a special task force of Mounties conducting a criminal
investigation into the tainted-blood scandal. Ms. Chapman said she was
informed by the task force's "victim liaison officer" that Mounties had
travelled to the United States and met with representatives of the FBI.
She says she was told they discussed a variety of matters, including how
plasma was collected from inmates in Arkansas and Louisiana prisons in
the early '80s and sold to a blood broker in Montreal.. Next week,
Canadian tainted-blood victims will travel to Washington to hold a news
conference. They will demand a special investigation by the U.S. Justice
Department into how they got bad blood from American prisons.. The
Citizen revealed that the firm that collected the plasma from inmates in
the Arkansas prison had links to U.S. President Bill Clinton, who was
governor of the state in the 1980s.."
Bourque HotNews 2/17/99 Pierre Bourque ".By this time next week, if not
sooner, all Hell may break loose on the growing controversy surrounding
the drip-drip-drip sale of tainted Arkansas prison blood, a rather
innocuous activity undertaken during the heady days of Bill Clinton's
Governorship of that saintly state. . That all of this may or not have
been condoned by the highest of authorities in Canada and Arkansas will
soon come to light. Only now is the issue of tainted prison blood
beginning to cause the barest essence of sensation stateside, but one
who some in Ottawa suggest may be just the ticket to launch a serious
bid for the Leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada and a powerful
play for the Prime Ministership of this country. . There is also
breaking news that none other than Reform MP Grant Hill, recently back
from a spectacular trip to Jordan where he attended the funeral of King
Hussein, will be in Washington next Wednesday, February 24, for a press
conference at the National Press Club at 1:00 p.m where "representatives
for tainted blood victims from Canada will explain in detail how they
contracted Hepatitis C and AIDS through blood plasma obtained from U.S.
prisons and sold across borders and overseas". . It goes on to explain
that "In 1982 the FDA deemed US prison plasma to be too risky for
domestic production of hemophilia product. Yet this high-risk prison
plasma was sent to Canada and overseas to be used by unsuspecting
hemophiliacs. Even AFTER tests were available to detect AIDS and
hepatitis in blood plasma, entities in the United States continued the
practice of selling high-risk prison blood. The victims of this unsavory
activity will plead for a final accounting and restitution from those
responsible."."
Washington Weekly 2/21/99 Ricki Magnussen "...By the end of 1982 the
Federal Drug Administration recommended that U.S. manufacturers of blood
products cease collection and use of prison plasma. In public, American
companies agreed to follow the recommendation. Evidence now shows that
in private, the policy of these companies was very different. The
Washington Weekly has obtained an internal memorandum from a meeting in
the Cutter corporation, owned by the German Bayer corporation, which
obtained blood from prison collection centers in Arkansas and Louisiana.
The memorandum is written by John Hink, one of the directors of research
at Cutter and is a recommendation on future collection of donor plasma.
In the memo, dated June 6, 1983, John Hink describes a January 4, 1983
meeting which was held to discuss AIDS in relation to the American blood
donor system. The meeting was attended by 80 to 100 people from the
blood banks, gay rights groups, the Centers for Disease Control, and the
FDA. John Hink ends the memorandum with a recommendation for the future
collection of plasma for manufacturing blood products: "Take no
extraordinary actions (other than #1 above [educational--voluntary
exclusion program]) at our two prison centers which supply about 3000
liters/mo. (there are no data to support the emotional arguments that
prison plasma collected from adequately screened prisoners is "bad." To
exclude such plasma from manufacture of our coagulation product would
only be a sop of gratuity to the gay rights and would presage further
pressure to exclude plasma collected from the Mexican border and the
paid donor)." The memo does not mention the 1982 FDA recommendation to
ban collection from prisons...."
Reuters 2/24/99 Maggie Fox "�A group of Canadians who say they were
infected with the AIDS virus and hepatitis C from imported U.S. blood in
the early 1980s said Wednesday they plan to sue the United States, and
perhaps even President Clinton. They say the blood was taken from
inmates at prisons in Louisiana and Arkansas during the time that
Clinton was Arkansas governor and sold not just to Canada but to other
countries. They are also asking the Justice Department to investigate
whether prison and health officials acted criminally in failing to
screen the blood and warn of its source�."
The Canadian Press 2/24/99 Robert Russo "... U.S. president Bill Clinton
will soon be receiving a subpoena from Canadians infected by HIV-tainted
blood donated by Arkansas prisoners...."
Reuters 2/25/99 Maggie Fox "...It was March 1983 when Dana Kuhn first
started to bleed. He knew he was a haemophiliac but had not needed the
donated blood proteins that others with his condition depend on. But in
1983 his luck ran out, and he rushed to the emergency room for an
infusion of Factor VIII, one of the blood proteins that can treat
haemophilia. "Little to my knowledge, it was infected with both HIV and
hepatitis C," Kuhn told a news conference on Wednesday.... On Wednesday,
Kuhn's group joined with Canadian haemophiliacs who say they are going
to sue U.S. government agencies over contaminated blood that was
exported to Canada and given to haemophiliacs there. They plan to target
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and officials in Arkansas and
Louisiana who they say should have known that tainted blood was being
collected in prisons there for use in blood products. Such officials,
they say, may include President Bill Clinton, who was then governor of
Arkansas and a friend of the owner of the company that collected the
prison plasma...."
Washington Weekley 3/1/99 Ricki Magnussen "...Asked at a press
conference whether President Clinton would be named as a defendant in
the Bloodgate lawsuit to be filed in U.S. courts, David Harvey, lead
attorney for the plaintiffs said: "At this point we intend to seek a
deposition from the president. If, as a result of that deposition and
other investigations that we make, we find evidence to show that he
personally, as opposed to in his capacity as governor of the state, was
involved in action that is liable, we will consider naming him as a
defendant." ...Author Michael Galster, who spoke at the press conference
as well, implied that the President could be hiding key documentary
evidence of the blood trail: "He is in the unusual position of having in
his private possession roughly 400 cases of documents concerning the
administration of the prison by Health Management Associates during
these years. These cases of information are essentially every piece of
documentation that was generated during 12 years of Clinton's
gubernatorial administration. We know from other documents that these
cases contain implicit information between then-governor Clinton, the
director of HMA, and the director of the state prison, Art Lockhart,"
said Galster. "These [documents] are not available to us. I've tried.
That's one of my my pleas that we get access to those documents and that
we have his full cooperation in these matters."..."
The Progressive Review UNDERNEWS 2/22/99 Sam Smith Freeper Wallaby "In
the mid-1980s, as contaminated blood flowed from Arkansas inmates to
other countries, then-Governor W.J. Clinton sat on his hands despite
evidence of severe mismanagement in his prison system and its medical
operations. The prison medical program was being run by Health
Management Associates, which was headed by Leonard Dunn, a man who would
brag to state police of his close ties to Clinton�."
Washington Weekly 3/8/99 Ricki Magnussen "�Governor Clinton in the
early 1980s attended parties at the residence of Arkansas State Prison
Director Art Lockhart, says a former official who worked at the prison
at the time. The parties were also attended by Bud Henderson, founder
and medical director of Health Management Associates, the company that
received the lucrative prison blood collection contract from the
Arkansas State Prisons. Tainted blood collected on those contracts was
shipped to Canada where it infected thousands with hepatitis C and AIDS.
Americans may have been infected as well. The account by the prison
officer confirms an account given by a former inmate to the Washington
Weekly a few weeks ago. He saw Clinton visiting the unsanitary prison
plasma collection facility several times. Leonard Dunn of Health
Management Associates helped collect money for Clinton's election
campaigns. There are allegations that Clinton benefited economically
from the collection of the tainted prison blood. The former prison
official is afraid for his safety and has spoken to the Washington
Weekly on condition of anonymity:�"
The Washington Weekly 3/22/99 Ricki Magnussen "�"Clinton has got to
come forward with his personal documents from the governors office,"
Galster says. "This is where all the information lies. And we know that
it's in there because we have other letters from the prison Board of
Directors, from the prison Director himself, from the Chairman of the
Board and from different doctors around the state." "They would say,
'Dear Mr. Clinton, concerning your letter....' about AIDS infections and
that sort of stuff," Galster says. The person in charge of the documents
until Clinton was elected president is Bobby Roberts, librarian at the
University of Arkansas. He was also a member of the Board of Corrections
that granted the contract to Health Management Associates (HMA) to
collect blood from prisoners. Asked about the whereabouts of the 400
boxes, Roberts says: "It's a well kept secret. I don't know who has got
them. And I don't know who might be able to tell you." Galster is now
considering filing suit to gain access to the boxes�."
HIVNET / USA Today 3/19/99 "...Some 300,000 Americans received hepatitis
C-tainted blood transfusions between 1988 and 1992, yet up to 100,000 of
those individuals who are still living are unaware of their infection.
The editors of USA Today note that "the nation's public health
establishment--including the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and
Drug Administration, and the surgeon general--has proceeded at a
ponderous institutional pace" with regards to notifying these people.
The editors condemn public health officials' failure to launch an
aggressive public education effort, pointing out that an estimated 4
million Americans are infected with hepatitis C. Only now, they note, is
the first coordinated notification effort being started, and that will
not be done until 2001 at the least....."
Washington Weekly 4/11/99 Ricki Magnussen "...How could the Arkansas
company Health Management Associates (HMA) regain its license to collect
blood from Arkansas prisons in 1984 after it had been revoked several
months before because of gross medical negligence and mismanagement?
That question has attracted renewed interest after Canadians infected by
the Arkansas prison blood collected under sub-standard conditions have
announced plans for a lawsuit against responsible parties in the U.S. A
document obtained by the Washington Weekly may have a bearing on the
question. In a 1986 letter responding to questions from the Institute
for Law and Policy Planning, HMA chairman Francis 'Bud' Henderson wrote
that at the time he operated the Arkansas prison contract, "I was also
Medical Director for the National Center for Toxicological Research."
.... In July of 1982 the FDA did an inspection of HMA-collected plasma,
and reported that prisoners were 'overbled' and that records of
hepatitis B testing results of several

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