-Caveat Lector- Susan McDougal Speaking Out — Finally WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2003 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/25/eveningnews/main537972.sht ml
For years Susan McDougal didn't talk. Not to prosecutors. Not about Bill Clinton's role in a questionable land deal called Whitewater. For her silence she would spend 18 months in jail for contempt of court...plus three-and-a-half months for fraud. And she tells CBS News correspondent Jim Stewart, "It was not an easy time. It was not an easy time." But now she's telling her story in "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk." You could call it "McDougal's Revenge," says Stewart. It's more than her life story, he says. It's a bitter indictment of White House Independent counsel Ken Starr, who led the battle to get her to speak. The pictures of her arrest, in handcuffs and leg chains, made her a public, and pitiable figure, Stewart remarks. And McDougal tells him the shackling was very tough to take. "I was not prepared for that. I couldn't swallow. I remember the tears came to my eyes and I kept saying, 'Don't you dare cry. This was a choice you made.' " But she says she really didn't have a choice. She claims Starr's team was not interested in hearing the truth; they wanted her to accuse Bill and Hillary Clinton of fraud. "I believe they thought they had the goods, enough to get him," she says. "Not the truth, but the goods. And I believe they went after him with untruthful witnesses, with perjured testimony, and I think they had their story." Jail time for Mcdougal was hard time, some of it spent in America's toughest women's prisons, like one in California where she was kept in isolation, Stewart reports. "They called it the 'Hannibal Lecter' cell," McDougal says. "Absolutely soundproof. You could see out. You could see in. Totally glass." But still she wouldn't talk. "Nothing. I didn't tell them anything." She was finally released in 1998. She says she never heard from Bill Clinton until the end of his presidency, when he pardoned her. "What would you say to him?" Stewart asked. "Thank you for my pardon. God bless you." "No animosity?" "Oh, the only animosity I hold is for the people who tortured us." There's been no comment from Ken Starr on McDougal's story, Stewart adds. As for McDougal, he says, she's back in Arkansas trying to pick up the pieces of her life. © MMIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. • Feedback • Terms of Service • Privacy Statement Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it." The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sut <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
