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Wednesday May 31, 2000; 1:15 PM EDT
Juanita's Audit and America's Pravda
Press
One might expect news that Clinton rape accuser
Juanita Broaddrick was hit with an IRS audit would warrant front page coverage
everywhere, given the overwhelming odds that it was a case of White House
sponsored revenge against yet another Clinton-era whistleblower.
But since this president came to town, the
Washington press corps has metamorphosed into Pravda on the Potomac. And so the
Broaddrick audit story rates just a mention here and there -- nothing to get too
worked up about and certainly nothing that warrants the attention of Peter, Tom,
Dan and Bernie on the nightly TV news.
Never mind that even Clinton defenders find it
hard to argue the Broaddrick audit was coincidental. Coming on the heels of
similar audits for Clinton sex accusers Paula Jones, Liz Ward Gracen and
Gennifer Flowers, the handwriting is pretty much on the wall.
America's Pravda press corps certainly hasn't
forgotten that President Nixon's attempt to get his IRS to go after political
enemies was one of Watergate's worst abuses of power. At least that's what
reporters claimed at the time, despite the fact that Nixon's IRS commissioner
rebuffed his orders.
During "Tricky Dick's" years in power, no one
ever emerged, as Broaddrick did yesterday, to claim his or her fate was
punishment for testifying against the president or his minions. Jones, Flowers
and Gracen have all voiced similar suspicions, claims which reporters have
obediently ignored.
But it's not just these four women who have
suffered politically inspired retaliation; the kind of KGB-like revenge that
dwarfs anything that happened during Watergate. In fact, the list of Clinton
accusers, witnesses and otherwise dissident figures who have suffered for their
candor, is positively staggering.
LINDA TRIPP: She was Bill Clinton's John Dean.
But instead of winning the kind of plaudits the media awarded Watergate's
whistleblower, Tripp was vilified on national TV by the president's Hollywood
allies, threatened with physical harm, had confidential files leaked to
reporters, and to top it all off, was indicted for gathering the very evidence
that led to the first impeachment of an elected president in American
history.
KATHLEEN WILLEY: After Clinton sexually
assaulted her in the White House in 1993, Willey tried to keep it secret. But
when Monicagate forced her into the spotlight, bad things began to happen.
Willey's car was vandalized, her pets were killed, her children were threatened
and she was smeared in the press when the White House released her personal
correspondence.
After years of legal bills and debt left over
from a previous husband (who killed himself the day of Clinton sexually
assaulted his wife), Willey filed bankruptcy last month.
SALLY PERDUE: Perdue came forward on the eve of
Clinton's 1992 presidential nomination to claim only a brief affair. But coming
on the heels of Gennifer Flowers her story could have been politically lethal.
Perdue also alleged that she and Clinton did cocaine together.
Private detectives were hired to discredit
Perdue. Democratic operatives tried to bribe and threaten her into silence. One,
whom she identified as Ron Tucker, told her, "We know you go jogging by yourself
and we can't guarantee what might happen to your pretty little legs."
Shortly after Paula Jones filed suit, Perdue
disappeared to China, where she remains -- unreachable -- today.
JAMES MCDOUGAL: Bill and Hillary's Whitewater
business partner absorbed the losses on the failing investment while the
Clintons took tax deductions. After years of stonewalling McDougal finally
decided to cooperate with prosecutors in 1996. His crucial testimony implicated
the first couple in a whole host of crimes.
But still, America's most important government
witness was sent to jail, tossed into solitary confinement, had his heart
medicine confiscated and promptly died of cardiac arrest. (McDougal's death is
credited with saving Hillary from indictment by Whitewater reporters Sue Schmidt
and Michael Weisskopf in their recent book, Truth at Any Cost.)
DAVID HALE: He was the first to implicate
Clinton in Whitewater perjury and was later corroborated by McDougal. Like
McDougal, Hale served prison time as part of a plea bargain with the independent
counsel -- despite three previous heart attacks. Upon his release an Arkansas
district attorney allied with Clinton prosecuted Hale on questionable insurance
fraud charges.
While Hale and McDougal were both sent to jail
despite long histories of heart trouble, stonewalling Whitewater witness Susan
McDougal was set free after she complained of a backache.
BILLY DALE: The only thing Dale did wrong was
get in the way of Hillary Clinton, who wanted to replace his White House travel
office staff with Arkansas cronies. But it wasn't enough to fire Dale and his
coworkers. The Clintons called in the FBI and had the 30-year White House
veteran prosecuted on bogus embezzlement charges. He was also hit with an IRS
audit.
DENNIS SCULIMBRENE: This FBI veteran was
assigned to do background checks on new White House employees. He ran afoul of
the Clintons when he testified on Dale's behalf in 1994. From that day forward,
Sculimbrene reports systematic harassment by his FBI superiors. When the FBI
veteran produced a smoking gun memo implicating Hillary in the hiring of
Filegate's Craig Livingstone, he was forced out of his job.
JOHNNY CHUNG: He remains the only witness to
offer full cooperation in the White House's Chinagate scandal, implicating top
PRC military officials in attempts to bankroll Clinton's 1996 campaign.
Chung also fingered the first lady in
illegality, testifying that he gave Hillary $50,000 inside the White House using
her chief of staff as a conduit. He was assured that Hillary would know where
the money came from. When he met her hours later, the first lady greeted the
Taiwanese-American stranger with the words, "Welcome to the White House, my good
friend."
After Chung came clean, top Democratic officials
urged his sentencing judge to throw the book at him. Since then, there have been
three attempts on his life. Last March the FBI arrested an lone gunman outside
Chung's Los Angeles office.
The list of potential Clinton witnesses who have
met misfortune is almost endless. Some have been threatened, some audited, some
beaten, some jailed and some have suffered fates far worse.
Their names include Sharlene Wilson, Gary
Johnson, Kathy Ferguson, Vince Foster, Ron Brown, Luther Parks, Larry Nichols,
Dolly Kyle Browning, L.D. Brown, Larry Patterson, Roger Perry, Adler Berriman
Seal, Gary Aldrich, Johnny Lawhon, Sean Haddon, Harry Don Denton, Patrick
Knowlton and dozens more; all with stories virtually ignored by America's
mainstream press.
The names on that list are the reason reporters
don't want to give Juanita Broaddrick's audit too much attention. To do
otherwise would be to admit that America's Pravda press has been blind to a
frightening mountain of evidence of an abuse of government power the likes of
which this country has never known before.
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