Tell Me George, What Was That About Honor and Integrity?
When George Bush was campaigning for the Presidency in 2000, he often talked about ushering in a new era of responsibility. He said he wanted to get us away from a culture that said "If it feels good, do it. And if you've got a problem, blame someone else."
He referred to President Bill Clinton as "the shadow," and joked to David Letterman that one of his first tasks in the White House would be to give the Oval Office "one heck of a scrubbing."
Yesterday's 5-count indictment against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby (Assistant to the President, Chief of Staff to the Vice President, and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs) shows that Bush has not lived up to his pledge.
The charges against Libby, that he purgered himself, gave false testimony, and obstructed justice, are endemic of the Bush administration: they simply cannot tell the truth and level with the American people. They told us that Iraq tried to acquire yellowcake uranium from Iraq. That myth was debunked. They were less than truthful with New Yorkers about the air quality surrounding Ground Zero after 9/11. During one of the Presidential debates last fall, Bush denied ever saying that he didn't know or care where Osama bin Laden was, only to have some of the networks show footage of him saying just that. This is an Administration that has an extreme adversion to telling the truth.
But the charges against Libby reveals much more about this Administration. They have been trained to go into attack mode against anyone who has policy disagreements with them, or has the audacity to speak the truth. And as one of the main architechts of the Iraq war, Libby was so desparate to sell the war to the American public, that he didn't want anyone or anything getting in his way. Mainly, Joe Wilson and the truth about what he did not find in Africa.
If George Bush really wants to restore honor and integrity to Washington, he needs to start with the man in the mirror, and with his Administration as a whole.
He could also start by living up to the request that he made to his cabinet secretaries and department heads in his first Executive Order, which in part said: "Please thank the personnel of your departments and agencies for their commitment to maintain the highest standards of integrity in Government as we serve the American people."
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How many people in the Bush administration have been indicted? one How many have been convicted 0 How about the Clinton administration? Let's see...
This list was compiled at the end of the Clinton administration.
Clinton Scandal Index
RECORDS SET
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
* According to our best information, 40 government officials were indicted or convicted in the wake of Watergate. A reader computes that there was a total of 31 Reagan era convictions, including 14 because of Iran-Contra and 16 in the Department of Housing & Urban Development scandal. 47 individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine were convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes with 33 of these occurring during the Clinton administration itself. There were in addition 61 indictments or misdemeanor charges. 14 persons were imprisoned. A key difference between the Clinton story and earlier ones was the number of criminals with whom he was associated before entering the White House.
Using a far looser standard that included resignations, David R. Simon and D. Stanley Eitzen in Elite Deviance, say that 138 appointees of the Reagan administration either resigned under an ethical cloud or were criminally indicted. Curiously Haynes Johnson uses the same figure but with a different standard in "Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years: "By the end of his term, 138 administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever."
STARR-RAY INVESTIGATION
- Number of Starr-Ray investigation convictions or guilty pleas (including one governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton business partners): 14
- Number of Clinton Cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 5
- Number of Reagan cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 4
- Number of top officials jailed in the Teapot Dome Scandal: 3
CRIME STATS
- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
- Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122
SMALTZ INVESTIGATION
- Guilty pleas and convictions obtained by Donald Smaltz in cases involving charges of bribery and fraud against former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and associated individuals and businesses: 15
- Acquitted or overturned cases (including Espy): 6
- Fines and penalties assessed: $11.5 million
- Amount Tyson Food paid in fines and court costs: $6 million
CLINTON MACHINE CRIMES
FOR WHICH CONVICTIONS
HAVE BEEN OBTAINED
Drug trafficking (3), racketeering, extortion, bribery (4), tax evasion, kickbacks, embezzlement (2), fraud (12), conspiracy (5), fraudulent loans, illegal gifts (1), illegal campaign contributions (5), money laundering (6), perjury, obstruction of justice.
OTHER MATTERS INVESTIGATED BY SPECIAL PROSECUTORS
AND CONGRESS, OR REPORTED IN THE MEDIA
Bank and mail fraud, violations of campaign finance laws, illegal foreign campaign funding, improper exports of sensitive technology, physical violence and threats of violence, solicitation of perjury, intimidation of witnesses, bribery of witnesses, attempted intimidation of prosecutors, perjury before congressional committees, lying in statements to federal investigators and regulatory officials, flight of witnesses, obstruction of justice, bribery of cabinet members, real estate fraud, tax fraud, drug trafficking, failure to investigate drug trafficking, bribery of state officials, use of state police for personal purposes, exchange of promotions or benefits for sexual favors, using state police to provide false court testimony, laundering of drug money through a state agency, false reports by medical examiners and others investigating suspicious deaths, the firing of the RTC and FBI director when these agencies were investigating Clinton and his associates, failure to conduct autopsies in suspicious deaths, providing jobs in return for silence by witnesses, drug abuse, improper acquisition and use of 900 FBI files, improper futures trading, murder, sexual abuse of employees, false testimony before a federal judge, shredding of documents, withholding and concealment of subpoenaed documents, fabricated charges against (and improper firing of) White House employees, inviting drug traffickers, foreign agents and participants in organized crime to the White House.
ARKANSAS ALTZHEIMER'S
Number of times that Clinton figures who testified in court or before Congress said that they didn't remember, didn't know, or something similar.
Bill Kennedy 116
Harold Ickes 148
Ricki Seidman 160
Bruce Lindsey 161
Bill Burton 191
Mark Gearan 221
Mack McLarty 233
Neil Egglseston 250
Hillary Clinton 250
John Podesta 264
Jennifer O'Connor 343
Dwight Holton 348
Patsy Thomasson 420
Jeff Eller 697
FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES: In the portions of President Clinton's Jan. 17 deposition that have been made public in the Paula Jones case, his memory failed him 267 times. This is a list of his answers and how many times he gave each one.
I don't remember - 71
I don't know - 62
I'm not sure - 17
I have no idea - 10
I don't believe so - 9
I don't recall - 8
I don't think so - 8
I don't have any specific recollection - 6
I have no recollection - 4
Not to my knowledge - 4
I just don't remember - 4
I don't believe - 4
I have no specific recollection - 3
I might have - 3
I don't have any recollection of that - 2 I don't have a specific memory - 2
I don't have any memory of that - 2
I just can't say - 2
I have no direct knowledge of that - 2
I don't have any idea - 2
Not that I recall - 2
I don't believe I did - 2
I can't remember - 2
I can't say - 2
I do not remember doing so - 2
Not that I remember - 2
I'm not aware - 1
I honestly don't know - 1
I don't believe that I did - 1
I'm fairly sure - 1
I have no other recollection - 1
I'm not positive - 1
I certainly don't think so - 1
I don't really remember - 1
I would have no way of remembering that - 1
That's what I believe happened - 1
To my knowledge, no - 1
To the best of my knowledge - 1
To the best of my memory - 1
I honestly don't recall - 1
I honestly don't remember - 1
That's all I know - 1
I don't have an independent recollection of that - 1
I don't actually have an independent memory of that - 1
As far as I know - 1
I don't believe I ever did that - 1
That's all I know about that - 1
I'm just not sure - 1
Nothing that I remember - 1
I simply don't know - 1
I would have no idea - 1
I don't know anything about that - 1
I don't have any direct knowledge of that - 1
I just don't know - 1
I really don't know - 1
I can't deny that, I just -- I have no memory of that at all - 1
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.
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: An 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 had 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 including those published in the Progressive Review.
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.
SAM SMITH of the Progressive Review wrote the first book (Shadows of Hope, University of Indiana Press, 1994) deconstructing the Clinton myth and the Review developed a major database on the topic.
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.
THE CLINTON LEGACY
The Hidden Election
USA Today calls it "the hidden election," in which nearly 7,000 state legislative seats are decided with only minimal media and public attention. The paper took brief notice because this is the year the state legislatures perform their most important national function: drawing revised congressional districts based on the most recent census.
But there's another important national story here: further evidence of the disaster that Bill Clinton has been for the Democratic Party. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Democrats held a 1,542 seat lead in the state bodies in 1990. As of last November that lead had shrunk to 288. That's a loss of over 1,200 state legislative seats, nearly all of them under Clinton. Across the US, the Democrats control only 65 more state senate seats than the Republicans.
Further, in 1992, the Democrats controlled 17 more state legislatures than the Republicans. After November, the Republicans control one more than the Democrats. Not only is this a loss of 9 legislatures under Clinton, but it is the first time since 1954 that the GOP has controlled more state legislatures than the Democrats (they tied in 1968).
Here's what happened to the Democrats under Clinton, based on our latest figures:
- GOP seats gained in House since Clinton became president: 48
- GOP seats gained in Senate since Clinton became president: 8
- GOP governorships gained since Clinton became president: 11
- GOP state legislative seats gained since Clinton became president: 1,254
as of 1998
- State legislatures taken over by GOP since Clinton became president: 9
- Democrat officeholders who have become Republicans since Clinton became
president: 439 as of 1998
- Republican officeholders who have become Democrats since Clinton became president: 3
Comment by elmers brother— 2005/11/02 @ 06:25 PM — (Reply)
The FACT of the matter is that after all the bogus "investigations" conducted on the Clinton Administration by the neo-cons, we learned that President Clinton had an affair.
While that might make him a not-so-good husband, it doesn't make him a criminal.
After all those years of investigating President Clinton, Ken Starr released a pornographic report to the United States Congress. The Ken Starr report mentions the word "sex" more times that it does "Whitewater."
The so-called Travelgate? Nothing!! "Filegate?" Nothing. All these so-called Gates added up to nothing. Bill Clinton was impeached by a neo-con Congress because he cheated on his wife. Nothing more.
The fact is that we have criminals in the Bush administration. We have an Administration that has helped out a covert CIA operative with unofficial covert simply for political reasons.
And now we find out that Stephen Headley, the National Security Adviser, may be connected to the forged Niger documents.
President Clinton ran an administration with ethics. George Bush has not.
Comment by SMillard— 2005/11/02 @ 07:13 PM — (Reply)
there were 47 convictions. You should talk to those who spent time in jail. Ask them if it was about the sex.
Comment by elmers brother— 2005/11/03 @ 04:15 AM — (Reply)
If it was about sex why did he lose his law license for 5 years and pay a fine? Libby hasn 't been convicted yet and he is not charged with outing a CIA agent. It's funny because usually the left is not a supporter of the CIA. If Clinton ran an administration then he would not have been under investigation so often and those who worked for him, knew him and worked with him wouldn't have faced constant investigation, indictiments, convictions, jail time and fines.
Comment by elmers brother— 2005/11/03 @ 04:28 AM — (Reply)
"There were 47 convictions?" That is just so far-based from reality!
And Clinton was constantly under an investigation by a Republican Party who never forgave him for winning.
The Republican Party had begun to feel entitled to the White House, and then comes along this young, faily unknown Southern Governor. He ran for President, and he WON! Imagine that.
Have you forgotten about the "Arkansas Project," which was funded by the conservative Richard Mellon Scaife? The Arkansas Project was dedicated to bringing down the Clinton presidency.
And I just demonstrated to you that there were no scandals in the Clinton administration.
When Ken Starr sent his report to Congress, it was about sex, and nothing else.
Ken Starr released a pornographic report that was nothing more than an attempt to embarrass President Clinton in front of his wife. That's why the report talks about how, supposedly, Clinton came home from church on one Easter Sunday, and had an encounter with Monica.
And while that may be morally reprehensible, coming home and having a consensual sexual affair with another adult is not a high crime and misdemeanor.
Comment by Shalana— 2005/11/03 @ 08:14 PM — (Reply)
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CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY:
DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
The following list is a compilation from Free Republic posters, edited by Free Republic posters. It is dynamic, subject to continuing authentication, editing, correction and expansion. The list seeks to exclude emotion, judgment and rhetoric by using minimal qualifiers and gentler words - such as "contradiction" over the more inflammatory alternative. Please help to keep the list up-to-date, draw your own conclusions, and use it as you wish.
CONVICTIONS
Webster Hubbell Jim McDougal Susan McDougal Gov. Jim Guy Tucker Stephen Smith David Hale Eugene Fitzhugh Charles Matthews Robert W. Palmer Chris Wade Neal T. Ainley Larry Kuca Henry Espy James Lake William J. Marks, Sr. John Latham John Haley Michael Brown (Ron Browns son) Eugene Lum Nora Lum Johnny Chung Tyson Foods Sun Diamond Growers Richard Douglas James Lake Ron Blackley Smith Barney Crop Growers Corporation Brook Keith Mitchell Sr. Five M Farming Enterprises John J Hemmingson Alvarez T. Ferrouillet, Jr. Municipal Healthcare Cooperative Ferrouillet & Ferrouillet Linda Jones Patsy Jo Wooten Allen Wooten Roger Clinton Dan Lasater Bill McCuen Dan Harmon Roger Tamraz (Lebanon by default)
INDICTMENTS AND TARGETS
Ron Brown (indictment was pending at time of death) Herby Branscum Robert Hill Mike Espy Henry Cisneros Jack Williams Archie Schaefer Charlie Trie Maria Hsia Nolanda Hill Bruce Babbit Ron Carey Monica Lewinsky Webster Hubbell, Wife and 2 Others (new charges) Hillary Clinton Bill Clinton Roger Tamraz (France)
PRIVILEGE CLAIMS
Bruce Lindsey Sid Blumenthal Hillary Clinton Secret Service Fosters Law Firm (Hamilton?)
INTIMIDATION, BEATEN OR THREATENED
Gary Johnson, Beaten L.J. Davis, Beaten Russell Welch (Anthrax Poisoning) Larry Nichols, Threats (Several Attempts) Dennis Patrick (Four Assassination Attempts) Linda Tripp, Threats Sally Perdue, Threats
INTIMIDATION, IRS AUDIT
Paula and Stephen Jones David Horowitz, head of Drudge defense fund The American Spectator Billy Dale (Travel Office) Texe Marrs Joseph Farah (World Net Daily) Chuck Harder (Peoples Network Inc.) Western Journalism Center Citizens for a Sound Economy Manufacturing Policy Project (Pat Choate) American Life League Christian Film and Television Commission National Rifle Association National Review American Spectator National Center for Public Policy Research American Policy Center Heritage Foundation American Cause Citizens Against Government Waste Citizens for Honest Government Freedom Alliance Progress and Freedom Foundation Council for National Policy Concerned Women for America Center for Bioethical Reform Free Congress Foundation (warning? Fortress America (warning?)
INTIMIDATION, CHARACTER
Ken Starr and prosecutorial staff - press materials, Carville declared "war," and White House officials "our continuing campaign to destroy Ken Starr" and "stand up to Starr" campaign.
Gary Aldrich Matt Drudge - $30m Sid Blumenthal suit Linda Tripp - Pentagon information to New Yorker David Hale - David Pryor Rep. Barr & Judicial Committee Members - Mulholland Billy Dale (Travel Office) Malicious prosecution on trumped-up charges State Troopers via Buddy Young (Clinton) - (testified to procuring women) Three state troopers testified that they or their families were threatened if they talked.
Dolly Kyle Browning testified her brother, a 1992 Clinton campaign worker, warned "we will destroy you" if she talked.
Jim Robinson - lawsuit threats Chris Emory Bruce Bates Jeff Evans Margie Gray Patricia and Glenn Mendoza (shouted remark at president) William E. Kelly (Chicago) Kent Masterson Brown Walter Gazecki Shelly Davis
INTIMIDATION - TAX EXEMPT STATUS
Christian Coalition Christian Coalition, California chapter San Diego Chapter of Christian Coalition Three chapters of American Family Association Life Legal Defense Foundation Pierce Creek Church (Vestal, NY) Second Baptist Church (Lake Jackson, Texas)
OTHER CRIMINAL ASSOCIATES
Jorge Cabrera Dan Lasater (Pardon by Gov. Clinton) Roger Clinton (half brother Pardon by Gov. Clinton) Arthur Coia Wang Jun
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INVESTIGATIVE RESOURCES
2300 FBI Files improperly acquired (White House) - Marceca testified about these used in White House claims in the firing of the White House Travel Office.
Terry Lenzer and firm (Private/White House)
Jack Palladino and firm (Private/Campaign)
TESTIMONY IN CONTRADICTION TO THE PRESIDENT
Monica Lewisnky (on the tapes) Paula Jones Kathleen Willey Christy Zercher Gennifer Flowers Dolly Kyle Browning Elizabeth Ward Gracen Sally Perdue Pamela Blackard Debra Ballentine Larry Patterson L.D. Brown Roger Perry Danny Ferguson (cuts both ways) David Hale Jim McDougal
APPEARANCE OF QUID PRO QUO
Loral/Hughes - China Missile Guidance Indonesia/Riady - Sweet Coal Webb Hubbell - $700,00 in business in 6 months Elizabeth Ward Gracen - via Harry Thomason Teamsters/DNC - Mutual Financial Larry Lawrence - Buried in Arlington Goverment Jobs for Sexual Favors - Various Testimony Paying for Silence - Jones (via Thompson) . Monica Lewinsky - Jobs/Vernon Jordan Monica Lewinsky - Job/U.N. Bill Richardson Larry Lawrence - Switzerland appointment (wife) Federal contracts to unionized companies (pending)
CLAIMING THE 5TH OR REFUSING TO ANSWER
Susan McDougal Contempt of court Susan Thomases Clinton Advisor, 108 non-answers Webster Hubbell Former Associate Attorney General, 112 non-answers Maggie Williams Hillary Clintons Former Chief of Staff, 96 non-answers Bruce Lindsey, Advisor, 70 non-answers Neil Eggleston, Associate Counsel, 106 non-answers Roger Altman, Deputy Treasury Secretary, 208 non-answers Hillary Clinton, 58 non-answers Bill Clinton, 37 non-answers John Huang Jane Huang Johnny Chung Man Ya Shih David Wang Keshi Zhan Gin F. J. Chen Siuw Moi Lian Yi Chu Mark Middleton Seow Fong Ooi Joseph Landon Bin Yue Jeng Hsiu Chu Lin Larry Wong Duangnet Kronenberg Jen Chin Hsueh Na-chi "Nancy" Lee Chi Rung Wang Hueutsan Huang Jou Sheng Yue Chu Yogesh Ghandi Judy Hsu Man Ho Steven Hwang Jane Dewi Tahir Manlin Foung Gilbert Colon Maria Mapili Yumei Yang Irene Wu Jie Su Hsiao Arapaho/Cheyenne Indians Mike Lin Hsiu Luan Tseng Hsin Chen Shi Zie Pan Huang Mark Jimenez Shu Jen Wu Michael Brown Woody Hwang Charles Intriago Simon Chen Sioeng Fei Man Jessica Elinitiarta Kent La Craig Livingstone
FOREIGN WITNESSES, REFUSING TO ANSWER
Ng Lap Seng Stephen Riady Roy Tirtadji Ken Hsui John Mu cy James Lin Eugene Wu Mochtar Riady Stanley Ho Suma Ching Hai James Riady Daniel Wu Ambrose Hsuing Lay Kweek Wie Li Kwai Fai Bruce Cheung
AVOIDING TESTIMONY BY LEAVING THE COUNTRY
Elizabeth Ward Gracen Pauline Kanchanalak Ming Chen Antonio Pan John H.K. Lee Agus Setiawan Ted Sioeng Dewi Tirto Subandi Tanuwidjaja Soraya Wiriadinata Felix Ma Susanto Tanuwidjaja Suryant Tanuwidjaja Subandi Tanuwidjaja Yanti Ardi Nanny Nitiarta Yopie Elnitiarta Maureen Elnitiarta Sandra Elnitiarta Sundari Elnitiarta
WITNESS THAT LEFT THE COUNTRY, REASON UNKNOWN
Arief Wiriandinata
GOVERNMENT FACILITIES FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES
Lincoln Bedroom v Contributions Queens Bedroom (overflow from Lincoln Bedroom) Trade Mission Seats v Contributions Coffees v Contributions Fund Raising Calls from White House White House Legal Office - Personal Defense Camp David Air Force One Kennedy Center
USE OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES FOR POLITICAL PURPOSE
FBI/Travelgate INS/Pack the Vote 96 Justice/Firing all US Attorneys Presidential Counsel's Office/Personal Work
BYPASS BY EXECUTIVE ORDERS
Assault Weapons Domestic/NSC Greenhouse (executive order threat) American Heritage Rivers Initiative American Heritage Rivers Initiative - Biodiversity Treaty American Heritage Rivers Initiative - Council on Sustainable Development (Agenda 21/92 R o Earth Summit) Designation of 1.7 Million Acres in South Utah Off-limits to Development (Sweet Coal)
STONEWALLS
Billing records missing for 2 years (subpoenaed, crucial to FDIC investigation) appeared in White House living area and turned over several days after statute of limitation expired.
Bruce Lindsey's notes, subpoenaed but not turned over until the day after the Senate's Whitewater Committee authorization expired.
Hillary Clinton and White House lawyer talks claimed as executive privilege, then attorney client privilege, appealed to Supreme Court - ordered turned over.
Existence of diaries subpoenaed in April 97, were "concealed" to October 97 and have not been released. Second set also not disclosed until three weeks before committee's deadline expired.
Existence of videotapes subpoenaed in April 97 (coffees and fund-raisers) was not disclosed but then turned over October '97.
FBI files from 91 (Chinese efforts to influence U.S. elections) were turned over five days after the Senate committee ended its hearings. White House continues to be unresponsive (from June 96 o date) to requests by Rep. Dave McIntosh, R-Ind., concerning its 300,000-name database.
White House tried to delay the Paula Jones case until after Clinton left office, appealed to the Supreme Court, turned down unanimously.
Existence of letters from Willey, subpoenaed by Jones' attorney was denied, but 15 were produced in response to 60 Minutes interview, by personal approval of president.
Lewinsky proffer: Clinton told her that if she were in New York, she might be able to avoid testifying in the Jones lawsuit. Lewinsky proffer: Clinton told her she would not have to turn over the gifts, subpoenaed by Ms. Jones's lawyers, if she did not have them in her possess on.
Lewinsky proffer: Clinton told her that she could explain her White House visits as trips to see Ms. Currie. (Only Currie was on vacation during some of them).
Clinton met with Ms. Currie on a Sunday in January, the day after his deposition in the Paula Jones case, posed and answered a series of questions to guide her through an account of his relationship with Lewinsky. The president placed Betty Currie at the center of all Lewinsky-related matters. Mr. Clinton took Ms. Currie on his recent trip to Africa.
Lewinsky tapes: she claims Clinton directed her to testify falsely in the Jones case. Under oath Ms. Tripp said she was told by Lewinsky to "lie and deny," Lewinsky passed along to Ms. Tripp three pages of "talking points" giving her inst uctions on how to lie under oath.
Clinton/Flowers tape: Clinton says "deny it" Flowers says "The only thing that concerns me . . . at this point, is the state job," to which Clinton replies, "Yeah, I never thought about that. . . . If they ever ask if you've talked to me about it, you can say no." Refusal to allow access to medical records.
SELF CONTRADICTION
The president's videotaped statement to donors that he was raising soft money (illegally) to pay for reelection ads v his previous denials. Publicly pledging cooperation v strategy of stonewalling Jones and Starr and House/Senate Fictitious claim by president that he could not comment on the Lewinsky matter because he was legally required to keep silent.
Clinton in January 98: "You and the American people have a right to get answers. I'd like for you to have more rather than less, sooner rather than later. So we'll work through it as quickly as we can and get all those questions out there to you" v February 98, "I've told the American people what is essential for them to know about this." 's has changed from 'never having met Jones' to admitting that they may have been in the same room alone.
Feb. 22 denial that White House "or any of President Clinton's private attorneys has hired or authorized any private investigator to look into the background of . . . investigators, prosecutors or reporters" v next day Terry Lenzner said that his firm, Investigative Group Inc., had been retained by the law firm representing Mr. Clinton in Mr. Starr's investigation.
Clinton's statement he had "no specific recollection" of his meeting with Ms. Willey, v a later statement that he "has a very clear memory" of the meeting.
Clinton denials in 1992 60 Minutes interview regarding Gennifer Flowers (6 six years later) answering yes under oath.
Clinton's 1994 statement on executive privilege, "It's hard for me to imagine a circumstance in which that would be an appropriate thing for me to do" and counsel (Cutler's) statement that (1994) it is practice "not to assert executive privilege" in circumstances involving communications relating to investigations of personal wrongdoing by government officials executive privilege claims.
A SMOKING GUN?
The president has denied, under oath and in public statements, any sexual relations with Lewinsky. There are 20 hours of tape recordings between Lewinsky and Tripp, which details her affair with the president.
Lewinsky proffer confirms a sexual relationship with him. Lewinsky told others about her encounters with the president. Others claim to have heard Clinton's messages left on her answering machine. The president gave Lewinsky gifts.
Lewinsky sent courier packages to the president. Lewinsky turned the gifts over to Betty Currie, who gave them to Mr. Starr's investigators. Lewinsky made at least 37 visits to the White House after she was reassigned to the Pentagon, and Clinton met with her after she was subpoenaed by Jones.
ANOTHER SMOKING GUN? President's deposition concerning Arkansas McDougal related bank fraud was denial.
Susan McDougal's refusal to answer question "Did the president testify truthfully?" resulted in jail time.
Bank documents found in trunk of abandoned car.
RECENT RESIGNATIONS
George Stephanopoulos David Gergen Dee Dee Myers Dick Morris Robert Reich Ira Magaziner Frederico Pena Harold Ickes Mike Espy Roger Altman Les Aspin Leon Panetta Hazel O'Leary Warren Christopher Lanny Davis Franklin Raines (pending) Richard Riley (rumored) Robert Rubin (rumored) Mike McCurry (rumored) Thomas ("Mack") McLarty (rumored)
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