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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (14926)	5/3/1998 9:43:00 PM
From: MR. PANAMA (I am a PLAYER)	Respond to of 20981

James wait till you go home tomorrow...your wife would have sold your old underwear to a nartural gas utility...millions of barrels of equivalent of oil can be removed though latest separation techniques......hahahahaha

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (14926)	5/4/1998 12:25:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 20981

May 3, 1998 ESSAY / By WILLIAM SAFIRE Who's Squeezing Suzy? WASHINGTON -- Isn't it awful, spin the Clinton cover-uppers, that Webster Hubbell's wife is included in his indictment for tax fraud? How cruel to squeeze a potential witness by threatening his wife. But now, thanks to tapes made on a prison phone clearly marked "monitored," we see how Hillary Clinton, worried about her own overbilling being exposed by a lawsuit by Hubbell against the Rose Law Firm, was first to ratchet up the pressure on Suzy Hubbell. Marsha Scott, the Clinton confidante who doles out patronage from the White House office of Bruce Lindsey, has long been the conduit between the Clintons and the Hubbells. Soon after Ken Starr put Webb in jail for stealing a half-million dollars from Rose Law Firm clients, Ms. Scott arranged for Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to put Suzanna Hubbell back on the Interior payroll for $60,000 a year. "I am the one that bears the brunt of this up here," Mrs. Hubbell tells Webb. "I am the one that has to explain this to Marsha. She says you are not going to get any public support if you open Hillary up to this. Well, by 'public support' I know exactly what she means. I'm not stupid." For those who pretend stupidity, she means $60,000 plus fringes from the taxpaying public. As her husband promises to keep quiet -- "I will not raise those allegations that might open it up to Hillary" -- Suzy responds that Marsha "is ratcheting it up and making it sound like if Webb goes ahead and sues the firm then any support I have at the White House is gone. I'm hearing the squeeze play." She heard correctly. If Webb were to sing about Hillary's "housecleaned" billing records (or what legal sham she may have performed to deceive bank regulators), then Mrs. Hubbell would have to go out and find honest work in the private sector. No zipped lip by Webb, no "public support" for Suzy. Here is where the Whitewater ripoff intersects with the Asian connection. Lindsey and Scott have the job of preventing exposure of Hillary's billings. All three are well acquainted with the big source of overseas Clinton funds: It was from the Lindsey-Scott office suite that Indonesia's James Riady called Associate Attorney General Webb Hubbell on April 13, 1993. Follow the sequence of payment to Hubbell and silence from Hubbell about Hillary a year later, with the Feds hot on the disgraced Arkansan's trail: On June 21 and 23, 1994, records show Riady saw Clinton twice in the White House and also visited Hubbell twice. On June 27, Riady's firm in Hong Kong paid Hubbell $100,000. On that Fourth of July, Hubbell spent the weekend at Camp David with Clinton and now asks us to believe he lied to his closest friend about Rose Law Firm billings. We know that big money was paid for little work, and that Bill Clinton was on the scene before, during and after the money passed. Hubbell's testimony could bring the President down in a heartbeat. But after recommending a light sentence in return for promised cooperation, the prosecutor was outbid; as Hubbell told his lawyer on the open phone, answers to such questions lead him "down the slope." "Safire had a piece," he told his lawyer on Oct. 10, 1996, three days after his Asian connection was revealed in this space. "He's got me making a quarter of a million dollars, which was real interesting. I don't know where he got that . . . next thing you know, I'll be on the grassy knoll." Two days later, Hubbell lied to Marsha Scott: "They were saying I made a lot of money, which I wish I had." She replied, "They said about $250,000, and I said that's off by a few zeroes." I was off, all right, understating the sum sprinkled on this crook by about $350,000 -- $100,000 from Riady and over a half-million from other hush-a-bye babies, not including Lindsey's "public support" to Mrs. Hubbell. The tapes make clear that Hillary Clinton -- through Lindsey and Scott -- put the squeeze on this unfortunate woman to silence her husband. That triggered turnabout time, as Ken Starr now counter-squeezes to get Webb Hubbell to tell the truth. nytimes.com