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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (2284)	8/20/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: Doughboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

JLA-- Hey waitaminnit. Now you're really being a weasel. Your first accusation was that I made everything up and that I ought to be "ashamed." Are you now willing to concede that your accusation was wrong and that I'm owed an apology? We can disagree on whether there's a conspiracy or not, but you were flat-out wrong on the facts. You're everything that you accuse Bill of being: Liar, Hypocrite, and Blow-hard.

To: jlallen who wrote (2284)	8/20/1998 2:53:00 PM
From: Doughboy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13994

Re: Dozens of Convictions That's a load of hooey, and just proves my point. Who are the people that have been indicted and convicted: James McDougal, David Hale, Jim Guy Tucker, Susan McDougal, and other low profile players in Arkansas land dealing. Not a single one whom was a White House official. Not a single conviction for some action that the President was involved in. Not a single case involving something that's happened during the last decade or so. This is a true witch hunt. You get anything you can possibly get on the Clintons' friends and hope that they roll over. The closest thing you can point to that is an actual government conviction is Webb Hubbell, who was Dep. Attorney General at the time he was put under investigation. Did Starr get him for taking bribes? illegal campaign contributions? abuse of his office? No. He got him for overbilling a few clients at his old law firm about 5 years earlier and for evading taxes. I did not think much of Webb Hubbell's character until I heard him say (after Starr re-indicted him for the same tax evasion charges--charges that were eventually thrown out of court), "you can indict my wife, you can indict my dog but I'm still not going to lie about the President." If after all these years and 60 million dollars, all you get are some convictions for phony land deals and tax evasion, and the shocking revelation that the President got a BJ in the kitchen from Monica, then I think it's about time to close up shop. Ironically, the money lost by the government in the McDougal's Whitewater scam that started this all (what was it? $2 million?) will be dwarfed by the millions and millions of dollars that was spent by the Independent counsel and the Congress to investigate it.