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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (7574)	10/1/1998 2:47:00 PM
From: Bill Grant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Hillary's building herself quite a record. I still think she may be indicted for either Whitewater or Travelgate/Filegate.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (7574)	10/1/1998 4:56:00 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 13994

Nice link, Zoltan; I thought the information on the Kathleen Willey incident was more significant, though... Imagine some guy taking the fifth on the dead cat and slashed tires incident... One good link deserves more, so here are some interesting article from the LA Times: Of course the First Lady in a state of denial. Can you spell "enabler?" Clinton's Denial Believed by First Lady, Friends Say ''He told her a whopper, and she believed it.'' latimes.com Some notes on the Reaganization of Clinton's memory: President's Memory Lapses Raise Eyebrows in Capital One longtime advisor, who spoke on the condition that he not be named, scoffed at the notion of Clinton's fading recall. "I've never met anybody with a better memory for names, dates, places and facts," the advisor said. "This guy has a phenomenal memory." Even Lewinsky testified that, early in her relationship with Clinton, she was startled when he rattled off her home and work telephone numbers from memory. One of Clinton's closest confidants, Washington power broker Vernon E. Jordan Jr., told the same grand jury that the president possesses "an extraordinary memory, one of the greatest memories" that he's ever seen in a politician. latimes.com Find out if you can get away with what the Prez did: (Not.) No Impeachment for Lower-Level Philanderers; Pink Slip, Maybe Senior Executive Fired in Similar Case In recent cases, civil servants have been held to a higher standard than the public seems to be applying to Clinton's fling with Monica S. Lewinsky. In 1992, a senior civilian executive in the Army with 23 years of unblemished service was fired for a consensual adulterous affair with a subordinate. Like Clinton, records show, he argued that it was nobody else's business. Like House Republicans, his superiors were antagonized by his unwillingness to acknowledge a personal failing. ... He appealed to the Merit Systems Protection Board, arguing that the relationship was private and that everybody used e-mail for personal correspondence. The board came down against him, and its verdict was upheld by a federal court. ''The appellant still does not understand the serious nature of his misconduct,'' the board ruled in June 1993. ''He does not appear to understand that he is held to a higher standard because of his [senior executive] status.'' Given his duties as a personnel officer, he ''should have known better.'' The Supreme Court has left very little room for government employees to wiggle out of misconduct charges through artful deception. Even a simple denial (such as Clinton's ''I did not have sexual relations with that woman'') can get a prevaricator in trouble. ''An employee owes a duty of honesty to his own agency and the agency has a right to expect that,'' said lawyer Peter Broida, author of textbooks on government labor law. ''If you used a government car to go buy a six-pack of beer, it might earn you a suspension. But if you lied about it, the agency might fire you.'' latimes.com -- Carl

To: Zoltan! who wrote (7574)	10/1/1998 5:34:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 13994

Joseph Farah Between the Lines Monica feared for her life While the Monica Lewinsky scandal is obscuring far greater crimes of the Clinton administration, there are many elements of this affair that serve to raise the deeper questions Congress should be facing in any inquiry of impeachment. The latest development in the story has Lewinsky telling Linda Tripp on tape that "I wouldn't cross these people for fear of my life.'' For fear of her life. Now, why would a former White House intern once amorously attached to the president of the United States fear for her life if she crossed "these people"? Obviously, Monica Lewinsky understands the way things work in the Clinton White House better than most Americans. That's what's so scary about this statement -- especially when you consider the long trail of unexplained deaths associated with Bill Clinton. Others have expressed similar concerns. I think of Luther "Jerry" Parks, the former head of security for Clinton, who moonlighted by keeping tabs on the would-be president's comings and goings for Hillary. He kept incriminating photos and tapes of Clinton. When Vincent Foster turned up dead in Fort Marcy Park in 1993, Parks told his wife he was "a dead man." A few weeks later, he was gunned down -- execution-style -- on the streets outside Little Rock. I think of Jim McDougal, the man who started the Whitewater scandal by implicating Clinton in his illegal banking and real estate dealings. He said last year he didn't expect to leave prison alive. Sure enough, he died under mysterious circumstances in a Texas facility a few months later. Meanwhile, former Clinton adviser Dick Morris -- no Clinton-basher and hardly a member of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" -- testified before Kenneth Starr's grand jury that the White House had mounted a "secret police operation to go around and intimidate women'' who may have been involved with the president. He has written about this in his column in the New York Post, as well. I have some first-hand experience with the Clinton intimidation machine myself. After being named conspicuously to official White House enemies lists in 1994 and 1995, my non-profit, First Amendment-protected organization was targeted for a political audit in 1996. Paula Jones knows about that kind of intimidation, too. But fear for your life? Is that a realistic expectation with this White House? Or was it merely rhetorical overkill from a naive, young former White House staffer? Let's think about the Paula Jones case, where all this started. One of Jones' star witnesses, Kathy Ferguson, was found with a bullet in her head. It was ruled a suicide. Yet the shot entered the back and side of her head in a way that would raise suspicions anywhere but in Arkansas. Worse yet, her suspicious boyfriend, an Arkansas state trooper who believed Ferguson had been murdered, was found draped over her grave a month later with a bullet in the back of his head. That, too, was ruled a suicide. Then, of course, there's another former White House intern, Mary Mahoney, who was murdered -- execution-style -- one night in the Georgetown Starbucks cafe she managed. Five shots were fired into her body. Two other employees were killed with one shot each. No neighbors heard any shots fired, suggesting that silencers may have been used. The cash register was full of money that was left untouched. Washington police have never been able to solve this triple murder in a posh section of the nation's capital. I have reports from sources close to Lewinsky quoting her as saying she feared ending up like "Caity" Mahoney. Who knows why Mahoney died? Who knows what she knew? She is reported to be quite an attractive young woman who worked in the White House around the same time as Lewinsky. Yet, no one -- not Kenneth Starr, not Congress, nor any other investigative agency in government or the press -- has bothered to look into this suspicious murder. I don't know for sure if the Clinton administration really poses a threat to anyone's life. But I do know that it is a regime that has no respect for civil liberties and one that has the stench of death all around it. It's no wonder Monica Lewinsky feared for her life -- and probably still does.