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To: Terry Whitman who wrote (20968)	2/22/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: Cynic 2005	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86076

I SURE HOPE BILL'S NO RAPIST By STEVE DUNLEAVY IF I were falsely accused of rape - whether I were Bill Clinton, Prince Charles or Joey Bullets from Brooklyn - I would move like a cougar. I would whisk my false accuser before a court with such haste, I'd break the speed limit. Addressing this ugly allegation yesterday on Fox News Channel, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R.-Ill) said: "I don't know whether it [the allegation against Clinton] is founded or not. That's something Attorney General Janet Reno should look at for foundation." Janet Reno? She's too busy trying to nail independent counsel Kenneth Starr to concern herself with mere allegations of rape. Now, if somebody doesn't kill you, the next worse thing to rape itself is being falsely accused of rape. Ask William Kennedy Smith. Such a shocking allegation should be nipped in the bud. If, as Clinton lawyer David Kendall says with conviction, the allegations are completely false, the option is clear. Punish Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who made the charges, with great severity. You don't need Janet Reno to investigate. Take the fight to Juanita Broaddrick now. Accuse her of slander and malicious mischief and sue her into oblivion. Just tell us, Mr. President: I didn't rape that woman, Juanita Broaddrick. I interviewed Broaddrick on Friday, after Dorothy Rabinowitz of The Wall Street Journal ran a detailed and very unsettling story recounting her allegations of forced sex and being badly bitten on the lip. Broaddrick told me Clinton was "a cold bastard who might have been killed [in retribution] if he had not been governor of Arkansas." John McLaughlin of the "McLaughlin Group" asked yesterday whether there is a violent criminal in the White House. Eleanor Clift of Newsweek, a resident liberal, replied: "You might have proved him to be a cad. You're not going to prove he's a violent criminal ... These allegations go back more than 20 years." Clinton defenders may well ask why now, after 20 years, is Broaddrick going public? First, Broaddrick gave a detailed interview to NBC in January on the allegations and for some reason it hasn't seen air. Second, at the time of the alleged assault, Broaddrick, a volunteer for Clinton's successful campaign for governor, was - and still is - a highly successful owner of a nursing home who would have been scandalized and financially harmed by accusing Arkansas' then-attorney general of rape. Nursing homes also rely on state aid. Third, I refer to something an FBI investigator once said to me: "Half of the rapes that are reported never happened, and half the rapes that do happen are never reported." Sadly, I have known women who have been raped who would never come forward because of the obvious trauma. Juan Williams, a prestigious liberal commentator, said about the allegations: "Where is Mrs. Clinton on this? ... It is something you would think feminists would be outraged about." Britt Hume of Fox television said, "This is far uglier than anything we have ever heard." Now Joe Lockhart, White House press spokesman, slammed the original Wall Street Journal article by saying one of the most respected publications in the world is "not an important newspaper" because it has called Bill Clinton in the past a drug smuggler and murderer. What is Lockhart smoking? John Fund of The Wall Street Journal laughed off the reference as ludicrous, and on CNN addressed the NBC silence: "If it [the rape allegation] was good enough for NBC to report it without corroboration on March 28 of last year, why not now - when they have actually spoken to Mrs. Broaddrick?" For Bill Clinton's sake, I hope he is proved innocent. In 1989, under Bill Clinton's stewardship, an Arkansas man named Wayne Dumond was convicted in a highly controversial case of raping a relative of Bill Clinton. Despite overwhelming evidence that Dumond was innocent, Clinton, as governor, refused to review the case and let stand a 50-year sentence which Dumond is still serving. There would be more. Before going to jail, Dumond almost bled to death after two masked intruders castrated him. Rapists are not treated kindly in Arkansas. nypostonline.com