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

To: uu who wrote (11902)	3/2/1999 10:22:00 PM
From: FastC6	Respond to of 13994

Addi I really don't care who wrote it. It is a powerful piece of literature that even you can't dispute..... (of course that is based on the assumption that you do have some sort of moral fiber in your makeup). . .

To: uu who wrote (11902)	3/3/1999 9:50:00 AM
From: JBL	Respond to of 13994

You can try your wit on this one too : February 24, 1999 Web posted at: 9:50 PM EST (0250 GMT) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A group of Canadians who say they were infected with the AIDS virus and hepatitis C from imported U.S. blood in the early 1980s said on Wednesday they plan to sue the United States, and perhaps even President Bill Clinton. They say the blood was taken from inmates at prisons in Louisiana and Arkansas during the time that Clinton was Arkansas governor and sold not just to Canada but to other countries. They are also asking the Justice Department to investigate whether prison and health officials acted criminally in failing to screen the blood and warn of its source. "It is time we hold those responsible for the collection and distribution of prison blood and plasma in the U.S. that was known to be contaminated with hepatitis C and was shipped to Canada and elsewhere," Michael McCarthy, a Canadian who says he is infected with HIV and hepatitis, told a news conference. The group of 400 Canadians filed a C$1 billion class-action claim against the Canadian government and two companies in late January and vowed then to expand their case over the border. David Harvey, lead Canadian attorney for the group, said they had not decided just who to sue or on what grounds. "We are putting together a lawsuit to parallel what we are doing in Canada," he said. It will focus on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates blood products, as well as authorities in Louisiana and Arkansas. The FDA declined comment. But it has said in the past that there was no way to know in the early 1980s that the blood was contaminated. The group said the prisoners sold their blood, which was collected by an Arkansas company called Health Management Associates Inc., which sold some blood to Toronto-based Connaught Laboratories. "From there, the plasma was pooled and turned into a special blood product and then sent to the Canadian Red Cross, which distributed it to thousands of haemophiliacs," the group said in a statement. Haemophiliacs' blood fails to clot properly and they need regular infusions of blood products. In 1982 the FDA advised blood distributors not to use blood collected in prisons, and closed the Cummins blood centre in 1984 because of a lack of control, but allowed it to reopen later. Clinton was governor of Arkansas at the time, and the group says there is evidence he knew what was going on. Harvey said the group would consider adding his name to any lawsuit. The Canadians are joining with U.S. haemophiliacs who have been asking for Justice Department action for years. They say between them they have documents proving officials knew the prison blood was tainted with some kind of virus but allowed its collection and sale. "We believe the documents prove the federal codes ... were broken and that criminal acts took place," Dana Kuhn, a member of the U.S. group who has HIV, said. "For the past seven years the government has ignored our requests." Harvey said even though HIV had not been clearly identified, and hepatitis C was not identified until 1989, officials should have known the blood was contaminated. He said health officials knew there was some kind of virus circulating in people with tattoos, people who had homosexual sex, and intravenous drug users. Charges have been filed against health officials in France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Japan over tainted blood. In France three ministers, including former prime minister Laurent Fabius, are accused of manslaughter. "Why is the United States different from Europe?" Harvey asked. Copyright 1999 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

To: uu who wrote (11902)	3/3/1999 11:41:00 PM
From: DD™	Respond to of 13994

FROM MONICA'S STORY: CLINTON'S SECRET EXISTNECE EXCERPT: For all his life, the president said, he had lived a secret existence, a life filled with lies and subterfuge. As a little boy he had lied to his parents, and, even though he was a smart kid and knew the consequences of his actions, he had maintained that hidden life, safe in the knowledge that no one knew about it, knew the true Bill Clinton. DD

To: uu who wrote (11902)	3/5/1999 12:49:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

Your excusals of WJC staining the carpet in the Oval Office with an underling Federal employee are pathetic. You are a "former hard core Republican" like Adolf Hitler was a former nun.

To: uu who wrote (11902)	3/6/1999 7:53:00 PM
From: DD™	Respond to of 13994

* GEORGE STEP-ON-ALL-OF-US TURNS ON SLICK: "I'VE BEEN DUPED" * dailynews.yahoo.com DD

To: uu who wrote (11902)	3/9/1999 2:49:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

Corrupt Clinton is being abandoned by fellow rats - that is, those not totally devoid of conscience: Clinton aides defect, complain of betrayal WASHINGTON, March 9 (AFP) - White House aides are jumping ship as President Bill Clinton's former trusted lieutenants raise a chorus of discontent about the man who once so inspired them. "If I knew everything then that I know now, of course I wouldn't have worked for him," ex-Clinton spokesman and former ardent loyalist George Stephanopoulos, writes in a new tell-all book. Dee Dee Myers, another former White House spokeswoman, stopped defending Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky affair after he confessed to the tryst last August and she said on CNN Monday she was alarmed by the new rape charges against the president. Juanita Broaddrick's recent claim Clinton sexually assaulted her in 1978 has been the last straw for many at the White House who endured a grim year battling the Lewinsky scandal. Clinton's former media consultant, David Gergen, is insisting the charges be taken seriously and demands the president speak to them himself instead of hiding behind his lawyers' denials. Myers' replacement, Mike McCurry, who left the White House in October, is now blasting Clinton's behavior as "exasperatingly stupid" and the betrayal of his aides as "flabbergasting." "Frankly, the president misled me ... so I came here and misled you too on occasion," he told the White House press corps upon his departure. McCurry also told George Magazine this month he knows of "no one who is blindly loyal to Bill Clinton." Indeed, Stephanopoulos predicts in his book, "All Too Human, A Political Education," there will be more departures by disgruntled aides now that Clinton has been acquitted by the Senate. "In some ways, the battle against impeachment was the glue that was holding a lot of the White House together, people will now leave," he said. Stephanopoulos, who has been criticized by his former colleagues for taking a job as a news analyst with ABC television, added that the man he helped win the presidency will not allow his name to be spoken in his presence. The latest defection came last week, when Clinton's longtime political advisor Paul Begala left for a teaching post, following the recent resignation of White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles. Dick Morris, who was credited with Clinton's comeback after the 1994 Republican congressional takeover, wrote an expose of intimate details about the president and -- perhaps worse -- his reliance on polls to determine every policy move. As with Stephanopoulos, current White House aides have denounced Morris, who was forced to resign over his own sex scandal at the height of the 1996 elections. Indeed, Clinton is the most analyzed president in US history and has had more books written about him than any of this predecessors. The latest penned by none other than Lewinsky herself leaves little to the imagination about Clinton's most private inclinations. But political analyst Stephen Hess says given the extent of his troubles, Clinton has managed to keep his entourage relatively under control. "Given that this is a president of the United States who has admitted lying to the American people and having an extramarital affair in the Oval Office, I would say the record of loyalty to him is really quite remarkable," he said. Aides say Clinton is too busy governing to read the books or watch the interviews by his erstwhile intimates asia.yahoo.com