Watergate versus Whitewater
Brutish, Solitary, Poor, Nasty & Short
"Watergate versus Whitewater" President Clinton and his paid political defenders naturally deny it, but WATERGATE the similarities between Watergate and Whitewater are striking. In fact, President Nixon was done in for a...
...the notes of the White House lawyer and former Rose Law Firm partner suggesting that the Rose files be "vacuumed...
...They also possess a bewildering proclivity not only to document their own crimes, but to unearth their scribblings at the most awkward and embarrassing intervals and locations...
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...Clinton's conversations with Susan Thomases about Vince Foster's files on the night of his death to ensure the FBI and Justice Department were hampered in their investigation...
...and false or misleading testimony in duly instituted judicial and congressional proceedings...
...President and Mrs...
...1503 and 1505, which prohibit obstruction of justice, appeared on the list in 1994 and remain relevant to an ever-growing catalogue of dubious Clinton conduct...
...The combination of ham-handed Arkansas graft and crafty New York lawyers becomes a poisonous brew, indeed, when accompanied by compulsive note-takers and self-incriminating memoir writers whose leavings reappear every time another White House box is opened...
...Park Service...
...attempts to suse the Resolution ast Corporation in der to tip off targets criminal referrals...
...Clinton's sworn statement to the Resolution Trust Corporation that she did only "minimal" legal work for Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association...
...The comparison may be particularly illuminating for Paul Sarbanes, once a member of that committee who voted to impeach Richard Nixon, and now a member of the Senate Whitewater panel, struggling to protect stonewalling White House witnesses...
...Bernard Nussbaum's interdiction of the FBI and the Justice Department investigators to prevent them from seeing Vince Foster's files...
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...l]nterfering or endeavoring to interfere with the conduct of investigations by the Department of Justice of the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of Watergate Special Prosecution Force, and Congressional Committees...
...But our president apparently did not read our law firm's list of relevant crimes...
...Among others: Mrs...
...SOLITARY, POOR, NASTY, BRUTISH & SHORT April 199 6 • The American Spectator 40 Two years ago we became intrigued by the assertions on behalf of President and Mrs...
...As noted in the February 1994 TAS, Solitary Poor found a staggering collection — potential violations of seventeen separate federal criminal statutes, and eight additional Arkansas statutes, by the Clintons and their cronies...
...efforts to pressure career investigators to avoid naming the Clintons in criminal referrals...
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...ID]isseminating information received from officers of the Department of Justice of the United States to subjects of investigation conducted by lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States, for the purpose of aiding am assisting such subjects in their attempts it avoid criminal liability...
...Many of the statutes identified two years ago are still relevant today...
...It turns out that Webb got only twenty-one months—but for a crime that in February 1994 had not yet even surfaced...
...the administration's delay in responding (sometimes for years) or failure to respond fully to subpoenas from congressional committees and the Independent Counsel...
...Treasury General Counsel Jean Han-son's September 1993 report to Bernard Nussbaum and White House lawyer Cliff Sloan about criminal referrals that named the Clintons, Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, and Seth Ward, Webb Hubbell's father-in-law...
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...Clinton's sworn statements, and about which she now has no memory at all...
...America has now been treated to the spectacle of the President of the United States publicly sniveling about impending bankruptcy at the hands of his $400 an hour lawyers, while privately drawing down $900,000 for attorneys fees from a special, undisclosed "sex harassment" insurance policy issued by two spectacularly docile insurance companies...
...Conclusion This chart will probably never be complete...
...Clinton's sworn statement—despite billing records to the contrary—that she did no work on James McDougal's Castle Grande project...
...The criminal exposure reflected in the firm's analysis was quite impressive: Bill Clinton faced a possibility of 178 years in prison, while Webb Hubbell faced four decades...
...Nixon "has failed without lawful cause or excuse to produce papers and things as directed by duly authorized subpoenas issued by the Committee on the.Judiciary of the House of Representatives...and willfully disobeyed such subpoenas...
...The American Spectator • April 1996 43...
...Just recently, Bill Clinton audaciously informed an anesthetized Los Angeles Times audience that no "single, solitary soul" had accused him or his wife of any illegal conduct "in the White House, in the presidential campaign, or in the governor's office...
...instructing employees to "vacuum" the Rose Law Firm files "quietly...
...Surely it is only a matter of time before White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry announces that certain previous White House pronouncements are "inoperable: 41 Selected Watergate Allegations Contained in the Articles of Impeachment Against Richard Nixon Adopted by the House Judiciary Committee "Making false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized investigative employees of the United States...
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...Clinton's repeated attempts to represent a Resolution Trust Corporation report as "exonerating" them from any wrongdoing in connection with Madison Guaranty, even though the report's authors did not have access to such materials as the Rose Law Firm billing records and the report itself specifically states that it does not "exonerate anyone " Nixon "has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposes not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner...
...President Clinton's suspiciously timed meeting one week later with Arkansas Gov...
...You will recall that we asked our legal counsel, the firm of Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish & Short, to look into the facts and render a report...
...In fact, President Nixon was done in for a whole lot less...
...William Kennedy's blatant hijacking of the FBI in an attempt to justify the travel office firings...
...1621, didn't even make the list...
...1001, which prohibits false or misleading statements in connection with Justice Department investigations, and The American Spectator • April 199 6 18 U.S.C...
...Withholding the Rose Law Firm billing records from congressional committees and Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr...
...Maggie Williams's removal of files from Vince Foster's office on the night of his death...
...William Kennedy's threatened use of the Internal Revenue Service in order to intimidate the FBI in connection with the Travel Office firings, followed two days later by a "coincidental" IRS audit of UltrAir, a small charter airline that handled White House business...
...and the Watkins memorandum describing the living hell that would be visited on him by HRC if he did not immediately fire the White House travel office employees, contrary to Mrs...
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...Clinton that their various smoldering scandals involved no violations of any criminal laws...
...withholding and spiriting away files from Vince Foster's office on the night of his death...
...before congressional committees...
...A]pproving, condoning, acquiescing in, and counseling witnesses with respect to the giving of false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized in- vestigative officers and employees of the United States...
...In the same interview, President Clinton denied similarities between Whitewater and Watergate...
...W]itho!ding relevant and material evidence or information from lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States...
...The Clintons and their Arkansas claque continue to add potential crimes to their ledger at a frenzied pace...
...The Clinton administration's refusal to comply with two subpoenas for William Kennedy's notes issued by the Senate's Special committee to investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and related matters, compelling the Senate to vote to bring a civil enforcement action...
...For example, 18 U.S.C...
...Jim Guy Tucker, now under indictment by the Independent Counsel...
...We know, of course, that those articles of impeachment were thoughtfully conceived—the committee that prepared them had on its staff a young woman who was destined to become one of the nation's brightest lawyers: Hillary Rodham...
...Clinton's role in the firings or William Kennedy's early attempts to influence the FBI...
...Bernard Nussurn's efforts to mise the FBI and Justice !partment to make it pear that Vince Fos-•'s death was being vestigated indepenntly and without inference...
...Clinton's amnesiac response to written questions about events immediately following Vince Foster's death...
...Efforts by White House and Treasury Department officia:s to learn about impending RTC criminal referrals to provide numerous "heads-ups" to persons mentioned in such investigations, to wit, the Clintons...
...Not even the Nixon administration thought to run an insurance scam...
...04 Undeavoring to misthe Central nce Agency, an ency of the United rtes...
...the White House's repeated refusal to produce documents to the Department of Justice and other investigative agencies such as the U.S...
...the first lady's inability to recall her many hours of work on James McDougal's Castle Grande project, a sham land deal that helped Seth Ward, Webb Hubbell's father-in-law, receive a $1.5 million loan for which he was not personally liable...
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...That prompted us to ask our counsel to compare the recent allegations concerning the Clintons and their circle with the allegations against Richard Nixon contained in the articles of impeachment adopted by the House Judiciary committee...
...It makes you wonder what else is out there that has so far gone unreported...
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...The wholesale tactical memory loss of Susan Thomases, Maggie Williams, Bruce Lindsey, et al...
...Many more statutes could easily be added: before the Clintons began receiving subpoenas, for example, the federal perjury statute, 18 U.S.C...
...Clinton's sworn statement to General Accounting Office investigators that she had "no role" in the decision to fire White House Travel Office employees...
...Iliam Kennedy's mise of the FBI to justithe Travel Office ngs...
...the recent disclosure (complete with expletives deleted) of White House efforts to have an unidentified New York lawyer meet with the lovely Beverly Bassett Schaffer, appointed Arkansas securities commissioner by thenGovemor linton, to "make s e r story is OK" abou contacts with Hil ton...
...The White House's publication of the incomplete and factually inaccurate "internal review" of the Travel Office firings which, among other things, did not identify Mrs...
...efforts by the White House Counsel's office to deter tents of Adminis gatory the conusiness a investi42 Ap r i / 1996 • The American Spectator Selected Whitewater Allegations Contained in Recent Press Reports About the Clinton Administration "Making or causing to be made false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States into believing that a thorough and complete investigation had been conducted with respect to allegations of misconduct on the part of personnel of the executive branch of the United States...and that there was no involvement of such personnel in such misconduct...
...Making false or misleading statements to the FBI and congressional investigators...
...delays in producing documents to congressional committees and Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr...
...There has, of course, been a recent flood of new evidence: the mysterious "discovery" (even the Washington Post put "discovery" in quotes) of the "missing" Rose Law Firm billing records in a room adjacent to the first lady's office in the White House living quarters...
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...As the following chart reveals, the similarities between Whitewater and Watergate are in fact rather astonishing...
Vol. 29 • April 1996 • No. 4
