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ARKANSAS CONNECTIONS: A Time Lineof the Clinton Years

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Oct. 1998Sam Smith

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The media tried to turn theClinton story
into Camelot II.
Just the truth would havemade life easier
for all of us.
And a much better tale aswell.

BySamSmith

COPYRIGHT 1998THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW

1950s

When Bill Clinton is 7, his family moves from Hope, Arkansas,to the long-time mob resort of Hot Springs, AR. Here Al Capone is saidto have had permanent rights to suite 443 of the Arlington Hotel. Clinton'sstepfather is a gun-brandishing, alcoholic who loses his Buick franchisethrough mismanagement and his own pilfering. He physically abuses his family,including the young Bill. His mother is a heavy gambler with mob ties.According to FBI and local police officials, his Uncle Raymond -- to whomyoung Bill turns for wisdom and support -- is a colorful car dealer, slotmachine owner and gambling operator, who thrives on the fault line of criminality(except when his house is firebombed). Uncle Raymond's gambling operationsare franchised by the Marcello organization of New Orleans.

1960s

A federal investigation concludes that Hot Springs hasthe largest illegal gambling operations in the United States.

Clinton goes to Georgetown University where he finds amentor in Professor Carroll Quigley. Quigley writes: 'That the two politicalparties should represent opposed ideals and policies. . . is a foolishidea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical . . .The policiesthat are vital and necessary for America are no longer subjects of significantdisagreement, but are disputable only in detail, procedure, priority, ormethod. '

Bill Clinton, according to several agency sources interviewedby biographer Roger Morris, works as a CIA informer while briefly and erraticallya Rhodes Scholar in England. Although without visible means of support,he travels around Europe and the Soviet Union, staying at the ritziesthotel in Moscow. During this period the US government is using well educatedassets such as Clinton as part of Operation Chaos, a major attempt to breakstudent resistance to the war and the draft.

Bill Clinton and his friend Jim McDougal get a job inthe office of Senator J. William Fulbright. The Washington Post will laterwrite, 'McDougal was interested in making money while Clinton was obsessedwith political stature.'

After becoming involved in politics, Wellesley graduateHillary Rodham orders her senior thesis sealed from public view.

1974

Uncle Raymond gets Bill Clinton a $10,000 loan and providessome free houses from which he can run his campaign for Congress. Raymond'sdrinking buddy, druggist and backroom gambling operator, Gabe Crawford,offers his private plane. Clinton loses.

1976

Bill Clinton is elected attorney general of Arkansas.

1977

Two Indonesian billionaires come to Arkansas. MochtarRiady and Liem Sioe Liong are close to Suharto. Riady is looking for anAmerican bank to buy.

Riady's agent is Jackson Stephens, who also brokers thearrival of BCCI to this country and steers BCCI's founder, Hassan Abedi,to Bert Lance.

Apparently because of pressure from Indonesia, Riady withdrawshis bid to buy Lance's 30% share of the National Bank of Georgia. Instead,a BCCI front man buys the shares and Abedi moves to secretly take overFirst American Bankshares -- later the subject of the only BCCI-connectedscandal to be prosecuted in the US.

Riady's teen-age son is taken on as an intern by StephensInc. He later says he was 'sponsored' by Bill Clinton.

1978

Clinton is elected governor.

The Clintons and McDougals buy land in the Ozarks for$203,000 with mostly borrowed funds. The Clintons get 50% interest withno cash down. The plot, known as Whitewater, is fifty miles from the nearestgrocery store. The Washington Post will report later that some purchasersof lots, many of them retirees, 'put up houses or cabins, others sleptin vans or tents, hoping to be able to live off the land.' More than halfof the purchasers will lose their plots thanks to the sleazy form of financingused.

Two months after commencing the Whitewater scam, HillaryClinton invests $1,000 in cattle futures. Within a few days she has a $5,000profit. Before bailing out she earns nearly $100,000 on her investment.Many years later, several economists will calculate that the chances ofearning such returns legally were one in 250 million.

Governor Clinton appoints Jim McDougal an economic developmentadvisor.

Roger Clinton develops a four-gram a day cocaine habit,getting his stuff from New York and Medellin suppliers, based (as one middlemanwill later testify) on 'who is brother was.'

More than a few Little Rock insiders believe Hillary Clintonis having an affair with Vince Foster.

1980s

According to later sworn testimony by Arkansas trooperLarry Patterson, Governor Clinton has oral sex with a woman in a car parkedoutside Chelsea Clinton's elementary school.

Governor Clinton appoints Web Hubbell to head a new stateethics commission. First task: to weaken ethics legislation currently underconsideration by exempting the governor from some of its most rigorousprovisions.

Arkansas becomes a major center of gun-running, drugsand money laundering. The IRS warns other law enforcement agencies of thestate's 'enticing climate.' According to Clinton biographer Roger Morris,operatives go into banks with duffel bags full of cash, which bank officersthen distribute to tellers in sums under $10,000 so they don't have toreport the transaction.

Sharlene Wilson, according to investigative reporter AmbroseEvans-Pritchard, flies cocaine from Mena to a pickup point in Texas. Otherdrugs, she and others say, are stuffed into chickens for shipping aroundthe country. Wilson also serves as 'the lady with the snow' at 'toga parties'attended, she reports, by Bill Clinton.

Hillary Clinton makes a $44,000 profit on a $2,000 investmentin a cellular phone franchise deal that involves taking advantage of theFCC's preference for locals, minorities and women. The franchise is almostimmediately flipped to the cellular giant, McCaw.

A drug pilot brings a Cessna 210 full of cocaine intoeastern Arkansas where he is met by his pick-up: a state trooper in a markedpolice car. 'Arkansas,' the pilot will recall years later, 'was a verygood place to load and unload.'

According to his wife, security operative Jerry Parksdelivers large sums of money from Mena airport to Vince Foster at a K-Martparking lot. Mrs. Parks discovers this when she opens her car trunk oneday and finds so much cash that she has to sit on the trunk to close itagain. She asks her husband whether he is dealing drugs, and he allegedlyexplains that Foster paid him $1,000 for each trip he took to Mena. Parkssaid he didn't 'know what they were doing, and he didn't care to know.He told me to forget what I'd seen.'. . . .Later Evans-Pritchard will write,'Foster was using him as a kind of operative to collect sensitive informationon things and do sensitive jobs. Some of this appears to have been doneon behalf of Hillary Clinton. . . Foster told him that Hillary wanted itdone. Now, my understanding . . . is that she wanted to know how vulnerablehe would be in a presidential race on the question of -- how shall I putit? -- his appetites.'

Hillary Clinton quietly lobbies on behalf of the Contrasand against groups and individuals opposing them.

The husband of a Little Rock attorney warns Clinton atthe Democratic Convention that if he approaches his wife again, he'll killhim. Clinton apologizes and agrees to leave the woman alone.

Bill Clinton loses re-election as governor. He will wintwo years later.

1981

Hillary Clinton writes Jim McDougal: 'If Reagonomics worksat all, Whitewater could become the Western Hemisphere's Mecca.'

1982

Major drug trafficker Barry Seal, under pressure fromthe Louisiana cops, relocates his operations to Mena, Arkansas.

A DEA report uncovered by Evans-Pritchard will cite aninformant claiming that a key Arkansas figure and backer of Clinton 'smugglescocaine from Colombia, South America, inside race horses to Hot Springs.'

1983

Mochtar Riady forms Lippo Finance & Investment inLittle Rock. A non-citizen, Riady hires Carter's former SBA director, VernonWeaver, to chair the firm. The launch is accomplished with the aid of a$2 million loan guaranteed by the SBA. Weaver uses Governor Clinton asa character reference to help get the loan guarantee. First loan goes toLittle Rock Chinese restaurant owner Charlie Trie.

State regulators warn McDougal's Madison Guarantee S&Lto stop making imprudent loans. Gov. Clinton is also warned of the problembut takes no action.

According to a later account in the Tampa Tribune, planesflying drugs into Mena in coolers marked 'medical supplies.' are met byseveral people close to then-Governor Bill Clinton.

1984

Riady buys a stake in the Worthen holding company whoseassets include the Stephens-controlled Worthen Bank. Price: $16 million.Other Worthen co-owners will eventually include BCCI investor AbdullahTaha Bakhish.

Jim McDougal tries to prevent state agencies from shuttingdown his S&L, which has been providing cash for the Whitewater operation.Mrs. Clinton is put on a $2,000 a month retainer by the S&L. Ms. Clintonwill later claim not to have received any retainer nor to have been deeplyinvolved with Madison. Subsequent records show, however, that she representedMadison before the state securities department. After the revelation, shesays, 'For goodness sakes, you can't be a lawyer if you don't representbanks.'

The Washington Times will later quote an unnamed Clintonbusiness associate who claims the governor used to 'jog over to McDougal'soffice about once a month to pick up the [retainer] check for his wife.'

Foreshadowing future Wall Street interest in Clinton,Goldman Sachs, Payne Webber, Salomon Brothers and Merrill Lynch all showup as financial backer of the governor. Also on the list: future king-makerPam Harriman. But Bill Clinton's funders include not only some of the biggestcorporate names ever to show an interest in the tiny state of Arkansasbut some of the most questionable. A former US Attorney will later tellRoger Morris, 'That was the election when the mob really came into Arkansaspolitics. . . It wasn't just Bill Clinton and it went beyond our old DixieMafia. . . This was eastern and west coast crime money that noticed thepossibilities just like the legitimate corporations did.'

Dan Lasater buys a ski resort in New Mexico for $20 millionand uses Clinton's name (with permission) to promote it. Later, a US Customsinvestigative report will note that the resort is being used for drug operationsand money laundering. Lasater also flies to Belize with his aide PatsyThomasson to buy a 24,000 acre ranch. Among those present at the negotiationsis the US Ambassador. The deal falls through because of the oppositionof the Belize government.

A private contractor for Arkansas' prison system stopsselling prisoners' blood to a Canadian broker and elsewhere overseas afteradmitting the blood might be contaminated with the AIDS virus or hepatitis.Sales of prisoners' blood in US are already forbidden.

Tens of thousands of dollars in mysterious checks beginmoving through Whitewater's account at Madison Guaranty. Investigatorswill later suspect that McDougal was operating a check-kiting scheme todrain money from the S&L

Hot Springs police record Roger Clinton during a cocainetransaction. Roger says, 'Got to get some for my brother. He's got a noselike a vacuum cleaner.'

Ronald Reagan wants to send the National Guard to Hondurasto help in the war against the Contras. Massachusetts Governor MichaelDukakis goes to the Supreme Court in a futile effort to stop it but Clintonis happy to oblige, even sending his own security chief, Buddy Young, alongto keep an eye on things. Winding up its tour, the Arkansas Guard declareslarge quantities of its weapons 'excess' and leaves them behind for theContras.

1985

A relative of Bill Clinton is raped. Wayne Dumond is arrestedand imprisoned in the case. While awaiting sentencing, Dumond himself issexually assaulted and castrated by two masked men. A local sheriff, latersentenced to 160 years for extortion and drug dealing, displays Dumond'stesticles in a jar on his desk under a sign that read, 'That's what happensto people who fool around in my county.' A parole board, upon receivingnew evidence of Dumond's innocence, will vote to release him after 4 1/2years in prison. Governor Clinton -- according to the managing editor ofthe Arkansas Democrat Gazette -- stages a 'romping, stomping fit' and blocksthe release.

Clinton establishes the Arkansas Development Finance Authoritythat will be used, in the words of one well-connected Arkansan as 'hisown political piggy bank.' Though millions of dollars are funneled to Clintonallies, records of repayments will be hazy or non-existent. AFDA bragsto prospective out-of-state corporations of Arkansas' anti-union climate.

Arkansas state pension funds --deposited in Worthen byGovernor Bill Clinton -- suddenly lose 15% of their value because of thefailure of high risk, short-term investments and the brokerage firm thatbought them. The $52 million loss is covered by a Worthen check writtenby Jack Stephens in the middle of the night, an insurance policy, and thesubsequent purchase over the next few months of 40% of the bank by MochtarRiady. Clinton and Worthen escape a major scandal.

Mochtar's son James comes back to Arkansas to manage Worthenas president. He bonds with Clinton and Charlie Trie.

Lippo executive and Chinese native John Huang becomesactive in Lippo's operations in Arkansas.

Mochtar and James Riady engineer the takeover of the FirstNational Bank of Mena in a town of 5,000 with few major assets beyond aContra supply base, drug running and money-laundering operations.

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Terry Reed is asked to take part in Operation Donation,under which planes and boats needed by the Contras 'disappear,' allowingowners to claim insurance. Reed has been a Contra operative and CIA assetworking with Felix Rodriguez, the Contra link to the CIA and then-VicePresident Bush's office. Reed later claims he refused, but that his planewas removed while he was away.

Park on Meter, a parking meter manufacturer in Russellville,Arkansas, receives the first industrial development loan from the ArkansasDevelopment Finance Authority in 1985. Some suspect that POM is doing alot more than making parking meters -- specifically that it has secretfederal contracts to make components of chemical and biological weaponsand devices to carry them on C-130s for the Contras. The company laterdenies the Contra connection although it will admit having secret militarycontracts. Web Hubbell is the company's lawyer. Right next to POM, on landpreviously owned by it, is an Army reserve chemical warfare company.

A series of checks to Clinton and his campaign are endorsedand deposited in Madison S&L. One of the checks -- a cashiers checkin the amount of $3,000 -- has the name of a 24-year-old college studenton it. When informed of this in 1993, the then-student, Ken Peacock, willdeny having made any such donation.

Whitewater fails to file corporate tax returns for thisyear.

1986

Journalist Evans-Pritchard will describe the Arkansasof this period as a 'major point for the transshipment of drugs' and 'perilouslyclose to becoming a 'narco-republic' -- a sort of mini-Columbia withinthe borders of the United States.' There is 'an epidemic of cocaine, contaminatingthe political establishment from top to bottom,' with parties 'at whichcocaine would be served like hors d'oeuvres and sex was rampant.' Clintonattends some of these events.

A Federal Home Loan Bank Board audit describes Madisonas financially reckless, rife with conflicts and on the brink of collapse.It says that the S&L's records are so poor that examiners often couldnot discover the 'real nature' of transactions.

Capital Management Services Inc., owned by David Hale,makes an SBA-approved loan of $300,000 to Susan McDougal, sole owner ofan advertising firm called Master Marketing. The loan will never be repaid.

The attorney general of Louisiana tells US Attorney GeneralEd Meese that drug trafficker Barry Seal has smuggled drugs into the USworth $3-$5 billion.

CIA operative Eugene Hasenfus is shot down over Nicaraguain a plane based in Mena, Arkansas.

Whitewater fails to file corporate tax returns for thisyear.

1987

According to the McDougals, the Whitewater files are transferredto the Clintons. In the 1992 campaign, the Clintons will say they can notfind the records.

Clinton gives Arkansas Traveler awards to Contra operativesAdolpho and Mario Calero and John Singlaub.

Two boys are killed in Saline County and left on a railroadtrack to be run over by a train The initial finding of joint suicide willbe punctured by dogged investigators whose efforts are repeatedly blockedby law enforcement officials. Although no one will ever be charged, thetrail will lead into the penumbra of the Dixie Mafia and the Arkansas politicalmachine. Some believe the boys died because they accidentally intercepteda drug drop, but other information suggests the drop may have dispensednot drugs but cash, gold and platinum -- part of a series of sorties throughwhich those working with US intelligence were being reimbursed. Accordingto one version, the boys were blamed in order to cover up the theft ofthe drop by persons within the Dixie Mafia and Arkansas political machine.

Terry Reed's plans is returned but, according to his account,he is asked not report it because it might have to be 'borrowed' again.Reed later says that he had become aware that the Contra operation alsoinvolved drug running and had gotten cold feet. He also believed that largesums of drug money were being laundered by leading Arkansas financiers.He went to Felix Rodriguez and told him he was quitting. Reed was subsequentlycharged with mail fraud for having allegedly claimed insurance on a planethat was in fact hidden in a hanger in Little Rock. The head of Clinton'sSwiss Guard, Capt. Buddy Young, will claim to have been walking aroundthe North Little Rock Airport when 'by an act of God' a gust of wind blewopen the hangar door and revealed the Piper Turbo Arrow.

Whitewater fails to file corporate tax returns for thisyear.

1988

Conservative Democrats begin a series of nearly 100 meetingsheld at the home of Pam Harriman to plot strategy for the takeover of theDemocratic Party. Donors cough up $1,000 to attend and Harriman eventuallyraises $12 million for her kind of Democrat. The right-wing Dems will eventuallysettle on Bill Clinton as their presidential choice.

1989

Madison S&L is closed by federal regulators at aneventual cost to taxpayers of $47 million.

FDIC hires Webster Hubbell of the Rose firm to press itscase concerning Madison. Rose law firm, now representing FDIC, sues anaccounting firm for $60 million, blaming its audits for causing millionsof dollars in losses to the S&L. Although the job earns Rose $400,000in fees and expenses the accounting firm will eventually settle by payingthe government just $1 million.

A US Senate subcommittee calls the available evidenceabout Mena sufficient for an indictment on money laundering charges.' Butthe feds scrap a five year probe of Mena and interfere in local investigations,and the state police are taken off the case. Clinton refuses a requestfrom one of his own prosecutors to pursue the matter.

What will later be known as the Vast Right Wing Conspiracybegins on the left as a group of progressive students at the Universityof Arkansas form the Arkansas Committee to look into Mena, drugs, moneylaundering, and Arkansas politics.

1990

James Riady takes over operations of a new branch of theLippo Bank, working with Hong Kong Lippo executive, John Huang.

Sharlene Wilson tells a US grand jury investigating drugsin Arkansas that she provided cocaine to Clinton during his first termand that once the governor was so high he fell into a garbage can. Thefederal drug investigation is shut down within daysof her testimony. Wilsonflees, terrified of the state prosecuting attorney -- her former lover,and Clinton ally, Dan Harmon. She will be eventually arrested by Harmonhimself and sent up for 31 years on a minor drug charge. She is still injail.

The case against Terry Reed is thrown out of court bythe federal judge who said, 'It's my opinion no jury could find by reasonabledoubt that the defendant was guilty. There are too many holes in the chainof proof for the government to prove mail fraud.' Clinton's security chief,Captain Buddy Young, is described by the judge as having a 'reckless disregardfor the truth.' Young, who will play a major role in keeping state troopersquiet about Clinton, will end up in a $92,000-a-year job with FEMA, a federalagency established to handle major disasters.

Drug distributor Dan Lasater is pardoned by Governor Clintonafter serving just six months in jail and four in a halfway house on minorcharges. One law enforcement official will describe the investigation intoLasater's operations as 'either a high dive or extremely unprofessional.Take your pick.' The alleged reason for the pardon: so Lasater can geta hunting license. Lasater returns to his 7,400 ranch in Saline County.

1991

The Arkansas Industrial Development Commission furthersthe Indonesian - Arkansas connection. Deals are worked on for Wal-Mart,Tyson's Foods, and JB Hunt. Later documents uncovered by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazettewill 'make reference to Clinton's ideal position as president . . . inhelping to secure Arkansas-Indonesian deals.' The US ambassador in Jakartaat the time will later remark, 'There were lots of people from Arkansaswho came through Indonesia.'

An IRS memorandum reveals that even at this late date'the CIA still has ongoing operations out of the Mena, AR airport. '

Arkansas State Police investigator Russell Welsh, whohas been working with IRS investigator Bill Duncan on drug running andmoney laundering at Mena, develops pneumonia-like symptoms. Welch, centralto the Mena investigation, is discovered to have been poisoned by anthrax.

State Attorney General Winston Bryant and Arkansas Rep.Bill Alexander send two boxes of Mena files to special prosecutor LawrenceWalsh. Says Alexander later, 'The feds dropped the ball and covered itup. I have never seen a whitewash job like this case.'

Jackson Stephens and BCCI figure Ghaith Pharaon buy BCCI'sformer Hong Kong subsidiary.

1992

The Worthen Bank gives Clinton a $3.5 million line ofcredit allowing the cash-strapped candidate to finish the primaries.

Little Rock Worldwide Travel provides Clinton with $1million in deferred billing for his campaign trips. Clinton aide DavidWatkins boasts to a travel magazine, 'Were it not for World Wide Travelhere, the Arkansas governor may never have been in contention for the highestoffice in the land.' In fact, without the Worthen and Worldwide largess,it is unlikely that the cash-strapped candidate could have survived throughthe later primaries.

A massive 'bimbo' patrol is established to threaten, buy,or otherwise disarm scores of women who have had sexual encounters withClinton. The campaign uses private investigators in an extensive operationthat will be joked about at the time but later will be seen as a form ofblackmail as well as psychological and physical intimidation.

Clinton leaves the campaign trail to attend the executionof cop-killer Ricky Ray Rector, a mentally incompetent black man givento howling who is so dysfunctional that he asks his guards at his lastmeal to save his pie for later.

Money magazine reports that Clinton annually receivesabout $1.4 million in admissions tickets to the state-regulated Oaklawnracetrack which he hands out to campaign contributors and others.

According to Brooks Jackson of CNN, the commission thatregulates Arkansas's only greyhound track meets several times a year atthe track's exclusive Kennel Club, with the Southland Greyhound Park payingfor the commissioners' food and booze.

Gennifer Flowers records her last conversation with BillClinton. On the tape Clinton says, 'If they ever ask if you've talked tome about it, you can say no.' Clinton describes Mario Cuomo as a 'meanson of a bitch' and when Flowers says, 'I wouldn't be surprised if he didn'thave some Mafioso connections,' the reply is: 'Well, he acts like one,'followed by a chuckle. Of the press, Clinton advises, 'If they ever hityou with it, just say no and go on. There's nothing they can do. I expectedthem to look into it and come interview you. But if everybody is on recorddenying it, no problem' Many papers, including the Washington Post andthe New York Times, fail to let their readers know what is on the tapes.

A survey of campaign reporters finds that by February,90% favor Clinton for president.

Major media censor a second alleged sex scandal involvingBill Clinton that breaks in a supermarket tabloid just days before theNew Hampshire primary. The story, in the Globe, charges that Clinton hada relationship with a woman who claimed that Clinton was the father ofher child. The woman also claims she attended group sex sessions with Clinton.The woman is now reportedly in Australia.

Time Magazine runs an article called 'Anatomy of a Smear'in which Clinton's involvement in the Mena drug/Contra operation is whitewashedand those trying to expose it are, well, smeared.

The Pine Bluff Commercial notes: 'It's very difficultto catch Bill Clinton in a flat lie. His specialty is a lengthy disingenuousness.'

Former Miss Arkansas Sally Perdue goes on the Sally JesseRaphael Show and says she had an affair with Bill Clinton. She will latertell the London Sunday Telegraph that state troopers often dropped Clintonoff at her place in his jogging gear: 'He saw my Steinway grand piano andwent straight over to it and asked me to play. . . When I see him now,president of the United States, meeting world leaders, I can't believeit. . . I still have this picture of him wearing my black nightgown, playingthe sax badly. . . this guy tiptoeing across the park and getting caughton the fence. How do you expect me to take him seriously?'

After the TV show, Perdue says she was visited by a manwho described himself as a Democratic Party operative and who warned hernot to reveal specifics of the affair. 'He said there were people in highplaces who were anxious about me and they wanted me to know that keepingmy mouth shut would be worthwhile. . . If I was a good little girl, anddidn't kill the messenger; I'd be set for life: a federal job, nothingfancy but a regular paycheck. . . I'd never have to worry again. But ifI didn't take the offer, then they knew that I went jogging by myself andhe couldn't guarantee what would happen to my 'pretty little legs.'

Perdue says she later found a shotgun cartridge on thedriver's seat of her Jeep and had her back window shattered.

James Riady, his family, and employees give $700,000 toClinton and the Democratic campaign.

1993

John Huang and James Riady give $100,000 to Clinton'sinaugural fund.

Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker comes to Washington tosee his old boss sworn in, leaving his state under the control of the presidentpro tem of the senate, Little Rock dentist Jerry Jewell. Jewell uses hispower as acting governor to issue a number of pardons, one of them fora convicted drug dealer, Tommy McIntosh. According to the Washington Times,many in the state 'say it was a political payoff, offered in exchange fordirty tricks Mr. McIntosh played on Clinton political opponents duringthe presidential campaign, or as a payoff for stopping his attacks on Mr.Clinton.' It seems that the elder McIntosh had worked for Clinton in hislast state campaign and, according to McIntosh in a 1991 lawsuit, had agreednot only to pay him $25,000 but to help him market his recipe for sweetpotato pie and to pardon his son.

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Webster Hubbell's name surfaces as a potential nomineefor deputy attorney general but he tells friends he does not want thatjob or, reports Time, 'to take any other position that involves Senateconfirmation -- perhaps to avoid fishing expeditions into the law firm'sconfidential business.'

John Huang arranges a private meeting between MochtarRiady and Clinton at which Riady presses for renewal of China's 'most favorednation' status and a relaxation of economic sanctions.

China's 'most favored nation' status is renewed.

Two Arkansas state troopers describe arguments betweenthe Clintons, including (in the words of Washington Times reporter JerrySeper) 'foul-mouthed shouting matches and furniture-breaking sessions.'

Hillary Clinton and David Watkins move to oust the WhiteHouse travel office in favor of World Wide Travel, Clinton's source of$1 million in fly-now-pay-later campaign trips. The White House fires sevenlong-term employees for alleged mismanagement and kickbacks. The director,Billy Dale, charged with embezzlement, will be acquitted in less than twohours by the jury.

According to a later report in Insight Magazine, the Clintonadministration eavesdrops on over 300 locations during the Seattle Asia-PacificEconomic Cooperation Conference. FBI videotapes of diplomatic suites 'showunderage boys engaging in sexcapades with men in several rooms over a periodof days.' The operation involves the FBI, CIA, NSA and Office of NavalIntelligence. Bugged are hotel rooms, telephones, conference centers, cars,and even a charter boat. Some of the information obtained is apparentlypassed on to individuals with financial interests in Asia.

Washington attorney Paul Wilcher is found dead on a toiletin his apartment. He is said to be investigating various scandals includingthe October Surprise, the 1980 election campaign, drug and gun-runningthrough Mena and the Waco assault. He was also planning a TV documentaryon his findings. He delivered an extensive affidavit to Janet Reno threeweeks before his death.

Vince Foster, the Clintons' attorney, finally files missingWhitewater tax returns.

The RTC and SBA investigate the $300,000 SBA-approvedloan to Susan McDougal in 1986, provided by Capital-Management ServicesInc. owned by David L. Hale.

Clinton asks White House physician, Dr. Burton Lee, togive him an allergy shot. Lee refuses to do so without knowing the president'smedical history or what is in the serum that has been delivered withoutsupporting data from Arkansas. Within hours of his refusal, Lee is firedand told to pack and leave immediately.

On July 19, FBI director William Sessions is fired. Clintonpersonally orders him by phone to turn in his FBI property and leave headquarters.

That evening, Jerry Parks' wife Jane overhears a heatedtelephone conversation with Vince Foster in which her husband says, 'Youcan't give Hillary those files, they've got my name all over them.'

On July 20, Clinton names Louis Freeh as Sessions' successor.

That same day, the FBI raids David Hale's Little Rockoffice and seizes documents including those relating to Capital-Management.

Just hours after the search warrant authorizing the raidis signed by a federal magistrate in Little Rock, Vince Foster apparentlydrives to Ft. Marcy Park without any car keys in a vehicle that changescolor over the next few hours, walks across 700 feet of park without accruingany dirt or grass stains, and then shoots himself with a vanishing bulletthat leaves only a small amount of blood. Or at least that is what wouldhave to have occurred if official accounts are to be reconciled with theavailable evidence. There are numerous other anomalies in this quickly-declaredsuicide. Despite two badly misleading independent counsel reports, Foster'sdeath will remain an unsolved mystery.

Less than three hours after Foster's body is found, hisoffice is secretly searched by Clinton operatives, including Mrs. Clinton'schief of staff. Another search occurs two days later. Meanwhile, US ParkPolice and FBI agents are not allowed to search the office on grounds of'executive privilege.'

Foster's suicide note is withheld from investigators forsome 30 hours. The note is in 27 pieces with one other piece missing.

Patrick Knowlton, who stops in the park seventy minutesbefore Foster's body is found, reports seeing things that do not fit theofficial version. Declining under pressure to change his story, he is eventuallysubpoenaed by the Whitewater prosecutor. On that day, he becomes the targetof extensive overt harassment and surveillance of a sort used by intelligenceagencies to intimidate witnesses.

When ex-Clinton security operative Jerry Parks hears ofVince Foster's body being found at Ft Marcy Park, he tells his wife, 'I'ma dead man.' Two months later, Parks will be shot to death in a mob-typeslaying in Little Rock. News of Parks' death sets off a flurry of activityand closed-door meetings at the White House. Parks' house is ransacked,and his files, 130 telephone tapes and computer data are removed.

1994

John Huang quits the Lippo Group -- with a golden parachuteof around $800,000 -- and goes to work for the Commerce Department. Somebelieve the move is instigated by Hillary Clinton. Commerce Secretary RonBrown orders a top secret clearance for Huang. While at Commerce, Huangvisits the White House about 70 times, is briefed 37 times by the CIA,views about 500 intelligence reports, and makes 281 calls to Lippo banks.

Ron Brown goes to China with an unprecedented $5.5 billionin deals ready to be signed. Included is a $1 billion contact for the Clinton-friendlyArkansas firm, Entergy Corporation, to manage and expand Lippo's powerplant in northern China. Entergy will also get contracts to build powerplants in Indonesia. James Riady tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: 'Ithink the idea of having President Clinton from Arkansas in the White Houseshouldn't be underestimated.'

A memo later found in Commerce Department files describesBrown's stance with the Chinese on civil liberties: '[Brown] deftly navigatedthe human-rights issue by obtaining an agreement on further talks and thenmoved directly into the economic issues at hand: helping Chrysler, Sprintand others with their joint ventures.'

Gandy Baugh, an attorney who had represented Clinton buddyand drug distributor Dan Lasater, allegedly jumps to his death. Baugh'slaw partner commits suicide one month later.

Five days after her ex-husband, Danny Ferguson, is nameda co-defendant in the Paula Jones law suit, Kathy Ferguson is found dead.She leaves a suicide note but the body is found in her living room nextto packed bags as though she was planning to take a trip. Not long afterwards,Kathy Ferguson's fiancée, a state trooper, is found dead by gunshotat her gravesite. Leaves note saying 'I can't stand it any more.' The localpolice chief says, 'It puts big questions in your mind. Why?' Both victimsare shot in the back of the head, unusual in the case of suicide.

White House-assigned FBI agent Gary Aldrich agrees tohelp trim the Christmas tree in the Blue Room. Aldrich is surprised tofind a small clay ornament of 12-lords-aleaping. Among the things thatwere aleaping on the 12 lords are their erections. Also provided by HillaryClinton and her staff for the tree: ornaments made of drug paraphernaliasuch as syringes and roach clips, three French hens in a menage átrois, two turtle doves fornicating, five golden rings attached to a gingerbreadman's ear, nipple, belly button, nose, and penis.

Hundreds of White House employees still do not have securityclearances.

Independent prosecutor Dan Smaltz and FBI agents grilla former Tyson food pilot for three days. The pilot claims to have carriedcash in envelopes from Tyson Food to the Arkansas governor's mansion. SaysSmaltz later to Time magazine, 'I nearly fell off my chair when I heardJoe make the allegation. I took over the questions.' Janet Reno, however,blocks Smaltz from pursuing the issue.

Bill Clinton speaks to a group of Southeast Washingtonhigh school students about sex: 'This is not a sport, this is a solemnresponsibility.' He tells the young men at the gathering that they shouldstop having sex 'when they're not prepared to marry the others, they'renot prepared to take responsibility for the children and they're not evenable to take responsibility for themselves.'

According to US Customs records, Macao businessman NgLap Seng, arrives in America with $175,000 in cash. Two days later he meetswith Charlie Trie and Mark Middleton at the White House. That evening Ngsits at Clinton's table at a DNC fundraiser.

1995

John Huang requests several top secret files on Chinajust before a meeting with the Chinese ambassador.

Webster Hubbell, although not known for skill in Asiantrade matters, goes to work for a Lippo Group affiliate after being forcedout of the Clinton administration prior to going to jail.

In late March, a score of witnesses are subpoenaed fora grand jury probe of Ron Brown, who hires a $750/hour criminal attorney.Among the issues: an Oklahoma gas company's alleged funneling of over ahalf million dollars to Brown in order to get him to fix a lawsuit pendingagainst the firm.

Janet Reno names Daniel Pearson to head the Brown probe.She says he can investigate anything. Brown reportedly urges Clinton toget Reno off his back, but evidence of Brown's crookedness has reachedCapitol Hill and the Attorney General apparently feels there is no turningback. It will be later alleged by some close to Brown that the CommerceSecretary has told the president that if he is going down, he is not goingdown alone.

Four days after the grand jury subpoenas are issued, RonBrown is dead -- killed when the plane in which he was flying (along withnearly three dozen other Americans) crashes into a mountain in Croatia.From the start, there are a number of anomalies including inconsistenciesover the state of the weather, where the plane is reported to have crashed,what happened to the plane's black boxes, and the subsequent suicide ofan airport official in charge of navigational aids. Further, even thoughthe crash site is a little over a mile from the runway, the first rescuersdo not officially arrive on the scene for more than four hours.

The White House hosts a major drug dealer at its Christmasparty. Jorge Cabrera -- who gave $20,000 to the DNC -- is also photographedwith Al Gore at a Miami fund-raiser, a fact the Clinton administrationinitially attempts to conceal by arguing that a publicity shot with theVeep is covered by the Privacy Act. Cabrera was indicted in 1983 by a federalgrand jury -- on racketing and drug charges -- and again in 1988, whenhe was accused of managing a continuing narcotics operation. He pleadedguilty to lesser charges and served 54 months on prison. After his visitto the White House he will be sentenced to 19 years on prison for transporting6,000 pounds of cocaine into the US. The Secret Service says letting himcome to the WH was okay because he posed no threat to the president.

The Washington Times reports that Clinton has pardonedwithout fanfare a gambling pal of his mother. Jack Pakis was convictedunder the Organized Crime Control Act, sentenced to two years in prison,but the sentence was suspended. He was fined and put on probation. Pakishad been arrested as part of an FBI sting operation against illegal gamblingin Hot Springs. According to the Washington Times, 'his trial judge describedMr. Pakis as a professional gambler, part owner of an illegal casino andan illegal bookmaker for football and horse-racing bets.' US District JudgeOren Harris, remarked that the FBI had 'reached into Hot Springs to puta stop to gambling that has existed here since the 1920s.' But he suspendsthe sentence, saying that since local acceptance of gambling was so widespreadit would be unfair to send Pakis and his co-defendants to jail. Pakis,incidentally, once owned a piece of the Southern Club -- Al Capone's favorite-- in Hot Springs where, as Clinton's mom put it in her autobiography,'gangsters were cool and the rules were meant to be bent.'

Roger Morris and Sally Denton write a well-documentedaccount of drug and Contra operations in Arkansas during the '80s. TheWashington Post's Outlook section wants to run it, offers their highestprice ever for a story, but is overruled by higher-ups. Less than a yearearlier the Post had published a lead Style section piece making fun ofthe Mena affair, saying 'allegedly dark deeds at Mena have helped fosterthe cult of conspiracy that has taken root among some of Clinton's morevirulent opponents.' After weeks of stalling by Post brass, Morris andDenton pull the story which eventually appears in Penthouse.

1996

Clinton gives a speech to a group of Little Rock supportersin which he calls those pressing the Whitewater and other investigations'a cancer' that he will 'cut out of American politics.'

Barbara Wise, a Commerce Department (International TradeAdministration) secretary and associate of John Huang, is found bruisedand partially nude in a locked office at Commerce. Cause of death remainsunknown.

Hillary Clinton's attempts to conceal the fact that shehad $120,000 of editorial help in preparing her book-like substance.

Hillary Clinton tells New Zealand television that shewas named after Sir Edmund Hillary. At the time of Mrs. Clinton's birth,Hillary was an unknown beekeeper.

Senator Bob Kerrey, chair of the Democratic SenatorialCampaign Committee, tells Esquire that Clinton is 'an unusually good liar.'

Convicted cocaine distributor Dan Lasater testifies beforeCongress. The New York Times, among others, does not cover the story eventhough Lasater is close to Clinton and paid off Roger Clinton's debt tothe drug cartel. Lasater also raised race horses and was a track buddyof Virginia Kelly, through whom he met her son Bill. When Lasater starteda bonding company, Bill Clinton recommended to him highway commissionerPatsy Thomasson, who would become vice president of the Lasater firm andhave power of attorney while he was in jail. Thomasson would eventuallybecome director of White House Management and Administration, responsiblefor drug testing among other things. While with Lasater, Thomasson hiredClinton's half-brother as a limo driver. Roger was also employed as a stablehand at Lasater's Florida farm. In his trial, and in testimony before theSenate Whitewater committee, Lasater admits to being free with coke, includingashtrays full of it on his corporate jet. He also admits to having givencoke to employees and to minors. But he takes umbrage at being called adrug dealer since he didn't charge for the stuff.

According to some witnesses, Lasater also had a back doorpass to the governor's mansion. One state trooper reported taking Clintonto Lasater's office regularly and waiting forty-five minutes or an hourfor him to come out.

The death of ex-CIA director William Colby, allegedlywhile canoeing, raises a number of questions. For example, Colby left hishome unlocked, his computer on, and a partly eaten dinner on the table.Colby had recently become an editor of Strategic Investment a newsletterwhich was doing investigative reporting on the Vince Foster death.

Jim McDougal tells a reporter that he doesn't expect toleave prison alive.

An independent investigator finds evidence of an electronictransfer of $50 million from the Arkansas Development Financial Authorityto a bank in the Cayman Islands. Grand Cayman has a population of 18,000,570 commercial banks, one bank regulator and a bank secrecy law. It isa favorite destination spot for laundered drug money..

1997

Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor says he is 'stunned'to learn that some of the companies joining him on trade missions wereDNC campaign contributors. He apparently has missed material sent out bythe DNC, complete with letter from Bill Clinton, that promised donors ofat least $10,000 an invitation to 'join Party leadership as they travelabroad to examine current and developing issues.'

Hillary Clinton goes for her daily dose of photographicself-aggrand-izement at the pediatrics ward of the Georgetown UniversityMedical Center. She is to be pictured reading to the kids. The problem:sick children don't look that cute, especially those who are bald fromcancer treatments or fitted out with tubes and such. The solution: replacethe sick children with well versions belonging to the hospital staff. Itworks beautifully.

Mary Caitrin Mahoney, a former White House intern, isshot five times in an execution-style slaying of three Starbucks employeesin Georgetown. The other two victims are shot only once. No money is taken.No neighbors hear gunshots. An informant assisting police in the case ismurdered when sent into a botched drug sting.

Foutanga Dit Babani Sissoko, a West African multi-millionaire,tries to get released from jail on bribery and smuggling charges by showingthe judge a dinner invitation he received to dine with the president ata Washington hotel. The judge does not release Sissoko, however, and setsbail at $20 million. This is a South Florida record.

LD Brown, a former Arkansas state trooper who worked onClinton's security details, claims he was approached on a bus in Englandand offered $100,000 and a job to change his Whitewater testimony. A secondoffer was allegedly made in Little Rock.

A $27,000 check is found in the trunk of a car in Arkansas,along with other records of McDougal's Madison Guaranty bank. Shortly afterthe discovery, an ill and imprisoned McDougal is thrown into solitary forfailure to urinate for a drug test. McDougal is on 12 medications, fourof which make it urination difficult.

Gennifer Flowers reports that after her revelations shehad received death threats and that her house was ransacked.

Monica Lewinsky tells Linda Tripp over the phone, 'See,my mom's big fear is that he's going to send somebody out to kill me.'

Two Armed Forces medical examiners confirm that Ron Brownhad a perfectly circular hole in his head that looked like a gun wound.Army Lt. Col. David Hause was working two tables away from the one at DoverAir Force Base where Brown was being examined when a 'commotion' eruptedand someone said, 'Gee, this looks like a gunshot wound.' Hause rememberssaying, 'Sure enough, it looks like a gunshot wound to me, too.' No autopsyor investigation followed.

1998

George Stephanopoulos tells ABC This Week that the WhiteHouse has a 'different, long-term strategy, which I think would be farmore explosive. White House allies are already starting to whisper aboutwhat I'll call the Ellen Rometsch strategy . . . She was a girlfriend ofJohn F. Kennedy, who also happened to be an East German spy. And RobertKennedy was charged with getting her out of the country and also gettingJ. Edgar Hoover to go up to the Congress and say, 'Don't you investigatethis, because if you do, we're going to open up everybody's closets.' .. . . Asks Sam Donaldson, 'Are you suggesting for a moment that what they'rebeginning to say is that if you investigate this too much, we'll put allyour dirty linen right on the table? Every member of the Senate? Everymember of the press corps?' 'Absolutely,' says Stephanopoulos. 'The presidentsaid he would never resign, and I think some around him are willing totake everybody down with him.'

Jim McDougal, who once said that the Clintons move throughpeople's lives like a tornado, dies after being placed in solitary confinementagain. An unusual Prozac level is found during autopsy. There are questionsabout other drugs given, including Lasix, which is contraindicated forheart patients.

Not long thereafter, another potential witness in theClinton scandals investigation dies suddenly. Johnny Franklin Lawhon Jr,29, was the owner of the auto transmission shop in Mabelville, Arkansas,who discovered the cashier's check made out to Bill Clinton in a trunkof a tornado-damaged car. Lawhon strikes a tree in the early hours of March30 after, according to one witness, 'taking off like a shot' from a fillingstation.

Linda Tripp is sequestered in an FBI safe house becauseof threats against her life.

Arkansas Highway Police seize $3.1 million in cash fromfour suitcases in a tractor-trailer rig's sleeper section. The driver ischarged with money laundering among other things. The seizure is the fourthlargest in American history and nearly fifty times more than all the illegalmoney seized by Arkansas highway police in a typical year.

Jorge Cabrera -- the drug dealer who gave enough to theDemocrats to have his picture take with both Hillary Clinton and Al Gore-- is back in the news as a businessman pleads guilty to laundering $3.5million for Cabrera between 1986 and 1996

Monica Lewinsky tells Linda Tripp that if she would lieunder oath, 'I would write you a check. ' Also: 'I mean, telling the truthcould get you in trouble. I don't know why you'd want to do that.' Also:'I would not cross these -- these people -- for fear of my life.' Severalreports have Lewinsky saying on another occasion that she didn't want toend up like former White House intern Mary Caitrin Mahoney, killed in theStarbucks execution-style murders.

The sale of Arkansas prisoners blood during the 1980sbecomes a major scandal in Canada as news of it is published. The storyis widely ignored in the US.

Prior to her testimony in the Clinton investigation, KathleenWilley claims that the tires on her car were mysteriously punctured withdozens of nails and the cat she had for many years suddenly disappeared.Reports ABC's Jackie Judd, 'Then just days before she testified in thePaula Jones lawsuit in early January, Willey was out jogging near her homewhen a stranger approached her. . .The man knew what had happened at herhome and that he asked her if the tires had been fixed and if the cat hadbeen found.' The man then allegedly asked Willey, 'Don't you get the message?'and jogged off.'

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Bill Clinton gives a speech on September 9 in which hesays,' All of you know that I've been on a rather painful journey theselast few weeks and I've had to ask for things that I was more in the habitof giving in my life than asking for in terms of understanding and forgiveness,but it's also given me the chance to try to ask, as all of us do: Whatdo you really care about? What do you want to think about in your lasthours on this earth? What really matters? . . . So I ask you for your understanding,for your forgiveness on this journey we're on. I hope this will be a timeof reconciliation and healing, and I hope that millions of families allover America are in a way growing stronger because of this.'

Among the public sources for this article were Partnersin Power by Roger Morris; The Secret Life of Bill Clinton by Ambrose EvansPritchard; Unlimited Access Unlimited Access by Gary Aldrich and Shadowsof Hope by Sam Smith. Also various newspaper and magazine articles, particularlyin the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Washington Times, New York Times, WashingtonPost, London Telegraph, Times of London, Wall Street Journal, LA Times,American Spectator, Washington Weekly, Insight, as well as the Internetservice Free Republic, the Clinton Administration Scandals bulletin board,and the columns of Alexander Cockburn and Christopher Ruddy.

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