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</font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> <b>Arkansas Project</b> was a series of investigative press reports, funded primarily by conservative businessman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife" title="Richard Mellon Scaife" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Mellon Scaife</a>, that focused on criticism of then-President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a> and his administration. <b>Scaife spent nearly $2 million on the project</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The investigations included the investigation of the 1970s' real estate investment that Bill and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hillary Clinton</a> had made in a development known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_controversy" title="Whitewater controversy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Whitewater</a>, re-opening of allegations that then Governor Bill Clinton had sexually harassed an Arkansas state employee, and a reexamination of the death of White House aide <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Foster" class="mw-redirect" title="Vincent Foster" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vincent Foster</a> which multiple official investigations had <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Vince_Foster" title="Suicide of Vince Foster" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">found to be a suicide</a>.</font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Background">Background</span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the 1980s and 1990s, the politically conservative <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Spectator" class="mw-redirect" title="American Spectator" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Spectator</a></i> magazine received donations from conservative benefactors. The Arkansas project began shortly after Richard Mellon Scaife, one of the largest donors to the magazine, directed that his donations be used for stories aimed at investigating potentially scandalous material regarding the Clintons. According to R. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Tyrrell" title="Emmett Tyrrell" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Emmett Tyrrell</a> Jr., editor-in-chief of the <i>Spectator</i>, the idea for the Arkansas Project was hatched on a fishing trip on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay" title="Chesapeake Bay" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chesapeake Bay</a> in the fall of 1993. The "Arkansas Project" name that later became famous was conceived as a joke; the actual name used within the <i>Spectator</i> and the Scaife foundation was the "Editorial Improvement Project."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Project reporter/investigators were hired, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brock" title="David Brock" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">David Brock</a>, who later described his role at that of as a Republican "hitman",<sup id="cite_ref-legacy_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-legacy-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Armistead" title="Rex Armistead" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rex Armistead</a>, a former police officer who was reportedly paid $350,000 for his efforts.<sup id="cite_ref-Blinded_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-Blinded-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="Secondary source needed for material involving Brock, plus Brock's credibility is questionable. (August 2017)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Also assisting the project was Parker Dozhier, a bait shop owner who was reportedly obsessed with bringing down Bill Clinton.<sup id="cite_ref-wapo2_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-wapo2-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> They were tasked with investigating the Clintons and uncovering stories tying the Clintons to murders and drug smuggling as well as adultery.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Brock, Armistead and Brock met at an airport hotel in Miami, Florida, in late 1993. There, Armistead laid out an elaborate "Vince Foster murder scenario", a scenario that Brock later claimed was implausible."<sup id="cite_ref-blinded_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-blinded-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-WaPo-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> Regardless, by the end of 1993, Brock was writing stories for the Spectator that made him "a lead figure in the drive to" expose Clinton.<sup id="cite_ref-legacy_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-legacy-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Olson" title="Theodore Olson" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ted Olson</a>, who would later represent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">George W. Bush</a> in <i style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v.Gore" title="Bush v. Gore" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bush v. Gore</a></i> and be named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Solicitor_General" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Solicitor General" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Solicitor General</a>, was a Board Member of the American Spectator Educational Foundation, and is thought to have known about or played some role in the Arkansas Project.<sup id="cite_ref-salon_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-salon-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[8]</a></sup> His firm <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson,Dunn%26_Crutcher" title="Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher</a> provided $14,000 worth of legal services, and he himself wrote or co-authored several articles that were paid for with Project funds. During Olson's Senate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advise_and_consent" class="mw-redirect" title="Advise and consent" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">confirmation hearing</a> for Solicitor General, majority Republicans blocked Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Leahy" title="Patrick Leahy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Leahy</a>'s call for further committee inquiries on the subject of Olson's ties to the Arkansas Project.</span><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="News_stories">News stories</span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The investigations funded by Scaife money mostly concentrated on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater(controversy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitewater (controversy)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Whitewater</a> investments, which extended to a conspiracy theory surrounding the death of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Foster" class="mw-redirect" title="Vincent Foster" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vince Foster</a>, a Clinton aide with connections to Whitewater. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_W.Ruddy" class="mw-redirect" title="Christopher W. Ruddy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Christopher W. Ruddy</a>, a reporter for the Scaife-owned <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Tribune-Review" title="Pittsburgh Tribune-Review" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pittsburgh Tribune-Review</a></i>, published a series of articles claiming Clinton was behind Foster's suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup> Although Clinton was never found to have broken the law by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Starr" title="Ken Starr" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ken Starr</a>, Ruddy published his book, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strange_Death_of_Vincent_Foster" title="The Strange Death of Vincent Foster" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Strange Death of Vincent Foster</a></i>, regardless. His conspiracy theories about Foster have since been dismissed even by some more outspoken conservatives like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter" title="Ann Coulter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ann Coulter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup> The <i>Spectator</i> stopped receiving Scaife funding when "it ran a scathing review of [the] book ..."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In late November 1997 after Jeff Corry's review of Ruddy's book was published, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Irvine" title="Reed Irvine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Reed Irvine</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_in_Media" title="Accuracy in Media" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Accuracy in Media</a> (who has received about $2 million from Scaife since 1977<sup id="cite_ref-wapo3_14-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-wapo3-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup>) "reported in his newsletter that Scaife had called Tyrrell to say he was cutting him off."<sup id="cite_ref-wapo3_14-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-wapo3-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> In fact, "Tyrrell confirmed in an interview that the call occurred but said he couldn't remember details of the conversation that ended all support from the man who had been his principal benefactor for nearly 30 years."<sup id="cite_ref-wapo3_14-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-wapo3-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1999, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Farah" title="Joseph Farah" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joseph Farah</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center" title="Western Journalism Center" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Western Journalism Center</a> "placed some 50 ads reprinting Ruddy's <i>Tribune-Review</i> stories in the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington Times</a></i>, then repackaged the articles as a packet titled 'The Ruddy Investigation,' which sold for $12."<sup id="cite_ref-WJC_15-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-WJC-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> Shortly thereafter, the Western Journalism Center "circulated a video featuring Ruddy's claims, 'Unanswered-The Death of Vincent Foster,' that was produced by author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dale_Davidson" title="James Dale Davidson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James Davidson</a>, chairman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Taxpayers_Union" title="National Taxpayers Union" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Taxpayers Union</a> (NTU) and co-editor of the Strategic Investment newsletter."<sup id="cite_ref-WJC_15-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-WJC-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the late 1990s, Ruddy and Farah turned their focus to the internet with help from Scaife. Ruddy founded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsMax" class="mw-redirect" title="NewsMax" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NewsMax</a> and Farah started <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldNetDaily" title="WorldNetDaily" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">WorldNetDaily</a> which report news from a conservative perspective. Eventually, Scaife became an investor and the third-largest stockholder of NewsMax.<sup id="cite_ref-SEC_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-SEC-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Paula_Jones">Paula Jones</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arkansas_Project&action=edit§ion=3" title="Edit section: Paula Jones" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As an early part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troopergate(Bill_Clinton)" title="Troopergate (Bill Clinton)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Troopergate</a> matter, writer David Brock published an article, <i>His Cheating Heart</i><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup> that refers to a liaison between Clinton and woman named Paula. This led to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Jones" title="Paula Jones" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Paula Jones</a> affair<sup id="cite_ref-redemption_18-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-redemption-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> and later led Jones to sue Clinton, successfully obtaining an out-of-court settlement in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Brock continued his conspiracy theorizing until a 1997 <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquire(magazine)" title="Esquire (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Esquire</a></i> article titled "I Was a Conservative Hit Man" in which he recanted some of his claims. In 1998 he went further and personally apologized to Clinton. Brock was let go from the <i>Spectator</i> and published his 2002 book <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_by_the_Right" title="Blinded by the Right" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative</a></i>."<sup id="cite_ref-redemption_18-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-redemption-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arkansas_Project&action=edit§ion=4" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Floyd Brown</b></font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hale(Whitewater)" title="David Hale (Whitewater)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">David Hale</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D.Johnson" title="James D. Johnson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">James D. Johnson</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_research" title="Opposition research" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Opposition research</font></a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arkansas_Project&action=edit§ion=5" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="column-width: 30em;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Neil A. Lewis. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30F16FF3D580C768DDDAD0894D0494D81" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">"Almost $2 Million Spent in Magazine's Anti-Clinton Project, but on What?"</a>. <i>New York Times</i>. April 15, 1998</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-legacy-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-legacy_2-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-legacy_2-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://old.mediatransparency.org/issue.php?issueID=4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">David Brock & the Watergate Legacy</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110725110417/http://old.mediatransparency.org/issue.php?issueID=4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Archived</a> 2011-07-25 at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wayback Machine</a>. <i>Media Transparency.</i></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Blinded-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-Blinded_3-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">David Brock. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_by_the_Right" title="Blinded by the Right" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Blinded by the Right:The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative</a></i>. Three Rivers Press. (p. 228). Brock refers to his part of the project and the wider scope of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Olson" title="Theodore Olson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ted Olson</a>.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-wapo2-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-wapo2_4-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaife092998.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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padding-right: 13px;">Behind the Clinton cocaine smear</a>. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Salon.com" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Salon.com</a></i>, 2000.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-blinded-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-blinded_6-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">David Brock. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_by_the_Right" title="Blinded by the Right" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Blinded by the Right</a>. </i>Three Rivers Press<i>, pp. 218–19.</i></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-WaPo-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-WaPo_7-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaifeside050299.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">'Arkansas Project' Led to Turmoil and Rifts</a>, <i>Washington Post</i>, May 2, 1999, p. A24,</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-salon-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-salon_8-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tapper, Jake <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/19/lawyers/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">"Boies vs. Olson"</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Salon.com" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Salon.com</a>|, November 19, 2000</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/05/14/archive/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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</font></div><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>AMERICAN SPECTATOR</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There had been stories about Bill Clinton’s affairs in various<b> tabloid </b>media but an article in The American Spectator, a neoconservative magazine, raised the stakes.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The cover of the January 1994 issue of The American Spectator featured a caricature of Bill Clinton sneaking down a moonlit alley with the headline: “His Cheatin’ Heart:<b>David Brock</b> in Little Rock.”</span> Reporter David Brock had already gained a reputation for cutthroat journalism for his March 1992 attack piece, “The Real Anita Hill,” and he returned to that mode in his 1994 article “Living with the Clintons: Bill’s Arkansas bodyguards tell the story the press missed.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Brock article is long on <b>gossip </b>and hearsay and short on facts corroborated outside the circle of troopers. Several years later, Brock wrote an “open letter” published in Esquire magazine where he apologized for the Troopergate article and said the troopers’ greed and anger had motivated their stories. One trooper later changed his story.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Buried on page 26 of the original Brock article was a paragraph<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> mentioning a “Paula”</span> who allegedly was taken to Clinton’s hotel room. Neither a date nor a conference name was mentioned. Nonetheless, Paula Jones stepped forward and claimed her reputation had been sullied. The rest is history.</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">His Cheatin' Heart</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>During this period the editor of The American Spectator was R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., author of Boy Clinton: The Political Biography, published by Regnery.</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Scaife’s foundations gave $2.4 million to The American Spectator Education Foundation while it was running anti-Clinton articles. The foundation launched the “Arkansas Project,” financing information-gathering operations involving reporters, private investigators, former law enforcement officers, and political operatives. Public tax records of the foundation were obtained by Joe Conason at the New York Observer, who discovered that $1.7 million of the Scaife funds between 1993 and 1996 had been reported as legal fees but apparently used for the “Arkansas Project.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Some $35,000 of these funds ended up with <b>Parker Dozhier, </b>who owns a fishing camp in Arkansas. One witness for Starr, David Hale, “was staying at Dozhier’s fishing cabin complex in Hot Springs, Ark., between 1994 and 1996.” Two former friends of Dozhier claim he made small cash payments to Hale, but Dozhier denies that claim. Dozhier, however, provided free accommodations to Hale. Dozhier served as a conduit for information on Whitewater from Hale and others to investigators, reporters, and representatives from The American Spectator. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Theodore Olson,</b> a director at the Spectator Foundation, was Hale’s lawyer in 1995 and 1996.<b> Olson is Ken Starr’s former law partner.</b> A grand jury is considering if illegalities were committed.</span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Other potential witnesses against Clinton were clearly in the cash pipeline. According to Boston Globe reporter John Aloysius Farrell:</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">…<b>Peter W. Smith,</b> [trump? croakes, flynn russians?!] a wealthy Chicago businessman and supporter of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, paid thousands of dollars to the Arkansas state troopers whose tales of Clinton’s sex life, published in the Spectator, sparked the Paula Jones case.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Since the Spectator article in December 1993, it was known that unnamed conservative benefactors </font><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">gave the troopers financial assistance. The Chicago Sun-Times pierced the veil of anonymity…identifying Smith—<b>a big contributor to GOPAC,</b> the political action committee once led by Gingrich— as the man who gave $6,700 each to two troopers and introduced them to David Brock, the writer of the article. Smith has given $150,000 to GOPAC in the last 12 years.</font></span></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He told the Sun-Times he spent $80,000 in the 18 months after Clinton’s election to get stories about the president’s personal life into the media.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Arkansas_Project_against_Clinton"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arkansas Project against Clinton</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Scaife was a primary source of money for the "Arkansas Project," an effort by the American Spectator to attack President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a> during the Whitewater and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Monica_Lewinsky" title="Monica Lewinsky" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Monica Lewinsky</a> eras of his presidency. He gave a $3.2 million grant to American Spectator and an additional $2.3 million specifically to fund the "Arkansas Project." The specific aim of the Arkansas Project was to locate or create dirt on the Clintons in order to smear them, in hopes of removing Clinton from office.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Mellon_Scaife#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> Most of the articles that resulted attacked the Clintons portraying them as a slick political couple addled by greed and ambition, a view that reflected the magazine's unrelentingly critical view of the President.<sup id="cite_ref-TimesAKP_14-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Mellon_Scaife#cite_note-TimesAKP-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4">There were reports that the Arkansas project was used to fund witness tampering in the Whitewater scandal. <sup id="cite_ref-TimesAKP_14-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Mellon_Scaife#cite_note-TimesAKP-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[14]</a></sup> Through an Arkansas bait shop, Spectator operatives kept in touch with Clinton accuser David Hale, even supplying Hale with $200 to make phone calls from prison.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_12-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Mellon_Scaife#cite_note-CNN-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[12]</a></sup> Further investigations determined that Hale was not paid to alter his testimony.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Mellon_Scaife#cite_note-15" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Scaife_v.Journalism"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scaife v. Journalism</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Scaife has been criticized by sections in the media for attempting to corrupt the practice of journalism and dilute it with a very specific agenda.</span><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Mellon_Scaife#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Juan Cole, a University of Michigan history professor </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">who runs the blog Informed Comment wrote, " ... In essence, Murdoch, Scaife and other far rightwing super-rich propagandists succeeded in maligning the NYT and in pushing it off its liberal perch even further to the Right."</span><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Mellon_Scaife#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_activities"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other activities</font></span></h2></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>Arkansas Project</b> was a series of investigations (mostly funded by conservative businessman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife" title="Richard Mellon Scaife" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Richard Mellon Scaife</a> through his staff at the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Tribune-Review" title="Pittsburgh Tribune-Review" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pittsburgh Tribune-Review</a></i>) that were initiated with the intent of damaging and ending the presidency of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Blinded_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-Blinded-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> Scaife spent nearly $2 million on this anti-Clinton project.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The investigations included the reexamination of the death of White House aide, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Foster" title="Vincent Foster" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Vincent Foster</a> (who committed suicide)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, the investigation of a 1970s' real estate investment that Bill and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" class="mw-redirect" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Hillary Clinton</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> had made in a development known as </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_controversy" title="Whitewater controversy" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Whitewater</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and the re-opening of allegations that then Governor Bill Clinton had sexually harassed an Arkansas state employee.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"> </span></font></div><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#Background" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Background</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#News_stories" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">News stories</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#Paula_Jones" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Paula Jones</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#See_also" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Background">Background</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the 1980s and 1990s, the politically conservative </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Spectator" title="American Spectator" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American Spectator</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> magazine received donations from conservative benefactors. The Arkansas project began shortly after Richard Mellon Scaife, one of the largest donors to the magazine, directed that his donations be used for stories aimed at investigating and discrediting the Clintons. According to </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">R. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Tyrrell" title="Emmett Tyrrell" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Emmett Tyrrell</a> Jr., editor-in-chief of the <i style="">Spectator</i>,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the idea for the Arkansas Project was hatched on a fishing trip on the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay" title="Chesapeake Bay" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Chesapeake Bay</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in the fall of 1993. The "Arkansas Project" name that later became famous was conceived as a joke; the actual name used within the </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Spectator</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and the Scaife foundation was the "Editorial Improvement Project."</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Project reporter/investigators were hired, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brock" title="David Brock" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David Brock</a>, a self-described Republican "hitman",<sup id="cite_ref-legacy_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-legacy-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Armistead" title="Rex Armistead" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rex Armistead</a>, a former police officer with a white supremacist past who was reportedly paid $350,000 for his efforts.<sup id="cite_ref-blinded_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-blinded-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> Also assisting the project were Parker Dozhier, a bait shop owner who was reportedly a hard line right winger obsessed with bringing down Bill Clinton.<sup id="cite_ref-wapo2_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-wapo2-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> They were tasked with investigating the Clintons and composing stories tying the Clintons to murders and drug smuggling as well as adultery.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to Brock, Armistead and Brock met at an airport hotel in Miami, Florida, in late 1993. There, Armistead laid out an elaborate "Vince Foster murder scenario", a scenario that Brock found implausible."<sup id="cite_ref-blinded_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-blinded-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-WaPo-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> Regardless, by the end of 1993, Brock was writing stories for the Spectator that made him "a lead figure in the drive to" get Clinton.<sup id="cite_ref-legacy_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-legacy-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Olson" title="Theodore Olson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ted Olson</a>, </b>who would later represent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a> in <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v.Gore" title="Bush v. Gore" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush v. Gore</a></i> and be named<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Solicitor_General" title="United States Solicitor General" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Solicitor General</a>, was a Board Member of the American Spectator Educational Foundation, and is thought to have known about or played some role in the Arkansas Project.<sup id="cite_ref-salon_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-salon-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup> His firm <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson,Dunn%26_Crutcher" title="Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher</a> provided $14,000 worth of legal services, and he himself wrote or co-authored several articles that were paid for with Project funds. During Olson's Senate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advise_and_consent" title="Advise and consent" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">confirmation hearing</a> for Solicitor General, majority Republicans blocked Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Leahy" title="Patrick Leahy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Patrick Leahy</a>'s call for further committee inquiries on the subject of Olson's ties to the Arkansas Project.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="News_stories">News stories</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The investigations funded by Scaife money mostly concentrated on the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater(controversy)" title="Whitewater (controversy)" class="mw-redirect" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Whitewater</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">investments, which extended to a conspiracy theory surrounding the death of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Foster" title="Vincent Foster" class="mw-redirect" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Vince Foster</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a Clinton aide with connections to Whitewater.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_W.Ruddy" title="Christopher W. Ruddy" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Christopher W. Ruddy</a> (a freelance reporter for the Scaife-owned <i style=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Tribune-Review" title="Pittsburgh Tribune-Review" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Pittsburgh Tribune-Review</a></i></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) published a series of articles claiming Clinton was behind Foster's suicide.</span><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Although Clinton was never found to have broken the law by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Starr" title="Ken Starr" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Ken Starr</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Ruddy published his book, </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strange_Death_of_Vincent_Foster" title="The Strange Death of Vincent Foster" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Strange Death of Vincent Foster</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, regardless.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> His conspiracy theories about Foster have even been dismissed by some more outspoken conservatives like <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter" title="Ann Coulter" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Ann Coulter</a>.</b><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[12]</a></sup> The <i style="">Spectator</i> stopped receiving Scaife funding when "it ran a scathing review of a book by journalist Christopher Ruddy, a Scaife favorite who has worked for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Pittsburgh</a> newspaper owned by the billionaire</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">."</span><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In late November 1997 after Jeff Corry's review of Ruddy's book was published, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Irvine" title="Reed Irvine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Reed Irvine</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_in_Media" title="Accuracy in Media" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Accuracy in Media</a> (who has received about $2 million from Scaife since 1977<sup id="cite_ref-wapo3_14-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-wapo3-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup>) "reported in his newsletter that Scaife had called Tyrrell to say he was cutting him off."<sup id="cite_ref-wapo3_14-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-wapo3-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> In fact, "Tyrrell confirmed in an interview that the call occurred but said he<b><i> couldn't remember details </i></b>of the conversation that ended all support from the man who had been his principal benefactor for nearly 30 years."<sup id="cite_ref-wapo3_14-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-wapo3-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 1999, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Farah" title="Joseph Farah" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Joseph Farah</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center" title="Western Journalism Center" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Western Journalism Center</a> "placed some 50 ads reprinting Ruddy's <i style="">Tribune-Review</i> stories in the <i style=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Times" title="Washington Times" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Washington Times</a></i>, then repackaged the articles as a packet titled 'The Ruddy Investigation,' which sold for $12</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">."</span><sup id="cite_ref-WJC_15-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-WJC-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Shortly thereafter, the Western Journalism Center "circulated a video featuring Ruddy's claims, 'Unanswered-The Death of Vincent Foster,' that was produced by author<b> </b></span><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dale_Davidson" title="James Dale Davidson" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">James Davidson</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, chairman of the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Taxpayers_Union" title="National Taxpayers Union" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">National Taxpayers Union</a></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b> (NTU)</b> and co-editor of the Strategic Investment newsletter."</span><sup id="cite_ref-WJC_15-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-WJC-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the late 1990s, Ruddy and Farah turned their focus to the internet with help from Scaife. Ruddy founded <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsMax" title="NewsMax" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">NewsMax</a> and Farah started <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldNetDaily" title="WorldNetDaily" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">WorldNetDaily</a> which report news from a conservative perspective. Eventually, Scaife became an investor and the third-largest stockholder of NewsMax</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-SEC_16-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-SEC-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Paula_Jones">Paula Jones</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Writer David Brock was the first journalist who published the sexual allegations by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Jones" title="Paula Jones" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Paula Jones</a><sup id="cite_ref-redemption_17-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-redemption-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a></sup> which led to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troopergate(Bill_Clinton)" title="Troopergate (Bill Clinton)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Troopergate</a> investigation, and later led Jones to sue Clinton, successfully obtaining an out-of-court settlement in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Brock continued his conspiracy theorizing until a 1997 <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquire(magazine)" title="Esquire (magazine)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Esquire</a></i> article titled "I Was a Conservative Hit Man" in which he recanted some of his claims. In 1998 he went further and personally apologized to Clinton. Brock was let go from the <i>Spectator</i> and published his 2002 book <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_by_the_Right" title="Blinded by the Right" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative</a></i>."<sup id="cite_ref-redemption_17-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_note-redemption-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arkansas_Project&action=edit§ion=4" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><div class="noprint tright portal" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; line-height: 22.4px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Johnson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">James D. Johnson</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_research" title="Opposition research" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">opposition research</font></a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arkansas_Project&action=edit§ion=5" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><div class="reflist" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-Blinded-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-Blinded_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">David Brock. <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_by_the_Right" title="Blinded by the Right" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Blinded by the Right:The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative</a>. Three Rivers Press. (page 228). Brock refers to his part of the project and the wider scope of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Olson" title="Theodore Olson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ted Olson</a>.</i></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Neil A. Lewis.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30F16FF3D580C768DDDAD0894D0494D81" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">Almost $2 Million Spent in Magazine's Anti-Clinton Project, but on What?</a>. New York Times. April 15, 1998</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-legacy-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-legacy_3-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-legacy_3-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://old.mediatransparency.org/issue.php?issueID=4" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">David Brock & the Watergate Legacy</a> <i>Media Transparency.</i></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-blinded-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-blinded_4-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-blinded_4-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">David Brock. <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_by_the_Right" title="Blinded by the Right" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Blinded by the Right</a>.</i> Three Rivers Press<i>, pages 218–219.</i></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-wapo2-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-wapo2_5-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaife092998.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">Anti-Clinton Billionaire Goes Before Grand Jury</a>, <i>Washington Post, September 29, 1998</i></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Waas" title="Murray Waas" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Murray Waas</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/03/26news.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">Behind the Clinton cocaine smear</a>. <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon.com" title="Salon.com" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Salon.com</a></i>, 2000.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-WaPo-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-WaPo_7-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaifeside050299.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">'Arkansas Project' Led to Turmoil and Rifts</a>, <i>Washington Post</i>, May 2, 1999, page A24,</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-salon-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-salon_8-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tapper, Jake <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/19/lawyers/index.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"Boies vs. Olson"</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon.com" title="Salon.com" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Salon.com</a>|, November 19, 2000</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/05/14/archive/index.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">[1]</a>, Salon.com, May 14, 2001</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; 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background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Trudy Lieberman. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archives.cjr.org/year/96/2/foster.asp" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">The Vincent Foster Factory</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Journalism_Review" title="Columbia Journalism Review" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Columbia Journalism Review</a>, April 1996.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project#cite_ref-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Even if Christopher Ruddy's <i>The Strange Death of Vince Foster</i> was considered a conservative hoax book, it was also conservatives who discredited it." 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</div><div> </div><div>The Arkansas Project Unmasked</div><div>
</div><div><b>The Hunting of the President:</b> The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Hillary and Bill Clinton</div><div>
</div><div>This is the most disgustingly fascinating political book I’ve ever read. As the subtitle indicates, it is the anatomy of a would-be political murder. I can’t imagine anyone doing a better job of laying out the corpse than Joe Conason and Gene Lyons have done. (<b>Conason is a longtime New York reporter</b>, national correspondent for the Village Voice in the Eighties; Lyons, a former Newsweek editor, wrote Fools for Scandal, about the media’s response to Whitewater.) The Hunting of the President is the “story of the most successful and long-running ‘dirty tricks’ campaign in recent American history, fomented by a handful of professional Republican operatives and corporate lawyers, and funded by a network of wealthy conservatives.”</div><div>
</div><div>At the center of this cabal, the authors tell us, were longtime Clinton adversaries from Arkansas and elsewhere: an angry gallery of defeated politicians, disappointed office seekers, right-wing pamphleteers, wealthy eccentrics, zany private detectives, religious fanatics, and die-hard segregationists…. Indeed, the effort to destroy Clinton began early on in the highest councils of the Republican National Committee, and included aides to former president George Bush. Arguably, not even the chief justice of the United States held himself aloof from the great crusade.</div><div>
</div><div>If ever there was a time when the nation needed, and didn’t have, the protection of an alert, fair-minded press, it was in the years when the right-wing was hunting the President. Even at its best, the press would have had its hands full. The hunters were a tough crowd. The guiding members of this Republican conspiracy were, by any commonsense ethical standard, evil right down to the bone. As for their troops, witting and unwitting – the state cops who boasted of pimping for Clinton when he was Arkansas Governor and the bimbos who went public and all the others in that seemingly endless line of rumor-hucksters – they don’t seem to have had enough imagination to be rated as evil. They were mostly just primitive capitalists, in it for the money (of which some of them got a great deal) and can be classified simply as (to use that good old Southern expression) white trash.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Hillary identified them as “a vast right-wing conspiracy.</b>” She was right, although the membership was pretty loose. The conspirational side was underscored by the secrecy of those who put together what they called “The Arkansas Project”: a four-year, $2.4 million effort to dig up enough dirt to ruin Clinton. There was no shortage of kooks in the Arkansas Project, but perhaps the most important kook, because most of the money came from him, was <b>Richard Mellon Scaife,</b> heir to a big hunk of Mellon oil-and-steel billions. He had poured many millions into right-wing causes over the years – our authors estimate $300 million – and now he didn’t mind spending a few more, as he told friends, “to get that goddamn guy out of the White House.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>With that aim, he subsidized newspapers, magazines, book publishers and their writers to portray Clinton as (1) an international drug trafficker, (2) the murderer of Clinton’s longtime friend and White House aide Vincent Foster, who committed suicide shortly after arriving in Washington, (3) the defrauder of an Arkansas savings and loan, and (4) the ravisher of half the women in Arkansas. Scaife and his numerous allies managed to get the mainline press to give some attention to most of these fantasies, a lot of attention to a couple. And, of course, they had no trouble getting all accepted as gospel by the right-wing press and on talk shows with the help of guys like Rush Limbaugh, who even embellished the Foster “murder” by telling his audience that it was committed in an apartment owned by Hillary.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For the Arkansas Project, Scaife’s chosen outlet of anti-Clinton propaganda was the <b>American Spectator,</b> “the country’s premier venue for right-wing muckraking” and the favorite reading of conservatives looking for titillation. Its playboy publisher, R. Emmett Tyrrell, loved to indulge in fantasy and pure gossip.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Another member of the Arkansas Project who subsidized that kind of stuff was <b>Peter Smith, head of an investment bank in Chicago</b>. He wasn’t filthy rich like Scaife, but he was wealthy enough to spend $80,000 on private detectives and to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">subsidize American Spectator reporters in a hunt for the black baby that Clinton was rumored to have sired. (That rumor was launched by the supermarket tabloid Globe.).</span></div><div>
</div><div>Among other notable mud-slingers in the Arkansas Project was<b> Little Rock attorney Cliff Jackson, a religious fundamentalist who had been Fulbright scholar at Oxford when Clinton was there on a Rhodes scholarship</b>. Perhaps out of jealousy, he stirred up plenty of trouble for his old schoolmate. He was the main source of data (not all of it accurate, of course) supporting the profile of Clinton as a draft-dodger of the Vietnam war. The authors point out that “Jackson himself got a medical deferment.” Jackson also tipped off Peter Smith that four of Clinton’s former bodyguards were ready to spill the beans about their boss’s debauchery – for a price.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Perhaps most symbolic of the Arkansas Project’s spirit and motivation was<b> Jim Johnson, a crafty racist</b> who pined for the good old days when whites could kill blacks with impunity. Despite the solid support of the Ku Klux Klan, Johnson’s one effort to become governor failed, but he was <b>elected to the Arkansas Supreme Court.</b></span> Clinton liked black people, appointed dozens of black officials, and “Judge” Johnson hated him for it. You could fairly draw that assumption from Johnson’s appraisal of Clinton as “a queer-mongering, whore-hopping adulterer; a baby-killing, draft-dodging, dope-tolerating, lying, two-faced, treasonist activist.” Yes, even low enough to be an activist.</div><div>
</div><div>The<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Klan and its up-scale affiliate, the White Citizens Council (of which Johnson had been the statewide director), once had a very active spy system, and many of their members were still around to supply Johnson with rumored dirt on Clinton, which Johnson then passed on to any reporter who would listen. Quite a few did.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Especially willing to print any and all of this gossip was the<b> Washington Times </b>(owned by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon, a very generous patron of Republican presidents) whose editor was <b>Wesley Pruden, a native of Little Rock and the son of the former chaplain of Johnson’s White Citizens Council</b>. As journalism, the Washington Times is pitiful, but it is influential with conservatives in the nation’s capital.</span></div><div>
</div><div>If I seem to be emphasizing the role of propaganda in the anti-Clinton crusade, that’s because nothing was of more importance. And that’s why Lyons and Conason have made The Hunting of the President not only an account of right-wing Republican villainy, but also an account of the mainline press’ incompetence and stupidity and gullibility on a monumental scale. If you believe <b>Conason and Lyons </b>(as I certainly do), you will finish this book determined never again to read The New York Times or Washington Post coverage of political scandals without having several pounds of salt handy at your side. The Times likes to be know as the nation’s “newspaper of record.” What a joke. Conason and Lyons show the Times and the Post and their imitators repeatedly getting sucked in by con men, missing the point in vital legal quarrels, playing unfair with the facts, sometimes by distorting them, sometimes by ignoring them, sometimes deliberately misquoting the Clintons (the authors give a stunning example of ABC’s doing this). Both papers were too arrogant to admit their mistakes, even after they became obvious. Worst of all, the rest of the press, or most of it, took its lead from the Times and the Post, so the pollution of their coverage seeped into numerous other newspapers and of course into the copycat television networks.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Atwater, </b>Nelson, Nichols, and Flowers</div><div>
</div><div><b>The campaign to destroy Clinton was launched in 1989 by the late (thank goodness) Lee Atwater,</b> whom most political observers (even Republicans) rate as the dirtiest political strategist of the twentieth century. Because he put together President Bush’s winning campaign in 1988 – a campaign infamous for the “Willie Horton” TV ad that portrayed the Democratic candidate as a defender of black rapists and black murderers <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">– Atwater was named head of the Republican National Committee. His job was to re-elect Bush, and he was worried. At a meeting of Republican honchos in Little Rock in 1989, he said, “What scares me is a southern moderate or conservative Democrat, and the scariest of all, because he’s the<b> most talented of the bunch, is Bill Clinton.”</b></span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The best way to eliminate Clinton from the 1992 presidential race would be to defeat him in the 1990 governor’s race. Unfortunately for the Republicans, their nominee, <b>Sheffield Nelson,</b> had <b>used his influence as a top state bureaucrat to sell one of the richest natural gas fields in North America to one of his pals, Jerry Jones</b>, for the give-away price of $15 million; ultimately, Arkansas had to buy it back for $175 million. (Jones spent part of his enormous profits to buy the <b>Dallas Cowboys.</b>) For some reason, voters got the impression the state had been screwed.</span></div><div>
</div><div>By constantly implying that Nelson was a crook, Clinton was easily re-elected. But Nelson would get lots of revenge for his defeat. Over the next several years, he helped launch some of the juiciest (and usually false) rumors about Clinton’s sins. Conason and Lyons seem convinced that he was behind the black baby rumor, and also the story that Clinton had raped the proprietress of a nursing home. They are also convinced it was Nelson who triggered the Whitewater scandal. That makes Nelson a major player on the Arkansas Project’s team, for the Clinton-hating cabal never had more than two things to work with: Whitewater (the details of which the public never really understood) and sex. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For a long while, Whitewater was by far the most important matter, because until Monica Lewinsky came along, the Clinton-haters were seldom able to lift the sex charges above the level of burlesque.</span></div><div>
</div><div>That was evident in both Clinton’s 1990 gubernatorial race and in his 1992 presidential campaign, when his sexual escapades were first made a public issue. Sheffield Nelson may have been the hidden instigator, but fortunately for Clinton, th<b>e man out front making the charge was Larry Nichols</b>, whose reputation was pretty lousy. One Arkansas Congressman considered Nichols a “nut case,” and he had been fired from state government by Clinton’s chief of staff, Betsey Wright, because she considered him a “dangerous con artist.” On the eve of the gubernatorial election, he filed a lawsuit accusing Clinton of spending state funds to support five mistresses. Because it was merely a state election, and because tales of improper sex have been wrapped around virtually every Arkansas politician of modern times, it wasn’t taken seriously by the voters or the Arkansas press.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But Nichols wasn’t through. On the evening of the 1992 presidential primary in New Hampshire, he was back, and so was one of the mistresses he had named, Gennifer Flowers.</span> If she was after money, she was successful, ultimately pulling over $500,000 from girlie magazines and supermarket tabloids. Alas, if the poor girl ever possessed any credibility, she came out of this with none. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In her book, Passion and Betrayal, she claimed numerous trysts with Clinton between 1978 and 1980 at Little Rock’s Excelsior Hotel – which wasn’t built until 1983.</span> If Sheffield Nelson, who by then was chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, had orchestrated the Flowers story, he did a bum job. Almost every claim in her résumé was easily revealed as false: she wasn’t a graduate of a fashionable Dallas prep school, and had never attended one; she didn’t have a University of Arkansas nursing degree; she had never been, as she claimed, Miss Teenage America. Her “twin sister Genevieve” also turned out to be imaginary.</div><div>
</div><div>The Flowers/Nichols episode was farcical, yes, but as Conason and Lyons note, it was also ominous in showing how, with the help of the national press, “a pair of rank amateurs with almost no credibility among journalists in their hometown were able to make national headlines, turn themselves into minor celebrities, and earn a substantial amount of cash in the bargain.” It set a considerable political precedent.</div><div>
</div><div>Friends of Bill</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Spreading sex stories must have been satisfying to Sheffield Nelson, but his role in triggering the Whitewater Scandal was much more important – not in itself, but because it ultimately led to the appointment of Kenneth Starr as independent counsel.</span> Starr, long after Whitewater was dead, kept hanging around and snooping hither and yon, until, voilá! – he stumbled upon Monica Lewinsky, down on her knees. Though the press kept Whitewater in headlines for years, it didn’t amount to a hill of beans, and didn’t qualify as a scandal at all. Even if there had been some financial shenanigans connected with Whitewater, the authors sensibly ask, “How much scandal could there be in a gravel-road real estate development in which the Clintons had ultimately lost money?”</div><div>
</div><div>Anyone who, like Clinton, is successful in politics all his life, inevitably winds up with a jillion “friends.” Not all turn out to be so friendly. For Clinton, one of that caliber was Jim McDougal, with whom he borrowed money to buy a piece of land they hoped to sell at enough profit for each of them to walk away with about $45,000. That was nearly a quarter-century ago, in 1978. When they started out as partners, McDougal was teaching political science at little Ouachita Baptist University. But he was a smooth talker, very likable, a natural con man, and he managed to put together enough money to buy a small bank and start up a savings and loan.</div><div>
</div><div>There were occasions when <b>McDougal </b>did not act rationally (he spent time in a mental institution). As a banker, he became addicted to shifting money around in fishy ways, and his bookkeeping was atrocious. Accounts became hopelessly muddled. Money disappeared. By the time the Clintons discovered what was happening, their investments had been wiped out and the Whitewater venture was kaput. Ultimately, McDougal’s S&L also went belly up, and taxpayers had to pay for his folly. Federal agents spent years going through his messed up books, trying to figure out what the hell had happened.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Meanwhile, McDougal was broke, sick, living off charity, and desperate.</b> He asked Clinton for help. Clinton wanted nothing else to do with him. That made McDougal furious. Enter Sheffield Nelson again, and the plot thickens. In 1992, he learned of McDougal’s fury and, according to McDougal, “gleefully” got in touch with Jeff Gerth, one of The New York Times’ preeminent investigative reporters. Down came Gerth, and McDougal plied him “with documents and canceled checks allegedly showing the Clintons had taken improper tax deductions” and in other ways had acted unethically. In the past, Gerth had shown considerable savvy in handling investigations involving finances. This time, with the bungling assistance of his editors, he fell on his face. The mistakes, Conason and Lyons demonstrate, began with the headline and continue through the details. For one thing, Gerth wrote that Governor Clinton had dumped the sitting Arkansas security commissioner and replaced him with a political ally to grant special favors to McDougal’s thrift. Actually, Clinton’s appointee had taken steps to shut down McDougal’s thrift. The official who was allegedly dumped – a Republican who had simply resigned to enter private law practice – called the Times story “unmitigated horseshit.”</div><div>
</div><div>Gerth’s story was so poorly written and edited, and so confusing, that it had little immediate impact on whatever might be called the public’s mind. But it was the small noise that dislodged what would become the “Whitewater Scandal” avalanche. The Clinton-hating cabal loved it, because it gave them a way to cry, “Cover-Up!”</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Enter L. Jean Lewis</b>. Lewis, who had grown up in a military family in Texas and proudly identified herself as a conservative Republican, was hired as an investigator for the federal Resolution Trust Corporation, although she was neither a lawyer nor an accountant, and had no training in law enforcement. The R.T.C. had been set up to hunt down crooks who in the Eighties had caused hundreds of savings and loan organizations to collapse, costing taxpayers an estimated $500 billion. From her office in Tulsa, Lewis sifted through the records of failed Arkansas thrifts looking for evidence of criminal fraud. At the top of her list of suspects were two thrifts that together had cost taxpayers $1.5 billion. At the bottom of her list – and properly so – was James McDougal’s Madison Guaranty, the failure of which had cost taxpayers one-twentieth as much.</div><div>
</div><div>That was until Lewis read Gerth’s Times story, when her priorities abruptly and radically altered. Although neither the Whitewater operation nor the Clintons had ever borrowed money from McDougal’s thrift, it now jumped to the top of her list, and she made a criminal referral of tiny Madison Guaranty, naming not only James and Susan McDougal as suspected felons but also every contributor to a 1985 Clinton fundraising event held at Madison Guaranty. Bill and Hillary Clinton were cited as “possible witnesses,” as were former U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright and several other top Democrats.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Lewis filed her criminal referral just two months before the 1992 presidential election. </b>The timing was so embarrassingly obvious that it pissed off the Little Rock F.B.I. office and the U.S. attorney. They told their bosses in D.C. that it looked like Lewis was playing politics, and that in their opinion there was “absolutely no factual basis to suggest criminal activity on the part of any of the individuals listed as witnesses,” including the Clintons. But later Lewis tried again, this time charging that deposits in McDougal’s S&L had been illegally diverted to Clinton’s campaign fund. When, once again, her charges fell into a void, friendly reporters, who had been getting loads of leaks from her, began to imply that she was the victim of a bureaucratic cover-up. The cry of Cover-Up, once sounded, reverberates for a long time, and it made Lewis something of a heroine to the right wing. She was duly called to testify at the Senate’s Whitewater hearings, run by Republican Senator Alfonse D’Amato (also known as “Senator Shakedown,” because of his own ways of raising money). But the Democrats were ready for Lewis. As they began reading the Justice Department’s low opinion of her grasp of the law, she began to tremble, and then fainted dead away. While thousands watching C-SPAN saw her swoon, the Times and Post reporters were apparently looking elsewhere, because neither paper reported it, nor mentioned the Justice Department’s stern judgment.</div><div>
</div><div>Let us pause for a moment, to speak once more about the conduct of the press during this period. Not all of the reporters were unfair. But it is certainly true, as the Times’ Anthony Lewis wrote: “On Whitewater, the press too often seems an eager accomplice of the accusers…. Some of the coverage of Whitewater reads as if the reporters or editors were committed to finding something wrong – as if they had an investment in the story.” Nowhere was this biased investment more evident than in the press treatment of the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“<b>Pillsbury Report</b>.” The Resolution Trust Corporation, as part of its oversight, had hired (for $3.6 million) the San Francisco law firm of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, to investigate thoroughly the allegations made against the Clintons concerning Whitewater. Bear in mind, Pillsbury is a conservative, establishment law firm, right down to its roots, and the White House had good reason to fear it would undertake a partisan investigation. Instead, write Conason and Lyons, “Based on the Clintons’ sworn interrogatories, interviews with 45 other witnesses, and some 200,000 documents, the<b> report concluded that the president and first lady had told the truth about their Whitewater investment,” and that, “There is no basis to charge the Clintons with any kind of primary liability for fraud or intentional misconduct.</b></span><b>”</b></div><div>
</div><div>Here was major, major development. It was the first long-term, meticulous study – several volumes plus appendixes – of everything relating to Whitewater, and it had been performed by a law firm of unmatched integrity. So how did the press receive it?<b> The Wall Street Journal was a beautiful exception:</b> though the Journal’s editorial page was a servile conduit for all the scurrilous anti-Clinton gossip, its reporters were straight, and they gave the Pillsbury Report full coverage<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. The Washington Post, on the other hand, buried the report in a brief mention inside a story on another topic; The New York Times waited two weeks before mentioning it al all, and then did so on Christmas Eve (when newspapers are little read), with a very sketchy summation on page twelve. “The major television networks,” add the authors, “predictably followed the Times and the Post. For the great majority of the Washington press corps, and thus for their national audience, the Pillsbury Report and the facts and conclusions its authors had painstakingly assembled didn’t exist.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>The press was more eager to write about mythical cover-ups. It would have yet another chance to do so, and this time the accusation would come from a source much more colorful than L. Jean Lewis. It was a source completely controlled – and welcomed as a veritable godsend – by leaders of the Arkansas Project. Meet David Hale, another of the Arkansas fraternity of master con men.</div><div>
</div><div>From Hale to Starr</div><div>
</div><div>Hale was an apparent pillar of the Little Rock community, a former national president of the Jaycees, and a devout Baptist. But he was an even more devout swindler (he even swindled his mistress’ grandparents out of their farm). While sitting as a municipal judge, he also operated an investment company, which made loans insured by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Hale loaned millions of dollars to more than a dozen dummy companies he secretly owned. One by one, he would kill off the companies and pocket the government’s insurance. (Hale wasn’t the brightest crook; he listed all the dummy companies at the same address: his office.) In July, 1993, Hale was arrested and charged with cheating the S.B.A. out of $3.4 million, of which he pocketed more than $2 million.</div><div>
</div><div>You might wonder why the big dogs of the Arkansas Project would be interested in a hayseed shyster like Hale, but in fact he was just what they were looking for: he was totally unscrupulous; he was a magnificent liar; he had had some financial dealings with James McDougal – and that could be stretched to mean he had had some unsavory financial dealings with Bill Clinton. Best of all, if the Project’s mighty phalanx of lawyers played Hale right, his case could be used to circumvent the regular legal system and force the government to appoint an independent counsel – and if the right counsel was appointed, the investigation could go in every direction, and last until something really wonderfully dirty turned up.</div><div>
</div><div>Could the legal system really be circumvented like that? The Arkansas Project had recruited some of the most powerful lawyers in the country: men such as Theodore Olson, assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration (and coincidentally,<b> a former law partner of one Kenneth Starr); and Robert Bork, Nixon’s notorious acting attorney general </b>in the dying days of that administration, and still a poker-playing buddy of the most reactionary members of the Supreme Court. Yes, they could do it, and they did. But first, Hale had to be coached by the Project’s propaganda team, which was run by Judge Johnson (you remember Johnson, the Arkansas Supreme Court judge beloved of the Klan).</div><div>
</div><div>Johnson told Hale the only chance he had to beat the fraud charges was to whip up enough public support by seeing that “all the facts were made available to the major news outlets throughout the world,” Johnson recalled. “I helped him get that project in motion.” “All the facts,” as Hale was tutored to present them, came down to this: as Governor, Clinton had pressured Hale into making a round-robin of illegal loans with McDougal’s company. Something over a million bucks would be moved around. Everyone would profit, including what Hale called the “political family” in Little Rock.</div><div>
</div><div>Whoa! At first the press was wary of using Hale’s yarn. How seriously should they take this scumbag? But soon the Times and the Post cast caution aside and, Conason and Lyons tell us, “this set off a competitive fray not only between the two major newspapers – reviving the old rivalry of the Watergate era – but at other papers and in the electronic media. Almost instantaneously, Hale was transformed from a recalcitrant embezzler into a credible source. Both newspapers downplayed his crimes, and their imitators did likewise.”</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Having baited the hook with Hale’s fabulous lies about his closeness to the Clintons and the McDougals, his lawyers were ready to cast their line. This was their offer: if federal prosecutors would reduce his indictment to a misdemeanor, Hale would tell all about “the banking and borrowing practices of the elite political circles of Arkansas.”</span> Of course, they didn’t expect the prosecutors to accept the offer. Call a multi-million dollar swindle a misdemeanor?! Not likely. But refusal was just what Hale’s attorneys wanted, because then they could argue that the Justice Department didn’t want Hale’s information to come out for fear it would hurt Clinton – and that the case should be transferred to an independent counsel. It worked: Hale’s offer was indeed refused, and the “Cover-Up” chorus began. The press happily joined in, with the Times and the Post editorially urging Attorney General Reno to appoint an independent counsel to take over the Whitewater investigation. Clinton caved in, and ordered Reno to do it. She appointed Robert G. Fiske, one of the country’s most respected attorneys. In his days as a federal prosecutor in New York, he was tough, non-partisan (though a Republican), and fair. Even some of the most anti-Clinton Republicans, like Bob Dole, praised Fiske’s appointment.</div><div>
</div><div>But not for long. After making the Arkansas Project’s most eloquent liar plead guilty to two felony counts, Fiske had his grand juries make quick work of the crackpot allegations about Foster’s death and the alleged obstruction of the Whitewater probe by administration officials. Not a single indictment was handed down. In less than six months, <b>Fiske</b> had swept out a lot of rubbish.</div><div>
</div><div>The right-wing cabal was outraged. That wasn’t the kind of independent counsel they wanted. They wanted to appoint their own kind. They were about to get their chance. On the very day Fiske released his findings, Clinton signed the newly reauthorized Independent Counsel Act. With his signature, he pushed Reno out of the picture and “returned the power to choose and supervise independent counsels to the Special Division, the panel of three federal appeals judges selected by William Rehnquist, chief justice of the Supreme Court. Once appointed, an independent counsel ultimately answered to no one else, regardless of his or her excesses – not even to the attorney general.”</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Result: Rehnquist, the most reactionary Chief Justice in a century, named<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> David Sentelle</span> to preside over the three-judge selection panel. </b>Sentelle, a man of extremely conservative religiosity, had written articles warning that the “leftist heretics” want to transform this country into “a collectivist, egalitarian, materialistic, race-conscious, hyper-secular, and socially permissive state.” So it was not surprising when<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Sentelle’s panel (after Sentelle consulted with his infamous mentor, Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina) selected Kenneth Starr to continue the Whitewater probe. Thus ended August 1994.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The Starr Chamber</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Son of a Church of Christ minister, Starr is a fundamentalist who sometimes impresses judges by reading the Bible during lulls in the courtroom.</b> But he is also on excellent terms with Mammon. At the time of his appointment, he was earning a million a year defending tobacco and auto companies against consumers, and he continued to do so even after his appointment. By working for a law firm that was suing the government, Starr thereby engaged in another of his conflicts of interest, but that didn’t seem to bother him. In other words, he was a Bible-quoter with a low ethical standard who was willing to cast the first stone: just the man the Arkansas Project had wanted all along.</div><div>
</div><div>The pathetic thing about this development is that it need not have happened at all. Clinton could have vetoed the new Independent Counsel Act and his veto would have held up. Many in both parties were sick of the very costly and mostly meaningless investigations that had been carried out by independent counsels in recent years. Although the ultra-conservatives of the Arkansas Project were eager to use the new power to shaft Clinton, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">many ultra-conservatives, such as Supreme Court Justice <b>Antonin Scalia,</b> shuddered at the prospect of anyone having that kind of power. So why did Clinton sign it? <b>“For all his skills,” write Lyons and Conason, “Clinton’s greatest political vulnerability lay in his eagerness to compromise with his enemies.</b>” But, say the authors, “As he put pen to paper in the Oval Office, he muttered, ‘I may be making a terrible mistake.'”</span></div><div>
</div><div>For three years, however, Clinton’s luck held. Starr discovered that, for all his digging, Whitewater was what Hillary said it was: “a never-ending fictional conspiracy that honest-to-goodness reminds me of some people’s obsession with U.F.O.s.” Though he kept telling the press he was “getting close” to a Whitewater breakthrough, he had in fact run into such a wall that one month after Clinton’s second inaugural in 1997, Starr announced that he was resigning to become dean of Pepperdine University Law School (subsidized by that faithful old wacko, Richard Mellon Scaife). The announcement provoked such outrage from his far-right supporters, and denunciations as a “quitter” by Times columnist William Safire and others, that four days later he said he would stay on.</div><div>
</div><div>But for what? Sex. That was the only thing left to investigate, and at first – despite all the rumors, inflated by the tabloids, floating up from Clinton’s past – Starr had little to work with. But that would change, thanks to a malleable hick named Paula Jones, an absolute nobody who would become somebody by helping to keep the avalanche going until it smothered Bill Clinton.</div><div>
</div><div><b>The Last Bimbo</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Not long before Starr settled in as independent counsel,<b> Paula Jones attended a major convention of Washington’s most right-wing Republicans in the Shoreham Hotel, where she made her debut as a putative victim of Clinton’s lechery</b></span>. She told a press conference that in 1991, when she was a state employee working at a conference at Little Rock’s Excelsior Hotel, Governor Clinton had sent a trooper to invite her to his room. Thinking it might help her win better employment, she went. To her dismay, she said, Clinton had exposed himself and asked for oral sex.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The reviews of her D.C. appearance were dismal, but her backers weren’t discouraged. “From the very beginning, Clinton’s right-wing enemies subsidized Paula Jones” – her trips, her hotel suites, and particularly her legal fees – and they decided that they would give her complaint legitimacy by suing Clinton, whatever the cost</span>. The description of how the behind-the-scenes army of lawyers was assembled for Jones is awesome. (Indeed, Starr himself had offered at one time to write her brief for free. That offer, and the fact that some of his law partners were involved in her legal team, were conflicts of interest that would have kept a lawyer of any integrity from accepting the independent counsel job.)</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The lawsuit made Jones a celebrity. It also made her very dangerous. Sensing peril, Clinton’s lawyers offered to settle, for $700,000.<b> But in a conspiracy – a veritable cobweb of slyness – that is too complicated to summarize here, Jones’ lawyers blocked the settlement. </b>They also persuaded the Supreme Court, for the first time in history, to allow a sitting president to face trial. As long as her case was still active, her lawyers knew it could ultimately lead to more mischief for Clinton.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In her legal pleadings, Jones claimed that because of her encounter with Clinton, she had been mistreated at work, denied raises and promotions. (After scoring 45 percent on a grammar test and missing eleven of thirty-four questions in an alphabetizing exercise, she still expected promotions</span>?) On the basis of those claims, U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright “granted the Jones attorneys broad discovery to ask about the president’s sexual conduct with other state and federal employees like Gennifer Flowers and<b> Kathleen Willey</b>.” But the judge’s permission, as they say, was irrelevant and immaterial, because Jones’ attorneys were already asking those questions. So was Starr. So were several aggressive reporters. Step by step, bimbo by bimbo, they were tracking down their quarry. Clinton, vulnerable privately if not publicly, was almost in their grasp.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>What had begun, years before, as an investigation of a failed Arkansas land deal, had finally would up as an investigation of Oval Office sexual dirt. The late Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson (quoted twice by jurists in The Hunting of the President) had been right about prosecutorial abuse:</b></div><div>
</div><div>Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor; that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than the cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Robert Sherrill is the author of The Accidental President, The Oil Follies of 1970-1980, Why They Call It Politics, and several other books.</div><div>
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</div><div> </div><div></div><div><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.constantinereport.com/on-floyd-brown-and-david-bossie-deconstructing-the-obama-smear-machine-2/">http://www.constantinereport.com/on-floyd-brown-and-david-bossie-deconstructing-the-obama-smear-machine-2/</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a data-taxonomy="person" data-termid="9976" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/bill-berkowitz/" data-title="Bill Berkowitz" title="Bill Berkowitz" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;"> Berkowitz</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />www.mediatransparency.org<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />May 5, 2008<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><b>Floyd Brown and David Bossie: Back in the Swift Boat captain's chairs</b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Two longtime practitioners of negative campaigning are mainstreaming attacks on Clinton and Obama</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Floyd Brown and David Bossie have spent a good part of their political careers making life miserable for Bill and Hillary Clinton. Unlike <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Richard Mellon" data-termid="7663" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/richard-mellon/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Richard Mellon</a> <b>Scaife, the billionaire financier who was unremitting in his efforts to take the Clintons down during the latter part of the twentieth century and whose newspaper endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton prior to the Pennsylvania primary,</b> neither Brown nor Bossie have had a pro-Hillary conversion.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These days, however, Brown's new organization, The National Campaign Fund -- which launched a new website "ExposeObama.com" -- and Bossie's Citizens United have added Sen. Barack Obama to the mix.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Brown recently told Time magazine that "he had established several other front groups to fund a long-range effort to erode Obama's support, including a second PAC, called The Legacy Committee, a 527 organization called Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America and a <b>so-called "social welfare" 501(c)4 </b>nonprofit called the Policy Issues Institute."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bossie told Newsweek that he was "assembling material for TV spots about Obama's ties with [Bill] Ayers, a Chicago professor and unrepentant former member of the Weather Underground, a group that bombed several government buildings to protest the Vietnam War."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Best known for his infamous <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Willie Horton" data-termid="16569" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/willie-horton/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Willie Horton</a> television advertisement that helped put the kybosh on Democratic Massachusetts Governor <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Michael Dukakis" data-termid="16570" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/michael-dukakis/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Michael Dukakis</a>' presidential aspirations in 1988, Brown's National Campaign Fund has prepared a <b>new TV attack ad called "Victims," which lambastes Obama for being too easy on gang murderers.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"The campaign by Hillary Clinton has not been able to raise Obama's negatives," Brown told Time. "It is absolutely critical that Obama's negatives go up with Republicans." Time reported that copies of the ad were "e-mailed to between 3 and 7 million conservatives this week, with a plea for more funding to further spread the message."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While declining to comment on how much money he was hoping to raise, Brown pointed out that <b>"All of the efforts I have ever done in my life have been significantly funded. This is going to be the most Internet-intensive effort for an ad debut ever."</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"The ad draws a parallel between Obama's weakness on gang violence and the war on terror," said Brown. According to the conservative news site, NewsMax.com, the ad "tells of a woman leaving church choir practice who was killed by gang gunfire while shielding her 6-year-old daughter, a 15-year-old boy beaten with bricks after a gang member crashed into his car, and a 14-year-old boy shot five times in the back for refusing to flash a gang hand sign."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"That same year, Barack Obama -- then an Illinois state senator -- voted against expanding the death penalty for gang-related murders, the ad points out," NewsMax reported. The ad ends: "When the time came to get tough, Obama chose to be weak. So the question is: Can a man so weak in the war on gangs be trusted in the war on terror?"</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to Time, "Brown's new ad focuses on a 2001 vote by Obama in the Illinois Senate to oppose a bill that would have expanded the use of the death penalty if the perpetrator of a crime belonged to a gang. The links between Obama's vote on that issue and the deaths of three Chicago resident's are indirect and tenuous, as is the further connection the ad draws between the issue of Obama's position on the death penalty and the issue of international terrorism."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ExposeObama team consists of Brown, who is also president of Excellentia Inc., which according to his bio, is "a consulting company specializing in non-profit organizational strategy, development and the marketing of ideas"; executive director <b>Bruce E. Hawkins</b>, "a highly skilled political strategist" who has worked for such conservative as <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Pat Roberts" data-termid="10171" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/pat-roberts/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Pat Roberts</a>on, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Pat Buchanan" data-termid="7643" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/pat-buchanan/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Pat Buchanan</a> and <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Mike Huckabee" data-termid="14521" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/mike-huckabee/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Mike Huckabee</a>; treasurer and general counsel <b>James V. Lacy</b>, the co-founder and managing partner of Wewer & Lacy, LLP and the cofounder in 1978, along with the late anti-tax crusader Howard Jarvis, of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On another front, a group called Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America, headed by California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, teamed with Brown to attack both Obama and Hillary Clinton for wanting to raise taxes on the American people. According to DeVore, both senators "want to raise taxes. Americans should have this information and be aware of the other extremely liberal positions Obama and Clinton hold."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The ad draws a parallel between Obama and Clinton's records on taxes," said Brown. "The bottom line is that they can't deal with our economic problems by raising taxes. International competition cannot be addressed by raising taxes and raising the costs of business in America."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the early 1990's Brown penned "Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton," and he took credit for creating a 1-900 line for callers to listen to edited excerpts of telephone conversations between Bill Clinton and Arkansas lounge singer Gennifer Flowers who, during Bill Clinton's run for the presidency in 1992, claimed that she had had a twelve-year relationship with him.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Last summer,</b> when it looked as if Hillary Clinton was a sure-fire cinch to be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, Brown announced that he was working on a movie that, according to the website of Citizens United, would "expose the truth about her conflicts in the past and her liberal plot for the future."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Now, with Brown having moved on, "Hillary: The Movie" (website) is about to "explode onto the scene!" claims Citizens United's website. Produced by CU Chairman of the Board and President, David Bossie, the author of the recently released book, "Hillary: The Politics of Personal Destruction," the movie contains more than 40 interviews "with experts, opinion makers, and many of the people who personally locked horns with the Clintons."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The film has "a cast to end all casts," and includes <a data-taxonomy="person" data-termid="16576" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/dick-morris/" data-title="Dick Morris" title="Dick Morris" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Dick Morris</a>, Ann Coulter, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Newt Gingrich" data-termid="7482" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/newt-gingrich/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Newt Gingrich</a>, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Jeff Gerth" data-termid="16577" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/jeff-gerth/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Jeff Gerth</a>, Buzz Patterson, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Michael Barone" data-termid="14937" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/michael-barone/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Michael Barone</a>, Billy Dale, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Cyrus Nowrasteh" data-termid="9183" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/cyrus-nowrasteh/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Cyrus Nowrasteh</a>, Tony Blankley, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Dick Armey" data-termid="16581" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/dick-armey/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Dick Armey</a>, Bay Buchanan, Joe Connor, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Mark Levin" data-termid="16583" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/mark-levin/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Mark Levin</a>, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Frank Gaffney" data-termid="7755" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/frank-gaffney/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Frank Gaffney</a>, Peter Paul, Gary Aldrich, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Dan Burton" data-termid="10422" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/dan-burton/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Dan Burton</a>, John Mica, Michael Medved, Kathleen Willey, Kate O'Beirne, and Larry Kudlow.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Two Trailers for the film and three clever -- one 30 second and two 10 second -- advertisements for the film are featured at CU's website. The ads have been the cause of legal action: In late March, CNN reported that the Supreme Court had rejected CU's fight "to air commercials promoting" the movie without having to "indicate by name its sponsorship and disclose its political donors."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to CNN, The case, rejected on jurisdictional grounds by the Supreme Court, had been appealed after a federal District Court refused to issue a preliminary injunction clearing the way for the promotions to run.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />"At issue," CNN reported, "was whether broadcast ads promoting the 90-minute documentary ... are subject to strict campaign finance laws on political advocacy, or would be considered a constitutionally protected form of commercial speech." The three-judge District Court panel "rejected the group's arguments that the documentary is more akin to news or information programs like PBS' 'Nova' or CBS' '60 Minutes.'"</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"'The Movie' is susceptible of no other interpretation than to inform the electorate that Senator Clinton is unfit for office, that the United States would be a dangerous place in a President Hillary world, and that viewers should vote against her," wrote the judges in their ruling.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Both trailers are fast paced goulashes of Hillary sound-bites, flashing headlines and talking heads.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The first one begins with a campaigning former North </span><a data-taxonomy="person" title="Carolina Sen" data-termid="13263" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/carolina-sen/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Carolina Sen</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ator </span><a data-taxonomy="person" title="John Edwards" data-termid="7972" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/john-edwards/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">John Edwards</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> cautioning against "nostalgia," and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> climaxes with a long quote from former Clinton aide and Fox News Channel commentator<b> </b><a data-taxonomy="person" title="Dick Morris" data-termid="16576" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/dick-morris/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;"><b>Dick </b>Morris</a>: "We must never underestimate this<b> woman.</b> We must never underestimate her chances of winning. And we must never forget the<b> fundamental danger that this woman poses to every value that we hold dear.</b> You see," says Morris," I know her."</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Although in reality, the film is "explod[ing] onto the scene" in only a handful of selected venues, the American Spectator's Quin Hillyer called it (and the companion book), "The best compendium of Hillary mendacity (and at-least-near-criminality) available right now."</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Hillyer acknowledges that he "did a final copy-edit for -- but did not write -- the book." Hillyer assures readers that the film does not merely re-hash Hillary's greatest hits, but includes "an examination of more recent scandals that never received the attention they deserved."</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>David Bossie is also the president and manager of an entity called The Presidential Coalition LLC,</b> described by SourceWatch, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy as "a Republican front group that registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a Section 527 political action committee on June 30, 2005 ... [and] is affiliated with Citizens United. The group's IRS filing stated that the PAC was "Organized to directly or indirectly accept contributions and/or make expenditures to influence the selection, nomination, election or appointment of individuals to federal, state or local public office, or office in a political organization."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bossie "was fired in 1998 from his job as chief investigator for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight -- which was investigating alleged <b><a data-taxonomy="person" title="Clinton White" data-termid="7655" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/clinton-white/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Clinton White</a> House campaign finance abuses</b> -- for his role in releasing selectively edited transcripts of former Clinton administration official Webster Hubbell's prison conversations," Media Matters for America has reported. "(Hubbell went to prison for defrauding his Little Rock, AR, law firm.)"</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He is also the author of a spate of books attacking Democrats including "Prince Albert: The Life and Lies of <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Al Gore" data-termid="8051" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/al-gore/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Al Gore</a> (2000), "Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11" (2004), and "The Many Faces of John Kerry: Why This Massachusetts Liberal Is Wrong For America" (2004).</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ramping up the rage and ranting up the rhetoric about Obama's relationship with <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Bill Ayers" data-termid="16591" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/bill-ayers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Bill Ayers</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Newsweek, David Bossie has placed Obama in his sights. The magazine reported that Bossie maintained that he was "assembling material for TV spots about Obama's ties with [Bill] Ayers, a Chicago professor and unrepentant former member of the Weather Underground, a group that bombed several government buildings to protest the Vietnam War."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shortly after Obama's victory in the Wisconsin primary, longtime conservative columnist Cliff Kincaid, accused the Illinois Senator of having "controversial socialist connections." Kincaid, the editor of Accuracy in Media, a right wing media watchdog group, and a contributing editor to FamilySecurityMatters.org, charged Obama with being "an associate of a Chicago-based Marxist group with access to millions of labor union dollars and connections to expert political consultants, including a convicted swindler."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Questions about Obama's relationship with <b><i>Ayers </i></b>were subsequently raised by conservative radio and Fox News Channel talk show host <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Sean Hannity" data-termid="10899" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/sean-hannity/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Sean Hannity</a>. <a data-taxonomy="post_tag" title="ABC" data-termid="265" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/tag/abc/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">ABC</a> News' <a data-taxonomy="person" title="George Stephanopoulos" data-termid="16250" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/george-stephanopoulos/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">George Stephanopoulos</a> asked Obama about Ayers during the Obama-Clinton debate prior to the Pennsylvania primary.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recent columns by <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Charles Krauthammer" data-termid="9593" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/charles-krauthammer/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Charles Krauthammer</a> and Ann Coulter also raised the specter of Ayers.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Krauthammer, Ayers, along with <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Tony Rezko" data-termid="12532" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/tony-rezko/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Tony Rezko</a>, "the indicted fixer," and <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Jeremiah Wright" data-termid="15738" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/jeremiah-wright/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Jeremiah Wright</a>, "the racist reverend," make up Obama's "Three Amigos":</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; border-color: rgb(61, 209, 236) rgb(61, 209, 236) rgb(61, 209, 236) rgb(221, 221, 221); margin: 60px 0px 60px 20px; padding: 20px 0px 40px 60px; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 28px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Obama makes it sound as if the relationship consists of having run into each other at the DMV. In fact, Obama's political career was launched in a 1995 meeting at Ayers' home. Obama's own campaign says that they maintain 'friendly' relations.</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Obama's defense is that he was 8 when Ayers and his Weather Underground comrades were planting bombs at the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol and other buildings. True. But Obama was 40 when Ayers said publicly that he doesn't regret setting bombs. Indeed, he said, 'I feel we didn't do enough.'</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Would you maintain friendly relations with an unrepentant terrorist? Would you even shake his hand? To ask why Obama does is perfectly legitimate and perfectly relevant to understanding what manner of man he is.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Newsweek reported that "Obama, who lives near Ayers in Chicago's Hyde Park, attended an event at Ayers's house when Obama ran for the state Senate in 1995 -- and served on the board of a nonprofit with him for several years. Obama is aware of the acts Ayers committed when he was 8 years old and has called them 'detestable,'" says spokesman Ben LaBolt, adding that Obama occasionally bumps into Ayers in his neighborhood 'but has not seen him for months.' At a recent dinner party, according to one guest who asked not to be identified discussing a private gathering, Ayers 'ridiculed' the notion that Obama shared his left-wing views: 'He thought the idea that there was a political connection between them was absurd.'"</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In early March, John Ponder of the Pensito Review wrote that Obama biographer, John K. Wilson, author of "Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest," who said that Ayers was "not affiliated with the Obama campaign</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">," described the Ayers relationship: "In 1995, State Sen. Alice Palmer held an event for supporters at the home of Ayers, where she announced her plans to run for Congress and introduced Obama as her chosen successor. Obama also served on the board of directors for a progressive foundation, the Woods Fund, from 1999-2001, when Ayers was also on the board. In 2001, Ayers gave $200 to Obama's state senate campaign fund. And Obama and Ayers appeared together on a 1997 panel at the University of Chicago dealing with juvenile justice (Obama also praised Ayers' approach on the subject in an op-ed he wrote that year), and on a 2002 panel on public intellectuals at the University of Illinois at Chicago.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just as Obama's explanations about his relationship with the Rev. <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Jeremiah Wright" data-termid="15738" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/jeremiah-wright/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Jeremiah Wright</a> -- and Wright's increased public presence -- has not put that saga to rest, there is no doubt that right wing columnists, talk show hosts, partisan advertising and public relations specialists, pundits and two longtime practitioners of negative campaigning, Floyd Brown and David Bossie, will squeeze every last drop out of the Ayers controversy.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=236<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />•••••••<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="http://www.constantinereport.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/bossie.gif" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197073887109906434" src="http://www.constantinereport.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/bossie.gif" border="0" alt="On Floyd Brown and David Bossie: Deconstructing the Obama Smear Machine" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; float: left; padding: 5px; margin: 0px 15px 15px auto; width: 200px; clear: both;" /></a>David Bossie</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The<b> 29-year-old currently works for Senator Lauch Faircloth.</b> Previously, he served as the national youth director in Senator <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Robert Dole" data-termid="14749" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/robert-dole/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Robert Dole</a>'s 1988 presidential campaign. In 1992, he became the executive director of Floyd Brown's Presidential Victory Committee which produced an ad and a 1-800 number with recordings of Gennifer Flowers' alleged conversations with Bill Clinton. Floyd Brown also worked on Dole's 1988 campaign as the Midwest political director but is most famous for creating the <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Willie Horton" data-termid="16569" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/willie-horton/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Willie Horton</a> commercial that helped sink the Dukakis campaign. <b>In May 1994, Bossie claimed to be working sixteen hours a day on Whitewater.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Additional Information on David Bossie</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bossie held August 1994 impeachment press conference with <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Howard Phillips" data-termid="16596" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/howard-phillips/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Howard Phillips</a>. On August 10, 1994 David Bossie -- who was identified as "Director of Government Relations and Communications for Citizens United" along with <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Howard Phillips" data-termid="16596" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/howard-phillips/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Howard Phillips</a> chairman of the <a data-taxonomy="post_tag" title="Conservative Caucus" data-termid="5125" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/tag/conservative-caucus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Conservative Caucus</a> held a press conference addressing the "Latest Whitewater Developments, Impeachment Possibility."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Citizens United press release, 8/10/94</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At the press conference, Bossie said he would present Jack Brooks, the House Judiciary Committee chairman with petitions with 10,000 signatures calling for impeachment hearings. Phillips said he would present Brooks with 26,000 petitions calling for Clinton's impeachment. Bossie was also highly critical of Robert Fiske at this press conference.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gannett News, 8/10/94</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Columbia Journalism Review described Bossie in May 1994. In May 1994, Trudy Lieberman, a senior editor at Consumer Reports wrote: "Bossie, the twenty-eight-year-old political director for Citizens United, a conservative Republican operation, runs an information factory whose Whitewater production lines turn out a steady stream of tips, tidbits, documents, factoids, suspicions, and story ideas for the nation's press and for Republicans on Capitol Hill. Journalists and Hill Republicans have recycled much of the information provided by Citizens United into stories that have cast a shadow on the Clinton presidency."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 1994</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The article also described him as a "source par excellence to journalists dredging the Whitewater swamp" who claims to get eighteen calls an hour.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Columbia Journalism Review, May/June1994</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 1992 Brown & Bossie harassed the family of a suicide victim.</b> In April, 1992, 30 news organizations received "an anonymous and untraceable letter" by fax "claiming Clinton had had an affair with a former law student who committed suicide 15 years ago." Floyd Brown attempted to link Clinton to the 1977 suicide of this, "emotionally distraught young woman, seven-months pregnant," Susan Coleman.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CBS Evening News, 7/13/92</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Brown's associates "repeatedly contacted the woman's family in an unsuccessful attempt to confirm the charges."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />San Francisco Chronicle, 7/28/92; "CBS Evening News," 7/13/92</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bossie and ex-DC police officer Jim Murphy questioned Susan Coleman's mother and her husband as well as her friends. They even tried to find out what was in Susan's suicide note.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"CBS Evening News," 7/13/92</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bossie and Murphy followed Susan's mother to an Army hospital in Augusta, GA where her husband was being treated for a stroke. They "burst into the sick man's room and began questioning the shaken mother about her daughter's suicide."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CBS Evening News, 7/13/92</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bossie & NBC executive producer chased Schaffer around Fayetteville. In January 1994, Brown's associate, David Bossie was seen with NBC network producer Ira Silverman attempting to interview<b> former Arkansas state Banking Commissioner Beverly Bassett Schaffer.</b> Silverman admitted using Bossie for background information, but denied working together on the interview. Schaffer's husband said the two "jumped out from behind [a] car... [and] chased her through the streets."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chicago Tribune, 3/27/94; Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 1/20/94</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beverly Bassett Schaffer said she was "ambushed" and then "stalked" around Fayetteville by Bossie and Silverman. Schaffer said that her car was rushed twice by Silverman, an NBC camera crew, and Bossie.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Fayetteville Morning News, 1/15/92</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Silverman said, "I talk to them [Brown and Bossie] along with everyone else. Back in October and November it was difficult to develop sources."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Columbia Journalism Review, 5-6/94</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Bossie claimed to be fueling Whitewater.</b> In May 1994, Bossie said that "Citizens United" had provided Whitewater information to "the top fifty major publications, networks, and editorial boards... We've provided the same material on the Hill both on the House and Senate side." Bossie also claimed that he would have gladly provided documents to Democrats, but they haven't asked.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 1994</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bossie praised Brown... called politics a "full contact sport." In 1994, Brown claimed that he was harsher and meaner than most in politics and Bossie said, "That's right, Stick and jab. Stick and jab and keep on moving. Politics. It's definitely a full-contact sport."</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">New York Times, 4/24/94</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chicago Tribune described Bossie in March 1994. In March 1994, Carol Jouzaitis of the Chicago Tribune wrote of Bossie, "The researcher, David Bossie, harvests tales of alleged wrongdoings from a network of Clinton enemies, then peddles them to Capitol Hill and media contacts in hopes of prompting scandalous stories."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chicago Tribune, 3/27/94</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Time described Bossie's dirt-digging in January 1994. In January 1994, Time magazine wrote, "Brown's associate, David Bossie has been to Little Rock several times digging for dirt.<b> Evidently some Whitewater tale tellers prefer to deal with Brown & Co., figuring Brown can be trusted to protect their sources.</b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Time, 1/24/94</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In mid-January Time reported that Floyd Brown was covertly feeding information and "hard-to-find" documents to reporters and Hill Republicans looking into Whitewater. Time said that David Bossie had been to Little Rock several times "digging for dirt." Evidently, some Whitewater "tale tellers" prefer to deal with Brown and Bossie "figuring Brown can be trusted to protect their sources."</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Time, 1/24/94</span></font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div>