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includes Arkansas Project

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http://www.slate.com/id/1007659/

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jason foster mofo staffer:

Rep. Dan Burton (**R**-IN)

*Senior Counsel

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The Vast Right Wing Con Job(Updated 12/5/2000)

http://www.starbacks.ca/CapitolHill/Parliament/2271/ lots on scaife

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fall 97 Ark Pjt closed, says wsj

Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Voices, and Viewpoints

By Roger Chapman

http://books.google.com/books?id=vRY27FkGJAUC&source=gbs_navlinks_s

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Tea Party Patriot organizers Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin—but there was also a former FBI agent known for telling wild and dubious tales about his time in the Clinton White House, and a former Republican congressman with a long history of trampling the Constitution and trading favors with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

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The FBI agent was one Gary Aldrich, who, if you recall, in 1995 wrote a bestselling "expose," Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House,claiming that, among other things, the Clintons hung sex toys and drug paraphernalia on the White House Christmas tree. (The book, naturally, made him an immediate hero of Republicans and right-wingers everywhere.) He now writes occasionally for WorldNet Daily and runs the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty, a group he founded whose advisory board includes Reagan-era luminaries Ollie North and Ed Meese. The Patrick Henry Center probably earned a few new members at the tea party for giving sweating activists a bunch of bright yellow fans emblazoned with "Stop Socialism."

Even weirder than having Aldrich on the podium, though, was the presence of former Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.). Of all the former washed up congressmen you could drag out for a tea party, Istook is probably not a first choice. A longtime darling of the Christian Right, the Mormon politician is most famous for his attempts to pass a constitutional amendment that would allow prayer in schools. His record as a social crusader doesn't exactly align with some of the tea party's more libertarian or states' rights positions, or even its reverence for the Constitution.

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 His Cheatin' Heart

During this period the editor of The American Spectator was R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., author of Boy Clinton: The Political Biography, published by Regnery. 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.”

Some $35,000 of these funds ended up with Parker Dozhier, 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. Theodore Olson, a director at the Spectator Foundation, was Hale’s lawyer in 1995 and 1996. Olson is Ken Starr’s former law partner. A grand jury is considering if illegalities were committed.

Other potential witnesses against Clinton were clearly in the cash pipeline. According to Boston Globe reporter John Aloysius Farrell:

…Peter W. Smith, 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.

Since the Spectator article in December 1993, it was known that unnamed conservative benefactors gave the troopers financial assistance. The Chicago Sun-Times pierced the veil of anonymity…identifying Smith—a big contributor to GOPAC, 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.

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.

Never Give A Clinton An Even Break

WorldNetDaily’s coverage of the attempt to disbar President Clinton is littered with one-sided stories and gaping holes.

_{By Terry Krepel}_Posted: 5/11/2000

No one was expecting balanced coverage from WorldNetDaily on the attempt to pull President Clinton’s law license. Clinton has declined to release the documents he has filed in the matter, all but inviting veteran Clinton-bashers like WorldNetDaily to pile on the hate without fear of being contradicted by the facts.

Given that, it is important to note what “investigative journalist” David M. Bresnahan doesn’t investigate in his stories on the issue.

Let’s start with the Southeastern Legal Foundation, the group bringing the action. Bresnahan refers to the group as “a public interest, non-profit law firm.” He neglects to mention that the group is a favorite receptacle of cash -- $150,000 in 1998 alone -- from billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, funder of many anti-Clinton efforts. Matthew Glavin, president of the foundation, says Scaife is among the group’s top 10 annual donors but refuses to release more specific numbers or exactly where Scaife is on the list.

And on the subject of Scaife, WorldNetDaily began life as an arm of the Western Journalism Center, another past recipient of Scaife money -- $330,000 in 1994-95. Joseph Farah, editor/CEO of WorldNetDaily, co-founded the Western Journalism Center and was its executive director, but says he has had no formal, official connection with it since October 1999.

WorldNetDaily also never mentions that L. Lynn Hogue, through whose standing as an Arkansas-licensed attorney the action against Clinton was filed, is chairman of the Southeastern Legal Foundation’s legal advisory board and the group's former general counsel. Not exactly the altruistic attorney who is quoted in Bresnahan’s May 5 story as saying he “thought it was important to step forward and say this man has to be held to account.”

Note the date of that story, May 5. The Southeastern Legal Foundation received its copy of Clinton’s response to the charges on April 28, which resulted in a WorldNetDaily story the next day. The foundation filed its rebuttal on May 8. So what happened on May 5 to warrant a story?

Nothing. The May 5 story is essentially a rehash of the April 29 story with a few more details because “WorldNetDaily has learned about the general content of Clinton’s defense” and because the story quotes Hogue instead of Glavin. Considering that the only people releasing any sort of content relating to Clinton’s defense are from the Southeastern Legal Foundation, it’s not exactly a scoop that WorldNetDaily “learned the general content.” They learned that on April 29. The May 5 story is a one-source, one-sided story that adds nothing and does nothing.

Speaking of one-sided, Bresnahan can’t even be bothered to get a response from Clinton or his attorney, David Kendall, for any of these three stories. The only sources for the stories are Glavin, Hogue and, for some unknown reason, Georgia congressman Bob Barr.

For the record, here’s what Kendall had to say in a statement released after the rebuttal was filed, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:

“The foundation isn’t interested in issues relating to Arkansas lawyers and legal services; it’s just interested in attacking the president in any way it can. ... Richard Scaife gives the foundation money, and Kenneth Starr helps raise money for it. (Starr spoke at a recent fund-raiser.) Releasing its papers to the public is just another part of the long-running partisan mudslinging campaign against the president."

WorldNetDaily considers itself, among other things, as an “exponent of truth and an uncompromising disseminator of news.” The Clinton-disbarment series shows it’s failing at both.

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wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kathleen Willey** was aWhite House volunteer aide who, on March 15, 1998, alleged on the TV news program 60 Minutes that Bill Clinton had sexually assaulted her on November 29, 1993, during his first term asPresident. She had been subpoenaed to testify in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.[1]

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Claims

According to Willey, during a meeting in the private study of the Oval Office, Clinton had embraced her tightly, kissed her on the mouth. Clinton denied assaulting Willey. The Clinton White House released details of 15 letters and 12 telephone messages that Willey had sent to Clinton after the alleged incident. In all of these, she appeared friendly and eager for more contact with Clinton.

According to Linda Tripp’s grand jury testimony, she felt Willey pursued a romance with Clinton from the start of her White House affiliation. Willey had speculated with Tripp as to how she might be able to set up an assignation between herself and the president. She routinely attended events at which Clinton would be present, wearing a black dress she believed he liked. According to Tripp’s testimony, she wondered if she and Clinton could arrange to meet in a home to which she had access, on the Chesapeake Bay.[2]

Investigation and current status

The Final Report of the U.S. Office of the Independent Counsel report noted that "Willey and President Clinton are the only direct witnesses to their meeting, and their accounts differ substantially on the crucial facts of what occurred." It also stated "Willey gave false information to the FBI about her sexual relationship with a former boyfriend, and acknowledged having lied about it when the agents confronted her with contradictory evidence. Following Willey’s acknowledgment of the lie, the Independent Counsel agreed not to prosecute her for false statements in this regard."[3] According to Independent Counsel Robert Ray’s report, "Willey’s [Paula] Jones deposition testimony differed from her grand jury testimony on material aspects of the alleged incident."[4]

According to a book critical of Clinton by Candice E. Jackson, Tripp told Larry King in February 1999 that Willey is "an honest person" who was "telling the truth" about having been sexually assaulted by Clinton.[5]However, Tripp's grand jury testimony differs from Willey's claims regarding inappropriate sexual advances.[6]

Willey has a history of controversial claims including telling the FBI she was pregnant and she had a miscarriage when she did not.[7] On the evening of March 19, 1998, Julie Hiatt Steele, a friend of Willey, released an affidavit, accusing the former White House aide of asking her to lie to corroborate Ms. Willey's account of being sexually groped by President Clinton in the Oval Office.[8] An attempt by Kenneth Starr to prosecute Steele for making false statements and obstructing justice ended in a mistrial and Starr declined to seek a retrial after Steele sought an investigation against the former Independent Counsel for prosecutorial misconduct.[9]

In March 2000, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that President Clinton had "committed a criminal violation" of the Privacy Act by releasing letters from Willey to the President that were written even after the alleged incident.[10] A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court of Appeals later criticized this ruling,[11] though Willey subsequently filed suit against the White House, over this issue.[12]

On November 6, 2007, her book Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton was published by World Ahead Media. In her book, Willey claimed that on Labor Day weekend 2007, her house was burglarized, with the only thing stolen being a manuscript of her book. Willey stated that she believes individuals with ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton are responsible for the break-in. She also filed a police report.[13]

Personal life

Willey's second husband, Edward E. Willey Jr., committed suicide on November 29, 1993 — the day she claimed Clinton's sexual misconduct took place. She wrote in her book and acknowledged in a 60 Minutesinterview her suspicions of the Clinton's involvement in her husband's suicide pointing to similarities of White House aide Vince Foster's death which was also determined as suicide.

Willey remarried in November 1999 to Bill Schwicker,[14] whom she divorced in 2006. Currently, she works and resides in Powhatan County, Virginia.[15]

See also

References

  1. Jump up "Sparking the Scandal". TIME. February 2, 1998. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  2. Jump up http://a255.g.akamaitech.net/7/255/2422/11may20041152/icreport.access.gpo.gov/hd105-316/3753-4374.pdf
  3. Jump up (OIC Final Report, Appendix B)
  4. Jump up pdf)[dead ^link]
  5. Jump up Candice E. Jackson, Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine, (World Ahead Media, 2004) page 148
  6. Jump up "Stalking the president". Salon.com. January 1999. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
  7. Jump up "The Lives Of Kathleen Willey". CNN. March 30, 1998. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
  8. Jump up John M. Broader (March 19, 1998). "Friend Accuses Willey for Plea to her to Lie". New York Times. Retrieved February 15, 2014.
  9. Jump up Peter Levy (November 30, 2001). Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 328–329. ISBN 978-0313312946. Retrieved February 15, 2014.
  10. Jump up "Judge rules White House violated privacy of Kathleen Willey". CNN. March 29, 1998. Archived from the original on January 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  11. Jump up Stout, David (May 27, 2000). "White House Loses and Gains in Ruling on a Privacy Act Case". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  12. Jump up "Willey Files Suit Against Clintons". CNN. September 21, 2000. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
  13. Jump up Kathleen Willey, Target: Caught in the cross hairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton (World Ahead Media, Nov 2007)
  14. Jump up "Kathleen's Story - Part 3". Style Weekly. Richmond, Virginia. 13 July 1999. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  15. Jump up Roop, Jason (20 February 2008). "Kathleen's Crusade". Style Weekly. Retrieved 18 February 2014.

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Juanita Broaddrick is an American former nursing home administrator from Arkansas. She alleged in 1998 that United States President Bill Clinton had raped her two decades earlier. Mr. Clinton's attorney, David Kendall, denied the allegations on his client's behalf.

Allegations against Bill Clinton

In 1997, Broaddrick had filed an affidavit with Paula Jones' lawyers that stated: "During the 1992 Presidential campaign there were unfounded rumors and stories circulated that Mr. Clinton had made unwelcome sexual advances toward me in the late seventies."[1] In a November 1998 interview with Dateline NBC, Broaddrick claimed the earlier statement was a lie and she had indeed been raped by Clinton.[2]

In an interview by Dorothy Rabinowitz for the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Broaddrick claimed that Clinton had told her not to worry about pregnancy, because childhood mumps had rendered him sterile.[3] The alleged incident occurred two years before Clinton's daughter with his wife Hillary Rodham was born. Clinton made no mention of Broaddrick or the alleged incident in his 2004 memoir My Life.

In 1984, Broaddrick's nursing facility was adjudged the best in the state, which brought a congratulatory official letter from the governor. On the bottom was a handwritten note from Clinton, saying, "I admire you very much."[4] Broaddrick said that Clinton tried to apologize to her in 1991, and claimed he had changed. In response to his apologies, as she told The Washington Post, "I told him to go to hell, and I walked off".[5]

Five people have stated that Broaddrick told them about a rape shortly after it allegedly occurred. Of these, two were Broaddrick's co-worker Norma Kelsey and her sister; Slate Explainer proposes that they may have a grudge against Clinton for commuting the sentence of the man who killed their father, noting further that a third corroborator is Broaddrick's current husband, who was involved in an extramarital affair with her at the time. Broaddrick did not tell her then-husband, Gary Hickey, of the alleged assault at the time.[6]

Broaddrick claimed she did not remember the exact date or even year in which she was allegedly raped, but she did supply the name of the hotel (Camelot), and the reason she was visiting Little Rock (a nursing home seminar) when the incident had allegedly occurred.[6] NBC News found that a nursing conference was held in the Camelot Hotel on April 25, 1978. The hotel was located in the state capital, where news reports indicate Clinton was that day, also suggesting that he had no known official commitments that morning. The Clinton White House declined to release his official schedule for the date.[5] Three weeks after this date, Broaddrick attended a Clinton fundraiser. According to The Wall Street Journal (February 19, 1999, p. A18), "Her [Broaddrick's] friend Norma Rogers, a nurse who had accompanied her on the trip", found Broaddrick distraught shortly after the time of the alleged attack.[4]

Public and press reactions

In March 1999, a few months after the allegations publicly aired, 56% of Americans believed the allegations were false, while a third believed that Broaddrick's allegation of rape was at least possibly true. Similarly, 29% of the public felt the press should continue to cover the story, while 66% felt that the media should stop pursuing the story.[7]

According to Jack Nelson, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, many journalists were skeptical: "This is a story that's been knocked down and discredited so many times, I was shocked to see it in the[Wall Street] Journal today.... [E]veryone's taken a slice of it, and after looking at it, everyone's knocked it down. The woman has changed her story about whether it happened. It just wasn't credible."[8] Joe Conasonand Gene Lyons' book The Hunting of the President argued that Broaddrick's claim is not credible and contains numerous inconsistencies. Michael Isikoff's book, Uncovering Clinton, and Christopher Hitchens' book,No One Left to Lie To, argued that Broaddrick's claim is credible and shows similarities to Paula Jones' later allegation of sexual harassment.

Clinton's attorney, David Kendall, denied the allegations on Clinton's behalf. No legal action, civil or criminal, was taken against Clinton or Broaddrick based on the allegation. Broaddrick was never called as a witness during President Clinton's impeachment proceedings in January 1999.[5] In his book, Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment, Schippers said he wanted to call Broaddrick as a witness to discuss Clinton's intimidation, but it was too late.[9]

Broaddrick filed a lawsuit against Clinton in the summer of 1999, to obtain documents which the White House may have gathered about her, claiming its refusal to accede to her demand for such documents violated the Privacy Act of 1974. The case was dismissed in 2001. During the lawsuit, Broaddrick's business was audited by the IRS which she charged was retaliation: "I do not believe this was coincidence," Broaddrick declared, "I do not think our number just came up."[10]

References

  1. Jump up The Washington Post [December 23, 1998 reported that Broaddrick was "Jane Doe #5" in the Paula Jones trial] on February 25, 1999. Her affidavit as Jane Doe #5 was posted by the *Washington Post* on December 23, 1998.
  2. Jump up Dateline NBC: November 1998. The Washington Post published a story about the interview on February 25, 1999.
  3. Jump up Editorial Commentary, Dorothy Rabinowitz; February 19, 1999; Page A18.
  4. ^ ^Jump up to:^a^ ^b^ Wall Street Journal: Juanita Broaddrick Meets the Press. February 19, 1999.
  5. ^ ^Jump up to:^a^ ^b^ ^c^ Kurtz, Howard (February 25, 1999). "Clinton Accuser's Story Aired". Washington Post. p. A15.
  6. ^ ^Jump up to:^a^ ^b^ "Is Juanita Broaddrick Telling the Truth?". Slate. March 3, 1999.
  7. Jump up Holland, Keating (March 1, 1999). "Poll: Most believe media should lay off Broaddrick allegation". CNN.
  8. Jump up Myers, Lisa (February 20, 1999). "THE UGLIEST STORY YET". Salon.
  9. Jump up Schippers, op cit, supra
  10. Jump up Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine. World Ahead Publishing, 2005. ISBN 9780974670133 p. 241.

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