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AS WE WIND DOWN our serialized timeline of Arkansas' Clinton years,
today's excerpt includes a couple of remarkable items: what GOP senators
told impeachment special counsel David Schippers as the issue moved from
the House to the Senate and what GOP Senator D'Amato told one of
Clinton's bodyguards in a men's room specially cleared for the purpose.
Both incidents remind us of a tremendously important point missing from
media coverage, Democratic Party defenses of Clinton and even GOP
attacks on Clinton's pre-presidential activities. Simply put, there was
far more bipartisanship to the Arkansas scandals than was ever revealed
to much of the public.
That is what the GOP senators told counsel Schippers - a Chicago
Democrat by the way: furgetaboutit. And D'Amato seemed oddly anxious to
cast the Mena story in such a way that it wouldn't harm the Republican
creators - including Dubya's daddy - of that combination CIA, Conta and
drug operation. It also was reflected in future Bush DEA director Asa
Hutchinson's mangling of several drug cases while an Arkansas US
Attorney. And it was reflected in the way investigative trails suddenly
were deserted by the Republicans when they started getting too close to
home.
To understand the Arkansas saga, it is important to understand that it
was heavily about the illegal drug trade and politicians' reactions to
it. Not just the Clintons, but Papa Bush and other Washington
Republicans. The Arkansas mini-narco republic scandals offered the media
and politicians a chance to face the terrible truth about what the war
on drugs had done to this country, but they chose not to do so.
As with prohibition, the drug war has corrupted everything from
politicians of both parties, to federal agencies and local police and to
major businesses. And still the story continues, uncovered and
undebated.
What does this have to do with Hillary Clinton? Her direct involvement
in the drug aspects of the story appear quite limited but her
involvement with the characters and morality that grew out of the
Arkansas narco state was substantial. Prohibition does that. It creates
a holistic underworld of actions, behavior and indifference to
integrity.
As we have pointed out, Rudolph Giuliani has much to atone for and
explain in this regard as well. But whether it was the Dixie Mafia or
the New York Mafia that created the political penumbra in which the
candidate thrived, the best thing an ordinary voter can do is look
elsewhere.
Neither Clinton nor Giuliani - the two frontrunners - offer a single
thing that could not be gained without the same taint of deep corruption
- simply by choosing any one of the other major candidates.
For the Democrats, the danger is the greatest because the Republicans
are clearly holding their fire until Clinton is nominated. All morality
aside, to nominate Clinton is lousy politics.
This publication was the first in America to provide the broad outline
of what would become known as the Whitewater scandals. Our report was
published several months before the Democrats nominated Bill Clinton.
Our expanded report on the Clintons in Arkansas has now been published
while there is even more time to do something about it. Without much
hope,we rest our case.
http://prorev.com/2007/08/real-arkansas-story.htm
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AS WE WIND DOWN our serialized timeline of Arkansas' Clinton years,
today's excerpt includes a couple of remarkable items: what GOP senators
told impeachment special counsel David Schippers as the issue moved from
the House to the Senate and what GOP Senator D'Amato told one of
Clinton's bodyguards in a men's room specially cleared for the purpose.
Both incidents remind us of a tremendously important point missing from
media coverage, Democratic Party defenses of Clinton and even GOP
attacks on Clinton's pre-presidential activities. Simply put, there was
far more bipartisanship to the Arkansas scandals than was ever revealed
to much of the public.
That is what the GOP senators told counsel Schippers - a Chicago
Democrat by the way: furgetaboutit. And D'Amato seemed oddly anxious to
cast the Mena story in such a way that it wouldn't harm the Republican
creators - including Dubya's daddy - of that combination CIA, Conta and
drug operation. It also was reflected in future Bush DEA director Asa
Hutchinson's mangling of several drug cases while an Arkansas US
Attorney. And it was reflected in the way investigative trails suddenly
were deserted by the Republicans when they started getting too close to
home.
To understand the Arkansas saga, it is important to understand that it
was heavily about the illegal drug trade and politicians' reactions to
it. Not just the Clintons, but Papa Bush and other Washington
Republicans. The Arkansas mini-narco republic scandals offered the media
and politicians a chance to face the terrible truth about what the war
on drugs had done to this country, but they chose not to do so.
As with prohibition, the drug war has corrupted everything from
politicians of both parties, to federal agencies and local police and to
major businesses. And still the story continues, uncovered and
undebated.
What does this have to do with Hillary Clinton? Her direct involvement
in the drug aspects of the story appear quite limited but her
involvement with the characters and morality that grew out of the
Arkansas narco state was substantial. Prohibition does that. It creates
a holistic underworld of actions, behavior and indifference to
integrity.
As we have pointed out, Rudolph Giuliani has much to atone for and
explain in this regard as well. But whether it was the Dixie Mafia or
the New York Mafia that created the political penumbra in which the
candidate thrived, the best thing an ordinary voter can do is look
elsewhere.
Neither Clinton nor Giuliani - the two frontrunners - offer a single
thing that could not be gained without the same taint of deep corruption
- simply by choosing any one of the other major candidates.
For the Democrats, the danger is the greatest because the Republicans
are clearly holding their fire until Clinton is nominated. All morality
aside, to nominate Clinton is lousy politics.
This publication was the first in America to provide the broad outline
of what would become known as the Whitewater scandals. Our report was
published several months before the Democrats nominated Bill Clinton.
Our expanded report on the Clintons in Arkansas has now been published
while there is even more time to do something about it. Without much
hope,we rest our case.
http://prorev.com/2007/08/real-arkansas-story.htm
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