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ARKANSAS CONNECTIONS
[Since the Democrats seem determined to nominate Hillary Clinton, we
thought we would offer a little historical context from our time line of
Arkansas and the Clintons, with particular emphasis on those things the
mainstream media forgot to tell you]
1988
Conservative Democrats begin a series of nearly 100 meetings held at the
home of Pam Harriman to plot strategy for the takeover of the Democratic
Party. Donors cough up $1,000 to attend and Harriman eventually raises
$12 million for her kind of Democrat. The right-wing Dems will
eventually settle on Bill Clinton as their presidential choice.
Charles Black, a prosecutor for Polk County, which includes Mena, meets
with Governor Clinton and asks for assistance in a probe of illegal
activities. "His response," Mr. Black will tell CBS News later, "was
that he would get a man on it and get back to me. I never heard back."
Following pressure from then-Arkansas Rep. Bill Alexander, the General
Accounting Office opens a Mena probe in April 1988; within four months,
the inquiry is shut down by the National Security Council, according to
a later report by Micah Morrison of the Wall Street Journal. Several
congressional subcommittee inquiries sputter and stop.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations issues a report that describes
the seriousness of the Barry Seal disaster. That report says, "Law
enforcement officials were furious that their undercover operation was
revealed and agents' lives jeopardized because one individual in the
U.S. government - Lt. Col. Oliver North - decided to play politics with
the issue . . . Associates of Seal, who operated aircraft service
businesses at the Mena, Arkansas airport, were also targets of grand
jury probes into narcotics trafficking. Despite the availability of
evidence sufficient for an indictment on money laundering charges and
over the strong protests of state and federal law enforcement officials,
the cases were dropped."
1989
Madison S&L is closed by federal regulators at an eventual cost to
taxpayers of $47 million. Jim McDougal is indicted for bank fraud
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau begins a wide-ranging
probe of BCCI. .
FDIC hires Webster Hubbell of the Rose firm to press its case concerning
Madison. Rose law firm, now representing FDIC, sues an accounting firm
for $60 million, blaming its audits for causing millions of dollars in
losses to the S&L. Although the job earns Rose $400,000 in fees and
expenses the accounting firm will eventually settle by paying the
government just $1 million.
What will later be known as the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy begins on the
left as a group of progressive students at the University of Arkansas
form the Arkansas Committee to look into Mena, drugs, money laundering
and Arkansas politics.
Dan Lee Short, a bank president, is abducted from his home in Benton
Co., Arkansas and allegedly forced to open the State Bank in Noel, MO
where $71,000 is allegedly taken. He was then murdered. Three days
before his abduction, he had told friends that he had been laundering
drug money and was in trouble.
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ARKANSAS CONNECTIONS
[Since the Democrats seem determined to nominate Hillary Clinton, we
thought we would offer a little historical context from our time line of
Arkansas and the Clintons, with particular emphasis on those things the
mainstream media forgot to tell you]
1988
Conservative Democrats begin a series of nearly 100 meetings held at the
home of Pam Harriman to plot strategy for the takeover of the Democratic
Party. Donors cough up $1,000 to attend and Harriman eventually raises
$12 million for her kind of Democrat. The right-wing Dems will
eventually settle on Bill Clinton as their presidential choice.
Charles Black, a prosecutor for Polk County, which includes Mena, meets
with Governor Clinton and asks for assistance in a probe of illegal
activities. "His response," Mr. Black will tell CBS News later, "was
that he would get a man on it and get back to me. I never heard back."
Following pressure from then-Arkansas Rep. Bill Alexander, the General
Accounting Office opens a Mena probe in April 1988; within four months,
the inquiry is shut down by the National Security Council, according to
a later report by Micah Morrison of the Wall Street Journal. Several
congressional subcommittee inquiries sputter and stop.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations issues a report that describes
the seriousness of the Barry Seal disaster. That report says, "Law
enforcement officials were furious that their undercover operation was
revealed and agents' lives jeopardized because one individual in the
U.S. government - Lt. Col. Oliver North - decided to play politics with
the issue . . . Associates of Seal, who operated aircraft service
businesses at the Mena, Arkansas airport, were also targets of grand
jury probes into narcotics trafficking. Despite the availability of
evidence sufficient for an indictment on money laundering charges and
over the strong protests of state and federal law enforcement officials,
the cases were dropped."
1989
Madison S&L is closed by federal regulators at an eventual cost to
taxpayers of $47 million. Jim McDougal is indicted for bank fraud
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau begins a wide-ranging
probe of BCCI. .
FDIC hires Webster Hubbell of the Rose firm to press its case concerning
Madison. Rose law firm, now representing FDIC, sues an accounting firm
for $60 million, blaming its audits for causing millions of dollars in
losses to the S&L. Although the job earns Rose $400,000 in fees and
expenses the accounting firm will eventually settle by paying the
government just $1 million.
What will later be known as the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy begins on the
left as a group of progressive students at the University of Arkansas
form the Arkansas Committee to look into Mena, drugs, money laundering
and Arkansas politics.
Dan Lee Short, a bank president, is abducted from his home in Benton
Co., Arkansas and allegedly forced to open the State Bank in Noel, MO
where $71,000 is allegedly taken. He was then murdered. Three days
before his abduction, he had told friends that he had been laundering
drug money and was in trouble.
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