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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]
1991
The Arkansas Industrial Development Commission furthers the Indonesian -
Arkansas connection. Deals are worked on for Wal-Mart, Tyson's Foods,
and JB Hunt. The US ambassador in Jakarta at the time will later remark,
"There were lots of people from Arkansas who came through Indonesia."
An IRS memorandum reveals that even at this late date "the CIA still has
ongoing operations out of the Mena, AR airport."
Arkansas State Police investigator Russell Welch, who has been working
with IRS investigator Bill Duncan on drug running and money laundering
at Mena, develops pneumonia-like symptoms. The Washington Weekly later
described the incident: "On the weekend of September 21, 1991, Arkansas
State Police Investigator Russell Welch met with IRS Investigator Bill
Duncan to write a report on their investigation of Mena drug smuggling
and money laundering and send it to Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence
Walsh.. Returning to Mena on Sunday, Welch told his wife that he didn't
feel too well. He thought he had gotten the flu . . . In Fort Smith a
team of doctors were waiting. Dr. Calleton had called them twice while
Welch was in transport and they had been in contact with the CDC. Later
the doctor would tell Welch's wife that he was on the edge of death. He
would not have made it through the night had he not been in the
hospital. He was having fever seizures by now. A couple of days after
Welch had been admitted to St. Edwards Mercy Hospital, his doctor was
wheeling him to one of the labs for testing when she asked him if he was
doing anything at work that was particularly dangerous. He told her that
he had been a cop for about 15 years and that danger was probably
inherent with the job description. She told Welch that they believed he
had anthrax. She said the anthrax was the military kind that is used as
an agent of biological warfare and that it was induced. Somebody had
deliberately infected him. She added that they had many more tests to
run but they had already started treating him for anthrax."
While in Washington, D.C., where he holds a permit to carry a gun, IRS
agent Bill Duncan is arrested for weapons possession (his service
revolver), roughed up and handcuffed to a pipe in the basement of a DC
police station. After the incident he is taken off of the Mena
investigation. Later, when he was asked to falsify testimony for a
federal grand jury, he refuses and is fired on the spot.
State Attorney General Winston Bryant and Arkansas Rep. Bill Alexander
send two boxes of Mena files to special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh.
Bryant says the boxes contain "credible evidence of gunrunning, illegal
drug smuggling, money laundering and the governmental coverup and
possibly a criminal conspiracy in connection with the Mena Airport."
Seventeen months later, Walsh writes Bryant a letter saying, without
explanation, that he had closed his investigation. Says Alexander later,
"The feds dropped the ball and covered it up. I have never seen a
whitewash job like this case."
The day Clinton announces his candidacy for the White House, Meredith
Oakley sizes him up in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette: "His word is dirt.
Not a statesman is he, but a common, run-of-the-mill, dime-a-dozen
politician. A mere opportunist. A man whose word is fallow ground not
because it is unwanted but because it is barren, bereft of the
clean-smelling goodness that nurtures wholesome things. Those of us who
cling to the precepts of another age, a time in which a man's word was
his bond, and, morally, bailing out was not an option, cannot join the
madding crowd in celebrating what is for some Bill Clinton's finest
hour. We cannot rejoice in treachery. The bleaters who care more for
celebrity than veracity are basking in a false and empty light. They
trumpet the basest form of political expediency, for they revel amid the
debris of a broken promise. Clinton will never accept that assessment of
his actions or his following. He subscribes to the credo that the
anointed must rule the empire, and he has anointed himself. In his
ambition-blinded eyes, one released from a promise has not broken any
promise. He ignores the fact that he granted his own pardon."
Clinton buddy and Little Rock restaurant owner, Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie,
starts Daihatsu International Trading Co., with offices in Arkansas,
Washington, and Beijing.
The Federal Reserve begins an investigation of BCCI's alleged control of
First American Bank. A few months later BCCI itself is shut down in what
would be revealed as the world's biggest bank scandal ever. Bill Clinton
announces for president. Among his targets: "S&L crooks and self-serving
CEOs."
1992
The Worthen Bank gives Clinton a $3.5 million line of credit allowing
the cash-strapped candidate to finish the primaries. Stephens Inc.
employees give Clinton more than $100,000 for his presidential campaign.
Little Rock Worldwide Travel provides Clinton with $1 million in
deferred billing for his campaign trips. Clinton aide David Watkins
boasts to a travel magazine, "Were it not for World Wide Travel here,
the Arkansas governor may never have been in contention for the highest
office in the land." In fact, without the Worthen and Worldwide largess,
it is unlikely that the cash-strapped candidate could have survived
through the later primaries.
Money magazine reports that Clinton annually receives about $1.4 million
in admissions tickets to the state-regulated Oaklawn racetrack which he
hands out to campaign contributors and others.
According to Brooks Jackson of CNN, the commission that regulates
Arkansas's only greyhound track meets several times a year at the
track's exclusive Kennel Club, with the Southland Greyhound Park paying
for the commissioners' food and booze.
Gennifer Flowers records her last conversation with Bill Clinton. On the
tape Clinton says, "If they ever ask if you've talked to me about it,
you can say no." Clinton describes Mario Cuomo as a "mean son of a
bitch" and when Flowers says, "I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't have
some Mafioso connections," the reply is: "Well, he acts like one,"
followed by a chuckle. Of the press, Clinton advises, "If they ever hit
you with it, just say no and go on. There's nothing they can do. I
expected them to look into it and come interview you. But if everybody
is on record denying it, no problem" Many papers, including the
Washington Post and the New York Times, fail to let their readers know
what is on the tapes. In 1997 Gennifer Flowers, interviewed by Penny
Crone and Curtis Sliwa on New York's WABC, will claim that she had
received threats -- including death threats -- around the time of her
tape recorded conversations with Bill Clinton and that this was why she
had made the recordings. Asked whether she thought Clinton was behind
the threats, Flowers replies, "What I thought, after my home was
ransacked, was that he was behind that -- simply because I had called to
tell him about it and it was his reaction it. I mean, he acted, he was
aloof. Her didn't act that concerned. He said, 'Well, why do you think
they came in there?' And I said, 'Well, why the hell do you think?' He
said, 'Well, do you think they were looking for something on us?' I
said, 'Well, yes.' And at that moment I thought, well, maybe you're
behind this because he would have as much interest to know what evidence
I might have as anyone else would." Flowers also said, "One thing that
Bill said on those tapes that I think has run true throughout his
presidency. He told me, 'If we stick together and we continue to deny
it, everything will be OK."
A survey of campaign reporters finds that by February, 90% favor Clinton
for president.
The Pine Bluff Commercial notes: "It's very difficult to catch Bill
Clinton in a flat lie. His specialty is a lengthy disingenuousness."
Former Miss Arkansas Sally Perdue goes on the Sally Jesse Raphael Show
and says she had an affair with Bill Clinton. . . After the TV show,
Perdue says she was visited by a man who described himself as a
Democratic Party operative and who warned her not to reveal specifics of
the affair. "He said there were people in high places who were anxious
about me and they wanted me to know that keeping my mouth shut would be
worthwhile. . . If I was a good little girl, and didn't kill the
messenger; I'd be set for life: a federal job, nothing fancy but a
regular paycheck. . . I'd never have to worry again. But if I didn't
take the offer, then they knew that I went jogging by myself and he
couldn't guarantee what would happen to my 'pretty little legs.'"
Perdue says she later found a shotgun cartridge on the driver's seat of
her Jeep and had her back window shattered.
James Riady, his family, and employees give $700,000 to Clinton and the
Democratic campaign.
During the New Hampshire primary Clinton flies back to Little Rock to
preside over the execution of Ricky Ray Rector. The prisoner was so
brain damaged that he saved his pie to eat later. Rector was accustomed
to placing his dessert in a corner of the cell to be eaten just before
he went to sleep.
Resolution Trust Corporation field officers forward a criminal referral
on Madison Guaranty to Charles Banks, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern
District of Arkansas. The referral alleges a check-kiting scheme by
Madison owners Jim and Susan McDougal and names the Clintons and Jim Guy
Tucker as possible beneficiaries. Banks forwards the referral to
Washington.
After the election Vincent Foster meets with James McDougal and arranges
for him to buy the Clintons' remaining shares in Whitewater Development
Co. for $1,000.
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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]
1991
The Arkansas Industrial Development Commission furthers the Indonesian -
Arkansas connection. Deals are worked on for Wal-Mart, Tyson's Foods,
and JB Hunt. The US ambassador in Jakarta at the time will later remark,
"There were lots of people from Arkansas who came through Indonesia."
An IRS memorandum reveals that even at this late date "the CIA still has
ongoing operations out of the Mena, AR airport."
Arkansas State Police investigator Russell Welch, who has been working
with IRS investigator Bill Duncan on drug running and money laundering
at Mena, develops pneumonia-like symptoms. The Washington Weekly later
described the incident: "On the weekend of September 21, 1991, Arkansas
State Police Investigator Russell Welch met with IRS Investigator Bill
Duncan to write a report on their investigation of Mena drug smuggling
and money laundering and send it to Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence
Walsh.. Returning to Mena on Sunday, Welch told his wife that he didn't
feel too well. He thought he had gotten the flu . . . In Fort Smith a
team of doctors were waiting. Dr. Calleton had called them twice while
Welch was in transport and they had been in contact with the CDC. Later
the doctor would tell Welch's wife that he was on the edge of death. He
would not have made it through the night had he not been in the
hospital. He was having fever seizures by now. A couple of days after
Welch had been admitted to St. Edwards Mercy Hospital, his doctor was
wheeling him to one of the labs for testing when she asked him if he was
doing anything at work that was particularly dangerous. He told her that
he had been a cop for about 15 years and that danger was probably
inherent with the job description. She told Welch that they believed he
had anthrax. She said the anthrax was the military kind that is used as
an agent of biological warfare and that it was induced. Somebody had
deliberately infected him. She added that they had many more tests to
run but they had already started treating him for anthrax."
While in Washington, D.C., where he holds a permit to carry a gun, IRS
agent Bill Duncan is arrested for weapons possession (his service
revolver), roughed up and handcuffed to a pipe in the basement of a DC
police station. After the incident he is taken off of the Mena
investigation. Later, when he was asked to falsify testimony for a
federal grand jury, he refuses and is fired on the spot.
State Attorney General Winston Bryant and Arkansas Rep. Bill Alexander
send two boxes of Mena files to special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh.
Bryant says the boxes contain "credible evidence of gunrunning, illegal
drug smuggling, money laundering and the governmental coverup and
possibly a criminal conspiracy in connection with the Mena Airport."
Seventeen months later, Walsh writes Bryant a letter saying, without
explanation, that he had closed his investigation. Says Alexander later,
"The feds dropped the ball and covered it up. I have never seen a
whitewash job like this case."
The day Clinton announces his candidacy for the White House, Meredith
Oakley sizes him up in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette: "His word is dirt.
Not a statesman is he, but a common, run-of-the-mill, dime-a-dozen
politician. A mere opportunist. A man whose word is fallow ground not
because it is unwanted but because it is barren, bereft of the
clean-smelling goodness that nurtures wholesome things. Those of us who
cling to the precepts of another age, a time in which a man's word was
his bond, and, morally, bailing out was not an option, cannot join the
madding crowd in celebrating what is for some Bill Clinton's finest
hour. We cannot rejoice in treachery. The bleaters who care more for
celebrity than veracity are basking in a false and empty light. They
trumpet the basest form of political expediency, for they revel amid the
debris of a broken promise. Clinton will never accept that assessment of
his actions or his following. He subscribes to the credo that the
anointed must rule the empire, and he has anointed himself. In his
ambition-blinded eyes, one released from a promise has not broken any
promise. He ignores the fact that he granted his own pardon."
Clinton buddy and Little Rock restaurant owner, Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie,
starts Daihatsu International Trading Co., with offices in Arkansas,
Washington, and Beijing.
The Federal Reserve begins an investigation of BCCI's alleged control of
First American Bank. A few months later BCCI itself is shut down in what
would be revealed as the world's biggest bank scandal ever. Bill Clinton
announces for president. Among his targets: "S&L crooks and self-serving
CEOs."
1992
The Worthen Bank gives Clinton a $3.5 million line of credit allowing
the cash-strapped candidate to finish the primaries. Stephens Inc.
employees give Clinton more than $100,000 for his presidential campaign.
Little Rock Worldwide Travel provides Clinton with $1 million in
deferred billing for his campaign trips. Clinton aide David Watkins
boasts to a travel magazine, "Were it not for World Wide Travel here,
the Arkansas governor may never have been in contention for the highest
office in the land." In fact, without the Worthen and Worldwide largess,
it is unlikely that the cash-strapped candidate could have survived
through the later primaries.
Money magazine reports that Clinton annually receives about $1.4 million
in admissions tickets to the state-regulated Oaklawn racetrack which he
hands out to campaign contributors and others.
According to Brooks Jackson of CNN, the commission that regulates
Arkansas's only greyhound track meets several times a year at the
track's exclusive Kennel Club, with the Southland Greyhound Park paying
for the commissioners' food and booze.
Gennifer Flowers records her last conversation with Bill Clinton. On the
tape Clinton says, "If they ever ask if you've talked to me about it,
you can say no." Clinton describes Mario Cuomo as a "mean son of a
bitch" and when Flowers says, "I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't have
some Mafioso connections," the reply is: "Well, he acts like one,"
followed by a chuckle. Of the press, Clinton advises, "If they ever hit
you with it, just say no and go on. There's nothing they can do. I
expected them to look into it and come interview you. But if everybody
is on record denying it, no problem" Many papers, including the
Washington Post and the New York Times, fail to let their readers know
what is on the tapes. In 1997 Gennifer Flowers, interviewed by Penny
Crone and Curtis Sliwa on New York's WABC, will claim that she had
received threats -- including death threats -- around the time of her
tape recorded conversations with Bill Clinton and that this was why she
had made the recordings. Asked whether she thought Clinton was behind
the threats, Flowers replies, "What I thought, after my home was
ransacked, was that he was behind that -- simply because I had called to
tell him about it and it was his reaction it. I mean, he acted, he was
aloof. Her didn't act that concerned. He said, 'Well, why do you think
they came in there?' And I said, 'Well, why the hell do you think?' He
said, 'Well, do you think they were looking for something on us?' I
said, 'Well, yes.' And at that moment I thought, well, maybe you're
behind this because he would have as much interest to know what evidence
I might have as anyone else would." Flowers also said, "One thing that
Bill said on those tapes that I think has run true throughout his
presidency. He told me, 'If we stick together and we continue to deny
it, everything will be OK."
A survey of campaign reporters finds that by February, 90% favor Clinton
for president.
The Pine Bluff Commercial notes: "It's very difficult to catch Bill
Clinton in a flat lie. His specialty is a lengthy disingenuousness."
Former Miss Arkansas Sally Perdue goes on the Sally Jesse Raphael Show
and says she had an affair with Bill Clinton. . . After the TV show,
Perdue says she was visited by a man who described himself as a
Democratic Party operative and who warned her not to reveal specifics of
the affair. "He said there were people in high places who were anxious
about me and they wanted me to know that keeping my mouth shut would be
worthwhile. . . If I was a good little girl, and didn't kill the
messenger; I'd be set for life: a federal job, nothing fancy but a
regular paycheck. . . I'd never have to worry again. But if I didn't
take the offer, then they knew that I went jogging by myself and he
couldn't guarantee what would happen to my 'pretty little legs.'"
Perdue says she later found a shotgun cartridge on the driver's seat of
her Jeep and had her back window shattered.
James Riady, his family, and employees give $700,000 to Clinton and the
Democratic campaign.
During the New Hampshire primary Clinton flies back to Little Rock to
preside over the execution of Ricky Ray Rector. The prisoner was so
brain damaged that he saved his pie to eat later. Rector was accustomed
to placing his dessert in a corner of the cell to be eaten just before
he went to sleep.
Resolution Trust Corporation field officers forward a criminal referral
on Madison Guaranty to Charles Banks, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern
District of Arkansas. The referral alleges a check-kiting scheme by
Madison owners Jim and Susan McDougal and names the Clintons and Jim Guy
Tucker as possible beneficiaries. Banks forwards the referral to
Washington.
After the election Vincent Foster meets with James McDougal and arranges
for him to buy the Clintons' remaining shares in Whitewater Development
Co. for $1,000.
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