William Safier on Hillary Clinton, congenital liar, January 8, 1996
Capitalist Pig
Essay: Blizzard of Lies
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad
realization that our First Lady -- a woman of undoubted talents who
was a role model for many in her generation -- is a congenital liar.
Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she
is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends
in a web of deceit.
1. Remember the story she told about studying The Wall Street Journal
to explain her 10,000 percent profit in 1979 commodity trading? We now
know that was a lie told to turn aside accusations that as the
Governor's wife she profited corruptly, her account being run by a
lawyer for state poultry interests through a disreputable broker.
She lied for good reason: To admit otherwise would be to confess
taking, and paying taxes on, what some think amounted to a $100,000
bribe.
2. The abuse of Presidential power known as Travelgate elicited
another series of lies....
3. In the aftermath of the apparent suicide of her former partner and
closest confidant, White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster... [h]er
closest friends and aides, under oath, have been blatantly
disremembering this likely obstruction of justice, and may have to pay
for supporting Hillary's lie with jail terms.
Again, the lying was not irrational. Investigators believe that
damning records from the Rose Law Firm, wrongfully kept in Vincent
Foster's White House office, were spirited out in the dead of night
and hidden from the law for two years -- in Hillary's closet...
The records show Hillary Clinton was lying when she denied actively
representing a criminal enterprise known as the Madison S.& L., and
indicate she may have conspired with Web Hubbell's father-in-law to
make a sham land deal that cost taxpayers $3 million...
By concealing the Madison billing records two days beyond the statute
of limitations, Hillary evaded a civil suit by bamboozled bank
regulators....
"Why didn't she just come clean at the beginning?" She had good
reasons to lie; she is in the longtime habit of lying; and she has
never been called to account for lying herself or in suborning lying
in her aides and friends....