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Ironword

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Mar 6, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/6/97

Does anyone handily have the FAQs for a.c-e.c.w? If so, can you post them
in toto?

Wayne Mann

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Mar 9, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/9/97

iron...@aol.com (Ironword) wrote:

>Does anyone handily have the FAQs for a.c-e.c.w? If so, can you >post them in toto?

I am going to post several posts here in a row, all
with this subject title. This are for people that have not
been reading this newsgroup since the beginning. The old
timers will have seen them all before. I hope they will
help newer people. Thank you.

Below are several "charts" I have collected over the last
couple years. Most or all are by "Edward W. Zehr"
<ez...@capaccess.org> for which I thank him.

I suggest using a word processor, setting the FONT to
Courier, size 10. This should align everything up properly.

IMPROPER TRANSFER OF INFORMATION FROM

RTC/SBA to TREASURY to WHITE HOUSE RTC
referral
that
might
quashed have led
to
+-------> criminal

(6) |
investigation
| of

Paula Casey Clintons

___Madison S&L_ U.S. Atty. in

/ | Little Rock

RTC / | ^

_______/____ The McDougals__ |

^\ \ RTC (2)|

inves-| \ >----------+->Treasury-----+

tiga- | \__ Jim Guy Tucker_/ criminal | Dept. |

tion | ^ referrals | | |

| |___________ | | |

| \ | | |

+------- indictments <------------+ | |

\ | |

(?) (5) | |

\ | |

SBA SBA \ \|/ |

--------->David Hale ----> Report ------+->White House |

investiga- | | \ | | |

tion | | \ | Bruce |
(4)
| (3) | \ (?) Lindsey

| | \ | |
| | \ \|/ \|/

+---allegations that WJC -------->Bill Clinton

pressured Hale to make | ^

an illegal loan | |

(1) | (?)

_________________________________ | |

Neil Eggleston, WH Assoc. Counsel<-----+

David Kendall, WJC's Attorney<--+ (7)

| SBA David Hale report
was
| improperly passed to

Web Hubbell--+ Neil Eggleston

(8) 3 WW Files

Rose Law |

---------(Vince Foster)--+

Firm

THE DETAILS:

(1) Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, chairman of the Whitewater
Committee,
has subpoenaed the notes taken by former Associate
White House
Counsel William Kennedy about a meeting held Nov. 5,
1993 with
several WH lawyers and David Kendall, Clinton's
personal
attorney.

(2) Clinton's appointees in the Treasury Dept. saw to it
that his
staff, and perhaps the president himself, knew about
criminal
referrals forwarded to Treasury by the RTC regarding
its
investigation into the failure of Madison S&L owned by
former
FOB and Clinton business partner James McDougal. These
referrals led to the indictment of the McDougals and
Clinton's
successor, Gov. Jim Guy Tucker of Ark.

(3) Clinton's WH aides obtained an SBA report on the
investigation
of David Hale, who has accused Clinton of pressuring
him to
make an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal while
Clinton
was Governor of Arkansas.

(4) A few weeks prior to the Nov. 5 meeting, WH Deputy
Counsel
Bruce Lindsey relayed information to Clinton concerning
the
RTC investigation.

(5) Clinton may have passed along to Tucker the information
he
obtained from Lindsey. This would be an improper use of

confidential information involving a criminal
investigation.

(6) Just after the Nov. 5 meeting the U.S. Attorney in
Little
Rock, Paula Casey, a former law student of Clinton and
a
worker in his campaigns, quashed the one referral that
might
have led to a criminal investigation of the Clintons
themselves. THEN she recused herself.

(7) Weeks after the meeting, Neil Eggleston got a copy of
the
report on the SBA investigation of David Hale. The
Justice
Department promptly demanded the return of the report,
which
Eggleston did, AFTER making a copy of a key page.
Needless to
say, he can't remember which one, or what was on it.

(8) Web Hubbell, the former Associate Attorney General
jailed for
defrauding clients of the Rose Law Firm, had turned
over files
on the failed Madison S&L to the Clinton's personal
attorney,
David Kendall, four months after the death of Vince
Foster.
The files include information on Hillary Clinton's
representation of Madison as a lawyer for the Rose Law
Firm.
Mrs. Clinton has sought to minimize her participation
in the
Madison case. Sen. D'Amato has said that the documents
may
have been removed from Vince Foster's office after his
death.
They do not appear in any of the inventories made of
documents
in Foster's possession.

(9) Notes of the meeting taken by William Kennedy have been
subpoenaed by the Senate Whitewater Committee. Clinton
initially refused to allow Kennedy to comply, pleading
attorney - client privilege. He subsequently offered to
relinquish the notes but imposed conditions that would
delay
the release for months. The committee will ask the
Senate to
seek redress through civil contempt proceedings.
Republicans
believe Mr. Kennedy's notes are not privileged and may
contain
"critical evidence" on whether WH officials improperly
received information on a confidential RTC
investigation of
Madison S&L and its ties to Whitewater Development
Corp., and
whether the Justice Dept. improperly handled 10
criminal
referrals in the inquiry.

THE POINT: The activities of various Clinton appointees have
given
rise to suspicions that they may have been involved in
improper
activities designed to shield the president and his wife
from
possible investigations involving them.

It would be improper for the president to have access to
official
information regarding such investigations. This could be the
basis
for allegations of obstruction of justice if it were found
that
such information was used to impede the investigations.

Sources: The Washington Times, December 12, 1995
The Washington Times, December 15, 1995
The London Telegraph, December 13, 1995

THE FLAP OVER THE FOSTER DOCUMENTS AND HILLARY'S PHONE
CALLS

(7)

Vince Foster------->documents in --+-------+

| Foster's | |

| office | |

found dead in | |

+--Ft. Marcy Park | |

| | | |

| \|/ (1) | |

| Justice Dept.-----> Nussbaum -----(|) |

| | | |

+->Hillary Clinton | | |

| | | |

(2) \|/ | | (6)|

+----- phone calls--------|-----------|------(|)

| | | | |(4)

| | | | |

| (4) \|/ | (5)| |

| S. Thomases-----> Nussbaum ------(/) |

(3) W. Burton | . |

Hillary's | | JD investigators |

affidavit | | |

| | | (6a) phone calls \|/(7)

+->Senate WW +------------------------->WH aide Maggie
Committee---------------------------- Williams seen

| taking docs

| (8) from Foster's

+---------Real estate & <--(?)---office.

banking deals

involving the

Clintons

THE DETAILS:

(1) In the hours immediately following the discovery of
Vince
Foster's body, Bernard Nussbaum agreed to allow
investigators
from the Justice Dept. to review Foster's documents.

(2) Hillary Clinton made a series of phone calls from her
mother's
home in Little Rock.

(3) In a legally binding affidavit, Hillary said, "I do not
recall
all the people I spoke with that evening, although I do
know
I spoke with my husband and to others who shared my
grief over
Vince's death." Critics say that she is stonewalling.

(4) Circumstantial evidence also raises questions about
Hillary
Clinton's involvement in limiting the search of
Foster's
office. Phone records show numerous calls the day of
the
search between Williams and Hillary Clinton and between
the
first lady and Thomases. At 7:57 on the morning of
the
search, there was a three-minute call from Hillary
Clinton's
mother's home to Thomases' hotel in Washington. One

minute later, Thomases called Nussbaum. One of
Nussbaum's
assistants has testified that Nussbaum told him
Thomases and
Hillary Clinton did not want the Justice Department to
have
"unfettered access" to Foster's files.

Bill Burton, an aide to former chief of staff Mack
McLarty,
remembers talking to Hillary on the night of Foster's
death
(11:41 p.m. Eastern time). The conversation lasted 10
minutes.
Mr. Burton has been asked to testify by the Senate WW
Committee.

(5) Nussbaum reneged on his deal with the Justice
Department to
allow their investigators to review Foster's documents.
Senate
investigators hope that Burton will shed some light on
whether
Hillary's phone calls were related to the reversal of
Nussbaum's decision.

(6) Senate investigators also hope to determine whether
Hillary
discussed with her friends and WH aides how to discover
and
dispose of the documents in Foster's office.

(6a)According to the Washington Post:
"Last week, new records turned over by Thomases' law
firm show
that shortly after Justice Department officials,
unhappy
with Nussbaum's restrictions, left Foster's office,
Thomases
called Williams for the fifth time that day. Within an
hour,
Nussbaum and Williams have both testified, they entered

Foster's office and again went though files. After
that
search, Williams had an aide move a box of files from
Foster's
office into the White House residential quarters, to a
third-floor closet. Those files would be part of
another
curious set of circumstances five days later. On July
27,
Barnett, then the Clintons' personal lawyer, was
summoned to
the White House to go over some of the Clintons'
personal
files taken from Foster's office. Barnett said Williams
met
him at the White House, took him to the third floor,
and
was at his side as he went through records. Williams
said
she does not remember this."

(7) Williams denies taking anything from the office, but
a
Secret Service agent testified that he saw her
carrying a
stack of files from the area of his office.

(8) Questions regarding the documents in Foster's office:

* Do the documents deal with real estate and
banking
deals of a questionable nature in which the
Clintons
were involved?

* Did the contents of the documents lead Hillary's
associates to obstruct justice - at her
instigation?

* Did copies of the documents wind up in the hands
of
others?

THE POINT:

Hillary Clinton's chief of staff Margaret Williams, and some
of
Hillary's closest friends, including New York lawyer
Susan
Thomases have been accused by Republicans of conspiring to
keep
authorities out of Foster's office and to remove personal
files
and papers. They have suggested that these efforts amounted
to
possible obstruction of justice by White House aides and
that in
their repeated and conflicting accounts of the events, these
witnesses may have committed perjury.

IF Hillary Clinton intervened to have documents removed from
Foster's office on the night of his death, and IF she
persuaded
Mr. Nussbaum to renege on his agreement to allow the Justice
Dept.
to inspect the documents, and IF the documents contain
information
relevant to questionable financial deals involving the
Clintons,
Hillary Clinton may be susceptible to the allegation that
she
obstructed justice.

Source: The Washington Times, December 15, 1995.
The Washington Post, December 20, 1995

A little remembered "scandal" of the administration early on
is that
the Phoenix Group (headed by Patsy Thomason, previously a
Lasiter company)
bought a "large" block of SeaAlaska stock just days before
Tyson
announced a buyout bid. SeaAlaska is the largest fleet under
the American
flag besides the Navy. Pres. Clinton through executive order
signed over
something like 70% of the North Pacific catch to SeaAlaska
just days
later. Here in Seattle, the private investigative firm that
previously
maintained the security and anti-drug smuggling efforts for
the company
was fired only weeks later (and not replaced). Under this
buyout, the
Phoenix Group made millions... Does this sound like insider
trading or
what? Just another payoff to all his friends maybe? Consider
that Clinton
owed Tyson and Lasiter big time... Tyson and Lasiter having
bankrolled
Clintons campaign the later part of which the Clinton
campaign was out
of money... Clinton used Tysons jet (allegedly free of
charge) during
the campaign The possibility is that Tyson would have made
it possible
for Clinton to pay off Lasiter by leaking the information
that they would
make a buyout bid soon... The Phoenix Group naturally
invested heavily and
made a killing... in return for allowing Clinton to funnel
this money to
Lassiter and friends, Tyson got an increased share of the
catch thus
making up and surpassing any losses caused by the Phoenix
Group purchase of
stocks which would have drove up SeaAlaska stock prices...
And Tysons new
shipping fleet was freed from drug smuggling investigators
previously
hired by SeaAlaska...

On 16 Dec 1995, John Dulaney wrote:

> Oh - THOSE scandals...
>
>
> A CONCISE GUIDE TO THE CLINTON SCANDALS
>
> ______Jean Lewis_________
> / \
> / Web Hubbell RTC criminal
> / / \ referrals
> / Arkansas \ \
> The Clintons ___Whitewater__Indictments RTC/Treasury coverup
> |\ \ \
> | \___ Travelgate__ \___ David Hale's loan_
> | | \ |
> | ? \____ Billy Dale Trial |
> |WH coverup & | Helen \ |
> |_office search| Dickey \__Missing documents|
> | \ | \ |
> | \___Vince Foster's death______ Fiske coverup |
> | \ |\ |
> | \_Foreign trips | \___ Starr coverup |
> The Ives | | |
> case-Mena | Walsh coverup/9 quashed |_Park Police coverup|
> connection | \ investigations | |
> +--------->| \ The Ives case(A) |_Forged suicide note|
> | | \ / |
> | |___ Mena____ L.D. Brown allegations ___________|
> | | | \
> | | massive \__ Terry Reed Litigation Larry Nichols
> | | media & \ / |
> | +---<| congressnl.\__ Money Laundering ___ ADFA___(B) |
> | | | coverup |
> | | | |
> | | |____ Troopergate ________Allegations of troopers |
> | | | \ \ |
> | Lasater |____ Paula Jones affair \________ Gennifer Flowers
> | - ADFA | \ Sally Perdue
> |connection| \ "Bimbo Eruptions"
> | | |_____"The Body Count"___Kathy Ferguson ++ |
> | | | | \ \ |
> | | | | \__ Dennis Patrick \___Luther "Jerry" Parks +
> | | | |(A) | |
> +---------<| |__ The Ives Case | |
> | | ++++++++ | |
> | |_____Allegations of|cocaine use____
> | | | \
> +--->| (B)ADFA | \
> | \ | \
> | \_The Lasater connection___"Angel Fire"
> | | |
> |____ Diversion of bank funds to|campaign __
> | personal and business use | |
> | | |
> |______Political favors for business favors_|_______
> | \ \ | |
> | \___The Tyson connection__ \_Flowerwood Farms |
> | \ | \ \ |
> | \___ Cattlegate_|_ HRC's shady business deals
> | \ | |\ |
> | \__ Jim Blair | \__Rose Law Firm
> | "Red" Bone | |
> | | |
> |____ HRC's medical stock windfall_| Vince Foster +
> | | Web Hubbell
> |____ HRC's Health Panel deceptions- Bernie Nussbaum
> |
> |____ WJC's draft dodging deceptions
> |
> |____ WJC's participation in foreign anti-U.S.
> demonstrations during the Vietnam War
>
>
> NOTE: "+" denotes a death, possibly related to "the body
> count."
> - Unknown source -
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> THE MADISON S&L SCAM
>
> +---->Ark. Securities Dept.
> | (1) Sweetheart regulator
> | appointed by Clinton
> | | ^
> plan to raise | |
> capital to keep| (5) |
> Madison open | financial favors
> | | |
> | lenient |
> | oversight |
> Hillary on | |
> $2000/mo.<--+ | |
> | | | (2)
> McDougal---+ Clinton campaigns
> Depositors-->Madison------>[Ark. pols, FOBs]----+--->default
> ^ S&L Whitewater, &c. |
> | ^ |
> | | belly up |
> [$50 mil] | (3) |
> | X non-payment |
> | (4) | |
> | | |
> [USG]<<<<<<<<<+-------------------------------+
> USG must
> pay off
> depositors
>
>
> THE DETAILS:
>
> (1) Jim McDougal put Hillary Clinton on a $2,000/mo. retainer to
> represent Madison S&L. (He says he did it at Clinton's
> request. Clinton denies this). Soon afterward, Gov. Clinton
> appointed Beverly Bassett Schaffer, formerly McDougal's
> lawyer, to lead the state agency in charge of overseeing
> S&L's. According to McDougal, the appointment was made at his
> request.
>
>
> (2) Madison made a number of large loans to friends and
> supporters of Clinton during the 1980's. Funds were also bled
> off through a series of dummy companies into various Clinton
> campaigns, Whitewater Development Corp. and other McDougal
> investments.
>
>
> (3) In 1989, after what looks like soft treatment from Schaffer,
> Madison went belly-up, sticking American taxpayers with...
>
>
> (4) $50-$60 million in bad loans many of them to politicians and
> other favorites of McDougal (including several who were also
> close to Clinton).
>
>
> (5) In 1979, according to McDougal, the Clintons were to pay
> $9,000 up front for their half of Whitewater. CNN has
> reported that even that tiny amount apparently the Clintons'
> portion of a down payment on the $203,000 Whitewater property
> was paid by McDougal, via a personal loan to the Clintons
> from one of his banks which they seem never to have repaid.
> Other news reports contain suggestions from McDougal that he
> may have taken care of other expenses on the Clintons'
> behalf.
>
> In December 1980, yet another bank then owned by McDougal,
> Kingston Bank & Trust, loaned Hillary Clinton $30,000. She
> used it to build a model house on a Whitewater lot. She then
> sold the house on the lot (which Whitewater had deeded to her
> for free), repurchased it in default, and finally resold both
> for a gain, not counting expenses, of $20,000 and a reported
> $1,640 net capital gain to her personally. Later, Susan P.
> Thomases, a lawyer for the Clintons, said Mrs. Clinton's
> $30,000 mortgage was solely a Whitewater corporate debt.
> Vincent W. Foster, Jr. (Hillary's former law partner,
> also amended the Clintons' tax returns to shift interest
> payments on this same $30,000 loan to Whitewater.
>
> Source: Lynn Chu, COMMENTARY magazine, March 1994
>
>
> THE POINT: To put it bluntly, Clinton appears to have appointed a
> "sweetheart" regulator who permitted his business partner,
> McDougal, to loot an S&L to the benefit of the Clintons as well
> as McDougal's friends and business associates. The taxpayers
> picked up the $50 million tab.
>
>
> CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
>
>
> Governor (spouse)
> Bill Clinton-----------Hillary Clinton
> | \ / |
> | \ / |
> | Whitewater Development Corp. |
> | (business partnership) |
> | \ / |
> | \ / (partner)
> | \ / |
> (1) | \ /(client) |
> (appointment) +-> McDougal--------Rose Law Firm
> | | Madison S&L (2) |
> | | ^ |
> | (former lawyer) | (legal services)
> | | | (3) |
> | |(regulation) |
> | | | |
> +--------> Beverly Bassett <-------+
> Ark. Securities Dept.
>
>
> (1) "Almost immediately after his inauguration in January 1985,
> Gov. Clinton replaced his Securities Department Chief...with a
> friend, Beverly Bassett [McDougal's former lawyer]."
>
> (2) "The Rose Law Firm outlined a strategy to keep Madison going,
> and even expand it. It was a unique plan to raise capital by
> selling preferred stock in the failing operation...An assistant of
> Hillary's worked on the case, and wrote Ms. Bassett at least two
> letters on behalf of Madison Guaranty. One was quite optimistic -
> for no reason - and noted that "the applicant anticipates that no
> deficiency will exist in the near future."
>
> (3) "Ms. Bassett quickly approved the plan, despite its basic
> impracticality...It was a simple conflicted deal. The plan had been
> agreed to by an official just appointed by the Governor, and pled
> for by the law firm of which the Governor's wife was a partner. And
> on behalf of a man who was the business colleague of both of them
> in Whitewater."
>
> -- Martin L. Gross
> The Great Whitewater Fiasco
>
>
HILLARY'S DOUBLE PLAY WITH MADISON S&L

The lawsuit was for
\
$20 m_

FDIC ---+ | |

Audit declared Arkansas ^ | | | |

\ Department /not | | | |

\ Beverly / sol-| | 15|__|

+-------->Bassett---+ vent|(4) | | |

| / | | shut | | |

+--------->Frost & Co. lawsuit kept| | | 10|__|

(7) | Accountants for Rose open| | | | |

lawsuit | /(5) | | | | | |

| | (1) / \|/ | \|/ | | |

Web Hubbell<---Hillary<------------ Jim McDougal | 5|__|

| Clinton / Madison S&L | |_ |

| (6) | / | |_ |

| | / | |_ |

| | Vince Foster | |_ |

| | / | |##|

+--------- Rose Law <------------------------+ /
Firm contract for legal /

(6) services /

(7) Settled for $1m.
THE DETAILS:

(1) Hillary Clinton brought the Madison account to the Rose
Law
Firm and helped represent the thrift before the
Arkansas
Securities Department.

(2) An audit by Frost & Co. claimed that Madison was
solvent. This
was used by Hillary in her plea to Beverly Shaffer,
although
Madison was insolvent and losing millions of dollars
per month
as a result of bad loans made to Arkansas politicians.

David Brock wrote in the American Spectator:

"In 1984, Frost & Co conducted an audit of Madison
Guaranty
S&L, giving the bank a clean bill of health. In 1985,
when HRC
and other Rose lawyers appeared before state regulators
appointed by her husband to ask that Madison be allowed
to
raise needed capital by issuing preferred stock, she
cited the
Frost & Co audit--which had been written by an
accountant who
had two outstanding loans from Madison. (The plan was
approved, but the stock deal never went through because
the
capital was never raised.)"

(3) Lack of oversight by regulators appointed by Gov. Bill
Clinton
and legal maneuvers by Hillary extended the life of
Madison
S&L long past the point of insolvency, at a cost
estimated to
be at least $30 million to the taxpayer.

(4) Federal regulators at the FDIC eventually took note of
the bad
loans on the books at Madison and shut it down. The
FDIC
decided to sue the firm of Frost & Co. to recover some
of the
$68 million lost to the taxpayers. (S&L depositors are
supposed to be insured by FSLIC, but it had already
gone
bankrupt due to the nationwide S&L debacle). The audit
by
Frost & Co. was held to be "defective" and the cause of
the
excessive losses.

(5) The contract to handle the lawsuit was solicited in a
letter
by Vince Foster to the FDIC, written a few days before
the
government took over Madison. He told them that Rose
"does
not" represent any S&Ls at the present time, neglecting
to
mention their prior work for Madison.

(6) Rose was given the assignment with Web Hubbell as the
lead
attorney. Hillary was also involved in the lawsuit.

(7) The $20 million lawsuit against Frost & Co. was
settled for
$1 million by the legal team of Hubbell & Hillary.
Their fee
was $400,000, leaving $600,000 for the taxpayers - less
than
1 percent of the loss.

THE POINT:

Hillary scored TWICE on the same case. First by using the
"defective" audit by Frost & Co. to keep the insolvent
Madison S&L
open at an additional cost of about $30 million to the
taxpayers,
generating legal fees for the Rose Firm and affording her
partner,
McDougal additional time to loot the S&L to the benefit of
their
political "family", and second by settling the government's
lawsuit
with Frost & Co. for less than 3 percent of the total loss,
while
allowing Rose to collect a sizable portion of the settlement
in
legal fees.

Sources: Martin L. Gross, *The Great Whitewater Fiasco*,
1994
David Brock, The American Spectator, Sept. 1994.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Madison litigation

McDougal<----------------------------FDIC--+

^ ^ \ / ^ ^ |

| | \ / | | |

| | \ / | | |

|business \___________________/ | | |

|partner | | (2) | | |

| | | Web Hubbell |------+ | |

| | | | | |

| +--------- Hillary Clinton |------+ | |

| |__|____________^___| | | |

| | ^ | | | |

| | | | | | |

+----------------Rose Law --------------+ |

| Firm | | |

| | | |

| | +--+-+

member of board Prepared tax |

of directors returns |

| | $20 m.lawsuit

\|/ (3) | |

TCBY Yogurt Frost & Co.<----+

| |

\|/(partners)\|/

Capital Avenue Development Co.

THE DETAILS:

(1) It is unethical to represent the government in a suit
against
a former client without informing the government of
that fact.

Martin Gross maintains, "It was absolutely incumbent on
Hillary and Rose to inform the FDIC that they had
represented
Madison Guaranty before state regulators...Not to do so
was a
breach of ethics, perhaps even worse."

(2) While Hubbell told the FDIC that Seth Ward, who was
involved
in loans and litigation with Madison, was his
father-in-law,
neither Hubbell nor Hillary told federal authorities of
their
involvement in the prior Madison case.

(3) David Brock writes:
Since HRC's firm was suing her former accountants, the
ethics
issue was whether HRC should have told the Govt about
her
business ties to Frost & Co. For one thing, the firm
had
prepared her taxes at a time when she was doing
everything
possible to avoid paying her fair share. For another,
Frost &
Co and TCBY Yogurt--on whose board HRC served from May
1989 to
May 1992, during the period that the case against Frost
proceeded--were partners in Capital Avenue Development
Co,
which owned the $68 million TCBY Tower in downtown LR.
If
Frost & Co were bankrupted by the litigation, TCBY
would
suffer.

THE POINT: By unethically withholding information regarding
their
conflicts of interest, Hubbell and Hillary were able to get
the
contract for the Rose Law Firm. The results were good for
them and
bad for the taxpayers.

Oh - THOSE scandals...

A CONCISE GUIDE TO THE CLINTON SCANDALS

______Jean Lewis_________
/ \
/ Web Hubbell RTC
criminal
/ / \ referrals

/ Arkansas \ \

| | | | \ \ |

| | | | \__ Dennis Patrick \___Luther "Jerry"
Parks +
| | | |(A) | |

+---------<| |__ The Ives Case | |

| | ++++++++ | |

| |_____Allegations of|cocaine use____

| | | \
+--->| (B)ADFA | \
| \ | \
| \_The Lasater connection___"Angel Fire"
| | |

| | |
|______Political favors for business
favors_|_______
| \ \ |
|
| \___The Tyson connection__ \_Flowerwood
Farms |
| \ | \ \
|
| \___ Cattlegate_|_ HRC's shady
business deals
| \ | |\
|
| \__ Jim Blair | \__Rose Law
Firm
| "Red" Bone | |

| | |

|____ WJC's draft dodging deceptions

|____ WJC's participation in foreign anti-U.S.
demonstrations during the Vietnam War

NOTE: "+" denotes a death, possibly related to "the
body
count."
- Unknown source -
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THE MADISON S&L SCAM

| | | (2)
McDougal---+ Clinton campaigns
Depositors-->Madison------>[Ark. pols, FOBs]----+--->default

^ S&L Whitewater, &c. |

| ^ |

| | belly up |

[$50 mil] | (3) |

| X non-payment |

| (4) | |

| | |

[USG]<<<<<<<<<+-------------------------------+

USG must

pay off

depositors

THE DETAILS:

(1) Jim McDougal put Hillary Clinton on a $2,000/mo.
retainer to
represent Madison S&L. (He says he did it at Clinton's
request. Clinton denies this). Soon afterward, Gov.
Clinton
appointed Beverly Bassett Schaffer, formerly
McDougal's
lawyer, to lead the state agency in charge of
overseeing
S&L's. According to McDougal, the appointment was made
at his
request.

(2) Madison made a number of large loans to friends and
supporters of Clinton during the 1980's. Funds were
also bled
off through a series of dummy companies into various
Clinton
campaigns, Whitewater Development Corp. and other
McDougal
investments.

(3) In 1989, after what looks like soft treatment from
Schaffer,
Madison went belly-up, sticking American taxpayers
with...

(4) $50-$60 million in bad loans many of them to
politicians and
other favorites of McDougal (including several who
were also
close to Clinton).

(5) In 1979, according to McDougal, the Clintons were to
pay
$9,000 up front for their half of Whitewater. CNN has
reported that even that tiny amount apparently the
Clintons'
portion of a down payment on the $203,000 Whitewater
property
was paid by McDougal, via a personal loan to the
Clintons
from one of his banks which they seem never to have
repaid.
Other news reports contain suggestions from McDougal
that he
may have taken care of other expenses on the Clintons'
behalf.

In December 1980, yet another bank then owned by
McDougal,
Kingston Bank & Trust, loaned Hillary Clinton $30,000.
She
used it to build a model house on a Whitewater lot.
She then
sold the house on the lot (which Whitewater had deeded
to her
for free), repurchased it in default, and finally
resold both
for a gain, not counting expenses, of $20,000 and a
reported
$1,640 net capital gain to her personally. Later,
Susan P.
Thomases, a lawyer for the Clintons, said Mrs.
Clinton's
$30,000 mortgage was solely a Whitewater corporate
debt.
Vincent W. Foster, Jr. (Hillary's former law partner,
also amended the Clintons' tax returns to shift
interest
payments on this same $30,000 loan to Whitewater.

Source: Lynn Chu, COMMENTARY magazine, March 1994

THE POINT: To put it bluntly, Clinton appears to have
appointed a
"sweetheart" regulator who permitted his business
partner,
McDougal, to loot an S&L to the benefit of the Clintons
as well
as McDougal's friends and business associates. The
taxpayers
picked up the $50 million tab.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Governor (spouse)

Bill Clinton-----------Hillary Clinton

| \ / |

| Whitewater Development Corp. |

| (business partnership) |

| \ / |

| \ / (partner)

| \ / |

(1) | \ /(client) |

(appointment) +-> McDougal--------Rose Law Firm

| | Madison S&L (2) |

| | ^ |

| | | |

+--------> Beverly Bassett <-------+

Ark. Securities Dept.

(1) "Almost immediately after his inauguration in January
1985,
Gov. Clinton replaced his Securities Department Chief...with
a
friend, Beverly Bassett [McDougal's former lawyer]."

(2) "The Rose Law Firm outlined a strategy to keep Madison
going,
and even expand it. It was a unique plan to raise capital by
selling preferred stock in the failing operation...An
assistant of
Hillary's worked on the case, and wrote Ms. Bassett at least
two
letters on behalf of Madison Guaranty. One was quite
optimistic -
for no reason - and noted that "the applicant anticipates
that no
deficiency will exist in the near future."

(3) "Ms. Bassett quickly approved the plan, despite its
basic
impracticality...It was a simple conflicted deal. The plan
had been
agreed to by an official just appointed by the Governor, and
pled
for by the law firm of which the Governor's wife was a
partner. And
on behalf of a man who was the business colleague of both of
them
in Whitewater."

-- Martin L.
Gross
The Great Whitewater
Fiasco

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| |Development| | Management |
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Font: Courier 10 cpi

THE CASTLE GRANDE SCAM
(Rev 1)

THE PROBLEM: How to circumvent regulations that prevent
Madison S&L
purchasing the Castle Grande property.

Jim McDougal $1.75 m

Madison --------------------> Castle Grande

S&L |

^ |

| The amt. of |

| ____ land an S&L |

| / /\ can buy is |

+--------/ / \<---------------+

\ / / limited by

\/___/ regulations.

THE SOLUTION:

Madison gradually purchased the parcels of land,

circumventing regulations that limited the amount

of land it could invest in directly.

+------------------------------------+

| |

| (1) |

\|/ $1.15m |

+------- Madison---------------->Seth Ward<----|----+

$2000/mo | | (2) | | |

retainer | | joint $1.15m | |

| | | $0.6m \|/ | |

| McDougal----------------->Castle Grande | |

| | | | |

| (5) +->(|) (4) | | |

| | | $0.4m \|/ | |

| | +------------------>22 acre------+ |

| | (3)(purchase price parcel |

| | + 10 % commission) |

| | (8) |

+---->Hillary Structured the

+-->Clinton ---->? (7) deal for his

| | father-in-law?

| | |

| Rose Law -----------Web Hubbell---------------+

| Firm

| +-----> Hillary's billing records---> White House

| |

| (6) written (9) \|/

+------------------ RTC Senate
Whitewater
questions Committee

THE DETAILS:

(1) Madison S&L loaned $1.15 million to Seth Ward, the
father-in-
law of Webster Hubbell.

(2) Ward used the money to purchase the Castle Grande
property
jointly with James McDougal who paid $400,000 for his
share.

(3) Madison proposed to buy the property back from Ward
piecemeal,
paying him a 10% commission.

(4) Madison arranged to pay Ward $400,000 for a 22-acre
parcel of
the Castle Grande property, a 1,050-acre mixed
commercial
and residential real estate development project
south of
Little Rock.

(5) According to The Washington Post (1/3/96) lawyers from
the
Rose Law Firm have told the RTC that a word processing
code
indicates that Hillary Clinton prepared a document
arranging
for Madison to pay Ward for the parcel of land.

(6) On Dec. 21 the RTC sent written questions to Hillary
Clinton
regarding the Castle Grande project whose failure cost
taxpayers $3.8 million after they learned that she had
prepared legal documents for Mr. McDougal of Madison
S&L.

(7) Hillary has said that she does not remember preparing
any
documents on the project. An RTC report noted that
"this may
signify little, as she apparently has forgotten her
work
supervising the legal research pertaining to the Castle
Grande
liquor and sewer issues, as to which there is ample
documentary evidence." This refers to efforts to get a
sewer
system and a brewery approved for the site.

(8) The RTC report said that Hubbell helped structure the
deal for
his father-in-law, Seth Ward. Whitewater committee
investigators have said the loan was structured so Ward
would
not have to repay the money if the land deal went bad.

(9) According to the Washington Post, January 7, 1996:

"Rose Law Firm billing records, belatedly
discovered in
the White House residence Thursday, contain
information
that may contradict a sworn statement first lady
Hillary
Rodham Clinton gave federal savings and loan
investigators
last year.

Copies of computerized bills to Madison Guaranty
Savings &
Loan show that Hillary Clinton had 14 meetings or
conversations with a Madison executive about the
Castle
Grande real estate project that is the focus of civil
and
criminal investigations. But in a written statement to
the
Resolution Trust Corp., Clinton said she did not
believe
she knew anything about the project."

THE POINT: Seth Ward has been described as a "straw
purchaser" for
Madison S&L by RTC investigators and federal bank examiners
who
call his $1.15 million loan a "sham transaction to enable
the S&L
headed by James McDougal, the Clinton's Whitewater partner,
to
circumvent regulations limiting the amount of land it could
invest
in directly."

According to the Washington Times, "The RTC...wants to know
if Mrs.
Clinton knew or she should have known the transaction was a
sham...[Webster Hubbell] said the Rose Firm's billings would
reflect her legal work. Those billing records have since
disappeared," but copies were "found" in HRC's White House
quarters
on January 4.

Sources: The Washington Post, January 3, 1996.
The Associated Press, January 3, 1996.
The Washington Times, January 4, 1996.
Thw Washington Post, January 7, 1996.

THE TUCKER SEWER & WATER SERVICES TO CASTLE GRANDE

Jim McDougal (2)

(indicted) developed & financed

Madison----------------------------------------+

S&L -------+ |

(6) | | (3) ___________ |
____|____ | | | |

| | $860,000 ---| DEFAULTED | |

|_________| | |

cost to us: | |

$50m + | (1) \|/

\|/ water & sewer Castle
Grande
Jim Guy Tucker --------------------> mobile-home

(indicted) services park

/|\ |

| ___________ |

$300,000 | | |

loan -----| DEFAULTED | |

Capital | |___________| |

Management----+ (4) (5) |

Services |

David Hale _____|_____

(pleaded guilty) | |

| (7) | FAILED |

____|____ |___________|

| | cost to us:

| FAILED | $3.8m
|_________|
cost to us:
$3.4m

THE DETAILS:

(1) In 1986, Jim Guy Tucker, the present Governor of
Arkansas,
made a proposal to provide water and sewer services to
Castle
Grande, a mobile-home park in Little Rock.

(2) Castle Grande was being developed and Financed by
Madison S&L.

(3) Madison S&L loaned Tucker $860,000 which he defaulted
on when
Castle Grande failed.

(4) David Hale's Capital-Management Services loaned Tucker
$300,000 which he also defaulted on.

(5) Castle Grande failed at a cost of $3.8 million to the
taxpayers.

(6) Madison S&L failed at a cost of more than $50 million
to the
taxpayers.

(7) Capital Management Services failed at a cost of $3.4
million
to the taxpayers.

THE POINT:

Once more we have an example of Jim McDougal's Madison S&L
and
David Hale's CMS (the "Piggy Bank for the Political Elite of
Arkansas") flouting regulations to make shady loans to Arkie
politicians and their relatives. When the deal goes
belly-up, the
fat cats default on the loans and simply walk away from the
mess.
The government then pays off the depositors, and we're ready
for
the next round. It seems these guys have found a way to play
Monopoly with our money. All they lack is a "get out of jail
free"
card.

"Edward W. Zehr" <ez...@capaccess.org>

The Jan. 27 article by AEP in the London Telegraph which
mentions
a meeting of a Secret Service "MIG" team in the office of
top White
House aide, Patsy Thomasson on the night of Vince Foster's
death,
and the Feb. 7 article by John Crudele provide significant
clues as
to who knew what and when. The major point Crudele made in
his NYP
article was that, according to a Pentagon source, a pager
was found
that had a record on it indicating David Watkins had a page
at 7:15
p.m. (EST) the evening Vince Foster died. The call was to
notify
Watkins of Foster's death. According to the official
version, the
WH was not informed of Foster's death until 8:30. Bill
Clinton was
at the WH at 7:15, hence it seems certain that he knew of
Fosters
death BEFORE he left at 8:30 to appear on the Larry King
show.

A chronology of events can now be constructed as shown
below:

MIG checked in
to Thompson's
office @ 7:10
|
| MIG checked out @ 7:44
|

6:00 7:00 |8:00 9:00 10:00

| | *---* | | |

|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

| | +-|-+ | |

| | Watkins-+ | | +--- Clinton 'officially'

(*) Hugh Sprunt has said that his information indicates the
police
were able to identify Foster's body by 6:40 p.m. at the
latest.

The new information strongly suggests that the WH was
'unofficially' notified of Foster's death between 7 and 8
p.m. But,
if the MIG team meeting was related to Foster's death, the
WH must
have known of it much earlier - perhaps as early as 5:47
p.m. when
Helen Dickey made her phone call to the Arkansas governor's
mansion. The press spokesman for the Secret Service has said
that
the "MIG group" is a "team of Secret Service technicians
that had
gone to Miss Thomasson's office that night to conduct a
routine
alarm check. He said he could not divulge what the acronym
MIG
stood for because the unit was secret," according to AEP.

While the SS version of the event seems possible (Please
God, not
another "coincidence.") one wonders why a "routine alarm
check" was
performed by a group so secret that nobody seems to have
heard of
it before.

The chronology suggests that there was a lapse of at least 3
to 4
hours between the time Foster's body was identified and the
time at
which Clinton was 'officially' notified of Foster's death.
One can
but hope that Mr. Clinton would be informed of an impending
nuclear
attack with greater celerity.

The impression we are left with is that a small cadre of WH
insiders were given a bit of extra time to tidy things up -
you
know, "vacuum" Foster's office, retrieve his briefcase from
the
parking lot at Fort Marcy Park, return Foster's car keys to
his
pocket at the morgue where his body had been taken - stuff
like
that. Once officially notified, their actions would
presumably be
subject to closer scrutiny. But why did it take so long to
notify
the president? Even if we accept the official version of
events, an
hour and a half elapsed between the time the WH staff were
officially notified and the time they informed Mr. Clinton.
That
seems excessive given the high-powered communication
facilities at
their disposal.

NOTE: "+" denotes a death, possibly related to "the
body
count."

-- Edward Zehr

========In article <8493918...@dejanews.com>, Martin
McPhillips
<abig...@inx.net> writes:
-> RE-ELECTION WAS CLINTON'S WORST
-> PIECE OF LUCK

the only good thing about klintoon's reelection is that the
republican
congress can now roast him in style. here's the way i saw
the
possible outcomes of the election:

\ | |
\pres| |
\ | Dole |
Klintoon
\ | |
\ | |
congress\| |

---------|----------------------|----------------------------
| |
| county winns; chance for | country
has slim chance
repub | repeal of tax-and-spend/ | for
progress; but much
| better-dead-than-unequal | fun for
Klintoon watchers
| federal government | singing
'jail to the chief'
| |

---------|------------------------------|--------------------
| |
| country looses big; nothing | welcome to
the USSA
| gets done; everything gets | (united
socialist
dem | blamed on Dole and 104th | states of
amerika)
| congress while debt ceiling |
| gets raised to umm... 15T |
| |

--
pgp fingerprint: 21 55 8E 51 43 E5 6E 2F 57 CB 77 12 F2
E4 78 34
investigate,impeach,imprison,inter;socialism destroys,defund
the left
"more laws... we can't control enough citizens without
more laws"
-liberal/socialist/communist mantra

THE HALE LOANS - CAPITAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES
(Piggy bank for the political
(Rev. 1) elite of Arkansas)

(6)
+--[$275,000]--->Wife of Jim Guy Tucker------->
| loans Clinton's successor as
| Gov. of Arkansas Other
McD.
| (3)
investments
+--[$300,000]--->Susan McDougal---------+---->
| loan (indicted) |
| |
$3.4m | (1) (2) |
SBA------>CMS-------[loan]-->Stephen Smith---+ | (4)
David Hale (indicted) | [$110,000]
^ \ | |
| \_ CMS failed at the | |
| expense of the [$30,000] |
(5) pressure? taxpayers. bank loan |
| | |
| | |
Bill Clinton Model Home<--Hillary<---+ |
^ for WW Dev. Clinton |
| Corp. | |
| \|/ |
+------------WW Development Corp.<------+

THE DETAILS:

(1) Capital Management Services (CMS) was created to
extend loans
to "socially or economically disadvantaged"
small-business
owners. Small Business Administration (SBA) criteria
for
qualified borrowers: members of a racial minority or
people
with low incomes, little education, physical
handicaps, &c.
CMS was owned by David Hale, a Democrat judge in
Little Rock,
Ark. with good political connections. CMS was
capitalized with
$3.4 million in taxpayer-guaranteed funds from the SBA
which
had to be made good when CMS failed. Hale has pleaded
guilty
to two counts of fraud and is cooperating with Kenneth
Starr's
investigation.

(2) Stephen Smith, who had been an executive assistant to
Gov.
Clinton, had a doctorate and worked as a bank
president. He
approved a $30,000 loan to Hillary Clinton to build a
model
home for the Whitewater Development Corp. He pleaded
guilty to
fraud charges in connection with the illegal loan he
received
from CMS.

(3) David Hale's company certified that Susan McDougal was
eligible for a $300,000 loan from the SBA although
such
loans are restricted by law to the "economically (or
otherwise) disadvantaged" and the McDougals had assets
in
excess of $2 million.

(4) Susan McDougal put a third of the loan into Whitewater
Development Corp. and used the remainder for the
McDougal's
other investments. WW Dev. Corp. was jointly owned by
the
Clintons and the McDougals. The Clintons maintain that
they
were "passive" investors and had no knowledge of the
details.
McDougal had been using illegal loans from Hale to
prop up
Madison S&L. He was forced out of Madison which did
not repay
the loans. Hale's lending company collapsed. The
McDougals
have been indicted for their role in obtaining the
$300,000
loan.

(5) David Hale alleges that Gov. Clinton pressured him to
make the
loan to Susan McDougal. Clinton denies even discussing
it with
him. State trooper L.D. Brown has said that he was
present
during the initial part of a conversation Clinton had
with
Hale regarding the loan, but does not know whether
Clinton
pressured Hale.

(6) The wife of Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker obtained
$275,000 in
loans from CMS. The Tucker's net worth at the time of
the loan
exceeded $1 million, according to their loan
applications. Mr.
Tucker is awaiting trial for fraud charges relating to
his
role with CMS.

Sources: The American Spectator, February 1994.
The Washington Times, November 30, 1995.
The Washington Times, December 5, 1995.

THE POINT: The Clintons benefitted financially, if
indirectly, from
SBA loans intended to benefit the disadvantaged.
If Gov.
Clinton did indeed exert pressure upon David
Hale to
make an illegal loan to Susan McDougal, he
committed a
felony. Except for this detail, the Clintons are
insulated from direct contact with CMS by the
use of
cutouts.

Remove NOSPAM from address to send e-mail

Democrat, Rep. James Traficant (D-OH) who referred to the
effort in Congress to limit the definition of wetlands by
saying "if a dog accidentally passes water on a parking
lot, some government agent might deem it to be a wetland."

Wayne Mann

unread,

Mar 9, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/9/97

iron...@aol.com (Ironword) wrote:

AGain in this case set the font to Courier, size 9.

sof...@us.net (Charles R. Smith)

"I KNOW NOTHING! NOTHING!" was the gag line from Sgt.
Schultz
in the famed TV comedy show - HOGAN'S HEROS. Schultz, the
ever
forgetful German guard, would always stumble upon one of
Hogan's
humorous high-jinks, roll his eyes in fear and retreat from
the
scene, reciting his line of forget. The reason was obvious.
Schultz did not want to go to the Russian front.

Bill Kennedy ****** 116
Harold Ickes ******* 148
Ricki Seidman ******** 160
Bruce Lindsey ******** 161
Bill Burton ********** 191
Mark Gearan *********** 221
Mack McLarty *********** 233
Neil Egglseston ************ 250
Hillary Clinton ************ 250
John Podesta ************* 264
Jennifer O'Connor ***************** 343
Dwight Holton ***************** 348
Patsy Thomasson ********************* 420
Jeff Eller *********************************** 697
**100**200**300**400**500**600**700

TOTAL NUMBER OF LAPSES

"I HAVE NO SPECIFIC RECOLECTION" The Clinton administration
has
about the same sense of humor or at least the same script
writers. First, there is Patsy Thomasson's Sgt. Schultz
imitation. She had lots to forget about Travelgate, and
Vince
Foster. She forgot about threatening Cathy Cornelius and
Clarrisa Cerda, in an attempt to make them lie to cover-up
the
truth on the Travel Office firings. She also forget about
passing through Vince Foster's office on the day of his
death.
Overall, Ms. Thomasson forgot 420 times, winning the Silver
Schultz.

Jennifer O'Connor ran up a 343 Sgt. Schultz count because
she
was assistant to Ms. Thomasson and David Watkins at the time
of
the firings. Ms. O'Connor drafted the infamous memo cc'ed
to
HRC which detailed what Watkins was doing as per her
request.

"Mac" McClarty had 233 attacks of the traveling dumbs but he
really does not qualify to be on the honor list. His
constant
contacts with Hillary Clinton on the Travel Gate affair were
so
well documented that he had to finally admit meeting with
her on
the subject prior to the firings. Disqualified for telling
the
truth even when caught. Too bad.

The White House's own Management Review Team - the guys
inside
investigating the guys inside - racked up an impressive
count
for President Clinton. Thus, they are the winners of the
team
Schultz, marathon event: Dwight Holton - 348. John Podesta
-
264. Mark Gearan - 221. Todd Stern - 133. Matthew Moore -
130. Nice going guys!

Bruce Lindsey is President Clinton's right hand man and an
un-indicted co-conspirator so he can claim to have some
practice
at this. The old pro's memory failed him 161 times.
Impressive
for a vet but I am certain he may have a future chance to
better
himself under oath.

Maggie Williams - Ms. Clinton's Chief of Staff - 82.
Honorable
mention - Maggie testified under oath she did not take
anything
from Vince Foster's office the night he died but Secret
Service
agents contend they saw her coming out with documents and
files. Maggie was flushed out the contention when she
admitted
that Hillary was upset over the Newsweek Report that the
First Lady
threw a lamp at President Clinton.

Bernard Nussbaum is an old Hillary Clinton friend and thus
has
an unfair advantage over all the others. He too had free
travel
of Foster's office after his death and even stashed the
infamous
Foster "TRAVEL OFFICE LOG" book in the huge room of White
House
files (under T - of course). Then there was the time he
forgot
to tell the FBI that Hillary was with him in the Foster
office
when the suicide note was discovered. Nor could he remember
that Hillary told him not to tell the President about the
Foster
suicide note. Finally Bernie's 30 hour delay in turning
over
the note to law enforcement filled with Sgt. Schultz's. Mr.
Nussbaum scored a 158 in his first round on Foster and
racked up
another 60 on FBI files matters.

Yet, Mr. Nussbaum's two round performance were overshadowed
by
George Stephanopoulos who ran up a 142 Sgt. Schultz's on his
first testimony and then a 102 count on his second.

But neither George or Bernie could hold a candle to White
House
Counsel Bill Kennedy. Bill ran up a 233 score in his April
deposition and another 116 in June relating to the hiring of
Craig Livingstone. So, Bill Kennedy wins the Bronze
Schultz.

Other honorable mentions are:

Beth Nolan - who reviewed Harry Thomason's employment - 179.

Cliff Sloan - Yetonemorewhitehouselawyer - 173.

Roy Neel - White House Deputy Chief of Staff - 135

Rahm Emanuel - Assistant to the President for Special
Projects -
102.

However, out of all the Clinton aides or lawyers, the
outstanding memory-man was Jeff Eller, lover of the
President's
cousin and oh yes... He also worked as White House Media
Director. Jeff announced to the press that Cathy Cornelius
(his
squeeze and the Prez's cousin) was going to take over the
Travel
Office as early as December, 1992. Then there was the
argument
he had with George Stephanopolus over the fact that he hid
his
affair with Cathy from the White House. Finally, there were
all
his Travel Office notes he destroyed. Boyfriend Jeff
suffered
697 Sgt. Schultz like memory lapses. As the leader in total
"forget me (not)"s he is the hands down winner of the Sgt.
Schultz Award. The Golden Schultz Memory Mug goes to Jeff
Eller.

In addition to the Golden Schultz, Jeff also holds the
record
for the lamest excuse for having no notes on Travelgate (he
destroyed them all) saying under oath that he preferred to
work
from memory.

Finally, in recognition of her failing memory, Hillary
Clinton
racked up a 250 on the Sgt. Schultz scale. Of course, she
could
remember anyone or anything critical of her - in detail -
but
when it came to anything on Vince Foster or Travelgate...
her
memory failed. Ms. Clinton must be commended for her team
training exercises. Her coaching is well documented in
several
notes from David Watkins with references to her such as her
"Hell to pay" comment if her wishes were not followed. Ms.
Clinton's leadership in orchestrating the cover-ups earns
her
the Colonel Clink Special Cup award.

source: INVESTIGATION OF THE WHITE HOUSE TRAVEL OFFICE
FIRINGS
pages 169 through 171

This does not include the vast number attained before the
Senate Whitewater
committee or the House Banking committee, this is just the
House Oversight
committee I don't think it would be possible for a
qualified lawyer to NOT
charge most or all of them with multiple counts of perjury
after comparing
there answers from the three committees and other sworn
testimony.

Wayne Mann

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Subject: Playbook, 13 Steps for TRUTH SUPRESSION

Clinton Administrations THIRTEEN STEPS for Truth Suppression

Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity
can bring
down a government. When the government lacks an effective,
fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The
success of these techniques depends heavily upon a
cooperative,
compliant press and a mere token opposition party.

1.Dummy up. If it's not reported, if it's not news, it
didn't happen.

2.Wax indignant. This is also known as the "how dare
you?" gambit.
3.Characterize the charges as "rumors" or, better yet,
"wild rumors."
If, in spite of the news blackout, the public
is still able to learn about the suspicious facts, it can
only be
through "rumors."
4.Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspect
of the
weakest charges. Even better, create your
own straw men. Make up wild rumors and give them lead play
when
you appear to debunk all the charges, real and fanciful
alike.

5.Call the skeptics names like "conspiracy theorist,"
"nut,"
"ranter," "kook," "crackpot," and of course, "rumor
monger." You must then carefully avoid fair and open debate
with
any of the people you have thus maligned.

6.Impugn motives. Suggest strongly that the critics are
not really
interested in the truth but are simply
pursuing a political agenda or are out to make money.

7.Invoke authority. Here the controlled press and the
sham opposition
can be very useful.
8.Dismiss the charges as "old news."

9.Come half-clean. This is also known as "confession and
avoidance"
or "taking the limited hang-out route."
This way, you create the impression of candor and
honesty while
you admit only to relatively harmless, less-than-criminal
"mistakes."
This stratagem often requires the embrace of a fall-back
position quite
different from the one originally taken.

10.Characterize the crimes as impossibly complex and the
truth as
ultimately unknowable.
11.Reason backward, using the deductive method with a
vengeance. With
thoroughly rigorous deduction,
troublesome evidence is irrelevant. For example: We
have a
completely free press. If they know of evidence
that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
(BATF) had prior
knowledge of the Oklahoma City bombing
they would have reported it. They haven't reported it,
so there was
no prior knowledge by the BATF. Another
variation on this theme involves the likelihood of a
conspiracy
leaker and a press that would report it.

12.Require the skeptics to solve the crime completely. For
example: If
Vince Foster was murdered, who did it and why?

13.Change the subject.

Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression

by David Martin

Wayne Mann

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Sherburne Memo
WSJ
09/06/96

JCS
Privileged

Task List December 13, 1994

1. Issues
a. Foster document handling (Nemetz)
b. Travel Office (Cerf)
c. White House/Treasury contacts (revisited;
report) (JCS)
d. obstruction of justice (DOJ handling of
criminal referrals; Jay Stephens; RTC
whistleblower reprisals) (**)
e. use of White House resources for response
efforts (Nolan)
f. Foster suicide (Nemetz)
g. Espy (ethics; expanded Smaltz inquiry re
Tyson's, Hatch Act) (Mills/Nolan/**)
h. Cisneros (**)
i. Brown (**)
j. Hubbell (**)
k. Ickes/union representation (**)
l. Stephanopoulos/NationsBank (**)
m. State Department--passport files (**)
n. Archives--abuse of personnel system (**)
o. Legal Defense Fund (Mills)
p. Health Care Task Force (Neuwirth)
q. White House operations (drugs, passes,
helicopters) (Mills/Nolan)
r. residence renovations (Neuwirth)
s. presidential immunity (Sloan)
t. White House Arkansans (Thomasson, Nash,
Rasco) (**)
u. PIC surplus (**)
v. improper electioneering (SBA) (**)
w. GSA (Roger Johnson) (**)
x. Value Partners (Neuwrith)
y. presidential campaign (FEC audit (**)
z. commodities (Kendall/**)
aa. gubernatorial campaigns (Lindsay,
Wright)--record keeping (Kendall/**)
ab. gubernatorial campaigns -- MGSL
(Kendall**)
ac. Whitewater/MGSL (Kendall/**)
ad. other MGSL/McDougal (Kendall/**)
ae. Rose Law Firm (HRC work for MGSL;
Frost Case, FSLIC representation) (Kendall/**)
af. David Hale/Susan McDougal/SBA
(Kendall/**)
ag. Tucker (**)
ah. Lasater (bond deals; cocaine; Roger
Clinton) (**)
ai. use of loans to achieve legislative initiatives
(**)
aj. ADFA (political favors; Larry Nichols) (**)
ak. Mena Airport (**)
al. troopers (**)
am. women (Kendall/Bennett?**)

2. Preliminaries

a. identify key republican objectives and routes
for achieving them--e.g.
i. sustain shadow on WJC character
ii. hype HRC threat to white men, traditiional
women

b. identify guiding principles for reponse--e.g.
i. nothing to hide
ii. stick to the facts
iii. get it right the first time
iv. keep it simple
v. resist harassment
vi. govern America

c. executive privilege research
i. OLC state of the play
ii. comments by republicans re assertion
iii. protocol
iv. strategy/principles for asserting

d. research re entitlement of Congress to
HRC/WJC transcripts of depositions given to
Fiske

e. research re congressional subpoena power
i. reach (HFC/WJC)
ii. precedents
iii. committee rules
iv. procedures

f. research re limitations on legislative power to
investigate
i. legislative purpose
ii. overreaching precedents

g. learn new Hill committee jurisdiction,
membership

h. courtesy visits to Hill--member and staff
level (eg. Frank, Sarbanes, leadership; Harris,
Meek, etc.)

i. consultations

j. offsensive structure
i. FEC legal research
ii. W&C
iii. DNC/DCCC/DSCC
iv. surrogates

k. representation of Administration officials by
private counsel
i. compensation

l. research re proper role of OWHC with
respect to pre-inaugural issues with an aim
toward articulating principles for determining
who should be principal spokesperson on a
particular issue and the extent to which each
(private counsel/OWHC) should participate.

3. Foster Document Handling

a. independent counsel inquiry
i. set meeting with Starr
(1) identify options with respect to issuance of
report

(a) precedents

(2) inquire about status and timing
(3) HRC/WJC depositions

ii. status check with counsel for individuals

b. congressional hearings
i. identify likely committees (Senate Banking;
House Banking, Gov Ops, Judiciary)
(1) identify friends--key Members and staff
(2) identify leadership
(3) identify key republicans

ii. congressional visits

(1) Daschle
(2) Sarbanes & other Banking
(3) House

iii. Prepare background materials

(1) Assemble public record
(2) Talking points and fact memoranda

iv. Determine how to handle representation of
individual White House staff

(1) outside counsel
(2) attorney fees
(3) assertion of privileges

c. press strategy

d. surrogate role
i. Hamilton
ii. Identify others

e. offensive research

f. issue specific tasks

i. Security/Livingstone issues

1. Debrief Joel
2. Review Livingstone file
3. Consult with Randy Turk
4. Interview Livingstone
5. Fact memo

ii. Inconclusiveness re Williams removal of
documents

1. confer with Ed Dennis
2. debrief Joel re security officer
3. assemble public reports of document
removal on 7/20 and statements
attributed to White House officials

iii. chain of custody re transfer of Clinton
personal files
1. complete interviews

a. Carolyn Huber
b. Linda Trip
c. Deborah Gorham
d. Bob Barnett
e. Sylvia Mathews

2. fact memo
3. assemble public record
4. determine strategy re release of WDC file

iv. search of Foster office

1. assemble public record

a. Including any relevant testimony at Senate
hearing of Foster suicide in July 1994
2. fact memo
3. legal research

a. obligation to seal the office immediately

b. obligation to cooperate with law enforcement
authorities vs. protection of privileged material
c. basis for protecting disclosure to Congress of
privileged material in VF office
i. Basis for resisting identification/production of
all documents in VF office and Bernie's safe

d. delay in surfacing suicide note

(1) complete interviews

(a) Gergen
(b) Burton

(2) assemble material in public record

(3) fact memo

(4) legal research

(a) obligations to disclose a note to law
enforcement authorities

i. if not obviously a suicide note
ii. timeliness requirements

4. Foster suicide

a. Chris Ruddy/Center for Western Journalism
b. causes for suicide
c. monitor Senate report; coordinate with
Hamilton
d. develop press response

5. Obstruction of Justice

a. Delay in addressing criminal referrals; DOJ
role (D.C. and Paula Casey)
i. determine usual process
ii. develop chronology/fact memo with key
documents

1. Charles Banks
2. Paula Casey
3. (track Lewis correspondence released by
Leach)

iii. identify Committee interest (D'Amato;
House)
iv. assemble public record

b. RTC/Kansas City investigation (suspension
of Jean Lewis, Richard Iorio etc.; April
Breslaw; pre-1993 activity)

i. develop chronology of known facts and key
documents
ii. interview Breslaw
iii. identify Committee interest (Leach; Senate)
iv. examine last day of House hearings for
offensive help

c. Jay Stephens retention

i. track public record
ii. identify efforts to give IC civil jurisdiction
iii. identify Committee interest (D'Amato;
House)

6. White House/Treasury contacts

a. Senate Report

i. review/comment on Report
ii. keep in touch with Minority Report
developments
iii. prepare press strategy
iv. identify surrogates

b. White House investigation of White
House/Treasury contacts (receipt of
information about RTC investigation; work
product; redactions)

i. prepare file memorandum describing use of
unredacted transcripts
ii. determine continuing Bond interest

c. Truthfulness of White House and other
Administration witnesses (referral of testimony
to Starr -- Ickes, Stephanopoulos)

i. consult with lawyers
ii. identify areas of vulnerability
iii. research re perjury
iv. press response

d. Heads-up policy

i. surrogates
ii. uniform application
iii. Treasury status
iv. press strategy for release of Committee
report
v. work up background paper on precedents

e. Recusal policies/OGE/Executive Orders

i. press strategy for release of committee report
ii. background paper
iii. consult with OGE
iv. consider Executive Order or other response
to Committee

f. Contacts policy (Executive Order)

i. press strategy for release of Committee report
ii. background paper
iii. consult with OGE
iv. consider Executive Order or other response
to Committee

g. Rikki Tigert

i. Determine her first likely congressional
appearance in the new congress
ii. assemble public record
iii. interview Gergen, Tigert and Klein re
communications on the subject of recusal
(1) determine response to allegations of
"pressure"
(2) determine response to allegation that Klein
misled the committee

iv. Determine press strategy/talking points

7. Smaltz Investigation

a. Espy -- ethics (Mills)
b. beyond Espy ethics (Hatch Act, Tyson's)

i. determine charter, scope of inquiry
ii. determine press strategy
iii. identify congressional interest
iv. assemble public record
v. fact gathering

8. White House Whitewater response effort

a. legal research

i. the appropriate role of White House staff with
respect to issues arising pre-inauguration (see
above)

b. fact development (scope of effort, etc.)

c. determine press strategy/develop talking
points

d. assemble public record

i. Lindsey involvement pre-1994
ii. Ickes' Ward Room undertaking (1/94)
iii. Podesta damage control effort

9. Cisneros

a. gather facts
b. establish contact with counsel
c. determine press strategy/develop talking
points
d. identify source of congressional interest
e. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

10. Brown

a. establish contact with counsel
b. determine press strategy/develop talking
points
c. identify source of congressional interest
d. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

11. Hubbell

a. monitor cooperation
b. determine press strategy/develop talking
points

12. Ickes (union representation)

a. monitor
b. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

13. Stephanopoulos (Nationsbank)

a. monitor
b. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

14. State Department (passport files)

a. identify issue
b. determine congressional interest
c. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

15. Archives (abuse of personnel system)

a. identify issue
b. determine congressional interest
c. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

16. SBA (improper electioneering)

a. identify issue
b. determine congressional interest
c. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

17. GSA (Roger Johnson)

a. identify issue
b. determine congressional interest
c. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

18. FEC Audit

a. determine congressional interest
b. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

19. PIC Surplus

a. identify issue
b. determine congressional interest
c. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

20. MGSL-related

a. Whitewater Investment

i. assemble public record
ii. review documents, including work of
accountants and tax returns; Lyons reports
iii. develop fact memo and chronology
iv. press strategy

b. MGSL

i. assemble public record
ii. review W&C documents
iii. develop fact memo and chronology
iv. fact memo

(1) why MHGSL failed; relationship of
campaign contributions to failure
(2) Rose Law Firm work (HRC 1985)

a. Conflicts
b. Enabled MGSL to stay open longer than it
should have

v. surrogate strategy

c. Rose Law Firm

i. fact memo
(1) status of conflicts inquiry
(2) Frost case
(3) Rose services to FSLIC related to Lasater
brokerage firm (HRC 2 hours in 1987, signed
pleadings for VF)
(4) Billing practices

ii. assemble public record
iii. determine press strategy

d. David Hale

21. Other Pre-Inaugural

a. Gubernatorial Campaigns

i. Identify issues

(1) whether expenditures and loans were
properly reported under state law
(a) Lindsey role
(b) Betsey Wright

(2) role of the Bank of Cherry Valley

(3) Starr looking at 1984, 1986, 1990

ii. interview Kendall; review Kendall documents
iii. interview Snyder/Lindsey
iv. fact memo
v. press strategy

b. Negative Associations

i. Jim Guy Tucker
ii. David Hale (SBA)
iii. Jim McDougal
iv. Dan Lasater (bond deals, cocaine, Roger
Clinton)

c. Mena Airport

i. identify issue
ii. determine congressional interest
iii. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

d. ADFA

i. identify issue (political favors)
ii. determine congressional interest
iii. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

e. Use by Governor Clinton of loans to further
legislative initiatives

i. identify issue
ii. determine congressional interest
iii. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

f. Commodities

i. determine congressional interest
ii. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

g. Paula Jones

i. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

h. Troopers
i. identify issue (job for silence, other)
ii. determine congressional interest
iii. assemble binder with summary and key
documents

Wayne Mann

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The Complete Clinton Calendar

Four Years of Presidential misdoings, missteps and mistakes
Complete Clinton Scandals Chronology

Day by day, scandal by scandal, flip-flop by flip-flop ...
why
three years seems like a lifetime

1960's

The Clintons' association with the McDougals begins when
Bill Clinton
and Jim McDougal work together on the staff of then-U.S.
Senator J.
William Fulbright (D-Ark.) Before going to work for
Fulbright, McDougal
also had previously worked during the early 1960's for
Senator John L.
McClellan, on the Rackets Committee
----------------------------------------------------------

1974

Bill Clinton is recruited to serve on the special staff
being assembled
by John Doar and attached to the House Judiciary Committee
(not the
regular committee staff) to handle the Nixon impeachment
inquiry. He
declines, and tells them to hire his girlfriend, Hillary
Rodham,
instead. Or at least that is the most logical deduction.

On the staff Hillary engages in some unethical behavior,
lying to the
permanent committee staff. Hillary tells everybpdy close to
her that she
expects Bill Clinton to be President one day and promises
Bernard
Nussbaum that when that happens, he will be named White
House counsel.
He does not the offer seriously. Hillary is very close to
John Doar and
one weekend, while visiting Arkansas, gets called back to
come to
Washington, (possibly in order to make a false transcript of
one of the
tapes? It may be that she writes the words "I want you all
to stonewall
it. My thoughts. The tapes are never publicly aired so no
one notices
this, although they can be listened to without stopping)

Bill Clinton's kindergarten friend, Thomas F. "Mack"
McLarty, becomes
the chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party.

Bill Clinton runs for Congress, but, although he uses
Watergate as an
issue, and raises more money than the four-term incumbent,
John Paul
Hammerschmidt, he narrowly loses. Also, his mentor, Senator
Fulbright
loses a primary to Arkansas Governor Dale Bumpers ruining
his hopes
of going to the Senate eventually.

With Bill stuck in Arkansas, Hillary is forced to move to
Arkansas.
----------------------------------------------------------

1975.

Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham marry (October 11) because
it is awkward
for Bill Clinton to explain that they are living together
without being
married.
----------------------------------------------------------

1976

Bill Clinton became Arkansas attorney general
----------------------------------------------------------

1977

Hillary Rodham is hired as a lawyer by the Rose Law Firm.

Whitewater Created, Clintons Get Stake on "Little Money"

+ Bill Clinton served as attorney general of Arkansas in
----------------------------------------------------------

1978

Clinton becomes Governor and appoints friend James
McDougal economic-development adviser. Later that year,
Bill and Hillary joined with McDougal and his wife Susan
to form a real estate partnership, Whitewater Development.
Clintons took out an unsecured $20,000 loan from
McDougal's S&L for their share of the down payment on the
land purchase of $203,000.

+ Through Whitewater Development Corp., 230 acres of Ozark
Mountain vacation property was purchased for $203,000 in
borrowed money with plans to subdivide and sell the
acreage in lots. "During this period," reported the New
York Times (3-8-92), "the Clintons appear to have invested
little money, so stood to lose little if the venture
failed, but might have cashed in on their 50 percent
interest if it had done well."

+ The Washington Post reported on November 29, 1993, that
the $20,000 down payment that the Clintons apparently paid
in for Whitewater came from an unsecured loan at a Little
Rock bank, whose board of directors included Clinton's top
campaign finance official that year, Walter DeRoeck.

6-19-78: Bill Clinton and Jim McDougal sign $20,000 loan
from Union
National Bank.

7-27-78: Letter from Whitewater Real Estate Agent Chris Wade
to the Clintons and McDougals providing them with a copy of
the closing statement on their land purchase.

8-2-78: The Clintons and McDougals sign $182,611 mortgage
loan from
Citizens Bank of Flippin.

9-7-78: Letter from Whitewater Real Estate Agent Chris Wade
to the
Clintons and McDougals enclosing a survey and another copy
of the closing
statement on their land purchase.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1979

1979-80: Clinton Becomes Governor; McDougal Buys a Bank

+ Bill Clinton took office in January 1979 . James
McDougal joined his administration as an economic
development aide. He soon left and bought the Bank of
Kingston in northern Arkansas (New York Times, 11/2/93).

+ David Hale (who served as an Arkansas municipal judge from
March 1979 until September 1993) formed Capital-Management
Services, Inc., licensed with the Small Business
Administration as a Specialized Small Business Investment
Corporation to make taxpayer-guaranteed loans to socially
disadvantaged men and women to start their own business.

+ James McDougal bought Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan
Association. Whitewater Development kept its accounts at
Madison (Minneapolis Star Tribune, 3/13/94).

The $100,000 commodities trading profits are made.

Clinton Becomes Governor' McDougal Buys a Bank. Hillary
is made a partner in the Rose Law Firm (1979 actually)

Jim McDougal employed as an economic development
aid to Governor Clinton.

2-15-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Governor
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

2-19-79: Jim McDougal issues memorandum to Susan McDougal
detailing
Gov. Clinton's daily schedule for the month of April 1979 .

3-10-79: Susan McDougal provides Gov. Clinton with details
about function at which he is to make an appearance.

3-29-79: Gov. Clinton and Jim McDougal attend ceremony at
Governor's Mansion.

4-2-79: Gov. Clinton and Jim McDougal attend luncheon.

4-11-79: Gov. Clinton and Jim McDougal attend luncheon.

4-18-79: Gov. Clinton and Jim McDougal attend press
conference, fly to Paragould, Ark., and attend meeting.

5-2-79: Gov. Clinton and Jim McDougal attend meeting.

5-3-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

5-23-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

5-24-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

5-25-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

5-29-79: Gov. Clinton and Jim McDougal attend luncheon.

6-5-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by
Governor Clinton and Jim McDougal.

6-18-79: Jim McDougal signs stock certificate to Hillary
Rodham representing 150 shares of Whitewater stock.

6-19-79: Bill Clinton and Jim McDougal sign $20,000 loan
renewal from Union National Bank.

6-27-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

7-3-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

7-24-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

7-31-79: Two meetings at Governor's Mansion attended by
Gov. Clinton and Jim McDougal.

8-3-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

8-12-79: Jim McDougal accompanies Gov. Clinton on trip to
Fayetteville, Arkansas.

8-13-79: Jim McDougal accompanies Gov. Clinton on "road
trip."

8-14-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

8-23-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by
Governor Clinton and Jim McDougal.

9-4-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

9-17-79: Bill Clinton and Jim McDougal sign $20,000 loan
renewal from Union National Bank.

9-30-79: The Clintons and McDougals sign warranty deed
associated with Whitewater property.

10-1-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal. That evening, Jim and Susan
McDougal accompany Gov. and Mrs. Clinton on flight to New
Orleans, La.

10-7-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

10-9-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

10-15-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

10-16-79: Two meetings at Governor's Mansion attended by
Gov. Clinton
and Jim McDougal.

10-23-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

10-29-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

11-9-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal. Gov. Clinton and Jim McDougal
sign $182,611 mortgage loan renewal from Citizens Bank of
Flippin.

11-20-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

12-7-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

12-14-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

12-17-79: Bill Clinton and Jim McDougal sign $20,000 loan
renewal from Union National Bank.

12-18-79: Meeting at Governor's Mansion attended by Gov.
Clinton and Jim McDougal.

----------------------------------------------------------
1980

8-5-80: Bill Clinton and Jim McDougal sign $182,611
mortgage loan renewal from Citizens Bank of Flippin.

12-16-80: Hillary Clinton obtains a $30,000 loan from Jim
McDougal's Madison Bank and Trust.

The purpose of this loan was to place a prefab house on
Lot 13, which was positioned near the entrance to the
development in an attempt to spur lot sales. Consequently,
the Clintons must have known as early as December 1980
that Whitewater was experiencing slow lot sales.

12-28-80: Jim McDougal signs Warranty Deed transferring
ownership of Whitewater Lot 13 to Hillary Clinton.

----------------------------------------------------------
1981

8-5-81: The Clintons and McDougals sign $129,241 mortgage
loan renewal from Citizens Bank of Flippin.

10-12-81: Letter from Hillary Rodham to Jim McDougal
stating, "If Reaganomics works at all, Whitewater could
become the western hemisphere's Mecca."

This letter shows that Mrs. Clinton is interested in
Whitewater being a financial success and apparently is
monitoring its progress.

11-10-81: Letter from Ozarks Realty Co. to the Clintons
providing a closing statement on sale of Lot 13 to Hilman
Logan.

The Clintons possibly were aware of the adverse economics
related to Whitewater as of this date. Not only was an
immediate loss realized with respect to the sale of this
lot, but additional losses over time would result because
of the high interest rate on bank debt (20 percent)
compared to the statutory interest rate cap on the
underlying installment contract (10 percent).

12-9-81: The Clintons enter into escrow contract
associated with sale of Lot 13 to Hilman Logan.

12-14-81: The Clintons sign warranty deed to be placed in
escrow transferring title of Lot 13 to Hilman Logan.

12-22-81: Memorandum to Bill Clinton noting that Jim and
Susan McDougal are out of town and that he will have to
complete his financial statement on his own.

----------------------------------------------------------
1982

Whitewater books show nearly $300,000 in revenues from
plot sales. Hillary borrows another $30,000 unsecured
loan from McDougals S&L to pay for a model home on the
development.

3-1-82: Letter from Jim McDougal to Bill Clinton stating,
"I have paid from Whitewater Development Corporation the
note you owed Citizens Bank of Jonesboro. You are correct
in your believe that the sum of money borrowed was part of
your investment in Whitewater."

A handwritten note on the bottom of the letter reads,
"Response to Hillary," indicating that Mrs. Clinton
apparently inquired about the matter and requested the
above statement from Jim McDougal, possibly for tax
purposes.

3-25-82: Memorandum from Citizens Bank of Jonesboro to
Bill Clinton about additional interest due on his loan
because it was repaid after the due date, and that she had
discussed the matter with someone at his headquarters'
office, but had not heard back from him.

3-31-82: Memorandum from Citizens Bank to file noting that
the writer had spoken with Susan McDougal

8-00-82: Photographs of Candidate for governor Clinton and
candidate for Congress McDougal appear on the front page
of Young Democrats of Arkansas publication In Action.

8-3-82: Memorandum to Bill Clinton stressing the
importance of his attendance at an upcoming Democratic
rally with Jim McDougal.

8-5-82: Letter from Theresa Pockrus of Madison Bank and
Trust to Hillary Clinton reminding her that her loan is
past due.

8-9-82: Memorandum to Bill Clinton advising him that the
public perceives him and Jim McDougal as a team.

8-11-82: Letter from Hillary Rodham to Theresa Pockrus of
Madison Bank and Trust stating, "I ask that you speak with
either Mr. or Mrs. McDougal who have made all the
arrangements for this loan."

8-27-82: Candidate for governor Clinton and candidate for
Congress McDougal speak at Democratic State Committee
meeting.

9-11-82: Candidate for governor Clinton and Candidate for
congress McDougal speak at Logan County Democratic
Barbecue-Rally.

9-16-82: Candidate for governor Clinton and candidate for
Congress McDougal appear at 1982 Democratic Convention.

9-24-82: Democratic press release that Mrs. Bill Clinton
and Jim McDougal will be featured speakers at an upcoming
rally.

9-30-82: Candidate for governor Clinton and candidate for
Congress McDougal appear at reception.

10-30-82: Whitewater Development Company, Inc. board
meeting to authorize renewal of Citizens Bank of Flippin
mortgage loan and establish an escrow account.

11-1-82: The Clintons and McDougals sign $20,000 interest
funding loan from Citizens Bank of Flippin.

The purpose of this loan was to pay accrued interest due
on the land mortgage because Whitewater was not generating
sufficient income to service bank debt. Consequently, the
Clintons must have known at this point that the land
venture could not pay its bills.

11-1-82: The Clintons and McDougals sign $129,241 mortgage
loan renewal from Citizens Bank of Flippin.

The Clintons should have questioned how Whitewater would
be able to retire the debt in just six months, especially
since they just signed an additional $20,000 loan to pay
delinquent interest.

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1983

McDougal rapidly expanded Madison Guaranty S&L, prompting
the Arkansas banking commissioner, Marlin Jackson to stop
making imprudent loans. The banking regulator told Clinton
about McDougal's shoddy practices, but Clinton took no
action.

McDougal Bank Investigated; Madison Assets Grow

+ The Kingston Bank, which James McDougal purchased in
1979, came under investigation. Governor Clinton's
banking commissioner informed the Governor that McDougal
was engaging in questionable banking practices (New York
Times, 11-2-93).

From assets of $6 million, Madison had now grown to
over $100 million (Ibid.).

3-28-83: Letter from Mrs. Clinton (on Governor's Mansion
letterhead) to "Dear Gaines" which reads, in part, "Here
are my records. I've tried to list all categories of
income and deductions on the enclosed typed pages. . . .I
do not as yet have the tax info from McDougal's accountant
about White River. I will try to get it but may want you
also to contact him. After you've had a bank to review
these, I'd be glad to meet with you."

This letter shows that Mrs. Clinton was actively involved
in the handling of Whitewater's financial records.

9-3-83: Letter from Mrs. Clinton (on Governor's Mansion
letterhead) to Jim McDougal stating, "I just received the
enclosed. What needs to be done about this, and have you
closed out our interest? Could you have someone call me?"

This letter shows that Mrs. Clinton was seeking answers,
apparently about financial matters associated with
Whitewater. A handwritten note on the bottom of the letter
reads, "Done 10-18-83 ."

9-30-83: Governor Clinton signs a $20,80 0 loan from
Security Bank of Paragould, the proceeds of which are
remitted directly to Madison Bank and Trust and applied to
Hillary Clinton's loan.

10-10-83: Letter from Rose Law Firm Managing Partner C.J.
Giroir, Jr. to Jim McDougal referencing Mr. McDougal's
discussion with Hillary Rodham Clinton about legal
services rendered.

10-14-83: The Clintons and McDougals sign $128,075 mortgage
loan renewal from Citizens Bank of Flippin.

The last renewal, on November 1, 1982, required the
shareholders to obtain a $20,000 loan to pay delinquent
interest. Approximately one year later, just one lot had
been sold and only a small $1,166 principal reduction had
been made. The Clintons must have observed that the
economics of the project continued to be problematic, and
should have questioned how the loan, for which they were
personally obligated, would be repaid.

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1984

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in mysterious checks
began moving through Whitewater's account at Madison
Guaranty, according to a later probe by the RTC. The
investigators suspect Whitewater was operating a
check-kiting scheme to drain money from the S&L.

Whitewater Posts Losses; Madison Hires Hillary

+ According to check ledgers, Whitewater posted losses
beginning in 1984 and had frequent and large negative
balances in its account at Madison (New York Times,
11-2-93). The Resolution Trust Corporation later alleged
that beginning in 1984 , Whitewater was used by the
McDougals in a check-kiting scheme involving funds from
Madison (Washington Post, 11-11-93).

+ The Los Angeles Times (11-7-93) reported McDougal said
Clinton "stopped by after a morning jog" to tell him that
family finances were tight and ask if he could please throw
some of Madison Guaranty Savings' legal business to his
attorney wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. When asked how much
they needed, Clinton said "$2,000 a month," according to
McDougal.

+ Hillary Clinton, then with the Rose Law Firm, began
accepting a $2,000-a-month retainer from Madison Guaranty.
Mr. McDougal said he hired Hillary at the urging of her
husband, Governor Clinton (Los Angeles Times, 11-12-93).
She remained on retainer for 15 months.

1-19-84 Letter from Jim McDougal to the Canadian
Department of Tourism listing Gov. Clinton as a business
and character reference.

9-6-84: Memorandum to Gov. Clinton about phone call from
Susan McDougal requesting that Gov. Clinton attend a party
for her husband. Gov. Clinton responds that he would like
to attend and give Jim McDougal an "FDR bust."

9-30-84: The Clintons sign $18,80 0 loan renewal from
Security Bank of Paragould.

Whitewater paid $4,811.19 on the loan for accrued interest
and a $2,000 principal reduction. The Clintons improperly
deducted the $2,81 1.19 interest payment paid by Whitewater
on their personal tax returns.

10-1-84: Letter from Hillary Clinton to Jim McDougal
regarding past due notice received from Security Bank of
Paragould and requesting a tax receipt for her records.

10-4-84: Letter from Jim McDougal to Hillary Clinton
regarding a Whitewater check to pay interest and make a
principal reduction on Security Bank of Paragould loan and
advising that he will forward a tax receipt to her when
received.

10-22-84: Letter from Hillary Clinton to Jim McDougal about
Security Bank of Paragould loan renewal, stating, "Will
you ask someone to take of this for us?"

10-29-84: Letter from Gov. Clinton to Jim McDougal
apparently responding to a letter from Jim McDougal about
state laws that apply to the operation of vending
machines.

11-21-84: Letter from Jim McDougal to Hillary Clinton
stating, "I urgently need your personal financial
statement to renew the Whitewater note at Flippin."

11-21-84: Letter from Jim McDougal to Ron Proctor of
Citizens Bank of Flippin enclosing a Whitewater check for
$6,000, along with personal and corporate financial
statements, and noting that Governor Clinton will mail his
statement directly.

11-26-84: The Clintons and McDougals sign $100,121 mortgage
loan renewal from Citizens Bank of Flippin.

The Clintons should have questioned how a $27,954 principal
reduction was made in light of past chronic cash shortfalls
and minimal lot sales activity since the last renewal.
Related correspondence indicates that the loan renewal was
not actually signed on this date.

12-3-84: Letter from Ron Proctor of Citizens Bank of
Flippin to Jim McDougal enclosing a renewal note that
needs to be signed by the Clintons and McDougals, as well
as by the corporation. The letter also requests that Jim
McDougal "Please tell Mr. Clinton that the renewal will
not go into effect until we receive his current personal
financial statement. This means that the loan will remain
past due until we receive the statement."

12-12-84: Letter from Jim McDougal to Betsy Wright of the
Governor's Office stating, "Governor Clinton has made a
commitment concerning this bill which I need to discuss
with you at your convenience."

12-12-84: Letter from Jim McDougal to Ron Proctor of
Citizens Bank referencing that he has forwarded the note
renewal to the Clintons for them to sign and return
directly to him.

12-12-84: Memorandum from Jim McDougal to Hillary Rodham
Clinton requesting that she sign her name and Bill's name
to the enclosed financial statement and note renewal. The
memorandum further states that he will be glad to visit
with her at any time, and to please let him know when it
will be convenient for her.

This letter indicates that Mrs. Clinton apparently is again
seeking information about Whitewater's finances.

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1985

JANUARY

Clinton appoints friend, Beverly Bassett Schaffer, as head
of the State Securities Department (which oversees the
banking commission and supervises S&Ls). Schaffer had
represented Madison Guaranty at her law firm. (In that
role, federal regulators now say, she knew how badly
Madison violated regulations.)

1-2-85: Madison Financial issues $400 check to Inaugural
Committee per Susan McDougal.

2-7-85: Memorandum from Jim McDougal to Gov. Clinton
recommending John Latham and Dr. Jerry Kendall for the
State Savings and Loan Board, wherein he notes that, "I am
about the only one around who has any interest in this
board."

3-26-85: Memorandum from staff to Gov. Clinton about
attending Jim McDougal's fund raiser on April 4 around
4:00 or 4:30. Governor Clinton responds with a handwritten
note on the bottom of the memorandum stating, "really
needs at least and hour."

1985 - APRIL

Bill Clinton asked McDougal to host a fund-raiser to pay off
a $50,000 personal loan that Clinton had borrowed to help
finance his 1984 campaign. The event raised $35,000. ( An
article in the USA today states that most of this money came
in the form of cashier checks from Madison Guaranty under
the names of prominent depositors. Those named on the checks
have been contacted and have stated that they never
contributed money to Clinton. This has investigators
examining the possibility the money from Madison was
illegally diverted to Clinton campaign. If true - that
Madison gave money in the name of a depositor without that
person's knowledge - that would be improper diversion of
depositor funds, a felony.)

+ Days before McDougal held a fund-raiser on April 4, 1985,
that raised at least $35,000 to help Clinton pay off his
debt to his 1984 reelection campaign, McDougal learned that
Madison was being scrutinized by federal regulators (New
York Times, 11-2-93).

+ "At least one person listed as having donated money
at the 1985 event has denied he contributed to Clinton"
(Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 1-15-94).

+ It is widely speculated that McDougal illegally diverted
Madison funds to Clinton's campaign (Time, 1-17-94).

+ It was during this time that Whitewater allegedly
was used by the McDougals in a check kiting scheme to drain
funds from Madison. Details of the alleged scheme were
published by the Washington Post (11-11-93):

+ "Whitewater issued 10 checks for more than $70,000.
Several
were written to the Bank of Cherry Valley, where Clinton had
a campaign account. . . other alleged shell corporations,
or from Madison Financial Corp., the S&L's wholly owned
subsidiary.

+ "One $30,000 check was issued on Whitewater's account to
McDougal with the notation `loan repayment,' though sources
said the RTC found no records of any loan from McDougal.

+ "That check resulted in an overdraft that was covered by a
deposit of $30,000 from Madison Financial Corp. (MFC). In
April 1985, according to S&L documents, MFC deposited
$30,000 directly into Whitewater's account as a `prepayment'
on a 1985 bonus to McDougal, MFC's president."

4-3-85: Stephens Security Bank (Stephens, Arkansas)
loans $135,000 to James and Susan McDougal for their
Flowerwood Farms real estate development in Pulaski County,
100 miles north of Stephens. Stephens Security was known to
have ties to the Arkansas elite, and many corporate matters
were handled by C. Joseph Giroir Jr - chairman of the Rose
Law firm. Hillary Clinton used her name to secure the
$135,000 loan. Don Denton, a former VP at Madison S&L, has
given an affidavit to Kenneth Starr stating he was in the
room when Hillary signed for the loan.

The April 3 note was secured by 11 lots in Flowerwood Farms,
and the proceeds went into the Flowerwood Farms account at
Madison.

One check for $24,599.90 went to Whitewater Development to
cover an overdraft. As the Clintons were 50-50 partners,
they directly benefited from this payment. Two more checks
for $140,000 paid off personal loans of Jim McDougal. By
April 19, Flowerwood Farms account was overdrawn by $50,000.

Another check from the Flowerwood Farms money for $3,000 was
given to former Senator William Fullbright.

4-4-85: Gov. Clinton's daily schedule reflecting his
attendance at Jim McDougal's fund raiser from 4:15 to
5:30. The event was held at Madison Guaranty and its
purpose was to help the governor retire his personal 1984
campaign debt. At least $32,000 is raised from Madison
Guaranty employees, borrowers and other insiders.

4-4-85: Madison Guaranty cashier's check #Q2496 for
$3,000 issued to Bill Clinton Campaign Fund.

4-4-85: Madison Guaranty cashier's check #Q2497 for
$3,000 issued to Bill Clinton.

4-4-85: Madison Guaranty cashier's check #Q2498 for
$3,000 issued to Bill Clinton.

4-4-85: Jim and Susan McDougal contribute $3,000 to Gov.
Clinton's gubernatorial campaign fund.

4-4-85: Senator William Fullbright gives a $3,000
contribution - money he just received from McDougal - to
Bill Clinton at a fund raiser at Madison's Little Rock HQ.
This event was used to retire a $30,000 debt Clinton had
from a loan taken out during his '84 campaign. So Hillary
had signed a loan where a portion of the money had been
diverted to others and then given to Bill to retire his
loan. As the Flowerwood account was overdrawn by 4-19, this
is an example of diverting S&L money to Bill while
contributing to the default of Madison.

4-9-85: Memorandum to Gov. Clinton relaying message from
Jim McDougal about the importance of the governor
attending an April 15 event with him.

4-24-85: Letter from Madison Guaranty employee Sue
Strayhorn to the Governor's Office providing addresses for
contributors at the April 4, 1985 fund raiser.

4-30-85: Letter from Jim McDougal to Gov. Clinton
recommending Skip Emmett for the County Agent job in
Newton County.

4-30-85: Hillary Clinton, who represents Madison, proposes
an unusual stock sale to shore up the troubled S&L. This was
described as a "precedent-setting" stock reissue plan to
state regulators to save Madison (Washington Post, 1-24-94).
Madison's attorneys included a Frost & Co. audit of Madison
to demonstrate its solvency as part of their petition to
state regulators (Los Angeles Times, 1-16-94).

Schaffer approves the deal over the objections of the
banking commission ( and Federal regulators). (Madison was
represented before Schaffer by Hillary Clinton, on retainer
by McDougal at $2,000 a month. McDougal says he hired
Hillary because Bill Clinton begged him to. Schaffer, in a
"Dear Hillary" letter, approved the Stock sale. Federal
regulators complained to Schaffer about McDougals business
practices, but she did nothing.)

5-14-85: In a "Dear Hillary" letter, Arkansas State
Securities Commissioner Beverly Bassett Schaffer approved
the stock reissue plan advanced by Madison's attorneys,
including Hillary Rodham Clinton, but the plan was never
carried out (New York Times, 11-2-93; Washington Post,
1-24-94). Clinton appointed Schaffer to this post of
regulating the state's S&Ls, and her brother helped manage
Clinton's 1984 campaign.

5-23-85: Letter from Jim McDougal to Hillary Clinton
indicating that he would like to meet with Rose Law Firm
Managing Partner Joe Giroir, "to discuss a couple of
banking matters with him which might be mutually
beneficial."

7-9-85: McDougals use the same 11 mortgaged Flowerwood Farms
lots to secure a second loan from Madison for $99,113. The
McDougals have just committed fraud on a federally insured
institution as there is no evidence that the Madison board
or Hillary Clinton were informed of the double pledging of
the lots.

7-11-85: Internal Madison Guaranty memorandum from Jim
McDougal to John Latham stating, "I need to know
everything you have pending before the Securities
Commission as I intend to get with Hillary Clinton within
the next few days."

8-4-85: Memorandum to Gov. Clinton about a problem
concerning the Savings and Loan Board to which Gov.
Clinton responds by advising staff to call Jim McDougal.

8-8-85: Internal Madison Guaranty memorandum from Pat
Jones to John Latham about preference to use Hillary
Clinton on Madison Guaranty's application to move its home
office.

8-9-85: Internal Madison Guaranty memorandum from Pat
Jones to Sarah Hawkins referencing that John Latham will
talk to Hillary Clinton about Madison Guaranty's
application to move its home office.

9-4-85: Internal Arkansas Department of Finance and
Administration document noting that Mrs. Lorene McDougal
(Jim McDougal's mother) is a personal friend of Gov. Bill
Clinton.

10-11-85: Bill Clinton signs $13,80 0 loan renewal from
Security Bank of Paragould.

11-1-85: Letter from Marlin D. Jackson, Arkansas Bank
Commissioner, to Charles D. Campbell, Security Bank of
Paragould vice president, stating, "It is my understanding
that Jim McDougal, a close friend as well as business
associate of Governor Clinton, is to forward to you a
check for $2,322.42 representing the interest due on the
note."

11-8-85: Letter from Jim McDougal to Charles D. Campbell,
Security Bank of Paragould Vice President, with a cc to
Bill, enclosing a $7,322.42 Whitewater check to be applied
to Bill Clinton's loan.

Whitewater paid $7,322.42 on the loan for accrued interest
and a $5,000
principal reduction. The Clintons improperly deducted the
$2,322.42
interest payment paid by Whitewater on their personal tax
returns.

11-20-85: Internal Madison Guaranty memorandum from Jim
McDougal to Seth Ward stating that, "I have spoken with
the Governor on this matter, and expect it will be
approved."

11-21-85: Telephone call from Governor's Office to Jim
McDougal.

Late 1985 - the FSLIC, noting irregularities, tells McDougal
that they will audit Madison in early 1986.

12-9-85: Richard Smith from Stephens Securities calls
McDougal. S&L examiners are after Stephens to reduce its
questionable "out of region" loans, and Smith wants the
Flowerwood Farms note paid off.

12-10-85: Gov. Clinton names Jim McDougal to the Martin
Luther King Holiday Commission.

12-17-85: Internal Madison Guaranty memorandum from Sue
Strayhorn to Davis Fitzhugh referencing that Margaret
Carter, a prospective tenant, was referred to Jim McDougal
by Bill Clinton.

12-19-85: Telephone call from Governor's Office to Jim
McDougal.

12-19-85: Governor Clinton's daily schedule reflecting a
dinner engagement at the Governor's Mansion with Jim
McDougal and J.W. Fulbright.

December '85 -January '86 - needing capital to correct the
books for the double pledging (as well as other deals),
McDougal gets in bed with David Hale, Jim Guy Tucker, and
Bill Clinton. They plan a scheme where money from Hale's
Capital Management Services Inc. will flow to McDougal, Jim
Guy Tucker, and Stephen Smith (once Clinton's chief of
staff). By January the money begins flowing to these
people. Hale is later placed under indictment for
fraudulently getting federal backing for Capital Management
Services Inc..

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1986

Whitewater Gets Funds From SBA-Backed Loan to Start New
Development;
McDougal Removed as Madison Head

+ David Hale, owner of Capital-Management Seto Whitewater
partner Susan McDougal, to help "clean up" some personal
financial and legal problems. Capital-Management Services
issued a check for $300,000 made out to "Susan H. McDougal
d/b/a Master Marketing" on April 3, 1986 (Washington Times,
11-4-93).

+ Whitewater may have used $110,000 of the $300,000 loan to
Susan McDougal by Capital-Management Services to purchase a
new development southwest of Little Rock, known as Lorance
Heights, which also failed. Despite the fact that Capital-
Management Services, Inc., was supposed to lend funds only
to disadvantaged businesses, the McDougals had recently
filed a financial statement showing a net worth of $2.2
million (Washington Post, 11-6-93; Washington Times,
3-24-94).

+ Madison owner James McDougal was removed from Madison's
affairs by Federal and state regulators for financial
mismanagement (Chicago Tribune, 11-10-93).

1-3-86: Richard Smith from Stephens Securities calls
McDougal. He asks again that Flowerwood Farms note be moved
out of Stephens Securities.

1-13-86 Letter from Gov. Clinton to Jim McDougal providing
him with a print entitled "Summer at Campobello" for his
development company's use.

1-15-86 Telephone call from Governor's Office to Jim
McDougal.

1-15-86: - McDougal meets with Clinton and pays
$40,000 to Stephens Securities for the Flowerwood Farms
note. He still owes them almost $100,000.

1-18-86 Gov. Clinton's daily schedule reflecting
appointment with Jim McDougal at the Governor's Mansion.

1-28-86 Telephone call from Governor's Office to Jim
McDougal.

1-30-86 Rose Law Firm fee bill referencing services
performed by Hillary Rodham Clinton for Madison Guaranty.

1-30-86 Memorandum from staff to Gov. Clinton about phone
call with Jim McDougal regarding some complaints Jim
McDougal had about the Health Department. The memorandum
reads, in part, "He told me to look for the memo he gave you
that had the complaints outlined and that I could find that
memo in your coat pocket of the jacket you had on when he
saw you.. . . . He insisted that I find that coat and I
would have the memo, but if, by chance, I couldn't find it
and was unable to talk to you about the problems, to call
him back. I called him back on Tuesday of this week. He was
out, but his secretary said that he had spoken to you that
very day long . . . so she felt like the issue was resolved.
I did speak to Jerry Hill at the Health Dept. and they have
copious letters from McDougal and would be glad to respond
to any and all of the complaints outlined in the memo that
is in the coat pocket."

1986 - FEBRUARY

David Hale, a local judge ( appointed by Clinton ) and a
federally sponsored tending-company operator, was asked by
Clinton and McDougal to arrange a loan of $300,000 to clean
up dubious loans at Madison S&L. Hale approves the loan for
that amount to McDougal's wife, claiming one of her
companies qualified as a disadvantaged small business (
minority owned firm.) ( Also, Hale is later indicted on
charges of defrauding the Small Business Administration.)

2-3-86 Telephone call from Governor Clinton to Jim
McDougal telling McDougal to be in his office in an hour.

This call was placed at 9:23 A.M. David Hale and Arkansas
State Trooper L.D. Brown have stated that during the first
week of February 1986, Hale encountered Gov. Clinton
returning from his morning jog on the steps of the State
Capitol, and that Gov. Clinton pressured Hale to make a loan
during that encounter, asking if he was going to "help him
and Jim out."

2-3-86 Letter from Security Bank to Bill Clinton
enclosing an interest statement and noting that the
original notice had been sent to Jim McDougal.

2-5-86 Memorandum from staff to Gov. Clinton attaching
information provided by Tom Butler (Health Department
deputy director) regarding "McDougal issues."

2-20-86 McDougal, concerned about the fraud of
his double pledge of the Flowerwood Farms lots, retires his
note with Madison. But Bill Clinton is still concerned that
Hillary's name is associated with the note at Stephens.

2-25-86 Memorandum from staff to Governor Clinton about
the Health Department and Jim McDougal advising him that
Tom Butler is still trying to get a handle on the McDougal
memorandum and that the Health Department had alerted its
people to respond to calls with caution and diplomacy. The
memorandum further notes that Jim McDougal has not
fulfilled written commitments he made to the Health
Department in April 1984 .

2-28-86: David Hale meets with Bill Clinton at Castle
Grande. Bill applies pressure for Hale to make an illegal
loan to McDougal to bail out the Flowerwood Farms note at
Stephens. They decide to loan money to Susan McDougal's
advertising company and then divert it to other places,
including Stephens Security.

3-4-86 Bill Clinton listed as a tentative "insider" in
FHLBB examiner's work papers regarding Madison Guaranty.
This is the effective date of the examination.

3-4-86 Gov. Clinton's daily schedule reflecting meeting
at the Governor's Mansion with Jim McDougal and Tom Butler
about sewage disposal problems at Maple Creek Farms.

3-4-86 Memorandum from staff to Gov. Clinton about
meeting that day with Jim McDougal stating, "I have met
with Health Dept. people in regard to the memo you
received from McDougal.. . . Bill Teer did relate that
back in 4/84 McDougal was disconcerted at being requested
to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (attached). He did
refer to Teer and Bruce Kirsch as incompetent bureaucrats,
SOBs, and told them the memorandum was worthless and that
the Governor was his good friend, etc."

3-5-86 Memorandum from staff to Gov. Clinton about March 4
meeting with Jim McDougal stating that attendees "kept
silent yesterday out of respect for you, but their silence
was not tacit approval of Jim's accusations. Frankly, they
were taken aback at some of what he said and felt a great
deal of frustration at not responding. . . . I believe they
took their cue from you when you told them that Jim was your
friend of 20 years who had never asked for a favor."

3-21-86 Handwritten note to Tom Butler apparently from
his staff relating a conversation in which Jim McDougal
said, "Don't want to act political but if we have had
another Gov he'd fire Lex Dobbins - this kind of man can
defeat Bill Clinton." The note further states, "Remember
Jim said that Lex Dobbins wasn't going to defeat BC - he
hadn't spent $60,000 on him since he was 18 to sit back &
watch a crazy, psychotic person like Lex Dobbins defeat
BC."

3-25-86 Health Department Deputy Director Tom Butler writes
Jim McDougal apologizing for the delay in getting back with
him and advising him that the transfer of all documents and
responsibilities regarding Maple Creek Farms, Brittany Point
and Eden Park have been completed. The letter states, "I can
assure you that any future decisions and subsequent actions
concerning this matter will first be discussed and approved
by upper management of the Health Department."

4-1-86 David Hale gets a call from Richard Smith saying
they will try to close out the Flowerwood Farms note on
Wednesday.

4-3-86 Capital-Management Services, Inc. funds a
$300,000 loan to "Susan McDougal dba Master Marketing,"
partial proceeds of which were diverted for the benefit of
Whitewater Development Company, Inc.

4-3-86 - The Flowerwood Farms note at Stephens comes due.
David Hale gives $300,000 to Susan McDougal's Master
Marketer advertising company. Stephens Security marks the
note as paid even though they have no money as of yet.

4-6-86 - McDougal gives Stephens Security a check for
$111,524.21. But the cashiers check does not clear until
September. Fraudulent entries as to the date the check was
written are suspected.

Two additional checks from the 300K totaling $36,000 went to
International Paper Realty Co for another land deal. At the
same time, Gov. Clinton gives International Paper Realty Co
a large tax break.

Another $42,000 went to two individuals. The remaining
$110,000 is missing as are the microfilm records from
Madison which would have shown where the money went.

4-16-86 Telephone call from Gov. Clinton to Jim McDougal.

4-29-86 Memorandum from Jerry Hill of the Arkansas Health
Department to the Governor's Office providing a status
report since the meeting with Jim McDougal which reads, in
part, "Keep in mind that Mr. McDougal's agreements
concerning public sewer have not been met and that the
Covenants and Restrictions of Maple Creek Farms possibly
contradict Act 402 of 1977."

6-23-86 Handwritten note from "Carolyn" to Mrs. Clinton
confirming that she had forwarded a bill to Jim
(McDougal).

6-26-86 Memorandum from staff to Gov. Clinton about Maple
Creek Farms which reads, in part, "Tom Butler called and
they are in the process of getting a complete report over
to us on all that has been going on re Maple Creek here of
late. . . . Tom feels that they have made every effort to
work with the Maple Creek people. No matter who is
assigned to work at these lots out there the conclusion is
going to be the same - all of the soil is not suitable for
septic tanks. Tom did say that they will take no action
until you see the full report and he heard back from us."

1986 - OCTOBER

SBA loan diverted to Whitewater to buy 81 0 acres from
International Paper.

[July, 1986 - At this point, we know that the Flowerwood
Farms note has not been paid because the check won't be
cashed for 2 more months. Thus, Hillary is still on the
hook for the Flowerwood note (as well as the possibility
that she was a willing participant in the fraudulent double
pledge of the lots). The paper trail still points to
Hillary. Clinton runs into Hale in Little Rock's University
Plaza Mall and says "Have you heard what that fucking whore
Susan has done?" Hale claimed he did not, and Clinton
rushed off without explaining. Bill is agitated about the
paper trail on Flowerwood as well as the possible sweetheart
deal given International Paper Realty Co and the fact that
both he and Hillary could be in big trouble.]

10-22-86 Letter from Carolyn Huber to Mrs. Clinton about
tax issues relating to the property Mrs. Clinton owned at
Whitewater Estates. The letter relays phone conversations
Ms. Huber had with Susan McDougal, Jim McDougal's office,
Madison Bank, and the Marion County Tax Collector.

11-14-86 Letter from Jim McDougal to the Clintons about
the status of Whitewater stating, "The company to date has
experienced losses totaling approximately $90,000. . . .
Susan and I have in large measure contributed to the
company the funds necessary to cover these losses."

12-16-86 Letter from Jim McDougal to the Clintons about
buyers of Whitewater lots that have defaulted, "thereby
creating a shortfall of about $1,000.00 a month for our
monthly payment to Citizens Bank of Flippin."

1986 (late in the year)

Banking regulators (federal) remove McDougal as chief of
Madison S&L, issuing a scathing report about faulty record
keeping and the diversion of funds to friends and family.

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1987

Whitewater Records to Hillary?

+ James McDougal claimed that in late 1987, he sent all
Whitewater records and files to Hillary Rodham Clinton at
her request (Washington Times, 11-4-93). The Clintons said
many of them have disappeared (New York Times, 3-8-92).

4-14-87 Memorandum from staff to Gov. Clinton about a
visit from R.D. Randolph which reads, "Mr. Randolph
dropped by to see you this morning to talk to you about
the Water Bill you vetoed. He said that he talked to you
on Sunday morning. He wants to know if the veto is going
to stand. He would like you to call Jim Guy Tucker about
it. He said that he has a difficult time getting an answer
from you (He mentioned a meeting between you, Tucker and
Jim McDougal a couple of years ago which involved $33,000.
This was pretty cryptic). He seemed angry. Someone, I
think he prefers you, needs to call Tucker."

Approximately two years from this date, on 4-4-85 , Jim
McDougal hosted a fund raiser for Governor Clinton at
Madison Guaranty which raised approximately $33,000.

11-28-88: Hillary Clinton sent a letter to James McDougal
requesting that he sign an enclosed power-of-attorney
request for Whitewater Development, including giving her the
power to endorse, sign and execute "checks, notes, deeds,
agreements, certificates, receipts or any other instruments
in writing of all matters related to Whitewater Development
Corp." The Clintons' spokesman in 1992 claimed they were
only "passive shareholders" in Whitewater (Washington Times,
11-4-93).

12-7-88: Capital-Management Services, Inc., filed a
complaint with the Circuit Court of Pulaski County,
Arkansas, alleging default of its $300,000 loan to Susan
H. McDougal. The Court judgment against Susan McDougal
occurred on February 6, 1989.

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1989:

Federal regulators liquidated Madison S&L at an estimated
cost of $47- $60 million to taxpayers.

Madison's Failure Costs Taxpayers $47 Million; Rose Firm
Hired

+ The Washington Post on November 3, 1993, reported:

"The thrift, Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, failed in
1989, costing taxpayers an estimated $47 million. In an
effort to recoup some of that money, the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp. hired the influential Rose law firm of
Little Rock to sue the S&L's accountants, paying it
$400,000 in fees and expenses.

"Through a Justice Department spokesman, (Associate
Attorney General Webster) Hubbell said he told the FDIC
that lawyers at his firm, including senior partner Hillary
Rodham Clinton, had represented Madison in the mid-1980s.

"FDIC officials said their attorneys ice, wrote to the
FDIC earlier in 1989 soliciting work for his firm.

"`The firm does not represent any savings and loan
association in state or federal regulatory matters,'
Foster wrote, using the present tense. Conflict-
of-interest rules generally bar lawyers from representing
the government in S&L cases if they have done significant
work for the thrift."

+ While the Rose Law Firm was seeking the FDIC's business,
FDIC attorney April Breslaw, "known for her toughness on
conflict of interest, intervened on behalf" of Rose partner
Webb Hubbell as he sought to represent the FDIC in a $10
million suit against Frost & Co., Madison S&L's auditors.
The suit challenged the accuracy of the audit that Rose had
relied upon in previously representing Madison in 1985 .
Breslaw "brushed aside repeated internal challenges to
Hubbell's loyalty to [the] FDIC"; she "vouched in writing
for the Rose firm's performance" in another FDIC case; and
she "inexplicably approved a $1 million settlement with
Frost, although it had $3 million in liability" (Washington
Times, 2-15-94).

----------------------------------------------------------
1990

Whitewater filed no income tax return in 1990, 1991, and
1992.

Clinton's gubernatorial campaign workers gave cash to
black ministers to get them to encourage their
congregations to vote for Clinton. (US News & World
Report)

McDougal Acquitted

+ James McDougal was acquitted of charges that he
illegally profited from real estate deals involving the
development subsidiary of Madison Guaranty, Madison
Financial Corporation.

----------------------------------------------------------
1991

Nearly all of Whitewater's land had been sold. Later
(after 1992) tax returns files by Clinton attorney Vincent
Foster show strong assets of $160,000.

Rose Settles Madison Suit for $1 Million, Keeps 40 Percent

+ The government sought $60 million in its suit against
Madison Guaranty's accountants, Frost & Co. The Rose firm
settled the case on the FDIC's behalf with little
publicity in 1991 for $1 million (Washington Post,
11-3-93). "`I felt they [the Rose firm] had switched
sides they turned around and worked the other side of the
street,' said one of the accountants, who asked not to be
named because he continues to have dealings with the Rose
law firm" (Washington Post, 11-3-93). The Rose Firm
billed the FDIC $400,87 9 , "40 percent of the money
recovered in the settlement" (Washington Times, 3-5-94).
In a letter to the FDIC inspector general, U. S. Rep. Jim
Leach said "Mr. Hubbell settled the suit for a fraction of
the firm's insurance coverage, and then had the gall to
demand $400,000 in fees" (Ibid.).

1986 - 1991 - The Madison default case is swept under the
rug.

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1992

Whitewater Becomes Campaign Issue;
Whitewater Documents Allegedly Destroyed;
McDougal Complains;
Clintons Sell, Named in Criminal Referral;
Tax Returns Not Filed

+ After the New York Times originally broke the Whitewater
story on March 8, Clinton, on March 12, asked Denver
lawyer and personal friend James Lyons to prepare a "full
financial review" of the land deal.

Lyons's review, based on a report prepared by Patten,
McCarthy and Associates, a Denver-based forensic
accounting firm that specializes in "financial
reconstruction's," was completed and made public on March
23, 1992, ed, loaned or otherwise advanced" to the
development company $68,900 since the venture began in
1978. It further claimed that Whitewater had an
outstanding mortgage of $10,400 plus accrued interest for
which the Clintons are joint guarantors (Associated Press,
3-23-92).

However, "there is evidence aplenty that the Lyons report
omitted or glossed over some pertinent facts," the Wall
Street Journal reported on January 4, 1994. Three year's
worth of unfilled tax returns were never mentioned. It
also failed to mention an airplane-for-land swap involving
Chris Wade, the real estate agent for the development, and
James McDougal. Wade sold the plane to Whitewater, but
McDougal took possession and sold it to Seth Ward a
Madison subsidiary employee and Webster Hubbell's
father-in-law.

Additionally, the Lyons report failed to report
Whitewater's largest transaction an October 1986 ,
$550,000 purchase of land owned by International Paper
Company's realty unit (IPC eventually foreclosed on the
property after Whitewater didn't make payments). In 1985
, Governor Clinton had negotiated major tax concessions to
keep International Paper from moving two of its plants out
of Arkansas.

+ Further, Patten, McCarthy & Associates, the accounting
firm which prepared the 1992 report, refused to vouch for
the accuracy of its findings, according to the Wall Street
Journal on January 12, 1994. In addition, the Wall Street
Journal on April 1, 1994, reported that a draft analysis
of Whitewater finances prepared for the Clinton
presidential campaign "suggests that Bill and Hillary
Clinton may have taken improper tax deductions in 1979 and
1980 ." The draft report was never made public.

+ The Washington Times reported on March 7, 1994, that
three current or former Rose Law Firm attorneys "were
summoned" to the Arkansas governor's mansion during the
1992 campaign by Hillary Rodham Clinton, "who personally
handed over records to be shredded at the firm's downtown
office." The shredding began after a 3-8-92 New York
Times report on the Clintons' involvement with Whitewater,
and continued through the November 3 election.

+ James McDougal made accusations about Governor Clinton
in at least one tape-recorded conversation with Arkansas
GOP Co-Chairman and former gubernatorial candidate
Sheffield Nelson. McDougal accused Clinton of not being
truthful about Whitewater losses (Newsweek, 2-7-94).

+ The Washington Post reported on November 11, 1993, that
the RTC named the Clintons' business partners, the
McDougals, as targets in an October 1992 referral to the
Justice Department. According to a number of press
reports, Bill and Hillary Clinton were also named in the
referral as potential beneficiaries of a check-kiting
scheme conducted by the McDougals, but there was no
evidence they had any direct knowledge of the scheme.

Madison case is re-opened as part of the Whitewater
investigation. US Attorney Charles Banks rushed the
referral out of his office without even reading the entire
case. He admits later that he did so because it was
politically charged (involving the president elect and his
wife) and that he did not want to make waves as he was a
candidate for a federal judgeship.

David Hale uses a fraudulent maneuver to recapitalize his
Capital Mgmt Services. Auditors in the Small Business
Admin. begin to pry into Hale's books. The Clinton's
anxiety rises as they are afraid this investigation might
uncover the paper trail stemming from the $300,000 loan
given to Susan McDougal.

Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos calls the SBA on
several occasions, schmoozing them for their handling of
matters in Arkansas and asking pointed questions about how
the agency was being run. At the time, Hale's firm was
the only SBIC in the state of Arkansas, so George was
directly attempting to find out what the SBA had
uncovered.

1992 - MARCH

To answer questions about their involvement in Whitewater,
the Clintons ask friend James Lyons to audit their
investment. He reports they received no return on their
$69,000 investment.

1992 - NOVEMBER

The RTC notified the Justice Department that Whitewater
benefited from the check-kiting scheme at Madison S&L.
Justice did not pursue the case.

1992 - DECEMBER

The Clintons sold their half-interest in Whitewater to
McDougal for $1000.

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1993: FBI Raids an Office;
Foster Found Dead;
U.S. Attorney Finally Recuses Self;
White House, President Given Heads Up;
Calls for Investigations Begin

1-20-93: Bill Clinton inaugurated president--celebration
costs approximately $25 million. At least $154,000 worth
of radios, computers, televisions, VCRs, walkie-talkies
and pagers are stolen by Clinton inauguration employees
and volunteers.

1/21/93: Clinton breaks his first promise: to introduce his
legislative
program by the day after his inauguration.

1-22-93: Clinton lifts ban on fetal tissue research.

1/22/93: Clinton abolishes the Competitiveness Council even
though its regulatory reform promised to save taxpayers $20
billion annually and create 200,000 jobs.

Attorney General nominee Zoe Baird withdraws after
admitting she hired illegal aliens and neglected to pay
their Social Security taxes.

1-25-93: Hillary Clinton is named to run Clinton's health
care reform task force, which the White House says will
cost taxpayers $100,000.

1-29-93: Clinton announces his plan to fully integrate gays
into all branches of the military. (See 7-19-93.)

February: The SBA are cracking down on Hale.
Clinton replaces the SBA administrator with Erskine Bowles
- a friend from North Carolina. Bowles keeps whitehouse
chief of staff Mack McLarty informed on the Hale case. So
now Bill has an insider at SBA he can use to do damage
control over anything implicating him or Hillary that
might come out of the Hale investigation.

2-5-93: Kimba Wood withdraws her name for nomination as
attorney general after it's disclosed she employed an
undocumented worker as a nanny.

2-9-93: Clinton eliminates 83 percent of the staff at the
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

2-17-93: Clinton announces budget proposal, widely
recognized as a government-growth package with $359
billion in increased taxes and fees--breaking his campaign
promise to lower taxes for the middle class. (See
8-5-93.)

3-9-93: In a letter to Clinton, Mochtar Riady--an
Indonesian billionaire whose family owns the
Indonesia-based cnonglomerate the Lippo Group and who owned
a bank in Arkansas in the 1980s--proposes normalizing
relations with Vietnam and maintaining China's
most-favored-nation trade status; both occur during
Clinton's term. (See 12-2-96.)

3-15-93: Clinton's economic stimulus package is introduced
in
the Senate. It includes, among other things, tax money for
"midnight basketball."

4-21-93: Republicans in the Senate kill Clinton's stimulus
package.

4-29-93: Clinton nominates "Quotacrat" Lani Guinier as
assistant attorney general for civil rights. (See 6-3-93.)

5-18-93: <Picture> Hair Force One: Clinton gets $200 haircut
from Cristophe on Air Force One, shutting down two runways
at Los Angeles International Airport for an hour at an
estimated cost to airlines of $76,000.

5-19-93: White House fires, and asks the FBI to investigate,
seven career Travel Office employees and hires Clinton's
cousin, Catherine Cornelius.

5-25-93: Pay and benefits are reinstated for five of the
seven fired travel office employees and they're given other
government jobs. (See 11-16-95.)

6-3-93: Clinton withdraws Guinier's nomination.

6-9-93: Donna Henneman, a Justice Department employee in
the Executive Office for U. S. Attorneys, placed a telephone
call to L. Jean Lewis, a senior criminal investigator for
the RTC in Kansas City. Henneman told Lewis that her office
finally located the Madison criminal referral within the
Fraud section of the Criminal Division, where the individual
assigned to the referral "didn't want to deal with it."
Henneman also said that the Criminal Division advised the
Associate Deputy Attorney General, Doug Frazier, that there
was "no identifiable basis for recusal of the U. S. Attorney
in the Eastern District of Arkansas" (Congressional Record,
3-24-94, pg. H- 2009).

+ The Washington Post reported on December 19, 1993, that
the Clintons "found that the company had not filed tax
returns for three years. Those returns were prepared by an
Arkansas accounting firm under the direction of the late
Vincent Foster. . ." and filed in June 1993.

7-19-93: Clinton announces "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy
regarding gays in the military.

7-20-93: A Federal Magistrate in Little Rock, Arkansas,
authorized a search warrant for the business offices of
David Hale, owner of Capital-Management Investment Corp.
Hours later, Vincent Foster, Jr., left his office and was
reported to have committed suicide at Fort Marcy, Virginia,
on National Park Service property.

White House telephone logs show that in the hours before his
death, Foster received calls from a former colleague in the
Rose law firm and from Denver lawyer James Lyons, who had
prepared the Whitewater review for the campaign in 1992.
Lyons called Foster about two hours before the deputy
counsel left his office for the last time (Washington Post,
1-13-94), but Lyons claims that they did not connect.

Just before Foster's "suicide," Lyons talked with him
on the phone several times. After Foster's death, Bernard
Nussbaum removes Whitewater's files from Foster's sealed
office. An extended timeline of the events surrounding
Foster's death is also available.

7-20-93: Just hours after Vince Foster left the
whitehouse for the last time, Clinton unleashes the FBI on
Hale's office. The search warrant specified files on Susan
McDougal's Master Marketing loan as one of its targets.

7-20-93: COPS--Secret Service Officer with 17 years of
experience
witnessed Hillary 1Clinton's chief of staff, Maggie
Williams,
carry a stack of file folders from the White House General
Counsel suite, in which lay Vince Foster's office, to Ms.
Williams's personal office. He witnessed Ms. Williams lean
the stack against a cabinet while she opens the door. He
witnessed Ms. Williams carry the files into office, reemerge
without the files, and lock her door.

CRONIES--Margaret Williams says she "viewed, inspected or
removed" nothing from Vince Foster's office on July 20,
1993. She acknowledges Officer O'Neill's presence.
Therefore, according to Ms. Williams, Officer O'Neill
hallucinated or committed perjury.

8-5-93 through 8-6-93: Without a single Republican vote,
House and Senate Democrats pass Clinton's budget proposal
for the largest tax increase in history.

8-9-93: The administration announces its plan to raise
grazing fees 130 percent. (See 5-31-95.)

8-10-93: Clinton signs largest tax increase in history,
raising taxes $280 billion over five years. (See 10-17-95.)

9-17-93: Clinton's Justice Department files a brief with the
Supreme Court advocating a more difficult standard to
convict pedophiles of child pornography. (See 11-4-93.)

White House, President, Get Advance Notice of RTC Referral

+ In a September 29, 1993, conversation, Treasury General
Counsel Jean Hanson told White House Counsel Bernard
Nussbaum "that a (RTC) document recommending a criminal
investigation of Madison Guaranty would name the Clintons as
possible beneficiaries of illegal actions by the thrift"
(New York Times, 3-4-94).

1993 - OCTOBER

In a second referral, the RTC asked the Justice Department
to begin a probe of Madison S&L and Whitewater. (The
Clinton's are listed as "beneficiaries" of McDougal's
largesse.)

10-3-93: Eighteen U.S. soldiers killed and 78 wounded in an
attack in Somalia after Clinton's Defense Department denies
request to send armored vehicles and Blackhawk helicopters
for backup. (See 12-15-93.)

10-5-93: Clinton proposes changes in Medicare and Medicaid:
"Today, Medicaid and Medicare are going up three times the
rate of inflation. We propose to let it go up at two times
the rate of inflation. This is not a Medicaid or Medicare
cut...So when you hear all this business about cuts, let me
caution you that that is not what is going on." (See
9-15-95.)

+ On October 8, 1993, nine days after the Hanson-Nussbaum
conversation, the RTC issued a criminal referral to the
Department of Justice concerning a possible check-kiting
scheme involving Whitewater and Madison Guaranty, in which
the Clintons were named as possible beneficiaries of the
scheme. "That would mean that Mr. Nussbaum took part in
discussing a criminal referral involving the Clintons while
it was still being evaluated by the House aide Bruce
Lindsey. "I don't remember when I knew about it or who told
me about it, but it was just sort of presented as a fact, a
decision that had been made by the government. And I didn't
think much about it at the time," Clinton said (Washington
Post, 3-8-94).

11-4-93: The Senate passes, 100 -- 0, an amendment
criticizing the Clinton administration's proposed
liberalization of child pornography laws.

November 5, 1993 - 7 Lawyers meet to discuss damage control.
They focus on David Hale and the RTC investigation into S&L
funds being siphoned into Gov. Clinton's coffers. Some of
the cryptic notes read "RTC - people trying to get BC [Bill
Clinton] and JGT [Jim Guy Tucker]", "Vacuum Rose Law Files
WWDC [Whitewater Development Co] Docs". It seems clear that
Clinton was concerned about the RTC investigation and what
it might uncover AS WELL AS the docs removed from Vince
Fosters office the night he died.

+ 11-5-93: U. S. Rep. John La Falce (D-NY), Chairman of
the House Small Business Committee, asked the SBA for a
report "on the activities of Capital-Management Services,
Inc.," by November 15 (Washington Times, 11-6-93).

+ 11-7-93: The Los Angeles Times reports that U.S.
Senator Lauch Faircloth requested the appointment of an
independent counsel to investigate the Whitewater matter in
a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno.

+ 11-9-93: - Pressure from Clinton gets RTC's Jean
Lewis off of the case. She was leading the Madison
investigation.

+11-9-93: The Associated Press reported that U.S. Attorney
for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Paula Casey, recused
herself and her aides from the matter "because of their
familiarity with some of the parties and the need to ensure
that there be no misperceptions about the impartiality of
the investigation." Casey has a long history of involvement
with Clinton, including volunteering in his gubernatorial
bids.

But on November 11, the Washington Post reported that "two
weeks ago, U.S. Attorney Paula Casey told the RTC in a
letter that her office `concurs' with the earlier Justice
Department conclusion that there was `insufficient
information' in the first referral to warrant a law
enforcement probe.. ."

The Department of Justice Manual specifically requires
recusal if "a U.S. attorney has a personal interest in the
outcome of the matter or because he/she has or had a
professional relationship with parties or counsel, or for
other good cause. . ." (Section 1-3.170, 1993-1 Supplement).

+ Also on November 9, House Republican members of the
Banking Committee, led by Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA), requested a
Banking Committee investigation of Whitewater (Washington
Times, 11-10-93).

+ 11-10-93: L. Jean Lewis, senior criminal investigator
for the RTC's Kansas City office, was notified that she was
to be replaced as lead investigator on irregularities at
Madison. "The Powers That Be have decided that I'm better
off out of the line of fire. . ." she said in an electronic
mail message to a colleague (Congressional Record, 3-24-94,
pg. H-2011).

11-16-93: Associate whitehouse counsel, Neil Eggleston gets
a
copy of the SBA investigation of David Hale from SBA General
Counsel John Spotilla - a man appointed to the position
based on a recommendation of Hillary Clinton. The Justice
Dept. goes ballistic when they learn of this. Eggleston
returns the file after making a photocopy. During testimony
in late November, long-time Clinton aide Bruce Lindsey
admitted to initiating this errand in order to see if the
Clinton's were mentioned in the file.

Everything about the above events suggests that the
whitehouse was on a search and destroy mission in the
attempt to control the docs from Vince Fosters office, the
SBA, and the RTC in response to Jean Lewis' criminal
referrals. The significance of Hillary's personal guarantee
on the Flowerwood Farms note is clear: it directly ties
Hillary into a shady loan and thereby supports the inference
that she was a willing player in a garden variety bank
fraud.

It is ironic that the attempts at concealment (shredding of
records at Rose Law, public denunciations of cooperating
witnesses, memory lapses etc) make it possible to prosecute
the entire chain of events (whose statute would have already
run out). Principals of federal law applying to conspiracy
and conspiracy to conceal crime make a statute defense null
and void. The original scheme - misuse of Flowerwood
mortgage money, use of Susan McDougal as a front for Bill on
the Hale loan, falsification of books at a federally insured
institution etc. encompass Hillary, her staff, the
whitehouse counsel's office, and Bill Clinton himself.

12-8-93: Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders suggests studying
the legalization of drugs. (See 12-9-94.)

12-15-93: Defense Secretary Les Aspin resigns after the
fatal
decision to deny tank and helicopter support to troops in
Somalia.

12-20-93

The White House requested the FBI background file on Billy
Dale,
a Bush administration holdover whom the Clinton
administration fired as travel office director. The White
House requests the files weeks after Dale is fired.

The Clinton administration tried to have Dale sent to
prison, but a jury found Dale not guilty in less than 90
minutes. The Republicans have been trying to get the
government to compensate Dale (the Clinton's have
financially ruined the man), but Democrats stand in the way.
Dale says Clinton has not apologized to him. Marlin
Fitzwater, former Bush press secretary, says, "The scary
part is the vindictiveness of this administration. They
could have fired the travel office people for political
reasons but they chose to make criminals out of all of
them."

+ On December 21, White House spokesman Mark Gearan revealed
that two White House aides, Hillary Clinton's chief of
staff, Maggie Williams, and Special Assistant Patsy
Thomasson (who has an extensive background in Arkansas
politics) entered Foster's office shortly after his July 20
suicide, but claimed that no files were taken. However,
later, the White House said a file dealing with the Travel
Office had been removed. (Wall Street Journal, 12-21-93).

+ Numerous media reports also raised questions about the
handling of Foster's files by White House Counsel Bernard
Nussbaum, including his refusal to permit the FBI and U. S.
Park Police to examine key Foster documents.

+ On December 23, 1993, Senators Dole and D'Amato wrote
Banking Committee Chairman Riegle asking for an
investigation, which the chairman later refused to grant.

+ Also on December 23, President Clinton voluntarily agreed
to turn over Whitewater records to the Justice Department
(Hotline, January 4, 1994). On the same day, President
Clinton's personal lawyer, David Kendall, asked the Justice
Department to subpoena Whitewater documents in "a move that
probably prevents their release under the Freedom of
Information Act" (Wall Street Journal, 1-6-94).

Fall 1993 to January 1994

The White House requests and receives over 300 files on
former White
House employees.

January 1994: Clinton Relents;
Special Counsel Appointed;
Senate Republicans Press for Banking Committee
Hearings

1-2-94: White House senior advisor, George Stephanopoulos,
stated that all subpoenaed Whitewater documents have been
turned over the
Justice Department (ABC's This Week with David Brinkley,
1-2-94).

1-3-94: White House press secretary Dee Dee Meyers
contradicted the previous day's pronouncement by Senior
Advisor George
Stephanopoulos, stating it will take "a couple of weeks" for
the White House
to turn over the President's Whitewater papers to the
Justice Department
(New York Post, 1-4-94).

1-6-94: Billy Dale file is placed in a vault in the office
of personal security, supervised by former Rose Law Firm
lawyer, William Kennedy.

1-12-94: Clinton agrees to bipartisan demands for a
Whitewater special counsel.

1-12-94: After intense media coverage of
Whitewater, Madison, and the Clintons' refusal to either
publicly release records or ask for a special counsel, they
gave in: White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum formally
requested the appointment of a special counsel. Attorney
General Janet Reno agreed, "reluctantly."

1-18-94: The President and Mrs. Clinton's
Whitewater documents begin to arrive at the Justice
Department.

1-20-94: On the first anniversary of Clinton's
inauguration, Reno appointed former New York U.S. Attorney
Robert Fiske (1976-1980 ) as special counsel with broad
authority to investigate the Clinton's involvement in
Whitewater. He began work on January 24.

1-25-94: Clinton vows to veto anything less than universal
health care coverage.

1-30-94: Senate Republicans on the Banking Committee
formally requested a special meeting of the panel to pursue
hearings or an investigation into Whitewater
(AP/Philadelphia Inquirer, 1-30-94). Chairman Don Riegle
(D-MI) rejected the request (Hotline, 2-1-94).

The Wall Street Journal filed suit in U. S. District Court
(New York City) to "force the release of reports on White
House lawyer Vincent Foster's death" (Wall Street Journal,
1-31-94).

February 1994: Senate, House Democratic Leaders Reject
Hearings;
White House, RTC Officials Meet on Whitewater;
New Grand Jury Impaneled;
Rose Firm Cleared

2-1-94: Ricki Tigert, nominee to chair the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp., (FDIC), and close friend of First
Lady Hillary Clinton, appeared before the Senate Banking
Committee and refused to recuse herself on
Whitewater/Madison matters (Wall Street Journal, 2-2-94).
But on February 8, in Madison Guaranty S&L (Wall Street
Journal, 2-9-94).

2-2-94: Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman
arranged a private meeting at the White House for counsel
Bernard Nussbaum and others to talk about the
then-approaching deadline for a civil suit against the
Clintons (New York Newsday, 2/25). Altman later said the
meeting was "a piece of awful judgment."

+ According to notes kept by RTC investigator L. Jean Lewis,
FDIC attorney April Breslaw visited her in Lewis's Kansas
City office from 3:50 p.m. until about 4:35 p.m. February 2,
1994. Breslaw said that "the people at the top" keep
getting asked about Whitewater, and that the "head people"
would like to be able to say that Whitewater did not cause a
loss to Madison. "I stated that if she wanted me to tell
her, unequivocally, that Whitewater didn't cause a loss, I
could not do that. I could only reiterate the allegations
contained in the referral, which are based on fact, and that
it is my opinion and belief that Whitewater did, in fact,
cause a loss to Madison. . ." (Congressional Record,
3-24-94, pg. H-2006).

2-8-94: Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the Clintons'
health plan would increase the deficit by $74 billion, not
decrease it by $59 billion as the Clintons had promised.
(See 8-10-94.)

+ The Washington Times (2-9-94) reported that on February 3,
the Rose Law Firm, which at one time represented Madison
before Arkansas state regulators and later prosecuted
Madison for the FDIC, shredded documents related to
Whitewater. Rose officials deny the shredding occurred (USA
Today, 2-10-94). Special Counsel Robert Fiske said he will
investigate (Washington Post, 2-10-94).

2-9-94: The Senate voted 95-0 to extend to 12-31-95
(or until the date of termination of the RTC) the deadline
for civil fraud actions against failed Savings and Loans.
(Record Vote No. 36, Congressional Record, 2-9-94, pg.
S-1253)

2-10-94: U. S. Rep. Jan Meyers (R-KS) introduced a
House Resolution requesting that Clinton answer "whether he
or any White House official contacted the Small Business
Administration about Capital- Management Services or its
owner, David Hale (H. Res. 360, 103d Congress).

2-13-94: The House voted 356-52 to reauthorize the
Independent Counsel Act.

2-15-94: Special Counsel Fiske asked U. S. District
Judge Stephen Reasoner in Little Rock to convene an
additional federal grand jury for an 18-month term. The
grand jury would look solely into the Whitewater case
(Arkansas Democrat- Gazette, 2-16-94). Reasoner ordered the
grand jury impaneled the next day (Arkansas Democrat-
Gazette, 2-17-94).

2-17-94: The Washington Post reported that a parking
meter manufacturer, POM Inc., owned by Webb Hubbell's
father-in-law, Seth Ward, was also being targeted by
investigators. POM was a Madison borrower, and Hillary
Clinton did work for the company as well.

+ The FDIC "found no evidence that the Rose Law Firm. .
.violated conflict of interest rules in its dealings with
Madison Guaranty" and "would not seek legal sanctions.
(Washington Post, 2-18-94). But the FDIC report
acknowledged "that a shortage of documents made a complete
investigation impossible" (Washington Times, 2-18).
Additionally, the Wall Street Journal reported that "many of
the findings in the report are based in part on Mr.
Hubbell's recollections."

2-24-94: Deputy Treasury Secretary Altman's February
2nd White House briefing on Whitewater was revealed in a
Senate Banking Committee oversight hearing on the Resolution
Trust

2-25-94: Altman removed himself from further official
involvement in the government's Whitewater real estate probe
(Los Angeles Times, 2-26-94).

Also on February 25, Acting FDIC Chair Andrew Hove ordered
agency investigators to "reopen" their probes of two cases
involving the Rose Law Firm one on Rose's representation of
Madison Guaranty S&L and another regarding Dan Lasater
(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 2-26-94).

+ In late February, White House officials George
Stephanopoulos and Harold Ickes talked to Deputy Treasury
Secretary Roger Altman, expressing outrage over the RTC's
hiring of former Bush Administration U. S. Attorney Jay
Stephens to handle possible civil suits related to Madison
Guaranty (Washington Post, 3-26-94).

2-28-94: Republican Leader Robert Dole called
for full Congressional hearings into the Whitewater affair
following Altman's revelations about the meeting between
White House and Treasury officials (Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette, 3-1-94).

MARCH '94

Nussbaum, Hubbell Resign;
11 Administration Officials Get Subpoenas;
President Holds Press Conferences;
House, Senate Vote for Hearings;
Key Figure Gets Immunity

+ The Associated Press and the Washington Post reported
that Special Counsel Fiske has decided to re-examine the
conclusion that Vince Foster committed suicide (3-3-94).

+ Senator D'Amato revealed on March 3 that 43 GOP senators
"have pledged to hold up" Ricki Tigert's nomination to head
the FDIC until the Senate Banking Committee holds hearings
on the White House-Treasury briefings (Washington Post,
3-4-94).

3-4-94: Ten White House and Treasury officials were
subpoenaed for documents and testimony: White House aides
Bernard Nussbaum, Mark Gearan, Harold Ickes, Margaret
Williams, Lisa Caputo and Bruce Lindsey; and Treasury aides
Roger Altman, Jean Hanson, Josh Steiner and Jack DeVore
(Boston Globe, Washington Post, 3-5-94).

3-5-94: Criticized for interfering in the
Whitewater
investigation, White House Counsel Bernie Nussbaum resigns.
Nussbaum's resignation is accepted by President Clinton
(Baltimore Sun, 3-6-94).

"I did not do anything wrong. There is nothing here.
I
made an investment and I lost money, like a lot of
other
Americans. And that's all there is."

Bill Clinton
White House Press Conference
March 8, 1994

3-6-94: White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty admits on
CNN's "Late Edition" that he knew about the February 2nd
meeting between Treasury and White House aides over the RTC
criminal referral. "I think it was arranged through my
office. I did he had been told about a request by Federal
regulators for a criminal investigation into" Madison
Guaranty S&L (New York Times, 3-8-94).

Sources said that White House advisor Bruce Lindsey "may
have told the Clintons about the issue" in October 1993
after press inquiries began (Washington Post, 3-8-94).

3-8-94: White House and Treasury file searches "produced
evidence of numerous additional contacts of an unspecified
nature between officials" relating to Madison S&L
(Washington Post, 3-9-94).

3-9-94: Senators Al D'Amato and William Cohen met with
Special
Counsel Fiske over the matter of Senate hearings on
Whitewater after Fiske sent D'Amato a letter raising
objections to public hearings that might threaten his
investigation (Hotline, 3-9-94).

U. S. Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), chairman of the Democratic
Senatorial Campaign Committee, in an interview with
Knight-Ridder editors and reporters, called for Hillary
Clinton "to come forward and answer questions about her
involvement in the Whitewater controversy. . .If she were
another person unrelated to the president, who had served in
the same positions, business, legal representation, she
would be a legitimate figure for questioning. . . She needs
to be part of this openness" (Hotline, 3-10-94).

Eighty-one House Republican Members asked the Office of
Government Ethics to investigate Mrs. Clinton's holdings in
an investment partnership that "sold short several
health-care stocks early last year" (Wall Street Journal,
3-10-94).

U. S. Senator Don Nickles suggested Deputy Treasury
Secretary Altman resign: "If there was someone who was
acting improperly, it's him: Why isn't he gone?"
(Washington Post, 3-9-94)

3-10-94: Three White House staffers took the witness
stand before the Whitewater grand jury: Mark Gearan,
Margaret Williams and Lisa Caputo (New York Newsday,
3-11-94). Also, Deputy White House Counsel Joel Klein
delivers White House documents subpoenaed by Special Counsel
Fiske (Ibid., Washington Post, 3-11-94).

Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole said Altman should step
down from his post at Treasury, and that Webb Hubbell should
do the same at Justice until Whitewater is settled ("Imus in
the Morning," WABC, 3-10-94).

3-11-94: The Chicago Tribune reported that Special
Counsel Fiske has subpoenaed records from another failed
real estate deal financed by Whitewater: Lorance Heights.
Whitewater funds used to purchase Lorance Heights, southwest
of Little Rock, may have come from the questionable $300,000
SBA-backed loan to Susan McDougal from Capital-Management
Services, Inc., the loan David Hale has alleged was
structured with help and pressure from Bill Clinton
(Washington Times, 3-24-94).

3-14-94: Under investigation for overbilling clients, mail
fraud and tax evasion, Associate Attorney General Webster
Hubbell resigns. (See 12-6-94.)

3-14-94: Associate Attorney General Webb Hubbell resigned
over a dispute with his former employer, the Rose Law Firm.

Clintons' tax returns from 1980 -92 revealed that the
First Couple may owe up to $45,411 in back taxes, interest
and penalties (New York Post, 3-3-16). On March 17, CNN's
Wolf Blitzer quoted sources as saying that the Clintons'
attorney, David Kendell, has concluded the Clintons owe back
taxes, interest and possibly even penalties regarding
Whitewater.

"We made a bad investment, we lost money and
that's really all there is to it."

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Los Angeles Times,
March 15, 1994

3-17-94: White House senior advisor George Stephanopoulos
was subpoenaed by Special Counsel Fiske (New York Times,
3-18). Nussbaum and Ickes testified before the grand jury.

Also, the Wall Street Journal reported that several Arkansas
investors, including a group once headed by White House
Office of Administration Director Patsy Thomasson, are being
investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission in
connection with possible insider trading (3-18-94).

The U. S. Senate voted 98-0 to approve a Senate
investigation of the Whitewater affair. Senate Leaders
George Mitchell and Robert Dole will determine the timetable
for hearings (Record Vote No. 62, Congressional Record,
3-17-94, pg. S-3178).

3-18-94: Press questions Hillary Clinton's $100,000 profit
in
cattle futures.

3-18-94: Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman admits to
another contact with the White House concerning Whitewater
-- a meeting with Deputy White House Chief of Staff Harold
Ickes to discuss Altman's possible removal from all matters
involving Whitewater (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 3-19-94).

3-20-94: Former-Little Rock Municipal Judge and Capital-
Management Services, Inc., owner David Hale reached a plea
agreement with Special Counsel Fiske (Washington Times,
3-21-94). Hale entered the plea in U. S. District Court on
March 22.

3-21-94: House Banking Committee Chairman Henry Gonzalez
abruptly called off an RTC oversight hearing scheduled for
March 24 "to blunt what he saw as a GOP move to turn it into
an indictment" of President Clinton (Knight-Ridder,
3-22-94). He also called for an investigation of the
Whitewater affair by the House.

3-22-94: The Senate Banking Committee released a third
letter from Deputy Treasury Secretary Altman disclosing
additional discussions he held with White House officials
about the RTC's criminal referral of Whitewater (Wall Street
Journal, 3-23-94).

The House voted 48-15 for a resolution identical to the one
adopted by the Senate committing Democratic leaders to hold
"good faith" talks with the GOP on when and under what
circumstances Whitewater hearings might be held (Dallas
Morning News, 3-23-94).

3-24-94: New Charges, New Revelations

U. S. Rep. Jim Leach, ranking Republican member of the
House Banking Committee, addressed the House on a point of
personal privilege to issue four specific allegations, with
supporting materials:

1) Whitewater was used to skim federally-insured deposits
from Madison.

2) the Clintons profited from Whitewater;

3) the Federal government's regulatory system "has been
flagrantly violated";

4) White House and Democratic congressional leaders are
using "closed society techniques" to resist a full airing of
the issue (USA Today, 3-25-94; Congressional Record,
3-24-94, pp. H- 1999-2020).

President Clinton held a nationally-televised news
conference, dominated by questions concerning Whitewater.
Clinton revised his previous assertion that his Whitewater
losses were $68,000, now calling it a loss of approximately
$47,000. Additionally, the President announced that he
would release on March 25th the couple's tax returns for the
years 1978-1979 (Los Angeles Times, 3-25-94). Money
Magazine shortly thereafter revised their estimate of taxes,
interest and penalties owed by the Clintons to $99,85 8
(Money Magazine news release, 3-30-94).

3-26-94: White House Staff Secretary John Podesta is
subpoenaed by Special Counsel Fiske to testify before the
Whitewater grand jury (Los Angeles Times, 3-27-94).

3-31-94: Josh Steiner, Chief of Staff to Treasury
Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, testified before the Whitewater
grand jury. He reportedly kept a diary which listed
contacts between Treasury officials and the White House
(Arkansas Democrat- Gazette, 3-31-94).

The RTC also refused a request by U. S. Rep. Jim Leach for
access to all Whitewater-Madison records (Washington Times,
4-1-94).

APRIL 1994:
Arkansas Senators Complain of Madison Exec's Treatment;

RTC Releases Madison Records

+ The Washington Post revealed on April 1 that Arkansas U.S.
Senators David Pryor and Dale Bumpers last year wrote to top
Clinton Administration officials to "complain" about the
government's treatment of Seth Ward, a Madison executive and
father-in-law of Webb Hubbell. Senator Bumpers' letters
went to White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty, Deputy
Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, and the White House
Counsel's office. Senator Pryor wrote to Altman and
Treasury Chief of Staff Josh Steiner.

4-4-94: The RTC released more than 8,000 pages of
documents from Madison Guaranty, under FOIA requests. "The
newly released documents leave unanswered the Whitewater
records public as soon as he got them (Washington Times,
4-7-94).

4-7-94: White House Staff Secretary John Podesta appeared
before the Whitewater grand jury ("Inside Politics," CNN,
4-7-94).

4-8-94: James McDougal offers 2,000 pages of Whitewater
corporate records sent by the President and Mrs. Clinton's
attorney to major news organizations at a price: $4,000, $2
per page, to help defray his legal expenses. Several major
news organizations, including the Washington Post, declined
(AP Worldstream, 4-7-94; Charles Osgood, CBS Radio News,
4-8-94). McDougal later lowered the price to 50 cents a
page (Arkansas Democrat- Gazette, 4-10-94).

Hillary's Cattle Futures

4-11-94: The Clintons' personal attorney, David Kendall,
said his clients paid $14,615 in federal and state
(Arkansas) back taxes and interest on an overlooked capital
gain in one of Hillary Rodham Clinton's commodity trading
accounts (Knight- Ridder/Philadelphia Inquirer, 4-12-94).

4-12-94: The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that
the Clintons' just-released tax records for 1978-1979
contradict earlier suggestions by the President that his
wife quit the commodities market "because she had gotten
jittery about trading while pregnant with Chelsea. The new
records show she traded until May 1980 ; Chelsea was born in
February, 1980 ." The President's previous statement at a
town meeting that Hillary got out after receiving a margin
call while pregnant is declared "no longer operative"
(Washington Post, 4-12-94).

4-11-94: The Clintons pay $14,615 owed in back taxes.

4-13-94: The Los Angeles Times reports that Hillary
Rodham Clinton "took tax deductions from the money-losing
Whitewater real estate venture to reduce her personal tax
liability on the extraordinary profits she earned from
commodities trading in the late 1970s," according to the
Clintons' Whitewater partner, James McDougal. McDougal's
statements and documentation "offered the first evidence of
a connection between Mrs. Clinton's commodity trading and
the Clintons' investments in the Whitewater venture."

4-22-94: On the day former President Nixon died,
following a stroke suffered earlier in the week, Hillary
Rodham Clinton held a White House press conference to answer
questions about Whitewater and her commodities trading. U.
S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato, speaking immediately following
the event, said the press conference "raised even more
questions" than it answered (Hotline, 4-25-94).

MAY '94

COPS--FBI Agents Adams and Margolis--one the FBI's ethics
chief, the other the agencies most experience criminal
investigator--went to the White House to assist the Park
Police in a search of Vince Foster's office and files. In a
meeting with White House Counsel Bernie Nussbaum, close
friend of Hillary Clinton, Nussbaum told the agents that
White House people were too upset and fatigued to conduct
the search that day. Nussbaum reached an agreement with the
agents to review each of Mr. Foster's files with the FBI.
Agent Adams testified later that the agreement was for him,
Margolis,
and Nussbaum to read each file until it became clear
whether the
document was pertinent to the suicide investigation. When
Nussbaum's
assistant Neuwirth restated the agreement incorrectly, he
was
corrected by Adams, Margolis, and Nussbaum.

CRONIES--Nussbaum, in sworn depositions, has stated that no
agreement of any kind was discussed or reached between him
and the FBI agents. Again, the FBI agents, two of the best,
including one who is the FBI's foremost ethics expert, must
be lying, according to Nussbaum.

5-2-94: President Clinton "is adding Robert Bennett,
the noted criminal lawyer, to his legal team to fight a
threatened sexual-harassment suit and help defend against
Whitewater charges" (Wall Street Journal, 5-3-94).

5-5-94: Special Counsel Robert Fiske subpoenaed the
White House for "virtually all documents relating to Vincent
Foster" (USA Today, 5-6-94).

5-6-94: Paula Jones files $700,000 sexual harassment lawsuit
against Clinton.

COPS--Adams and Margolis returned to the White House at
10:00 a.m. to conduct the search. Upon arriving at
Nussbaum's office, Nussbaum said, "This is the way we're
going to do it," and proceeded to tell the agents the new
ground rules. Under Nussbaum's new system, Nussbaum and two
other attorneys from the White House Counsel's office would
review the documents and determine, not pertinence to the
case, but whether the files are "personal," "attorney-client
privilege" material, or "executive privilege" material. In
other words, no matter what the files contained, the FBI
agents would not be permitted to see anything. Agent
Margolis strongly objected to Nussbaum's change of mind.
Agent Margolis warned Nussbaum that not permitting anyone
but friends of Clinton to see the documents was "a big
mistake." Nussbaum said he would think about letting
Margolis and Adams see the files.

Two and a half hours later, Nussbaum called Margolis and
Adams to inform them that he, Nussbaum, alone would
determine the relevancy of the documents. He told them
simply that they could not look at anything in Vince
Foster's office. Agent Margolis, irritated at Nussbaum's
secrecy and his failure to keep his word, told Nussbaum, "If
this is the way it's going to go, I might as well be back at
my office. You can mail me the results."

Nonetheless, Nussbaum alone looked at Foster's files and
solely
determined their pertinence. The FBI, and, therefore, the
public,
had nothing but Nussbaum's word as to whether those files
contained
information that may link the Clintons to illegal activities
in the
Whitewater dealings. And Nussbaum had already shown that
his word
was worth less than a wooden nickel by his failure to abide
by his
agreement with the FBI made the previous day.

FBI Agent Margolis ends the session by informing Nussbaum
that if this were Xerox or IBM instead of the White House,
"I'd have a grand jury subpoena on this place in half an
hour."

CRONIES--Nussbaum, again, maintains that the FBI ethics
chief is either a liar or an idiot. If the ethics chief is
lying, he risks losing his job and his pension after more
than 20 years of service to the Bureau. If Nussbaum is
lying, he's covering up facts embarrassing to the Clintons.
Possibly criminal facts.

In addition to the testimony in the hearings, we now know
that the Rose Law Firm violated conflict of interest rules
in handling government cases against savings and loans. We
know that Hillary Clinton spoke to more people more often
about the Foster files than she had previously disclosed..

Moreover, we know that Clinton ruled in favor of his
Whitewater partner James McDougal after Arkansas regulators
had ruled against him. Of course, Clinton's action came
only after McDougal hosted a huge fund-raiser for Clinton's
reelection campaign. And, perhaps most damaging to Clinton,
we know that Clinton's campaign benefited from illegal loans

What was in the files that Maggie Williams claims never to
have touched? How did Clinton reward his friends as governor
of Arkansas? Did Clinton break the law by interceding on
behalf of Madison Guaranty Trust Corp.?

The answers depend on who's lying--the cops who have
nothing to gain, or Clinton's myrmidons who have everything
to lose.

AUGUST '94

8-5-94: Clinton's pollster advises Democrat candidates to
distance themselves from Clinton.

8-9-94: Attorney General (AG) Janet Reno asks for an
independent counsel to investigate Agriculture Secretary
Mike Espy for accepting gifts from companies regulated by
his department. (See 10-3-94.)

8-10-94: CBO reports Clinton health care plan would cost
more than $1 trillion in its first eight years.

8-17-94: Amid charges of lying to Congress in his testimony
concerning Whitewater/Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC)
investigation, Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman
resigns.

8-18-94: Amid charges she briefed the White House on
Whitewater/RTC investigation, Treasury Counsel Jean Hanson
resigns.

SEPTEMBER 94

9-22-94: Justice Department says it's investigating whether
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros lied
to the FBI about payments he made to his former mistress.
(See 3-13-95.)

OCTOBER '94

10-3-94: Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy resigns.

11-8-94: Tidal Wave: GOP gains 52 seats in the House and
eight in the Senate, winning control of Congress for the
first time since 1954. GOP picks up 11 governorships and 19
new majorities in state legislative chambers. Not one
incumbent GOP governor, senator or representative loses.

11-9-94: Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby switches to the
Republican Party.

11-21-94: Kennedy resigns over other matters.

12-1-94: White House says all FBI background files were
moved on this date to White House archives.

12-6-94: Former Associate Attorney General Hubbell pleads
guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion. (He's later sentenced
to 21 months in prison.)

12-9-94: Surgeon General Elders resigns after suggesting
schoolchildren should be taught how to masturbate.

1-11-96: House Government Reform and Oversight Committee
subpoenas all records relating to Billy Dale in its
investigation of the White House Travel Office.

White House says such records are protected by privacy
rights. House panel renews subpoena.

2-6-95: Clinton submits FY '96 budget, containing around
$200
billion in deficits for each of the next three years. (See
5-19-95.)

3-3-95: Colorado Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell switches to
the
Republican Party.

3-13-95: AG Reno concludes HUD Secretary Cisneros made
yearly
payments to his mistress of between $42,000 and
$60,000--contradicting Cisneros' claim to the FBI that his
yearly payments totaled no more than $10,000. (See 5-24-95.)

4-3-95: The Medicare Board of Trustees, which includes three
members of Clinton's Cabinet, says Medicare will go bankrupt
in seven years.

4-10-95: Georgia Rep. Nathan Deal switches to the Republican
Party.

5-17-95: AG Reno appoints an independent counsel to
investigate Commerce Secretary Ron Brown on charges of
violating tax and financial disclosure laws and taking
bribes.

5-19-95: Clinton's first budget is defeated in the Senate,
99-0.

5-21-95: White House retrieves Billy Dale's FBI files from
archives.

5-22-95: After the Clinton administration intervened against
term limits, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision,
invalidates term limits passed by 23 states. The two
Clinton-appointed justices cast the deciding votes.

5-23-95: Clinton announces: "From the beginning of my
campaign for president, I said that the one thing I did not
think we should do is to send American troops into combat
into Bosnia." (See 9-15-95.)

5-24-95: AG Reno appoints an independent counsel to
investigate HUD Secretary Cisneros.

5-31-95: Clinton admits he made a "mistake" in proposing to
raise grazing fees 130 percent.

6-16-95: The CBO reports Clinton's 10-year "balanced budget
plan" would leave a $209 billion deficit in 2005. (See
10-24-95.)

6-26-95: Texas Rep. Greg Laughlin switches to the Republican
Party.

8-7-95: Louisiana Rep. Billy Tauzin switches to the
Republican Party.

8-17-95: Clinton's partner in the Whitewater venture, Jim
McDougal, is indicted on 19 counts of conspiracy, mail
fraud, making false statements and false bank reports, and
misapplying funds; Susan McDougal is indicted on eight
counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud and making
false statements; and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker is
indicted on 11 new counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, making
false statements and misapplying funds. (See 2-6-96.)

9-15-95: By allowing Medicare spending to grow at more than
two times the rate of inflation, Clinton claims the
Republican plan to save Medicare "includes a...Medicare
cut...It would dismantle Medicare as we know it." (See
10-5-93.)

Secretary of Defense William Perry announces U.S. combat
forces will be sent to Bosnia.

10-13-95: Clinton meets with James Riady of the Lippo Group,
who is Mochtar's son, and John Huang, a deputy assistant
secretary of Commerce who worked for the Lippo Group before
joining the Commerce Department. Riady discusses U.S. trade
policy toward China, where the Lippo Group has a major
financial stake, and John Huang asks to be transferred from
the Commerce Department to the fundraising arm of the DNC.
(See 9-9-96.)

10-17-95: Clinton admits: "It might surprise you to know
that I think I raised them [taxes] too much, too."

10-24-95: Clinton's second budget is defeated in the
Senate, 96-0.

10-26-95: House Republicans pass the Balanced Budget Act of
1995.

10-28-95: Senate Republicans pass the Balanced Budget Act
of 1995.

11-9-95: The Government Accounting Office (GAO) releases a
report showing the Clinton administration spent $13.4
million of taxpayers' money preparing its doomed health care
initiative, and another $433,966 defending itself against a
lawsuit that challenged the secrecy in which the initiative
was assembled.

11-10-95: Mississippi Rep. Mike Parker switches to the
Republican Party.

11-13-95: Clinton closes the government to avoid agreeing to
a balanced budget.

11-16-95: After a Kafkaesque 30-month investigation, Billy
Dale, the former Travel Office director whom the White House
accused of taking kickbacks, is acquitted. (See 8-1-96.)

11-19-95: Clinton finally says he agrees to a seven-year
balanced budget using the most recent CBO numbers,
re-opening the government.

11-28-95: Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry indicates the
administration won't seriously try to balance the federal
budget until after the election: "I suspect that those kinds
of issues will have to be settled in November of 1996." (See
12-7-95.)

12-1-95: Louisiana Rep. Jimmy Hayes switches to the
Republican Party.

12-7-95: Clinton presents his third unbalanced budget for FY
'96. (See 12-19-95.)

12-15-95: Clinton presents his fourth unbalanced budget for
FY '96, sending the federal government into its second
shutdown.

12-19-95: Clinton's third budget is defeated in the House,
412-0.

12-31-95: Part of the federal government remains shut down
because of Clinton's vetoes of three appropriations bills
and his refusal to sign the Balanced Budget Act.

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1996

1-4-96: Hillary Clinton's legally binding written responses
to questions posed by Congress are contradicted when the
White House releases 1993 memo by former White House
Administrator David Watkins in which he says Hillary was
"insistent" he fire the White House Travel Office employees.

1-6-96: Clinton introduces his FY '96 budget, which proposes
$66 billion in new taxes. (See 1-23-96.)

1-9-96: Clinton breaks promise to "end welfare as we know
it"
by vetoing bipartisan welfare reform bill.

New York Times columnist William Safire calls Hillary
Clinton a "congenital liar."

1-22-96: Hillary Clinton subpoenaed by Whitewater grand
jury.
(Four days later, she becomes the first first lady to
testify before a grand jury.)

1-23-96: Bill Clinton announces "era of big government is
over." (See 3-19-96.)

2-6-96: Clinton subpoenaed in bank fraud and conspiracy
trial
of James and Susan McDougal, his Whitewater partners. (See
4-28-96.)

2-15-96: Clinton has "kept all the promises he meant to
keep," according to White House adviser George
Stephanopoulos on CNN's Larry King Live.

2-20-96: White House releases more than 100 pages of
"mistakenly overlooked" Whitewater records subpoenaed in
1994.

3-19-96: Clinton introduces 1997 budget -- $60 billion in
new
taxes; 1996 budget still unresolved.

4-10-96: Clinton vetoes partial-birth abortion ban.

4-19-96: Pope John Paul II condemns Clinton's veto of the
partial-birth abortion act as "shameful." Raymond Flynn,
Clinton's ambassador to the Vatican: "I think the Catholic
Church and the Holy Father are absolutely right on this."

4-28-96: Clinton, testifying in the Whitewater trial, denies
he pressured then -- Little Rock municipal Judge David Hale
to lend $300,000 to Whitewater partner James McDougal in
1986 . (See 5-28-96.)

5-15-96: In his Supreme Court brief asking for a delay in
the
sexual harassment suit filed against him, Clinton seeks
protection under the Soldier and Sailor's Relief Act of
1940--which gives immunity against civil suits to active
members of the armed forces--because he is commander in
chief and, therefore, is on active duty. (See 5-28-96.)

5-16-96: Senate Whitewater committee votes to subpoena FBI
reports showing that Hillary Clinton's fingerprints were
found on Rose Law Firm documents--subpoenaed in
1994--discovered in the White House residence quarters this
January.

Nine Republican women legislators sign a letter to Clinton
asking him to fire one of his top advisers, Dick Morris, who
was paid for a poll he conducted on behalf of Alex Kelly, a
convicted burglar who fled the country in 1986 after being
arrested for allegedly raping two teen-age girls.

5-20-96: White House admits Clinton knew Dick Morris was
working for alleged rapist Alex Kelly and "didn't object."
(See 8-29-96.)

5-28-96: James and Susan McDougal, Clinton's partners, and
Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker are found guilty. (See
9-23-96.)

Tucker announces he will resign from office on July 15. (See
7-15-96.)

5-30-96: House schedules contempt of Congress vote against
Jack Quinn. White House comes up with 1000 of the requested
pages, some of which show White House asked for Dale's
confidential FBI records going back 32 years.

Clinton drops claim he is protected by his status as
commander in chief from testifying in the sexual harassment
suit against him.

5-9-96: White House counsel Jack Quinn asserts "executive
privilege" on behalf of President Clinton in refusing to
turn over 3,000 documents connected to the travel office
firings. Attorney General Janet Reno reviews documents.

[Clinton lies again. He previously said he would never
assert "executive privilege," but does. What is he hiding?]

[Clearly, those 1000 pages did not merit "executive
privilege," but instead, contained damaging information
about the Clinton Administration. So what's in the other
2000 pages?!]

6-5-96: White House documents show original request for
Billy Dale FBI records came from office of White House
counsel Bernard Nussbaum, who resigned in April of 1994.
Nussbaum denies all knowledge.

[Of course Nussbaum is going to deny this! If he knows
about it, Clinton knew about it.]

6-5-96: White House says request was routine and Dale's
records were mistakenly sought due to clerk error. House
Government and Oversight Chairman, Rep. William Clinger,
asks for list of all FBI background reports requested by
White House.

[Once again, thank goodness for the 1994 elections.]

6-6-96: White House says watchdog General Accounting Office
actually is the agency that asked for Dale's FBI files. GAO
denies this.

[As usual, the White House seeks to put the blame elsewhere.
Recall how Clinton put the blame for Waco on Janet Reno.]

6-7-96: White House acknowledges it obtained FBI files on
more than 300 former White House employees, but says they
were never read. Marceca (the man who collected the files)
tells his lawyer he read all the files and passed on
"derogatory" information to his boss, Craig Livingstone.

[Says they were "never read?!" Then why obtain them? This
is the current version of Clinton's smoking pot, but not
inhaling.]

6-8-96: Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker is indicted on three
felony charges of making false statements and conspiracy to
defraud the United States. (See 8-17-95.)

6-13-96: Recently retired FBI agent, Gary Aldrich, writes a
WSJ editorial saying he was "deeply disturbed" by what he
saw during the 2 1/2 years of doing background checks for
the White House. The retired agent said he and other agents
repeatedly questioned whether the administration misused the
process. "The White House's explanation - that it was 'an
honest bureaucratic snafu' - is really too much for this FBI
veteran to believe," he wrote. Aldrich also points out that
in addition to ordering FBI files of hundreds of
Republicans, the White House also ordered periodic
examinations of those employees believed to be disloyal.

[Hmmm. Could the Clinton's have been looking for
information to black- mail "disloyal people" into silence?]

6-14-96: Some of the 340 people whose files went to the
White House said they are preparing a letter to express
their outrage. Several are considering taking legal action
against the administration for violations of the Privacy
Act.

The deposition of Craig Livingstone was canceled when
Livingstone said he needed more time to prepare.

[Translation - Livingstone needs to consult with the White
House to get his story straight.]

6-15-96: The FBI accuses Clinton's staff of improperly
obtaining classified FBI background files on at least 408
people, dozens more that previously suspected, for "no
official purpose" and "without justification." FBI Director
Louis Freeh, a Clinton appointee, criticized the White House
for seeking the reports on employees of previous
administrations. Freeh said, "The prior system of providing
files to the White House relied on good faith and honor.
Unfortunately, the FBI and I were victimized." White House
spokesman Mike McCurry was asked about Freeh's remark that
he and the bureau had been "victimized."

McCurry was at a loss for an explanation.

[When the FBI weighs in, you can't dismiss this as
Republican political rhetoric. Sure the Republicans are
going to try to capitalize on this. But we could also be
witnessing a VERY serious bit of corruption and abuse of
power.]

6-4-96: Medicare Trustees release report stating that
Medicare is headed for bankruptcy as early as 2000, two
years earlier than was predicted in last year's report.

6-5-96: The White House acknowledged that background files
on former travel office director Billy Dale "may have
mistakenly been sought" from the FBI seven months after Dale
was fired.

6-6-96: Los Angeles Times: White House sought confidential
FBI
background documents on Billy Dale, fired White House Travel
Office
director.

6-6-96: Michael McCurry, presidential press secretary,
suggested that the General Accounting Office, the
investigating arm of Congress may have wanted the files on
Dale. A GAO spokeswoman issued an immediate denial.

6-7-96: White House admits it ordered FBI files of dozens of
Republican leaders, claiming it was working off an "outdated
list." (See 6-16-96.)

6-7-96: The list was expanded to 338 persons, including
former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker III

6-7-96: Mark Fabiani, a White House lawyer and spokesman,
said, "It appears that the purpose of the project in which
this Army person was involved was to reconstruct the
background information on employees held over from the Bush
Administration." He declined to name the Army person.

6-9-96: News reports identify two staff members as
responsible for the files: civilian army investigator
Anthony Marcesa and his supervisor, Craig Livingstone. Both
have been active in political campaigns. A Democratic
consultant, Dennis M. Casey, accused the two of dirty tricks
in an earlier campaign. Livingstone and Marcesa issued
statements denying wrongdoing involving files at the White
House.

6-9-96: President Clinton tells reporters, "It appears to
have been a completely honest bureaucratic snafu."

6-10-96: Veterans Affairs Secretary Jesse Brown and NASA
chief Dan Goldin tell the Senate Budget Committee Clinton
told them not to implement the budget cuts he proposed in
his 1997 budget.

6-11-96: Clinton calls the FBI files scandal a "completely
honest bureaucratic snafu."

6-13-96: In response to an FBI query, the White House added
71 more names to the list of files that were improperly
sought.

6-13-96: Retired FBI agent Gary W. Aldrich, who served at
the White House for five years, wrote in the Wall Street
Journal that he had 1warned the FBI management about
political favoritism in the White House background checks.

6-14-96: FBI Director Louis Freeh says the White House
acquisition of the FBI files represented "egregious
violations of privacy."

6-14-96: FBI Director Louis Freeh issued a statement saying
that his agency had been "victimized" by the White House.
Later, he accepts responsibility for allowing the
mishandling of the files.

6-16-96: Contradicting White House statements, the Secret
Service says it did not generate the outdated list the White
House claimed it used.

6-17-96: White House places personnel security office
director Craig Livingstone, directly responsible for
obtaining the FBI files, on administrative leave.
(Meanwhile, no one at the White House can remember who hired
him.) (See 10-25-96.)

6-19-96: Livingstone tells the House Government Reform and
Oversight Committee that the room housing the FBI files was
often left unsecured. (Livingstone himself did not get
proper security clearance until more than a year after he
began his job as head of White House security.) AG Reno asks
FBI to expand its probe to determine how and why White House
obtained FBI files on former Reagan and Bush administration
staff members.

6-19-96: White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta issued a
statement blaming the "the procedures in place for some
three decades" for being inadequate. He set up new rules for
the White House office of personnel security.

6-20-96: Reversing her call for the FBI to lead the inquiry,
AG Reno says Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr
should investigate how the White House acquired the FBI
files.

6-23-96: White House counsel Jack Quinn says that the
administration will leave the investigation of the files to
Congress and the independent counsel Kenneth Starr.

6-25-96: White House finally releases more than 2,000
documents relating to the Travel Office firings, originally
requested two years ago by congressional investigators.

6-26-96: Craig Livingstone resigns.

6-28-96: Livingstone's assistant, Anthony Marceca, takes the
Fifth Amendment on White House acquisition of FBI files.

7-2-96: White House documents reveal that Livingstone's
resume listed his stint as "counter-event operations"
supervisor for the '92 Clinton-Gore campaign, where he hired
people to heckle Bush. (See 7-18-96.)

7-7-96: Clinton provides videotaped testimony in the
Whitewater-related trial of Arkansas bankers Herby Branscum
and Robert Hill.

7-15-96: Arkansas Gov. Tucker refuses to resign. After
public
outcry and Democrat protests, he turns his seat over to GOP
Lt. Gov. Mike Huckabee.

7-17-96: In testimony to the House Government Reform and
Oversight Committee, Secret Service agent Jeff Undercoffer
says: "I have seen cocaine usage...I have seen crack usages"
reported in the FBI files of more than 40 White House aides.
They were given temporary security clearance despite
objections from the Secret Service.

7-18-96: The Washington Times: Secret Service warned the
administration that Livingstone posed a threat to White
House security.

8-1-96: Clinton refuses to sign legislation to pay the legal
fees accrued by Billy Dale and the other fired Travel Office
employees. The next day, the White House asks Congress to
pay the legal fees of Clinton aides in return for Clinton's
signature. (See 9-12-96.)

8-7-96: Big Brother: White House refuses a House
subcommittee request for information about a computer
database--which may provide access to security files,
violating privacy rights--containing the names, addresses,
political affiliations and other information on 200,000
legislators, news reporters and political contributors. (See
9-10-96.)

8-18-96: Clinton tells CBS News he will not rule out raising
taxes during a second term.

8-20-96: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration releases report showing that between 1992 and
1995 teen drug use skyrocketed 105 percent, including a jump
of 183 percent in monthly use of LSD and other hallucinogens
and a jump of 141 percent in marijuana use. (See 9-4-96.)

8-22-96: With an eye toward re-election, Clinton signs GOP
welfare reform bill. (See 9-20-96.)

8-23-96: The nonpartisan Common Cause says the DNC has
received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a South
Korean firm, Cheong Am America. (See 9-21-96.)

8-29-96: Hours before Clinton's nomination acceptance
speech, Dick Morris, Clinton's chief political adviser,
resigns amid reports linking him to a prostitute. (See
9-10-96.)

9-3-96: Clinton orders vote-seeking cruise missile attacks
against Iraqi forces after they invade the internationally
protected Kurdish zone of northern Iraq. (See 9-14-96.)

The Washington Times: White House lawyers and staffers have
been secretly organizing the Clintons' legal defense
strategy on Whitewater and congressional and criminal
activities-costing taxpayers $1.3 million a year.

9-4-96: Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, Clinton's drug czar, tells
the Senate Judiciary Committee the administration took its
"eye off the ball" concerning drug abuse and that if
policies don't change soon, "we will reap a harvest of
crime, violence and lost opportunity."

9-6-96: The Washington Times: The
administration--anticipating political advantages in the
votes of new citizens--pressured the INS to grant
citizenship to thousands of foreigners lacking FBI
clearance; dozens with criminal records became citizens.
(See 10-24-96.)

9-9-96: Clinton meets with James Riady of the Lippo Group,
who congratulates Clinton on his policy toward China,
including his decision to separate China's trading
privileges from human rights concerns, and urges Clinton to
intensify his efforts in China. Bruce Lindsey and Mark
Middleton also attend the meeting. (See 10-16-96.)

9-10-96: Big Brother: White House documents reveal the
Clintons ordered the database on more than 200,000 citizens.
White House calls the system, which cost $540,000, an
"expanded Rolodex." (See 9-20-96.) After categorically
denying it, White House finally admits Clinton knew Dick
Morris had an illegitimate daughter.

9-12-96: Senate votes to reimburse Billy Dale, falsely
accused by the White House of financial wrongdoing, for his
legal bills.

The nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee announces Clinton's
proposed $100 billion in tax cuts would turn into a $64
billion tax increase at the end of the century.

White House refuses to release Clinton's medical records.
Asked whether they were free of anything a "normal person"
would consider embarrassing, press secretary Mike McCurry
responds: "I wouldn't say that."

9-14-96: Sen. Sam Nunn, ranking Democrat on the Armed
Forces
Committee, declares Saddam Hussein "stronger today" than he
was before
Clinton's missile attack. (See 9-19-96.)

9-16-96: Interior Department proposes plan to levy $350
million a year in
taxes on outdoor equipment--from birdseed to binoculars.

9-17-96: Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt retracts his
plan.

9-18-96: White House "engaged in an unprecedented misuse of
executive power and executive privilege" in covering up the
events that led to the Travelgate affair, concludes a House
Government Reform and Oversight Committee report.

9-19-96: CIA Director John Deutch tells Congress Saddam
Hussein is stronger politically than he was before Clinton's
missile attacks.

9-20-96: Clinton tells ABC's Barbara Walters he might put
Hillary in charge of his plan to repeal parts of the welfare
reform plan he signed just last month.

Big Brother: White House database may contain as many as
300,000 names and 50,000 organizations and have cost
taxpayers as much as $1.7 million, says the chairman of the
House Government Reform and Oversight subcommittee, Rep.
David McIntosh.

9-21-96: Los Angeles Times: A $250,000 donation to the DNC
from a South Korean company violated election laws because
the company--not its American subsidiary, Cheong Am
America--made the donation. The fund- raiser is DNC Finance
Vice Chairman John Huang. (See 10-16-96.)

9-23-96: While working at Rose Law Firm, Hillary Clinton and
Web Hubbell drafted documents for a failing thrift that were
used to deceive bank examiners and divert $300,000 to
Hubbell's father-in-law, concludes a Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp. report.

Clinton tells PBS' Jim Lehrer he hasn't ruled out granting
pardons for Jim Guy Tucker and Jim and Susan McDougal.

9-26-96: The Washington Times: White House refuses to
release
a Pentagon- commissioned report suggesting Clinton's
non-strategy to combat drug use has failed.

White House refuses to release documents to House
investigators trying to determine whether the administration
knew U.S.-trained Haitian security agents murdered political
opponents of the U.S.-supported regime.

10-1-96: White House refuses to release a memo by FBI
Director Freeh and DEA Administrator Thomas Constantine that
condemns Clinton's efforts against drug use.

10-8-96: Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary's travels abroad
cost taxpayers more than $4.5 million, concludes a report by
the Energy Department's inspector general.

10-11-96: DNC says it received $425,000 in contributions
from
Arief and Soraya Wiriadinata after the Indonesian couple met
with DNC fund-raiser John Huang. The Wiriadinatas lived in a
modest townhouse in Virginia; Arief was a gardener. But
Soraya's father is an investor in the Lippo Group. After the
couple moved back to Jakarta, they gave the DNC the final
$295,000 payment. (See 11-22-96.)

10-12-96: The New York Times: The Riadys and the Lippo Group
had their U.S. banking practices repeatedly criticized by
federal regulators for illegal activities--including money
laundering.

10 13, 1996 -- Congressional Republicans raise questions
about
$425,000 in donations to the DNC attributed to Arief
Wiriadinata, the
wealthy son-in-law of a business partner of Mochtar Riady
and his son
James, Indonesians who run the Lippo Group business
conglomerate.
Wiriadinata now lives in Jakarta.

10 14, 1996 -- The DNC acknowledges receiving another
$25,000
contribution from Wiriadinata and his wife, bringing the
total from
them to $450,000.

10-16-96: Los Angeles Times: Deputy White House counsel
Bruce
Lindsey describes the September 9, 1996 Oval Office meeting
between Clinton and Riady as "basically a drop-by social
visit" in which no issues of U.S. policy were discussed.

Oct. 16, 1996 -- Democratic Party Chairman Christopher J.
Dodd tells
reporters that Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole,
during his
unsuccessful 1988 bid for his party's presidential
nomination,
accepted $1,000 from the Riady family.

DNC returns a $10,000 contribution from the chairman of
Cheong Am America because the money was not generated by the
firm's U.S. subsidiary.

DNC admits it raised $140,000 at a fund-raiser featuring
Vice President Albert Gore at a Buddhist temple. Dozens of
Buddhist monks, who have taken vows of poverty, contributed
up to $5,000 each. Religious institutions are not allowed to
contribute to political organizations.

10 17, 1996 -- Wall Street Journal reports that residents of
various
branches of the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple have donated some
$50,000 to
the DNC.

10-18-96: DNC says it will reimburse the Buddhist temple
$15,000 the temple spent for food and other expenses at the
fund-raiser, but it will keep the $140,000 raised at the
temple.

DNC announces it has suspended John Huang, who helped raise
$2.5 million for the Clinton campaign.

10 18, 1996 -- DNC says it will reimburse the Hsi Lai
Buddhist
temple near Los Angeles $15,000 to cover the cost of an
April 29
fund-raiser. Vice President Al Gore attended the event, and
though
religious institutions are barred from partisan political
activities,
the event netted the DNC $140,000. A nun told reporters she
had been
given $5,000 in cash by an individual who then asked her to
write a
check to the DNC for the same amount.

10-20-96: DNC Chairman Chris Dodd tells CBS' Face the Nation
that John Huang will answer the press' questions before
Election Day. That afternoon, Dodd changes his mind.

10-21-96: DNC gives up $5,000 from a Buddhist nun who said
she was handed $5,000 in cash and told to write a check to
the DNC.

10-22-96: Gore says he thought the Buddhist temple
fund-raiser was a "community outreach" event, not a
fund-raiser.

10-23-96: A federal judge orders U.S. marshals to find John
Huang and serve a subpoena on him for a deposition in a
lawsuit probing allegations of illegal Commerce Department
activities.

Los Angeles Times: Although Yogesh Gandhi owes $10,000 in
back taxes, had his driver's license revoked for failing to
pay fines and claims to be a pauper, he managed to give the
DNC $325,000. (See 11-6-96.)

10 23, 1996-- The Justice Department releases photographs
showing a
convicted Miami drug dealer Jorge Cabrera posing with First
Lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton and with Vice President Gore at a
Florida
fund-raising dinner last December. Cabrera was invited to
the White
House last year after sending a $20,000 contribution to the
Democratic
National Committee.

10-24-96: The Washington Times: FBI estimates 100,000
immigrants with
criminal histories have become citizens since August 1995,
when the
administration pushed the INS to naturalize more than 1
million new citizens.

10 24, 1996 -- A U.S. marshal, attempting to serve a
subpoena,
reports Huang as missing.

10-25-96: At AG Reno's request, a special federal appeals
court authorizes Kenneth Starr to determine if Bernie
Nussbaum committed perjury when he told Congress he didn't
know who hired Livingstone.

Oct. 25, 1996 -- Judge Royce C. Lamberth orders Huang to
show up for
work so he can be served his subpoena.

10 27, 1996 -- Huang's lawyer accepts the subpoena, but
Huang fails
to appear the next day.

10-28-96: U.S. News & World Report: Nearly $300,000 in
contributions to the DNC came from 37 donors who listed the
DNC headquarters as their home address.

For the first time in 22 years, the DNC announces it will
not file an FEC pre-election finance report, which contains
information detailing spending and contributions.

Oct. 28, 1996 -- The DNC announces it won't file a
pre-election
spending report with the Federal Election Commission,
virtually
unprecedented since the FEC was founded in 1974. After an
ensuing
outcry, within 24 hours the DNC does an about-face and
promises to
release a list and file its FEC report.

Oct. 29, 1996 -- After issued a court order, Huang appears
for
interrogation by conservative group Judicial Watch.

10-29-96: DNC releases raw data concerning its finance
report, but not the report itself.

At his deposition, Huang says while he was in hiding he was
buoyed by a "message of support" from Hillary. Asked if he
had raised money for the Democrats while working at the
Commerce Department, Huang says he "couldn't recall." (See
11-8-96.)

10-30-96: RNC vows to go to court to freeze the DNC's
ability
to raise or spend money until it files a proper report.

10 30, 1996 -- Bowing to pressure, the DNC releases a
partial list
of its donors.

10 30, 1996 -- Huang testifies in court-ordered appearance
that he
met numerous times with President Clinton and the first lady
at the
White House, and discussed issues related to Indonesia.

10-31-96: The New York Times: Mark Middleton, who left the
White House in early 1995, distributed business cards on his
trips to Taiwan to raise money for the Clinton campaign that
featured the White House seal, identified him as "special
assistant to the president" and listed a White House
telephone number that gave this recording: "Thank you for
calling the White House. To reach Mack McLarty, please dial
(202) 456-2000. To reach Mark Middleton, please dial (202)
737-9305 [the number for Middleton's trading company,
Commerce Corporation International]...Again, thank you for
calling the White House."

RNC Chairman Haley Barbour holds a news conference and plays
the White House phone message for reporters. Before the
conference ends 15 minutes later, the White House has erased
the message.

10 31, 1996 -- Secret Service logs indicate Huang visited
the White
House 78 times during the 15 months before October.

Nov. 1, 1996 -- During a campaign appearance in California,
President
Clinton calls for a ban on donations from non-U.S. citizens.

10 1, 1996 -- The White House offers a partial explanation
for the
high number of John Huang visits: Two different men with
that name
visited the White House during the 15-month period.

11-1-96: DNC releases a summary of its finance report, but
not the report itself. Clinton says he and the DNC have
"played by the rules" in soliciting campaign
contributions--and then calls for campaign finance reform.
(See 11-12-96.)

DNC Executive Director B. J. Thornberry admits that in
mid-1994 the DNC stopped running computer checks on donors
contributing $30,000 or more.

11 2, 1996 -- The Democratic National Committee acknowledges
laxity
in reviewing the sources of its donors, and pledges
heightened
scrutiny.

11-4-96: White House admits James Riady of the Lippo Group
visited the White House "at least" 15 times during the last
four years.

The Washington Times: Grigori Loutchansky--a Russian with
strong ties to the Russian Mafia who is not allowed into
Canada for security reasons (his company, Nordex, has been
linked to nuclear weapons smuggling)--attended a 1993 White
House dinner.

The Detroit Free Press: An Iraqi-born family, the Danous,
bought a private audience with Clinton after the family
contributed more than $400,000 to his campaign. "It was to
help Iraq," says Julie Danou, adding that a responsive
Clinton promised to help change U.S. policy by "lifting the
embargo." By the eve of the election, at least 213 elected
Democratic officials have joined the GOP since Clinton's
election, and 38 Democratic members of the 104th Congress
have resigned or announced their retirement.

Nov. 4, 1996 -- In scathing attack, Reform Party
presidential
candidate Ross Perot says nation is heading for a "second
Watergate."

11-5-96: Clinton becomes the third president in U.S. history
to be elected twice without a majority of the popular vote.

11-6-96: Half of Clinton's Cabinet resigns.

DNC returns a $325,000 donation from Yogesh Gandhi, who is
not a U.S. citizen.

11-7-96: DNC returns $50,000 given by George Psaltis, a
Greek-not U.S.-citizen.

10-8, 1996 -- In first post-election news conference,
Clinton says
contributions from Indonesian sources had "absolutely not"
influenced
his foreign policy. The president calls for campaign finance
reform
and endorses McCain/Feingold legislation.

11-8-96: The Washington Times: Hillary Clinton pushed the
Commerce Department to hire John Huang, despite the
objections of then-Secretary Brown.

11-12, 1996 -- Democratic National Committee co-chairman Don
Fowler
holds press conference and declares, "Never has there been
any desire,
plan or intent to evade requirements of applicable laws and
regulations," Fowler said. "In fact, we have tried to comply
strictly
with all relevant requirements.

11-12-96: Commerce Department's inspector general begins to
review the relationship between John Huang and his former
employer, the Lippo Group, which paid Huang a compensation
package of $87 9 ,000 in mid-1994 when he left the
Indonesian conglomerate to join Commerce.

DNC National Chairman Don Fowler says he doesn't know if DNC
fund raisers had solicited contributions overseas, how much
in contributions the DNC has returned or how much money John
Huang has raised--and he wouldn't tell reporters even if he
did know.

11-13, 1996 -- Justice Department turns down the request of
Sen.
John McCain (R-Ariz.) for an independent prosecutor.

11-15, 1996 -- DNC announces it will investigate
contributions made
in the name of Thai businesswoman Pauline Kanchanalak and
her
Washington business Ban Chang International. Records show
one of the
contributions for $32,500 was made two days after
Kanchanalak visited
John Huang at the Commerce Department.

11-16, 1996 -- President Clinton acknowledges discussing
policy
issues with James Riady, but said the Indonesian businessman
never
influenced his decisions.

11-18, 1996 -- A letter from GOP Rep. Ben Gilman to Commerce
Secretary Mickey Kantor indicates that Huang's phone records
from the
Commerce Department show he made at least 70 calls while
still at
Commerce to his former employer, the Los Angeles office of
the Lippo
Bank.

11-18, 1996 -- John Huang is fired from his fund-raising job
in what
DNC calls a "typical layoff" following an election.

11-19, 1996 -- White House aides confirm that Bruce Lindsey,
a top
aide to the president, urged that contacts between Clinton
and Lippo
Group executive James Riady be described as "social."
Following the
election, Clinton acknowledged discussing policy issues with
Riady.

11-19, 1996 -- Asked about contributions from wealthy
Indonesians
and the practices of Huang, Clinton, travelling in
Australia, urges
reporters to remember "what happened to Mr. Jewell in
Atlanta." That
was a reference to Richard Jewell, the security guard
initially
targeted by the FBI following the bombing near the Olympic
Park in
Atlanta.

11-20-96: DNC returns $253,000 in illegal contributions from
a Thai businesswoman, Pauline Kanchanalak, and her
mother-in-law, Praitun Kanchanalak.

11-22-96: DNC returns $450,000 in donations from the
Wiriadinatas, the Indonesian couple who has since moved back
to Jakarta--bringing to more than $1.5 million the amount of
illegal or questionable donations the DNC has been forced to
return.

11-22, 1996 -- Former Associate Attorney General Webster
Hubbell is
questioned by federal grand jury about his contacts with
James Riady.

Justice Department requests the FBI interview DNC
contributors to investigate potential criminal misconduct.

11-23, 1996 -- DNC announces it will return $450,000 to
Arief and
Soraya Wiriadinata, former permanent U.S. residents with
ties to the
Lippo group, who had lived in a Virginia suburb, donated the
money in
1995 and 1996, but did not file a tax return in 1996. It is
the
largest donation returned to date.

11-26, 1996 -- White House releases list of 1993 inaugural
donors
that shows Huang and James Riady donated $100,000.

11-27-96: Environmental Protection Agency proposes new Clean
Air Act regulations that even it estimates will cost
companies at least $8.5 billion `annually. Arguing the rules
are based on dubious research and would even change the way
we barbecue hamburgers, more than 500 businesses and local
government groups are fighting them.

12-2-96: The Wall Street Journal: Despite pre-election
claims
that Clinton's contacts with the Riadys were primarily
social, White House admits it has a March 9, 1993 letter
from the Lippo Group's Mochtar Riady outlining policy
positions he wanted Clinton to take regarding Indonesia,
China and Asia.

12-2, 1996 -- Clinton acknowledges that he received a letter
in 1993
from Mochtar Riady urging him to normalize relations with
Vietnam.
Clinton called it a "straightforward policy letter."

12-3, 1996 -- The Clinton Administration releases to
reporters
correspondence between the White House and the Lippo Group,
prompting
anger from congressional Republicans who sought the letters
earlier.

12-6, 1996 -- Man Ya Shih, a Buddhist nun, tells the FEC the
$5,000
she donated to the DNC came from her own funds. That
contradicts
statements she made in October that a Democratic operative
gave her
$5,000 in cash and then asked her to write a check for the
same amount
to the DNC.

12-6, 1996 -- Lawyers confirm that former Commerce
Department
official Melinda Yee testified that she threw out notes on
preparation
for U.S. trade missions, even after a federal judge had
ordered them
turned over to the conservative group Judicial Watch. Yee
said that no
one told her of Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act
request
for them. She discarded them two months after a court order
that they
be turned over.

12-10-96: White House documents reveal that less than three
weeks after he was sworn into office, Clinton agreed to meet
Indonesian billionaire Mochtar Riady in the Oval Office.

12-11-96: Mike McCurry admits the Inaugural festivities
"will
be for the fat cats."

12-11, 1996 -- Documents show that less than three weeks
after
Clinton's 1993 inauguration, Huang contacted the White House
by
letter, pushing for a meeting between Clinton and Huang's
former boss
at the Lippo Group, Mochtar Riady. The letter has a
handwritten note
from Clinton in the margin, saying it would be "okay to
spend a few
minutes with him when he's in D.C."

12-17, 1996 -- Trustees for Bill and Hillary Clinton's legal
defense
fund, which was set up to help defray their Whitewater legal
bills,
disclose that $640,000 in questionable donations have been
returned.
Many of the donations were delivered by Charles Yah Lin
Trie, a top
Democratic fund-raiser.

12-19, 1996 -- The Justice Department expands its
investigation of
DNC fund-raising to include the activities of the Clintons'
legal
defense fund. The department issues subpoena to the
Presidential Legal
Expense Trust, asking it to provide details surrounding
$640,000 in
questionable donations the fund returned.

12-20, 1996 -- The administration confirms that Trie helped
get Wang
Jun, the head of a Chinese weapons trading company, invited
to a White
House reception at a time of trouble in U.S.-China
relations. White
House Press Secretary Mike McCurry says Clinton did not know
who Wang
was and that if the administration had known, the invitation
probably
would not have been extended.

12-28, 1996 -- Documents released by the DNC reveal the
Democrats'
National Asian Pacific American Campaign Plan, a strategy to
raise
some $7 million from Asian Americans. Records show the plan
involved
John Huang, the DNC, the Clinton-Gore campaign, and Doris
Matsui,
deputy assistant to President Clinton.

01-15, 1997 -- Vice President Gore's office acknowledges
that he was
aware the Buddhist temple event on April 29, 1996, was
"finance-related." That contrasted with an earlier statement
in which
he said he thought the event was "community outreach." On
Jan. 24 Gore
acknowledges his "mistake" and says, "I knew it was a
political event
and I knew there were finance people who were going to be
present."

01-16, 1997 -- The Boston Globe reports that the president
had
withdrawn his support for an immigration reform bill in
March 1996
that ended automatic entry for the siblings of naturalized
citizens.
His move came one month after receiving a memo from John
Huang stating
the top Asia-Pacific American priority was to keep sibling
preference
in place. In February 1996, Huang had organized an Asian
fund-raiser
that raised $1.1 million. The White House denied any
connection.

01-23, 1997 -- The New York Times reports that Maria Haley,
a
longtime associate of Bill Clinton who works at the
Export-Import
Bank, lobbied for a $6.5 million financing deal on behalf of
Thai
businesswoman Pauline Kanchanalak, whose family last year
donated more
than $200,000 to the DNC. The deal, intended to finance a
Bangkok
video store franchise, ultimately didn't go through, and
most of the
$200,000 in contributions was returned because its origins
were
unclear. John Huang, a longtime associate of Haley, raised
part of the
$200,000.

01-24, 1997 -- Documents show that at least 100 coffees
arranged by
the DNC were held at the White House, some of which were
attended by
Clinton and Gore. Of particular interest is one held last
May with
more than a dozen executives of the nation's biggest banks,
and
attended by the president, Secretary of the Treasury Robert
Rubin, and
Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig, the nation's top
financial
regulator.

01-28, 1997 -- In his first post-inaugural press conference,
President Clinton acknowledges that "mistakes were made" but
he
"categorically" denied any policies were impacted by
fund-raising.
(Full Transcript.)

01-29, 1997 -- Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) reveals plans to
hire a
staff of 80 persons to investigate campaign fund-raising on
a budget
of $6.5 million. (By contrast, the Watergate committee had a
staff of
90; according to Thompson, the Watergate probe would have
cost about
$7 million in today's dollars.) On 01-28, Thompson, in a
speech on
the Senate floor, outlines the scope of his investigation,
promising
to be thorough and to allow consideration of Republican
abuses.

02-3, 1997 -- Former Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes
comes under
fire after CNN obtains memo showing Ickes advised a major
DNC
contributor, Warren Medoff, on how he might best distribute
more than
$1 million in contributions, and how he might receive
beneficial tax
treatment. Ickes later says he shouldn't have used a
government fax
machine and telephone, but that he didn't violate any laws.

02-4, 1997 -- A Justice Department subpoena of an Arkansas
businessman provides first indication that the Clinton
Administration
is a focus of Justice's investigation.

02-5, 1997 -- The White House concedes that President
Clinton had
stamped "The President Has Seen" on a memo listing attendees
at a
White House coffee that included the comptroller of the
currency, DNC
national chairman Don Fowler and finance chairman Marvin
Rosen.

02-10, 1997 -- Former DNC chairman Don Fowler tells The
Boston Globe
that the DNC routinely solicited attendees of White House
coffees for
funds, and that they collectively donated $27 million.

02-13, 1997 -- Clinton calls for a "vigorous" and "thorough"
investigation into reports that representatives of the
People's
Republic of China tried to direct financial contributions
from foreign
sources to the DNC. Rep. Gerald Solomon tells reporters,
"The
potential finding is that our foreign policy has been sold
for a
price, national security has been sold for a price."

02-14, 1997 -- The White House releases documents suggesting
it
ignored warnings from the National Security Council that DNC
fund-raisers' trips to Asia might jeopardize U.S. foreign
policy.
Particular concern was raised about DNC Managing Trustee
Johnny Chung,
who gave $366,000 to the DNC, and pressed Clinton for
assistance in
his efforts to free Chinese-American human rights activist
Harry Wu.
NSC called Chung a "hustler" and his mission "very
troubling."
Documents also showed NSC's concerns about Gore attending an
event at
a Buddhist Temple in California last April were ignored.

02-16, 1997 -- The Washington Post reports that six months
after
Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Guam in September 1995,
residents of
the commonwealth donated nearly $900,000 to the DNC. The
White House
denied that a subsequent change in Guam's immigration policy
was
connected in any way.

02-16, 1997 -- House Government Reform and Oversight
Chairman Dan
Burton (R-Ind.) issues 20 subpoenas and announces plans to
interview
more than 500 people.

02-20, 1997 -- Asian-American businessman alleges Huang
pressured
him to funnel more than $250,000 to the Democratic National
Committee
by pretending the money was contributions from the his
group's
members. Huang's lawyer denies the charge. Records show
Huang went on
fund-raising trips while still a Commerce employee.

02-21, 1997 -- The newly installed DNC head, Colorado Gov.
Roy
Romer, concedes that following an audit, the DNC will likely
return
another $1 million in questionable contributions.

02-21, 1997 -- Huang and Webster Hubbell refuse to provide
documents
to congressional investigators, citing the Fifth Amendment.
Reports
surface Huang has asked for partial immunity in return for
cooperation.

02-25, 1997 -- Clinton acknowledges he personally encouraged
rewarding DNC donors with overnight stays at the Lincoln
Bedroom.

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Interview transcript: Paul M. Rodriguez, Managing Editor of
INSIGHT MAGAZINE interviewed on Quinn in the Morning Show,
WRRK 97 FM Pittsburgh, PA, Thurs. 1/30/97.

SUBJECT: WHODB, a.k.a. "Big Brother" database in the
Clinton White House

Q = Jim Quinn, Host R = Paul M. Rodriguez, guest

Rose = Quinn's show producer

Q: The subject of the "Big Brother" database has reappeared
in the news. We shared with you this morning a story about
a memo from Marsha Scott, I believe, indicating that she
had taken every step to make sure than any information
about this database would not be available to working
citizens through the Freedom of Information Act, which
makes you wonder what in God's name are these people
covering up? So, on the phone with us this morning from
INSIGHT MAGAZINE is Paul M. Rodriguez who's the Managing
Editor and has just written an article about this. Mr.
Rodriguez, good morning and welcome to the show.

R: Good morning to you and the listeners, and thank you so
much for the courtesy.

Q: I hate it when the guests have a better voice than I do.

R: [laughs] Well, it's morning, that's why.

Q: Where are you, anyway?

R: Sitting in my office, looking at my computer screen
laughing like the dickens, and you know how those
Dickensons laugh [Quinn laughs and agrees] about the wire
stories quoting everybody else about a story I wrote six
months ago--have CONTINUED to write during those six
months.

Q: Let me ask you--let's start off here--the White House
maintains right from the very start, first they say it's a
200,000-name database. And they said it was basically a
Rolodex of people that would get invited to the White
House. How much of that is true?

R: With everything concerning this White House, it's
gradations of truth. Initially it had 200,000. Actually,
initially it had ONE [laughs]. It actually has over 350,000
names of Americans in there. The computer system, coupled
with the man-hours, manpower, has cost taxpayers about $1.7
million that we do know of as of today. Of the people who
are in that computer, virtually no one knows that their
name was in there, in violation of the Privacy Act, until I
wrote the first story way back--I think it was in July or
August of 1996. And the White House pooh-poohed it and
said, oh, it's just a Rolodex; we put it together for our
Christmas cards; gee willickers, it's got nothing to do
with the Filegate fiasco; and anybody who wants to know
what information we have about them, even though we don't
have to tell them about it, they can write in and we'll
tell them.

Q: I thought they promised to notify everybody.

R: That's correct. You have a good memory.

Q: I'm still waiting for my card.

R: They have never followed-up on it.

Q: Well, I knew they wouldn't.

R: They have also sent--honest government employees working
with me--have also had to admit that it's not just a
Rolodex--a Christmas card list. It contains the political
database history of Governor Clinton, the family
friendships and acquaintences going back to early childhood
of the first couple. It also contains political strategy
documents. It contains DNC documents. It contains
outreach fundraising schematics. This is purely a
political fundraising database machine paid for by American
taxpayers, operated by American tax-paid employees, also
known as White House staff, in violation of a variety of
laws. The computer itself is not the violation. You know,
technology--I'm not trying to be picayune about
this--what's the difference of having a messenger drop off
a package of papers at the White House versus having
someone hit a computer button and it sends it
electronically. Well, the law says you cannot use
government computers for these kinds of things. Maybe the
law needs to be changed. But that's the LAW. The White
House cannot do what they're doing. And they have changed
their story from day one. John Huang was in there. No,
he's not in here [he says sarcastically]. Never BEEN in
the White House computer. Well, he IS in there.

Q: So, they lied about that.

R: Terry McAuliffe, the vice chairman of the re-election
committee for finance, he's not in there. Oh, never has
been in there [sarcastically]. He's IN there--twenty-five
times. You go down the list of everybody in the news:
Paula Kanchanalak, Mr. Trie, who owns the Fu Lin
Restaurant, which I think is a great title for this
administration.

Q: [laughs] The "FOOLin' Restaurant", eh?

R: [laughs] The Fu Lin Restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Oh, they're not in the computer [sarcastically]. Guess
what? Yes, they are. And when you take the information in
the computer, for example, all the coffees that we know of
--it's about a hundred coffees--contributions occur, not
BEFORE the coffees, but AFTER the coffees within a
three-week time period. And it's over $1 million just from
fifty or sixty coffees that we've been able to check so
far. Within about three weeks of each coffee about
$1 million has poured into the re-election committee. In
total, people who have gone to the coffees have given over
$27 million. Come on, this is a fundraising computer.
Just call it for what it is. And they got caught.

Q: Well, I would suggest to you that, if the whole history
of Mr. Clinton--and I don't know why he'd put his OWN
history in there--but if his own political history is in
there--

R: It's astounding!

Q: And the First Lady's is in there, and all these
documents about the fundraising and the outreach and all
the things that they have done, I would have to submit to
you that this is the equivalent of the Nixon tapings.

R: Very GOOD! Which is, of course, an analogy I raised
about three weeks ago because I was stunned to find
out--again, some very brave, literally, and I mean this in
the truest sense, some very brave individuals have been
working with us [the magazine] who are under intense
scrutiny as a result--um, the INDEX... [line is suddenly
broken]

Q: Well, there he goes. O.K., we're going to have to
get him back, Rose. Ah... [sighs] our government wiretap
has once again cut off the interview [he says
sarcastically], but that's O.K. We had to take a break
here anyway. [laughs] It's ten minutes after 8:00 a.m.

<1st BREAK>

Q: All right, we've got Paul Rodriguez back from INSIGHT
MAGAZINE. Now, where we left off if memory serves me
correctly, you are working with some people who are working
with--people who are very BRAVE because they are under
intense scrutiny by the administration, I guess, who
suspects something?

R: Right. Partly because the White House's changing stories
have varied so much, the only thing we know for certain is
that whatever is in the computer, and I don't know
everything that is in the computer, some of it is extremely
confidential and extremely secret, so there is a high
degree of scrutiny about materials that I have been writing
about these days. For another reason, it's breaching the
security of the White House, and they ought to be concerned
about that. What I was going to point out, we have an
index--a partial index--of what's in the White House office
database computer, and it is absolutely mindboggling in the
depth of detail. And it's almost--this is an interesting
perspective, I think--it's a mirror image of Bill Clinton's
brain. When Clinton was boss of Arkansas, he kept
everything in his head and things on Rolodex cards, little
tidbits about, oh, she's got shapely curves, or I met her
mamma or his mamma at the racetrack, or my mamma told me
she met somebody. He kept that thing quite organized in
his head. He has a very good ability to retain
information.

Q: Unless it's something that somebody questions him about.

R: "I can't remember."

Q: Yeah, "I didn't recall" then.

R: What he's done is, now because he's in the national
level and, by extension, the international level, he can't
keep all that information organized now in his head or in
his shoe box full of cards. He's now exponentially
multiplied by a million times his contact base. He's
created a computer system. And, in fact, it was created at
the personal request of Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton.

Q: Um hmm, and she was very involved in the software, is
that right?

R: Very involved, and they were very careful of who had
access to the directives to create the computer. It was
marked, "EYES ONLY", which is the highest level you can
get. It was run by the very small coterie of Arkansans who
knew the Clintons personally.

Q: Would that be the people at Alltel Information Services?

R: Ah, there was somebody involved from there, correct.
Which is a very interesting point you raised.

Q: That's the old Systematics down in Arkansas. [**a loud
clicking noise is heard on the line**]

R: Do you hear the, ah... Can you still hear me? [laughs]

Q: Yes, I can, although I'm beginning to hear some
strange sounds. You could be disconnected at any time.
We'll get right back to you as soon as they do it to you
again. [they both laugh]

R: It was a very closely contained operation, and Marsha
Scott, one of the counsels at the White House, as well as
Jane Shearburn and a host of others, operated this thing in
the most highly secret way--we can't let anyone know what
we're doing because then it might be subject to the FOIA.
We can't let anybody know about what we're doing because
then they might gab about it and the press might find out.
And it's just kind of nutsy. Well, now I KNOW why it's
so nutsy because it's literally the embodiment in hard copy
of Bill and Hillary's contacts throughout their history.
And it includes such things as Chelsea Clinton's friends.
Hillary Clinton's childhood friends. It's everything
catalogued that these two people have had contact with
which is how they have built their base. Then it includes
the supporters. The White House says, oh, we just have a
few campaign-related materials--the OLD campaigns. Wrong.
In the computer is the 1996 supporter database. It's in
the Damn computer. Now, fortunately, our Congressional
Committee chaired by David McIntosh has been working on
this thing for several months now, since my first series of
stories came out. They are in negotiation with the White
House securing unfortunately a redacted version, a partial
version of the computer, and I'm sure hearings will be
coming up shortly.

Q: Well, what good will is that? I mean, they're not going
to give you anything really damaging, are they?

R: Well, [sighs] funny thing about computers and the way
this White House has operated it--for example, I had some
of the codes to the computer and was able to get inside of
it for a brief period of time. So their system wasn't very
good.

Q: You were able to GET INTO it?

R: Yeah, we got into it very early on. I did not
personally venture into the computer because I thought I
might be violating some laws, so we had some law
enforcement friends of ours do it. And, in fact, they got
into the system, which they were not supposed to be able to
do, according to the White House. And, in turn, they
informed appropriate people at the White House that there
was a security breach. Um, it was my way of both checking
the veracity of my sources and determining in fact that
such a computer did exist that contained some of the
information that we were being told about and was all true.
That's why I kind of think it's funny. I was reading the
L.A. Times summary this morning. They've now discovered
the computer database, as has Time Magazine in its current
issue, that, Oh my God, there's a computer at the White
House that has all this stuff in there and look how it
shows all the coffee fundraisers and all the activities
with the Democratic National Committee. And I chuckled
because I've been writing about this for several months
now. At least others have caught up. This is, to get back
to your metaphor, this is like the Watergate tapes, except
instead of reel-to-reel tapes, we've got computer discs
here. They contain information that, by themselves, are
innocuous. The CONTENT is not. What's in those tapes, as
they sunk Richard Nixon, could well sink Bill Clinton or
his staff.

Q: Well, if it's a history of his activities, and if
any of the allegations of criminal activity that have
floated around about this guy are true, they're going to be
in this database then, right?

R: Correct. And we've just found out, actually, there may
be a SECOND database that has yet to be discovered. There
are elements of documents which the White House put out
last week under pressure from the stories on "Big Brother",
that reference a different type of computer system that
I've never seen or heard about before other than through
rumor that there is a parallel, highly classified computer
that contains dollar donation amounts on individuals, as
opposed to: you are a big, big supporter; or a big
supporter; or just a supporter; or a past supporter.

Q: Right. Well, our producer, Rose, has a question for you.

R: Sure.

Q: It's this: why is such extensive information for a
president who is serving his last term and has no possible
chance of re-election, why would they keep it? Why wouldn't
they just trash that?

R: Ah, Rose asked a good question. Historical records.
This guy is a packrat. What he used to keep in detail,
cataloged shoe boxes, he now keeps in detail in files in
computers.

Q: So it's the Nixon mistake. He's worried about how
history's going to view him and about the book he's going
to write when he leaves office.

R: Right. He's only 50. He's a young man. He's not the
typical president in age. He's 50, he's going to be
retiring before he's 55, he's still quite young. He's
going to have a historical archive of the Life of Bill
Clinton from childhood to the promise land. And this
computer is the repository of the nonemotional history.

Q: I thought Bill and Hillary, by their own admission, were
computer illiterate. They went out of their way to tell
that to everybody in the press.

R: Ah, yeah, they say they're computer illiterate--they may
well be. Given the construction of the "Big Brother"
computer, it's a very simplistic type of computer. You
could ask it things in plain English and it will generate
the material that you want. But behind the scenes, as most
computers are, it's quite sophisticated, but in application
it's quite simple. "Tell me how to make a meatloaf," and
it will pop out the various ingredients.

Q: Well, I want to ask you about the possibility of
political enemies.

R: Yes, it's in there.

Q: O.K., but before we get into that, we have to take a
break. Can you hold on with us?

R: Sure.
<SECOND BREAK>

Q: And the subject is the "Big Brother" database in the
White House, recently back in the news thanks to a Time
Magazine article. I'm not sure that the mainstream media
really gets it yet, though, because it is being positioned

in the mainstream media as, "Well, this computer isn't
REALLY illegal, but it might have been illegal to use it
for campaign donations and fundraising." Is that a proper
view or a distorted media view?

R: It's a distorted media view. Just by way of an analogy,
we're seeing a lot of stories now by the wires and the
so-called dominant medial culture press about this DNC
fundraising activity--oh, well, you know, the Republicans
have done this also, and then there's a whole litany of
Republicans, President Bush, President Reagan, Speaker Newt
Gingrich...

Q: Yeah, they're trying to equate these things.

R: They're trying to "balance out" the various allegations
being thrown around town. Well, I don't recall that when
George Bush was in office. I don't recall that when Newt
Gingrich was under the gun. I don't see the stories of
Bonior, Inc. or Dick Gephardt, Inc. or Dick Gephardt's
beach house property. I don't see the fairness in
applicable standards. Now, that said, the press is now
mentioning that there's nothing illegal about the "Big
Brother" computer. In a literal sense, the COMPUTER is not
illegal. But it's uses are improper and undoubtedly illegal
based on lawyers in government at the Department of Justice
who we've spoken with and former people in government
including those at the Dept. of Justice in the Bush,
Reagan, and Carter administrations. We've talked to these
people. You cannot use this computer to house information
on Americans without telling the Americans. That's one of
the many potential violations. The Privacy Act says that,
if you have a computer or any data stored on an American
citizen, that American citizen must have the authority and
the right to find out about it. Well, if you don't TELL
them, how can they find out?--Privacy Act. You cannot use
a government computer for political fundraising
activities--Anti-Deficiency Act. The Hatch Act. This
computer contains information on political fundraising
activities. It has been used by the White House, by the
White House's own admission just last week, finally, that
they coordinated and facilitated DNC fundraising outreach
programs headed by people such as Alexis Herman, the
now-nominee to the Dept. of Labor as Cabinet Secretary.
You cannot do that. It's against the Hatch Act. It's also
against the Anti-Deficiency Act, which bars anybody from
using government money for purposes not related to
government activity. That's just a few of the things. But
the press is playing, "oh, it's not illegal". Well,
hogwash! Just call it what it is instead of playing this
sliding standard depending on, you know, which pal of yours
is involved?

Q: Boy, if Nixon had done any of this stuff--I mean, even
ten percent of the stuff--that this guy has done, he'd be
wearing prison orange by now!

R: You're right. You know, I don't carry the water for
either side. I'm known as an equal opportunity hit-man.
I'd like to see just ten stories similar to what Newt
Gingrich has had to suffer fools gladly. That he had a pal
of his who was taking no money, helping him out on some
complicated legislation. The guy got no benefit from it.
We did check it out. The guy, in fact, told the truth.
Gingrich used his office fax machine to send some material
to one of his college-related activities. How much money
did that cost? Ten cents maybe? But that was headline
news.

Q: Yeah, exactly.

R: Well, where the hell are the stories about Dick
Gephardt, Dave Bonior, Jim McDermott? All Democrats, all
highly partisan critics of the Speaker. Now, I don't care
about the Speaker in this case, as it were. I just care
about equal opportunity reporting. And I'm not seeing it.
It bleeds itself into this fundraising scandal. We're not
seeing aggressive reporting. We're starting to see
mamby-pamby reporting. "Well, everybody does it."

Q: Well, there's been mamby-pamby reporting right from the
beginning, and I would submit to you that there's also been
control of the media, too. You've got Stephanopoulos
running around BRAGGING about the fact that he kept Gary
Aldrich off of television.

R: Right.

Q: I mean, they're actually PROUD of it and the media
doesn't seem to be offended by it!

R: Right. Terry McAuliffe, the president's finance
chairman, got a reporter fired from the New York Post, a
reporter by the name of David Eisenstadt. And he actually
bragged about it.

Q: I've got to stop you right here. The reason I put off
the subject of political enemies is because it's going to
take a little more time than I had in this break. So, if
you'll hold on with us for one more break, I want to
address political enemies in the White House database.
O.K.?

R: Yes.

Q: Paul Rodriguez from INSIGHT MAGAZINE here with us this
morning.
<BREAK FOR NEWS>

Q: On the phone with us is Paul Rodriguez, Editor from
INSIGHT MAGAZINE who has written extensively about the
White House database known as "Big Brother". Mr.
Rodriguez, I have a quote here from Bill Clinton that he
made on MTV in 1992, and by the way it's scary enough that
it didn't raise anybody's eyebrows. This was faxed to me
by a friend. This is Bill Clinton, 1992: "It's the job of
the government to rein in people's rights." Now, I would
suggest to you that, if you don't understand why that quote
is troubling, then you don't understand what these people
are up to. And the issue of political enemies I think
lumes larger in this administration than it ever did in the
Nixon administration. We've got 900 FBI files--RAW DATA
FILES--with uncoroborated dirt on all kinds of Republicans,
and I don't think--

R: Yeah, and we've yet to find out how those files were
utilized. We're actually hearing it's about 1500 FBI files
that were electronically and physically uplinked and
delivered to the White House. We still don't know where
this stuff is. The president has made no effort
whatsoever--zero, zip, nada--to find out who the culprits
are. It's troubling! Where the hell are the files?

Q: Well, we KNOW who the culprits are.

R: And COPIES of the files, and pieces of files. And are
they in the White House database--the "Big Brother"
computer? Are they in a different computer? Are they
spread around town?

Q: I doubt that they're spread around town because if
they become common knowledge they're not useful anymore.
If this president operates in Washington the way he
operated in Little Rock the reason he wants these files is
simply so he knows where the buttons are to push if any of
these people ever become a problem for him.

R: Like Lyndon Johnson used to do.

Q: Sure.

R: It's called power politics. Clinton ain't no dummy.
You know, you mentioned the enemies list, Nixon actually
had an enemies list, and it was called an "ENEMIES LIST".
Clinton doesn't have an "enemies list", but he does have
information on reporters, for example, in the computer.
I'm in there. It lists most--interestingly, not ALL--but
it lists most of the times I've been to the White House for
social related functions or for official interviews that
I've had to be cleared in to sections of the compound that
I normally do not access with my White House press card.
There are no asterisks on my name fortunately, but we've
noticed maybe there are some asterisks and some funny
things on some of the other people we've been looking at.
But there is a friendlies list, and it is called a
"FRIENDLIES LIST"--people who are friendly to the
administration.

Q: Ooh, I'd love to know who's on THAT list!

R: So you have 500 reporters' names in there and, of those
500, 15 or 20 who are "FRIENDLIES". Then by subtraction,
you have 450 who are LESS THAN FRIENDLY--who are NOT AS
FRIENDLY. So it's kind of an UNFRIENDLIES list that
someone could be on, as opposed to an ENEMIES list. These
should be made public. It's not public, and it's required
under the PRIVACY ACT which says that, if you use a
government operation paid for by taxpayer dollars to house
information on American citizens, it's got to be made
public under the Privacy Act.

Q: Let me ask you this, are there any news anchors on that
list, or can't you say?

R: On the "FRIENDLIES LIST"?

Q: On the "FRIENDLIES LIST", yeah.

R: Because we're still going through the list, I will hold
back.

Q: I'm going to guess. [laughs] Dan Rather!

R: There are a lot of people on that list.

Q: And probably a lot of very important people, as well,
because it just seems the mainstream media jumps through
hoops to apologize for this guy.

R: Yeah, and I don't understand--I don't know if your
listeners were able to watch Fred Thompson on the floor of
the Senate last week--

Q: I just played his tape before we called you, so MY
listeners have heard it.

R: Oh, O.K. Ironically, I've known Fred for over 20 years.
I was a messenger in 1972 and '73 learning to be a cub
reporter who covered Watergate. Both his career and mine
have taken a nosedive. He's now a Senator and I'm now an
editor.

Q: Yeah. [They both laugh]

R: We kind of laughed about that recently ourselves. It
was a very eloquent speech and it struck at the issues
we're dealing with here. Had the press done its job of
forcing this White House, from the get-go, to tell the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth through
the baptisms of fire and brimstone, maybe we wouldn't be
where we are today in 1997.

Q: There wouldn't be a second term.

R: Maybe there wouldn't be a second term. Maybe he would
have cleaned up his act. Maybe the investigations would
have been held long ago, people would be in jail, he would
be impeached. Maybe he would have won 100 percent of the
vote in 1996 because he would have cleaned up the
government, like you take a two-by-four and smack somebody,
sometimes they bring some common sense through their heads.
We don't know because it's all guess work. But we know
this, if the press for sure had kept up doing its job of
every single day of saying, "Where in hell is the answer to
the following question? Yesterday you said you would tell
us today. It's now TODAY."

Q: Yeah, where are the files? Where are the documents?
You say you're going to cooperate and you don't.

R: Exactly. What is the status on the investigation on how
the Rose Law Firm billing records showed up in the private
family quarters of the third floor of the Executive offices
of the president's mansion? Mr. President, you said you
want to get to the bottom of this. Today is Day 155. What
is the status? And then REPORT that. You know, Steve
Roberts is a long time friend of mine and, while we
politically sometimes don't agree on things, he's still a
good journalist. He pointed out last week on a show that I
host that too often it's what people DON'T SAY that we
DON'T REPORT that's the most important. The point being,
the White House does not tell us or issues a "no comment,"
or puts us off. That is a story. So a nonaction can be a
story, and way too often the press does not report that,
and it SHOULD! Because if you don't report it, then,
dag-nab it, people get over on you.

Q: Well, sure. Let me give you an example of that, O.K.?
Remember Carolyne Huber, the one who found the files?

R: Yep.

Q: O.K., so here's Carolyne Huber sitting in front of the
Whitewater Committee and, you know, D'Amato is telling her
what a wonderful person she is and thank you very much for
your testimony and all of that. The media never bothers to
point out to anybody that little granny there ain't no
shrinking violet. She used to work for the Rose Law firm
and she outranked every lawyer there except for the
partnered lawyers. She said the f-word more times then
Craig Loydd or Howard Stern. I'm telling you, this woman
is a tough old bird, and nobody ever bothered to point that
out because, if you did, then you would have to say to
yourself, "Wait a minute, you mean THIS person saw a bunch
of files on a desk one day, didn't know what they were, and
tossed them into a box?" There's no way Carolyne Huber
would ever do that. She's worked in the legal profession
too long.

R: That's right. In fact, I believe she was Office
Manager, but my recollection of her was a long-time person
at the Rose Law Firm and she worked as any gunnery sergeant
or master sergeant, you don't mess with 'em. They've
earned their stripes the hard way, they've WORKED it
between the commissioned officers and the non-com. The
master sergeant is that strange critter in the middle that
nobody touches and messes with.

Q: Well, that's her.

R: When they say jump, you jump--generals all! That's what
Huber was. She was that master sergeant at Rose Law Firm.

Q: But we were never told that. [they laugh] Paul, I've got
to run, and thank you for joining us this morning and thank
you for your work at INSIGHT MAGAZINE.

R: It's our pleasure, and take care. And keep the fire to
the feet.

Q: Thank you, sir.

R: Have a good day.

Wayne Mann

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August 25, 1993

CONFIDENTIAL [underlined]

BY HAND [underlined]

The Honorable Janet Reno
Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. 20530

Dear Madam Attorney General:

As counsel for the family of Vince Foster and in particular
Mrs. Lisa Foster, I am writing
to renew the family's strongly-felt request that the
original torn pieces of Vince's note be
returned to her.

In the family's view, this was a very personal note. While
it dealt with business matters,
Vince obviously did not intend that the note be given or
shown to anyone at work. As you
know, he tore up the note, depositing the pieces at the
bottom of an old briefcase he
owned. He thus did not intend that the note be maintained
as part of [the] White House
files.

The family, of course, understood the need for the Park
Police and the FBI to obtain and
analyze the note. Now, however, the investigations into
Vince's death are concluded and
family members see no good reason why the note should not be
returned to Mrs. Foster.

Vince did not leave any written communication to the family.
The note is all there is that
expresses his feelings during the last few days of his life.
While his death will always
remain inexplicable to the family, having the note in their
possession will provide them
great comfort. Please do not underestimate the depth of
Mrs.Foster's feelings about this
matter.

The family appreciates the manner in which the Department
and you handled the note
during the investigations and particularly thank you for
your decision not to release a
photograph of the actual note. That was the correct decision
for all concerned. So also
would returning the note to the family be the correct
decision. That would recognize the
human and family concerns involved, and would in no way
interfere with the investigations
of Vince's death, which are over.

Mrs. Foster and the rest of Vince's family very much
appreciate your personal attention to
this renewed request

Sincerely,

James Hamilton

JH/cmb
cc: Mrs. Lisa Foster

Wayne Mann

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iron...@aol.com (Ironword) wrote:

2551
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

MEMORANDUM

U.S. SECRET SERVICE

DATE: 07/20/93 12:01 pm

REPLY TO:

ATTN OF: SA SCOTT MARBLE

SUBJECT: DEATH OF VINCENT FOSTER, DEPUTY ASSISTANT
TO THE PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY COUNSEL (SEE ATTACHED)

TO: SAIC INTELLIGENCE DIVISION

ON 7/20/93 AT 11:30 HRS. LT. WOLTZ, USSS/UD - WHB,
CONTACTED THE ID/DD AND ADVISED THAT AT 2030 HRS.
THIS DATE, HE WAS CONTACTED BY LT. GAVIN, US PARK
POLICE, WHO PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

ON THE EVENING OF 7/20/93, UNKNOWN TIME, US PARK
POLICE DISCOVERED THE BODY OF VINCENT FOSTER IN
HIS CAR. THE CAR WAS PARKED IN THE FT. MARCY AREA
OF VA NEAR THE GW PARKWAY. MR. FOSTER APPARENTLY
DIED OF A SELF-INFLICTED GUN-SHOT WOUND TO THE
HEAD. A .38 CAL. REVOLVER WAS IN THE CAR.

SA TOM CANAVIT, WFO PI SQUAD, ADVISED THAT HE HAS
BEEN IN CONTACT WITH US PARK POLICE AND WAS
ASSURED THAT IF ANY MATERIALS OF A SENSITIVE
NATURE (SCHEDULES OF THE POTUS’, ETC.) WERE
RECOVERED, THEY WOULD IMMEDIATELY BE TURNED
OVER TO THE USSS. (AT THE TIME OF THIS WRITING, NO
SUCH MATERIALS WERE LOCATED)

NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE.

INVESTIGATION BY US PARK POLICE CONTINUING.

THE FOLLOWING NOTIFICATIONS WERE MADE BY USSS/UD
- WHB:

DAVE WATKINS DIR. OF PERSONNEL, WH
INSP. DENNIS MARTIN USSS/UD
CRAIG LIVINGSTONE WH SECURITY COORDINATOR
ASAIC PAUL IMBORDINO CFO
DAD RICHARD GRIFFIN CFO (BY ASAIC IMBORDINO)
ATSAIC DON FLYNN CFO (BY ASAIC IMBORDINO)
SAIC RICHARD MILLER PPD ( BY ATSAIC FLYNN)
DIRECTOR MAGAW DIR (BY DAD GRIFFIN)

THE FOLLOWING NOTIFICATIONS WERE MADE BY THE ID/DD:

ATSAIC LON WARFIELD ID 2145 HRS
SAIC STEPHEN BERGEN ID ????? HRS
DAD DALE WILSON PA ????? HRS
ASAIC EARL MEYER PA ????? HRS

6200

Wayne Mann

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iron...@aol.com (Ironword) wrote:

(House of Representatives - September 11, 1996)

Rep. Christopher Cox (R-CA), I rise this afternoon to talk
about a document that was recently provided, very
belatedly, by the White House to the Congress, a document
now referred to as the task list. It is dated
December 13, 1994, but it was just provided to the Congress
in recent days. The task list shows 39 scandals
that the White House staff in the West Wing, taxpayer
supported staff, decided that they needed to work on
because there was now going to be a Republican Congress.
This memo was prepared just after the
November 1994 elections.

I would like to read just briefly the scandals that the
White
House decided that it needed to task its own staff
to work on. Some of these scandals are, of course, well
known to the American people, but other scandals
have only recently become known, even though this memo
was written on December 13, 1994.

No. 1, Foster document handling.We will return shortly to
the specifics contained in this memo on each of
these. There are several admissions of illegality in this
very
memo.

Travel Office. We know all about Travelgate, of course. That
has become a major scandal just as they
predicted in here.

White House-Treasury contacts. Of course, we know about
the illegal contacts between senior political
appointees at the Department of the Treasury and the White
House, tipping off the President, giving a heads
up to the President and Mrs. Clinton about the criminal
referral of the Whitewater matter.

Obstruction of justice, I am reading this from the White
House internal memo, obstruction of justice re DOJ
handling of criminal referrals. Use of White House resources
for response efforts. Of course, that is what this
memo is all about, but that is one of the scandals that is
listed here. This entire memo is devoted to how to
spin the press about the various scandals.

Foster suicide. Espy. Of course we know that Mr. Smaltz
was assigned as an independent counsel to
investigate the Mike Espy ethics question. We know about
the criminal problems with Tysons there. Henry
Cisneros, Ron Brown, Hubbell. Of course, we all know about
the next top ranking man at the White House
right underneath the Attorney General, Webster Hubbell,
who is now in jail.

Ickes, union representation. And of course with Coia and all
that ABC News has done on this scandal just
in recent days, we now know why in 1994 they were
worried about that.

Stephanopoulos, Nation's Bank. Again, this is a White House
memo that they prepared secretly inside the
White House using taxpayer resources and in the White
House counsel's office, which they should not have
been doing. That is not appropriate use of taxpayer funds.
They have listed all of these scandals that they
wanted to inoculate against and spin the press about.

The Stephanopoulos-Nation's Bank story was of course what
the press widely described as a sweetheart,
below market mortgage for George Stephanopoulos, the
kind of deal that ordinary Americans could not get.

State Department passport files; another Clinton
administration scandal that we are so familiar with.

Archives abuse of personal system. This is one scandal that
they have not fully disclosed to us and that
we will find out more about.

The Legal Defense Fund, and of course we know all about
the ethical problems that the President
encountered there, soliciting funds for the Legal Defense
Fund when such solicitation is, in fact, in violation
of the law.

The Health Care Task Force, and of course we know that
that resulted in litigation against Hillary Rodham
Clinton's task force. We know that a Federal judge ruled
against the task force, and found that it was put
together in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act
and that documents were withheld from the
public and from Congress when they should not have been.

Now there are 39 of these scandals that White House
staff--there is a name of a White House staffer right
after each one of these, after each one of these scandals,
and they were all assigned and presumably are
all still working at taxpayer expense on preventing the
Congress from getting to know all of the facts in these
things.

White House operations, drugs, passes, helicopters, and
does that not ring a bell for so many of us?
Each of those scandals, drugs in the White House, the
passes being given to people without personnel
clearances, the misuse of helicopters which resulted in the
termination of White House staff; this is next on
the White House, the Clinton, list of scandals that they
were
working on secretly in the White House.

Residence renovations. This is one that they believed was a
potential scandal, but the American people
do not yet know about it. We have just received this
document.

Presidential immunity. Well, of course, we know that that is
all having to do with the Paula Jones litigation,
Paula Jones having sued the Governor of Arkansas for acts
in his capacity, not as Governor but as a private
individual apparently abusing the office, at least according
to the allegations in the complaint, and the
President has used not outside lawyers but taxpayer
supported lawyers to make sure that his private civil
litigation could be put off until afterward. This is, by the
way, something that the courts have now reversed on
and they have decided that President Clinton cannot put
this off, but he has successfully put it off beyond
the election.

White House Arkansans, Thomasson, Nash, Rasco; need we
say more?

PIC surplus.

Improper electioneering at the SBA.

Now these are all admissions by the Clinton White House to
themselves within the White House internally of
what they were doing wrong.

GSA.

Value Partners. Now Value Partners was, of course, the
partnership that Hillary Rodham Clinton invested
in. Rather than putting their funds in a blind trust, they
did
not do so like President Bush did, like President
Reagan did, like President Carter did; rather, ran their own
investments, and Hillary Rodham Clinton was a
partner in Value Partners, a hedge fund which sold short
pharmaceutical stocks at a time that the
pharmaceutical stock market was falling through the floor
because of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Task Force,
and that was, of course, scandal number 7 or so up here on
the list.

Presidential campaign, FEC audit.

Commodities.Now of course we know what the commodities
is all about. That is the miraculous fortune that
Hillary Rodham Clinton made on the investment of a mere
thousand dollars in the cattle futures market.

Gubernatorial campaigns; Lindsey, Wright, recordkeeping.
There is more in this memo about that later
on, but of course we know that in connection with the
Whitewater criminal prosecution that Mr. Lindsey was
named as an unindicted coconspirator.

Gubernatorial campaigns dash MGSL, and that means
Morgan Guaranty Savings and Loan. The S&L at
the heart of the Whitewater scandal was apparently
involved in gubernatorial campaigns, gubernatorial
campaigns back in Arkansas that the White House counsel
were working on in this administration in the
White House, 1994, December, with taxpayer funds.

And then the next scandal is Whitewater slash Morgan
Guaranty Savings and Loan.

Other: MGSL slash McDougal, right below that.

Rose law firm, the next scandal. HRC, and that is Hillary
Rodham Clinton, worked for Morgan Guarantee
S&L.

David Hale slash Susan McDougal slash SBA, and there are
different White House staffers assigned to
it.

Tucker, and of course Tucker is now in jail, the Governor,
or
headed for jail.

Next: Lasater, bond deals, cocaine, Roger Clinton.

Now this is not a Member of Congress reading things to
impugn the White House. This is a White House
memo that says `privileged' on it because it is being
handled by lawyers in the White House counsel's office
at taxpayer expense for Bill Clinton, that was requested by
the Congress and was not turned over to us until
just now.

Lasater, bond deals, cocaine, Roger Clinton was the next
scandal that they have tasked White House staff
to work on.

Use of loans to achieve legislative initiatives. This is a
new
one that we were not aware of, but
apparently they were working to cover that up.

Mena Airport. Well, we all know about the drugs and deaths
surrounding Mena airport while Bill Clinton was
Governor.

Troopers, another scandal, the so-called Troopergate
scandal, and then there is a whole category here of
scandal, women. That was during the Clinton campaign
when President Clinton was running in 1992, his own
campaign, not Republicans but his own campaign, referred
to as bimbo eruptions.

Now this memo goes on in the case of each scandal to
describe tasks to be performed and strategy for
dealing with that particular scandal.

Let me give you one example. Rep. Christopher Cox. That
is correct. This document called the White House
task list is dated December 13, 1994. It was compiled by an
associate counsel to the President, Jane
Sherburne. Her initials are on it, and it lists all of the
scandals that she anticipated would plague the Clinton
administration and that Congress was now likely to look into
because in 1994 we had just been elected, a
Republican Congress, not yet sworn into office, and this
memo explains how they were going to make sure
that Congress did not----

Rep. Robert Walker That is what I wanted to clarify.

Now the date the gentleman has given us is December 13,
1994, which is a matter of a few weeks after
Republicans have taken over the Congress. Now they had
had no problem up until then because literally all
of the calls for investigation of White House potential
problems had been buried on Capitol Hill.

But now, if I understand the gentleman correctly, this memo
is prepared because they now anticipated that
they would have some problems with the new Congress that
would obviously not be friendly on some of
these issues and would actually likely investigate some of
the scandals.

Is that the gentleman's impression?

Rep. Christopher Cox. That is exactly right, and it is
rather
clear that Jane Sherburne, the associate White
House counsel who personally drew up this list of all of
these scandals, was prescient. While they were
claiming no wrongdoing, behind the scenes they were
putting together memorandums like this, and the
result in the ensuring years has been that 5 of Bill
Clinton's
closest associates, including his Attorney
General and including the Governor of Arkansas, have since
been convicted of crimes.

Rep. Robert Walker So what they were doing here was they
decided that, `OK, we've got a problem. We've
got a Congress that is likely to begin looking into things
that
have gone wrong in this administration.'

And so is the gentleman telling us that what they did was
they prepared a list of everything that they thought
Congress might look into where they had themselves a big
problem?

Rep. Christopher Cox. That is exactly right, and
furthermore, what I have just covered is the list of the
names
of these scandals, but the memo, which is quite lengthy,
goes on then to describe the strategy for dealing
with each of these scandals so that anyone trying to
investigate would not be able to get to the bottom of it,
and I will give you one example.

One page 4 of this memo there is a heading, `Security,' by
which they mean White House security slash
Livingstone issues.

Now keep in mind that this was dated December 13, 1994.
You may recall approximately when Craig
Livingstone came upon the national scene, became a
household name because of that Clinton scandal. It
was not in 1994, but in 1996, 2 years later. But listen to
what
this memo says back in 1994.

`Review Livingstone file.'

Now, presumably they did.

`Interview Livingstone.'

They wanted, apparently, to deal with Livingstone problems
back in 1994, all of which were covered up so
that the Congress and the American people did not find out
about them and did not find out at all about
Filegate, literally hundreds of files on Republicans who had
worked in the White House in previous
administrations, FBI files which had been collected by this
White House under Craig Livingston.

Rep. Robert Walker. Okay, but if I can just follow up on the
gentleman for another moment.

So what we have here is a memo that was prepared
internally within the White House suggesting that they
knew that they had a series of scandals that Congress was
likely to investigate and that they had reason to
be worring about.

Is that what we believe we have in front of us?

Rep. Christopher Cox. That is precisely this memo. I will
give you another example if you wish.

Rep. Robert Walker. Now, if this was an internal document
within the White House, how do we now have it?

Rep. Christopher Cox. Well, of course we had to subpoena
it, we had to threaten to subpoena it, because
we asked for all of the Travelgate memos to be turned over.
Travelgate, which was another Clinton White
House scandal, involved the firing and smearing, through
the use of the FBI, of what we now know were
honest and innocent White House civilian career
employees.

Rep. Robert Walker So the only way that this memo came
to light was the fact that Congress was
subpoenaing documents. Now, was this particular memo
withheld from Congress for a while?

Rep. Christopher Cox. For a very long while, The request for
3,000 pages was originally described not all
that long ago by the White House as a request for toilet
paper, that this was a trivial request, that they
should not be asked for such documents. When finally we
got the first 1,000 pages of the 3,000 that we
requested, we got the famous list of all of the FBI files,
the
background files, the very, very confidential law
enforcement background files, on people who had worked
in the White House. These had been collected
illegally by the White House for patently political
purposes.

Rep. Robert Walker And so for a while the White House was
claiming that this information was in fact
information that no one had the right to know, not even the
Congress, when originally the memo was
prepared because they believed that Congress would want
to know about these matters.

Rep. Christopher Cox. Precisely. In fact, while we learn
about this same process in what turns out to be
pulling teeth from the White House, trying to get them to
cooperate, because they are claiming executive
privilege about all of these things so they do not have to
do
anything cooperative with the Congress, they
first gave us 1,000 of the 3,000 pages. And in that first
batch
of documents which we got under a threat of
subpoena, we found out about Filegate and all of the FBI
files that had been collected on senior officials,
including James Baker and others well known.

But we did not get this memo. It was only 2 weeks ago, on
August 15, that we got this memo. This is brand
new, and almost no one, even many of our colleagues here
in Congress, has yet had the opportunity to read
this, but it is clearly shocking.

Rep. Robert Walker So while White House spokesmen like
the press secretary, Mr. McCurry, and even
officials within the White House, have gone to the American
public and suggested to them that there is
absolutely no substance to any of the scandals that have
been discussed on Capitol Hill and that Congress
should be embarrassed to look into these matters, they
internally had prepared a document which
suggested that all of those scandals were real, and in fact,
that they were very worried about them?

Rep. Christopher Cox. Correct. Not only were they very
worried about them, but what is outlined in this memo
is a specific step-by-step plan to keep the Congress and the
American people from finding out the truth.

Rep. Robert Walker So this is not just a listing of the
scandals they are worried about, this is a listing on how
they are going to cover it up?

Rep. Christopher Cox. Let me read it. Here the issue is
`chain of custody re transfer of Clinton personal
files.' Of course, we are talking about the Whitewater files
here, because these have not been turned over.
They have not been made public. The President has not
come clean and cooperated on this.

Here is an item on the to do list: `Determine strategy re
release of Whitewater file.' They wanted to determine
their strategy for releasing this. This was not a decision
to
share with the public, they want to find out how
they can selectively make this available. I do not know what
else a strategy re release of files is. If you were
going to share the information and cooperate and show
there was nothing to be concerned about, you would
simply make the information public. But here they say they
want to determine a strategy re release of
Whitewater file.

`Under search of Foster office', another heading, they have
this item to do: legal research on the basis for
resisting identification and production of all documents in
Vince Foster's office and Bernie's safe. So they
wanted to go and do legal research so they could come up
with a legal pretext for resisting identifying and
producing all documents in Vince Foster's office and
Bernie's safe. That is the kind of memo.

Rep. Robert Walker So what we have here is a memo
designed to look into all of the ways in which they
could resist any kind of investigation on Capitol Hill; and
is
it possible that some of this was also designed to
resist any investigation by a special counsel?

Rep. Christopher Cox. I do not think there is much question
about that. Under the heading `Obstruction of
justice,' and I have to repeat, because otherwise this
sounds----

Rep. Robert Walker They believed they had a problem with
obstruction of justice?

Rep. Christopher Cox. It is the very heading in their own
memo, `Obstruction of justice.' This is prepared by
the White House counsel's office, analyzing the legal
problems of the Clinton administration.

Rep. Robert Walker. So in 1994 the legal counsel's office
believes that the White House could have a
problem with obstruction of justice?

Rep. Christopher Cox. It does not say `could,' it says
`Obstruction of justice,' and underneath that it says
`Delay in addressing criminal referrals, Department of
Justice role.' Under that it says, `Determine usual
process.' Think of what it is that we are talking about
here.
The delay in addressing the criminal referrals,
that was, of course, the delay in referring for criminal
prosecution the whole Madison Guaranty Savings and
Loan default and collapse at taxpayer expense.

The job for the White House counsel, and remember, this is
now Whitewater, this is the real Whitewater
business, with Madison Guarantee and the Whitewater loan
transactions and so on. We have the White
House counsel, the lawyers for the President of the United
Stats in his official capacity, working at taxpayer
expense to do this task: Determine usual process, so we can
find out how they should have done it, because
obviously they know they did not do it the usual way, so
they had to look up, after the fact, what would have
been the usual way to handle the Whitewater transaction.

Rep. Robert Walker. Is the White House counsel's office
even supposed to be engaged in this kind of thing?

Rep. Christopher Cox. This is one of the reasons why I am
here on the floor this evening, because as senior
associate counsel to the President myself in the White
House counsel's office, I could not be more familiar
with the distinguished history of the White House counsel's
office and its authentic purpose.

The reason that the White House counsel has a five-decade
history of serving Presidents from both parties
is that its mission is to protect the President and the
Presidency from illegal acts or from any kind of trouble
arising during his course or her course, should we have a
woman President one of these days, of
administration during the course of office.

It is for the President's official activities, not for his
tax
returns, his personal tax returns, and certainly not for
his private investments, and certainly not for the criminal
investigation or prosecution of his friends and
cronies from Arkansas or even elsewhere in the
administration. But that is exactly what this White House
counsel's office has been doing.

I will tell you, when I worked in the White House counsel's
office in a previous administration, we did not look
at the President's tax returns. That was done at the
President's personal expense by the President's own
private law firm. But in this White House counsel's office,
Vince Foster at the time of his death was actually
working on the Whitewater partnership tax return. That is
what he was doing in the West Wing of the White
House at Government expense.

It is a perversion and abuse of that function, and it is
obviously all the more poignant when one reads this
very long memo called the task list of some 39 separate
scandals identified by the Clinton administration, all
being handled in that White House counsel's office.

Rep. Robert Walker. If I understand what the gentleman has
told us, you have the White House counsel's
office preparing a memo on how to evade examination by
the Congress of matters that they believed were of
serious concern, and also how to evade potential legal
prosecution for some of the things that may in fact be
illegal?

Rep. ChristopherCox. That is correct; and also how to
conjure, after the fact, legal justifications and pretext
for sins of omission and commission already occurred.

Rep. Robert Walker. Is there any precedent for the White
House legal counsel's office, for the White House
counsel's office, to be the perpetrator of a memo designed
to bring about a cover-up?

Rep. Christopher Cox. To the contrary. In past
administrations, the role of the White House counsel's
office
has been to facilitate the flow of information, to make sure
that when a question arises in connection with a
potential scandal or an accusation of law-breaking, that all
of the relevant information is shared not only with
law enforcement authorities or an independent counsel, but
also with the Congress.

I can tell the Members that in the Bush administration, in
the Reagan administration where I served, and I am
sure that this is true also of the Carter administration,
the
Ford administration, that if there was a question of
the President breaking the law, if there was a suspicion
that
the White House staff might themselves to be
complicit in law-breaking, then no claim of executive
privilege would be used to shield that person from
proper inquiry by the law enforcement authorities or by
Congress in fulfillment of its oversight
responsibilities.

To the contrary, this administration has asserted executive
privilege, up until August 15; over this very
document. Executive privilege is not meant to be a shield
for White House staff who are accused of criminal
misdeeds. Neither is it supposed to be a shield for the
President's own personal investment problems.
Rather, it is meant to protect the Nation and the national
security.

Rep. Robert Walker. Am I not correct that a number of
people who are tasked on this memo, it is called a
task list, as I understand it, a number of the people who
are
listed as having the task of doing these jobs that
are designed, as the gentleman points out, for cover-up, are
in fact employees of the White House counsel's
office?

Rep. Christopher Cox. In fact, they are all of them
employees of the White House, all of them staff of the
President.

Rep. Robert Walker. Let me check with the gentleman. For
instance, I see down here the name Kendall.
Now, Kendall----

Rep. Christopher Cox. David Kendall is an outside lawyer.

Rep. Robert Walker But a number of the people who are
given these tasks involved with trying to withhold
information from Congress and also to cover up these
scandals are in fact people who are employed at the
taxpayers' expense in the White House counsel's office, is
that correct?

Rep. Christopher Cox. That is correct, in the White House
counsel's office and in the White House staff, a
total of 15 staff members, we have toted this up, earning an
annual salary of $1.3 million. These people who
are supposed to be doing the people's business, executing
on legislation, policy, and the national
responsibilities of the President of the United States, are
instead on scandal detail, and what a long scandal
list it is, 39 separate scandals identified in this memo,
and
strategy outlined not just for dealing with the
Congress, not just for withholding documents, not just for
coming up with legal pretexts for doing so, but also
for dealing with the press. Because in almost each case,
there is another item to do on the list: Prepare
press strategy.

We have, for example, a heading `White House/Treasury
Contacts.' You remember Mr. Altman had to resign
because of illegal contacts between the highest levels of
the Treasury Department and the White House,
tipping them off as to pending investigations, when that was
a complete violation of normal procedure.
`Prepare press strategy' is what they have on their list
here.

So when you see a representative of the White House in the
press room or a representative of the Treasury
in the press room coming clean with the press, what they
are really doing is executing on a strategy that was
concocted all the way back in December 1994 to prevent the
American people and the Congress from
learning the truth.

Rep. Robert Walker. I think this is one of the more
incredible documents that we have had released. Of
course, it was released under duress. The committee
literally was told for months that these kinds of
documents did not exist in the White House, and that the
committee had no right to be asking for them, and
then only under extreme circumstances did this particular
memo come to light.

Now we find out within this memo that, in fact, there was a
plan being executed to try to see to it that such
memos did get to Capitol Hill, and that responsible
investigators were not able to understand anything about
what was really happening inside the White House.

I find all of this extremely disturbing. It is one thing to
claim
executive privilege as a way of protecting vial
national secrets that affect the operation of the
Government.
It is another thing to claim executive privilege
and try to use it to cover up the misdeeds of people within
the White House and within the administration,
misdeeds that are so obvious that the White House counsel's
office was able to prepare a list of all the ones
that they thought that they were potentially guilty of.

It is a horrible manifestation of the use of executive
privilege and is something which I would think in most
cases should disturb anyone who looks at the willingness of
public officials to come clean about potential
problems within their jurisdiction.

Rep. Christopher Cox. There is no question that this memo
gives the lie to two claims made by the White
House. The first is that they would be relying on outside
counsel, which, of course, they should, because
these are all scandals, private criminal problems of the
people involved. Clearly they were still using the
White House counsel's office, even after they hired their
outside counsel. They were using some 15
members of the White House staff at an expense, an annual
salary, of $1.3 million.

Second, when they said they were coming clean, when
they said they were cooperating and trying to put all
the information out for the public to see, what they were
really doing was just the opposite, using legal
devices to cover it up and stonewall. Unfortunately, now
executive privilege in this administration is coming to
be a synonym for coverup.

Consider just a few items on page 10 of the task force
memo. We have under the heading `Whitewater
investment', `Press strategy.' It is all sort of the Dick
Morris
spin of how are we going to pretend to be talking
truthfully to the American people on these issues when, in
fact, it is all a stratagem?

Take a look here under the heading `MGSL,' Madison
Guaranty Savings & Loan, where they say `Rose Law
Firm work, HRC,' Hillary Rodham Clinton; A, conflicts; B,
enabled Madison Guaranty to stay open longer than
it should have. What an admission in a document we did
not get until 2 weeks ago.

Rep. Robert Walker. I would agree with the gentleman, that
is a fairly big item. In other words, they knew that
some of the work done by the Rose Law Firm enabled the
Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan to stay open
longer than it should have, and those were the kinds of
institutions, as I recall, that cost the taxpayers
millions of dollars when these savings and loans stayed
open longer than they should have and continued to
eat up the resources.

Rep. Christopher Cox. This is, of course, what this memo
says, but we know what the public face has been,
the public face of the White House, that Mrs. Clinton did no
such work and in fact had nothing to do with
Whitewater or Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan or the
Rose Law Firm involvement in this, and in fact the
collapse of Madison Guaranty had nothing to do with her.

But in this memo, which is not prepared for you or for me or
for law enforcement but for each of the people in
the White House, the heading is, `Rose Law Firm work,
HRC, conflicts enabled MGSL to stay open longer
than it should have.'

This is the scandal that they are dealing with internally
and
this is their approach to each one of the 39
scandals listed in this memo: Develop a press or spin
strategy.

The White House counsel's office rather obviously is being
misused on the taxpayer's tab. The American
people should not be asked to shell out for what amounts to
coverup and back-and-fill strategy in the White
House, the protection of Presidential cronies and the
protection of people who ultimately, since 1994, have
found themselves in jail and behind bars, being convicted
of felonies.

Rep. Robert Walker I found it kind of interesting, something
on page 11, where it talks about Negative
Associations, it calls it. Among the people listed are Jim
Guy Tucker, David Hale, Jim McDougal, and Dan
Lasater. Three of those names, we have become quite
familiar with, as the trials have gone forward in the
whole Whitewater mess, but obviously the White House had
some very big concerns about the fact that the
President has, or the White House has some of those
negative associations. But then behind Dan Lasater's
name, there is a parentheses saying `bond deals, cocaine,
and Roger Clinton.' I mean, we obviously have a
range of people here that the White House counsel's office
was very worried about, thus these negative
associations.

Rep. Christopher Cox. This, remember, is a task list. So
presumably after receiving these instructions from
Jane Sherburne on December 13, 1994, the people who
were listed here followed through on those tasks.
That means that the White House internally, at taxpayer
expense, went out to put together information on
Dan Lasater's bond deals, information on Dan Lasater's
involvement with cocaine, and that is according to
this memo, and Roger Clinton and his involvement with the
foregoing, with Dan Lasater, bond deals and
cocaine, all or some of the above. But those documents that
were most assuredly prepared, if people
followed through on this task list, have not been provided
to
this Congress nor apparently to law
enforcement authorities. Each one of these 39 scandals with
its subsidiary task listed on this memo is
something that the White House, at public expense, using
the White House lawyers and the counsel's office,
has decided to build a wall around, to stonewall, so that
the
American people, law enforcement, and the
Congress cannot find out about it. That of course is exactly
why this memo was prepared just after the
election of the Republican Congress, and that is why the
press has so reported.

Rep.Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA). If the gentleman would yield
for a question, I have not read these
documents. But of course both of us worked in the Reagan
White House, so we are somewhat familiar with
the internal workings of the White House and also the
relationship between the White House and the
Congress.

Would the gentleman answer for me, does this memo in
any way indicate that the higher levels of
management in the White House, the White House staff, had
prior knowledge of the FBI Filegate scandal?

Rep. Christopher Cox. Mr. Speaker, as a matter of fact,
there is a heading in this memo concerning
security/Livingstone issues. It appears at page 4 of the
memo. Two of the tasks under that heading are:
Review Livingstone file, and interview Livingstone.
Obviously the White House counsel's office had a
problem with Livingstone and security in the White House at
that time.

Apparently his FBI and personnel files, and the result of
any
search of his background and the result of any
search of the issues that have all exploded onto the
national scene since then obviously must have been
that they knew in 1994 what was going on. Yet, as we know,
those FBI files on your colleagues and mine who
worked in the Reagan and Bush White Houses, all of those
files were kept there and not returned to the FBI.
They had been improperly obtained by some political thugs
to begin with, and they were kept apparently with
the knowledge of at least the White House counsel's office.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. Mr. Speaker, so this document
seems to indicate that the senior staff of the White
House knew there was something wrong and was looking
into this situation that would have led them to
investigate what was happening with what a year later
became, actually more than a year later, became the
FBI file scandal. Is that correct?

Rep. Christopher Cox. Mr. Speaker, that is correct.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. Let us remember what happened
when the information about the Filegate scandal
came out originally. Correct me if my memory is faulty here.
Did the President not act like he did not know
anything about this? In fact, did the President not say:
Well,
we are only talking about 39 files, and it has
something to do with a military fellow that was over here on
some sort of a transfer over here to the White
House? So, in other words, this was all an act on the part
of
the senior staff of the White House, perhaps the
President.

Rep. Robert Walker If I recall correctly, they called it a
kind
of a bureaucratic snafu.

Rep. Christopher Cox. I believe my colleague would be
correct if he had said that that was a precise
quotation from the President. He described this as a
bureaucratic snafu. This was a couple of years after the
White House counsel's office began investigating the whole
thing according to this very memo and identified
it as a scandal in the making. Only, they identified it just
to
themselves, not to anyone else. Yet when it first
burst upon the national scene, it was for the President to
say, this is merely a bureaucratic snafu. Now we
know that the administration was at least criminally
incompetent if not malevolent in abusing the privacy of
scores of honest public servants.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. The first figure we were given by
the White House was, I think, 39 or something like
that, FBI files were involved, they in fact knew that the
number that they were giving out at that time was
incorrect. This indicates that they had done a study, at
least
they had red-flagged this a long time before,
and that was probably an intentional, I would say, error, or
intentional misinformation, when eventually the
figure came out of 900 FBI files. So this is indicating that
they were looking into that matter. When the
number 39 went up to 900 FBI files, this is all part and
parcel of something the White House had thought out
a long time before.

Rep. Christopher Cox. What we know specifically from this
memo is that the White House had reason to be
concerned about Craig Livingstone himself in December
1994 because not only were they worried about
security issues for which he was responsible but the task,
the specific task on this list is to interview
Livingstone and look at Livingstone's file. You would not
look at Livingston's file unless you thought he was a
problem.

Any kind of competent search about Livingstone, since we
have all read about him in the newspaper and his
unsavory background, would obviously have yielded the
result that such a person ought not to have been
placed and maintained in a position requiring
professionalism and trust. We know nonetheless the result.
This political hack was maintained in this position, this
very
sensitive position in the White House with access
to FBI files on so many Americans for 2 years.

Rep. Robert Walker In fact was given raises as I recall.

Rep. Christopher Cox.. And described by George
Stephanopoulos as a very able, competent person, who
they loved having in the job.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. And this man had been involved
with opposition research during political
campaigns prior to this time?

Rep. Christopher Cox. Well, of course. And he was a
bouncer.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. Mr. Speaker, having our
background in the White House, let us examine this angle
of the story. What has happened in other White Houses that
we could actually compare it to? Did Chuck
Colson not have something to do with an FBI file?

Rep. Christopher Cox of California. He possessed one FBI
file, it was learned, and therefore he was
convicted and sent to prison, for one file.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. So Chuck Colson, in the Nixon era,
when we had a Republican in the White House,
was found guilty of mishandling one FBI file and went to
prison. And today we know that there were probably
up to 900 FBI files in the possession of a person who had
been involved with opposition research for the
Democratic Party, yet this question does not seem to be
asked of the President by the press anymore.

Rep. Christopher Cox of California. The comparison is not
apt if we just leave it at that. The truth is that the
White House counsel's office in its current incarnation is
literally a response to Watergate. They decided that
no longer would the lawyers for the President be kept in a
small office in the Old Executive Office Building
across the street. There were only two of them in the Nixon
administration.

We all remember John Dean's testimony about his inability
to come across with the President and convince
him of the gravity of these things. The White House
counsel's office was then moved right into the West
Wing of the White House. It became a significant law firm,
with very, very professional people who have
acquitted themselves with great distinction through the
Carter administration, through the Ford
administration, through the Reagan administration and the
Bush administration, to keep the administration
out of trouble, to prevent things like this from happening.
But what goes on in this White House counsel's
office? They are the engines of these misdeeds. It is the
White House counsel's office that was coming up
with these FBI files, multiplying one hundredfold the crime
for which Mr. Colson was convicted during
Watergate.

Rep. Robert Walker Mr. Speaker, I seem to recall some
years ago a press secretary in a Republican
administration who got fired for having made up a quote
along the way. Now you look down through this
memo, and this memo has a press strategy for purposely
misleading the public. The level of question that
arises from this kind of task list is pretty substantial.

Rep. Christopher Cox. It does trouble me that with respect
to each one of these 39 scandals, one of the
items to do, on the to-do list for the White House counsel's
office, the legal counsel of the President of the
United States, is to develop a press strategy. If we are
coming clean, if we are trying to share with the
American people all the relevant facts so that their minds
can be put at ease that no illegality is occurring at
the highest levels of our Government, one would wish that,
rather than a press strategy, we simply had a
procedure by which the documents were shared and made
public.

Mr. Speaker, they ought to be shared with law enforcement,
shared with the American people and with the
Congress. Instead, each time we have a scandal listed here,
whether it is Ickes' union representation,
Stephanopoulos, Nations Bank, improper electioneering at
the SBA, Presidential campaign and FEC audit,
commodities. There are 39 of these.

Rep. Robert Walker The use of time and White House
resources for response efforts. In other words, what
they are admitting to there is they have got this problem.
They are using the taxpayer dollar. They are using
the White House itself and taxpayer dollars for essentially
political responses.

Rep. Christopher Cox. That is precisely it. The press
strategy
seems to be the preoccupation of the White
House counsel's office, whereas they are supposed to be
paid by the taxpayers and they are for the benefit
of the President to keep everything on the level, to keep
the
President and the highest levels of our
executive branch out of trouble.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. So we can assume through this
memo, can we not, that basically the White House
and the upper echelons of the White House were
red-flagging every possible problem so that they could
build contingency plans in case these things came to the
public's attention. So when things like the FBI
scandal or perhaps even the billing records scandal, the
billing records that miraculously appeared in the
living quarters of the first family in the White House, that
were lost for so long, that perhaps that was not just
an accident. Perhaps actually a strategy was developed on
how to handle this crisis. Maybe there is another
file someplace else that basically details how to handle all
of these problems that are red-flagged.

Rep. Christopher Cox. The gentleman is being very
circumspect and charitable, having now received this
memo, to say `perhaps.' It is obvious that the purpose of
this
task list is to marshal all of the efforts of the
White House staff, led by White House lawyers, to prevent
Congress from investigating each and every one
of these 39 scandals.

One of the headings in this memo is Research Re Limitation
on Legislative Power to Investigate. What the
White House counsel's office is doing here is coming up
with legal arguments that will prevent the Congress
from getting to the bottom of what they have already
identified as scandals.

`Research re: limitations on legislative power to
investigate.' Under that heading, we have DNC, DCCC,
DSCC.

For those of us who are uninitiated, the DNC is the
Democratic National Committee, the DCCC is the
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the
DSCC is the Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee.

Under that they have `surrogates.' So they are going to be
using all of their political machinery. This is a
taxpayer paid memo, and taxpayer paid lawyers inside the
White House wrote this memo about DCCC, DNC
and DSCC, to use them as surrogates to announce to the
American people that there are legal reasons,
that the White House counsel then went out and researched
and came up with, that Congress cannot and
should not be investigating these 39 scandals, which are
neatly itemized in this secret memo.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. Could this be characterized again,
and you looked at these things legally, Rep.
Christopher Cox, and you are a trained lawyer and I am not,
I have a journalistic background, but would it be
inaccurate to suggest that this was a game plan for a
coverup?

Rep. Christopher Cox. As I said earlier, it appears chiefly
from this brand new memo, which we have had only
for a few weeks, and also from all of the context of the
administration's nonresponse to our request for those
3,000 documents, which they referred to as a request for
toilet paper and which eventually yielded the
information about Filegate and all the FBI files on earlier
administrative personnel that they obtained for
political purposes, that executive privilege, which has been
their basis for refusing to turn over these
documents, is increasingly becoming a synonym for
coverup. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. I think it is important
that those people who are reading this in the Congressional
Record or hearing this over C-SPAN should
understand that none of the information we are talking
about in this memo, or, I might add, many of the other
revelations we have discovered, whether it is the FBI files
or the billing records we were trying to find for the
Rose Law Firm in dealing with this S&L scandal which the
First Lady was in some way attached to, these
things would not have been ever disclosed to the public,
nothing about this would ever be known by the
public, except for the fact that the U.S. Congress changed
hands.

This memo, it appears that this memo is a recognition that
the administration recognized very early on that
the game was up in terms of hiding everything from the
public. That they could have kept all of this
information, if the Democrats would have maintained
control of the House and the Senate, and there was no
way the public would ever have known about this.

Which also suggests one other thing, and this is a point I
would like to make and the public should
understand: The liberal Democrats, who controlled both
Houses of Congress and control the executive
branch today, have a total disdain for the press. They do
not
believe that the press can uncover anything.
They in fact trusted that the press would not even try to
uncover any of these things.

It was only when the House of Representatives changed
hands and we had the power then to subpoena and
ask people under oath questions about these types of
misdeeds, that the administration became cautious
enough and became frightened enough to try to look at
what their potential vulnerabilities were. If we would
not have had control of the House, they would not fear a
thing from us.

Rep. Robert Walker If the gentleman would yield, I think the
gentleman from California makes an excellent
point, because actually Chairman Clinger, at that time a
ranking minority member of the committee,
attempted to pursue the Travelgate scandal while a
minority member of the committee, attempted to get the
committee to look into the problem at that time. He was told
by the Democrats that it would not be done. In
fact, I think, I do not remember exactly, but I think they
actually voted him down and suggested to him that he
was not going to be able to pursue the matter. It was not
until he became chairman of the committee that he
was able to pursue the matter, because specifically that
committee decided to permit the White House to
cover this matter up and not take it up before the proper
congressional committees.

Rep. Christopher Cox. It is at least true that prior to the
revelations, so many of which have occurred since
the election of an opposition party to get to the bottom of
this in the White House, that there was an attitude
by the Democrats in power in Congress at the time that they
simply did not want to know the answer to these
questions, because, after all, we had not seen this
document until just a few weeks ago. But now that we
have it, I think any fair-minded person, any Democrat or any
Republican, would have to say, this is a virtual
roadmap to scandal.

If the majority party in Congress were to put together a
list
of scandals of the administration that ran to more
than a dozen, it would be called a partisan exercise. Yet
here we have, prepared by the White House staff
itself, by President Clinton's own staff, a secret memo for
their own privileged consumption, stamped
`privileged' on the cover, a list of 39 scandals, with
detail of
each, and some rather damaging admissions
about each.

Let me point our just one such that we have not referred to
in this brief colloquy, and that is the scandal
labeled Hubbell, and that is, of course, Webster Hubbell,
the
acting Attorney General. `Webster Hubbell's
cooperation is to be monitored.'

Now, why would we be concerned with this? This is right
before `determine press strategy.' Why would we be
concerned with monitoring Webster Hubbell's cooperation,
if we were willing to let the special prosecutor do
his job?

The answer is, of course, the administration was very
concerned about just how far Webster Hubbell might
go in cooperating with that special prosecutor. As we all
know, Webster Hubbell was subsequently convicted
and sent to jail.

Rep. Robert Walker And right below that is `Ickes's union
representation.' We know that one of the unions
and one of the individuals that Mr. Ickes had a relationship
with now somebody who has been under
congressional investigation, and where we have FBI data
calling him a criminal associate of the mob, this
person who Mr. Ickes was associated with. I see they were
assembling a binder with summary and key
documents with regard to that union representation.

Well, since the White House has had this direct relationship
with this person, Mr. Coia, who has been called
by the FBI a criminal associate of the mob, that could be a
very damaging kind of question that is raised as a
part of the scandal memo prepared at the White House.

In fact, `ABC News' has done quite an expose on this. It
turns out the scandal itself was under active
investigation by the White House Counsel's Office on
December 13, 1994, and it is highlighted in this White
House task list.

Rep. Robert Walker. But since that time, the President has
continued to have direct association with the
person involved, the gentleman described as a criminal
associate of the mob.

Rep. Christopher Cox of California. I think at this point it
would be appropriate, because each of our
colleagues should have the benefit of this memo in full,
that
I ask unanimous consent to include the
memorandum in its entirety in the Record at this point.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, subject to
the rules of the House.

There was no objection.

Task List--December 13, 1994

1. ISSUES

2. PRELIMINARIES

3. FOSTER DOCUMENTS HANDLING

4. FOSTER SUICIDE

OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

WHITE HOUSE/TREASURY CONTACTS

7. SMALTZ INVESTIGATION

8. WHITE HOUSE WHITEWATER RESPONSE EFFORT

9. CISNEROS

10. BROWN

11. HUBBELL

12. ICKES (UNION REPRESENTATION)

13. STEPHANOPOULOS (NATIONSBANK)

14. STATE DEPARTMENT (PASSPORT FILES)

15. ARCHIVES (ABUSE OF PERSONNEL SYSTEM)

16. SBA (IMPROPER ELECTIONEERING)

17. GSA (ROGER JOHNSON)

18. FEC AUDIT

19. FIC SURPLUS

20. MGSL-RELATED

21. OTHER PRE-INAUGURAL

Rep. Christopher Cox. I thank the Speaker.

The memo is quite extraordinary. It is single-spaced, goes
on for 12 pages, and, as I said, lists 39 scandals,
most of which, now, 2 years later, are known to the
American people, but a few of which are actually brand
new. It actually details how each of these scandals was
assigned to White House staff, 15 such staffers, and
according to the press, these staffers earned a total salary
of
$1.3 million. This is taxpayer money, all of
which is being misspent because that is not the appropriate
function of the White House Counsel's office.
That is not the appropriate function of the White House
staff.
Working on these matters inside the West
Wing of the White House is itself a scandal of the first
order.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. I have not read this memo,
obviously. I appreciate the gentleman making this
available to me and available to the other Members. But
just a quick glance shows you that one of the issues
red-flagged in this memo is how to deal with questions
about the Vincent Foster suicide. One wonders why, if
this was just a straight up and down suicide, which we have
always, the news media and everyone else
wants to just steamroller anyone who has any questions,
serious questions about basically some of the facts
behind the suicide and the time immediately thereafter. It
just notes here that they are taking, red-flagging
Vincent Foster, and red-flagging `obligation to seal the
office immediately.' And, B, `to cooperate with law
enforcement authorities versus protection of privileged
material.'

What we have here is basically an outline for something
concerning the death of Vincent Foster and the
prevention of certain information from getting to the
public.
It appears to me, and again I would have to study
this further to relate this to other facts of the case and
see
how it really plays together, but it appears to me
what they are doing here is trying to set down a legal
strategy for justifying things they did to prevent
information about Vincent Foster, coming from Vincent
Foster's office or about the suicide, from coming to
public attention.

Rep. Christopher Cox. In fact, on page 3, under the heading
`Foster Document Handling,' there is a
subheading, identifying friends for the congressional
hearings, key members and staff, and the list of names
of our colleagues, Mr. Daschle, Mr. Sarbanes, develop a
press strategy, and then there is a heading
`Offensive Research.'

This is not a memo prepared by a White House willing to
cooperate. This is a memorandum prepared by a
White House that has carefully outlined 39 separate
scandals and the strategy for covering them up.

Wayne Mann

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From:

http://www.parascope.com:80/articles/1296/cl5.htm

Filegate Class Action Lawsuit

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

CARA LESLIE ALEXANDER

9532 Miranda Court

Fairfax, Virginia 22031

and

PATRICK ADAM BEERS

1 Devonshire Place, Apt. # 1112

Boston, Massachusetts 02109

and

MARJORIE ANNE BRIDGMAN

8834 Burbank Road

Annadale, Virginia 22003

JOSEPH NELSON CATE

5001 Glenbook Road, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20016

and

DAVID LEE BLACK

628 C Street, S.E.

Washington, D.C. 20003

on behalf of themselves and all others

similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

935 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20535

and

THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20500

and

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20500

and

BERNARD W. NUSSBAUM

c/o Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

51 W. 52nd Street

New York, New York 10019

and

DAVID CRAIG LIVINGSTONE

4710 Bethesda Avenue

Bethesda, Maryland 20814

and

ANTHONY MARCECA

522 Camelot Court

Odenton, Maryland

Defendants.

CASE NUMBER 1:96CV02123

JUDGE: Royce C. Lamberth

DECK TYPE: Civil General

DATE STAMP: 09/12/96

Class Action

COMPLAINT

This is a civil action for monetary relief under the Privacy
Act, 5 U.S.C.
Sec. 552a(g), and the tort of invasion of privacy, arising
out of the
willful and intentional, unconsented disclosure to Hillary
Rodham Clinton,
the Executive Office of the President, and individuals
employed therein,
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, of information and
records
maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning
Plaintiffs
and all other members of the class hereinafter described;
and the improper
collection, and on information and belief dissemination of
this information
by Hillary Rodham Clinton, The White House and individuals
employed therein.

JURISDICTION AND VENUE

1. This Court has jurisdiction ova Counts I and II of this
action pursuant
to the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. Sec. 552a(g)(1), and 28 U.S.C.
Secs. 1331(a).
This Court has jurisdiction over Count III pursuant to 28
U.S.C. Sec. 1367(a),
in that the claims are so related to claims within the
original
jurisdi ction of the district court that they form part of
the same case
or controversy under Article III of the United States
Constitution.

2. Venue is proper in this district pursuant to the
provisions of 5 U.S.C.
Sec. 552a(g)(5) and 28 U.S.C. Secs. 1391 and 1402.

PARTIES

3. Plaintiff Cara Leslie Alexander is a citizen of the
United States, and
resides at 9532 Miranda Court, Fairfax, Virginia 22031. Ms.
Alexander is a
former employee of the United States Government.

4. Plaintiff Patrick Adam Beers is a citizen of the United
States, and
resides at 1 Devonshire Place, Apartment 1112, Boston,
Massachusetts 02109.
Mr. Beers is a former employee of the United States
Government.

5. Plaintiff Marjorie Anne Bridgman is a citizen of the
United States, and
resides at 8834 Burbank Road, Annandale, Virginia 22003. Ms.
Bridgman is a
former employee of the United States Government.

6. Plaintiff Joseph Nelson Cate is a citizen of the United
States, and
resides at 5001 Glenbrook Rd., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016.
Mr. Cate is
a former employee of the United States Government.

7. Plaintiff David Lee Black is a citizen of the Unites
States, and resides
at 628 C Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003. Mr. Black is
a former
employee of the United States Government.

8. Defendant Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") is an
agency of the
Executive Branch of the United States Government, located at
935
Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20535, which
maintains a
system of records containing information pertaining to the
Plaintiffs.

9. Defendant Executive Office of the President ("The White
House") is an
ag ency of the Executive Branch of the United States
Government, located
at 16 00 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20500, which
maintains a
system of records containing information pertaining to the
Plaintiffs.

10. Defendant Hillary Rodham Clinton ("Rodham Clinton") is
the "First Lady"
of the United States, and resides at 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue, Washington,
D.C. 20500.

11. Defendant Bernard W. Nussbaum ("Nussbaum") was White
House Counsel
in 1993 and 1994, when the acts giving rise to this lawsuit
occurred.
Defendant Nussbaum's name appears on the requisition forms
of Defendant
The White Ho use, which caused or resulted in the release of
the subject
files by the FBI. Upon information and belief, Nussbaum is a
citizen
of the United States and the State of New York. Mr.
Nussbaum's place
of current employment is th e law firm of Wachtell, Lipton,
Rosen & Katz,
51 W. 52nd Street, New York, NY 10019.

12. Defendant David Craig Livingstone ("Livingstone") was
Director of The
White House Office of Personnel Security during the time
when the acts
giving rise to this lawsuit occurred. Upon information and
belief,
Livingstone is a citizen of the United States and of the
State of Maryland,
and resides at 4710 Bethesda Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland
20814.

13. Defendant Anthony Marceca ("Marceca") was an employee of
The White
House Office of Personnel Security during the time when the
acts giving rise
to this lawsuit occurred. Upon information and belief,
Marceca is a citizen
of the United States and of the State of Maryland, and
resides at 522
Camelot Court, Odenton, Maryland. 21113.

CLASS ACTION ALLEGATIONS

14. This action is brought by Plaintiffs as a class action,
on their own
behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated, under
the provisions
of Rules 23(a) and 23(b)(3) of the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure,
for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees.

15. The class so represented by Plaintiffs in this action,
and of which
Plaintiffs are themselves members, consists of former U. S.
Government
employees, whose confidential FBI files were improperly
obtained from the
FBI by The White House.

16. The exact number of members of the class, as hereinabove
identified and
described, is not known, but upon information and belief it
is estimated
t hat there are more than 700 members. The class is so
numerous that joinder
of individual members herein is impracticable.

17. There are common questions of law and fact in the action
that relate to
and affect the rights of each member of the class, and the
relief sought is
common to the entire class. Namely, on information and
belief, the contents
of the FBI file of each member of the class were improperly
disclosed by
the FBI to Rodham Clinton, Nussbaum, Livingstone, Marceca
and The White
House, and improperly obtained by Rodham Clinton, Nussbaum,
Livingstone,
Marceca and The White House, in violation of the Privacy
Act, 5 U. S.C. Sec.
552a, and the tort of invasion of privacy.

18. The claims of Plaintiffs, who are representatives of the
class herein,
are typical of the claims of the class, in that the claims
of all members
of the class, including Plaintiffs, depend on a showing of
the acts and
omissions of Defendants giving rise to the right of
Plaintiffs to the relief
so ught herein. Namely, the right of each Plaintiff to
relief arises from
the improper disclosure by the FBI to Rodham Clinton,
Nussbaum, Livingstone,
Marceca and The White House of information in Plaintiffs'
FBI files, without
Plaintiffs' consent; and the improper obtaining and
maintaining of that
information by Rodham Clinton, Nussbaum, Livingstone,
Marceca and The White
House and individuals employed therein. There is no conflict
as between any
individual named Plaintiff and other members of the class
with respect to
this action, or with respect to the claims for relief herein
set forth.

19. The named Plaintiffs are the representative parties for
the class, and
are able to, and will, fairly and adequately, protect the
interests of the
class.

20. This action is properly maintained as a class action
pursuant to Fed.
R. Civ. P. 23(b)(3), inasmuch as the questions of law and
fact common to
the members of the class predominate over any questions
affecting only
indiv idual members, and a class action is superior to other
available
methods fo r the fair and efficient adjudication of the
controversy. Upon
information and belief, the actions taken by the FBI, in
improperly
disclosing informat ion in Plaintiffs' files, and by Rodham
Clinton,
Nussbaum, Livingstone, Marceca and The White House and its
employees,
in improperly obtaining and maintaining those files, were
the same with
respect to each Plaintiff; and separate trials to prove
liability issues
common to the class would be a waste of judicial resources.
Furthermore,
it is desirable to concentrate such litigation in the
District of Columbia,
where the actions which are the subject of this litigation
took place,
and where a majority of the class members are believed to
reside.
Moreover, the expenses of litigation would be likely to
discourage
the initiation of individual lawsuits concerning the actions
at issue.
Upon information and belief, there is as yet no other
litigation involving
the same controversy.

FACTS

21. Plaintiffs were formerly political appointees and United
States
government employees under the Reagan and Bush
Administrations. As members
of the Reagan and Bush Administrations, Plaintiffs were
required to have
regular access to The White House. Plaintiffs left these
positions prior
to or at th e beginning of the Clinton Administration, and
have not needed
regular access to The White House since that time.

22. In order to obtain regular access to The White House,
Plaintiffs were
required to receive security clearances by Defendant FBI.
Accordingly,
Defendant FBI undertook extensive field investigations of
Plaintiffs'
backgrounds.

23. The results of these investigations were maintained in
files concerning
each individual Plaintiff as part of a record-keeping system
at Defendant
FBI ("The FBI files").

24. The information concerning Plaintiffs contained in the
FBI files was
av ailable only to a limited number of authorized
individuals within
Defendant FBI, and was not and should not have been
available to any
individual outs ide the FBI, without the prior written
consent or knowledge
of Plaintiffs or any lawful justification.

25. On or about June, 1996, Plaintiffs learned that
beginning in the spring
of 1993, Defendants Nussbaum, Livingstone and Marceca,
acting outside the
scope of their employment, willfully and intentionally
requested that
Defendant FBI release Plaintiffs' confidential FBI files to
Defendant
The White House. The actual requests to Defendant FBI were
made by Defendant
Livingstone and/or Defendant Marceca, and, upon information
and belief,
approved in writing by Defendant Nussbaum. Upon information
and belief,
these actions were taken at the direction of Defendant
Rodham Clinton.

26. On information and belief, Defendants Rodham Clinton,
Nussbaum, Livings
tone and Marceca requested Plaintiffs' confidential FBI
files for political
purposes (e.g., to obtain potentially embarrassing and/or
damaging
information on former Bush and Reagan Administration
personnel) and not
for any proper or legal purpose of Defendant The White
House.

27. Pursuant to the requests of Defendants Rodham Clinton,
Nussbaum,
Livingstone and Marceca, Defendant FBI willfully and
intentionally
released Plaintiffs' confidential FBI files to Defendant The
White House,
without Plaintiffs' prior written consent or knowledge.

28. As a proximate result of Defendant FBI's willful and
intentional
disclosure of private personal and employment information
contained
in Plaintiffs ' FBI files, and Defendant The White House's
willful,
intentional and improper maintenance of these files,
Plaintiffs have
suffered serious and substantial harm and adverse effects,
including but
not limited to out-of-pocket expenses and loss of time
necessarily
incurred in investigating and responding to Defendants'
unlawful conduct,
emotional distress, mental anguish, loss of reputation,
embarrassment,
inconvenience, and unfairness.

COUNT I

(Violation of the Privacy Act-Defendant FBI)

29.Plaintiffs repeat and reallege the allegations contained
in paragraphs I
through 28, inclusive.

30.Defendant FBI maintained confidential records concerning
Plaintiffs as
part of a system of records.

31.In violation of 5 U.S.C. Secs. 552a(b) and (g)(1)(D),
among other
provisions of the Privacy Act, Defendant FBI willfully and
intentionally
released Plaintiff's FBI files to Defendant The White House,
without
the prior written consent or knowledge of Plaintiffs or any
lawful
justification.

32. In violation of 5 U.S.C. Secs. 552a(e)( 10) and
(g)(1)(D), among other
provisions of the Privacy Act, Defendant FBI willfully and
intentionally
failed to establish appropriate administrative, technical,
and physical
safeguards to insure the security and confidentiality of
records and to
protect against any anticipated threats or hazards to their
security or
integrity which could result in substantial harm,
embarrassment,
inconvenience, or unfairness to individuals such as
Plaintiffs on whom
information is maintained

33. As a result of Defendant FBI's willful and intentional
disclosure of
Plaintiffs' FBI files, as well as Defendant FBI's willful
and intentional
failure to establish appropriate administrative, technical,
and physical
safeguards to insure the security and confidentiality of its
system of
records, among other violations of the Privacy Act,
Plaintiffs suffered
serious and substantial harm and adverse effects, including
but not
limited to out-of-pocket expenses and loss of time
necessarily incurred
in investigating and responding to Defendants' unlawful
conduct, emotional
distress, mental anguish, loss of reputation, embarrassment,
inconvenience,
and unfairness.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs demand a judgment against Defendant
FBI for damages
in excess of $90,000,000.00, plus prejudgment interest,
postjudgment
interest, costs, attorneys' fees, and such other relief as
this Court deems
just and proper.

COUNT II

(Violation of the Privacy Act-Defendant The White House)

34. Plaintiffs repeat and reallege the allegations contained
in paragraphs
I through 33, inclusive.

35. Defendant The White House maintained Plaintiffs' FBI
files as part of a
system of records.

36. The willful and intentional maintenance of these records
by Defendant
The White House was not relevant or necessary to accomplish
any purpose
required to be accomplished by statute or executive order of
the President,
and, therefore, was in violation of 5 U.S.C. Sec. 552a(e)(1)
and (g)(1)(D),
among other provisions of the Privacy Act.

37. As a result of Defendant The White House's willful,
intentional and
unlawful maintenance of Plaintiff's FBI files, among other
violations of
the Privacy Act, Plaintiffs suffered serious and substantial
harm and
adverse effects, including but not limited to out-of-pocket
expenses and
loss of time necessarily incurred in investigating and
responding to
Defendants' unlawful conduct, emotional distress, mental
anguish, and loss
of reputation.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs demand a judgment against Defendant
The White House
for damages in excess of $90,000,000.00, plus prejudgment
interest,
postjudgment interest, costs, attorneys' fees, and such
other relief as
this Court deems just and proper.

COUNT III

(Common Law Tort of Invasion of Privacy-Defendants Rodham
Clinton,
Nussbaum, Livingstone and Marceca)

38. Plaintiffs repeat and reallege the allegations contained
in paragraphs
I through 37, inclusive.

39. The actions of Defendants Rodham Clinton, Nussbaum,
Livingstone and
Marceca, in willfully and intentionally obtaining
confidential information
concerning Plaintiffs, namely Plaintiffs' FBI files, without
Plaintiffs'
consent or any lawful justification, constituted highly
offensive intrusions
into Plaintiffs' private and secret concerns.

40. As a proximate result of the unlawful conduct of
Defendants Rodham
Clinton, Nussbaum, Livingstone and Marceca, Plaintiffs
suffered substantial
damages, including but not limited to out-of-pocket expenses
and loss of
time necessarily incurred in investigating and responding to
Defendants'
unlawful conduct, emotional distress, mental anguish, and
loss of reputation.

41 . As the unlawful conduct of Defendants Rodham Clinton,
Nussbaum,
Living stone and Marceca was, on information and belief,
politically
motivated (e.g., to obtain potentially embarrassing and/or
damaging
information on former Bush and Reagan Administration
personnel) and
lacked any proper or legal purpose, such unlawful conduct
was not only
intentional, willful, malicious and outrageous, but
demonstrated reckless
and/or willful disregard for Plaintiffs' privacy rights such
that an
award of punitive damages is warranted.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs demand a judgment against Defendants
Rodham Clinton,
Nussbaum, Livingstone and Marceca for damages in excess of
$90,000,000.00,
plus punitive damages, prejudgment interest, postjudgment
interest, costs,
attorneys fees and such other and further relief as this
Court deems just
and proper. In addition, Plaintiffs respectfully request an
injunction
restraining Defendants from a continuing course of conduct
such that
Plaintiffs will be permanently and irreparably damaged by
such conduct.

Plaintiffs request trial by jury.

Respectfully submitted,

Larry Klayman, Esq.

D.C. Bar No. 334581

General Counsel

JUDICIAL WATCH, INC.

501 School St., S.W.

Suite 725

Washington, DC 20024

(202) 646-5172

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

Wayne Mann

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The Electronic Telegraph Thursday 26 October 1995 World News

Vince Foster suicide note forged, say experts

By Stephen Robinson

THE mystery surrounding the 1993 death of Vincent Foster, a
senior White House official,
deepened yesterday when three handwriting experts, one of
them an Oxford don, ruled that
his alleged suicide note was a forgery.

Reginald Alton, emeritus fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford,
who flew to Washington to
announce the results of his inquiry, said it was clear the
torn-up note recovered from a
briefcase in Mr Foster's office could not have been written
by him.

The note listed Mr Foster's grievances in his life in
Washington, and its contents were taken
as evidence that he was suicidal at the time of his death.

Written on a yellow legal pad and torn into many pieces, the
note has long been a riddle
within the wider mystery surrounding Mr Foster's death.

His body was recovered at a secluded piece of parkland
outsideWashington, a pistol in his
hand and a bullet wound to the head. No one heard a shot or
saw Mr Foster arrive. The
note was not recovered during the first search of Mr
Foster's office, but was found six days
after his death by Bernard Nussbaum, a WhiteHouse legal
counsel and a friend of
President and Mrs Clinton.

Forger was unable to recreate Mr Foster's confident
counter-clockwise loops or circles

During Whitewater hearings last summer, senators expressed
bafflement that the note
could have been overlooked, and some suggested White House
staff were deliberately
obstructing investigators on behalf of Mr and Mrs Clinton.

In the note, the writer purporting to be Mr Foster regrets
mistakes he made, complains of
hostile coverage of his office in the Wall Street Journal,
and concludes: "I was not meant
for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington.
Here ruining people is considered
sport."

Mr Alton introduced himself with a donnish self-effacement
at yesterday's press conference
in Washington, and advised reporters not to "mistake me for
another interfering Brit" out
to paint America in unflattering light.

The conference was organised by Strategic Investment, which
has taken an interest in the
Foster case and paid the experts.

Ronald Rice, who has 18 years' experience in forensic and
handwriting work, came to the
same conclusions as Mr Alton. Vincent Scalice, a retired New
York detective with
extensive forensic experience, concurred.

The comparison was made between the note and 12 samples of
Mr Foster's handwriting.
Mr Alton confirmed that all 12 samples had been written by
Mr Foster, but that the other
note could not have been written by him.

The formation of the letters was different. For instance, Mr
Foster wrote the letter b with a
single stroke, while the forger used three separate strokes.
The forger was unable to
recreate Mr Foster's confident counter-clockwise loops or
circles.

Electronic Telegraph is a Registered Service Mark of The
Telegraph plc

Wayne Mann

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DOCUMENTS OVER WHICH THE PRESIDENT ASSERTS
EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE IN RESPONSE TO THE HOUSE
GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE’S
JANUARY 11, 1996 SUBPOENAS.

7/6/95 - Memorandum re: notes for discussion with
Congressional
staff including legal analysis of work product issues.

7/9/95 - Analysis of custody of disclosure of Foster Travel
office
file.

7/10 /95 - Memorandum re: chronological analysis of Travel
Office
events.

7/21/95 - Memorandum analyzing Foster communications re:
Travel
office

7/29/95 - Memoranda analyzing House Government Reform
Committee
Travel Office document requests and privilege issues.

7/11/95 - Memoranda analyzing House Government Reform
Committee
document request, witness inter-views and privilege issues.

7/12/95 - Summary and analysis of Travel Office events

7/17/95 - Chronological analysis of Travel Office events

6/7/95 & 8/9/95 - Analyses of privileges for Travel office
internal
review documents.

8/11/95 - Analysis of House Government Reform Committee
requests
for information related to Harry Thomason and Darnell
Martens.

8/23/95 - Analysis of document productions in Travel office
inquiries

8/27/95 - Analysis of issues re: Larry Herman

8/23/95 - Chronological analyses of events related to Harry
Thomason, Darnell Martens and Brian Fou-cart.

8/16/95 - Analysis of Travel Office Investigations

10/17/95 - Analysis of Travel office issues

10/19/95 - Analysis of White House cooperation with House
Government Reform Committee

10/19/95 - Analysis of White House cooperation with Travel
Office
investigations.

10/18/95 - analysis of potential hearing issues

Undated - Analysis of potential hearing issues and issues to
be
addressed in preparation for House Gov-ernment Reform
Committee
hearings

6/27/95 & 6/30/95 - Analysis of outstanding issues re:
document
production to House Government Reform Committee

10/18/95 - Analysis of special government employee status of
Harry
Thomason and Darnell Martens.

10/13/95 - Chronological analysis of ICAP issues
Undated - Analysis of ICAP Project.

11/20/95 - Analyses of document production issues for
11/21/95
meeting with Committee on Governmental Reform staff

Undated - Notes re: interview of WEBSTER HUBBELL.

Undated - Notes re: production of Foster Travel Office file

8/3/95 - Draft letter from Abner Mikva to William Clinger
re:
custody of Foster Travel Office file.

9/21/95 - Issues and questions re: Catherine Cornelius

10/20/95 & 10/18/95 - Analyses of Foster’s Travel Office
file

10/18/95 - Analysis of Travel Office operations

10/18/95 - analysis of treatment of Travel Office employees

Undated - Analyses of document productions for Chairman
Clinger
meeting

Undated - Issues and questions re: White House cooperation
with
Travel Office investigations

Undated - Handwritten notes of Natalie Williams including
witness
interviews, analysis of documents, analysis of
production/privilege
issues and working notes in preparation for House Government
Reform
Committee hearings

9/12/95 - Handwritten notes re: production of Travel Office
audit
documents.

Various Dates - Communications with outside counsel seeking
or
receiving information needed in order to respond to House
Government Reform Committee’s document requests.

8/2/95 - Draft letter to Phil Larsen with handwritten edits
re:
document protocols and productions

12/13/94 - Memorandum re: issues, strategies and work to be
completed on various investigations.

8/2/95 - Analysis of internal review work product.

9/5/95 - Draft of privileged document log for House
Government
Reform Committee with handwritten notations analyzing basis
of
privilege determinations

9/29/95 & Undated - Draft of privileged document log with
handwritten notes for House Government Re-form Committee and

talking points for Committee members

10/23/95 TO TODD STERN FROM ABNER MIKVA - Draft of portion
of
memorandum to President on Travel Office Hearings.

12/7/95 - Analysis of document production issues for 12/8/95

Chairman Clinger meeting

Undated - Communications re: deliberations on document
protocol and
production issues

7/15/95 - Memorandum re: Senate deposition of DAVID WATKINS.

5/5/95 - Update and analysis of House Government Reform
Committee
Travel office hearings

2/12/95, 6/16/95, 5/15/95, 4/30/95, 5/16/95, 5/26/95 -
Chronological analysis of FOSTER DOCUMENT handling matter.

Undated - Analyses of Bill Burton’s knowledge of FOSTER
DOCUMENT
handling matter.

Undated - Analysis of STEVE NEUWIRTH’S knowledge of FOSTER
DOCUMENT
handling matter.

9/21/95 - Handwritten notes of communications with outside
counsel
in preparation for House Govern-ment Reform Committee.

Undated - Attorney notes regarding strategy for
Congressional
hearings

6/95, 7/95, 2/20/94, 3/14/95 - Attorney communications with
outside
counsel in preparation for Senate hearings re: FOSTER
DOCUMENT
handling matter.

Undated - Questions for DEBORAH GORHAM developed in
preparation for
Senate hearings re: FOSTER DOCUMENT handling matter.

7/10/95, 7/4/95 - Analyses of issues related to MRS. CLINTON
in
connection with preparation for Senate hearings re: FOSTER
DOCUMENT
handling matter.

8/30/95 - Memorandum re: preparation for possible assertions
of
Executive Privilege.

7/3/94 - Issues outline prepared in connection with Senate
hearings
re: Foster document handling matter.

7/1/94, Undated, 7/14/94, 7/6/94, 7/7/94, 7/11/94, 7/4/94 -
Handwritten notes of factual investigations for Senate
hearings.

7/1/94, Undated, 7/20/94 - Handwritten notes of factual
investigation for Senate hearings.

6/4/94 - Draft chronology re: FOSTER DOCUMENT handling
matter

7/1/94 - Handwritten notes of communications with outside
counsel
in preparation for Senate hearings in FOSTER DOCUMENT
handling
matter.

7/5/94 - Handwritten notes of communications with outside
counsel
in preparation for Senate hearings in FOSTER DOCUMENT
handling
matter

6/28/95 - Notes of communication with outside counsel re:
DEBORAH
GORHAM and FOSTER DOCUMENT handling matter in preparation
for
Senate hearings.

6/30/95 - Notes of communication with outside counsel re:
Roy Neel
and FOSTER DOCUMENT handling matter in preparation for
Senate
hearings.

7/6/95 - Notes of communication with outside counsel re:
BILL
BURTON and FOSTER DOCUMENT handling matter in preparation
for
Senate hearings.

7/8/95 - Notes of communication with outside counsel re:
MACK
MCLARTY and FOSTER DOCUMENT handling matter in preparation
for
Senate hearings.

7/9/95 - Notes of communication with outside counsel re:
STEVE
NEUWIRTH and FOSTER DOCUMENT handling matter in preparation
for
Senate hearings.

7/7/95 - Notes of communication with outside counsel re:
GEORGE
STEPHANOPOULOS and FOSTER DOCUMENT handling matter in
preparation
for Senate hearings

7/9/95 - Notes of communication with outside counsel re: DEE
DEE
MYERS and FOSTER DOCUMENT handling matter in preparation for
Senate
hearings.

7/13/95 - Notes of communication with outside counsel re:
DAVID
GERGEN and FOSTER DOCUMENT handling matter in preparation
for
Senate hearings.

7/22/95 - Notes of communication with outside counsel re:
BERNARD
NUSSBAUM and FOSTER DOCUMENT handling matter in preparation
for
Senate hearings.

7/15/95 - Notes of communication with outside counsel re:
DAVID
WATKINS and FOSTER DOCUMENT handling matter in preparation
for
Senate hearings.

7/9/95 - Notes of communication with outside counsel re:
MAGGIE
WILLIAMS and FOSTER DOCUMENT handling matter in preparation
for
Senate hearings.

2/9/95 - Handwritten notes of factual investigation in
preparation
for Senate hearings in Foster document handling matter

Undated - Handwritten notes reflecting conversation with
outside
counsel in preparation for Senate hear-ings in FOSTER
DOCUMENT
handling matter.

Undated - Notes analyzing vetting process of potential
nominees and
vetting notes re: certain nominees

8/24/95 - Outlines/indices of materials for notebook in
preparation
for House Government Reform Committee hearings.

Undated - Analysis of Travel Office firings in preparation
for
House Government Reform Committee hearings

Undated - Analyses of Travel Office matter and document
production/privilege issues in preparation for meetings with
House
Government Reform Committee Chairman and staff.

Undated - FROM VINCE FOSTER - Handwritten notes found in
Vince
Foster’s briefcase concerning Executive Orders under
consideration
and vetting notes.

10/23/95 - FROM JANE SHERBURNE TO ABNER MIKVA - Analysis of
issues
related to upcoming House Government Reform Committee
hearings with
attached proposed talking points.

5/31/95 - Notes of communication in preparation for
responding to
letter from Chairman Clinger re House Government Reform
Committee
document requests.

8/28/95 - Memorandum re: strategy on interviews and document

production to House Government Reform Committee.

Undated - Analyses of various factual issues in Travel
Office
matter in preparation for House Government Reform Committee
hearings

9/16/93 - FROM BERNARD NUSSBAUM, ROY NEEL TO THOMAS MCLARTY
-
Memorandum analyzing legal and policy issues with respect to
White
House ACCESS.

9/8/95 & 9/12/95 - Memoranda re: guidelines and analysis for

responding to Congressional document requests and privilege
issues.

9/18/95 - From William Clinger to ABNER MIKVA - Attorney
annotations on letter from Chairman Clinger re: requested
documents.

Undated - Briefing book containing issue analyses and
possible
questions prepared for House Government Reform Committee
hearings.

Undated - Draft analysis on issues and facts re: FOSTER
Travel

Office file in preparation for House Gov-ernment Reform
Committee
hearings

Undated - Analysis of document issues raised by House
Government
Reform Committee.
11/28/95 - to Jane Sherburne - Draft memorandum re:
providing
representation to federal employees in Congressional
proceedings.

9/18/95, 10/17/95 - Handwritten notes re: Travel Office
investigations in preparation for House Govern-ment Reform
Committee hearings

2/28/94 - Memorandum providing legal advice with respect to
ARPA/EOP Draft memorandum of under-standing with attachments

8/1/95 - FROM DAVID KENDALL TO JANE SHERBURNE - Memorandum
re:
potential claims of ex-ecutive privilege with respect to
certain
documents.

7/5/94 - 1/4/96 - Draft correspondence between the White
House and
the Office of Independent Counsel.

3/95 & Undated - Material relating to responses to the
Office of
Independent Counsel subpoenas

3/95 & Undated - Notes and memoranda relating to meeting
with the
Office of Independent Counsel

6/94 - 7/94 - Material related to Office of Independent
Counsel
interviews and depositions of the President and Mrs.
Clinton.
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REPORT OF WITNESS TAMPERING - HARASSMENT OF A WHITEWATER
GRAND JURY WITNESS

Witnessed: Events at Fort Marcy Park July 20, 1993,
within 80 minutes of the discovery of the body of
Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster

Witness: Patrick J. Knowlton

Proceeding & Prosecutor: Washington, DC Federal Grand Jury
investigating Whitewater and related matters,
Kenneth W. Starr, Office of Independent Counsel

Criminal violations:
(1) Title 18 United States Code, Section 1512,
Tampering with witness; and
(2) Title 42 United States Code, Section 1985(2)
Obstructing justice; intimidation of witness

Dates of criminal violations: October 26 & 27, 1995

Jurisdiction: District of Columbia

Written by: Patrick J. Knowlton & Law Offices John H.
Clarke, Washington,

Second Edition: March 4, 1996.

This Report is available for $20.00, plus shipping and
handling by calling toll free
(800) 251-8086. This Report may also be purchased for $20.00
at Capitol Hill Books, 657
C Street, SE, Washington, DC.

Introduction

Patrick J. Knowlton is forty-one years old. He has been
self-employed for most of
his adult life in the construction industry. He is a stable
individual. Mr. Knowlton has lived
in Washington, DC, since he moved here in 1990 from his
native Syracuse, New York. He
is a registered Democrat and has no political agenda.

On July 20, 1993, the day Vincent Foster died, Patrick
Knowlton was in Fort
Marcy Park for five minutes. Knowlton saw only two cars in
the parking lot. Neither
belonged to Vincent Foster. Seated in one of these cars was
a lone man. The man gave
Knowlton a constant threatening stare. As Knowlton got out
of his car, the man also got
out of his car. Knowlton walked into the park headed in the
opposite direction from where
Foster’s body was found, whereupon the man got back in his
car. Thus the man’s behavior
was consistent with his acting as a lookout, as if his
purpose was to prevent any passers-by
from venturing into the area of the park where Vincent
Foster's corpse was found 80
minutes later.

The following evening, when Knowlton learned that
Foster’s body was found at
Fort Marcy Park, he called the US Park Police and reported
what he had seen at the park.

Almost nine months later, in April and May of 1994,
Knowlton was interviewed by
FBI agents assigned to the Office of Special Counsel under
Robert Fiske.

In October 1995, investigative journalist Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard ("Pritchard")
contacted and interviewed Knowlton. Pritchard showed
Knowlton recently declassified FBI
reports of Knowlton’s statements to the FBI agents given 18
months earlier. The reports
misrepresented Knowlton’s statements on several important
points.

On October 22, 1995, Pritchard’s article of Knowlton’s
account of his experience
at Fort Marcy Park was published. The article reported that
when Pritchard showed
Knowlton the FBI reports, Knowlton stated that "his
statements have been falsified." A
police artist’s composite sketch of the man who gave
Knowlton a "threatening look"
accompanied the article. The article also reported that the
Office of Independent Counsel
under Kenneth Starr (Fiske’s successor) had shown little
interest in Knowlton’s account,
and that Knowlton had never been asked to testify before the
Washington, DC, grand jury.

Four days after the article was published, on Thursday,
October 26, 1995, at 10:30
a.m., Knowlton received a subpoena to testify the following
Wednesday, November 1,
before the Washington, DC, grand jury investigating
Whitewater and related matters,
including the death of Vincent Foster. Beginning that same
day, October 26, 1995, a
bizarre series of events began to unfold. During the time
Knowlton spent in public that
Thursday and Friday, 25 or more men followed him, and walked
towards him, or came
from behind, and gave him purposeful, intimidating, timed,
threatening looks. Knowlton
suffered four more similar incidents during the next six
days. The harassment was
obviously orchestrated by people with considerable resources
who knew the route of
Knowlton’s routine walk.

TIMELINE

The authors wrote this Report of Witness Tampering
primarily to:

(1) Protect Knowlton from further harm by publicizing
the harassment, and

(2)Establish that Knowlton is credible and stable.

Two persons besides Knowlton, a journalist, and a Ph.D.
consultant and educator,
witnessed the events of October 26 and 27. Each witness
states unequivocally that what
they observed was willful harassment. On October 26,
Knowlton’s girlfriend wrote down
the license plate number of the car driven by one of the
perpetrators. Pritchard provided
disturbing evidence regarding that plate:

[T]he license plate Knowlton noted from Thursday
had checked out with a law enforcement source of
Pritchard's as being a federal government vehi-
cle. His source suggested Knowlton was "being
warned, or there was an attempt being made to
destabilize him before he appeared before the
grand jury."

It is a crime to harass a witness for the purpose of
dissuading him from assisting in
a grand jury probe. Title 18 US Code, Section 1512,
"Tampering with a witness, victim or
an informant," states in part:

(4) causing a criminal prosecution... to be sought
or instituted, or assisting in such prosecu-
tion or proceeding;
or attempts to do so shall be fined under this ti-
tle or imprisoned...
(emphasis added)

It is a civil rights violation for two or more persons
to conspire to deter by
intimidation anyone from testifying freely, fully, and
truthfully before the grand jury. Title
42 US Code, Section 1985 (2), "Conspiracy to interfere with
civil rights," part (2),
"Obstructing justice; intimidating party, witness, or
juror", states in part:

If two or more persons in any State or Territory
conspire to deter, by force, intimidation, or
threat, any party or witness in any court of the
United States from attending such court, or from
testifying to any matter pending therein, freely,
fully, and truthfully...
(emphasis added)

This Report does not offer any theory about the death
of Vincent Foster. The only
conclusion this Report proffers is that the harassment was
an attempt to obstruct the
investigation of the death of Vincent Foster. There is no
other plausible explanation for the
harassment. Knowlton is a law-abiding citizen, with no known
enemies. Perhaps Knowlton
was singled out to be harassed because his information
weakens the theory that Vincent
Foster committed suicide in Fort Marcy Park.

In addition to warning or destabilizing him, the motive
for harassing Knowlton may
also have been to discredit him. If his account of men
giving him timed, threatening looks
is discredited, that would discredit his report of the man
who gave him a threatening look in
Fort Marcy Park. Thus far, Knowlton’s credibility has been
challenged by Office of
Independent Counsel investigators and attorneys, and at
least one reporter.

The guilty parties apparently believed they could get
away with harassment of this
sort because the men did not verbally threaten Knowlton and
physical contact was minimal.
The account of harassment would be hard to believe if it had
not been independently
corroborated by other witnesses.

The perpetrators may not have predicted that Knowlton
would testify freely, fully,
and truthfully at the grand jury proceeding -- on the heels
of suffering an overwhelming
campaign of intimidation. The perpetrators succeeded in part
in their attempt to discredit
Knowlton -- the Office of Independent Counsel did not
initially believe him. The
perpetrators apparently did not predict that Knowlton would
assume the burden to do all he
could do to assure that investigators believe the three
witness accounts of the harassment.
Knowlton has provided investigators with all available
details to aid them in their pursuit of
the wrongdoers.

Office of Independent Counsel investigators have the
identity of at least four of the
individuals who harassed Knowlton. In an attempt to bare a
comprehensive account of the
harassment Knowlton suffered, on November 30, 1995, the
first release of this Report was
sent to the Office of the United States Attorney, the FBI,
the Office of Independent
Counsel, the special Senate Whitewater committee, and the
District of Columbia
Metropolitan Police Department. To date, no explanation has
been offered to Knowlton or
his lawyer.

This case is important. The fact of the harassment is
telling. It begs that a mystery
be solved: Why did someone commit a crime to try to obstruct
the investigation into the
death of Vincent Foster? By identifying who tried to hide
the truth, investigators would be
closer to solving that mystery. Insight on the News
commented on the ongoing
investigation by the Office of Independent Counsel in its
November 22, 1995 article "The
Vince Foster Mystery:" "Starr will also have to explain - or
be ready to dismiss - the
strange intimidation that Knowlton claims to have
suffered..." A failure of the Office of
Independent Counsel to issue indictments would be derelict.

After Knowlton’s story surfaced last October, the
Office of Independent Counsel
insinuated, falsely, that he was in Fort Marcy Park for a
homosexual liaison and that his
account of the harassment he suffered was a fabrication.
Knowlton acted as a good citizen
by reporting what he had seen to the police. He is a
witness, and a victim of crime, not a
target of an investigation. He deserves to be treated with
respect. Mr. Knowlton wants the
crimes against him to be solved, and to refute the
allegations about his character implied by
government investigators. He wants the truth to be known and
justice to be done.

This document presents the entire sequence of events in
chronological order.
Section I describes the unwittingly crucial five minutes
Knowlton spent in Fort Marcy Park
through when he unexpectedly received a subpoena to testify
before the grand jury over
two years later. Section II details the initial harassment,
suspect by suspect, a total of 25
encounters in two days. Section III describes further
harassment, both before and after the
grand jury testimony, and the testimony itself. Endnotes
complete the chronology thus far.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page
· SECTION I

KNOWLTON'S OBSERVATIONS
AT FORT MARCY PARK, VIRGINIA
July 20,
1993.................................................1

KNOWLTON'S STATEMENT
BY TELEPHONE TO US PARK POLICE
July 22,
1993.................................................3

KNOWLTON'S INTERVIEWS WITH FBI AGENTS
ASSIGNED TO THE OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL
UNDER ROBERT FISKE
April 15,
1994................................................4
May 11,
1994..................................................6

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ARTICLE
October 13,
1995..............................................7
October 22,
1995..............................................8

REPORTS PREPARED BY INVESTIGATORS ASSIGNED TO THE
OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL UNDER ROBERT
FISKE.................10

KNOWLTON SUBPOENAED BY WASHINGTON OFFICE OF
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL UNDER KENNETH STARR
Thursday morning, October 26,
1995...........................12

· SECTION II

HARASSMENT
Thursday evening, October 26,
1995...........................12
Friday morning, October 27,
1995.............................30
Friday afternoon, October 27,
1995...........................32

· SECTION III

HARASSMENT
Saturday midnight hour, October 28,
1995.....................47
Saturday morning, October 28,
1995...........................51

KNOWLTON VISITED BY FBI SPECIAL AGENT RUSSELL BRANSFORD,
ASSIGNED TO THE OFFICE OF INDEPENDENT COUNSEL
Monday afternoon, October 30,
1995...........................53

KNOWLTON TESTIFIES BEFORE THE WHITEWATER GRAND JURY
Wednesday, November 1,
1995..................................55

HARASSMENT
Thursday afternoon, November 2,
1995.........................62
Friday afternoon, November 3,
1995...........................64

CONCLUSION...................................................64

ENDNOTES.....................................................68

1. Reasons why investigators may not have initially
believed Knowlton's
account.............................69

2. Print articles of Knowlton’s account of what he
witnessed in Fort Marcy Park on July 20, 1993,
and the harassment he
suffered..........................74

3. Other inaccuracies in the FBI 302
Reports...............76

4. Additions and changes to this Second
Edition of this
Report..................................77

LIST OF ATTACHMENTS

A US Park Police Report, July 22, 1993.

B Affidavit of John A. Stein.

C Sunday Telegraph article, "Death in the park: Is this
the
killer?", October 22, 1995 by Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard.

D FBI 302s prepared for Office of Special Counsel under
Robert
Fiske, Jr., dictated April 15, 1994 & May 11,
1994.

E Polygraph Examination Report, with Curriculum Vitae of
its
author, Paul K. Minor.

F Psychiatric Examination Report (with Curriculum Vitae
of Dr.
Thomas C. Goldman), and Curriculum Vitae of psycholo-
gist Dr.
Lanning E. Moldauer, who administered tests of
visual reproduction (memory
test) to Knowlton.

G Excerpts of Sworn Statement of Patrick J. Knowlton,
taken
December 13, 1995, by Congressman Dan Burton.

H Affidavit of Dr. Kathryn K.

I Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article, "Foster Case: Park
Witness to
Appear before Starr's Grand Jury", October 29,
1995 by Christopher
Ruddy.

J Sunday Telegraph article, "Death mystery plot
thickens",
November 5, 1995 by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.

K Letter by Hugh Sprunt, November 19, 1995.

· SECTION I

KNOWLTON'S OBSERVATIONS AT FORT MARCY PARK, VIRGINIA

July 20, 1993:

While heading home in heavy traffic on the George
Washington Memorial
Parkway, Patrick Knowlton pulled into Fort Marcy Park to
urinate. He noticed the clock
on his car read 4:30. There were only two cars in the
parking lot. An unoccupied 1983 or
1984 rust brown four-door Honda was parked close to the
southern footpath entrance.
Knowlton noticed the distinctive Arkansas license plate on
the brown Honda. A metallic
blue-gray four-door sedan was backed in three or four spaces
to the right of the brown
Honda. In the driver's seat of the blue-gray sedan was a
lone man. Knowlton parked
between the two cars, closer to the brown Honda.

Immediately after Knowlton parked, the man in the
blue-gray sedan lowered the
passenger side electric window and gave him a menacing
stare. The look made Knowlton
feel like he was intruding, and appeared to him to
communicate "Get the hell out of here."
The man appeared to be Hispanic or Middle Eastern. Knowlton
thought he may have been
there for some sort of criminal activity. Before getting out
of his car, Knowlton took his
wallet and checkbook from the front passenger's seat and hid
them under the driver's seat.1

As he started towards the park's footpath, Knowlton
heard the blue-gray sedan's
door open. Apprehensive of being victimized, Knowlton walked
to the information sign
bordering the foot path entrance to the park, and looked to
his right to see if the man was
approaching. Knowlton observed the man leaning on the roof
of the driver's side of the
blue-gray sedan, watching him intently. After pausing for
about a minute feigning to read
the sign to make sure the man was not approaching, Knowlton
quickly proceeded 75 feet
down the footpath to a nearby tree.

As he relieved himself, Knowlton watched the trail to
see whether the man
approached. From where he stood, Knowlton could see the
brown Honda, the front of his
own car, and the back of the blue-gray sedan. He heard the
man close the door of the blue-
gray sedan, and figured the man may have gotten back in his
car, or maybe was
approaching him.

As Knowlton returned to his own car with a heightened
sense of awareness, he
scanned the parking lot. He walked directly toward the
driver's side door of the brown
Honda, and then around the back of that car, thinking that
maintaining his distance from
the man might provide an additional margin of safety.

Map of Knowlton’s
route to and from Map of Fort Marcy Park
his car

After getting back in his car, Knowlton looked to his right
as he locked his driver’s side car
door, and observed the man seated in the driver’s seat of
the blue-gray sedan still staring at
him.

The way he maneuvered back to his car enabled Knowlton
to view the interior of
the brown Honda. He noticed a man's dark suit jacket hung
over the back of the driver's
seat, a briefcase (darker in color than the interior of the
car) lying flat on the front
passenger seat, and two full bottles of wine cooler lying
flat on the back seat. As he walked
around the rear of the brown Honda, he again saw the
Arkansas license plate. As he left
the Park, after seeing the items in the brown Honda, it
occurred to Knowlton that he might
have interrupted the man from rifling that car.

Traffic on the Parkway was stop and go, and was moving
approximately five to 15
miles per hour. As he pulled back onto the Parkway, a
light-colored van, with directional or
emergency flashers on, slowed or stopped in the right lane,
allowing Knowlton to merge
into traffic. Knowlton does not know whether the van entered
Fort Marcy Park.

KNOWLTON'S STATEMENT BY TELEPHONE TO US PARK POLICE

July 22, 1993:

The following evening, Knowlton saw on the 11:00 news
in Etlan, Virginia, that
Vincent Foster, Deputy White House Counsel and financial
confidant of the Clintons, was
found dead at Fort
Marcy Park. At 12:232 a.m., Knowlton called the US Park
Police. He reported over the
phone to an officer. That officer told Knowlton that a
detective on the case would call him
at 6:00 a.m. When no officer called, Knowlton called the
Park Police before he left for
work at 7:30 a.m., and again reported what he had
witnessed.3

Over the course of the next two years, Knowlton told
friends, family and
acquaintances what he had witnessed at Fort Marcy Park, and
even told the story at a few
parties.4

KNOWLTON'S INTERVIEWS WITH INVESTIGATORS ASSIGNED
TO THE OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL UNDER ROBERT FISKE

Almost nine months later, FBI Special Agent Larry
Monroe called Knowlton and
asked him to come by the Office of Special Counsel for an
interview.

April 15, 1994:

Knowlton was interviewed for approximately two and one
half hours at the Office
of Special Counsel by Agent Monroe, with FBI Special Agent
William Colombell present
in the room intermittently. The agents were friendly and
made Knowlton feel at-ease.
When Knowlton entered Monroe’s office, he was seated next to
Monroe’s desk. Knowlton
immediately noticed on Monroe’s desk an autopsy report,
autopsy sketches, Polaroids, and
witness statements. Monroe then left the room to get coffee.
Knowlton glanced at the
documents on Monroe’s desk.

After Knowlton gave his statement, Monroe had him
repeat it while Monroe took
notes. Monroe reviewed his notes as Knowlton gave his
statement a third time. During the
interview, Monroe and Knowlton engaged is some small talk
about Knowlton’s Etlan,
Virginia residence, and Monroe’s home in Manassas, Virginia.

Afterwards, Monroe showed Knowlton six to eight
photographs of a car, one by
one, while questioning him 15 to 20 times in various ways
whether the photographs were
of the brown Honda he saw. During this phase of the
interview, Monroe repeatedly stated
that he did not want to influence Knowlton in any way.
Knowlton consistently responded
that the car in the photograph was not the brown Honda he
saw.

Monroe then became irritated, stood up, tossed the
photographs on the desk, called
in Agent Colombell, and asked Colombell whether the Park
Police photographed the
wrong car. Colombell assured Monroe that the photographs
were of Foster's car.

Monroe stated that the Park Police made many mistakes.
Monroe then told Colombell that
"Knowlton doesn’t think these photographs are of the right
car."

Photograph of the same make and model car Vincent Foster
reportedly drove to Fort Marcy Park, a 1989 Honda Accord.

Photograph of the same make and model car
Knowlton saw in Fort Marcy Park, a 1984 Honda Accord
(Knowlton subsequently saw an identical
Honda Accord and learned it was a 1984 year model).

Monroe again showed the photographs to Knowlton and
asked whether the
photographs were of the car he saw. While stating that he
did not want to influence
Knowlton’s answers, Monroe explained that the sunlight may
have altered the
photographs.
At the end of the interview, Monroe, in Colombell’s
presence, stated to Knowlton
that since Foster's death, the Foster family has had a very
difficult time, especially the
children. Monroe then suggested to Knowlton that he not talk
to the Press for the sake of
the Foster family.

Soon thereafter Knowlton was invited to appear on the
G. Gordon Liddy show.
Knowlton declined.

May 11, 1994:

About a month later, Monroe interviewed Knowlton a
second time at the Office of
Special Counsel, primarily about the brown Honda he saw at
Fort Marcy Park. This
interview took about two hours. Knowlton again felt the
atmosphere was friendly. Monroe
reviewed the notes he took the first time he interviewed
Knowlton. He then said he should
not show Knowlton statements of other witnesses, but that he
would. He then showed
Knowlton statements of other witnesses who had seen a
different car at Fort Marcy Park, a
later model Honda, grayish-brown or taupe in color.

Monroe explained the Honda Knowlton saw may have looked
darker to him
because of the way the shade from the trees was hitting it.
He then showed Knowlton an
under-exposed photograph of a car parked next to a police
cruiser. The car in this
photograph looked black. Knowlton again stated that the car
he saw was not the one shown
in the photographs.

Monroe then escorted Knowlton to the FBI laboratory in
the Hoover Building,
where he showed Knowlton brochures for 1988 through 1990
Hondas, and asked that he
pick out the car. Knowlton said the cars depicted in the
brochures were too new, and asked
for brochures of older cars. As none were available,
Knowlton looked through car color
panels. The lab technician said he was familiar with the
dull finish Knowlton described.
Knowlton picked out two panels, both of which turned out to
be of early 1980s Hondas.5

The lab technician suggested to Agent Monroe that he
run through the Arkansas
DMV every Honda of the year and color that Knowlton had
picked. Monroe responded
curtly, and said not to worry because they were "on top of
all this."

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ARTICLE

October 13, 1995:

Eighteen months later, Knowlton was located and
interviewed by Ambrose Evans-
Pritchard ("Pritchard"), the Washington Bureau Chief of the
Sunday Telegraph, a London
newspaper. Pritchard was interested in Knowlton because
Pritchard has been writing about
the Foster death since it occurred, and has for the last
year been investing considerable time
and resources investigating events concerning Foster’s
death, and various other Whitewater
probes.

Knowlton was not easy to find. Pritchard located
Knowlton with the help of a
private investigator.

Pritchard provided Knowlton with copies of the FBI
Reports FD-302 ("302"),
which were reports of Knowlton’s April and May, 1994
interviews with FBI Agents
Monroe and Colombell. The reports misrepresented what
Knowlton said to the agents.
Knowlton pointed out the most blatant inaccuracies to
Pritchard.

Knowlton told Pritchard that he told Monroe he could in
fact identify the man in
the blue-gray sedan. The 302 states just the opposite.
Within a week, Pritchard retained a
police artist, who with Knowlton’s help, made a composite
sketch of the man.

October 22, 1995:

An article written by Pritchard appeared in the Sunday
Telegraph, "Death in the
Park: Is this the killer?" 6 The article reported some of
the inaccuracies in the FBI reports,
stated that Knowlton had not been subpoenaed to testify
before the grand jury, and that
two other witnesses who arrived at Fort Marcy Park 30
minutes after Knowlton left had
also not been subpoenaed. Accompanying the article was the
police artist's composite
sketch of the man in the blue-gray sedan who gave Knowlton a
"threatening look" at Fort
Marcy Park. The article stated in part:

When the Sunday Telegraph showed him police and
judicial summaries of his testimony - which he had
not seen - he was stunned, saying his statements
have been falsified...
The other was a blue sedan, possibly a Japanese
make. There was a man in his twenties sitting in-
side it with a manicured appearance. He lowered
his window and gave Knowlton a threatening look...
His FBI statement says that Knowlton "could not
further identify this individual and stated that
he would be unable to recognize him in the fu-
ture". "That’s an outright lie," he said, angri-
ly... "I want it on the record that I never said
that. I told them I could pick him out of a line-up.
The Sunday Telegraph asked if he would be willing
to help with an artist’s sketch of the suspect.
He agreed..
The sketch above is drawn by an experienced police
artist...
"They went over it about 20 times, telling me that
this was Foster’s car," said Knowlton. "But I was
quite adamant about it. I saw what I saw, and I
wasn’t going to change my story..."
Starr’s investigators have never talked to Knowl-
ton. The federal grand jury has never summoned
him to give sworn testimony.

REPORTS PREPARED BY INVESTIGATORS ASSIGNED
TO THE OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL UNDER ROBERT FISKE

The 3027 apparently dictated by Monroe on April 19,
1994, from his interview
with Knowlton April 15, 1994, is inaccurate in the following
particulars:8

{symbol 183 \f "Symbol" \s 12|·}The 302 states that
Knowlton reported that the
blue- gray sedan had "Virginia license plates..."

Monroe asked Knowlton whether it could have been
Vir-ginia or Maryland tags.
Knowlton responded that he did not see the tag.

{symbol 183 \f "Symbol" \s 12|·}Referring to the man in
the blue-gray car at Fort
Marcy Park, the report states that Knowlton "could not
fur-ther identify this particular
individual nor his attire and stated that he would be unable
to recognize him in the future."

Knowlton told the agents just the opposite; that he
could probably pick the man out
from a photo spread or a lineup. Knowlton does not recall
being asked how the man was
dressed, but remembers the man was wearing a short sleeve
button-down oxford type shirt.

{symbol 183 \f "Symbol" \s 12|·}Regarding the brown
Honda, the 302 states that
Knowlton "could furnish no other descriptive data regarding
the vehicle or for that matter
the contents located within the vehicle."

Knowlton states that he also reported seeing two wine
cooler bottles on the back
seat.

{symbol 183 \f "Symbol" \s 12|·}The 302 stated "he
identified this particular
vehicle as a1988 to 1990 brown or rust brown Honda with
Arkansas plates."

Monroe suggested to Knowlton that the car was a 1988 to
1990 model. Knowlton
told the agents that it looked like an older car.

These FBI 302s were attached to the Report of Senate
Hearings 103-889, Volumes
I and II, which were released in January of 1995. The 302s
were used as a reference to
write that portion of the Report which dealt with Knowlton’s
account. That summary of
Knowlton’s statements, reprinted below in its entirety,
omits that the car Knowlton saw
was an older model, misstates the placement of the jacket,
misstates the time Knowlton
entered the park, fails to mention the briefcase, the wine
coolers, the blue sedan, and the
man in the blue sedan. Moreover, the last two sentences
strongly suggest that the brown
Honda Knowlton observed was in fact Foster's 1989
grayish-brown or taupe Honda
Accord:

Another man stated that he drove into Fort Marcy
Park between 4:15 and 4:30 p.m. He observed two
cars in the parking lot of the Park at that time.
He described one as a brown Japanese made car with
an Arkansas license plate. When shown photographs
of Foster’s car, he stated that the car he saw ap-
peared darker in color and more compact. He stated
that nobody was in the car, but there was a man’s
suit jacket folded over the passenger seat of the
car. He recalls that the car was parked in one of
the first spaces on the left side of the lot,
which is where the Park Police found Foster’s car
following his death. The Park Police also found
Foster’s suit jacket draped over the front passen-
ger seat of his car.

On June 30, 1994, Fiske released the Report of the
Independent Counsel In Re
Vincent W. Foster, Jr., which concluded that Foster
committed suicide at Fort Marcy Park.

KNOWLTON SUBPOENAED BY WASHINGTON OFFICE OF
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL UNDER KENNETH STARR

Thursday morning, October 26, 1995:

Four days after Pritchard's article was published, on
Thursday, at 10:30 a.m.,
Knowlton was served a subpoena to testify before the
Washington, DC federal grand jury
on the following Wednesday, November 1, 1995. FBI Special
Agent Russell Bransford,
assigned to Starr's Office of Independent Counsel in
Washington, personally served
Knowlton the subpoena at Knowlton’s home. Knowlton had never
had any contact with
the court system and asked Bransford several questions about
what to expect. Bransford
was helpful and cordial. He explained that Knowlton was not
a target, but simply a witness.
He gave Knowlton his business card, and suggested that
Knowlton call him if he had any
more questions.

Agent Bransford was formerly assigned to the Office of
Special Counsel under
Fiske, and worked with Agents Monroe and Colombell.

Harassment began later that same evening.

· SECTION II

HARASSMENT 9

Thursday evening, October 26, 1995:

At around 7:20 p.m., Knowlton and his girlfriend,
Kathryn K,10 ("Kathy") walked
from his home in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood to Dupont
Circle, and back to
Bertucci’s Restaurant in Foggy Bottom. Although pedestrian
traffic was light, he was
continuously followed and repeatedly harassed. During the
time Knowlton spent in public
that evening, eleven or more men walked towards him, or came
from behind, and gave him
purposeful, intimidating, timed stares. The men followed him
on the street, into a drug
store, and into a restaurant. He was also trailed by car.

In her sworn affidavit, Kathy stated that she "has
never witnessed anything like this
before or since. It was intentional, coordinated,
intimidating, and extremely unnerving."
Kathy holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Development, and is
employed as a consultant and
educator.

At Kathy’s suggestion and with her help, Knowlton wrote
down and tape recorded
the details of the harassment shortly after each occurrence.
On Thursday, October 26, the
descriptions of the men who harassed Knowlton were hand
written within 90 minutes of
their being observed. Tapes of what occurred were recorded
later that afternoon, and again
that evening.

The activities of the men who harassed Knowlton, as
well as the descriptions of
these men, are reported in great detail. The authors
retained the services of a psychiatrist
and psychologist to prove that Knowlton has a superior power
of recall. Attachment F is a
Report of Psychiatric Examination (with Curriculum Vitae) by
Dr. Thomas C. Goldman.
Accompanying the psychiatrist’s report is also the
Curriculum Vitae of psychologist
Lanning E. Moldauer, who administered tests of visual
reproduction (memory tests). The
doctors reported that Knowlton placed in the 90th percentile
of what the general
population would be expected to score. Dr. Goldman reports,
"This result demonstrates
Mr. Knowlton has unusually good powers of delayed recall of
visually-presented stimuli
and would be consistent with his ability to report
accurately on the events of late October
1995."

After separately interviewing Knowlton and Kathy,
reading this Report, and
reviewing Dr. Moldauer’s findings, Dr. Goldman reported that
Knowlton "showed no
indication of a paranoid process or of any other
pathological process that would tend to
undermine Mr. Knowlton’s credibility in this instance."

Dr. Goldman relays the following in regard to the
plausibility of Mr. Knowlton’s
recalling the descriptions as set forth in this Report:

Nothing in the descriptions of any of these indi-
viduals suggests anything so far outside the realm
of the possible as to seem incredible...
You had asked me to opine on whether it was possi-
ble for an ordinary person to make such a large
number of detailed observations given the short
period of time... First, Mr. Knowlton was clearly
in a state of high alert from perceived danger. In
such a state, perceptions are generally heightened
intensity and powers of concentration and recall
can be greatly enhanced.... Secondly, Mr. Knowlton
tends naturally to be a person who is attentive to
details in his environment...
Thirdly, Mr. Knowlton was administered the Wechsler
Memory Scale, Revised, by Dr. Moldauer. This is a
standardized, widely used and well respected in-
strument. The results indicated that while Mr.
Knowlton scored in the average range overall, his
performance on Visual Reproduction subtests 1 and
2, was quite superior. These are the tests closest
in form to the actual situation that occurred on
October 26 and the days following... In these
tests... [Mr. Knowlton placed] in the 90th per-
centile (that is, he scored better than nine out
of ten people in the general population would be
expected to score). This test result demonstrates
Mr. Knowlton has unusually good powers of delayed
recall of visually-presented stimuli and would be
consistent with his ability to report accurately on
the events of late October 1995.

To further establish that Knowlton is telling the
truth, the authors also retained the
services of a very well respected polygraph expert, Paul K.
Minor. Knowlton passed. The
Report of Polygraph Examination (with Curriculum Vitae) is
Attachment E.

The suspects are numbered in the order in which they
were observed. Knowlton
does not know the total number of men who participated in
the harassment.11 Several
authoritative sources told the authors that to carry out an
operation of this magnitude, there
must have been many more people involved than were observed.

The enlarged maps are not to scale.

Suspect 1
Description: White male. Approximately 5'10", 180 lbs,
mid-40s. Light colored hair,
balding, rounded face, light complexion, brown suit, white
shirt, red & gold striped tie,
black soft-soled shoes.

Patrick and Kathy walked up New Hampshire Avenue. Kathy
walked on Patrick’s left. A
man walked toward them while constantly glaring12 directly
at Patrick's face. The man
directed his stare into Patrick's eyes as he approached. As
he passed on their left, he turned
his head toward Patrick and ignored Kathy. The man then
crossed O Street, where he
stopped and watched them. When Kathy and Patrick stopped and
looked back, they saw
the man still standing and looking at them. The man raised
his wrist to his mouth and spoke
into his coat sleeve.

This contact with the first man lasted for approximately
three minutes.

Patrick’s reaction: Kathy noticed this man, and
mentioned to me that the man
was staring at me. I glanced at him and noticed his stare.
I thought the man’s
behavior was bizarre. I laughed when the man talked
into his sleeve, and I
mentioned to Kathy "this guy is acting very strange."

Suspect 2 - within five seconds later
Description: White male. Approximately 5'10", 190 lbs, 40s.
Light brown hair, well-
groomed, fair-skinned, clear complexion, navy blue suit
jacket, dark gray slacks, maroon
tie.

This man directed a constant glare at Patrick's face as he
approached Patrick and Kathy on
New Hampshire Avenue just below Dupont Circle. While
continuing to glare, the man
walked directly towards Patrick, then cut to Patrick's left.
As he passed, he turned his head
toward Patrick, past Kathy, while continuously glaring into
Patrick's eyes. This contact
lasted about 15 seconds.

Patrick’s reaction: As the man approached, Kathy
interrupted our conversation, and
mentioned that this man was also staring at me. I thought it
was very weird.

Suspect 3 - about twenty seconds later
Description: White male. Approximately 5'10", 190 lbs, 40s.
Light-colored hair, rough
complexion, reddish cheeks, dark eyes.

As Kathy and Patrick approached the corner of P Street and
Dupont Circle to enter the
CVS drug store, a man approached them from ahead and passed
on Patrick's right. He
glared directly into Patrick's eyes, and continued to do so
as he passed, ignoring Kathy who
walked in front of Patrick. Patrick looked back and saw the
man still glaring at him. This
contact lasted about ten seconds.

Patrick’s reaction: The man’s glare caught my
attention. I tried to look away so as
not to engage the man. I didn’t look away because I was
caught up in the moment. I
wondered what was going on.

Patrick and Kathy entered the CVS drug store and proceeded
to the rear of the store to the
pharmacy counter.

Suspect 4 - about four or five minutes later
Description: Black male. Approximately 6'1", 190 lbs, mid
30s. Military-style haircut, clear
complexion, dark eyes, oval face, small features, Bluejays
baseball cap, blue & gray nylon
warm-up jacket, dark denims, white sneakers.

As Patrick sat in a nearby chair while Kathy waited in line
at the CVS pharmacy counter, a
man got in line behind Kathy. While in line, the man did not
face forward. Rather he stood
facing Patrick, and glared at him. This glare continued as
the man moved up in line, for a
period of three to four minutes. When Kathy handed her
prescription to the pharmacist,
the man walked away.

Patrick’s reaction: I looked away from the man, but
every time I glanced up I
saw the man still glaring. I thought maybe the glare was
racially motivated, and the
man was trying to start a confrontation. As Kathy and I
left CVS, Kathy mentioned
that she was getting scared. I said I was too, but we
shouldn’t get carried away. It
was probably just our imagination.

Suspect 5 - about two or three minutes later
Description: Black male. Approximately 5'10", 190 lbs,
mid-30s. Clean-shaven, clear
complexion, black hair, dark eyes, average features, very
physically fit, dark jacket, dark
green military fatigues, dark shoes, carrying a black
shoulder bag.

Patrick and Kathy had planned to eat at a restaurant in the
Dupont Circle neighborhood.

They walked around Dupont Circle, eastbound, crossed the
southbound lane of
Connecticut Avenue, and waited for the light to cross the
northbound lane. While waiting,
Kathy and Patrick noticed this man standing approximately 50
feet away, continually
staring at them. As they began to cross the street, the man
walked toward them, giving
Patrick a glare. He directed his glare into Patrick's eyes
as he approached on their right. As
they passed, the man turned his head toward Patrick,
ignoring Kathy who walked on
Patrick's left, and continued the uninterrupted glare into
Patrick's eyes. This contact lasted
for about 30 or 40 seconds.

Patrick’s reaction: I was now becoming very concerned.
I tried not to worry,
but I couldn’t figure out why these men were star- ing
at me. The looks were not
quick. They were constant, ob- viously on purpose, and
from 25 feet away. We were
no longer considering having dinner at a restaurant in
the Dupont Circle
neighborhood.

Suspect 6 - about one minute later - same man as Suspect 21
Description: White male. Approximately 6'4", 225 lbs,
mid-40s. Clean shaven, light-
colored hair, light-colored eyes, clear complexion,
physically fit, beige baseball cap, beige
jacket, wire-rim glasses, dark blue jeans, white sneakers.

Patrick and Kathy were walking north on Connecticut Avenue
towards Q Street when
Patrick noticed Suspect 6 standing at Q Street and
Connecticut Avenue, standing military
"at-ease" style, staring directly at them. As they
approached the corner, the man focused a
glare at Patrick's face. As they reached the corner, the man
pivoted on one foot, keeping
his military-type stance, all the while glaring at Patrick's
head. Kathy and Patrick crossed
the street against the light. The man followed behind
Patrick, at a distance of about three
feet.

While walking the length of the block, Patrick periodically
looked back. [At about the
middle of the block, Patrick and Kathy noticed Suspect 7.]
Suspect 6 continued to follow,
at a distance of about three feet as they walked toward R
Street. [As they approached the
intersection, Suspect 8 crossed R Street, walking directly
towards Patrick while glaring
constantly at him.] Patrick and Kathy approached the
intersection of R Street and
Connecticut Avenue. When Suspect 6 was about eight feet away
from Patrick and Kathy,
he veered to the right of them, while continuing to glare.
Suspect 6 then again assumed the
military-type "at-ease" stance. The contact with Suspect 6
lasted approximately four
minutes.

Patrick’s reaction: I asked Kathy if the guy was
staring just at me or at her
too. She said that it was only me. As we approached
I realized he was staring at me. I became very nervous.
It was then that it
occurred to me that it may have something to do with
the subpoena I received that
morning. As he followed us against the light, my legs
became rubbery, and I thought we
were in trouble. As we walked, we discussed trying to
remember what everyone was
wearing and what they looked like.

Suspect 7 - no time elapsed between contacts
Description: White male. Approximately 6'2", 230 lbs,
mid-40s. Pot belly, cream colored
fisherman-type hat, beige windbraker, light blue cotton
button-down shirt, beige cotton
pants.

Kathy noticed Suspect 7 pacing back and forth, four steps
each way, about 50 feet ahead
on their left. Suspect 7 constantly looked at Patrick, and
glared at him as they passed.
[Patrick and Kathy reached the corner of Connecticut Avenue
and R Street as Suspect 6
again assumed his stance, and continue staring.] After they
passed, Patrick looked back and
saw Suspect 7 was still staring. Patrick looked back again
and saw Suspect 7 now heading
South toward Q Street. This contact with Suspect 7 lasted
about one minute.

Patrick’s reaction: I said to Kathy, "This is
unbelievable." Kathy said she was
scared. I said it is really happening and isn’t our
imagination.

Suspect 8 - no time elapsed between contacts
Description: Male, Middle Eastern features. Approximately
5'10", 200 lbs, late-40s. Dark
hair, heavy mustache, dark eyes, olive-colored skin, clear
complexion, well-groomed,
physically fit, gray suit jacket, off-white turtleneck
shirt, casual dark slacks.

As they approached the corner of R Street and Connecticut
Avenue, Suspect 8 walked
directly toward Patrick while constantly staring at his
face. Suspect 8 passed Patrick on his
right and brushed against him while constantly staring
directly into his eyes. After Suspect
8 passed, Patrick glanced back and saw him still staring
while walking. [Suspect 6
maintained his stance and continued the stare directly at
Patrick.] Patrick and Kathy
decided to cross the seven lanes of Connecticut Avenue to
try and get away from Suspect 6
and Suspect 8. This contact with Suspect 8 lasted about 15
seconds.

Patrick’s reaction: At this point I was a nervous
wreck. I was sweating. I was
very concerned for our safety. When he brushed against me, I
thought this is very serious
and to-tally out of my control.

Suspect 9 - no time elapsed between contacts
Description: Male, Middle Eastern features. Approximately
5'8", 190, 40s. Short dark
wavy hair, mustache, clear complexion, olive-colored skin,
stocky upper build, physically
fit, brown tweed jacket, open light-colored shirt,
olive-colored pants, black soft-soled
shoes.

Patrick and Kathy walked to the median strip between the
northbound and southbound
lanes of Connecticut Avenue, waiting for a break in the
traffic to reach the west side.
Patrick noticed a man standing on the northwest corner of R
Street and Connecticut
Avenue, staring directly at them. Patrick directed Kathy's
attention to this man. As soon as
they began to cross Connecticut Avenue, this man, continuing
to stare, began to cross R
Street, so that the man reached the southwest corner of
Connecticut and R Street at the
same time as Patrick and Kathy. After reaching the corner,
Patrick and Kathy walked arm-
in-arm southbound on Connecticut Avenue. The man also walked
southbound, to the left
and three feet abreast of Kathy. He looked over Kathy and
directly at Patrick's face for
approximately 15 seconds as the three walked.

Patrick and Kathy were now in fear for their safety. In an
effort to escape the man's glare,
Patrick and Kathy, still walking arm-in-arm, increased their
pace. Patrick looked back and
noticed that the man was walking faster, but that they had
separated themselves from the
man by a distance of about 15 feet. Kathy and Patrick
decided to try and regain their
composure by stopping and acting as if they were reading a
menu displayed in a restaurant
window. As they stopped, the man passed by slowly while
continuing to glare at Patrick’s
face. The man walked until he reached a real estate office
three doors down, where he
stopped and looked in that window. During the two or three
minutes that they all were
stopped, the man intermittently looked to his right at
Patrick and Kathy.

Patrick and Kathy began to walk back toward Patrick’s home
and the man. As they began
to walk southbound, the man began to walk southbound,
looking back every few seconds.
Patrick and Kathy slowed their pace, almost to a stop. The
man did the same. Patrick and
Kathy stopped and looked at another restaurant menu display.
The man also stopped, and
again looked at Patrick and Kathy every few seconds. Patrick
and Kathy decided to walk at
a brisk pace, back to the CVS drugstore, then home, without
looking or paying attention to
anyone on the streets. The man watched intently as they
departed. This contact lasted for
about seven minutes.

Patrick’s reaction: When the man looked at me, I really be-
came panicked. My legs were like rubber. All these men were
making it very obvious. So I
said let’s walk back. I didn’t want to take a cab or the
metro. I just wanted to walk back to
our neighborhood very briskly and not look at anybody.

Suspect 10 - about ten minutes later
Description: White male. Approximately 5'10", 180 lbs,
late-20s or early-30s. Dark brown
curly hair, average features, blue jeans, light blue jacket,
white sneakers.

Patrick and Kathy were walking southbound on New Hampshire
Avenue, approaching N
Street, when they noticed a southbound car driving past them
very slowly. The car pulled
over about a half-block ahead of them, between N Street and
21st Street. The driver exited
the car, walked toward Patrick and Kathy, stopped and looked
up at a parking sign, then
looked at them. As they approached, the man walked to a
point about 30 feet south, looked
up at another parking sign, and glared at Patrick intensely
as they passed. After they had
proceeded about another 75 feet, Patrick and Kathy stopped
and looked back and observed
the man open the passenger door of the car, reach inside and
pull out a telephone or
walkie-talkie and speak into it while looking in their
direction. This contact lasted for about
four minutes.

After returning back to the familiar surrounds of their
neighborhood, Kathy asked Patrick
to go to a restaurant and eat as they had originally
planned.

Suspect 11 - about fifteen minutes later
Description: White male. Approximately 5'10", 180 lbs,
late-40s or early-50s. Gray hair,
full rounded face, physically fit & healthy, camel-colored
sport jacket, white shirt, tie, light
gray dress pants.

Patrick and Kathy were seated in the downstairs dining area
of Bertucci's Restaurant, 2000
Pennsylvania Avenue. After ordering food, Patrick looked up
and saw a man in the mall
area looking directly at them for about a minute. About
three minutes later, the man was
observed walking down the stairs into the dining area. He
walked through the dining area,
slowed his pace, and stared directly at Patrick. About
fifteen seconds later, he walked back
through the dining area, and again slowed his pace and
stared directly at Patrick. He then
proceeded back up the stairs. Patrick left the table and
went upstairs to try and confront the
man, but could not find him. Patrick went back downstairs.
About five minutes later, the
man reappeared in the mall area looking down at Patrick and
Kathy. When Patrick made
eye contact with the man, he walked away briskly.

Patrick’s reaction: As Kathy and I sat, we began taking
notes about all the people
we had encountered. By the time this guy appeared, I had
regained my composure, and
felt safe. I was angry, and decided to confront him.

On the way home, I was thinking I would call Ambrose
since he got me involved in
this, and tell him to get somebody over to my home to
protect me.

Friday morning, October 27, 1995:

At around 9:30 a.m., Patrick and Kathy walked from his home
in the Foggy Bottom
neighborhood to the CVS drugstore on P Street in Dupont
Circle, and back to his
neighborhood. They took the same route as they had the
previous evening.

Suspects 12 & 13
Description 12 (driver): White male. Approximately late-30s.
Short light-colored hair, light
complexion, clean-shaven, neat in appearance.

Description 13 (passenger): Black male. Approximately
late-30s. Short hair, mustache,
average features, clean-shaven, neat in appearance, dark
blue shirt with white T-shirt
underneath.

Patrick and Kathy walked northbound on the west side of New
Hampshire Avenue
between N and O Streets. A northbound black Nissan Altima
with two men in it drove by
very slowly, and the two men stared at Patrick. A few
minutes later, the car came back,
southbound, slowed when it reached Patrick and Kathy,
whereupon the two men again
stared at Patrick.

Kathy wrote down the license plate number. 13

Patrick’s reaction: I said to Kathy that those two guys
were looking at me.
She said they weren’t. But then they drove back by,
and slowed down to look at me. I
was sort of shocked that it was going to happen to me again.
I said to Kathy "We’re not
going to look at anybody." I said let’s just walk to the
drugstore, get your prescription and
we’ll go home.

Friday afternoon, October 27, 1995:

At around one o’clock, an investigative journalist from the
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
Christopher Ruddy, visited Knowlton at his home. Ruddy had
learned about Knowlton
from Pritchard, and had spoken to Knowlton by telephone
three times prior to this visit.
Ruddy was the first journalist to challenge the official
version of Vince Foster’s death, and
has written extensively about the Foster affair. He was
skeptical about the occurrences
Knowlton related earlier that morning and the previous
night. Ruddy asked if Knowlton
would mind taking his routine walk with Ruddy. Knowlton was
nervous, but agreed.

Knowlton was again continuously followed and repeatedly
harassed by pedestrians
and by men in cars, in the same manner as he had been that
morning and the previous day.

Later that Friday afternoon, October 27, Knowlton
recorded tapes of what
occurred. He recorded more tapes of the harassment that
Friday evening.

That Sunday, October 29, 1995, Ruddy reported: 14

To verify Knowlton’s account, he agreed to take
his daily walk with this reporter. The surveil-
lance was apparent, almost from the instant we
exited his apartment. He was approached again
and again by the same men: dark suits, soft-soled
shoes each carrying a note pad or newspaper. As
they passed us, each gave a pointed, timed stare
at Knowlton.

Suspects 14 & 15
Description 14: White male. Approximately 6', 180 lbs,
mid-30s. Reddish-blond hair,
green eyes, slightly crooked front teeth, fair complexion,
healthy in appearance, navy blue
fine pin-stripe suit, reddish tie, carrying blank legal pad.

Description 15: White male. Approximately: 6', 190 lbs, mid-
30s. Wavy black hair, dark
eyes, slightly spotty complexion, black suit jacket, light
gray pants, white shirt, striped tie,
physically fit, carrying blank legal pad.

Patrick and Chris left Patrick's residence at [Deleted]
Pennsylvania Avenue, and walked
eastbound on Pennsylvania Avenue. They crossed 24th Street,
whereupon Suspect 14
crossed Pennsylvania Avenue on their left, and reached the
corner at the same time.
Suspect 14 glared at Patrick, raised his eyebrows, and from
the waist pointed his finger at
Patrick, as if to say "gotcha." Suspect 14 then walked on
and crossed the westbound lane
of K Street.

Relevant excerpt from Chris Ruddy’s article:

After crossing the first intersection, a man cros-
sing the same street from the other side and met
us at the sidewalk. He looked at Knowlton and
shook his head in an awkward gesture.

Chris approached Suspect 14 on the corner of K Street and
Washington Circle, produced
his journalist ID, and spoke to Suspect 14 as if Chris knew
him but couldn't place him.
Suspect 14 introduced himself as "Joe Colter," said he had
worked at the White House, an
international technology business, a World Bank
organization, and as an advisor to Bill
Clinton. During the conversation, Patrick stood to the left
of the pedestrian crosswalk, with
Chris to his right.

A few minutes into the conversation, Patrick noticed Suspect
15 standing on the sidewalk
of Washington Circle, about sixty feet away, watching them.
Suspect 15 approached, stood
to the left of Suspect 14, and stared at Patrick's face for
about thirty seconds. Suspect 15
then left.

Suspect 14 then reintroduced himself, shook Chris' hand,
turned to Patrick and shook his
hand. While shaking Patrick's hand, Suspect 14 said to
Patrick, "I didn't hear your name."
Patrick repeated "Patrick Knowlton," whereupon Suspect 14
gave Patrick's hand a hard
squeeze, and while glaring into Patrick's eyes and leaning
forward, said "Nice to meet you,
Mr. Knowlton." Suspect 14 then walked away. The contact with
Suspect 14 lasted about
five minutes.

Patrick’s reaction: When the man pointed his finger at
me as if to say "gotcha," I
was stunned. I froze. As Ruddy spoke with Suspect 14, I was
amazed. When he gave my
hand a hard squeeze, and said "Nice to meet you, Mr.
Knowlton," I realized that his reason
for stopping and talking to us was to show me that he knew
exactly who I was. I became
very scared. When the other man cameover, I was worried
that we were in danger. I
said to Ruddy that I wanted to go home. He said let’s walk
a little further, they know
you’re with somebody.

Suspects 16 & 17 - about thirty seconds later
Description 16 (driver): Male, Middle Eastern features.
Approximately early-30s. Short
neatly cut wavy hair, mustache, dark eyes, glasses,
open-collared white shirt, healthy
looking.

Description 17 (passenger): Male, Middle Eastern features.
Approximately early-30s.
Straight neatly cut dark hair, dark eyes, mustache, healthy
looking.

Chris and Patrick continued walking around Washington
Circle. As they walked around the
Circle, they observed a white Honda stopped in a no-parking
zone in the northbound lane
of 23rd Street, at Washington Circle.15 The car was occupied
by two men, both of whom
were staring in their direction. The two men glared at
Patrick and Chris as they crossed in
front of them at 23rd Street. When they got about twenty
feet past the intersection, both
Chris and Patrick glanced back. The two men were still
staring. The car started, and
proceeded very slowly onto the circle. As the car proceeded
past them, the passenger gave
Patrick a continuous glare. The car went around the circle,
out of sight.

After Patrick and Chris walked for about another thirty
seconds, the car approached them
again from behind, and as it drove slowly past, both
occupants glared at Patrick. The car
stopped about sixty feet ahead, then stopped. Chris and
Patrick stopped walking. Both
occupants then adjusted the car mirrors so as to watch Chris
and Patrick.

Relevant excerpt from Chris Ruddy’s article:

In one white Honda with Virginia tags, two dark men
with mustaches appeared to make no bones about
their surveillance. They first caught our attention
as we crossed the intersection, and both gave us a
menacing stare. The car entered a traffic circle,
and instead of carrying on, circled back and came
along side us, stopping in the middle of the road
just yards in front of us. The occupants began to
manipulate their mirrors to watch us along the
sidewalk...

Patrick’s reaction: At first, I didn’t want to believe
that these guys were there
watching me. When they drove away, I thought I was right,
they weren’t there
watching me. But when they drove around the circle and
slowly came back staring at me,
and stopped their car, I realized that they were in-
volved, and I was again scared that
we may be in danger.

Chris and Patrick walked in the direction of the car,
observed the license plate, whereupon
the car ran a light and sped away. 16

Suspects 18 (about thirty seconds later), 19, 20, 21(6), 22,
& 23
Description 18: Male, Middle Eastern features. Approximately
5'8", 170 lbs, early-30s.
Black neatly-cut hair, dark eyes, clean-shaven,
distinguishing features, very healthy in
appearance, greenish double-breasted suit, white shirt, tie,
black shoes, carrying blank legal
pad & newspaper.

Description 19: White male. Approximately 5'10", 170 lbs,
late-40s to early-50s. Full
rounded face, glasses, very rough complexion, clean-shaven,
salt & pepper neatly cut hair,
tweed full brim dress hat, brown sportcoat, sweater vest,
brown pants, white shirt, tie,
brown soft-soled shoes, carrying blank legal pad.

Patrick and Chris continued eastbound on Pennsylvania
Avenue, and crossed 22nd Street.
As they stepped onto the sidewalk, Suspect 18 approached
northbound on their right,
staring directly at Patrick's face.

As Suspect 18 passed and changed direction eastbound, he
gave Patrick a continuous blank
stare. Suspect 18 walked ahead of Patrick and Chris, so they
slowed their pace. For the
next half block, every few seconds Suspect 18 looked back at
Patrick's face.

As Chris and Patrick approached the middle of the block,
Suspect 19 passed them on
Chris’ left, while staring at Patrick’s face. When Suspect
19 got about five paces in front of
them, Chris approached him and tried to speak to him,
whereupon the man walked into the
building then to his right, the Humana Health Clinic.
Patrick and Chris stood outside the
door and watched Suspect 19, who was clearly out of place
surrounded by a roomful of
mostly juvenile patients.

Relevant excerpt from Chris Ruddy’s article:

Another man, short and Middle Eastern looking,
passed us and stared.

Description 20: Black male. Approximately 6', 230 lbs, 40s.
Short hair, clean-shaven, clear
complexion, rounded face, dark eyes, white zip-up jacket,
red & black plaid shirt, beige
pants, sneakers, very healthy in appearance, carrying two
white twine handled shopping
bags.

As Patrick and Chris continued to walk eastbound, they
noticed Suspect 18 standing on the
sidewalk about 60 feet ahead looking in their direction.
Suspect 18 then resumed walking
eastbound ahead of them. Suspect 18 turned right on 21st
Street, toward Eye Street. He
crossed Eye Street and walked eastbound in front of the 2000
Penn Mall. Patrick and Chris
followed. As Chris and Patrick entered that block, Suspect
20 walked directly toward
Patrick, giving Patrick a purposeful glare. Suspect 20
passed Patrick on his right,
continuously glaring at him. Patrick and Chris then entered
the 2000 Penn Mall.

Five minutes later, Patrick and Chris left through the main
exit. Standing about 50 feet to
their right were Suspect 18 and Suspect 20, conversing.
Suspect 20 looked toward Chris
and Patrick, and began walking toward them. Suspect 18 then
talked into his shirt sleeve,
and crossed 20th Street.

Chris followed Suspect 18, who then entered the basement
delicatessen (Soho Deli)
through its only entrance. Chris and Patrick then walked
down the stairs into the
delicatessen. Chris approached Suspect 18, displayed his
Press ID, and conversed with him
as if he knew him but could not place him. During their
short conversation, Chris asked
whether the man was with a federal law enforcement agency.
The man replied, "Something
like that," and walked away shortly thereafter.

Description 21(6) (Same man as Suspect 6): White male.
Approximately 6'4", 225 lbs, 45.
Clean-shaven, light-colored hair, slightly balding,
light-colored eyes, clear complexion,
physically fit, blue suit, white shirt, red tie, wire-rim
glasses.
As Patrick neared the steps into the Deli, he saw Suspect
21(6) staring down at him from
the top of the steps. Patrick recognized him as Suspect 6
from the previous evening. As
Patrick climbed the steps, Suspect 21(6) descended the
steps, staring constantly at Patrick.

Patrick’s reaction: When I recognized him from the
night be-fore, I was overcome
with fear. I froze at the bottom of the stairs, not knowing
whether to walk past him for fear
that he would do something to me.

Description 22: White male. Approximately 5'10", 190 lbs,
late-40s. Dark hair graying on
the sides, clean shaven, very clear complexion, black-rimmed
glasses, broad shoulders,
black suit, white shirt, tie, soft-soled shoes, carrying
newspaper, very healthy looking.

Description 23: White male. Approximately 6', 190 lbs,
late-40s. Rounded face, grayish-
light hair, glasses, clean-shaven, gray sport coat, blue
dress shirt, tie, healthy looking.

Patrick exited the building and sat down alone at a sidewalk
table. Approximately three
minutes later, Suspect 22 bumped his chair from behind, and
walked past him while
glaring.

As Chris exited the building, Patrick stood up, approached
Chris, and pointed out Suspect
22, who was looking in a bank window and peering at Patrick.
Suspect 23 then walked past
Patrick while glaring at him.

Chris again wanted to approach one of these men. Patrick
insisted that they head back to
Patrick's home.

Patrick’s reaction: I just felt like this was totally
unbe-lievable. It seemed to have
escalated beyond what it was the night before. It was more
intense. I thought it was so
calculated. I felt overwhelmed. By this time I could feel my
body shaking. I wanted to go
home and be in a safe place, and to call the FBI.

Suspect 24 - about two minutes later
Description: Male, Middle Eastern features. Approximately
early-30s. Dark neatly-cut hair,
mustache, blue suit jacket, white shirt, maroon tie.

Patrick and Chris proceeded back toward Patrick's residence.
On the north side of Eye
Street approaching 21st Street, they observed a blue Toyota
facing them for a period of
about four minutes. The driver was staring at them. As they
crossed in front of the Toyota,
Chris recorded the license plate number.17 The car then sped
away.

Suspect 25 - about ten minutes later
Description: White male. Approximately 5'11", 185 lbs,
early-30s. Short neatly cut light
brown hair, fair skin, clean shaven, healthy looking, white
shirt, carrying a long black
shoulder bag (see photograph below).

Patrick and Chris reached Chris' Jeep parked in front of
Patrick's apartment building. As
Patrick and Chris sat in the car, they noticed a man
approach the rear of the Jeep and look
at the license plate. The man then walked next to where
Patrick was seated, and stared at
Patrick. He then walked around to the front of the Jeep, and
looked at the front plate.
Patrick then snapped a photograph of the man, just before
the man covered his face with
his hands. The man then walked away.

Relevant excerpt from Chris Ruddy’s article:

But when we first entered the car, a pedestrian
came along side and noticeably checked the car’s
front and rear license plates.

Suspect 25

Patrick’s reaction: Before this guy, I thought we were
safe since we were in front of
my apartment building. I was so unnerved when he looked at
the plates, I fumbled to get
the camera. 18

SECTION III

HARASSMENT

Saturday, midnight hour, October 28, 1995:

Knowlton went to bed around midnight. The doorbell
rang, and awoke him at
approximately 12:15 a.m. He got up, yelled "Just a minute",
put on some clothing, went to
the door, and asked, "Who's there?" The intruder then
knocked four times. Knowlton again
asked "Who's there?" There was no reply. He stood to the
side of the door, heard nothing,
looked out the peephole, and saw no one.

A few minutes later, Knowlton looked out his window and
saw a black man in his
fifties wearing a green trenchcoat, looking up in his
direction. He then snapped a
photograph from his window. After Knowlton's camera flashed,
the man departed quickly.

Knowlton then called Pritchard. Pritchard called Mr.
Hugh Sprunt, an acquaintance
of Pritchard’s who happened to be visiting a friend in the
Washington area. Pritchard called
Sprunt to ask if Sprunt would accompany him to Knowlton’s
home, to have additional
people with him to help Knowlton leave his apartment.

Sprunt’s association with Pritchard stems from Sprunt’s
interest in the death of Mr.
Foster. Sprunt has written the Citizen’s Independent Report
on the death of Vincent
Foster. Sprunt and another man accompanied Pritchard to
Knowlton's apartment building.

At the request of Knowlton’s lawyer, Sprunt wrote a
letter outlining the activities
he observed outside Knowlton's building later that night. A
majority of that letter is
reprinted below.19

As you requested in your call to me yesterday afternoon,
I am writing to record for your use what I know of certain
events involving your client, Mr. Patrick Knowlton, that
took place shortly after midnight on the morning of
Saturday,
October 28, 1995. This letter will cover what I personally
observed but, to put these events in context, I will also
mention what I was told in connection with the events that I
witnessed that morning.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the DC Bureau Chief of the London
Sunday Telegraph, phoned an associate of mine and me where I
was staying in the DC area around 12:20 AM on the morning of
Saturday, October 28. He called us because he trusted us and
wanted to have some additional people with him if Mr. Knowl-
ton persisted in his desire to leave his apartment that
even-
ing in the company of Evans-Pritchard.

Evans-Pritchard had written an article on October 22, 1995,
in the London Sunday Telegraph...

Apparently due to this article, the Office of Independent
Counsel Kenneth W. Starr served Mr. Knowlton a subpoena on
Thursday, October 26. From what Evans-Pritchard (and later,
reporter Chris Ruddy) told me, Mr. Knowlton almost immedi-
ately began to be harassed on the streets of Washington,
both
by well over a dozen pedestrians and people in at least
three
vehicles.
We agreed to rendezvous with Evans-Pritchard near Mr. Knowl-
ton’s residence when we heard that Mr. Knowlton had told
Evans-Pritchard by phone a few minutes previously that he,
Knowlton, wanted Evans-Pritchard to extract him safely from
his apartment and the building at [Deleted] Pennsylvania
Ave-
nue and take him to a more secure location.
Evans-Pritchard told us that Mr. Knowlton had made this re-
quest since... Mr. Knowlton feared for his safety.
Shortly after our rendezvous with Evans-Pritchard, he told
us
Mr. Knowlton had called Evans-Pritchard’s cell phone to say
that the harassment had ceased and that it was therefore now
Mr. Knowlton’s decision to remain in his apartment, provided
what he viewed as efforts to intimidate him did not recom-
mence that night. Evans-Pritchard advised Mr. Knowlton to
unclip his phone jack so that no one could call him the rest
of the night. My associate and I then did several walk-
arounds of Mr. Knowlton’s apartment and had his still lit
up-
per floor right rear apartment pointed out to us by Evans-
Pritchard.
After about a half an hour of "patrolling" the perimeter of
Mr. Knowlton’s building, Evans-Pritchard elected to return
home since it appeared that no one was bothering Mr.
Knowlton
in his apartment any longer. I suggested to my associate
that
we remain in front of Mr. Knowlton’s building for a while to
see if we could spot any unusual pedestrian or vehicular be-
havior at [Deleted] Pennsylvania Avenue. Our amateur "coun-
ter surveillance" was aided by the lateness of the hour
(12:50 - 2:00 AM) and the fact that a light rain was falling
-- anyone surveying the building from the sidewalk would
stand out more easily under such conditions.
Although we had four or five good "candidates," two individ-
uals stood out in particular of being potential members of
any team watching Mr. Knowlton’s apartment building...
The first person walked up and down the sidewalk in front of
Knowlton’s building at least a half a dozen times, returning
every three or four minutes after crossing Pennsylvania
Aven-
ue, sometimes going into the Hotel next door and sometimes
going into Mr. Knowlton’s building (just the entryway). He
took the stairs to the basement in the adjoining hotel on
one
occasion, where we elected not to follow at that time. How-
ever, you should know that one can take these stairs to the
basement (with access to phones, bathrooms, and elevators)
without passing the front desk.
This individual was of medium height, clean-shaven, with
very
short dark hair and muscular build. He appeared to be in his
mid-to-late twenties, and had generic Middle-Eastern
features.
He wore what looked like Levi’s and some sort of
dark-colored
pullover as I recall. His hands were empty. He had no cap
or umbrella and looked out of place for someone spending so
much time in the rain.
I had my flash camera with me and considered taking some
photos,
but elected not to do so since I understood that Mr.
Knowlton and the two reporters had already taken some photos
over the prior couple of days of the people (and vehicles)
who had been confronting Mr. Knowlton. Given the lack of
people on the street at that hour, I did not think it was
prudent to do anything that might provoke an active
response.
I did give this person a loud "Hi!" the last time he drew a
beam on us. This caused no reaction other than a quick trip
to the basement of the hotel next door. We never saw this
individual again since, as stated above, we decided to go no
further than the lobby.
The second person we thought might be part of Mr. Knowlton’s
surveillance team was across Pennsylvania and slightly down
to our right (near a bar or restaurant that was still open
--
I think its name was "Nick’s"). We observed this individual
for about fifteen minutes. To the casual observer, he
appear-
ed to be hailing a cab, but we noticed that his arm always
went up several seconds late and that he appeared to be
hail-
ing only cabs driving down the opposite side of Pennsylvania
(our side). These motions went on for a number of minutes
and
began to be more and more amusing the longer we watched.
We therefore decided to hail a cab on our side of the street
and suggested to the driver that he pick up this individual.
The cab made a U-turn and attempted to provide a ride to the
gentlemen in question. When called over by the cabby the in-
dividual approached the front passenger side of the cab and
almost immediately stepped back and waved the cab on. We be-
gan to stare at this individual since we felt the cab driver
had probably pointed us out as his "good Samaritan" and we
wanted to see what his reaction would be.
After a short interval, this individual apparently decided
it
looked strange sending a cab away after ostensibly trying to
hail one for so long so, for the first time he hailed a cab
on his side of the street and rode off in it. This person
was some distance away from us, but appeared to be in his
early thirties of average or above average height, clean-
shaven, with longish straw colored hair, a chunkier build
than the first individual, and wore a tan raincoat. Both his
hands were also empty.
We broke off our amateur attempt at counter-surveillance at
around 2:00 AM and drove back to where we were staying. I
realize some of this account would be hearsay if I were for-
mally giving evidence, but I have tried to be as specific as
my memory permits concerning what I saw that evening and the
actions I took.
I find it horrifying that Mr. Knowlton would be subject to
this sort of harassment and surveillance (the latter I be-
lieve I saw personally), apparently as part of an ongoing
ef-
fort to cause him to alter or recant his prior statements to
the FBI or to reporters... prior to his testimony before a
District of Columbia Federal grand jury. Such actions...
should be vigorously investigated and those responsible for
[them] appropriately sanctioned, no matter who they might
be.
Saturday morning, October 28, 1995:
Patrick left his Apartment building at 9:15 a.m. He walked
west on Pennsylvania Avenue
toward Georgetown.

Suspect 26 20
Description: White male. Approximately 5'10", 190 lbs,
early-30s. Brown hair combed
back, dark eyes, white sweatshirt, blue jeans, sneakers,
clean shaven, carrying long black
shoulder bag, healthy in appearance, physically fit (see
Attachment N, photograph of
Suspect 26).

As he approached the corner of 25th Street, a man came from
behind. Patrick stopped at
the intersection of 26th Street, glanced back and saw that
the man had slowed his pace as
he walked toward Patrick.

In an effort to see whether the man was following him,
Patrick increased his pace. The
man increased his pace. As Patrick entered the bridge over
the Rock Creek Parkway, he
slowed his step.

The man slowed his step. Patrick stopped in the middle of
the bridge and looked toward
the Watergate. The man then stopped and also looked south.
Patrick began to walk again.
The man began to walk again. Patrick then stopped, and
looked south. The man hesitated,
then walked slowly past Patrick. After the man passed,
Patrick continued to walk
westward, now about ten feet behind the man. The man then
slowed his walk considerably,
almost to a stop. Patrick walked quickly past the man.

After walking briskly for about another half block, Patrick
glanced back and saw that the
man was also walking briskly. Patrick then stopped at a
sidewalk book display. The man
then stopped and looked through the window of a closed
tailor shop. While pretending to
look at the books, Patrick took out his camera. He then
resumed walking westbound for
five or so paces. As the man followed, Patrick quickly
turned around and snapped a

photograph of him, with the flash.21 The man said nothing,
and walked past Patrick.

Suspect 26

KNOWLTON VISITED BY FBI SPECIAL AGENT RUSSEL BRANSFORD,
ASSIGNED TO THE OFFICE OF INDEPENDENT COUNSEL

Monday afternoon, October 30, 1995:

Knowlton’s lawyer left several messages on FBI Special
Agent Russel Bransford’s
voicemail over the weekend to notify the FBI about the
harassment and to request
protection. Bransford had given his business card to
Knowlton when he served the
subpoena the previous Thursday. On Monday, at around noon,
Bransford tele
phoned Knowlton regarding the harassment, and agreed to
visit Knowlton at his apartment
later that day. Knowlton asked Bransford to call in advance
of his visit so Knowlton’s
lawyer could be present.

Bransford agreed to call in advance, but that afternoon
called from his car phone
while parked in front of Knowlton’s building. Knowlton asked
for a few minutes to call his
lawyer. Bransford told Knowlton he did not need an attorney,
and that he just wanted to
talk to him. Knowlton replied that after what had happened
to him, he didn’t want to talk
to anybody without his lawyer present. Knowlton hung up,
located his lawyer’s number,
and picked up the telephone. The telephone line was dead.
Knowlton's telephone line had
never before (or since) gone dead.

Bransford arrived at Knowlton’s door two or three
minutes later22 as Knowlton
was checking both his telephone extensions. Knowlton let
Bransford in and asked whether
he had hung up his phone. Bransford answered that he had
hung up his phone, confirmed
that the phone was dead, and stated, unsolicited, "If there
was a phone tap on there, you'd
never know it, they’re totally undetectable."

Knowlton told Bransford about the harassment, and asked
for protection.
Bransford asked several times "What do you want us to do?"
Knowlton consistently
responded that he wanted the FBI to do whatever it is that
they customarily do for
someone in Knowlton’s position. Bransford offered to take
Knowlton to a hotel where
"hopefully no one would follow us," and if harassed to call
911 and then Bransford’s pager
number. Knowlton asked whether they would leave an agent
with him. Bransford said no.

Knowlton was distraught about being harassed. He was
unhappy with the FBI
because he felt that FBI agents were somehow responsible for
his being harassed by falsely
recording his information. He also thought the FBI should
have responded earlier to his
requests for protection.

Frustrated, Knowlton asked Bransford why he was sent
there if he wasn’t going to
do anything for him. Knowlton asked Bransford, "What’s your
role?" Bransford explained
that he worked under Fiske (Starr’s predecessor), and that
he was kept on under Starr.
Bransford said he worked with Agents Monroe and Colombell.
Knowlton then complained
that Bransford should not have been selected to come over to
Knowlton’s home, since his
problems stemmed from Monroe’s misrepresentations of
Knowlton’s statements to the
FBI. Knowlton asked Bransford whose side he was on, to which
Bransford replied he was
on Kenneth Starr's side.

Knowlton asked if he should trust Bransford. Bransford
answered, "I don't know
Mr. Knowlton, that's a good question." Knowlton said, "Get
the hell out of my house. I
want you to leave, now." Bransford suggested to Knowlton
that he calm down. Knowlton
again asked Bransford to leave. Knowlton’s telephone rang.
He picked it up. It was still
dead. As Bransford stood up and moved toward the door to
leave, the phone rang again.
Knowlton let the answering machine pick it up, but no one
spoke. Bransford then left.
With Bransford’s departure Knowlton’s telephone service was
immediately restored.

KNOWLTON TESTIFIES BEFORE THE WHITEWATER GRAND JURY

Wednesday, November 1, 1995:

"On the morning of the first, I awoke from a very
restless sleep. I believe I went to
bed nervous and woke up the same way. I felt overwhelmed by
events of the past week.
The night before I had plenty of phone calls, all kinds of
advice on how to handle myself,
telling me what to expect, even a fax about grand jury
proceedings. I received a great deal
of support."

Knowlton arrived at the courthouse with his lawyer and
Kathy a few minutes
before noon, when he was scheduled to testify. The grand
jury took their lunch break at
noon. The prosecutor who later conducted all the questioning
introduced himself and
excused Knowlton until after lunch.

Before entering the grand jury room, Knowlton’s lawyer
again suggested that
Knowlton try and stay as calm as he could, to go slowly and
concentrate on exactly what
was being asked, to answer as best he could only what was
being asked, and not to argue.
His lawyer emphatically told Knowlton not to hesitate to
request a break whenever he
needed one.

Only the witness, the prosecutors, the jurors, and the
court reporter are allowed
into the grand jury room. Kathy and Knowlton’s lawyer waited
in the hallway while
Knowlton testified.

When Knowlton entered the grand jury room, he was
seated facing a majority of
the jurors, who were seated sparsely at classroom type desks
affixed to chairs on a tiered
platform. In front of the jurors were conference tables,
with Knowlton at one end and
three more jurors at the other (two men and one woman).

The prosecutor who had excused him for lunch was also seated
at the conference table to
Knowlton’s right, in front of the three grand jurors.
Another prosecutor, Starr’s
Washington, D.C. deputy, sat slightly behind and to
Knowlton’s right. He never introduced
himself to Knowlton. Having an unknown person seated behind
him made Knowlton feel
uneasy. During Knowlton’s appearance, this prosecutor never
spoke, and passed notes to
the questioner.

Witnesses, unlike prosecutors and grand jurors, are not
prohibited by law from
discussing the proceeding. Knowlton remembers a good deal of
what occurred in the grand
jury room.

After being sworn in, the prosecutor obtained some
background information from
Knowlton, including his address, birthdate, social security
number, age, education and
work history. He was then asked when and why he moved to the
District of Columbia,
when he moved from Washington to Etlan, Virginia, and when
he moved back to
Washington. The prosecutor asked him to identify and explain
his relationship with the two
other men who lived in the Etlan residence. Knowlton
responded that they were friends
and that the Etlan property was a joint real estate venture.

Knowlton then asked to step out of the room into the
hallway to briefly ask Kathy
if she could remember the dates he moved from Washington to
Etlan, and back to
Washington. When Knowlton returned, the prosecutor asked him
who currently lived in
the house in Etlan, whether he owned the house, and to again
explain his relationship with
the men at the house in Etlan.

Knowlton was asked how he knew about Fort Marcy Park,
whether someone told
him about the park, how many times he had been there,
whether he had ever been there
alone before July 20, 1993, and why he stopped at the park
that day. After he was asked to
tell all his activities from the time he left Etlan through
the time he returned, he was asked
what he saw at Fort Marcy Park.

The prosecutor asked him to again identify and explain
his relationship with the
other men who owned the house in Etlan, Virginia. When asked
why he waited so long to
come forward, Knowlton responded that he reported what he
saw in July of 1993, and
believed it was up to investigators to get back to him if
they needed him. The prosecutor
sat resting his head on his hand, as if the testimony was of
little or no importance.
Knowlton felt his character was being attacked.

Knowlton asked for a short break, whereupon he stepped
into the hallway and
briefly complained to his lawyer that "they are trying to
discredit" him.

When he returned, the prosecutor asked whether Knowlton
still went to the house
in Etlan, and whether he was listed in the telephone book in
either Washington or Etlan.
Knowlton answered that he still went to Etlan on weekends,
that he was not listed in the
phone book at either residence.

The prosecutor reviewed the relevant portion of the US
Park Police Report. He
stated that the Park Police reported that Knowlton had said
that the blue-gray sedan had
Virginia tags, and that the FBI reported the same thing. The
prosecutor then asked
Knowlton if he told investigators that the car had Virginia
tags. Knowlton responded that
he had not.

When the prosecutor asked Knowlton why he waited two
days before calling the
police, he responded that he called on the same day he saw
the news report that Mr.
Foster’s body was found, which was the day after the body
was discovered. (The police
report was dated July 22 because Knowlton called after
midnight.)

The prosecutor again questioned Knowlton about how long
he had been at Fort
Marcy Park on July 20, 1993. He asked why Knowlton did not
leave the park upon his
arrival if the man who stared at him scared him so much.
Knowlton responded that he
urgently needed to urinate, and that he was only in the park
for four or five minutes.
Regarding the brown Honda, he was asked whether he saw the
date on the license plates
and whether he was aware that diplomatic plates were red,
white and blue, as are Arkansas
plates. Knowlton answered that he did not see the date on
the plate, and that he was aware
that diplomatic plates are red, white, and blue.

Regarding the items in the brown Honda, he was asked
where the jacket was
placed, did he see a folder, and what color was the folder.
Knowlton responded that he
never used the word folder, and that he did not see a folder
in the car, but rather a
briefcase. The prosecutor then asked Knowlton why he now
says he saw wine coolers in
the brown Honda, when they are not mentioned in the FBI
report, and whether he heard
that evidence showed wine cooler traces on Mr. Foster’s
clothes. He responded that he told
the FBI and the Park Police that he saw two wine coolers in
the back of the brown Honda,
and that he never heard any reports of wine cooler traces on
Foster’s clothes.

The prosecutor then asked Knowlton about his
involvement with the Press,
including who had contacted him, whether he had contacted
any reporters, and whether he
had been paid for his story. Knowlton responded that his
first contact with the Press
occurred on October 13, 1995. He also said that a number of
reporters had contacted him
since that time, that he had not contacted the Press, that
had he had not been offered
money for his story. He was asked whether he had been
contacted by anyone on Capitol
Hill, including House members, Senators, or their staff, to
which he responded that he had
not.

Knowlton was briefly asked about the "alleged
misquotes" in the FBI 302 reports
of his statements. He was not given a copy to review.
Knowlton suggested that the
prosecutor look at the hand written notes taken by Agent
Monroe. The prosecutor
responded that there were "no notes available."

The prosecutor asked whether there was anything unusual
about the front seat of
the brown Honda, and whether it was positioned forward or
back. He read the portion of
the FBI report which states that Knowlton "could not further
identify this particular
individual (the man in the blue-gray sedan) nor his attire,"
and asked him whether he had
said that. Knowlton responded that he had not.

The prosecutor next asked with whom Knowlton spoke in
preparing his testimony
and when those conversations took place. He was specifically
asked to include all reporters,
and the times those conversations took place. After
answering, Knowlton asked to take a
short break.

When the testimony recommenced, he again told Knowlton
to identify everyone to
whom he had related his story since July of 1993. Knowlton
responded that he had told
many people, including family and friends, and that he had
even told the story at dinner
parties. Then he asked Knowlton to again state his contacts
with the Press and Capitol Hill.
He replied that he already answered that question.

The prosecutor then focused on Pritchard’s October 22
Sunday Telegraph article,
asking whether Knowlton really felt threatened, whether he
thought the man in the park
was really going to kill him, and did the FBI badger him.
Knowlton responded that
Pritchard’s article was accurate except that Knowlton didn’t
use the words "kill" or
"badger." Knowlton said that after he read the article, he
called Pritchard and asked
Pritchard to change the statements, and that Pritchard
agreed.

The prosecutor followed up by questioning Knowlton
about the frequency of his
contacts with Pritchard. Knowlton answered that he had
frequent contacts with Pritchard.
He said he called Pritchard and the FBI when he was
harassed, but only Pritchard
responded that weekend. He was then asked what advice he
received from journalists and
whether he received a call or fax from Pritchard the
previous day. Knowlton answered he
had received a fax from Pritchard about grand jury procedure
the previous day.

At this point, Knowlton had testified for about an hour
and 45 minutes. He was
very irritated.

The prosecutor asked when Knowlton first spoke with an
attorney, the name of the
attorney, and whether his attorney was at the courthouse
that day. Why did he need an
attorney, the prosecutor queried. Knowlton replied that he
felt he needed representation
due to the harassment he had suffered and to deal with
members of the Press who were
contacting him.

He asked if he knew "CW" (the "confidential witness"
who discovered the body).
Knowlton said he did not know CW, whereupon the prosecutor
asked Knowlton whether
he had ever talked to or met CW. He answered no. Knowlton
was then asked whether he
had received any information that wine coolers were found
next to Foster’s body.
Knowlton responded that his lawyer’s office received a fax
about the wine coolers, but that
Knowlton had not seen it.

Toward the end of the questioning, the prosecutor said,
"Tell us about the alleged
harassment, Mr. Knowlton." Knowlton responded that it "was
not alleged, it happened."
He then repeatedly asked that the prosecutors tell him who
sent agent Bransford to his
house. The prosecutor responded twice that they were not
there to answer Knowlton’s
questions. When Knowlton adamantly asked again, the
prosecutor seated behind him said
that they ("we") sent Bransford to his home. Knowlton
explained what Bransford had said
to him two days earlier, and that Knowlton considered
Bransford’s actions further
harassment. Knowlton then summarized the harassment which
occurred the previous
Thursday and Friday [October 26 & 27].

At this point in the proceeding, Knowlton was
infuriated. He asked for a break. He
was angry about not being believed about the harassment and
the fact that the prosecutors
had sent Bransford to his home.

When the proceeding resumed, Knowlton was asked why he
came forward with his
story at this time. Knowlton replied that he was approached
by Pritchard.

The lead prosecutor passed a paper to the questioner,
who then asked Knowlton a
series of questions about the man in the Park in the
blue-gray sedan. Did the man talk to
Knowlton? Did he pass Knowlton a note? Did he approach
Knowlton in any way? Did the
man point a gun at him? Did the man touch him? Knowlton
answered no to each of these
questions about the man in the blue-gray sedan.

The prosecutor asked, "Why did you call the police? Why
didn’t you wait for
someone to call you?" Knowlton responded that if nobody knew
who he was, they would
not know to call him. Knowlton then asked whether the
prosecutor was suggesting that the
man in the blue-gray sedan took down his license plate
number. The prosecutor responded
no and asked sarcastically if Knowlton came forward because
he is a "good citizen" and a
"good Samaritan?" Knowlton said he came forward because at
the time he thought what he
saw might have been relevant.

Finally, the prosecutor said he had some questions that
the grand jurors wanted
asked. Were the wine coolers empty or full? Knowlton said
full. Were the doors in the
brown Honda locked or unlocked? Knowlton responded he didn’t
notice. How did he
know someone other than the man in the blue-gray sedan
hadn’t see him at Fort Marcy
Park? Knowlton answered that he didn’t know whether someone
other than that man had
seen him, but he hoped someone else had seen him to verify
his actions and the time he
was there.

Knowlton began testifying at 1:00 p.m., and was excused
at approximately 3:45
p.m. Knowlton was asked about his account of what occurred
at Fort Marcy Park and his
statements to the FBI for about an hour. Based upon the
demeanor of the prosecutors, the
questioning, and the fact that one of the prosecutors sat
behind him, Knowlton believes
that the OIC was trying to rattle him during his testimony.
We believe the OIC thought he
was lying about what he witnessed at Fort Marcy Park and
what he told the FBI in April
and May of 1994, that he had fabricated his account of the
harassment, and that he was
seeking publicity.

HARASSMENT

Thursday afternoon, November 2, 1995:

Suspect # 27
Description: Male, Middle Eastern features. Approximately
5'8", 160 lbs, 30s. Short, black
neatly-cut hair, dark eyes, clear complexion, mustache,
carrying black canvass bag open at
the top, black-rimmed glasses, army issue green
three-quarter length coat, light beige pants,
black shoes.

At about 3:30 p.m., Patrick went down to the lobby of his
apartment building. As he exited
the elevator, he noticed a man standing outside the building
with his back to the building.
As Patrick walked toward the front door, another tenant
entered, and the man followed
into Patrick's building. As soon as the man made eye contact
with Patrick, he became
startled, and immediately turned around, walked out the
door, and stood looking at the
newspaper box to the left of the entrance with his back to
Patrick. With his back to the
building, he took short steps, side to side, as if he was
nervous.

Patrick walked out the door, turned right, walked about 20
feet, looked back and saw the
man walking behind him about 15 feet slightly to his left.
Patrick continued about another
80 feet to the corner to another newspaper box. As he
retrieved the paper, he looked up
and to his left, and saw the man looking down and reaching
into his bag with his right
hand. The man looked up, made eye contact with Patrick, and
quickly pulled his hand out
of the bag and dropped the bag to his side.

Seconds after Patrick started walking toward his building,
they walked past each other.
About ten feet after they passed, Patrick looked behind him
and saw the man standing on
the corner looking back at Patrick.

Patrick then turned around and walked toward the man. The
man turned and ran. He ran
diagonally across 24th Street, across K Street, and onto
Washington Circle.

Patrick’s reaction: As the man reached into his bag, I was
scared. I thought he was reaching for a gun. Then the fear
turned into anger. I felt fed-up and decided to confront the
guy
I thought if the guy was going to shoot me, he better shoot
me.
When he ran away, the reality of being in danger sunk in,
and
the anger turned back to fear.

Friday afternoon, November 3, 1995:

When he went out the next day at around 2:00 p.m.,
Patrick walked from his
apartment building to the Crestar Bank at 1925 K Street,
then to Riggs Bank on
Pennsylvania Avenue at 20th Street.

Suspect 28
Description: White male. Approximately 6', 190 lbs, late-30s
or early-40s. Healthy
appearance, clean shaven, short neatly cut brown curly hair,
dark eyes, rough complexion,
brown pants, cream colored zip-up coat, new white sneakers,
green knapsack.

While waiting in line at Riggs, he noticed a man staring in
his direction through the bank
window. He walked to the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and
20th Street, and saw the
man standing next to a newspaper box. Patrick then crossed
traffic against the light. The
man followed. As Patrick stood at the pedestrian crossing,
the man came and stood next to
him, with his shoulder touching Patrick’s. Patrick crossed
against the light. The man
followed. Patrick walked into the 20th Street entrance of
the 2000 Penn Mall. When he
walked back out, Patrick saw the man walking westbound on
Pennsylvania Avenue. Patrick
went back inside the mall. A half-hour later, Patrick walked
out the west exit of the Mall,
stopped at 21st Street, whereupon he saw the man walking
toward him. Patrick stopped
and looked through his newspaper, and the man walked slowly
by. As Patrick followed
behind the man, he crossed 21st Street and went into a
college bookstore.

Patrick then called his lawyer. His lawyer in turn called
the District of Columbia
Metropolitan Department, but the man had left the vicinity
of the bookstore by the time the
police arrived on the scene.

CONCLUSION

On July 20, 1993, when Knowlton walked from the parking
lot into Fort Marcy
Park, the man who was staring at him got out of his car,
leaned on the car roof, and
continued to stare. As Knowlton walked toward the left, in
the opposite direction from
where Vince Foster's body was found, the man got back in his
car.

From the time the police sketch artist's composite of
that man was published on
October 22, 1995, it became public knowledge that Knowlton
could identify the man who
appeared to be acting as a lookout 80 minutes before the
body of Vincent Foster was
found. It also became public knowledge that FBI agents
assigned to the Office of Special
Counsel under Robert Fiske prepared reports which
misrepresented Knowlton’s statements
on several important points.

The probable consequences of the harassment include
discrediting Knowlton, and
warning or destabilizing him before he testified before the
grand jury.

The perpetrators may not have predicted that Knowlton
would testify freely, fully,
and truthfully at the grand jury proceeding. They could not
have predicted that Knowlton
would go to great lengths in assembling and distributing an
accurate, well documented,
credible account of what occurred, including reports of
memory testing and of a polygraph
examination.

Knowlton has assumed the burden to do all he can to
assure that investigators
believe all three witness’ accounts of the harassment, and
that investigators have all
available details to aid them in pursuing the wrongdoers.

The authors hope that publicly disseminating this
Report will (1) protect Knowlton,
and (2) establish his credibility. In addition, the authors
hope that publicly disseminating
this Report will generate: (3) public pressure so that
investigators will devote significant
resources to investigating this crime; and (4) at least
enough revenue to recover the
significant costs of the production of this Report. Another
important reason to write the
Report was to provide Knowlton with a process for reviewing
and working through the
recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the
harassment. Dr. Goldman noted that
Knowlton suffers from "typical signs and symptoms of
posttraumatic stress."

In his October 29, article "Foster Case: Park Witness
to Appear Before Starr’s
Grand Jury," Christopher Ruddy outlines possible reasons why
Knowlton may have been
singled out to be harassed:

According to experts familiar with the case,
Knowlton’s testimony could be critical on several
points:

{symbol 183 \f "Symbol" \s 11|·} If Foster did not commit
suicide, Knowlton
likely could positively identify the person
somehow involved in the attorney’s death...
One source close to Starr’s probe has sug-
gested that the man Knowlton saw may have
been there to "secure" the lot. A rear en-
trance to the park is close to where the
body was found and could have, some theorize,
been the actual point of the body’s entry.

{symbol 183 \f "Symbol" \s 11|·} He possibly could
demonstrate that the FBI
covered up key elements in the case.

{symbol 183 \f "Symbol" \s 11|·} He possibly could
indicate that another car
with Arkansas plates, similar to Foster’s,
was placed in the park to leave potential
witnesses with the impression that Foster
was in the park earlier than he was. A nag-
ging problem with the case is the large
amount of unaccounted for time - five hours
from the time Foster left his office until
his body was found.

If the Office of Independent Counsel determines who
tried to obstruct justice and
hide the truth about the circumstances surrounding the death
of Vincent Foster, they would
be closer to learning specifically what it is the
perpetrators were attempting to conceal.
There is a strong public interest in determining whether
those guilty of obstruction of
justice did so by abusing the power of the federal
government.

This Report offers no theory about the death of Vincent
Foster. It does not offer
any theory about why or whether FBI agents assigned to the
Office of Special Counsel
under Robert Fiske tried to bury Knowlton’s account. It does
not offer any theory why the
FBI agent who served Knowlton the subpoena intimidated him
after he was harassed. Nor
does this Report offer any theory to explain the treatment
Knowlton received by the Office
of Independent Counsel under Mr. Starr, except to suggest
the Office of Independent
Counsel thought Knowlton was lying. Those incidents are
included in this Report because
they are facts surrounding the harassment.

The most controversial portion of this Report is in its
title, "Witness Tampering."
The conclusion is solid. After Knowlton’s account of what he
saw in Fort Marcy Park
surfaced, 27 months after it occurred, he was harassed by
people with considerable
resources - on the eve of his grand jury testimony.

The harassment was an attempt at damage control. It was
an attempt to obstruct the
investigation into the death of Vincent Foster.

If you have information which may be of any help in
solving these crimes, or if you
have any knowledge of the techniques used to harass Mr.
Knowlton, please contact us.
The authors can be contacted by leaving a message at the
toll free number listed at the
beginning of this Report.
ENDNOTES

1.Reasons why investigators may not have initially
believed Knowlton's account.............................69

2.Print articles of Knowlton’s account of what he
witnessed in Fort Marcy Park on July 20, 1993,
and the harassment he suffered..........................74

3.Other inaccuracies in the FBI 302 Reports...............76

4.Additions and changes to this Second
Edition of this Report..................................77

ENDNOTES

1.Reasons why investigators may not have initially believed
Knowlton's account.

Fort Marcy Park is reportedly sometimes used for
"cruising." Fort Marcy Park is
reportedly visited by homosexuals, and an independent former
FBI investigator told the
authors that hiding identification before "cruising" is a
"homosexual practice." We do not
mean to suggest that the OIC does not believe homosexuals.
We suggest that if the OIC
thought Knowlton lied about the reason he was in Fort Marcy
Park, that would make it
more likely that he lied about what he witnessed there.
Knowlton is heterosexual.

The same former FBI investigator further explained that
the area of the Fort Marcy
Park parking lot where Knowlton chose to park his car may
also have indicated that he was
there for a reason other than simply to urinate. The
investigator said that Knowlton’s
parking between the only two cars in the lot seemed
inconsistent with his purpose in
entering the park - one would expect someone who wanted
privacy to park in the area
where there were no other cars. In reviewing his actions
that day, Knowlton concluded that
he chose to park in the south end of the lot because the
foot path entering the park is at that
end, and visitors would probably be at the north end.

The route Knowlton took on July 20, 1993, was not the
most direct route to his
destination. The route Knowlton took home that day was not
the most direct route to his
residence in Etlan, Virginia, 90 miles southwest of
Washington. He took the George
Washington Memorial Parkway to Route 495 South to Route 66
West. He did this to avoid
being an HOV (high occupancy vehicle - two or more persons)
violator leaving
Washington, which carries a $100 fine and two points
assessed on the driver’s permit.

Another witness reported seeing in a different car (the
white Nissan) some of the
items Knowlton reported seeing in the brown Honda. Knowlton
reported seeing in the
brown Honda two wine cooler bottles, a briefcase, and a dark
suit jacket, at approximately
4:35 p.m. CW (confidential witness), the witness who
discovered Foster's body, reported
arriving at the Park between 5:30 p.m. and 5:45 p.m., 55 to
70 minutes after Knowlton
left. According to the 302 of investigators' interview with
him, CW reported

seeing in a white Honda23 (not Foster's car) "a four-pack
wine cooler in the front
passenger floor... a suit coat or jacket and possibly a
brown briefcase..." So investigators
may have concluded, incorrectly, that Knowlton arrived later
than he reported, walked to
the right (toward where the white Nissan was parked) and not
left as he reported, and saw
these items in the white Nissan. Investigators may also have
concluded that the Honda with
Arkansas plates Knowlton saw was actually the newer Honda
which belonged to Vincent
Foster, which it was not.

Long distance telephone records show that calls were
made from Knowlton’s
residence to the White House and Capitol Hill on July 20,
1993. As requested, on
December 14, 1995, Knowlton gave to OIC investigators a copy
of his long distance
telephone bill for his residence in Etlan, Virginia. On
December 23, 1995, OIC
investigators asked Knowlton about some of the calls on that
bill. A portion of the bill
reflects the following calls:

7/20/93 12:45 p.m. Washington Insiders, Inc.

7/20/93 1:28 p.m. Capitol Hill - switchboard

7/20/93 1:28 p.m. Rayburn House Office Building -
switchboard

7/20/93 1:29 p.m. White House - switchboard

7/20/93 1:35 p.m. Longworth House Office Building -
switchboard

7/20/93 2:07 p.m. White House - switchboard

7/20/93 2:08 p.m. White House - switchboard

Knowlton explained that he did not make or know about the
calls, that one of the investors
in the Etlan house runs a tour business in Washington, and
that this resident must have
made the calls before returning to Washington. The authors
suspect that OIC investigators
had the telephone records well before Knowlton provided them
a copy of his telephone
bill, and that they concluded he was some kind of nut.

Before Knowlton discovered any of the reasons why
investigators might question
his story, he believed investigators thought he was lying.

The OIC failed to immediately respond after being
notified of the harassment. The
OIC was notified of the harassment on Friday afternoon,
October 27. The OIC failed to
respond until Monday, October 30, when Agent Bransford
visited Knowlton at his home.

Knowlton received shoddy treatment when he testified
before the grand jury on
November 1, 1995. When Knowlton testified before the Grand
Jury two days after being
visited by FBI agent Russel Bransford, he was asked a number
of questions about his
recent contacts with the press and Capitol Hill, the number
of times he had visited Fort
Marcy Park, and whether the man in Fort Marcy Park passed
him a note or touched him.
He was also asked "Tell us about the alleged harassment."
Knowlton understands that part
of the prosecutors' job was to test his credibility, but
based upon the questioning and
demeanor of prosecutors, believes the OIC did not believe
him and consequently attempted
to discredit him.

OIC investigators interviewed Knowlton about his July
20, 1993 visit to Fort Marcy
Park after he testified at the grand jury. The usual
procedure is to interview before taking
testimony.

On December 1, 1995, OIC investigators requested that
one or more individuals
appear to see if they could identify Knowlton as a frequent
visitor to Fort Marcy Park. At
1:30 p.m. on Friday, December 1, 1995, at the OIC, Knowlton
met with Agent Jim
Clemente, Criminal Investigator Coy Copeland, and DC
Homicide Detective Jeff Green,
all of whom are assigned to the OIC. Investigators requested
this interview to discuss what
Knowlton saw at Fort Marcy Park on July 20, 1993. Knowlton’s
lawyer was unable to
attend. Knowlton expected to be there only for about an
hour, but two hours into the
interview, one of the investigators mentioned it was almost
time to go to Fort Marcy Park.

Upon exiting the building, Clemente walked over and
spoke to a black man seated
in a black Nissan Altima. Knowlton mentally noted the plate
number, Virginia ZZ
[Deleted]. During the drive to Fort Marcy Park, Knowlton
mentioned that it was almost the
same time that he traveled to the park on July 20, 1993.
Investigators replied that was a
coincidence, but Knowlton felt investigators were not being
straight with him. Upon their
arrival, after the investigators spent a few minutes
discussing where to park, Copeland
parked in the same spot where Knowlton saw the brown Honda
parked.

The black Nissan Altima Knowlton saw in front of the
OIC was parked at the north
end of the lot. Knowlton recognized the license plate
number. As Clemente walked over to
that car and spoke with the driver, Green commented that the
driver of the Altima must
have been there to urinate or have sex, as if he had no
knowledge of who the driver might
have been.

Knowlton then did a "walk through" of where Knowlton
had walked on July 20,
1993. As Knowlton discussed the distance and time he walked,
he noticed a black man
(not the driver of the black Nissan) standing up on the hill
near the entrance of the fort,
looking at them. This man is a retired Army officer who
spends much of his time taking
care of the park, and who is familiar with men who
frequently visit the park.

A car pulled in and parked next to the agents’ car.
This driver looked at Knowlton
as he proceeded into the park. Within a few minutes, another
car pulled in and parked on
the other side of them, whereupon the driver exited that
car, looked Knowlton over, then
walked to the far end of the parking lot and entered the
park. The few cars that pulled in
had parked next to where the three investigators stood, next
to their car, with notepads in
their hands. Knowlton thought it strange that these men
would park right next to them,
unless it was prearranged.

Green and Clemente walked up to talk to the retired
Army officer. Knowlton
followed. Knowlton heard Green ask the man whether he
recognized Knowlton. The man
acted nervous.

Knowlton suspected that the men entering the park soon
after he arrived were there
at investigators’ request to see if Knowlton could be
identified as a frequent visitor to the
Park.

As the group entered their car to leave, Copeland
mentioned that the car needed
gas. Green then said he knew where there was a gas station
close by. When Copeland
pulled into the gas station, he backed into a space so the
side of the car where Knowlton
was seated faced the station. Investigators left Knowlton
seated alone in the car for ten or
more minutes. During that time, a man loitered in front of
the station while looking in
Knowlton’s direction, and three cars occupied by single men
pulled in, whereupon each
man got out and pumped two or three dollars worth of gas
while looking at Knowlton.

Copeland returned to the car and drove over to the area
of the station where Green
and Clemente were using the telephones. Green suggested that
he and Clemente go and
talk to the US Park Police officer who had just pulled in
behind the agents’ car. The Park
Police officer looked in Knowlton’s direction as he listened
to Green talk. During the drive
back to Washington, the black Nissan Altima that had
followed them from the OIC to Fort
Marcy Park followed.

On December 22, 1995, Knowlton asked one of the
investigators who had
accompanied him that day if the OIC had asked anyone to be
at Fort Marcy Park to see if
they could identify him as a regular visitor at the park.
The investigator said the OIC had
not requested that anyone be there, including the retired
Army officer. He also stated that
the retired Army officer had no telephone at his residence.

In early February, the retired Army officer’s wife
confirmed that the FBI had called
her husband at their residence and asked him to be in Fort
Marcy Park to see whether he
could identify Knowlton as a frequent visitor. The man
dutifully showed up at Fort Marcy
Park at the appointed time. He reported that did not
remember ever having seen Knowlton.

2. Print articles of Knowlton’s account of what he
witnessed in Fort Marcy
Park on July 20, 1993, and the harassment he suf- fered.

Although ten or more articles have been published to
date, interest by the
mainstream Press in the harassment has been less
enthusiastic than anticipated. A partial list
of the articles published follows.

Mentioned
Date Publication Title Author Harassment

10/22/95 Sunday Death in Ambrose predated
Telegraph the Park: Evans- harassment
is this the Pritchard
Killer?*

10/29/95 Pittsburgh Foster Case: Christopher yes
Tribune- Park Witness Ruddy
Review to Appear Before
Starr’s Grand
Jury*

10/31/95 Associated Man Says he Pete Yost no
Press Saw Car with
Arkansas Plates
That Wasn't
Foster's**

11/2/95 New York Post Witness tells Marilyn yes
of Mystery Rauber
car near Foster
death site

11/5/95 Pittsburgh Foster Case: Christopher yes
Tribune- Witness Ruddy
Review ‘Treated Like
a Suspect’***

11/5/95 Sunday Death Ambrose yes
Telegraph mystery Evans-
plot Pritchard
thickens

11/8/95 AIM Report House must yes
probe Foster
death

11/27/95 Insight on The Vince Jamie yes
the News Foster Dettmer
(Washington Mystery
Times
publication)****

2/96 Media Bypass The Death of Hugh yes
Vince Foster: Sprunt
Allegations
of Witness
Tampering &
Forgery

2/8/96 Pittsburgh Grand Jury Christopher no
Tribune- Witness in Ruddy
Review Foster Probe
Taking Aim at
FBI Tactics

* These articles were reprinted in their entirety as
paid advertisements in the Washington Times on Oc-
tober 31, 1995.

** Some broadcast news organizations picked up this
AP story.

*** This article was reprinted in its entirety as a
paid advertisement in the
Washington Times on November 9, 1995.

**** Before interviewing Knowlton and his lawyer at
Knowlton's home, Dettmer
said the article had already been written and would not be
changed, and agreed that all
information was deep background, which means it would not be
published. The article
unfairly quotes Knowlton.

3. Other inaccuracies in the FBI 302 Reports.

The first 302 dated April 18, 1994 inaccurately states
that Knowlton "proceeded
into the park for approximately 200 feet where he relieved
himself..." Knowlton distinctly
remembers telling Agent Monroe that he proceeded only "50 to
75 feet". Monroe several
times asked Knowlton whether it could have been 100 to 200
feet. Each time, Knowlton
responded no, that based on his experience in the
construction industry, he was certain it
was "50 to 75 feet."

The same 302 states that Knowlton "...walked behind the
brown Honda and peered
inside where he observed a dark blue jacket draped over the
driver's seat... [and] a leather
briefcase or a leather folder on the passenger's seat..." In
fact, Knowlton told Monroe that
he approached the driver's side door of the brown Honda,
where he viewed the contents of
the car, then walked around the rear. He never used the word
folder, but stated that it was
"either a hard shell or soft case." He told Monroe that the
jacket was hung over the back of
the driver's seat.

The 302 apparently dictated by Monroe on May 11, 1994,
from his interview with
Knowlton that same day similarly states that Knowlton
reported observing two vehicles "at
approximately 4:15 p.m.," and does not state that he entered
the Park at 4:30 p.m., as he
reported (as does the prior 302). The first 302 does state
that "[I]n his opinion, he was in
the Fort Marcy Park for no more than five minutes." However,
both 302s imply that
Knowlton spent fifteen minutes in the Park.

Both 302s seem to suggest that Knowlton chose the foot
path to the right, toward
the blue-gray sedan, whereas he chose the foot path to the
left, in the opposite direction
from the sedan: The 302 states: "...Knowlton once again
observed the occupant of the
second vehicle now inside the vehicle with the driver's
window slightly down continuing to
stare." The car was backed in. So the man looked to his
right to view Knowlton through
passenger's side window.

4. Additions and changes to this Second Edition of this
Report.

This Report of Witness Tampering has been edited since
November 30, 1995, the
date it was first distributed. To describe the looks on the
faces of the men who glared at
him, Knowlton was given a list of words from which to
choose, including aggressive,
intimidating, hostile, menacing, vicious, intense, and
confrontational. Because the stares
were similar, difficult to describe and subjective, "glare"
replaces most of these adjectives.
Other changes include: 1) addition of Report and Curriculum
Vitae of polygraph expert
Paul K. Minor, 2) addition of Report and Curriculum Vitae of
psychiatrist Dr. Thomas C.
Goldman and Curriculum Vitae of psychologist Dr. Lanning E.
Moldauer, 3) revisions to
maps and the addition of more maps, 4) expanding on some of
Knowlton’s experiences,
and 5) correction of typographical and grammatical errors.

Mr. Knowlton and his lawyer very much appreciate the
courteous and timely
response of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police
Department.

1 The authors believe that investigators initially thought
Knowlton was lying about why he
was in the park only to urinate, for a number of reasons.
One of these reasons is that the
park is reportedly visited by homosexuals, and a former FBI
investigator told the authors
that hiding identification before "cruising" is a
"homosexual practice."

See Endnote 1 for other reasons why Office of Independent
Counsel investigators may not
have initially believed Knowlton's account.

2 In December 1995, Knowlton obtained a copy of his
long distance telephone bill.
The bill also reflects the call he made to his girlfriend
before calling US Park Police.
Knowlton's girlfriend suggested that he write down what he
saw, which he did.

3 See Attachment A, US Park Police Report.

4 See Attachment B, Affidavit of John A. Stein.

5 Another witness, the female driver of the white
Nissan (still in the lot when
Foster’s body was found), who reportedly arrived between
5:00 and 5:30 p.m.,
corroborates Knowlton’s account of the car he saw in the
lot. The FBI Report 302 of that
witness’ interview states in part: "A relatively old (mid
1980s) Honda Accord, either tan or
dark in color, parked close to the entry of the parking lot,
adjacent to a path leading to the
northern section of the park. [She] believed this particular
Honda was parked with the front
of the vehicle facing the park area..."
6 Attachment C is Sunday Telegraph article, "Death in
the Park: Is this the killer?"
by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.

Endnote 2 lists most of the print articles which
report Knowlton’s account of what
he witnessed in Fort Marcy Park on July 20, 1993, and the
harassment he suffered.

7 Attachment D is a copy of these FBI 302s prepared by
Agent Monroe for Office
of Special Counsel under Robert Fiske, Jr.

8 See Endnote 3 for other inaccuracies in the 302s.
9 See Attachment G, excerpts of Sworn Statement of Patrick
J. Knowlton, taken
December 13, 1995, by Congressman Dan Burton.

10 Mr. Knowlton’s girlfriend ("Kathy") contributed to
the account of Suspects 1,
2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13 & 14. Kathy prefers that her full name
not be used in this Report.
Kathy was interviewed by the Office of Independent Counsel
("OIC") on December 6,
1995, one week after the OIC received the first edition of
this Report, and six weeks after
she witnessed the harassment. See Attachment H, Affidavit of
Dr. Kathryn K.

11 Knowlton and Kathy observed two men in the Dupont
Circle area staring at
Knowlton. These men are not referred to elsewhere in this
Report because Knowlton and
Kathy were not certain whether these two men were part of
the team who harassed
Knowlton.

12 It is difficult for Knowlton and other witnesses to
describe the looks on the faces
of the men who glared at him. The stares were all similar.
They were of the type one
would expect from a very angry person. Endnote 4 itemizes
revisions and additions to this
Report since it was distributed to authorities, November 30,
1995.

13 When he returned home, Knowlton gave the plate
number to Pritchard.
Journalist Christopher Ruddy of the Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review, referred to this plate in his
October 29, article, "Foster Case: Park Witness to Appear
Before Starr's Grand Jury"
(Attachment I, page 2):

Pritchard said that the license plate Knowlton no-
ted from Thursday had checked out with a law en-
forcement source of Pritchard's as being a federal
government vehicle. His source suggested Knowlton
was "being warned, or there was an attempt being
made to destabilize him before he appears before
the grand jury," Pritchard recounted.

14 See page 2 of Attachment I, "Foster Case: Park
Witness to Appear Before
Starr's Grand Jury." As of the date of this publication,
Ruddy has not been interviewed by
investigators.
15 Knowlton saw two cars involved in the harassment
that afternoon, both of
which are included in this Report. During their walk, Ruddy
mentioned to Knowlton that
there were a number of cars involved.
16 Five days later, on the evening of November 1, 1995,
Knowlton accompanied
Pritchard and Ruddy for a surprise visit to address of the
car’s registered owner. Pritchard
wrote about that visit in the Sunday Telegraph on November
5, 1995, "Death mystery plot
thickens" (Attachment J):

Knowlton and Ruddy snapped some photos and wrote
down the registration numbers of two cars that
were engaged in an obvious attempt to intimidate.
It turns out that both cars are owned by young
Arabs living in the Washington suburbs of Northern
Virginia.

Just to be certain we found the right people, we
paid a midnight visit to one of the owners at his
rented house near Langley. Two Arabs came to the
door and Ruddy recognized them instantly as the
driver and the passenger of a white Honda that had
trailed them. Knowlton, further back in the sha-
dows, said he recognized the driver at once. To
our surprise, the license plates were clearly dis-
played in the parking spot in front of the house,
but they were attached to a different car... We
chatted on the doorstep. One of the Arabs - let us
call him Aymen - did all the talking. The other
just stared at us... He denied any involvement in
the surveillance of Knowlton. But he paled when we
told him that we had photos of the goon squad.

Ayman had the air of a man who had been contracted
to do some low level harassment and had now found
himself way out of his depth...

Pritchard's investigation has revealed that Ayman is a
Jordanian, politically involved in
Middle Eastern politics, including organizing political
support for Kuwait during the Gulf
War, and supporting US troops.

17 Pritchard reports that this car is owned by a politically
active Lebanese man.

18 At around 6:00 p.m. that night, Knowlton contacted and
retained his lawyer, John H.
Clarke.

19 Mr. Sprunt’s letter is Attachment K.

20 Unlike suspects 1 through 25, Suspects 26, 27, and 28 did
not stare at Knowlton..

21 In the late afternoon on Monday, November 6, OIC
Investigators James Clemente and
Coy Copeland visited Knowlton at his apartment and took a
walk with Knowlton through
his neighborhood. Knowlton saw Suspect 26 and pointed him
out to Clemente. Clemente
instructed Knowlton to return to his apartment. About a half
hour later, Clemente
telephoned Knowlton and reported that they had followed the
man, questioned him, that
the man worked in the neighborhood, and that Knowlton did
not have anything to worry
about regarding the man. Knowlton did not recall ever having
seen the man before that
Monday and the previous Saturday. Knowlton has not seen him
since. Clemente and
Copeland have assured Knowlton and his lawyer that Suspect
26 is not an FBI Agent, but
declined to provide his identity.

22 Sources later told Knowlton that FBI agents generally
travel in pairs, and it is "out of
the norm" for the FBI to send only one agent.
23 CW was referring to the white Nissan with Maryland
plates.

Wayne Mann

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iron...@aol.com (Ironword) wrote:

The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com).

Was Foster's Note Fabricated?
by Marvin Lee
September 6, 1994

....Meanwhile, authors Deborah Stone and Christopher Manion
claim that an inside White House source, code-named
"Deepwater", suspects that Foster's suicide note was
fabricated.
Deepwater claims he participated in a meeting in the White
House
where Bernard Nussbaum's aide Betsy Pond talked about the
note:
"Betsy started to say that she had seen, and then she
paused, that
she had seen something that was more like the beginning and
the
end of the note. When she was asked what she meant she said
'I
think Vince Foster wrote the stuff at the beginning and the
end,
but...' Then she looked up and stopped talking.

It was very strange. She had a puzzled look on her face, and
said
no more."

Indeed the beginning and the end of the note is very
different from
the middle part. The beginning and the end is written in
first
person and explains reasons for personal despair. The middle
part
is written in third person and exonerates the Clintons of
all sorts of
allegations and shifts the blame elsewhere.

That kind of doctoring of documents seems childish, but ask
yourself whether you think Bill would be capable of doing
something like that.

His previous transparent lying seems of a similar caliber.

If we believe Deepwater, that would explain several other
oddities:
that the note was not "discovered" until six days after the
suicide,
that it was "discovered" in a briefcase that had been
searched
before, that it had no fingerprints, and that the White
House has
refused Freedom Of Information Act requests from the press
to
release the note for independent analysis....

...The new information also confirms the impression that the

White House exerted its usual pattern of spin control and
obstruction of justice to deflect questions about why Foster

committed suicide. He was working on Whitewater and
Travelgate
at the time he died. His friend Doug Buford has been quoted
in
the Washington Post as saying, "...something was badly
askew,
something so wrong it could make him think his three kids
would
be better off without him."

[Excerpted from the September 6, 1994 issue of the
Washington
Weekly]

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August 1995
(Composite constructed by Nick Chase from several AIM
reports)

WAS FOSTER'S "SUICIDE" NOTE FORGED?

The Senate Whitewater hearings have devoted many hours to
the
so-called suicide note of former White House Deputy Counsel
Vincent Foster that was allegedly found torn up into 27
scraps of
yellow paper in his briefcase six days after his death. The
scraps of
paper were allegedly found by Steven Neuwirth, a White House

Associate Counsel who was boxing up Foster's personal
belongings to be returned to his family. Neuwirth testified
that he
took the scraps to White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum.

The note was undated and unsigned. It said nothing whatever
about suicide or farewells to Foster's family. It did
suggest that
Foster was unhappy about criticism directed at him and the
Clintons. This was accepted as evidence that Foster was
sufficiently depressed to commit suicide.

The Park Police, who were investigating Foster's death,
asked Sgt.
Larry Lockhart, U.S. Capitol Police handwriting expert, now
retired, to verify that the note was written by Foster.
Lockhart was
shown the note and a copy of a signed letter known to have
been
handwritten by Foster. He gave a written opinion that the
note and
the letter had probably been written by the same person.

The government refused to release photocopies of the
reconstructed note and fought efforts by The Wall Street
Journal
to obtain a copy under the Freedom of Information Act. That
is
currently on appeal. Those interested could arrange to view
the
note at the Department of Justice, but this precluded
subjecting it
to independent tests to verify that Foster had written it.
Suspicious
minds concluded that was the reason for the refusal

to make photocopies available.

On August 2, The Wall Street Journal breached the wall of
secrecy by publishing a photo of the actual reconstructed
note on
its editorial page.

This made it possible for the first time to check Sgt.
Lockhart's
finding that Foster wrote the note. The known sample of
Foster's
handwriting with which he compared it, a handwritten letter
signed
by Foster, dated June 18, 1993, can be found on page 1714 of
the
two volumes of testimony and documents on the death of
Vincent
Foster released by the Senate Banking Committee last
January.

To our untutored eyes, the letter and the note did not
appear to
have been written by the same hand.... The differences were
quite
pronounced.

On August 6, Reed Irvine met with Lockhart, showing him a
sheet
of paper with 12 words that were found in both the Foster
letter
(Senate Banking Committee Hearings 1994, p. 1714) and the
note. They had been copied and enlarged greatly on a copying

machine. Lockhart was told that these words came from two
documents, neither of which was identified. He was asked if,
in his
professional opinion, all 12 words had been written by the
same
person. Lockhart proceeded to divide the words into two
groups
based on differences that he observed. In one group he
placed four
words from the letter and one from the note. In the other
group he
placed six words from the note and one from the letter. In
other
words he made only one mistake in grouping the words known
to
have been written by Foster and the words taken from the
unsigned note. That was a capital "I" written in cursive
script.

When shown blow-ups of parts of the two documents so he
could
see the context of the words, Lockhart said "very possibly"
and
"probably" the two documents were written by different
persons.
He pointed out indications of conscious efforts to imitate
Foster's
handwriting by the person who wrote the note. At that point
he
didn't know that he was reversing the opinion he gave the
Park
Police in July 1993. When that was brought to his attention
he
acknowledged that he had not used any enlargements for his
1993
analysis. He said he thought the differences he had observed

between the two documents might be explained by Foster's
mental
state or by medication he was taking. He didn't know that
the note
was supposed to have been written perhaps more than two
weeks
before Foster's death, long before he had taken any anti-
depressant.

The reversal of his opinion had been taped with his
knowledge,
but he declined to state publicly that the authenticity of
the note
should be rechecked, using additional documents known to
have
been written by Foster and employing magnification.

A few days later, another professional handwriting expert
took the
same test we gave Lockhart. She came to the same conclusion
as
Lockhart, saying there was a "good probability" they had
been
written by different persons.

(Both experts agreed that it would be desirable to compare
the
torn-up note with more samples of Foster's handwriting.)

After bringing this to the attention of the Senate Select
Committee,
the Justice Department and several journalists, we obtained
some
additional samples of Foster's handwriting and a better copy
of the
note than the one we copied from the August 2 Wall Street
Journal. We haven't yet submitted these to any handwriting
experts, but we have scrutinized them carefully.

One thing that is clear is that Foster did not always write
with the
same care that he wrote the letter that was used as the
exemplar
when Lockhart first authenticated the note and then reversed

himself. Nor was he always consistent in the way he wrote
individual words.

The fact that he was writing more carefully when he wrote
the
letter does help explain the sharp difference in the
appearance of
the two documents that first gave rise to suspicions that
the note
was a forgery. The fact that he was not always consistent
also
weakens the case for forgery, since it rested heavily on
differences
in the way he wrote the one word that was used several times
in
both documents--the word "the." These differences were
easily
seen when the words were enlarged.

That said, we still see indications that the note may have
been
forged. While the individual words appear close enough to
have
been written by the same person, given the inconsistencies
in
Foster's writing, the overall appearance still has a
different look in
the opinion of some who have examined all the documents.

And there are inconsistencies that may be significant. For
example,
there are four capital I's in cursive script in the
documents one in
the "suicide" note, one in the letter and two in the other
notes. The
only one that is distinctly different is the one in the
"suicide" note.
More study is needed, and we plan to seek the opinions of
more
experts.

---------------------------------

Experts: Foster note fake

By Christopher Ruddy
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW

WASHINGTON - At a press conference in Washington today, an
international panel of forensic handwriting experts -
including one
from Oxford University - will announce its findings that a
torn
note, said to have been Vince Foster Jr.'s "suicide" note,
is a
forgery.

Strategic Investment, a Baltimore-based financial
newsletter, and
its editor, James Dale Davidson, have called the conference
to
issue the written findings of three experts that analyzed a
copy of a
note.

Twenty-seven pieces (the 28th piece was missing) of the note
were
claimed to have been found in the late Deputy White House
Counsel's briefcase almost a week after his sudden death on
July
20, 1993.

If the forensic panel's assertions are true, it could
indicate that
someone engaged in a major cover-up of Foster's death and
obstructed justice by hindering the investigation of the
matter. The
U.S. Park Police originally determined that the note was
written by
Foster, and ruled his death a suicide. At the request of
former
Special Counsel Robert Fiske, the FBI lab examined the note
and
concluded it was authentic.

The methodology used by both the FBI and Park Police to
certify
the note, however, has been challenged. Fiske relied on the
note to
help make his case that Foster was depressed in the last
days of his
life, particularly over apparent improprieties in the White
House
Travel Office.

The note begins, "I made mistakes from ignorance,
inexperience
and overwork", and from there rambles on about legal,
personal
and office concerns on a single sheet of 81/2 by 11 legal
paper.

Foster's wife, Lisa, told the FBI that she believed her
husband had
written the note in the weeks before his death after she had
advised
him to document "everything 'they' did wrong." She told the
FBI
that she "did not view or read the note" until it was pieced
together
and shown to her.

FORENSIC REPORTS

The three forensic reports obtained by the Tribune-Review
indicate that the experts came to independent conclusions
that
Foster did not write the note.

Reginald E. Alton indicated that, based on his comparison of
a
photocopy of the note with a dozen photocopied documents
known to have been written by Foster, the torn note "is a
forgery."

Alton has for 30 years lectured on handwriting, manuscript
authentication, and forgery detection at England's Oxford
University. In recent years he led a panel of experts that
ruled on
the challenged diaries of noted English author C.S. Lewis.
Alton's
opinion has been sought by British police agencies and,
according
to his biography, he has testified in British courts as an
expert
witness relating to questioned documents.

Alton is currently Dean of Degrees at Oxford's St. Edmund
Hall,
its oldest undergraduate institution. In his report Alton
noted eight
major discrepancies between the torn note and Foster's known

handwriting. He described Foster's natural writing as "firm,
open,
rounded, with a consistent slight backward slope and an easy

currency that joins letters with scarcely an interruption.
..." The
torn note, he said, is written in a less open style with an
inconsistent slope, and with letters drawn in a
characteristic arched
style.

Coming to a similar conclusion, Vincent Scalice notes that
the
"execution, form and style of the writing ... is not
consistent with
(Foster's) writings. ..."

Scalice, a former homicide and identification expert with
the New
York City Police Department, has 22 years experience
handling
questioned documents and is a certified document examiner
with
the American Board of Forensic Examiners.

He has testified in numerous court cases relating to
documents and
has consulted for major firms and banks, including Citibank
and
Chemical Bank, as a document examiner.

"Look at the note, and just compare it with the flow of the
letter
the Park Police used to authenticate," Scalice said in an
interview.
"Even a lay person can see it's not a match." Scalice added
that he
also analyzed the challenged document for specific letter
characteristics and other patterns that indicate the note to
be a
forgery.

Offering a third opinion of forgery, Ronald Rice heads New
England Investigations of Boston and has 18 years experience

examining documents and is board certified. A consultant to
the
criminal unit of the Massachusetts Attorney General's
Office, Rice
has worked on a number of celebrated cases, and recently was

asked by CNN to examine notes written by O.J. Simpson.

Rice told the Tribune-Review that the note is "an artistic
forgery."
The forger, Rice suggests, took known writings of Foster and

"either drew them, used a cut-and-paste method, or used a
highly
sophisticated computer scanning method."

Alton and Scalice also agreed that the forger created the
torn note
from known writings. "A good forger always wants to mimic
the
real thing, rather than create a word," Scalice explained.
"This is
probably why the note never makes a reference to suicide.
Foster
likely had never written any such words."

BRIEFCASE

"The flimsy investigation into the note parallels still the
flimsy
investigation of the death," Davidson said. Davidson and his

newsletter have criticized the handling of the Foster case
by federal
authorities. Given the political overtones of the Foster
matter,
Davidson noted he strongly supported President Clinton in
the
past, having donated the maximum amount allowable to his
1992
presidential campaign, and has attended "renaissance
weekends"
and inaugural balls for then-Gov. Clinton.

He said he hired the experts after he received information
that the
FBI and Park Police did not adequately review the note. In
his
report, homicide expert Scalice said the torn note is "not
consistent" with a suicide note, since it makes no mention
of
intentional harm, suicide, death, farewell, or expressions
of
departure.

Scalice, also an expert in the identification of latent
fingerprint
impressions, said if the note was torn into 28 pieces
without
leaving any fingerprints, this "would be consistent with
someone
having worn gloves." "Otherwise there should have been
numerous latent impressions," he said.

Scalice and Alton both said finding of the note "torn"
should have
been a red flag for investigators that a forger may have
been
attempting to make a comparison of the document more
difficult.
"Anytime a document is torn, mutilated, something spilled on
it,
suspicion should be aroused," Scalice said.

The White House says that the note was found in Foster's
briefcase as it was being packed almost a week after his
death.
Then-White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum admitted he
searched the briefcase two days after Foster's death and
that he did
not detect the torn pieces.

The Park Police in both private and public interviews have
claimed
that the briefcase was searched properly, and that the torn
note
was not in it during the official search conducted by
Nussbaum.

Earlier this year Park Police detective Pete Markland told
the
Washington Post that Nussbaum searched the briefcase twice,
declaring "It's empty." Markland told the New York Post in
April
that he became suspicious when the note was later found in
the
same briefcase. "Nobody could have missed that note in
there,"
Markland told the Post. Markland never testified at Senate
hearings this past summer.

POLICE, FISKE EXAMINATION

Despite apparent suspicions about the note, police
apparently took
a rather casual approach to its examination. On July 29,
1993, the
Park Police had Sgt. Larry Lockhart, an expert in
handwriting for
the U.S. Capitol Police, examined the note. Lockhart
concluded
that Foster wrote it.

Lockhart told the Tribune-Review that he has no
certification as a
handwriting examiner, but has developed his skill over a
15-year
period. He admitted that he used only a single document of
Foster's known writing - a curt letter that Foster had
written shortly
before his death - to make the comparison.

"According to the federal rules of evidence you need at
least four
known writings to compare a questioned document, but usually
an
examiner wants as many as he can get," explained Ron Rice,
who
wrote the course on handwriting examination for the American

Board of Forensic Examiners.

Scalice noted that in a homicide investigation police "would
not
normally accept a single document (for comparison purposes)
from a family member. You'd want documents from several
sources to make sure the police aren't given a forged
document to
compare another forged document."

Asked how many known writings he typically wants to make a
comparison, Lockhart said his rule is "the more the better."
He
said he made his opinion based on one document in this case
because that "was all the police gave me."

Lockhart said when he examined the torn note he did notice a

wavering in the writing "which could have been a tremble."
He
said that although he noted it to himself, "I didn't say
anything at
the time to investigators. There was something in the
writing that
indicated the individual could have been a manic
depressant."

He said he later read in the paper that Foster was on
medication
and saw that as a possible reason for the "tremble." He was
unaware that Foster is said to have gone on medication for
insomnia the night before he died, and that the note was
said to
have been written days or weeks earlier.

Other experts say that a "tremble" could be a sign of
hesitation - a
forged document lacks the free-flowing style of the actual
writer.
The Park Police say that they did not use the FBI lab to
examine
the document because Foster had criticized the FBI by
stating in
the torn note: "The FBI lied in their report to the AG."

According to the report of former Special Counsel Robert
Fiske,
the FBI lab subsequently was brought in and "determined that
the
torn note was written by Foster." Fiske used, like the Park
Police,
a single page document offered by the family, adding only
two
checks written by Foster, for handwriting comparison
purposes.

But a source close to the Starr probe said Fiske was
imprecise in
his report: the FBI lab found the two checks to be an
"inconclusive
match" to the torn note.

The FBI lab matched the note to the single page document.

The lab's reliance on so few documents in the case
contradicts
normal FBI procures.

"The general guidelines is to have more (known writings)
rather
than less," explained John Hicks, recently retired FBI
assistant
director and head of the FBI Crime Lab, which oversaw the
Document Unit. "If I had to come up with a minimum number of

(known writings) I'd want, I'd say 10," James Lyle said.
Lyle, a
former special agent and unit chief for the Questioned
Document
Section who retired in 1993, said there "is no rule of
thumb"
except that analysts "usually want as many as you can get."

----------------

Wayne Mann

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iron...@aol.com (Ironword) wrote:

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have lost the author of this. It was not me. I apologize
to the author.

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Right. The barrel of a revolver kicks up because of the way
most revolvers
are balanced. Referring to the figure below, the force of
the recoil F
acts through a distance d on the center of gravity (+) to
produce an
upward acting moment M. It is clear from the configuration
of the weapon
that most of the mass is located at a lower level than the
barrel. That
is why the weapon kicks up when fired.

________________________________________________________

| |
| |
| |
| |<------ 4" ------>| |
| _ ______|__ _| |
| \\/\/______ \_____________/_| |
| \ /| || | | |
| // | || |_______________| |
| _</ | |\ |______%%% |
| /| |______||\/ |
| / | --------+/\ |
| / |____________/ \__ Front cylinder |
| /( ) /\\ (( || gap |
| / | \\____// |
| / | \____/ |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| |______| |
| |
|________________________________________________________|
__________________________________________________________
| |
| Colt .38 Service Revolver found in Foster's hand. The FBI|
| lab found that gun powder is discharged from the barrel's|
| muzzle and the front cylinder gap when the gun is fired. |
| Residues on Foster's index fingers indicated both hands |
| were in the vicinity of the front cylinder gap when the |
| gun was fired. |
|__________________________________________________________|

_________________________________________________________

| |
| GRIP USED BY FOSTER |
| (Based on location of powder burns) |
| |
| __ _____ Third Finger |
| Little Finger ---->/ / / __ |
| /_/ __/ /| |
| / / / /_/ | __ |
| /_/_/_/ /|_| / |<--Index Finger |
| / / / /_/\ \/_/|_________/_| |
| /\ / / /_/_ |\ | | |
| /_\/ / | /| | \|_______________| |
| \\/ | | |\ | \______%%% |
| / |_| |_\| /\ |
| / / | \ / \__ Second Fiinger |
| / ____/ |___\ |
| / /|||/ /| \ |
| / | \\\__/// \___ Thumb |
| / | \____/ |
| | | / |
| | | / |
| | | / \ |
| /| | / \__ Wrist |
| |______|/ |
|_________________________________________________________|

____________________________________________________________
|
I saw nothing there about any powder burns on the left hand.
So what
if Foster stabilized the gun with his right hand, as shown
above, while
pulling the trigger with his LEFT thumb? If the powder
burns locate
the fingers of the right hand as shown in the diagram, this
is a logical
conclusion. It would amount to a two handed operation of
pistol with the
left fingers on the grip.

Unfortunately for this scenario, the gun would have ended up
on Fosters
LEFT thumb not on his right thumb.

If the suicide was staged, it would be logical for the
perpetrators to
induce powder burns on the same hand into which they were
going to plant
the gun. They may have gotten a bit carried away, and fired
the gun a little
too closely to Foster's hand, in order to ensure that the
powder burns were
obvious. In so doing, they created powder burns which where
clear enough to
establish that the right thumb could not have been on the
trigger at all.

_________________________________________________________

| |
| A TYPICAL SUICIDE GRIP |
| |
| _________ _ |
| /______ \_____________/_| |
| /\ /| | | | |
| /_\ / | | |_______________| |
| _ \\/ | | |_______%%% |
| | \ / |\ |______| / |
| Fingers _\ \ | \ / |
| of right | \\ | \ \_______/ |
| hand ---> _\ \\_| /|\ \ || |
| | \\ \ | /\\__|_//<-- Trigger guard |
| \ \\ \ | \_\__/ |
| _\ \\_| | / \ |
| | \\ \ | _/\ \___ Thumb |
| \ \\_| | \ |
| \ \ | \ |
| \_|_____| \ |
| \ |
| \ |
|_________________________________________________________|
_________________________________________________________
| |
| A typical suicide will fire a gun in this manner. The |
| fingers grasp the gun's handgrip to stabilize the gun, |
| and allow for a natural pull on the trigger. |
|_________________________________________________________|

Wayne Mann

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iron...@aol.com (Ironword) wrote:

Folks I would be VERY careful about taking this
seriously. However the reason I am including it is to ask
if anyone has heard anything about her since this time?

FROM: DEBRA VON TRAPP
TO: KENNETH STARR, ESQ.
=======================

January 31, 1996

Kenneth Starr, Esq.
Independent Counsel
By facsimile (202) 514-8802

RE: EOP/Obstruction of Justice

Dear Mr. Starr:

I am contacting your office in regard to work that I
performed
with certain federal intelligence employees, supervised by
federal intelligence employee Robert Goetzman, beginning in
1991.

Robert Goetzman approached me in a private press function in

Atlanta in May of 1991. He introduced himself by saying,
"I'm
Robert Goetzman. I'm from the Executive Office of the
President.
[EOP]"

I am one of the leading technical analysts and consultants
in the
computer industry. Prior to 1981, I was a judge's clerk for
Orange County Superior Court.

Robert Goetzman has been identified to me, in writing, by
the
State Department, as an FBI employee. However, other federal

contacts have identified him as holding DOJ clearances for
both
the CIA and FBI. During some of our activity, he carried
business
cards reading MCA/Universal (Japanese-owned MCA, Inc.) with
his
name on them, as an employee.

MCA, Inc. began calls and threats to me in July of 1994. It
presently has one of its Directors in a rental house across
the
street from my home of eighteen years.

I specifically wish to inform you of our activity, on behalf
of
the Embassy of Japan in Washington D.C., which began at the
Lincoln Memorial during the pre-Inaugural activities. We
delivered $25,000.00 worth of large screen televisions to
the
site, at Goetzman's direction, from Mitsubishi Electric and
Toshiba. At that time Toshiba was prohibited by federal
court
order from trade with the U.S. Government.

I have been advised by other Washington sources that Robert
Goetzman reported to Ollie North at the NSA during the
Toshiba
prosecution and is listed as FBI personnel in that
prosecution.

The delivery was met by Robert Goetzman and his subordinate
Peter
Stanley. Goetzman placed transmitting surveillance devices
behind
screens of three of the sets and escorted them into the VIP
tent
for Mr. Clinton. The sets moved with Mr. Clinton to the
Capitol
Center and returned to the original site. At the conclusion
of
this activity, the sets were abandoned on the sidewalk of
the
Lincoln Memorial.

The Inaugural Committee then trucked the sets to the
Washington
Naval Shipyard, where they were placed under military guard
until
the Committee, at its own expense, trucked them on United
Van
Lines to California and delivered them to my house. I have
the
documents and phone records from these activities.

We then proceeded to fulfill all of the first Executive
Office
purchase orders through front companies operated by FBI and
CIA
personnel. Peter Stanley sold Hillary her first purchase
order, a
MacIntosh computer. Robert Goetzman and I shopped, publicly
in
meetings with computer industry executives, with Hiroshi
Suzuki
from the Embassy of Japan, for twenty motherboards for the
Executive Office computers. I fulfilled, along with
Goetzman, the
first software purchase order from the Executive Office.
Robert
Goetzman and another subordinate, Jim Cofield, represented
that
all of the equipment was delivered with surveillance
capability.
We purchased and caused to be installed WordPerfect 5.2 to
ensure
that all document files that were surveilled could be easily
run
through database analysis by the Embassy personnel. At one
point
the Embassy had problems in converting English to Japanese
on its
printer, prior to transmitting to Tokyo. At Goetzman's
request, I
arranged for Ambassador Kuriyama's driver to pick up a box
with
my name on it, which contained an unreleased Kanji version
of
MicroSoft Windows. This program solved the printer problem.

Paul Steele, a federal employee who had been with us at the
White
House during the Bush Administration, became Director of
Purchasing for the District of Columbia when Mr. Clinton
took
office. Robert Goetzman, Paul Steele, Jim Cofield and I
purchased, delivered and placed surveillance equipment in
DOC
[District of Columbia(?)] offices, including the Municipal
Police
Department. I was paid, by arrangement through Paul Steele,
for
this activity by their appropriation of the Xerox Copier
repair
budget. The budget totalled $10,000.00, an amount that would
have
triggered further scrutiny. They therefore paid me a
District of
Columbia check for $9,975.00.

Robert Goetzman then removed 100 copies of WordPerfect 5.1
from
the Executive Office Building and delivered them, along with
a
compromised master copy of WordPerfect 5.2., to the
Democratic
National Committee to complete the surveillance effort. I
personally obtained and delivered, with Robert Goetzman and
Jim
Cofield, close to $500,000.00 worth of computer software to
the
Committee, in pricing arrangements that otherwise violated
GSA
rules for the vendors. In fact, the GSA stepped in to
complain
and then suddenly, inexplicably, backed off.

When I went public in March of 1994, George Stephanopoulos
and
the DNC counsel then proceeded to engage in a coverup. Janet
Reno
first opened an investigation in July of 1994, then her
office
informed me by telephone that Paul Coffey, Chief of the
Organized
Crime and Racketeering Section, had ordered some 62 pages of
my
documents to be sent to his office and destroyed. I then had
two
conversations with Paul Coffey. He advised me that he had
destroyed the records, that they were not copied or
forwarded
from the Secretariat's office to the FBI, and that he had
instructed his staff to hang up on me if I called. He told
me
that this information "would never see the light of day" and
that
I should go back to Robert Goetzman and try to get in his
good
graces.

The DNC then sent me two checks, in an apparent effort to
silence
me. In total, the DNC paid me over $50,000.00.

Without his knowledge, I recorded a telephone conversation
with
Jim Cofield, represented to me as being a DIA employee
reporting
to Goetzman, in which he stated that I would be killed if I
talked about the Embassy of Japan.

When I advised both Cofield and Goetzman that I had
audiotaped
them, Mr. Panetta's office (and presumably Mr. and Mrs.
Clinton,
since I had been given a fax number into Mr. Clinton's
office to
communicate with him) arranged for the SBA [Small Business
Administration(?)] to give me $151,000.00 after I had been
turned
down twice on my application for a $16,000.00 loan.

Then another Goetzman associate, John McCracken (a former
Navy
Seal), brought me in on his team to open another front
company.
He paid me close to $50,000.00 and demanded the audiotapes.
I
didn't deliver them in Las Vegas on November 11, 1995 and
then
left under his direct threat that they are going to kill
both
myself and my son.

I never knew the official description of this team. However,
an
article authored by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the London
Daily
Telegraph and appearing Saturday, January 27, 1996 [CN --
accompanying article by AEP is dated Jan. *29*, 1996],
closely
describes our team. A copy follows this letter.

It is my belief that a member of this team, or someone
cooperating with them, would not only have had access, but
motive, to remove and then replace documents on the third
floor
of the White House.

Robert Goetzman called me on the night Vince Foster was
killed.
He said: "We did him." "We did him somewhere else but we
dumped
him in a queer park to send a message to Clinton and his
queer
wife." "He (Foster) went entreprenurial on us." "He was
selling
NSA codes to the Israelis."

I am specifically requesting that you review not only the
names
of the people that I worked with from the EOP, but others
that
they have had contact with at the White House since 1991, to

determine whether or not their name appears on the
admittance log
to the third floor.

I am specifically requesting that you cause to be
investigated
the Clinton Administration coverup of their knowledge of the

surveillance and the theft and transfer of federal property
(100
copies of WordPerfect 5.1) from the Executive Office
building to
K.C. Schoor-Hollings, MIS Director of the Democratic
National
Committee. Ms. Hollings left the DNC as soon as I went
public.

I am specifically requesting federal government protection
and
that I not be subject to contact by any member of the FBI
from
California. Special Agent Janelle Salveson has directly
threatened me, on behalf of Robert Goetzman, if I continue
to
talk.

I have interviewed on approximately 15 radio shows and two
television broadcasts. I have distributed the audiotapes and

copies of all of my documents publicly.

I have reported these facts not only to the Justice
Department,
but separately, both orally and in writing, to the
Washington FBI
office and the Secret Service. Remarkably, all of that
activity
has only resulted in further threats to my life and more
payoffs.

Robert Goetzman has conducted a continued effort to frame me
as
an unstable person because I have discussed this activity. I

invite you to review the videotape of Mr. Nixon's funeral. I
was
placed, by the U.S. Government (and presumably in a stable
state
of mind), *unsearched*, on the tarmack at the landing of Mr.

Nixon's body and again, stationed at the front door of the
Nixon
Library, *with* *each* *of* *the* *Presidents*, *past* *and*

*present*, *unsearched*, standing next to a Secret Service
agent.

Mr. Starr, I am contacting you in the hope that one person
(yourself) in the federal government is not personally
compromised in his capacity and is unwilling to obstruct
justice.

I was called by Victor Huston, FBI, of your office today. He

seemed quite nonchalant about my accusations and evidence
and
especially distant after I implicated the FBI. He, in fact,
only
suggested that I "write" you by mail, then attempted to
leave the
conversation without giving me an address. When I told him
that I
had your fax number, he discouraged me from faxing you. He
stated
that he didn't want me "to tie up the fax machine."

Please put me, my documents and audiotapes in front of the
Washington Grand Jury. I believe the activity of Mrs.
Clinton,
Vince Foster, the "Goetzman Team", the Secret Service and
the
coverup of the discovered surveillance of the administration
and
the DNC has direct bearing on your investigation of the
disappearance, reappearance and non-delivery of subpoenaed
documents.

Sincerely,
Debra von Trapp

cc: A. Evans-Pritchard, AP, Washington Times, Washington
Post, LA
Times, NY Times, Michigan Militia, Montana Militia, Patriot
Fax
Network
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Wayne Mann

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iron...@aol.com (Ironword) wrote:

TAKE THE FISKE REPORT QUIZ!

Answer True, False or Misleading:

1. "Experts in the FBI Laboratory performed a thorough
analysis of the
available evidence." (p. 2, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

2. "Neither individual (woman and friend present at the
park) heard a gunshot
while in the park or observed anything unusual." (p. 35,
Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

3. "At approximately 8:45 p.m., Corey Ashford and Roger
Harrison lifted
Foster's body under the arms and placed him into a body
bag." (p. 36, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

4. "Everyone known to have been in Fort Marcy Park on the
afternoon or
evening of July 20, 1993 also was questioned .. (officials
listed) ...and others
who were in or near the park on that day for reasons
unconnected with Foster's
death. " (p . 3, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

5. "The keys to the car were located in Foster's pants
pocket." (p. 35, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

6. "The only vehicular entrance (to Ft. Marcy) is from the
parkway." (p. 28,
Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

7. "CW (confidential witness) acknowledges that, because of
his position at
the top of the Berm and the heavy foliage, there could have
been a gun in the
man's hand that he did not see." (p. 30, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

8. "CW further stated that he believed the man's palms were
facing
upward."(p. 30, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

9 "Experienced FBI Laboratory Technicians in Washington D.C.
(the FBI lab)
performed extensive analyses of the physical evidence
identified during the
investigation." (p. 4, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

10. "...the evidence overwhelming supports this (suicide)
conclusion and there
is no evidence to the contrary..." (p. 6, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

11. "At approximately 7:40 p.m., Dr. Donald Haut, the
Fairfax County
Medical Examiner, arrived at the scene.."

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

12. "In addition to conducting interviews, this office
examined documentary
and photographic evidence including ..documents removed from
Foster's office
at the White House and turned over to either the Clinton's
private attorney or
the Foster family attorney." (p. 4, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

13. "Gonzalez (lead paramedic) believed he saw a bullet hole
in the upper right
portion of Foster's forehead. Arthur (EMS worker) believed
he saw a bullet
wound on the side of Foster's neck. These wounds did not
exist. The autopsy
resulted, the photographs taken at the scene, and the
observations made by
Park Police investigators conclusively show that there was
no such wounds."
(p. 33, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

14. "When shown the gun, Foster's sister Sharon Bowman
identified it as
appearing very similar to one their father had kept in his
bedside table,
specifically the pattern on the grip." (p. 38, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

15. "Lisa Foster stated that the gun looked similar to one
that she had seen in
their home in Arkansas and that she had brought to
Washington." (p. 38,
Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

16. "FBI lab personnel excavated to a depth of approximately
eighteen inches,
searching the soil through various screening methods." (p.
48, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

17. "Park Police who were present when Foster's body was
rolled over
observed a fairly large pool of blood on the ground where
his head had been."
(p. 53, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

18. "The closest building to the park is the official Saudi
Arabian
Ambassador's residence located across Chain Bridge Road."
(p. 55, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

19. "Foliage leading up to and around Foster s body was
dense." (p. 56, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

20. "Although no one noticed a loss of appetite, it was
obvious to many that he
had lost weight." (p. 9, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

21. "The overwhelming weight of the evidence compels the
conclusion,
however that Vincent Foster committed suicide in Fort Marcy
Park on July
20,1993." (p.58, Fiske)

[] TRUE [] FALSE [] MISLEADING

ANSWERS:

1. FALSE. Hair and carpet fibers abundant on Foster's
clothing, were never
analyzed. (pp. 67-68, Senate Hearings)

2. FALSE. They saw something very unusual. They stated they
saw two men
in and around Foster's car in the parking lot. (pp.
1470-1474, 1715-1730,
Senate hearings)

3. FALSE. The log of the ambulance transporting Foster's
body shows
Ashford and Harrison arrived at the hospital with Foster' s
body at 8:30 p.m.,
having left the park at 8:16 p.m. (pp. 1096, 1428, Senate
hearings)

4. FALSE. The following persons were never questioned: men
seen in and
around Foster's car, volunteers working on the trail
mentioned by Officer
Fornshill, and men seen getting dressed in the woods by the
paramedics. (p
.1161, 1387, 917-918, 1715-30, 1470-74, Senate hearings)

5. MISLEADING. Foster's pockets were empty when searched at
the park.
Fiske cleverly did not report the keys were found thirteen
miles from the park
at the morgue, in the pants pocket, after the body had
visitors. To the
uninformed reader, it would appear from the Fiske report
that the keys had
been recovered at the park. (pp. 481,507, 561, Senate
hearings)

6. FALSE. Fiske completely ignores the back road on the west
side of the
park, which has existed since the Civil War. This road is
the closest to where
the body was found. It is 300 feet closer then where
Foster's car was found in
the parking lot. Parking is also available but ignored by
Fiske at the Chain
Bridge Road entrance. (historical & survey maps)

7. EXTREMELY MISLEADING. Fiske does not mention that CW only
made
this statement after he was asked 25 times if he had seen a
gun. Twenty-five
times he said "NO." CW later said he felt badgered by the
questions. The FBI
refused to show CW a photo he had requested to verify what
he saw. Later
when he saw the photo (which was leaked to the press) of
Foster's hand with a
gun, he positively denied that was what he saw. He has
repeatedly stated that
he closely looked at the hands and there was no gun. (p.
1462, Senate
hearings)

8. FALSE. Fiske frequently injects words into testimony. CW
did not say he
"believed" the palms were up. He said the palms were up.
Anyone who read
the testimony would know there was no doubt.(p. 2226, Senate
hearings)

9. FALSE. Again, they did not examine fiber and hair
evidence identified
during the investigation. It is also misleading because
Fiske says, "during the
investigation." He implies the FBI was part of the
investigation. They were in
fact kept out of have the initial investigation. They did
not begin to analyze
evidence until months later, after the official ruling of
suicide. (pp. 67-68
Senate hearings)

10. BLATANTLY FALSE.

11. FALSE. Dr. Haut stated that he arrived at 6:45 p.m. (p.
1658, Senate
hearings)

12. MISLEADING. Fiske implies he examined the documents
removed from
Foster's office. Since the office was not sealed, he has no
way of knowing if he
examined the documents removed. There is no mention of the
documents that
were placed in the private residence on orders from Hillary
Rodham Clinton.
(It is impossible for anyone, including Mr. Fiske, to know
what was taken from
the office.)

13. MISLEADING. Fiske injected the word "believed" into the
statements by
these men. To do so is to improperly put "spin" on their
statements. Autopsy
results were incomplete without X-rays. Park Police
observations are very
contradictory. Photographic evidence could hardly be
conclusive since it is
almost non-existent. There are only 13 Polaroid's known to
exist of the entire
crime scene. All 35mm film was underexposed and many of the
Polaroid's
have become "missing." The "conclusive" photos were never
released by Fiske.
(pp. 269, 387, 883, 903-904, 996, 1383, 1629, 2112, Senate
hearings)

14. FALSE. Sharon Bowman was never actually shown the gun,
only a photo
of the gun. It was reported that she said only the grip was
similar to the gun her
father owned. When asked if other parts were similar, she
said no. (pp. 741,
2169, Senate hearings)

15. FALSE. Fiske changed the words of Lisa Foster's
statement. Her statement
did not say she "had seen." It said, she "may have seen."
The only gun she
reported Foster had in their home was a "silver six-gun."
Fiske did not mention
the silver gun in his report, perhaps because the gun found
with Foster was
black. (pp 2227, 16146, Senate hearings)

16. FALSE. Two members of the team searching for the bullet
that killed
Foster remembered no excavation of dirt or cutting the roots
that proliferate
the area. Robert Sonderman, a National Park Service senior
staff archaeologist
and Dr. Doug Owsley, a forensic anthropologist with the
Smithsonian were
present when the search for the bullet was made. They said a
surface search
was made and some raking. (4/5/95, Pittsburgh Tribune
Review).

17. FALSE. Officer Rolla, present at the scene, testified to
the U.S. Senate
that he did not remember blood on the ground. He said most
of the blood was
on Foster's head. (pp. 427, 629, 1659, Senate hearings)

18. FALSE. Several homes are much closer, including many on
the same side
of Chain Bridge Road as the Park. (survey maps)

19. FALSE. Directly in front of the second cannon is a dirt
path. Numerous
eyewitnesses describe this dirt path. The sentence by Fiske
was used to explain
why no dirt was on Foster's shoes. His explanation is
clearly wrong. (pp. 628,
1018, 1361, 1553, 1659, 1661, Senate hearings)

20. FALSE. Dr. Larry S. Watkins, Foster's personal physician
since 1979, told
the FBI that Foster weighed 194 pounds on Dec. 31, 1992. At
the autopsy, his
weight was 197 pounds (not including the weight of blood
lost). Therefore,
whatever happened in between, Foster gained weight during
1993 prior to his
death. (pp. 860, 1676 Senate hearings)

21. FALSE The overwhelming weight of evidence compels the
conclusion that
Fiske manipulated the facts to support a suicide theory .

Wayne Mann

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iron...@aol.com (Ironword) wrote:

This is from Hogs in the Tunnels (800-728-2288).
by John Elvin

The point is, it is not really surprising that when we
look
back on the days of political intrigue and instability when
the
City of Washington was founded, we discover that citizens
turned some of their attention to tunneling. They thought,
rightly enough, that there would be a need for escape routes

and hideouts. As was proven out, the city was certainly
vulnerable to British attack. At the request of Dolly
Madison, who rightly enough feared future British invasions
of Washington, John Tayloe had a very substantial tunnel
built from his Octagon House at 18th and New York
Avenues to the White House.

In those days, the Octagon House was a favored
Presidential hideout.

From the reminisces of old-time Washingtonians, we
learn that the Tayloe tunnel begins at the foot of a secret
stairway in the Octagon House and terminates behind a brick
fireplace in the White House. An auxiliary passageway was
built down to the Potomac River in case it was necessary to
make a getaway by boat.

Those familiar with this tunnel system describe it as
meandering structure featuring large rooms, twisting and
turning beneath the city streets. History buffs will recall
the
alleged conspirators against Lincoln were said to have
known about this particular tunnel and planned to use it in
their aborted kidnap plot.

<snip>

It's easy to forget, unless you visit in August and
don't
have air-conditioning, that Washington is a southern city.
Any number of underground passages remain from
fortifications which surround the District during the Civil
War, when Washington was actually surrounded by people
who wanted nothing more than to be rid of federal Yankee
government. Virginia seceded, of course, but Maryland was
very much a Southern state as well and only stayed in the
Union because federal troops prevented the legislature from
voting otherwise. There are several accounts of Confederate

troops infiltrating right up to the city, whose citizens at
that
time were largely sympathetic with the South.
Today, construction crews frequently encounter portions
of tunnels constructed during the Civil War in defense of
the
city. One uncovered in the area of Good Hope Road in
Southeast Washington was thought to be part of the
underground portion of Ft. Stanton.
A total of 68 forts protected the district during the
Civil
War. Though records show some 35,000 yards of rifle
trenches having been constructed, there appears no mention
of tunneling in the records we reviewed. That is proof that

records do not exist, but it doesn't mean there weren't
miles
and miles of tunnels. The northernmost of these defenses
was Fort Marcy, where curiously enough, the body of
Clinton aide Vincent Foster was found. If you want to get
really weird and conspiratorial about it, Fort Marcy also
lies
almost in the front yard of Sen. Teddy Kennedy's home on
the Potomac palisades.

<snip>

The State Department, located at 2210 "C" Street and the

second largest of the federal government buildings, is
connected to the White House by a tunnel including a large
underground chamber, now used as a garage.

It is undoubtedly difficult for the person trained by
television news to imagine that such a tunnel could be of
any
use. Dignitaries and senior officials who call at the White

House arrive by limousine. Unfortunately, television has a
hypnotic effect. Viewers get mesmerized into thinking that
what they see is the real picture. When real business needs

to be done out of the public eye, the players take to the
tunnels.

It is said that a tunnel runs the entire length of
Pennsylvania Ave, large enough to accommodate an
automobile. Reports of this tunnel date to the 1930s. so
there have undoubtedly been expansions, extensions and
various other changes.

Old hotels in the area were undoubtedly linked to the
White House to accommodate secret visits. One
entranceway was discovered disguised as a cupboard in the
DuPont Hotel, which had formerly served as the Italian
embassy.

Much of what is learned about the more ancient parts of
the tunnel system comes to light in the course of new
construction. Don't forget, residents of the District
burned
much of its inner city during the riots of 1968, requiring
extensive rebuilding. And some structures have simply
outlived their safe usefulness and have to be torn down.

The second oldest government building in Washington,
the Treasury, is also the most tunneled. It was built
especially close to the White House on orders from Andrew
Jackson. During the Civil War, when Washington came very
close to being taken by Confederate forces whose civilian
allies completely surrounded the city, Treasury was to be
the
scene of the last stand. Huge supplies of drinking water
and
flour were stashed underground, and the President and his
staff were prepared to retreat there if necessary via the
underground passageway.

Wayne Mann

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iron...@aol.com (Ironword) wrote:

Memorandum
U.S. Secret
Service

Date August 3, 1993

Reply To
Attn Of

Subject F.B.I. Inquiry

To SAIC - Technical Security Division

This memo is to inform you of the inquiry by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding Mr. Foster's
suicide. I was contacted today by Special Agent
.
F.B.I. W.F.O., my wife's cousin. He called me at
approximately 1030 a.m. and left a message for me to call
him. I returned his call at approximately 1100 a.m. He
asked me if we could go out to lunch today that he was
going to be in the area. I said sure and that I would be
done
by 12 noon. He said he would meet me outside. We met
and went to Wendy's for lunch.

On the way to Wendy's he began to ask me questions
about Mr. Foster. He was asking general questions that
steemed from a conversation that had started on July 31,
1993 at S.A.
residence at a family get together.

On July 31, 1993 my wife and I went to S.A.
residence for a family birthday party.
During the
party S.A. asked me how work was going. He asked what i
did for the Secret Service. I informed him that I
maintained
the alarms, locks, video and other equipment for the White
House and the Executive Branch of the Government. He
then went on to ask me about my last trip to Little Rock,
Arkansas and what we do on protective trips. I informed
him as to what T.S.D. responsibilities were on the road.
From this conversation he asked me if I had ever meet Mr.
Foster. I informed him that I had run into him while
working on alarm trobule calls in the West Wing. He then
went on to state that he and some other agents (5) were
working on the Foster suicide. I told him that I had seen
in
the news that there was a note in his brief case. He then
said
that they were working some other leads on some info they
had recieived. I said something to the effect "did it have
anything to do with what you found in his office?" He then
said something about a second letter ... maybe ? I said
that it
was strange to see such a clean office when I was over doing

a lock survey with .Both
and I had made the comment that Mr. Foster
must have planned his suicide well in advance if his office

was this clean. Then upon leaving Mr. Foster's office the
Uniform Division Officer informed and I that
his
office had been inspected by the F.B.I. and that was the
reason for the Officer there and the lock request to seal
the
office for the investigation. The officer then told us that
the
F.B.I. had removed evidence from Mr. Foster's desk, Never
inferring what that evidence was. This was the end of the
conversation on July 31, 1993. It was from the above
conversation that S.A. started to question my
being in
and around Mr. Foster's office after the suicide. He wanted

to know how long I was in there, did I see anything? Did I
hear anything, etc. I informed him as to the reason I was
there and approximately that I was there the first time for
about 2 seconds, later returning for approximately 2][

Foster. Did I know or have any information about Mr.
Foster's relationship with Hillary Clinton? I restated the
fact
that I had only met the guy in passing and that I did not
know about his relationship with Hillary Clinton, and that
if I
said anything that it would be hear say information or
rumors.

It was at this point that we headed back towards Centre
Points and S.A. said he needed to make a phone
call
on the way. Enroute back we stopped at a gas station to use

a phone. S.A.
made his phone call to S.A.,
F.B.I.
W.F.O.. Upon the completion of the phone call S.A. said
that S.A.
wanted to talk to me. S.A. asked me
to
come in for an interview. I informed him that I was in
school all day and that I would need to call him back.

Upon returning to Centre Points I informed and
as
to what took place. told me to give B.C. a
call. I
did so. As a result of this phone call to B.C. I

returned S.A. and S.A. phone calls and
informed
them that if they they need to talk to me any further that
they would have to go through Public Affairs at out
Headquarters.

Wayne Mann

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iron...@aol.com (Ironword) wrote:

========

Names in parentheses after subjects are lawyers (our tax
money once
again) assigned to the task.

Task List--December 13, 1994

1. Issues

a. Foster document handling (Nemetz)
b. Travel Office (Cerf)
c. White House/Treasury contacts (revisited; report)
(JCS)

d. Obstruction of justice (DOJ handling of criminal

referrals; Jay Stephens; RTC whistleblower
reprisals)

e. Use of White House resources for response efforts

(Nolan)
f. Foster suicide (Nemetz)
g. Espy (ethics; expanded Smaltz inquiry re Tyson's,
Hatch

Act) (Mills/Nolan)
h. Cisneros
i. Brown
j. Hubbell
k. Ickes/union representation
l. Stephanopoulos/NationsBank
m. State Department--passport files

n. Archives--abuse of personnel system

o. Legal Defense Fund (Mills)
p. Health Care Task Force (Neuwirth)
q. White House operations (drugs, passes, helicopters)
(Mills/Nolan)

r. Residence renovations (Neuwirth)
s. Presidential immunity (Sloan)

t. White House Arkansans (Thomasson, Nash, Rasco)

u. PIC surplus
v. Improper electioneering (SBA)
w. GSA (Roger Johnson)
x. Value Partners (Neuwirth)
y. Presidential campaign (FEC audit)
z. Commodities (Kendall)
aa. Gubernatorial campaigns (Lindsey, Wright)--record
keeping
(Kendall)
ab. Gubernatorial campaigns)--MGSL (Kendall)
ac. Whitewater/MGSL (Kendall)
ad. Other MGSL/McDougal (Kendall)

ae. Rose Law Firm (HRC work for MGSL; Frost Case, FSLIC

representation) (Kendall)
af. David Hale/Susan McDougal/SBA (Kendall)
ag. Tucker

ah. Lasater (bond deals; cocaine; Roger Clinton)

ai. Use of loans to achieve legislative initiatives

aj. ADFA (political favors; Larry Nichols)

ak. Mena Airport
al. troopers
am. women (Kendall/Bennett)

2. preliminaries

a. Identify key republican objectives and routes for

achieving them--e.g.
i. sustain shadow on WJC character

ii. hype HRC threat to white men, traditional women
b. Identify guiding principles for responses--e.g.

i. nothing to hide
ii. stick to the facts
iii. get it right the first time
iv. keep it simple
v. resist harassment
vi. govern America

c. Executive privilege research

i. OLC state of the play
ii. comments by republicans re assertion
iii. protocol
iv. strategy/principles for asserting

d. Research re entitlement of Congress to HRC/WJC

transcripts
of depositions given to Fiske

e. Research re congressional subpoena power
i. reach (HRC/WJC)

ii. precedents
iii. committee rules
iv. procedures

f. Research re limitations on legislative power to

investigate
i. legislative purpose
ii. overreaching precedents

g. Learn new Hill committee jurisdiction, membership
h. Courtesy visits to Hill--member and staff level
(e.g.,

Frank, Sarbanes, leadership; Harris, Meek, etc.)

i. Consultations
j. Offensive structure

i. FEC legal research
ii. W&C
iii. DNC/DCCC/DSCC
iv. surrogates

k. Representation of Administration officials by
private
counsel
i. compensation
l. Research re proper role of OWHC with respect to pre-

inaugural issues with an aim toward articulating
principles for determining who should be principal
spokesperson on a particular issue and the extent
to

which each (private counsel/OHWC) should
participate.

3. foster documents handling

a. Independent counsel inquiry

(1) identify options with respect to issuance of

report--

(a) precedents
(2) inquire about status and timing
(3) HRC/WJC depositions

ii. status check with counsel for individuals
b. Congressional hearings

i. identify likely committees (Senate Banking; House
Banking, Gov Ops, Judiciary)
(1) identify friends--key Members and staff
(2) identify leadership
(3) identify key republicans
ii. congressional visits
(1) Daschle
(2) Sarbanes & other Banking

(3) house
iii. prepare background materials
(1) assemble public record
(2) talking points and fact memoranda
iv. determine how to handle representation of

individual
White House staff
(1) outside counsel
(2) attorney fees
(3) assertion of privileges

c. Press strategy
d. Surrogate role
i. Hamilton
ii. identify others
e. Offensive research
f. Issue specific tasks
i. security/Livingstone issues
(1) debrief Joel
(2) review Livingstone file
(3) consult with Randy Turk
(4) interview Livingstone
(5) fact memo
ii. inconclusiveness re Williams removal of documents
(1) confer with Ed Dennis
(2) debrief Joel re security officer
(3) assemble public reports of document removal on

7/20 and
statements attributed to White House officials

iii. chain of custody re transfer of Clinton personal
files
(1) complete interviews
(a) Carolyn Huber
(b) Linda Tripp
(c) Deborah Gorhan
(d) Bob Barnett
(e) Syvia Mathews
(2) fact memo
(3) assemble public record
(4) determine strategy re release of White H<INF>2O
Devel
Corp. file

iv. search of Foster office

[[Page H10214]]

(1) assemble public record
(a) including any relevant testimony at Senate
hearing on

Foster suicide in July 1994

(2) fact memo
(a) obligation to seal the office immediately
(b) obligation to cooperate with law enforcement

authorities vs. protection of privileged material

privileged material in VF office

(3) legal research
(i) basis for resisting identification/production of

all
documents in VF office and Bernie's safe

v. Delay in surfacing suicide note

(1) complete interviews
(a) Gergen
(b) Burton
(2) assemble material in public record
(3) fact memo
(4) legal research
(a) obligations to disclose a note to law enforcement
authorities

(i) if not obviously a suicide note
(ii) timeliness requirements

4. foster suicide

a. Chris Ruddy/Center for Western Journalism

b. Causes for suicide
c. Monitor Senate report; coordinate with Hamilton
d. Develop press response

5. obstruction of justice

a. Delay in addressing criminal referrals; DOJ role
(D.C. and
Paula Casey)
i. determine usual process
ii. develop chronology/fact memo with key

(1) Charles Banks
(2) Paula Casey
(3) (track Lewis correspondence released by Leach)

iii. identify Committee interest (D'Amato; House)
iv. assemble public record
b. RTC/Kansas City investigation (suspension of Jean
Lewis,
Richard Iorio etc.; April Breslaw; pre-1993
activity)
i. develop chronology of known facts and key
documents
ii. interview Breslaw
iii. identify Committee interest (Leach; Senate)
iv. examine last day of House hearings for offensive
help
c. Jay Stephens retention
i. track public record
ii. identify efforts to give IC civil jurisdiction
iii. identify Committee interest (D'Amato; House)

6. white house/treasury contacts

a. Senate Report
i. review/comment on Report
ii. keep in touch with Minority Report developments
iii. prepare press strategy
iv. identify surrogates
b. White House investigation of White House/Treasury
contacts
(receipt of information about RTC investigation;
work
product; redactions)
i. prepare file memorandum describing use of
unredacted
transcripts
ii. determine continuing Bond interest
c. Truthfulness of White House and other Administration
witnesses (referral of testimony to Starr--Ickes,
Stephanopoulos)
i. consult with lawyers
ii. identify areas of vulnerability

iii. research on perjury

iv. press response
d. Heads-up policy
i. surrogates
ii. uniform application
iii. Treasury status
iv. press strategy for release of Committee report
v. work up background paper on precedents
e. Recusal policies/OGE/Executive Orders

i. press strategy for release of Committee report
ii. background paper
iii. consult with OGE
iv. consider Executive Order or other response to
Committee
f. Contacts policy (Executive Order)
i. press strategy for release of Committee report
ii. background paper
iii. consult with OGE

iv. consider Executive order or other response to
Committee
g. Rikki Tigert
i. determine her first likely congressional

appearance in
the new congress
ii. assemble public record
iii. interview Gergen, Tigert and Klein re
communications
on the subject of recusal
(1) determine response to allegations of ``pressure''
(2) determine response to allegation that Klein
misled the
committee

iv. determine press strategy/talking points

7. smaltz investigation

a. Espy--ethics (Mills)
b. Beyond Espy ethics (Hatch Act, Tyson's)

i. determine charter, scope of inquiry
ii. determine press strategy
iii. identify congressional interest
iv. assemble public record
v. fact gathering

8. white house whitewater response effort

a. Legal research

i. the appropriate role of White House staff with
respect
to issues arising pre-inauguration (see above)

b. Fact development (scope of effort, etc.)
c. Determine press strategy/develop talking points
d. Assemble public record

i. Lindsey involvement pre-1994
ii. Ickes' Ward Room undertaking (1/94)

iii. Polesta damage control effort

9. cisneros

a. Gather facts
b. Establish contact with counsel
c. Determine press strategy/develop talking points
d. Identify source of congressional interest
e. Assemble binder with summary and key documents

10. brown

a. Establish contact with counsel
b. Determine press strategy/develop talking points
c. Identify source of congressional interest
d. Assemble binder with summary and key documents

11. hubbell

a. Monitor cooperation
b. Determine press strategy/develop talking points

12. Ickes (union representation)

a. Monitor
b. Assemble binder with summary and key documents

13. Stephanopoulos (nationsbank)

a. Monitor
b. Assemble binder with summary and key documents

14. State department (passport files)

a. Identify issue
b. Determine congressional interest
c. Assemble binder with summary and key documents

15. archives (abuse of personnel system)

a. Identify issue
b. Determine congressional interest
c. Assemble binder with summary and key documents

16. sba (improper electioneering)

a. Identify issue
b. Determine congressional interest
c. Assemble binder with summary and key documents

17. GSA (Roger Johnson)

a. Identify issue
b. Determine congressional interest
c. Assemble binder with summary and key documents

18. FEC Audit

a. Determine congressional interest
b. Assemble binder with summary and key documents

19. FIC surplus

a. Identify issue
b. Determine congressional interest
c. Assemble binder with summary and key documents

20. MGSL-related

a. Whitewater Investment
i. assemble public record
ii. review documents, including work of accountants
and tax
returns; Lyons reports
iii. develop fact memo and chronology
iv. press strategy
b. MGSL
i. assemble public record
ii. review W&C documents
iii. develop fact memo and chronology
iv. fact memo

(1) why MGSL failed; relationship of campaign

contributions
to failure
(2) Rose Law Firm work (HRC 1985)

(a) conflicts
(b) enabled MGSL to stay open longer than it should

have
v. surrogate strategy
c. Rose Law Firm
i. fact memo
(1) status of conflicts inquiry
(2) Frost case
(3) Rose services to FSLIC related to Lasater
brokerage
firm (HRC 2 hours in 1987, signed pleadings for VF)

(4) billing practices

ii. assemble public record
iii. determine press strategy
d. David Hale

21. Other Pre-Inaugural

a. Gubernatorial Campaigns
i. identify issues

(1) whether expenditures and loans were properly
reported
under state law
(a) Lindsey role
(b) Betsey Wright
(2) role of the Bank of Cherry Valley
(3) Starr looking at 1984, 1986, 1990
ii. interview Kendall; review Kendall documents
iii. interview Snyder/Lindsey
iv. fact memo
v. press strategy
b. Negative Associations
i. Jim Guy Tucker
ii. David Hale (SBA)
iii. Jim McDougal
iv. Dan Lasater (bond deals, cocaine, Roger Clinton)
c. Mena Airport
i. identify issue
ii. determine congressional interest

iii. assemble binder with summary and key documents

d. ADFA
i. identify issue (political favors)
ii. determine congressional interest

iii. assemble binder with summary and key documents

e. Use by Governor Clinton of loans to further
legislative
initiatives
i. identify issue

[[Page H10215]]

ii. determine congressional interests
iii. assemble binder with summary and key documents

f. Commodities
i. determine congressional interest

ii. assemble binder with summary and key documents
g. Paula Jones
i. assemble binder with summary and key documents

h. Troopers
i. identify issue (job for silence, other)
ii. determine congressional interest

iii. assemble binder with summary and key documents

Billy Beck

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iron...@aol.com (Ironword) wrote:

>Does anyone handily have the FAQs for a.c-e.c.w? If so, can you post them
>in toto?

Good questions, and timely, I think.

The following is "The Whitewater FAQ", as posted by
Christopher Lyons on Oct. 3, 1996, which was, I believe, the most
recent posting of the FAQ. I do not know why these posts, which were
once regular, have ceased.

Further: while the greatest portion of this document is
unquestionably valuable to the affairs of this group, it is also clear
to me that significant items are due for serious investigation with an
eye to revision and/or excision. I would begin with the Henry/Ives
murders.

Without further ado, I bring you...

~~~~~

The Whitewater FAQ

Š 1996, Christopher C. Lyons

Updated Thursday, October 3, 1996 - 6:00 AM

I. Introduction
II. Clinton-related Deaths/Injuries
III. Sexcapades
IV. Washington Phase
A. The Death of Vincent Foster
B. Travelgate
C. Whitewater Congressional Hearings
D. Filegate
E. The Death of Ron Brown
V. Arkansas Phase
A. MGSL/WWDC
B. Mena
C. Arkansas Development Finance Authority (ADFA) Scandal
VI. Media Silence
VII. Grabbe/Norman and other odd theories
VIII. Miscellaneous
IX. Credits

I. Introduction

The term "Whitewater," specifically refers to the sweet
Arkansas land deal which was partially owned by Bill and Hillary
Clinton. However, this term has encompassed a huge number of Clinton
scandals, mysterious deaths, sexual liaisons, and allegations of
drug-running. With such a wide-sweeping set of scandals, this FAQ has
been compiled to give the casual lurker a starting point from which
to gain an understanding of the true depths of "Whitewater". As a
starting point, it is not meant to be, nor is it, a comprehensive
"last word" on any of the topics it covers. This is a living document,
so sources and Q/A's will be added as time goes on. In some cases,
where scandals overlap, parts of the FAQ have been internally
duplicated.

Any additions/corrections to the FAQ can be forwarded to me at
my e-mail address: lyo...@holli.com. Constructive criticisms can be
posted to the alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater newsgroup, and
flames can be sent to nu...@hell.com.

II. Clinton-related Deaths/Injuries

A large number of people have died in operations or
investigations closely linked with Bill Clinton. The term
"Arkanacide" has even been coined to define a murder which has been
disguised as a suicide. Arkansas is one of the only states in the
Union in which no autopsy is required in a death which has been ruled
a suicide, even if foul play is suspected. This law was one of the
last enacted by Governor Clinton before coming to Washington.

A. Who are the people who have died under suspicious
circumstances who were close to Bill Clinton?

[It is important to note in the following list, that many of the
dead had direct connections to Bill Clinton. Others were tied to
Clinton via the Mena drug-running operation, which has been rather
conclusively linked to the Clinton administration. There is no
suggestion that all of these people were killed with direct "orders"
from Bill Clinton, although, in some cases, this is not ruled out,
either. As the sheer number of dead rises, one should ask himself/
herself, "How many people do I know, or am I connected with who have
been brutally murdered, died in an airplane crash, or have committed
suicide?" Either friends of Bill Clinton are incredibly unlucky,
they are horrible pilots, or something more sinister is at work. ]

1. Jerry Parks, 10/26/93

Luther "Jerry" Parks ran American Contract Services, the
business which supplied bodyguards for Clinton during his
presidential campaign and the following transition. Bill Clinton
still owed him $81,000. Parks had collected detailed data on
Clinton's sexual escapades, including pictures and dates. On
September 26, 1993, Parks was gunned down in a mafia-style hit
just outside of an upscale Little Rock neighborhood. A week
before his death, Jerry Parks' alarm system was disabled and the
files were stolen from his home. Witnesses reported that a state
trooper who was an ex-bodyguard of Clinton's was the shooter.

2. Jonathan Walker, 8/15/93

Jon Walker was an investigator for the Resolution Trust
Corporation who was frustrated with the investigation of Madison
Guarantee Savings & Loan based in Kansas City, where he felt that
Clinton appointees were interfering with the investigation. He
was pushing for the case to be moved to Washington D.C. While he
was apartment hunting at Lincoln Towers in Arlington, Virginia, he
suddenly decided to throw himself off of the roof. His death was
ruled a suicide.

3. Kathy Ferguson, 5/10/94 & Bill Shelton 6/9/94

Kathy Ferguson was the ex-wife of Danny Ferguson, the Arkansas

State Trooper who took Paula Jones and other ladies to visit Bill
Clinton. She was outspoken in repeating sexual tales which her
ex-husband had told her about Bill Clinton. She was found dead in
her boyfriend's apartment with a pistol in her hand, a bullet hole
behind her left ear. There was a myriad of evidence which pointed
to murder, but her death was ruled a suicide. A month later, her
boyfriend, policeman Bill Shelton, was found dead on her grave of
the same m.o. It, too, was ruled a suicide. In the month after
Kathy's death, Shelton had made quite a stir, insisting that her
death was not a suicide.

4. Vincent Foster, 7/20/93

The death of Vincent Foster is a Clinton scandal in itself,
and is treated as such in a separate section of the FAQ.

5. Kevin Ives & Don Henry, 8/23/87

Don Henry and Kevin Ives were two teenagers who lived
in Bryant, Ark. On August 22, it is believed that they witnessed
part of the drug operations originating from the Mena airport.
That night they went out, flashlight hunting for deer. Their
bodies were discovered the next morning laid out across a train-
track nearby, run over by a train. The state coroner, a FOB (SEE
RELATED PLAYERS, below), declared their deaths accidental, and
that the boys had been smoking marijuana and "fell asleep on the
tracks". The boys' parents' refused to believe the verdict and
pressed for months for an independent autopsy, which was
eventually performed. The independent autopsy revealed that Henry
had been stabbed in the back repeatedly, and that Ives' skull was
crushed. Both boys were dead BEFORE the train ran over their
bodies.

6. Keith McKaskle, 11/88

McKaskle, a Bryant, Arkansas local came forward in November
of 1989, claiming to have evidence relating to the deaths of Henry
and Ives. The night before his death was the gubernatorial
election. He told his family and friends good-bye, and, at a
local bar, threw two pennies on the bartop and said "If Jim Steed
loses this election, my life isn't worth two cents." Bill Clinton
won the election, and the next morning, McKaskle's body was found
in his home, stabbed 113 times.

7. Gregory Collins, 1/89

In December of 1988, Collins, a native of the Mena, Arkansas
area, came forward with information about the Henry/Ives murders.
In January, his body was discovered. He had been shot in the face
with a shotgun.

8. Keith Koney, 7/88

Koney was a Mena, Arkansas local who claimed to have knowledge

regarding the deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry. Soon after, he
was slashed in the neck, and pursued in a high-speed chase on his
motorcycle before slamming into the back of a parked truck. His
death was written off as a "traffic fatality".

9. Jeff Rhodes, 4/89

Rhodes claimed to have information on the deaths of Ives,
Henry, and McKaskle. Right after he made this claim, his body was
found in the local dump. He died of a gunshot to the head. His
head was nearly cut off, and his wrists and ankles had been bound
and severed. The autopsy confirmed that he had been tortured
prior to his death.

10. Richard Winters, 7/89

Winters was a suspect in the murders of Kevin Ives and Don
Henry. In July of 1989, he was killed with a 12-gauge sawed-off
shotgun in a "robbery attempt," which was proven later to have
been a setup.

11. Jordan Kettleson, 6/90

Kettleson was a Mena local who came forward with information
about the deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry in June of 1990. He
was then found dead of a shotgun blast to the face in the front
seat of his car. His death was ruled a suicide.

12. James Milam, ?/90

James Milam claimed to have knowledge about the deaths of
Kevin Henry and Don Ives. He was decapitated, and the State Coroner
(the same one as in the Ives and Henry murders) initially ruled his
death a suicide.

13. C. Victor Raisner III, Montgomery Raisner, 7/30/92

Victor Raisner and his son, Montgomery were killed in an odd
plane crash near Anchorage, Alaska in good weather. Mr. Raisner
was the finance co-chairman of Clinton's presidential campaign and
had access to potentially damaging information on the Clintons.

14. Hershel Friday, 3/1/94

A "top-notch pilot," Mr. Friday died in the crash of his small

airplane during a light drizzle at his private airstrip in Arkansas.
He was a member of Clinton's presidential campaign finance committee,
and was a close associate of C. Victor Raiser, who died in the crash
of another private aircraft. Supposedly, his fuel gauge had been
rigged to read "empty" when the plane pitched forward to land, and cut
off the gas supply. This method was allegedly used on the plane of
Dr. Ronald Rogers, who died two days later in a plane accident.

15. Dr. Ronald Rogers, 3/3/94

Dr. Rodgers had been the Clinton's dentist at one time, and
was an Arkansas native. His private airplane crashed on March 3, 1994

in clear weather with a full tank of gas, right after his pilot called
into the Lawton, Oklahoma airport saying that he needed to refuel.
Dr. Rodgers was on his way to an interview with a reporter from the
London Sunday Telegraph, where he was going to reveal evidence of
Clinton's alleged cocaine use. Supposedly, his fuel gauge had been
rigged to read "empty" when the plane pitched forward to land, and cut
off the gas supply. This method was allegedly used on the plane of
Hershel Friday, who died two days earlier in a similar plane accident.

16. Stanley Heard, Steven Dickson, 10/10/93

Heard and Dickson were members of Hillary Clinton's healthcare

"taskforce." They both died in the crash of their private aircraft.

17. Conway LeBleu, Todd McKeahan, Steve Willis, Robert Williams

These four men were ex-Clinton bodyguards who were reassigned
to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. They were the only
casualties in the early morning standoff that triggered the Waco
incident with the Branch Davidians. Allegedly, all four men died of
similar wounds, a gunshot behind the ear.

18. William Barkley, Brian Hassley, Scott Reynolds, and Tim Sabel

These four men were all ex-Clinton bodyguards. On May 19,
1993, all four men died in the suspicious crash of a helicopter they
were riding in. This occurred only a few months after four other
Clinton bodyguards were killed in Waco.

19. Barry Seal, 2/19/86

Mr. Adler "Barry" Seal was a flamboyant CIA contractor who
ran the gun/drug-running operation between Mena and Nicaragua.
His legend was so famous, it was made into an HBO movie,
"Double-Crossed." Mr. Seal was eventually arrested by the DEA,
and he set up a sting operation for the CIA to finger some Medellin
Drug Cartel operatives. He received a light sentence to a halfway
house in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he was gunned down a few days
later. According to Terry Reed, another CIA employee, Clinton told
him, "Seal just got too big for his britches and the scum basically
deserved to die, in my opinion..."

20. Ed Wiley, 11/30/93

Ed Wiley was one of Clinton's key fundraisers. Supposedly,
Wiley was involved with "brifcases full of cash" and some underhanded
funding of Clinton's campaign. He supposedly shot himself in the
head.

21. John A. Wilson, 5/19/93

Mr. Wilson , a D.C. councilman known for his honesty,
allegedly knew of some dirt which would embarrass Mr. Clinton. He was

supposedly preparing to come forward to talk about the "dirt," but
suddenly decided he wanted to hang himself. ( It is interesting to
note that the travelgate firings occurred the next day.)

22. Susan Coleman, 2/15/77

Ms. Coleman allegedly was having an affair with Bill Clinton
for awhile. She was found dead with a gunshot to the head. Her death
was ruled a suicide. She was also 7 1/2 months pregnant with a child
rumored to be Bill Clinton's.

23. Paul Tulley, 10/24/92

Mr. Tulley was a member of the Democratic National Committee,
and a FOB. He was found dead of unknown causes in his hotel room.

24. Paula Gober, 12/9/92

Ms. Gober, a Clinton speechwriter, died in an auto accident on

December 12, 1992.

25. Gandy Baugh, 1/8/94

Gandy Baugh was the attorney of Clinton friend Dan Lasater,
who was being indicted in a Whitewater-related matter. Baugh
supposedly committed suicide on January 8, 1994. One month later, on
February 8, Baugh's partner's body was found. His death, as well, was
ruled a suicide.

26. Stanley Huggins, 6/23/94

Mr. Huggins was a lawyer with the law firm in Memphis which
was running the 1987 investigation of Madison Guarantee Savings and
Loan. He died in July of 1994 in a Delaware hospital, the official
cause of death was ruled viral pneumonia.

27. Calvin Walraven, 7/28/94

Walraven, 24, was a police informant who was the key witness
in the conviction and sentencing of Kevin Elders, the son of Surgeon
General Jocelyn Elders, on drug charges. Right after the trial was
over, Walraven's body was found dead of a gunshot to the head. His
death was ruled a suicide.

28. Florence Martin, 10/31/94

Martin, an accountant who had worked as a sub-contractor for
the CIA, was found dead in Mabell, TX, the victim of three gunshot
wounds to the head. She had the documents and paperwork as well as
the pin number to an account that had been set up in the name of Barry
Seal for $1.46 million dollars at the Fuji Bank in the Cayman Islands.
Following her death the money was moved to the Guaranty Bank in the
Caymen Islands and then was transferred from that bank to another bank
believed to be in the Virgin Islands.

29. Ron Brown, 4/3/96

The death of Ron Brown (yet another plane crash) is surrounded
with conflicting evidence, and some glaring discrepancies. It is
covered in a later part of the FAQ. While some doubt this was
anything more than an accident, which well may be the case, it is,
nonetheless, a death of a close associate of Mr. Clinton; a close
associate with legal troubles of his own, under investigation by a
special prosecutor.

29. Admiral Jeremey M. Boorda, 5/16/96

Jeremy Boorda, the top officer in the U.S. Navy, was the lone
staunch opponent of Clinton's missile defense policy as a member of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He also had contact with the investigators
of the death of Ron Brown during the weeks after Brown's death.
Boorda supposedly commited suicide by shooting himself in the chest at
point-blank range with a .38 magnum. The mainstream media reported
that he had committed suicide because one of his military medals had
been called into question by Newsweek, although friends and family of
Mr. Boorda have stated that this action and its motivation would have
been completely out of character for Adm. Boorda.

*****

There are those who believe that the BCCI and INSLAW scandals
are also tied to Clinton (SEE GRABBE/NORMAN AND OTHER ODD THEORIES).
If you wish to include INSLAW, there are several more bodies to add to
the pile.

1. Danny Casolaro, 8/10/91

Danny Casolaro was an investigator who was writing a story
connecting Mena, BCCI, the ADFA, Park-O-Meter, Inslaw, and the 1980
"October Surprise." After working on the story for awhile, he told a
family member that if he was ever found dead, that he would never
commit suicide. On August 10, 1991, he was in West Virginia to
receive some key information for his story. His body was found with
his wrists slit in the bathtub of his hotel room. His death was ruled
a suicide. (His wrists were slit up to 10 times each!)

2. Paul Wilcher, 6/22/93

Wilcher was a Washington D.C. lawyer who was investigating the
Mena operation, BCCI, INSLAW, and the "October Surprise." On June 22,
1993, he was scheduled to meet with Danny Casolaro's ex-lawyer. He
was found in his hotel room sitting on the toilet, dead of unknown
causes.

3. Alan Standorf, 1/31/91

Standorf was an employee of the NSA, working in electronic
intelligence. He was Danny Casolaro's main source in his
investigation of INSLAW and BCCI. His body was found dead of unknown
causes in his car at Dulles Airport.

4. Dennis Eisman, 5/5/91

Eisman was a Washington D.C. lawyer with information on the
INSLAW scandal. He was found shot to death.

5. Ian Spiro, 11/92

Mr. Spiro was a witness in the Grand Jury investigation of the
INSLAW scandal. His family, a wife and three children, was found shot
to death in their home on November 1, 1992. A few days later, he was
found dead in his car of cyanide poisoning. His death has been ruled
a suicide.

B. The Injured/Threatened

1. Gary Johnson

Gary Johnson, the lawyer for Larry Nichols, happened to live
across the hall from Gennifer Flowers in Little Rock's Quapaw Towers.
He saw Bill and Hillary's famous "60 Minutes" interview, in which Bill
claimed he had NEVER been to Flowers' apartment and that he was not
sexually involved with her. The only problem with this was that
Johnson had installed a security camera which included a view of
Flowers' door. He had a tape of Clinton entering and exiting Flowers'
apartment with his own key on several occasions. After he told
friends about the tape, some large men showed up a Johnson's door,
insisting that he give them the tape. He gave it to them, and they
proceeded to break both of his elbows, rupture his bladder and his
spleen, and then left him for dead.

2. L. J. Davis

Davis, a reporter for "The New Republic," was researching an
article on the Rose Law Firm in February, 1994. On the 14th, he was
knocked unconscious as he entered his hotel room in Little Rock,
Arkansas. When he regained consciousness, he had a huge lump on his
head and some pages from his notebook were missing.

3. Sally Perdue

Ms. Perdue is a former Miss Arkansas, and had her own talk
show. In 1983, she had an affair with Bill Clinton, (an allegation
supported in the American Spectator "Troopergate" story). She claimed
that Bill usually smoked 2 or 3 pre-rolled marijuana cigarettes in an
evening, when he was with her. He supposedly brought cocaine with him
one evening, as well. When she told her story in 1992 on a taping of
the Sally Jesse Raphael show, the company which produces the SJR show
decided to "spike" the show and not allow it to be shown in
syndication. Miss Perdue then received a threat that her "pretty
little legs" might get broken if she did not shut up.

4. Patrick Knowlton

Mr. Knowlton was one of the only persons to visit Fort Marcy
Park during the hours preceeding the finding of Vince Foster's body.
He had information relating to a suspicious looking character and a
car which were present at FMP. His testimony to the FBI was falsified
in the FBI reports, directly contradicting his actual testimony to
them. When he publicly complained that the FBI rendering of his
testimony was incorrect, he was subpoenaed by Kenneth Starr's
Whitewater probe. During the period of time between his receiving the
subpoena until the time of his testimony, he was stalked and
intimidated by a group of men who owned cars with license plates
registered to the US government. He has several witnesses to the
intimidation campaign carried out against him.

5. Dennis Patrick

Mr. Patrick has survived three attempts to kill him, and he is
now in the Federal Witness Protection Program. He was a customer of
Lasater & Company in Little Rock. Millions of dollars were laundered
through his account at L&C during 1985 and 1986. He questioned the
records which showed deposits and withdrawals of millions of dollars
from his account, money which he said was not his. The trades stopped
on February 19, 1986, the day Barry Seal was gunned down at his Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.

6. Jean Duffy

Ms. Jean Duffy was the head of the Arkansas state drug
taskforce, and presented mountains of evidence of the Mena
drug-smuggling and its ties to the Clinton administration to members
of Congress, much of which might only be made public if or when
Congress holds hearings on Mena. Since this time, she has received
many anonymous death threats.

7. Bill Duncan

Bill Duncan was a federal agent in charge of the IRS
investigation of Mena. While in Washington, D.C., where he held a
permit to carry a gun, he was arrested for weapons possession (his
service revolver) and was handcuffed to a pipe in the basement of the
D.C. police station. After this incident, he was taken off of the
Mena investigation. Later, when he was asked to falsify testimony for
a Federal Grand Jury, he refused and was fired on the spot.

8. Russel Welch

Russel Welch is a former investigator for the Arkansas State
Police who was the head of one of the first Mena investigations. He
compiled large volumes of evidence of the Mena operations (at a time
before Iran-Contra became public), and was thwarted when he tried to
continued to pursue the investigation. He was poisoned with
military-grade Anthrax (a substance only available to military
sources) and nearly died.

C. Related Players

1. Fahmy Malak

Malak was the Arkansas State Coroner during Clinton's years
there. His tenure was quite controversial. In addition to finding
the deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry to have been accidental, and
the death of James Milam (he was decapitated) a suicide, he made many
other controversial rulings. In one instance, he ruled that a man who
had been shot five times had committed suicide. Finally, the public
outcry was too much, so Bill Clinton forced Malak to resign. He then
gave Malak a $14,000 raise and a new job.

Why would Clinton do this for Malak? In 1985, Virginia
Kelley, mother of Bill Clinton, was accused of neglect in her duties
as an anesthetic nurse, and was sued over the deaths of two patient
deaths she allegedly caused. Fahmy Malak, in a controversial ruling,
said that Mrs. Kelley was in no way at fault, preventing Mrs. Kelley
from losing a large amount of money and possibly going to jail.

2. Buddy Young

Buddy Young was one of Clinton's bodyguards. He is named in
Terry Reed's lawsuit, and he supposedly was the Clinton operative who
approached Larry Nichols and informed him that he was a "dead man" if
he did not drop his suit against Clinton (SEE ADFA SCANDAL). Young is
now the head of the Federal Emergency Management Administration in
Denton, Texas. Young also made calls to the policemen who testified
against Clinton in the "Troopergate" scandal in which he said "This is
not a threat, but I wanted you to know that your own actions could
bring about dire consequences."

D. Sources

_The_Clinton_Chronicles_
Nicholas A. Guarino, "Murder, Bank Fraud, Drugs, and Sex"
NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries"
L. J. Davis, "The Name of the Rose" - The New Republic
The Wall Street Journal
The American Spectator
usenet posts from Hugh Sprunt, an independent researcher

III. Sexcapades

A. Issues/Allegations

Who revealed the "dirt" on Clinton's Sexcapades?

As revealed in Larry Nichols' lawsuit against Bill Clinton in
1992, the "Troopergate" article in the American Spectator, and the
Paula Jones lawsuit, Bill Clinton was involved in a large number of
sexual escapades during his term as governor of Arkansas.

Why are these sexual escapades important to the public record?

Many of these liaisons were conducted while he was being
escorted by State Troopers being paid public money. He also arranged
for his lovers to get lucrative state jobs, and later, when he was
elected as President, arranged for them to get national jobs in
exchange for their silence.

What verification is there of these sexual partners?

In several cases there is second- and third- person
verification of the liaisons. These "witnesses" have put themselves
in great danger. Jerry Parks, the owner of Clinton's bodyguard
service, and his son collected files on Clinton's escapades, before
Parks' murder. Gary Johnson had video tapes of Clinton entering and
leaving Gennifer Flowers' apartment in the Little Rock Quapaw Towers.
Johnson was beaten severely for having the tape. Larry Nichols
revealed the names of many of Clinton's lovers in his 1992 lawsuit.
Nichols suffered from several baseless lawsuits and death threats in
the years that followed.

Has Hillary had any sexcapades?

Yes. As detailed elsewhere in the FAQ, Hillary carried out a
long-time affair with her former business partner Vince Foster. In
addition to this, there was a Secret Service "incident" mentioned
frequently in the David Watkins travelgate memo. Some sources have
quoted an ex-Secret Service agent working in the White House as saying
that she walked in on Mrs. Clinton and a hollywood actress engaged in
a sexual tryst.

B. Who's Who

1. Who is Gennifer Flowers?

Gennifer Flowers was named in Larry Nichols' lawsuit against
Bill Clinton in 1992. Flowers was a longtime lover of Bill Clinton,
which he denied before the American public in the infamous "60
Minutes" interview. Ms. Flowers had been given a lucrative job in the
Arkansas State government, which Clinton had to fight to get her. A
more qualified minority applicant filed for the job, but it was given
to Flowers, even after a union grievance board ruled in favor of the
minority applicant.

Flowers recorded some of Clinton "love calls" to her, and made
the tapes public. The tapes contained highly damaging information on
Bill Clinton which went mostly ignored by the mainstream American
press.

2. Who is Beth Colson?

Colson was one of Clinton's lovers. She was given a judicial
appointment to the prestigious Arkansas Court of Appeals as a
political payoff from Bill Clinton.

3. Who is Regina Blakley?

Blakely was one of Clinton's favorite ladies. When Clinton
became President, he used his influence to get her a position with CBS
National covering the White House in exchange for her silence.

4. Who is Deborah Mathis?

Deborah was one of Clinton's "bimboes" who accepted a
political payoff for her silence. She was given a position in the
White House Press Corps.

5. Who is Susan Whitaker?

Whitaker was one of Clinton's lovers who was paid off with a
position as the press liaison between the Arkansas State Capitol in
Little Rock and the White House.

6. Who is Elizabeth Ward?

Ward was one of Bill's ladies who was paid for her silence by
giving her a job with Clinton friends Harry Thomasson and Linda
Bloodworth-Thomasson in Hollywood.

7. Who is Jo Jenkins?

Ms. Jenkins was one of Bill's babes. As a payoff for her
silence on their sexual relationship, Bill arranged for Jenkins to
receive a high-level position with AP&L.

8. Who is Betsy Wright?

Wright was a prominent member of Clinton's campaign, hired
primarily to quash "bimbo eruptions." If one of the 26 or more women
who Bill had lengthy sexual relationships with were to come forward
(which some did), Wright's duties were to defame the "bimbo" and see
that the press ignored them.

9. Who were the officers who "spilled the beans" on Clinton's sexual
liaisons on public funds?

The troopers were: Larry Patterson, Roger Perry, Danny
Ferguson, Ronnie Anderson, and L.D. Brown.

10. Who is Paula Jones?

Ms. Jones was an Arkansas state employee who was approached by
a state trooper at a convention because Bill Clinton had spotted her
and wanted to "meet" with her. She went up to Clinton's suite, where
Clinton tried to caress her and proceeded to drop his pants and ask
for oral sex. Jones refused and left. Clinton tried to persuade her
by saying he'd talk to her boss.

Jones has since filed a sexual harassment suit which is still
pending, awaiting trial. Because Clinton did not want the trial to
occur before the 1996 election, his lawyers bogged the system down
with appeals that the President could not legally be sued during his
term in office. At one point, they suggested that, as Commander in
Chief, Clinton should be eligible under the "Soldiers & Sailors'
Relief Act" from World War II - one of the few times that Clinton has
ever wanted to be included as a member of the military!

C. Sources

Gennifer Flowers, "Passion and Betrayal", 1995
_The_Clinton_Chronicles_
The American Spectator, "Troopergate"
Syndicated Columnist Mona Charen, 1992
Jones vs. Clinton lawsuit

IV. Washington Phase

A. The Death of Vincent Foster

On July 20, 1993, Vincent Foster died. His body was
officially found in nearby Fort Marcy Park. These are about the only
facts of Foster's death which are undisputed. Foster's death is at
the center of the Clinton scandals, and his name runs through many of
the Clinton's scandals.

What were the discrepancies in the "suicide" investigation?

* Both the Confidential Witness (CW) and the first *official* witness,
both of whom were very close to the body, are emphatic that they did
NOT see a gun.

* The gun identified as being Foster's gun by his wife was a SILVER
steel gun. The gun shown in the crime scene photo released to ABC
News by the White House was a BLACK gun.

* There were no fingerprints on the gun.

* The powder burns on Foster's hands show a hand position that could
not have possibly fired a gun into his mouth.

* There were only two bullets in the gun, and none could be found in
Foster's office or his home to match those two bullets.

* The bullet which supposedly killed Foster was never found.

* The position in which the body was found was totally inconsistent
with a suicide, yet the death was treated as such from the beginning.

* Both the CW and the first official witness placed the body at the
"first cannon" in Fort Marcy Park. The body was "officially" found
over 200 feet away at the "second cannon," the only other cannon in
the park.

* Three civilian witnesses saw two suspicious individuals hanging
around Mr. Foster's Honda in the FMP parking lot. No attempt was made
to find these individuals until over 2 years after Foster's death.

* More than one civilian witness has come forward to state that the
*official* FBI reports of their testimony were completely false, and
contradicted their actual testimony in key areas.

* Six of the seven Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department (FCFRD)
and Park Police (PP) employees who were first on the scene after the
911 call recall a second civilian vehicle in the parking lot when they
arrived. None of the FCFRD members were interviewed in the PP
investigation, even though they were requested to turn in reports
before leaving at the end of their shift. This vehicle has never been
identified.

* The PP Investigator on the scene stated that the determination of
suicide was made before the PP went up to look at the body.

* The PP reports indicate that there were "volunteers" cleaning trails
in the park while they were there, but none of the "volunteers" was
ever identified or interviewed.

* The testimony of the only M.D. to examine Foster's Body at the scene
has not been included in the *official* record. It places the body
450 feet from the parking lot (the first cannon). the second cannon
is over 750 feet from the parking lot.

* The M.D. wrote that the wound was consistent with a *low-velocity*
weapon, and not a *high-velocity* one. The PP report and the Fiske
report conclude that the wound was made by a *high-velocity* weapon
and NOT a *low-velocity* one. In order to avoid a contradiction in
the final reports, the M.D.'s report is not included in the official
report.

* The Fiske Report stated that there was "a large pool of blood
located on the ground where Foster's head had been." and that the M.D.
"Observed a large exit wound in the back of the skull." The M.D. told
the FBI that the blood volume was "small" and what blood there was had
"matted and clotted." The lead investigator was also very surprised
by the small size of the exit hole, and speculated that the bullet
might still be in the skull cavity, in direct contradiction to the
conclusions of the Fiske report.

* A small trail of blood ran *uphill* from Foster's mouth up his face.

* Paramedics noted what looked like a bullet hole in Foster's neck.
No such hole was mentioned in the autopsy.

* The doctor who performed the autopsy, took no X-rays of Vince
Foster's body, yet the PP report claimed that no bullet fragments were
seen in an X-ray of Foster's skull. This discrepancy has not been
resolved. In his testimony before the WW committee, the doctor said
that he didn't take any X-rays of the body, even though his report
said that he did, and even though the two policemen in attendance at
the autopsy said that he did. The doctor testified that he had sent
out the body for X-rays because his machine was broken, but the X-rays
had not been processed before he did the autopsy. He has never
received these X-rays, and the X-ray service company did not "fix" his
machine for months after the Foster death.

* The autopsy was rescheduled from Thursday afternoon, the 22nd, to
Wednesday morning, the 21st, ensuring that nobody with first-hand
knowledge of the crime scene could be there, since they had been out
the entire night before.

* Foster's eyeglasses were found 19 feet *downhill* from his head with
one of the stems broken. The ground was covered in thick vegetation,
and there is no reasonable explanation how they could have gotten
there if Foster committed suicide as reported by the PP and the Fiske
report.

* A US PP officer took 7 Polaroids of the body, which are missing from
the record. Another PP officer took several Polaroids, all of which
are missing. All of the 35mm photos taken at the crime scene are
missing as well.

* After arriving at the scene, the lead PP officer searched Vince
Foster's body and his pockets and found no car keys. No keys were
found in Foster's car, either. Yet, the death was never treated as a
possible homicide.

* After it was pointed out that they still had no car keys, the PP did
not search the area or the car again, but instead drove straight to
the morgue, where they "found" not only Foster's car keys, but also
his White House key and a high security key in his front right pocket.
Such a bulk of keys should have been obvious in the first search.

* Two White House officials traveled to the morgue that night to
"identify" the body, even though the PP had already identified it via
Foster's White House ID. One of the officials had already identified
the body as Foster to his boss earlier in the day. Why was the trip
necessary?

* The only unusual piece of paper found on Foster was a note with
the initials of Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea, along with dollar amounts
and Arkansas city names. This paper was never explained in the
official reports.

* Five witnesses testified that they saw a briefcase in Foster's car
at FMP. No briefcase was listed in any of the official reports.

* When the FCFRD examined the exterior of the Honda, it was noted that
the car was locked. less than an hour later, the car was unlocked
when it was first officially searched. The keys to the car were not
found until hours later.

* At 6:40 p.m., the PP lead investigator wrote down the name and phone
number of a Secret Security officer. The official White House
position is that they did not find out about the death until 8:30.

* The first question asked by the White House when it learned of
Foster's death was if the investigators had checked the registration
number of the gun to see if they knew who it belonged to. The White
House Director of Personnel called the PP investigator a few minutes
later to ask him the same question. Why was this the first question
asked, and why was the White House so interested in this that it was
the second question as well.

* There was little damage to Foster's gums and teeth, which should
have been broken and mutilated due to the recoil of the .38 Colt and
its high front site.

* The PP investigation was completed with the finding of suicide
before the gun was even sent in for testing to see if it could even
fire.

* Blonde hairs were found on the crotch of Foster's pants, semen was
found in his underwear, and his clothes were covered with pink carpet
fibers. None of these pieces of evidence was investigated in the PP
investigation or the Fiske investigation.

* On the day of Foster's death, subpoenas were served to Arkansas
Judge David Hale, and the offices of Madison Grant Savings and Loan
were raided by the FBI. An odd coincidence?

* Secret Service memo 2551 indicates that the White House knew about
Foster's death before the time they "officially" knew of his death.
The memo also indicated that Foster was found in his car in the White
House parking lot, which meshes well with phone calls allegedly made
by Clinton nanny Helen Dickey.

* An FBI fingerprint expert testified to the Senate Whitewater
Committee that he had received 28 pieces of the torn "suicide note,"
yet later, only 27 pieces could be found, and the news media reported,
and still reports that only 27 pieces of the note were found. Who is
lying? Where did the missing piece go?

* Dr. Beyer testified to the committee that HE did not take any
X-rays, because his X-ray machine was broken, although he had written
on the autopsy form that he had, and the two policemen who were in
attendance at the autopsy said that he told them that he had.
However, in Dr. Beyer's Deposition to the Committee, he stated that he
sent the body out to another facility for the X-rays. He further said
that the X-rays were not processed and back to him by the time he did
the autopsy. Furthermore, the X-ray machine service company was
never called, and never did any repairs on the new X-ray machine for
many months before or after the date of the autopsy. Which testimony
is the truth and which is a lie?

* Three of the top experts in "questionable" documents claim that the
"suicide note" is a forgery. The credentials of these people make it
hard to not believe them; therefore the "suicide note" is most likely
a forgery. Who forged it? Who knew it was a forgery?

* There are MANY more discrepancies, which are documented in Hugh
Sprunt's CIR

What was the President's response to Foster's death?

The day after Foster's death, Clinton told a meeting of White
House staffers, "In the first place, no one can ever know why this
happened. Even if you had a whole set of objective reasons, that
wouldn't be why it happened, because you could get a different,
bigger, more burdensome set of objective reasons that are on someone
else in this room.... I hope when we remember him and this we'll be a
little less anxious to talk outside our family." Was this a warning
to keep silence?

What about Foster's suicide note?

The "suicide note" was found in the bottom of Foster's
briefcase six days after Foster's death, even though the briefcase was
searched and turned upside-down in the presence of an FBI agent
several days before. The note was torn into 28 pieces, of which only
27 were found. The missing piece was the one which was in the place
which should have been used for Foster's signature. Two years after
Foster's death, three handwriting experts were able to conclude that
the note was a forgery. This story was completely spiked by the
mainstream media.

What's the deal with the files in Foster's office?

On the evening of July 20th, White House lawyer Bernard
Nussbaum told the FBI and Park Police that they could come to Vince
Foster's office to look through his files and the rest of his
belongings in the office at 10:30 the next morning. The next morning,
Nussbaum reneged on the agreement, saying that he did not want the FBI
to have "unfettered access" to Foster's documents. The FBI and PP
were only able to search the office in the presence of Nussbaum at a
later time. Months later, it was revealed that Hillary Clinton's
Chief of Staff Maggie Williams had removed files from the office that
night, and that Clinton aides spent much of the night getting access
to Foster's office safe. An entire box of files containing the
Clintons' personal files was removed from Foster's office, and an
itemized index of Foster's files which was present in his office on
the 20th disappeared. The Clintons' files, which contained papers on
Whitewater, were stored for three days in a closet in Hillary
Clinton's suite before they were turned over to the Clintons' private
lawyers. In Senate testimony, over 2 years after Foster's death, it
was discovered that Maggie Williams, Bernard Nussbaum, Hillary, and
Hillary's close friend, Susan Thomases, had exchanged a flurry of
telephone calls late at night on the 20th, and early in the morning on
the 21st, linking the First Lady to the obstruction of the Foster
investigation. Why the secrecy and obstruction if the Clinton's had
nothing to hide?

Deborah Gorham, Foster's secretary, testified that she placed
two large manila envelopes in the safe-both addressed "For Eyes Only,"
one to White House Associate Counsel William Kennedy, the other to
Attorney General Janet Reno. She also testified that Nussbaum asked
for the combination to this safe immediately after Foster's death.
Deborah Gorham told investigators for Kenneth Starr that on the day
before he died, Foster received a document related to Systematics.
And this was a document that disappeared from his office after his
death. What happened to the three envelopes? What was in them? Why
did Foster leave them? Kennedy testified he did not receive his
envelope. He does not know what happened to it.

How was Foster related to the Clintons?

There have been some reports that Foster was a lifelong Friend
of Bill Clinton. The record on this, though, does not bear out under
scrutiny, as they were no better than acquaintances before Clinton
became governor. However, there is documented evidence that Mrs.
Clinton and Foster, who were law partners at the Rose Law Firm,
carried on a long-time love affair. Foster and Hillary were seen
"deep kissing" in a semi-public party, and Foster was seen with his
hand on Mrs. Clinton's buttocks. When Bill Clinton traveled out of
Little Rock, Vince Foster spent long evenings with Mrs Clinton as soon
as Bill had left. It has also been reported by Clinton acquaintance
Nicholas Guarino that Hillary and Foster spent several weekends
together in the Rose Law Firm cabin in the Ozarks.

In the White House, Foster was involved as a lawyer for the
Clinton's private matters (Whitewater, Trust Funds, etc.) and their
public matters (Travelgate).

Who is Maggie Williams?

Williams was Hillary's Chief of Staff. She has admitted to
taking a box full of files from Vince Foster's office on July 21st,
1993 and putting them in a closet in the Hillary's private residence
in the White House. Despite being seen by a Secret Security officer
removing several file folders from Foster's office on the night of
July 20th, Williams denies she did this. In her Senate Whitewater
testimony, she claimed not to recall answers to questions posed by
Republican senators in regards to the events surrounding Foster's
death and its aftermath. There are speculations that Williams was
present in Foster's office to remove any personal correspondence (i.e.
love letters) between Foster and Mrs. Clinton.

Who is Bernard Nussbaum?

Nussbaum was a White House attorney who removed files from
Foster's office on the night of his death. He also refused to allow
Foster's office to be searched by the FBI and PP the day after
Foster's death.

Who is Patsy Thomasson?

Thomasson is a close personal friend and advisor of Mrs.
Clinton. She was also an ex-employee of Dan Lasater. In her official
role, she had no business whatsoever being in Foster's office after
his death. However, as a liaison between Lasater's shady Bond
company, his drug operation in Mena, and the White House, she may have
been there to remove any files relating to Lasater

Who is Patrick Knowlton?

Mr. Knowlton was one of the only persons to visit Fort Marcy
Park during the hours preceeding the finding of Vince Foster's body.
He had information relating to a suspicious looking character and a
car which were present at FMP. His testimony to the FBI was falsified
in the FBI reports, directly contradicting his actual testimony to
them. When he publicly complained that the FBI rendering of his
testimony was incorrect, he was subpoenaed by Kenneth Starr's
Whitewater probe. During the period of time between his receiving the
subpoena until the time of his testimony, he was stalked and
intimidated by a group of men who owned cars with license plates
registered to the US government. He has several witnesses to the
intimidation campaign carried out against him.

Who is Marsha Scott?

Ms. Scott, sometimes known as Bill's "hippy girlfriend," is an
acquaintance of Bill's from the 60's. A fellow Arkansan and FOB,
Scott was brought with the Clinton entourage to Washington. Although
she never passed a security clearance, Ms. Scott was a White House
employee for some time. She met with Vince Foster for over an hour on
July 19th for "personal" business, but when questioned could only
recall that Vince said he had a good weekend. She has divulged no
other details from the meeting, although it is a possibility that she
was a go-between the Clinton's and Foster who may have tried to talk
Foster out of resigning/turning state's evidence.

Who is Helen Dickey?

At the time of Foster's death, Dickey was Chelsea's nanny.
(Perhaps Hillary's ghost-written book, "It Takes a Village" should
have been titled "It Takes a Nanny") According to the sworn testimony
of Arkansas State Tropers Roger Parry and Larry Patterson, and
testimony of another Arkansas resident, Lynn Davis, Ms. Dickey called
sometime between 5:30 and 7:00 CT to notify Governor Jim Guy Tucker
that Vince Foster shot himself in his car in the White House parking
lot. This story meshes well with Secret Service memo 2551. However,
in testimony before the Senate Whitewater committee, Ms. Dickey
claimed that she called Arkansas at about 10:30 EDT and that the story
she told Governor Tucker was that Foster killed himself in FMP.

Sources

Senate/House Whitewater Committee Testimony
Hugh Sprunt, Citizen's Independent Report
Various AP/Reuters articles
Usenet posts of Senate testimony conflicts to a.c-e.c.ww
Nicholas Guarino, "Murder, Bank Fraud, Drugs, and Sex"
The American Spectator

B. Travelgate

Issues/Allegations

What is Travelgate?

The scandal known as "travelgate" occurred in May of 1993.
Under intense pressure from Hillary Clinton, White House employee
David Watkins fired the seven-member staff of the White House Travel
Office with the intent of replacing them with the World Wide Travel of
Little Rock, a company partially owned by Hollywood producer and FOB
Harry Thomasson and one of Clinton's cousins. The manager of the
White House Travel office was indicted for embezzlement, though he was
acquitted two years later.

So what's the scandal?

The scandal in travelgate is in the cover-up. Mrs. Clinton
denied any involvement in the decision, and the White House insisted
that the seven-member staff (six members were quickly rehired) was
inept and should have been fired, a charge that was consistently
proved false. They also charged WHTO manager Billy Dale with
embezzlement, a charge that Dale was acquitted of after less than 2
hours of deliberation. Notes released more than two years later
revealed that Mrs. Clinton's attorneys lied on her behalf in stating
her non-involvement, and that Mrs. Clinton and Vince Foster were major
players in the scandal, a pure and simple attempt at political
patronage at the expense of innocent people. Also, the White House
misused the FBI in trying to clear themselves of any wrongdoing.

What criminal charges can be made in this scandal?

Most of the offenses in travelgate were ethical in nature,
although there are some charges that can be made. Misuse of the FBI
could yield some charges, and the testimony given by Hillary's lawyers
on her behalf to a GAO investigation could yield perjury charges. It
is also possible that perjury charges could be brought against the
First Lady, depending on what she testified in her deposition to
Kenneth Starr.

What is the purpose of the White House Travel Office?

The WHTO makes the travel arrangements for the White house
Press Corps, $7 million-dollar-a-year expenditure. The office is an
apolitical non-partisan agency that aids the media accessibility to
the White House.

Why has this scandal received much more press coverage than other
Clinton scandals?

The White House Press Corps personally knew the members of the
WHTO and did not believe the charges made against them. They also
felt that the Clintons were being spiteful in prosecuting Billy Dale.

Could anyone be indicted over Travelgate?

In a word: Yes. Hillary Clinton's written testimony to the
GAO investigator of the Travel Office Affair stated that she had
nothing to do with the firings and was unaware of the situation.
However, David Watkins' memo, and other papers reluctantly released by
the White House (under threat of a Contempt of Congress citation)
paint a different picture; one of Hillary showing great interest in
getting the old Travel Office employees out and "our people in". Or,
if you choose to believe that Hillary is telling the truth, the David
Watkins could be indicted for perjury.

Who's Who

Who is Billy Dale?

Billy Dale was the manager of the WHTO who was wrongly accused
of embezzlement, a charge that cost him his job, two years of his
life, and his entire life savings. His only "crime" was that he held
a job that Hillary had earmarked for a FOB.

Who is David Watkins?

Watkins was a management consultant hired by the White House.
He was pressured by Hillary Clinton and his boss, Mack McClarty to
fire the WHTO at the behest of Harry Thomason. After the firing
reached scandal proportions, it was leaked to the press that Watkins
had used a White House helicopter to take a golfing trip, and Watkins
resigned. Before he was put in hot water, Watkins wrote a memo which
he wrote was his "first attempt to be sure the record is straight,
something I have not done in previous conversations with
investigators." He also wrote that "I have been as protective and
vague as possible" in his interviews with investigators looking into
the firings. This memo was not released until two-and-a-half years
after the firings.

Who is Harry Thomason?

Thomason and his wife are Hollywood producers with ties to
Little Rock and the Clintons. Thomason, who did not have a White
House security clearance, spent several days in the White House during
the months after the Clintons' inauguration, and was lobbying Hillary
to fire the WHTO so that he could bring in his company, World Wide
Travel, to take over the business.

Sources

Tony Snow, Creator's Syndicate
Mona Charen, Creator's Syndicate
The American Spectator
AP, Reuters, CNN

C. Whitewater Congressional Hearings

Issues/Allegations

What are the Washington-based scandals in the WW hearings?

During the period of time from 1993 - 1995, the
Democratically-controlled House and Senate performed weak inquiries
into Whitewater and other Clinton scandals. Key witnesses were not
allowed to testify, evidence was disallowed, and certain lines of
questioning were declared "out-of-bounds". In 1995, the hearings
began anew, and this time the witnesses displayed outrageous behavior.
Witnesses testified that they lied to their diaries, tape recordings
of themselves couldn't be identified, and many witnesses displayed
incredible amnesia. In addition to this, key documents were withheld
from the committees by the White House, and some documents were
provided only after the Senate voted to take the White House to court.

Who lied to his diary?

Josh Steiner, a White House aide, was being questioned by the
WW committee about events he wrote in his diary which conflicted with
testimony given by Roger Altman. Rather than impeach Altman's
testimony, Steiner, in effect, testified that he lied to his diary!

Who is Roger Altman?

Altman was one of Clinton's top financial White House
employees. He arranged meetings between Justice Department officials
and the White House to (illegally) brief the Clintons on the ongoing
investigations into their Whitewater venture and the failure of
Madison Guarantee S&L. His testimony before the committee was full of
contradictions and disrememberances. One of his aides, Josh Steiner,
testified that he lied to his diary in order to keep from conflicting
with Altman's testimony.

Who couldn't recognize her own voice on tape?

Answer: Ms. April Breslaw. Ms. Breslaw was lawyer in the
Kansas City office of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), the
government investigational organization which was in charge of the S&L
cleanup. Ms. Breslaw intentionally mischaracterized the nature and
conclusions of the Whitewater/Madison investigation by Jean Lewis. In
1994, she met with Lewis to tell her that "the people at the
top...would like to be able to say Whitewater did not cause a loss to
Madison." She did not know that Lewis recorded the conversation, and
when Breslaw was confronted with the audio tape in front of the
Whitewater committee, she claimed that she could not recognize her
voice on tape, as she'd never heard it on tape before, in an obvious
attempt to prevent incriminating herself and he superiors in
obstruction of justice.

Who is Jean Lewis?

Ms. Lewis was a Senior Investigator with the RTC in Kansas
City, who was assigned to the Whitewater/Madison investigation. She
made criminal referrals on many FOB's, including both McDougals, Jim
"Guy" Tucker, and Dan Lasater. She was also able to connect a
significant amount of money to the Bill Clinton political campaigns.
Most of her referrals have EVENTUALLY ended in indictment and
conviction. However, when she made the referrals, some were misplaced
for a significant amount of time by Clinton appointees, and one set of
referrals was dismissed by Ms. Paula Casey, another Clinton appointee.
Lewis was pressured by RTC lawyer April Breslaw and told that "the
people at the top...would like to be able to say Whitewater did not
cause a loss to Madison." Lewis recorded this conversation and played
a tape of it before the Whitewater committee. Breslaw claimed she
could not recognize her own voice on tape, and disavowed that the
recorded voice was hers.

Who is Paula Casey?

Paula Casey is the United States District Attorney for the
Eastern District of Arkansas, appointed by Bill Clinton. She received
from her predecessor, Chuck Banks, the criminal referrals made by RTC
investigator Jean Lewis. Although a Republican appointee, Banks was
angling for a Federal Judgeship appointment from President Clinton and
did not act upon the referral. Paula Casey was also a former law
student of Clintons, during his stint as a professor. She also refused
to enter into a plea bargain with Judge David Hale, who accused Bill
Clinton of pressuring him to make a bad unsecured load to Susan
McDougal. The proposed plea bargain would have exchanged Hale's
testimony against McDougal (and indirectly, Bill Clinton) for a
reduced sentence against Hale. Four days later, November 9, 1993, Ms.
Casey recused herself of the situation after there was a Republican
outcry. Prosecution of the McDougal case was subsequently taken over
by the Whitewate Special Counsel. (Source: The Whitewater Whitewash,
Martin L. Gross, Ballantine Books,1995)

What is the significance of the November 5, 1993 notes that had to be
subpoenaed by the entire Senate?

On November 5, 1993, a meeting was held with the Clintons,
their personal lawyers, and White House (i.e. PUBLIC) lawyers. The
meeting was held to stem the tide of Whitewater torture the Clinton's
were enduring. In the meeting, William Kennedy, a White House lawyer
with confidential information on an investigation into the Clintons,
took notes of the meeting. Initially, Kennedy said he could not
release the notes because Bill Clinton was claiming attorney-client
privilege, despite the fact that Kennedy was not his private lawyer.
Eventually, only after the Senate voted to take the Clintons to court,
the notes were released. Several damning statements were made in the
notes, the most obvious one being that they needed to "vacuum the
documents" from the Rose Law Firm.

What is the importance of the Susan Thomases notes?

Notes taken by Susan Thomases, Hillary Clinton's close friend,
show that Hillary may have had more of a role in the failure of
Madison Guarantee Savings and Loan than she previously testified. The
note also smacks of a possible cover-up in which Thomas that Rose Law
Firm Junior Partner "will say he did the work." The testimony and
notes of Thomases also revealed that ORIGINALS of Whitewater and
Madison files once in the possession of Foster, and after his death,
were stored in the basement of Webster Hubbell.

Who has displayed amazing amnesia in the hearings?

Maggie Williams and Susan Thomases, in their smug testimony
before the Senate WW committee disremembered _170_ times events
relating to Whitewater and Vince Foster. Other testimony had to be
dragged from them, full of qualifiers and weasel words, revealing a
series of late night and early morning phone calls from Hillary on the
day of Vince Foster's death and the following day. Their testimony
was so ingenious that Senate WW Committee chair, Al D'Amato asked
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr to indict the two of them on perjury
charges.

Who are the notable personages on the WW panels?

* Senator Alfonse D'Amato - head of the Senate Banking
committee, and the leader of the same committee's inquiry into the
Whitewater matter. D'Amato is believed to have a clandistine source
of White House documents, which he uses to leverage original copies
from the White House.

* Senator Paul "Sourbrains" Sarbanes is the ranking minority
member of the Senate WW committee. One wonders if he is really paying
attention to the proceedings, as he usually blows up long enough to
call the hearings "propoganda" before falling back into a state of
lethargy.

* Michael Chertoff is the Republican counsel and runs most of
the questioning of witnesses before the committee. Seems to be a
pretty good lawyer (a contradicition in terms?), and one gets the
impression that he already knows the answers to the questions he's
asking and that he's leading the witness to a place he/she never
intended to go.

* Richard Ben Veniste is the Democratic counsel in the Senate
WW committee. Mr. Ben Veniste provided the committee hearings with
its lowest point, questioning Investigator Jean Lewis about an erased
personal letter he recovered from a floppy disk she provided.

* Senator Bobbie Boxer (D - CA) is the ridicule of the WW
committee (which may be why she almost never shows up). As a relative
of the Clinton's (related by marriage), she has refused to recuse
herself in the matters of the committee.

* Rep. James Leach, Republican leader of the House Banking
Committee, has been a long-time critic of the Clintons' Whitewater and
related scandals. Leach has raised serious questions about the
Clintons' on the floor of the House and is pushing for hearings into
the Mena drug-smuggling operation and the ADFA.

* Rep. Henry "Gonzo" Gonzales, the Democratic ex-leader of the
House Banking Committee who threw out key evidence and refused to seat
crucial witnesses in the Whitewater "sham" hearings in 1994.

Sources

Transcripts of the Senate and House Whitewater committee
meetings.
AP, Reuters, CNN Newsfeeds
William Safire, New York Times editorialist

D. The FBI File-flap - "Filegate

What IS Filegate?

In early 1993, Craig Livingstone, an ex-bar-bouncer, and
friend of Hillary Clinton, was hired by the Clinton White House to
head up their security. Livingstone hired Anthony Marceca, a
long-time Democratic operative working for the Army's Legal Services
group to go through background files. However, what Marceca and
Livingston went over were over 900 files of ex-Bush and -Reagan
employees, including Billy Dale (who would, in a few months, be fired
in the Travelgate scandal) and ex-Secretary of State James Baker.
This information came to light in the House Congressional hearings
into Travelgate, when the White House reluctantly released records
which showed that they had Dale's FBI file pulled, and that it was
still in a safe at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. At first, the White
House claimed that only a few files were pulled. This number grew to
70, then 150, then 300, then 400, and finally to 900 (at least for
now). Though the White House has claimed that this was just a
"clerical oversite", their excuses have been shot down, one-by-one,
although no evidence has been submitted showing that information from
the files was used. (NOTE: Watergate figure, Chuck Colson, was sent
to jail for 3 years for the misuse of ONE FBI file!). The "Filegate"
matter is now being investigated by the office of Mr. Kenneth Starr.

Who hired Craig Livingstone?

Good question. While an employee of the White House,
Livingstone told associates that he was hired by Hillary Clinton, an
allegation supported by many involved. However, once the FBI file
matter became a controversial issue, Livingstone fell victim to White
House Amnesia, and could not remember who hired him during
Congressional hearings. Eventually, the Clintons' decided to blame
the dead guy, so the story was circulated that Livingstone was hired
by Vince Foster. This excuse contradicted Livingstone's testimony,
though, as Livingstone had testified to Congress that he barely knew
Mr. Foster, and had never met with him. (An interesting side-note:
Livingstone was the White House staffer who identified Foster's body
in Fort Marcy Park.) So, the answer to the question of who hired
Livingstone is still undecided.

Sources

Transcripts of the Senate and House Whitewater committee
meetings.
AP, Reuters, CNN Newsfeeds

E. The Death of Ron Brown

On April 3, 1996, Ron Brown, and 35 other people were killed
when his plane crashed outside of Dubrovnik, Croatia. At the time of
his death, Ron Brown was under investigation by a Special Prosecutor
for illegal acts commited during his tenure as Secretary of Commerce.
Though it is likely that this truly was an accident, a number of
controversies surround the crash and its aftermath.

What were the discrepancies and controversies involved in the crash
and investigation?

* Sergeant Cheryl Turnege, a steward on the plane, survived
the crash and was walking and coherent at the site of the wreckage
when the rescue crews arrived 4 hours after the event. When she was
inspected before being flown to Dubrovnik, no major injuries were
noted. Yet, on the trip to the hospital, she died of a severed
femoral artery. This type of injury should have killed her minutes
after the crash, and would have been obvious to medical personnel on
the site.

* Croat investigators were reported to have found the "black
box" (which is really a bright day-glow orange) soon after the crash,
but the box disappeared soon after the Americans came on the scene,
and it was claimed that the military plane did not have a black box
due to oversight.

* The plane DID have INS, GPS, and Doppler equipment on board,
but no information on its contents has been released.

* Tapes of radio traffic were 'accidentally erased,' a very
unusual occurrence, since these tapes are highly guarded under tight
security.

* It took an unusually long time for U.S. Forces to reach the
crash site (over 4 hours), and the group which arrives was a U.S.
Special Forces group (which is also VERY unusual for this type of
incident).

* While the White House reported that the plane went down
during "the worst storm in a decade", no such storm was reported by
local Croatians, and no such storm existed according to both Aviation
Week and The Weather Channel.

* The commander of the plane's unit at Ramstein AFB was
reassigned a week before the crash after he complained about safety
concerns and insufficient funds for proper safety equipment.

* The Dubrovnik maintenance tech resposible for the "faulty
beacon" which may have led to the crash was not to be interviewed
until 4 days after the crash, which was one day too late, as he shot
himself in the stomach 3 days after the crash, though supposedly for
reasons unrelated to the crash.

* Engineers from Pratt & Whitney (the makers of the plane)
were not invited to take part in the crash investigation, though they
are normally brought in to do so.

* Traces of thermite were recovered from the crash site and
from the victims. Thermite can easily be used to sabotage an
airplane.

* It was initially reported that the plane crashed into the
Adriatic Sea, and that debris had been recovered. The plane did
disappear from radar when it went below 2000 feet, while it was still
over the water. If the plane had been sabotaged with thermite, debris
could have streamed out of a hole in the plane, though the pilot, with
some luck, might be able to get the plane safely to land.

* Less than 2 months before the crash, Ron Brown was quoted as
saying that if he went down he would "take a lot of people" with him.

Sources

AP, Reuters, CNN Newsfeeds
Aviation Week
Hugh Sprundt, an independent investigator

V. Arkansas Phase

A. MGSL/WWDC

Issues/Allegations

What exactly are the allegations in the federal WW probes?

* The Clinton's have received illegal campaign donations and
fraudulent loans

* Bill Clinton used his power as governor to prevent the
shutdown of a failed S&L so that he and his friends could use it as a
cash cow.

* Hillary Clinton was involved in an obvious conflict of interest,
representing both Madison Guarantee Savings & Loan (MGSL) and the
federal government, defrauding the government of $60 million dollars.

* Hillary and the Rose Law Firm, through the ADFA, set up a sweetheart
regulatory deal to defraud the government and funnel money to FOBs.

* The White House may have played an active role in the death
of White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster.

* The White House was involved in a cover-up in the taking of
files from the office of White House counsel Vincent Foster after his
death.

* The Clinton's used the WWDC, in which Hillary had full power
of attorney, as a real estate scam to defraud the government.

* Hillary helped Seth Ward, Father-in-Law of Web Hubbell, to
defraud the government of $3 million in the Castle Grande real estate
deal.

* Roger Altman arranged a meeting between the Justice
Department and the White House to pass on confidential information in
the investigation of MGSL

What is the Whitewater Development Corporation (WWDC)?

The WWDC was a real estate venture created in 1979 by James
and Susan McDougal and Bill and Hillary Clinton at a cost of $200,000.
The Whitewater property is comprised of 230 acres along the White
River. The nearest grocery store is 90 miles away, and at the time
WWDC was formed, there were no roads anywhere near it. One could
argue that, on the surface, WWDC was a stupid investment, especially
for "the brightest lawyer of our time."

The Clintons and McDougals borrowed $182,611 in 1978 from the
Citizen's Bank of Flippin. The down payment on the loan was made via
a $20,000 loan from the Union Bank. Neither loan required any
financial statement. [When was the last time you were able to take out
a $200,000 loan with a 10% down-payment, also loaned, without a
background check?] During a nine-month period in which no payments
had been made, the Citizens Bank made an unsecured $20,000 loan to
help pay $30,000 in unpaid interest, also w/o a financial background
check. Initially, the Clinton's made payments along with the
McDougals on the property ($9000 of which was illegally deducted on
the Clinton taxes), but after 1984, the Clintons made few payments.
The last lot of WWDC was sold in 1985.

Chris Wade, a real estate agent who owned Lot 7, illegally
shielded the property in his bankruptcy hearings by a temporary
transfer of its title. Kenneth Starr had indicted Wade and received a
guilty plea for this infraction.

What is the story on Madison Guarantee Savings & Loan (MGSL)?

MGSL was a bank formed by WWDS co-owner James McDougal in 1979
with initial assets of $500,000. In 1985, it had assets of $120
million dollars, and in 1989, MGSL went under, costing the US
government $60 million to bail it out. The checking account for the
WWDC was a major account at MGSL, and made millions of dollars in
loans to friends of the Clintons and their campaign supporters. Jim
"Guy" Tucker's ventures received over $1 million in unpaid loans from
MGSL.

In 1985, McDougal supposedly held a fund-raiser for Clinton at
MGSL, paying off Bill's $50,000 campaign debt. The only problem with
this is that the "supporters," (mostly employees and family of
employees of MGSL) don't remember making any such political donations.

What is Castle Grande?

Castle Grande was a real estate scam involving Seth Ward, (the
father-in-law of Webster Hubbell), James McDougal, and Hillary
Clinton. Seth Ward obtained a $1.15 million dollar loan from MGSL to
buy a large piece of land known as Castle Grande, in which James
McDougal personally invested $400,00 as a partner. Then, MGSL
proposed buying Castle Grande back from Ward & McDougal, paying Ward a
10% commission. The first transaction involved the sale of a 22-acre
plot to MGSL for $400,000, a transaction written up by lawyer Hillary
Clinton. The eventual failure of Castle Grande cost the government $4
million. The initial loan to Ward was structured so that he could not
be liable in the case of Castle Grande's failure.

Hillary testified to the RTC that she could not remember doing
any legal work on Castle Grande. In addition to the above-mentioned
legal transaction, Hillary completed the legal work for the addition
of a sewer and a brewery for Castle Grande. Hillary's specialty with
the Rose Law Firm as litigation, and Mrs. Clinton is yet to adequately
explain her involvement in this scam.

How is the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) involved?

During Clinton's second term as governor, the AGFC was
approached by Whitewater owner Chris Wade, who "gave" two acres of the
WW property to the state upon which the state could build a boat ramp
and a few trash barrels. (It is important to note that up to this
point there was not even a road attached anywhere near the WW
property.) In exchange for the "gift" of land to the state, the AGFC
and the Arkansas Highway department spent several million tax dollars
to build a road and a bridge to the Whitewater property. This money
came from federal and state funds from the Marine Fuel-Tax Turnback
Fund, which was created make fisheries more accessible. In Arkansas,
though, this money could be used by state agencies, like the AGFC, to
pay off political favors to the governor and his buddies.

How is Capital Management Services, Inc. (CMS) involved?

CMS was an investment company owned and run by Arkansas Judge
David Hale, which went bankrupt because of unpaid loans. As a Small
Business Investment Comapany, it could only make loans to
"disadvantaged" businesses. CMS made a number of questionable loans
and other financial transactions. Some examples:

* Hale was pressured by Bill Clinton to give an unsecured $300,000
loan to Susan McDougal which was not repaid. The $300,000 was briefly
put into the WWDC, and part of it was eventually used to help pay off
some Clinton campaign debts.

* Capital received a $500,00 real estate loan from MGSL, which it
never repaid.

* CMS loaned $300,000 to Jim Guy Tucker supposedly for a cable
television business, and the loan was not repaid. Tucker has been
indicted for giving a fraudulent reason for the loan.

* CMS made a $65,000 loan which was used to illegally pay off a debt
of the Kings River Land Company real estate development owned by
Clinton aide Stephen Smith, Jim Guy Tucker, James McDougal, and
Smith's father. Smith has pled guilty to misdemeanor charges in this
action.

How is Master Marketing involved?

Master Marketing was the company owned by Susan McDougal to
which the $300,000 loan was made by CMS, under the pressure of
then-Governor Bill Clinton.

How is the Bank of Cherry Valley involved?

The Bank of Cherry Valley is an Arkansas bank that was owned
by Maurice Smith, Jr. The bank gave Clinton an unsecured $50,000
personal loan during Clinton's 1984 gubernatorial campaign. It also
loaned Clinton $220,000 during Clinton's governorship that was used to
promote Clinton's legislative agenda. Smith was appointed Arkansas
State Highway Director in 1987, and was given an aide position in the
White House.

How is the Kingston Bank & Trust involved?

The Kingston Bank and Trust (which later became Madison Bank
and Trust - not to be confused with MGSL, though) loaned Hillary
Clinton $30,000 which was used to build a model home on the WWDC,
which then assumed responsibility for the loan. This was not
correctly reported in the Clintons' tax returns.

How is the Perry County Bank involved?

The Perry County Bank loaned the Clinton campaign $180,000 for
his 1990 campaign. The president of the bank has been indicted for
trying to hide a $30,000 withdrawal from the account from the IRS.
Another sizable withdrawal was made, $22,500 just before the election.
Right after Clinton's election, the co-owners of the bank were given
Arkansas state government positions.

How is the Rose Law Firm involved?

The Rose Law Firm is at the center of many of the Arkansas
scandals. In relation to Whitewater, Rose was the legal
representative of MGSL, and later became the law firm representing the
RTC in its suit against MGSL, an obvious conflict of interest.
Hillary Clinton, Webster Hubbell, Vince Foster, and William Kennedy
III are all partners of the firm, with Foster, Hubbell, and Clinton as
the three senior partners.

Rose is being investigated by the RTC for its conflict of
interest involving MGSL, and possibly by Kenneth Starr for its
shredding of documents belonging to Vince Foster, which began right
after Fiske became the first special counsel. Rose is countersuing
the RTC to keep it from revealing its list of major clients.

Who are the major clients of the Rose Law Firm?

Axciom Corporation, Aluminum Coproration of America,
Arkansas Association of Bank Holding Companies, Arkansas Freightways,
Arkansas Poultry Federation, Arkansas-Oklahoma Gas Corporation
(ARKLA), Beverly Enterprises, Bridgestone/Firestone Inc., Canon
Express Inc., The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United
States, Fairfield Communities Inc., Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, General American Transportation, General Electric,
General Motors, Georgia-Pacific, The John Hancock Mutual Life
Insurance Co., Harps Food Stores, Harvest Foods, International Paper,
The Kemper Insurance Group, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, MCI
Telecommunications, 3M, New York Life Insurance Co., Paine-Webber,
Panhandle Eastern Corporation, Pel-Freeze Inc., The Prudential
Insurance Company of America, J. A. Riggs Tractor, The Winthrop
Rockefeller Foundation, Stephens Inc., Systematics Information
Services, TCBY, Tramell Crow Companies, Tyson Foods Inc., USX
Corporation, Walmart Stores Inc., WEHCO Media Inc., Worthen Banking
Corporation

Who's Who

How is Bill Clinton involved?

There are many allegations made in the Whitewater scandals in
which Clinton takes official action as governor to give special favors
to his friends, and also received illegal benefits from the same set
of friends.

Clinton was the recipient of several shady loans, some of
which were repaid by shady means. He also pressured Capital
Management to make an unsecured $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal which
was never repaid. Money from this loan was also used to pay off some
of Clinton's campaign loans.

Clinton appointed Beverly Bassett Shaffer, Jim McDougal's
lawyer, was appointed by Clinton to run the Arkansas state agency
which regulated Savings and Loans in 1984. At the same time, he also
requested that MGSL put Hillary on $2000/month retainer. Shaffer was
known for being lax in her regulation and kept Madison afloat for two
years longer than it should have been.

How is Hillary Clinton involved?

Hillary has been at the heart of the Whitewater scandals in
her role as senior partner of the Rose Law Firm. She may have
perjured herself in testifying that she was not involved with MGSL in
its involvement with its stock offering and the Castle Grande land
scam.

Hillary was the legal representative for MGSL before she
represented the RTC in its suit against MGSL, which had to be bailed
out for $60 million dollars. She "bargained" MGSL into paying $1
million back in fines. Of the $1 million dollars returned to the
federal government, $600,000 was returned to Seth Ward as a refund
from Castle Grande, and Hillary charged the federal government
$400,000 in legal fees. Her role and the obvious conflict of interest
are art of Starr's probe into Whitewater.

In 1984, Hillary was put on a $2000/month retainer by MGSL at
the request of her husband to help with the family financial situation
(i.e. the need for more legitimate family income).

Hillary also was involved with a political payoff by Tyson
Foods employee James Blair in which she supposedly converted a $1000
investment in cattle futures into a $99,000 dollar gain, despite the
fact that such a feat is impossible in a legitimate investment.

Hillary Clinton was a vocal opponent of the pharmaceutical
industry in 1993, and a fund her personal money was invested in, Value
Partners I, made $275,000 selling short in pharmaceutical stocks.
This action fits the definition of insider trading and may be part of
the WW probe. Right after this, the Clintons' money was placed in a
blind trust, 7 months late. Vince Foster was handing this matter at

the time of his death.

How is James McDougal involved?

James McDougal, a close FOB is in the middle of most of the
corporations involved in Whitewater, with his most key role being the
head of MGSL and the co-owner of WWDC. He has been indicted in the
Starr probe of Whitewater. He was convicted on 18 of the 19 charges
brought against him. Since this time, he has agreed to aid Starr's
investigation.

How is Susan McDougal involved?

Susan McDougal, the ex-wife of James McDougal is involved as a
co-owner of WWDC, an owner in MGSL, and as the owner of Master
Marketing, which took money from an illegal loan from CMS and funneled
part of the money into Clinton's campaign debts. She was indicted by
Starr and found guilty of all 4 of the charges brought against her.
Hoping for a Presidential pardon, she has refused to testify whether
Bill Clinton had anything to do with the $300,000 loan from Capital
Management, as she has stated she does not wish to perjur herself
(suggesting that Clinton DID pressure Hale for the loan.)

How is Vince Foster involved?

Foster's only living involvement with Whitewater was his
representation of the Clinton's in the 1992 sale of the Clintons'
share of WWDC. As White House Deputy Counsel, he still conducted
personal work for the Clintons. He was working on scandals with the
Clintons' investments in a mutual fund that sold short on
pharmaceutical stocks, the Whitewater scandal, and Travelgate at the
time of his death. (SEE DEATH OF VINCE FOSTER)

How is David Hale involved?

David Hale was the Arkansas Judge who owned Capital Management
Services, which made several suspicious loans to FOBs. He has
testified that he was pressured by Bill Clinton to give a $300,000
loan to Susan McDougal which was never repaid. In 1993 he was
indicted by the SBA for $800,000 in fraudulent loans.

How is Webster Hubbell involved?

Hubbell was once the mayor of Little Rock, the managing
partner of the Rose Law Firm, and the Associate Attorney General of
the United States. In 1994, he pled guilty to postal fraud and
overbilling during his time at the Rose Law Firm. He received a 21
month sentence and a $135,000 fine, and it is believed that he is a
major source of information for the Starr probe into Whitewater.

His wife was given a $60,000/year job with the federal
government in right after his plea bargain, in a possible attempt by
the Clinton administration to influence his testimony. The Starr
probe is looking into this matter.

How is William Kennedy III involved?

He was an ex-partner of the Rose Law Firm who was hired by the
White House to make background investigations of all White House
employees. He allowed hundreds of people who could not pass the
background checks access to classified documents. He later resigned
from the position to assume "other duties" for the Clintons. His
notes from the November 5, 1993 meeting in the White House were sought
by the Senate WW committee, and when they were released, they talked
of "vacuuming documents."

His father and Patsy Thomasson are under investigation by the
SEC for securities violations.

How is Dan Lasater involved?

Personal friend of Clinton. They first met back in the late
seventies when Lasater got a racetrack box for the late Virginia
Kelley. (Dan first met Bill through Clinton's mother). Their
friendship grew as they spent time together at the racetrack.

In the early 1980's, Lasater started a bonding company, and
hired Patsy Thomasson as the company's Vice President, at Clinton's
recommendation. Before this, Patsy was appointed by then Gov. Clinton
to the Arkansas Highway Commission. Among Patsy's other
responsibilities while working for Clinton, was keeping an eye on
Clinton's half-brother Roger. In 1982(?), Patsy hired Roger as the
limo driver for the Lasater Co.

In 1985, Lasater was under investigation for the sale and
possession of cocaine, along with Roger who was being investigated for
the purchase and use of cocaine. Sometime earlier, Lasater gave Roger
$8,000 to pay off drug debts he accumulated. During Lasater's trial,
he testified that he "served ashtrays full of cocaine on his corporate
jet", a plane used by Clinton on more than one occasion. [Giving
Clinton the benefit of the doubt, there is no reason not to believe
that the ashtrays were not present during the times he occupied the
plane.] He later told the FBI that he distributed cocaine on more than
180 occasions. He stated "I shared my success in that manner".

In 1985, during the same time of the ongoing and widely
publicized investigation of Lasater, Gov. Clinton awarded Lasater a
$30.2 million bond issue to modernize the State police radio system.
Lasater received $750,000 underwriting fee for the radio bond.

In 1986, Lasater was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison, with
Roger Clinton testifying against him. Roger, although already
occupying a jail cell on cocaine possession charges, was named
"unindicted" on coconspirator charges which would have carried a much
stronger sentence than his present conviction. Lasater appealed and
thus did not begin his sentence immediately. Patsy Thomasson became
President of the Lasater Co. shortly after Lasater's trial.

As it turns out, during the '80s, Lasater was one of the
largest contributors to then Gov. Clinton's many campaigns. In 1990,
Gov. Clinton pardoned him.

From 1984 to 1987, he owned a New Mexico resort called Angel
Fire, which Special Prosecutor Starr is also investigating.

Lasater was sued by the FDIC for illegal activity involving
failed S&Ls, and has been suspected of illegal bond running through
Lasater & Co. Dennis Patrick, who visited Angel Fire as a guest of
Lasater, claims that in 1985 and 1986, Lasater & Co. traded nearly $60
million in bonds in Mr. Patrick's name without his knowledge. (Crowe)

How is Robert Palmer involved?

On 5 December 1994, Robert Palmer pleaded guilty to falsifying
appraisal documents concerning the status of Madison Guaranty Savings
and Loan. This was Starr's first conviction.

Palmer admitted to his involvement in covering up Madison's
failure to follow a supervisory agreement with the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board, which Madison had entered in 1984 after failing to keep
adequate appraisal records for some real estate loans. He prepared 78
false and backdated appraisal to cover for loans that did not comply
with the agreement, for which he received $15,350.

He has been granted immunity from prosecution on further
charges related to Madison in return for his cooperation with the
investigation. He was sentenced on 16 June 1995 to 3 years probation
and a $5,000 fine. Starr stated that his cooperation with the
investigation was, "significant and on-going" (Reuters, Crowe).

How is Beverly Basset Schaffer involved?

Served as a lawyer for Madison Guaranty. Appointed head of the
State Securities Dept. in January 1985 by Gov. Clinton, apparently at
McDougal's request. She allowed Madison Guaranty to operate while
virtually insolvent for 18 months. This was accomplished by hiring a
former Madison employee to run the state audit of Madison Savings, who
reported that the institution was sound. The auditor was eventually
indicted for mishandling the audit. Her current husband is a
corporate attorney for Tyson Foods, and was involved in arranging
Hillary Clinton's amazingly successful futures trades. (Crowe)

How is Stephen Smith involved?

Served as Clinton's Chief of Staff when Clinton was the
Arkansas Attorney General (1978-79) and then as an assistant during
his first gubernatorial term. In the early 80s, Smith jointly owned
the Bank of Kingston with James McDougal. On 8 June 1995, he plead
guilty to one misdemeanor for making false claims in obtaining a
$65,000 SBA loan from Capital Management Services, Inc. in a plea
bargain agreement. The loan was supposed to be used for the
development of a demographic research company, but instead was
apparently used to pay off debt on the Kings River Land Co.
development, which Smith, his father, Jim Tucker, and James McDougal
owned. He is now cooperating with Starr's investigation. (Crowe)
Smith was also mentioned by Ms. L. Jean Lewis in her testimony before
the Whitewater Committee:

"Prior to the House Banking Committee hearings on August 8 and
9,1995, the Independent Counsel obtained guilty pleas from Stephen
Smith, Chris Wade and Larry Kuca, as well as the initial indictment
against Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, all of whom were clearly
identified within the RTC referrals."

How is Jim Guy Tucker involved?

On 7 June 1995, he was indicted with three felony charges for
making false claims in obtaining $300,000 in loans from Capital
Management Services, Inc. in 1987. He and his partner in a Florida
cable television business claimed that the money was for the a small
Arkansas cable TV venture in order to qualify for the small-business
loan. Instead, according to the indictment, it was used as collateral
to obtain an $8,500,000 line of credit for a Florida cable TV
business. Related charges involving shielding of assets from the IRS
and false bankruptcy filings were also filed. His partner and John
Haley, Tucker's personal lawyer, were also indicted.

His office allegedly received a phone call notifying him of
Vince Foster's death at least an hour before the knowledge reached the
White House.

Apparently he was in on all of the "money for free" loans, and
other dealings involved in Madison Guaranty's failure. He was named
by the RTC in the criminal referrals for which congress had hearings
in August of 1994. The crux of this whole issue is whether Clinton via
Web Hubbell (the de facto head of Justice at the time) clued Tucker in
to the fact that he was being named. On 6 October 1993, Clinton and
Tucker had a 20 minute meeting, and if Clinton gave him a heads up,
and it proves to have hindered the wheels of justice then Clinton is
guilty of felony obstruction of justice and hence impeachable. (Crowe)

Tucker was found guilty of 2 of the 7 charges against him, and
resigned from the Governorship of Arkansas in disgrace.

How is Chris Wade involved?

Real estate agent who managed Whitewater Development Corp. He
collected payments and made deposits at Citizens Bank of Flippin.
Wade has stated that the venture did not lose money. He has stated
that "tens of thousands of dollars were passing through Whitewater's
account" and that "the transactions seemed to bear no direct
connection to Whitewater's lot sales or home development activity."

On 19 March 1995 he plead guilty to two bankruptcy-related
felony charges brought by Starr. He admitted to receiving a loan based
on a fraudulent application and hiding assets when filing for
bankruptcy in 1989 and 1990. The "assets" apparently include a
Whitewater lot.

He has agreed to cooperate with the Whitewater investigation
in return for a promise of a maximum sentence of 16 months. (Crowe)

How is Robert Fiske involved?

Fiske was appointed as Special Prosecutor in the Whitewater
matters. While it was initially thought that since Fiske was a
registered Republican, he would have more of an appearance of
impartiality, he later had to be replaced. Many people felt he was
trying to cover up Whitewater, a theory given credence under the light
of later facts. He was completely against congressional hearings,
regardless of whether immunity from prosecution was granted. He was
also a defense lawyer in the BCCI scandal. Since there may be a tie
between BCCI and Whitewater, Fiske had a conflict of interest.
Reporter William Safire also reported that Hillary Clinton was
familiar with Fiske's history of never prosecuting unless he had an
airtight case. In the matter of David Hale, Fiske was willing to let
Hale go on lesser charges if it would keep Clinton's name out of the
records. All of these facts led to Fiske's replacement in August of
1995.

How is Kenneth Starr involved?

Starr was appointed by a three-judge panel to take over the
Whitewater investigation after Robert Fiske had to be dropped.

Sources

Washington Times
Washington Post
AP, Reuters, CNN newsfeed
_The_Clinton_Chronicles_
L. J. Davis - "The Name of the Rose"; The New Republic
Nicholas Guarino, "Murder, Bank Fraud, Drugs, and Sex"
Preston Crowe's Whitewater Web/Archive

B. Mena

Issues/Allegations

1. What was the Mena Operation?

As part of the Iran-Contra operation, guns were smuggled to
the Contras in Nicaragua from the Intermountain Airport, an obscure
little airport outside of the tiny town of Mena, Arkansas. Cocaine
and money from Nicaragua was then flown back from Nicaragua to the
Mena airport. If the cocaine shipments were too large, the airplanes
had been fitted with side-doors which allowed them to drop the drugs
into remote clearings. The drugs were then distributed to the
American public through large cities, and the money was laundered
through the ADFA and banks which would later be linked in the BCCI
scandal.

2. Did Clinton know about Mena?

With over a hundred million dollars in drug money flowing
through public and private institutions in such a poor state as
Arkansas, it would be hard to imagine that Clinton would not know
about Mena. However, at least one eyewitness can attest to Clinton's
knowledge of the drug-smuggling operations. State Trooper L.D. Brown
wanted to work for the CIA and was hooked up with the Mena operation
by Governor Clinton. After Brown learned of the cocaine trafficking,
he left the Mena operation and approached Clinton who told him "that's
Lasater's deal, that's Lasater's deal." State Trooper Bobby Walker
and several CIA or airport employees also saw Bill Clinton at the Mena
airport on different occasions, none of them "official" visits.

3. Did Ollie North, George Bush, and/or Reagan know about Mena?

While Oliver North knew about the gun smuggling conducted by
Barry Seal, it is not clear that he knew about drugs returning from
Nicaragua. Terry Reed has written of North's involvement in the
gun-running side of the operation. Whether Bush or Reagan knew of the
drug side of the operation is unknown.

4. Are there deaths involved with Mena?

Yes. At least eight boys met their death for their knowledge
of Mena Operation, and investigators have been thwarted in their
attempts to investigate the deaths or the Mena Operation. SEE
CLINTON-RELATED DEATHS/INJURIES

Who's Who

1. How was Bill Clinton involved?

According to State Police Officer L. D. Brown, Bill Clinton
made statements that he knew about the operation, but that it was
"Lasater's Deal." Brown also accompanied Mr. Clinton to the Mena
airport on several occasions. Trooper Larry Patterson also testified
in a deposition that he overheard Clinton conversations involving
drugs and guns at the Mena airport.

2. Who is Barry Seal?

Mr. Adler "Barry" Seal was a flamboyant CIA contractor who ran
the gun/drug-running operation between Mena and Nicaragua. His legend
was so famous, it was made into an HBO movie, "Double-Crossed." Mr.
Seal was eventually arrested by the DEA, and he set up a sting
operation for the CIA to finger some Medellin Drug Cartel operatives.
He received a light sentence to a halfway house in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, where he was gunned down a few days later. According to
Terry Reed, another CIA employee, Clinton told him, "Seal just got too
big for his britches and the scum basically deserved to die, in my
opinion..."

3. Who is Terry Reed?

Terry Reed was a CIA contractor, who was involved with some of
the airplane "procurement" for Mena. He and journalist John Cummings
wrote a book, "Compromised: Clinton, Bush, and the CIA." Reed is
suing the three men who framed him, Baker, Don Sanders, and Buddy
Young, and in his trial is trying to make public previously
unpublished documents related to the Mena operations.

4. Who is L.D. Brown?

L.D. Brown was an Arkansas State Trooper working in narcotics
who was a friend of Bill Clinton. He wanted to do work for the CIA,
and after passing an entrance exam, he was given a chance to work with
the gun-running operation in Mena. After he learned of the drug
smuggling operation, he left the Mena operation and confronted Bill
Clinton, who told him that the Mena operation was "Lasater's deal."

5. Who are Henry & Ives?

Don Henry and Kevin Ives were the two boys who died on a
railroad track near Mena. SEE CLINTON-RELATED DEATHS/INJURIES.

6. Who is Buddy Young?

Buddy Young was one of Clinton's bodyguards. He is named in
Terry Reed's lawsuit, and he supposedly was the Clinton operative who
approached Larry Nichols and informed him that he was a "dead man" if
he did not drop his suit against Clinton (SEE ADFA SCANDAL). Young is
now the head of the Federal Emergency Management Administration in
Denton, Texas.

7. Who is Charles Black?

Charles Black is a Polk County, Arkansas, prosecutor who
investigated the crimes committed at Mena. In 1988, he begged Clinton
to open a state investigation of Mena. Clinton told Black he would
take care of it, but never did. Clinton also claims that he
appropriated $25,000 for the investigation, but the money never
arrived, and the investigation died.

8. Who is Jean Duffy?

_The_Clinton_Chronicles_
Emmett Tyrell, Jr., American Spectator 8/95
Micha Morrison, "The Mena Cover-up" WSJ 10/18/94
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - Series in London Sunday Telegraph
Hugh Davies, The Daily Telegraph, 1/4/95
Paul DeRienzo, CIA Drugs for Guns Connection
Bill Duncan, Congressional testimony, 7/24/91
"Oral Depositions of Richard J. Brenneke, William C. Duncan,
and Russel F. Welch," 6/21/91
"The Mena Connection" video - call 1-800-MENA-850 to order

C. Arkansas Development Finance Authority (ADFA) Scandal

Issues/Allegations

1. What was the ADFA?

The Arkansas Development Finance Authority (ADFA) was a state
governmental organization officially established to make loans to
colleges, churches, and small businesses which might have a difficult
time procuring loans. In reality, the ADFA made loans to no such
organizations, but allegedly made loans to friends of Mr. Clinton, who
funneled some of it back into Clinton's campaign coffers. There are
also allegations that millions of dollars of drug money from the Mena
operation was laundered through the ADFA.

2. Were the loans repaid?

Supposedly the loans were not repaid by those to whom the
loans were made to. The drug money from Mena was allegedly used to
zero-out the books at the end of each month.

3. What is the role of Park-o-meter?

Park-o-Meter (PoM) was the first company to receive a loan
from the ADFA. It's owner was Seth Ward, the father-in-law of Webster
Hubbell, the lawyer who drafted Act 1062, the piece of legislation
which brought the ADFA into being. Park-o-Meter supposedly
manufactured parking meters, but upon investigation, was found to make
retrofit nose cone compartments for airplanes in the Mena
drug-smuggling operation.

4. What is the role of the Rose Law Firm?

The RLF was in charge of the audits and evaluations of ALL
business entities which received loans. Even though there were law
firms much more qualified for this type of business, the RLF was the
sole firm in charge of this process. The three lawyers at the head of
the RLF were Webster Hubbell, Vince Foster, and Hillary Clinton.

Who's Who

1. What is Bill Clinton's involvement in ADFA?

Then-governor Clinton sold the concept of ADFA to the people
of Arkansas. As governor, he was also required, by law, to sign all
loans made by the ADFA. In order for some companies to receive a loan
from the ADFA, it was supposedly a requirement that they make a
sizable donation to Mr. Clinton's election campaign fund. Since Mr.
Clinton signed all of these loans, it would be difficult for him to
claim ignorance in matters regarding the ADFA.

2. Who is Larry Nichols?

Larry Nichols was hired by his friend, governor Clinton, in
1988, to the position of Director of Marketing of the ADFA. In a
short while he learned about the drug-money laundering, the
non-payment of loans, and the suspicious selection policies of the
ADFA. While pretending to work late, he secretly photocopied a huge
number of documents as evidence of wrongdoing, documents he still
possesses. After documenting the corruption, he approached Bill
Clinton in 1992 and asked him to tell the truth about Mena and the
ADFA. Two weeks later, Nichols brought a legal suit against Clinton.
He was later forced to withdraw the suit by a judge who was a FOB.

3. How is Webster Hubbell related to the ADFA?

Web Hubbell drafted the legislation, Act 1062, which created
the ADFA. His law firm, the Rose Law Firm, was in charge of
investigating applicants for ADFA loans, and his family was the first
one to benefit from an ADFA loan, a definite conflict of interest.

4. Who is Wooten Epps?

Wooten Epps was the head of the ADFA and was in Bill's
"inner-circle" of friends. He was also named as a defendant in Larry
Nichols' lawsuit.

5. How was Dan Lasater involved in the ADFA?

Lasater was the bond-broker for the ADFA, even though he never
did sell a bond. Through a series of monetary transfers, Lasater
laundered Mena drug money and paid off ADFA loans, collecting
"handling fees" along the way. Lasater became careless with his drugs
and money, and was arrested along with Roger Clinton for cocaine use.
(Lasater also hooked teenage girls on cocaine at his lavish cocaine
parties.) Lasater was pardoned by Governor Clinton after serving 6
months of his sentence, a fact that was shielded from the press for a
lengthy period of time.

6. Who is Doc Delaughter?

Doc Delaughter was an Arkansas Police Detective who put
Lasater and Roger Clinton behind bars for cocaine distribution. After
successfully investigating and indicting these two crooks, Delaughter
was harassed by his superiors and was forced to resign from the
Arkansas Police Force.

Sources

Larry Nichols' testimony, _The_Clinton_Chronicles_,
Doc Delaughter's testimony, _The_Clinton_Chronicles_,
L. J. Davis - "The Name of the Rose"; The New Republic

VI. Media Silence

What stories have the major media quashed related to Whitewater?

* Former NSA employee Roger Morris, and journalist Sally
Denton did in-depth research on the Mena drug-running operation for
the Washington Post. After months of delay in order to give Post
lawyers time to approve the article, it was set to run on January 29,
1995. However, at the last minute, the lead editor of the Post
decided to spike the story and not permit it to *ever* be run in the
Post. The article exposed Clinton, Oliver North, and other major
players in the guns for drugs operation at work in Mena Arkansas. It
was later printed in _Penthouse_ magazine.

* Ms Sally Perdue, a former Ms. Arkansas, carried on a
long-time affair with Bill Clinton in the early 1980's. She was
witness to his marijuana and cocaine use. In 1992, she was
interviewed by ABC, NBC, and was taped on the Sally Jesse Raphael
show. None of the interviews were permitted to run on national TV.

* During the 1992 presidential campaign, the press covered up
Larry Nichols' press conference in which he sued Bill Clinton and
named several women, including Gennifer Flowers, who were sexually
involved with Clinton. As women came forward to tell their stories,
they were savaged by Betsy Wright, Clinton's staffer in charge of
"bimbo eruptions", and the press largely ignored any sexual charges,
including the incriminating tapes produced by Gennifer Flowers.

*In order to regain her good name, Paula Jones approached
reporter Mike Isakoff of the Washington Post to tell her story.
Isakoff believed her, and wrote a long feature article on Ms. Jones'
allegations of sexual harassment against Mr. Clinton. Even after the
lawyers approved the story, the editor of the Post refused to print
it. Jones, distraught, was forced to file suit against Mr. Clinton.

* James Norman, a senior editor for Forbes magazine, wrote an
investigative story on the death of Vince Foster which was spiked by
the magazine, and Norman left the company. (SEE GRABBE/NORMAN AND
OTHER ODD THEORIES)

Who is the most clueless reporters covering WW?

There is a tie in this particular category: Ms. Sara Fritz of
the _Los_Angeles_Times_ and Terry Lemon of the
_Little_Rock_Democrat-Gazette_. Ms. Frits has spent the months of the
Senate Whitewater hearings working on knitting a green afghan (in
plain view of C-SPAN cameras), and her articles reflect her ignorance,
as she seems to be using the White House press briefing summary
without bothering to check its content or listening to testimony to
the contrary. Terry Lemon was the LR reporter covering Whitewater
related issues during the Clinton reign in Arkansas. His LACK of
reporting has given him the opportunity to live in infamy.

Who are the most in-depth reporters?

Chris Ruddy, of Pittsburgh and Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, a
London (that's London ENGLAND, folks) reporter have provided in-depth
reports on the death of Vince Foster, Mena drug-running, and the other
Clinton coverups and scandals. (Please do not let their life
insurance companies find out, though, as the stories they are covering
seem to decrease the lifespan of their followers.)

VII. Grabbe/Norman and other odd theories

What is the Grabbe/Norman school of though on Whitewater?

James Norman, once the senior editor for Forbes magazine and
J. Orlin Grabbe, a professor at the Wharton School of Business have
each independently come up with similar theories on Whitewater and the
death of Vince Foster. Their sources of information are in the
intelligence community and few of the sources are named, making their
articles hard to verify. The theory is very complicated, but the
following is a bare-bones summary:

Vince Foster was working for the White House and for the
Israelis as a double-agent, trying to sell highly sensitive
data-encryption and banking software to Israel. He had $2.73 million
in a Swiss bank account, and frequently took trips to Switzerland.
The weekend before his death, Foster was scheduled to go to
Switzerland, but cancelled it when he found that his account had been
emptied, and its funds transferred to a US treasury account. (The
Swiss trips and the cancellation have been verified via White House
Travel Office and credit card records, including the cancelled trip.)

When Vince Foster signaled that he was going to spill the
beans on the whole ball of wax, a team of Mossad agents killed him at
his apartment and left his body in Fort Marcy Park, as a warning to
the administration.

In the meantime, a group of CIA hackers known as "the fifth
column" emptied almost a billion dollars from illicit Swiss bank
accounts belonging to Congressmen, international politicians, and
world businessmen. The list of U.S. politicians has been given to a
democrat and republican in the House and the Senate. This appointed
individual, known as the "Angel of Death" approaches the corrupt
individuals and tells them that they have 24 hours in which to
announce their effective retirement. Norman predicted about 20
announcements in the Senate and 30 in the House, with these
predictions made BEFORE the wave of retirements occurred.

Also part of the Norman/Grabbe theory is that the INSLAW
scandal, relating to PROMIS software, a powerful tracking software
used by banks with "back doors" to allow NSA monitoring of financial
transactions, is tied to Whitewater via the BCCI scandal and the
"October Surprise" in 1980. It's very heady stuff, and is available
on several Web servers.

What is a counter-theory about Grabbe/Norman?

The counter-theory to Norman/Grabbe is that the Clinton
administration or the CIA and NSA are feeding disinformation to
respected sources, such as James Norman and J. Orlin Grabbe in order
to try to discredit the true coverups and crimes behind the Clinton
administration. This type of disinformation is a trademark of the CIA
in past foreign incidences, and was also used in the Hitler regime in
Nazi Germany. In other words, Norman and Grabbe believe what they're
saying, but they're unwittingly serving as protective fire for the
Clinton's and/or the CIA. Or, as Orlin Grabbe has supposedly admitted,
the theory was made up.

What is the strangest theory of all?

The strangest theory of all is this: Josh Steiner lied to his
diary. The voice on Jean Lewis' tape is not April Breslaw. Vince
Foster really did kill himself in Fort Marcy Park. Maggie Williams
did not take any files the night of Foster's death, and she truly
cannot remember what happened on those days after the death of Foster.
Several other White House aides truly cannot remember anything that
happened the summer of 1993. Marsha Scott truly can't remember what
she talked about with Foster about for over an hour on the day before
his death. Financial records in Arkansas are not accurate and the
Clintons and their buddies are guilty of no wrongdoing in all of the
loans and financial schemes. Witnesses from Fort Marcy Park, Arkansas
witnesses, ex- business partners, Terry Reed, Larry Nichols, Arkansas
State Troopers, the RTC, and many other federal investigators are part
of a huge effort to discredit what is truly the most ethical and
trustworthy Presidential administration ever in these United States of
America.

This theory is advanced only by folks like Senator Sarbanes,
White House parrot Mark Fabiani, and mindless American sheep like
Lucille V. Wilson and Richard Hanson. Of all the theories, this one
is the most easily discredited.

VIII. Miscellany

What is the Healthmaster Scandal?

Healthmaster is a HMO in Georgia, and its president, Jeanette
Garrison, has pled guilty on twenty counts of soliciting political
contributions for several democratic candidates and then reimbursing
the contributors with Medicare funds, totaling hundreds of thousands,
if not millions, of dollars. Some of these funds, it appears, ended
up in the Clinton/Gore campaign. Hillary's now-defunct healthcare
plan would have made this type of fraud even more easy to get away
with.

Healthmaster executives were on the Health Care task force,
Ms. Garrison was made the chairman of the Clinton/Gore campaign, and
was appointed to the Governor's Club. This trial is ongoing. See the
Healthmaster website at http://ac.america.net/~mwatkins

Is Bill Clinton a Rhodes' Scholar?

No. He was originally in the Rhodes' Scholar program at
Oxford, but he never completed it. [ source - Nora Waye, ex-business
partner of Bill's stepfather. ]

IX. Credits

Who are some of the more notable posters to
alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater?

Serious posters:

* Hugh Sprunt is an attorney and a CPA with an engineering
degree from MIT, and has personal interests in the mysterious death of
Vincent Foster. Mr. Sprunt has combed the 2,700 pages of Whitewater
testimony and documents covering Foster's death, and he has compiled a
"Citizen's Investigative Report", a 110-page document which chronicles
all of the discrepancies in VWF's Death.

* Orlin Grabbe and Jim Norman (SEE GRABBE/NORMAN AND OTHER ODD
THEORIES) are frequent posters to the a.c-e.c.ww news group. Both
claim to have inside connections to intelligence community which,
while they are sometimes a bit wacky, have proven (uncannily) to be
correct on several key points and predictions.

* For a while, Ms. Gennifer Flowers (allegedly) made several
posts to the newsgroup.

The following persons and written sources are used for this FAQ:

_The_Clinton_Chronicles_,
Emmett Tyrell, Jr., American Spectator 8/95
Micha Morrison, "The Mena Cover-up" WSJ 10/18/94
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - Series in London Sunday Telegraph
Hugh Davies, The Daily Telegraph, 1/4/95
Paul DeRienzo, CIA Drugs for Guns Connection
Bill Duncan, Congressional testimony, 7/24/91
L. J. Davis - "The Name of the Rose"; The New Republic
The Whitewater Whitewash, Martin L. Gross, Ballantine Books,1995
"Oral Depositions of Richard J. Brenneke, William C. Duncan,
and Russel F. Welch," 6/21/91
James Norman, Media Bypass
J. Orlin Grabbe,
Larry Nichols,
Hugh Sprunt,
Michael Rivero
Christopher Ruddy Stories on Vince Foster's Death
Preston Crowe, Crowe's Whitewater archive -
AP, Reuters, CNN newsfeeds
D.J. Sussmann's Clinton Expose Web at http://141.210.150.23/

~~~~~

Billy

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