The Clintons' War on Women (24 page)

It was Hillary who spearheaded educational reform, the signature public policy initiative of the Arkansas Clinton Administration.

It was Hillary who shed bitter tears when Clinton announced at a press conference in the summer of 1987 that he would cast away his lifelong dream of a run for the presidency that year. Bill did not run because Gary Hart had just been knocked out of the presidential race due to the exposure of his affair with Donna Rice. Betsey Wright sat down with Clinton and told him that he would be eviscerated and crucified by the media over his epic womanizing if he dared jump into the 1988 presidential race.

It was Hillary who, in 1998, after Bill’s lies under oath threatened to bring down the administration, organized the political and media defense of Bill. It was Hillary who, after hundreds of affairs by Bill over the decades, and after her own adulteries with Hubbell, Foster, and numerous women, played the role of “wronged woman” as Bill escaped being convicted with a two-thirds vote in his 1999 Senate impeachment trial.

It was Hillary who hired the private detectives to run the terror campaigns against Bill’s sex victims and former girlfriends. Arkansas private investigator Ivan Duda said Hillary came to her in 1982, as Bill was trying to reclaim the Arkansas governorship, and said, “I want you to get rid of all these bitches he’s seeing…. I want you to give me the names and addresses and phone numbers, and we can get them under control.”
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In April 1999, the
New York Post
wrote an article entitled “Bio: Hillary Hired Snoop to Watch Bill.” After interviewing Ivan Duda
at length, the
NY Post
reported, “The ex-private eye, Ivan Duda, told the
Post
Mrs. Clinton didn’t tell him why she wanted the dirt but that he gave her the names of fourteen women, including six who have never publicly surfaced. He declined to identify them.

Duda said Mrs. Clinton called him from a pay phone, then agreed to meet him in the parking lot of a Little Rock bar called Slick Willie’s—the same nickname later given to Clinton himself.

The book says Mrs. Clinton showed no emotion except when she realized one of the women worked at the Rose Law Firm where she was a partner. Duda later lost his PI license in what he claims was an attempt by supporters of Bill Clinton to intimidate him.”

It was Hillary and her boyfriend and lover Vince Foster who hired yet another private detective, Jerry Parks, to spy on Bill Clinton in the late 1980s and early 1990s when Hillary and Bill were coming very close to divorcing.
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Hillary was the shot-caller who made the tough decisions.

It’s been said that on April 19, 1993, the Clinton administration was responsible for the deaths of seventy-six members of the Branch Davidian religious group. The Clintons used the forces of the federal government to murder these innocent people right before the eyes of the nation.

In the 1999 documentary
Waco: A New Revelation
, film director Michael McNulty told what House of Representatives investigator T. March Bell found out about who
really
ordered the final murderous assault on the Branch Davidians:

“One of the interesting things that happens in an investigation is that you get anonymous phone calls. And we in fact received anonymous phone calls from Justice Department managers and attorneys who believe that pressure was placed on Janet Reno by Webb Hubbell, and pressure that came from the first lady of the United States.”
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Bell later told
Newsmax.com
that phone logs proved Hillary, Deputy White House Council Vince Foster, and Associate Attorney General Hubbell were coordinating the White House response to the
Waco crisis, the U.S. government siege of the Branch Davidians home at Mount Carmel. “Those phone logs were Webb Hubbell’s phone logs. There were calls from the first lady and Vince Foster to Webb Hubbell’s office.”
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This was all reported in an AFPN article in 2001: “Bell said Mrs. Clinton grew more and more impatient as the Waco standoff came to dominate the headlines during the early months of the Clinton administration. It was she, Bell’s source claims, who pressured a reluctant Janet Reno to act. Reno, on the other hand, was not enthusiastic about launching the assault, said Bell. ‘Give me a reason not to do this,’ [Reno] is said to have begged aides.”

Reno was ordered to go ahead with the murderous tank and CS gas assault that resulted in seventy-six Branch Davidians, men, women, children, babies being crushed, asphyxiated, or burned up in an inferno. Whether the Branch Davidians played a role in starting those fires as a desperate defense mechanism matters not; it was Hillary Clinton who forced the issue and who should be held responsible for the murders.

Vince Foster was greatly disturbed by the tragedy and deaths. “A special bulletin came on showing the atrocity at Waco and the [dead] children. And his face turned white, and he was absolutely crushed knowing, knowing the part he had played,” said Linda Tripp, who worked in the White House Counsel’s Office.
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Clinton has strange connections to the Watergate cast; Bill Clinton was interviewed and hired by Alfred Baldwin, the Watergate eavesdropper, to teach a law enforcement class at the University of New Haven in September 1971.

Clinton and Baldwin left New Haven for Washington, DC, in May 1972 to work on, respectively, the McGovern and Nixon campaigns. Baldwin apparently dated at least one woman at the DNC during his time listening in on the Watergate bug. The conversations overheard by Baldwin he described as “primarily sexual” and “intimately explicit.” Baldwin was the only member of the McCord/Hunt/Liddy team not indicted. The recently released names of persons overheard on the Watergate bug include people strongly linked to Bill Clinton.

Clinton was assigned to handle Wilbur Mills upon his arrival in DC in May 1972. Clinton had worked for Mills as a campaign aide and chauffeur previously. A 1972 staffer for Mills, Patsy Thomasson would become a key player in the Clinton rise to power. Wilbur Mills has been named as one of the persons overheard on the Watergate tap. Others apparently close to Bill Clinton were Severin Beliveau, Robert E. B. Allen, Spencer Oliver, and John Richardson, a State Department employee who ran the Fulbright scholarship programs. Oliver, the man whose phone was tapped, played a key role for Clinton in 1992, rebutting charges by George H. W. Bush relating to Clinton’s student travels and activities. Clinton appointed Oliver to a UN/Nato Security agency upon assuming the presidency.

John Dean’s ghostwriter for
Blind Ambition
, Taylor Branch, served as Bill Clinton’s top aide in the Texas McGovern operation. When Dean disavowed his own book and blamed errors on Branch, the charge was met by only muted dismay from Branch. Very curious.

John Dean not only wrote the foreword to Jerry Zeifman’s book
Lost Honor
, but he also appeared with Zeifman on various media outlets promoting the book. Zeifman and Dean were colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee. Their book related how their marriages failed at about the same time. Curiously, Dean has been a steadfast apologist for the Clintons over the years, despite his endorsement of the Zeifman book.

The 1971 Young Democrats of America Convention was held in November 1971 in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The YDA presidency that year was won by Robert Allen (over Steny Hoyer), a figure overheard by Baldwin on the Watergate bug. The convention site in 1971 was very close to Raymond Clinton’s Vapors nightclub that offered up “party girls.” The business manager of the YDA in 1971–72 was Robert Weiner, a pol who would play a prominent role in Clinton’s presidency. YDA attendees in 1971 included many people pivotal to the rise of Clinton’s career, such as Betsey Wright, Spencer Oliver (former YDA president), Steny Hoyer, and Jim McDougal.

James Hougan’s book
Secret Agenda
detailed how Phil Bailley, the DC lawyer/pimp associated with Heidi Rikan, included “a Brigade of Young Democrats” among Bailley’s partners and associates. Hot Springs was notorious for its vice. Clinton’s uncle Raymond had mob connections. His mother Virginia treated the prostitutes who worked for the notorious Madame Maxine Jones. Bill Clinton even wrote about how he amused himself with prank calls to Maxine Jones as a high school student.

Additionally, at least one Wellesley classmate of Hillary Rodham was named by Bailley as a member of Heidi’s ring, or said that Hillary Rodham was offered a post by her “old friend” Edward Bennett Williams after law school. Williams had multiple conflicts of interest in Watergate, not least of which is that many of his Redskin players were connected to a mob-moll Heidi Rikan.

Several authors, including Roger Morris, Richard Goodwin, and Christopher Hitchens, have alleged that young Clinton was a CIA asset. Clinton’s unexpected return to Oxford in 1969–70 and his decision to co-habit with Hillary Clinton in Berkeley in 1971 might offer clues that Clinton may have been involved with either Operation Chaos and its offspring, Project Resistance, or Project Merrimac.

CHAPTER 13

BLACK WIDOW

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ebb Hubbell had a revealing anecdote that recounted the day before the New Hampshire Democratic primary in 1992. The Clinton-Flowers affair had become public and it appeared that something even more damaging was on the horizon:

“Suddenly I received an urgent call from Vince, asking me to come to his office right away. I practically ran down the hall and knocked on his door. When I saw his face, I closed the door behind me. He was pale, shaking. He could hardly talk. No wonder he had called me to come to him—he probably couldn’t have even walked to my office.

“‘What is it?’ I said.

“‘He finally managed to tell me. He finally managed to tell me.’”
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The Clinton campaign had told Vince Foster that the tabloids were
likely to run a story about Hillary having an affair. “He and I were the ones to be named.”
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Foster and the Clintons shared a long history. Foster was from Hope, Arkansas, and as a child was in the same kindergarten as Bill. Foster graduated first in his class at the University of Arkansas Law School and secured the highest score in his class on the Arkansas bar exam.
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He recruited Hillary into the Rose Law Firm in the mid-1970s, but Hillary did not make partner until 1980.

Foster’s relationship with Hillary grew both emotionally and physically with their professional lives.

L. D. Brown illustrated this complicated relationship with a story regarding a small dinner party at a Chinese restaurant in Little Rock. The couples present were Bill and Hillary; Beth and Mike Coulson; and Vince and his wife Lisa Foster. A lot of drinking and partying was going on: “By this time Vince and Hillary were looking like they were in the back seat of a ’57 Chevy at the drive-in. Hillary was kissing Vince like I’d never seen her kiss Bill, and the same sort of thing was going on with Bill and Beth…. No one seemed to notice me, except for Vince who would give the occasional furtive glance, sometimes accentuated by a wink.”
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Then the mixed-up couples left the restaurant still carrying on. “Vince and Hillary brought up the rear as Vince was really getting a handful of Hillary’s. Bill and Beth [Coulson] kissing did not bother me as much as seeing Hillary attempting to reciprocate with Vince. Vince, good looking, tall and suave obviously knew what he was doing, but Hillary looked awkward and unbalanced.”
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Brown said Hillary loved Foster and it was amazing to him that the affair had escaped media coverage. Brown said that he and Hillary would talk about their marital problems. Hillary would often talk about Vince, that they often traveled together and once even went to London. Brown described Clinton and Foster as “soulmates.”
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The same state troopers that used to procure girls for Bill took Hillary and Foster to a get-away cabin in the Arkansas woods (Heber
Springs) on weekends.
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When Bill was out of town, Vince would often stop by the governor’s mansion to see Hillary, staying until the early morning hours.

Former Arkansas state trooper Larry Patterson also confirmed the affair. Once at a private birthday party for Hillary, Patterson saw Foster “put his hands on her [Hillary’s] breast, and then he walked by, grabbed her by the butt, looked over at me and gave me the old high sign and thumbs up.” Patterson was a personal witness to Foster’s frequent visits to the Arkansas governor’s mansion to visit Hillary.
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In 1982, Hillary was using Little Rock private investigator Ivan Duda to gather information on the women Bill was having affairs with who could be potential political embarrassments. Duda turned over the names of six women to Hillary that he confirmed were having an affair with Bill Clinton.

“Bill was extremely suspicious of Hillary’s relationship with Foster,” Duda admitted. “When confronted, she simply denied it was a romance and claimed they were just good friends.” Duda said that Bill hired a private investigator of his own who confirmed the affair.

“Bill confronted her with the information and they had several explosive arguments—screaming, shouting, red-faced blow-outs,” Duda recalled. “Hillary is not meek, and while she never confessed to cheating, she aggressively reminded Bill of his numerous affairs and how he not only humiliated her but nearly wrecked their own political career with his behavior.”
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In the late 1980s Hillary and Foster were also using a man named Jerry Parks to spy on Bill and collect dirt to use in the event of a divorce.

Lisa Parks, the former wife of Jerry, told reporter Ambrose Evans-Pritchard that Foster was using Parks to spy on and document Bill Clinton’s adultery. “Jerry asked him why he needed this stuff on Clinton. He said he needed it for Hillary.”
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