HILLARY SILLARIES

JACK HITT, MOTHER JONES - Hillary has come to embody a dark fear in the hearts of modern men: the wife who neglects the joys of the bedroom for her career. The middle years of marriage are hard enough (or so I have read), trying to keep the flame flickering amid the anxieties of bills, the call of career, the squall of little children. That's the age-old stuff. Add to that a novel stress on the guy: a new destructive Oedipal force right at his side, his wife. She wants a career equal to, if not better than, her husband's.

THERE ARE A number of problems with this absurd analysis:

- The term 'hater' was early developed as a spin phrase for critics of the Clintons. It is seldom used for others, such as liberal critics of George Bush. It is a clever term, albeit highly inaccurate, as it puts the critics of the Clintons in the same category as an anti-Semite, racist or member of the Montana Militia.

- Hillary Clinton was not the first professional woman to be married to a president. Lady Bird Johnson was a far more competent business woman than HRC, and a far more intelligent and decent politician, but is steadfastly ignored by the Clintonistas.

- Hillary Clinton was almost indicted, was involved in a resort land scam and a cattle futures maneuver that, if legal, defied all probabilities, and has been repeatedly called to account for her lack of honesty on a variety of matters. This has nothing to do with her being a women but is a good reflection of her as Hillary Clinton.

- The refusal of people like Hitt to deal with Hillary Clinton's problems is, in the end, masochistic as they will inevitably become major issues during a presidential campaign.

OCTOBER 2006

CLINTONS CLOSE TO DUBIOUS DUBAIAN

DICK MORRIS AND EILEEN MCGANN, JEWISH WORLD REVIEW - With each new disclosure, Bill and Hillary Clinton's connection between the emir of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, seems ever more intimate.

Last February, Sen. Clinton was out front in condemning DP World, a Dubai government-owned company seeking to take over key operations at American ports. But, at the same time, Bill was advising the emir to hire his former press secretary, Joe Lockhart, to get the deal approved. Back then, Lockhart denied working for the emir. And when Bill's role became public, Hillary claimed that she had no idea that he had any involvement in the DP World issue.

Now, it turns out that the emir's Dubai International Capital Corp. hired Lockhart's company, Glover Park Group, by last April to help with another U.S. deal - a takeover of two defense firms. (Besides Lockhart, Glover Park's partners also include Hillary's chief political gurus, Howard Wolfson and Gigi Georges. Dubai paid the firm $100,000 for its services.)

Oddly, the lobbying contract came through a California law firm - Morrison, Foerster. One of that firm's partners is Raj Tanden - whose sister is Neera Tanden, Sen. Clinton's former legislative director and still a top Hillary adviser. No six degrees of separation here. . .

The relationship between the Clintons and the emir has long been too close to avoid scrutiny. Something is driving up Bill and Hillary's net worth pretty dramatically. In 2003, Sen. Clinton disclosed assets of at least $352,000 but less than $3.8 million. By 2005, she was declaring assets in the $10 million to $50 million range. . .

The emir gave an undisclosed donation to the Clinton Presidential Library - but it must have been hefty: The library set up a Clinton Scholars program for young people from the Arab nation, the only such program it runs. Bill Clinton has twice given speeches in Dubai for close to $500,000.

The close ties to the emir may cause problems for the Clintons. The sheik turns out to be not such a nice guy. Just last week, a group of parents filed a class-action lawsuit against him and his brother in federal court in Miami, claiming that they conspired in a scheme that "abducted and trafficked thousands of small boys from South Asia and Africa to the United Arab Emirates and other Arab states and enslaved them to work as camel jockeys, camel trainers and camel tenders."

The suit says that "boys as young as two years old were stolen from their parents, trafficked to foreign lands, and put under the watch of brutal overseers in camel camps throughout the region."

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GREAT MOMENTS IN CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING

DAILY MAIL, UK - When America's liberal elite were offered the chance to pay up to $500,000 each to attend Bill Clinton's 60th birthday extravaganza tonight - with the added promise of a private Rolling Stones concert - a packed house was expected. Wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea sent out about 10,000 invitations to Hollywood tycoons, movie stars, captains of industry and Wall Street - with all proceeds to go to the former President's charitable foundation.

Those who pledged the top price were promised the 'Birthday Chair Package', with the best seating for the concert as well as a chance to have photographs taken with Mr Clinton during a round of golf and a three-day series of cocktail, brunch and dinner parties.

The minimum price, with inferior concert seats and no brunch, was set at $60,000. But with many rich Democrats sending their regrets, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that last Wednesday the Clintons drastically slashed prices to $12,500 for one reception and the concert, or $5,000 for just the Stones. . . Tickets then went on sale to the public for as little as $1,710. . .

HRC CAUGHT FIBBING AGAIN

DICK MORRIS, NEW YORK POST - AS she prepares for her presidential race, confident that New Yorkers will re-elect her, Hillary Clinton is working to position herself properly to win the Democratic nomination by adjusting, tweaking and, where necessary, reversing her issue positions. But last week's flip-flop on gay marriage, in which she said she would approve of state action to legalize it, came with some reconstructed history that tried to paper over her switch by obfuscating the historical record.

Her statement dismissed her support of her husband's Defense of Marriage Act as "a strategic decision to help derail a constitutional amendment that would have banned gay marriage."

Nonsense. I was in the room at the White House strategy meeting and was sitting next to the president when he decided to promote and sign the bill. Nobody was even talking about a constitutional amendment back then - 1995-96 - and no one in the meeting so much as mentioned the possibility. His decision to sign the bill closely followed my announcement of polling data that suggested overwhelming support for the legislation. . . Hillary supported her husband's decision to sign the bill and has often reiterated her position. Her recent announcement that she would now approve of state action to allow gay marriage is a flip-flop, pure and simple.

JULY 2006

STRONG HRC NEGATIVES AMONG NH DEMOCRATS

BRETT ARENDS BOSTON HERALD - Dick Bennett has been polling New Hampshire voters for 30 years. And he's never seen anything like it. "Lying b**** . . . shrew . . . Machiavellian . . . evil, power-mad witch . . . the ultimate self-serving politician.". . .

These weren't Republicans talking about Hillary Clinton. They weren't even independents. These were ordinary, grass-roots Democrats. People who identified themselves as "likely" voters in the pivotal state's Democratic primary. And, behind closed doors, this is what nearly half of them are saying. . .

Bennett runs American Research Group Inc., a highly regarded, independent polling company based in Manchester, N.H. He's been conducting voter surveys there since 1976. The polls are financed by subscribers and corporate sponsors. . .

"Forty-five percent of the Democrats are just as negative about her as Republicans are. More Republicans dislike her, but the Democrats dislike her in the same way.". . .

We're not talking about "soft" negatives like, say, "out of touch" or "arrogant." We're talking: "Criminal . . . megalomaniac . . . fraud . . . dangerous . . . devil incarnate . . . satanic . . . power freak."

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HRC'S SECRET PLAN: RUN AS AN EX-REPUBLICAN AND A METHODIST

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, HUFFINGTON POST - Hillary Clinton has a strict rule prohibiting her friends and advisors from talking publicly about her running in 2008. Turns out, it might a good rule. In today's on-the-one-hand-and-on-the-other front page WaPo story on Hillary, a "close advisor" to Clinton breaks the keep-it-zipped-on-08 decree -- with jaw-dropping results. Elaborating on how Hillary can overcome voter uncertainty by, as the story puts it, reintroducing her values and biography to a national electorate," the anonymous advisor says: "She will define herself, and we have the money to do it. People have to get to know her, know that she was once a Republican, that she's a big Methodist... That will happen."

So that's the winning strategy for 2008? Run Hillary as a Goldwater girl and -- wait for it -- "a big Methodist"? Holy blatant red state pandering, Batman! Let's hope this "close advisor" is not too high up on the campaign food chain. Because if he or she is actually in the loop, the road to 2008 is going to be long, pathetic slog.

SENATOR CLINTON FIBS ABOUT U.S. SUPPORT OF ISRAEL

HAARETZ, ISRAEL - Speaking at a large demonstration in support of Israel in Manhattan on Monday, United States Senator Hillary Clinton expressed unreserved support for Israel and commended President George Bush for his stance in the present crisis. Clinton said on Monday that all Americans, whether Democrats or Republicans, stood behind Israel at this time. . .

CAROLE MIKITA, KSL, UTAH - The majority of Americans side with Israel in this conflict, but clearly do not want our government to get involved; that's according to the results of a Survey USA News Poll. . . Survey USA questioned 1200 adults about the Middle East. . . 54% said Israel does have the right to attack Lebanon, 34% said it does not. . . 44% of those questioned say U.S. diplomats should attempt to negotiate a cease-fire between Israel and its neighbors. 52% say the United States should stay out of it. . . Only 12% of Americans believe the U.S. military should get involved. 84% say we should stay out of it.

And when asked which statement best decribed their feelings, 38% said the world is no more dangerous than usual. 42% believe we are headed for World War III. And 17% say World War III has already begun.

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THERE IS, HOWEVER, PRECEDENT FOR HRC'S HYPERBOLE. In 2002 the Daily Times of Pakistan reported that "Former US President Bill Clinton who many Arab thoughts was more even-handed on the Palestine question than his predecessors shocked many when he asserted in Toronto last week that had Israel been attacked by Iraq or Iran during his presidency, he would have been ready to 'grab a rifle, get in a ditch and fight and die. . . The Israelis know that if the Iraqi or the Iranian army came across the Jordan River, I would personally grab a rifle, get in a ditch, and fight and die," Clinton told the crowd at a fund-raising event for a Toronto Jewish charity Monday.

HRC NEXT TO SANTORUM IN CAMPAIGN LOOT FROM HEALTH INDUSTRY

RAYMOND HERNANDEZ and ROBERT PEAR, NY TIMES - As she runs for re-election to the Senate from New York this year and lays the groundwork for a possible presidential bid in 2008, Mrs. Clinton is receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from doctors, hospitals, drug manufacturers and insurers. Nationwide, she is the No. 2 recipient of donations from the industry, trailing only Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a member of the Republican leadership.

APRIL 2006

HRC DISMISSED FROM PETER PAUL LAW SUIT; HUSBAND STILL DEFENDANT

WORLDNET DAILY - A judge in Los Angeles yesterday dismissed Sen. Hillary Clinton from a lawsuit by business mogul Peter Franklin Paul that alleges her husband, former President Bill Clinton, reneged on a $17 million business deal. President Clinton however, remains a defendant and will be subpoenaed early next week to testify in a deposition. A trial date has been set, and Paul plans to depose Sen. Clinton as well.

Represented by the public-interest law firm U.S. Justice Foundation, Paul claims Bill Clinton agreed to promote Paul's Internet businesses after leaving office in exchange for his financial backing of a Hollywood gala and fund-raiser for Sen. Clinton's Senate campaign in 2000. Paul charges President Clinton caused one of his public companies to collapse by diverting his Japanese partner's investments. . .

As Worldnet Daily reported, Paul. . . separately is preparing to file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission charging the Democratic senator with submitting a false report - for a fourth time - that hides his personal dl donation of a multi-million dollar Hollywood gala and fund-raiser that helped put her in office.

Paul insists Clinton's new amended report finally acknowledged his contributions but falsely classified them as being from his companies and from his business partner, Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee, instead of from him as personal gifts. Clinton should have refunded the money according to federal law, he contends, because it was intended for her national senatorial campaign, and the limit for such donations is $25,000.

EARLIER STORIES

ISRAEL

HAARETZ - U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that she supports the separation fence Israel is building along the edges of the West Bank, and that the onus is on the Palestinian Authority to fight terrorism. "This is not against the Palestinian people," Clinton, a New York Democrat, said during a tour of a section of the barrier being built around Jerusalem. "This is against the terrorists. The Palestinian people have to help to prevent terrorism. They have to change the attitudes about terrorism." Clinton's comments echoed Israel's position that the Palestinians must crack down on militants or Israel will find ways to prevent attacks on its citizens. . . Clinton is not slated to visit the Palestinian areas during her visit. . . . UPI - U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Israel on a visit intended to put to rest any lingering doubts about her support for Israel. . . In 1999, Clinton traveled to the West Bank as first lady and was acclaimed there as a champion of Palestinian nationhood because of comments she had made in 1998 that seemed to express support for a Palestinian state. The comments, criticized by some American Jewish groups, were disavowed by the White House, the newspaper said. In her 2000 Senate race, Clinton staked out a number of positions that appealed to Jewish voters, declaring, for example, that Jerusalem should be the "eternal and indivisible capital of Israel." . . . MICHAEL COOPER, NY TIMES - With New York's large Jewish population, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict often plays some role in local elections, and Israel is almost as common a stop for political aspirants as Flatbush Avenue or the Grand Concourse. But in 2000 the Senate candidates seemed to discuss Israel nearly as much as they discussed local issues.

HRC'S PRIVATE EYE

JOSEPH FARRAH, WORLDNET DAILY, JULY 2005 - A significant portion of the [Clinton's] Shadow Team's operations were carried out by private investigators, among them: Terry Lenzner, founder and chairman of the powerful Washington, D.C., detective firm Investigative Group International; high-ticket San Francisco private eye Jack Palladino and his wife Sandra Sutherland; and Hollywood sleuth Anthony J. Pellicano. . .

Hillary's detectives engaged in "a systematic campaign to intimidate, frighten, threaten, discredit and punish innocent Americans whose only misdeed is their desire to tell the truth in public," former Clinton adviser Dick Morris charged in the New York Post of Oct. 1, 1998.

Hillary's secret police tend to be a tight-lipped bunch, professionally skilled at keeping a low profile. However, we know more about Anthony "The Pelican" Pellicano than about most Hillary operatives, thanks to his boastfulness and taste for the limelight. Pellicano's violent career as a private investigator reveals much about the sorts of qualifications Hillary sought in her Shadow Team.

In the January 1992 issue of GQ magazine, Pellicano boasted of the dirty work he had performed for his clients, including blackmail and physical assault. He claimed to have beaten one of his client's enemies with a baseball bat. "I'm an expert with a knife," said Pellicano. "I can shred your face with a knife."

FBI agents raided Pellicano's West Hollywood office on Nov. 22, 2002, and arrested him on federal weapons charges. In his office, they found gold, jewelry, and about $200,000 in cash - most of it bundled in $10,000 wrappers - thousands of pages of transcripts of illegal wiretaps; two handguns; and various explosive devices stored in safes, including two live hand grenades and a pile of C4 plastic explosive, complete with blasting cap and detonation cord.

C4 is a military explosive that cannot be sold legally to civilians. Pellicano had a surprisingly large quantity in his safe. "The explosive could easily be used to blow up a car, and was in fact strong enough to bring down an airplane," noted Special Agent Stanley Ornellas in a sworn affidavit.

The FBI raided Pellicano's office after an accomplice ratted him out. Ex-convict Alexander Proctor told the FBI that Pellicano had hired him to threaten and intimidate Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch, who had been poking her nose a little too deeply into a feud between Mafia kingpins and actor Steven Seagal. It seems that Seagal's former friend and production partner, Julius R. Nasso, was tied to the Gambino crime family. When Seagal and Nasso quarreled, the dispute got ugly.

On the morning of June 20, 2002, reporter Anita Busch approached her car, which was parked near her home. To her horror, she saw a bullet-hole in her windshield. A cardboard sign taped to the glass bore one word: "Stop." A dead fish with a long-stemmed rose in its mouth lay on the hood.

Busch took the hint. She immediately went into hiding, staying in a series of hotels at her paper's expense, while the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Deprtment's organized-crime division investigated.

A break in the case seemed to come when ex-convict Alexander Proctor spilled the beans to an undercover FBI informant. Proctor reportedly told the informant, on tape, that it was not the Mafia who were harassing Anita Busch - it was Steven Seagal! Proctor said that Seagal hired detective Anthony Pellicano to intimidate the woman into silence. Pellicano, in turn, had subcontracted Proctor to do the dirty work.

"He wanted to make it look like the Italians were putting the hit on her, so it wouldn't reflect on Seagal," Proctor told the informant. Proctor accused Pellicano of ordering him to "blow up" or set fire to Busch's car to frighten her. However, Proctor said he got cold feet and merely damaged the car, leaving the dead fish and "Stop" sign as calling cards.

A federal judge sentenced Pellicano to 30 months in prison for possession of the hand grenades and C4. Later, on June 17, 2005, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley charged him with conspiracy and making threats against former Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch. He will likely face prosecution for illegal wiretapping.

Pellicano's 2002 arrest was big news in Hollywood. Article after article touted Pellicano as a "celebrity sleuth" and a "private detective to the stars," whose client list had included the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Kevin Costner, Sylvester Stallone, Roseanne Barr, O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson (whose chronic problem with child molestation charges provided Pellicano with plenty of damage-control work).

Despite the sensational coverage, few mainstream news organizations uttered the name of Pellicano's most famous client: Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Of the more than two dozen media reports on Pellicano's Thursday arrest so far, none have mentioned his ties to the Clinton attack machine," reported NewsMax on Nov. 23, 2002."

A detailed, 1,680-word round-up of the Pellicano case published in the New York Times on Nov. 11, 2003 - a full year after his arrest - made no mention of Hillary's name, nor even hinted at Pellicano's White House connection. Only Internet media such as NewsMax.com focused relentlessly on his Clinton ties.

The omission was deliberate. Pellicano's involvement in Clinton damage-control operations - including his well-known efforts to discredit former Clinton lovers Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky - has been public knowledge for years, the details available to any journalist with a Nexis account.

CARL LIMBACHER NEWSMAX - New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's Washington scandal attorney David Kendall is denying that recently jailed tough guy-investigator Anthony Pellicano ever worked for the Clintons, a claim directly contradicted by senior Bush White House advisor Mary Matalin - and not even denied by Pellicano himself. Kendall told the New York Daily News on Friday that reports linking the former first lady with the controversial gumshoe, who was jailed last Monday on weapons and explosives charges, are "politically motivated and utterly false.". . . When Newsweek asked Pellicano directly whether he was working for the Clinton White House, his denial was significantly less forceful than Mr. Kendall's. "I have no comment," he told the newsmagazine.

CARL LIMBACHER, NEWSMAX - [Mary] Matalin, now a senior White House advisor, discussed the episode in 1997 during a stint as a talk radio host on CBS's Washington, D.C. affiliate. "I got the letters from Pellicano to these women intimidating them," Matalin told her audience. "I had tapes of conversations from Pellicano to the women. I got handwritten letters from the women.". . .

"I controlled the money in the [1992 Bush] campaign," Matalin explained. "And [Clinton damage controller] Betsy Wright announced that she was putting $28,000 on the 'bimbo' patrol and on Jack Palladino and Pellicano, the other guy. "And $28,000 to me, the political director, was four states in the Rocky Mountains. You had a limited budget. I said, how could they spend this much money? How could they basically give up four states to track down 'bimbos'? "That's why it was kind of shocking to me that it must have been a bigger priority than putting money into states for the purpose of winning and that's why I flagged it at the time."

NY POST - Court TV anchor Diane Dimond, who reported on the first days of the Michael Jackson sex case a decade ago, is the latest to be caught up in a Hollywood phone-bugging scandal. Dimond said yesterday that authorities have informed her that wiretaps on her phone from 1994 are part of evidence seized by the FBI last year from the computer of Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano. Dimond was a reporter for "Hard Copy" in 1993 in the first days after the story broke of a youngster accusing Jackson of sexually molesting him. Pellicano worked for Jackson's attorney, Harold Weitzman. "I [was] positive my phones were tapped - I heard lots of clicking and crackling noises on the line and then my words started coming back to me through others," Dimond told The Post. "I would call new sources and they would tell me, 'We understand you've heard X, Y and Z' so I knew my phone had to be tapped. . . "My house was vandalized. My car was broken into on the Paramount lot [where 'Hard Copy' was taped]. "I had documents underneath an expensive leather coat - the coat wasn't taken, but the documents were stolen from my car," Dimond said. "My mailbox was mowed over. They gave me armed guards to go to and from work - nothing was safe," she says.

CARL LIMBACHER, NEWSMAX - Though the American press insists on not reporting this inconvenient detail, Anthony Pellicano was first hired by Bill and Hillary Clinton in 1992 in a bid to discredit Gennifer Flowers' steamy tape recordings of conversations with Mr. Clinton.. . . In 1999 Flowers filed a defamation suit against Clinton campaign officials James Carville and George Stephanopoulos - along with then-first lady Hillary Clinton - based on their attempts to use Pellicano's analysis to discredit her. Arguing before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Flowers' Judicial Watch attorneys tied Pellicano directly to the first lady-turned-New York senator, telling the court: "Anthony Pellicano was a private investigator hired by Mrs. Clinton herself. And he's the one who did the analysis of the tapes." The court ruled in Flowers' favor, allowing the lawsuit to proceed.

But that isn't the only time Pellicano has been linked to the Clintons. Four days after the Monica Lewinsky story broke in January 1998, ex-Lewinsky boyfriend Andy Bleiler came forward with the claim that she had stalked him. The Washington state school teacher also contended that Lewinsky wanted to become a White House intern so she could perform oral sex on then-President Clinton. "I'm going to Washington to get my presidential knee pads," Bleiler's lawyer, Terry Giles, quoted Lewinsky as saying.

"Anthony Pellicano, the L.A.-based private investigator and O.J. defense team veteran [was] responsible for digging up Andy Bleiler," the New York Post's Andrea Peyser reported at the time. Sexgate provocateur Lucianne Goldberg told Peyser that Pellicano's services were bought and paid for by the Clinton White House. When Peyser confronted the "investigator to the stars" with Goldberg's claim, he didn't deny it. "You're a smart girl. No comment," Pellicano told the Post reporter.

Interestingly enough, some of Pellicano's targets, like former Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch and one-time "Hard Copy" correspondent Dina Dimond, report break-ins and property vandalism, the kind of problems encountered by Clinton accusers like Flowers, Sally Perdue, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick.

VINCE FOSTER AND JERRY PARKS

The wife of Arkansas security operative Jerry Parks told Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the London Telegraph that in the 1980s her husband had delivered large sums of money from the Mena airport to Vince Foster at a K-Mart parking lot. Mrs. Parks discovered this when she opens her car trunk one day and found so much cash that she had to sit on the trunk to close it again. She asked her husband whether he was dealing drugs, and he allegedly explained that Foster paid him $1,000 for each trip he took to Mena. Parks said he didn't "know what they were doing, and he didn't care to know. He told me to forget what I'd seen.". . . .

Later Evans-Pritchard wrote, "Foster was using him as a kind of operative to collect sensitive information on things and do sensitive jobs. Some of this appears to have been done on behalf of Hillary Clinton. . . Foster told him that Hillary wanted it done. Now, my understanding . . . is that she wanted to know how vulnerable he would be in a presidential race on the question of -- how shall I put it? -- his appetites."

In 1993, on the night before Vince Foster's death, Jerry Parks' wife claimed she heard a heated conversation between her husband and Foster in which Parks said, "You can't give Hillary those files, they've got my name all over them." Parks was gunned down mob-style two months after Foster's death in his car outside of Little Rock. He was shot through the rear window of his car and three more times thru the side window with a 9mm pistol.

Parks was running American Contract Services, the business which supplied bodyguards for Clinton during his presidential campaign and transition. Bill Clinton still owed him $81,000. Parks had collected detailed data on Clinton's sexual escapades, including pictures and dates. Mrs. Parks claims federal agents subsequently raided their house and removed files and the computer.

Less than three hours after Foster's body was found, his office was secretly searched by Clinton operatives, including Mrs. Clinton's chief of staff. Another search occurred two days later. Meanwhile, US Park Police and FBI agents are not allowed to search the office on grounds of "executive privilege."

HER SECRET THESIS

AFTER BECOMING involved in politics, Wellesley graduate Hillary Rodham orders her senior thesis sealed from public view.

QUICK WRITING

1996 - HILLARY CLINTON produces a book-like substance that she claimed to have written in long-hand in six months. It would turn out that she had a ghost writer hired for $120,000

HOW TO MAKIE MONEY IN CATTLE FUTURES

TWO MONTHS after commencing the Whitewater scam, Hillary Clinton invests $1,000 in cattle futures. Within a few days she has a $5,000 profit. Before bailing out she earns nearly $100,000 on her investment. Many years later, several economists will calculate that the chances of earning such returns legally were one in 250 million.

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, 2000 - An example of Washington's culture of impunity can be found in a column by the Washington Post's Richard Cohen in which he justifies Hillary Clinton's cattle futures scam by equating it to some of the sweetheart deals into which George the Lesser has so easily fallen. Cohen suggests that the futures deal was nothing more than a businessman doing HRC a favor and writes, "I have to wonder why Hilary Clinton's preferential treatment is such a scandal and George W's is not." He then proceeds to ask a series of questions suggesting that Mrs. Clinton is a victim because of extraneous factors ending, naturally, with imputations of class and gender bias. Let us ignore the Harold Ickesian spin to the piece so suggestive of its provenance and assume more kindly that Cohen once again just doesn't know what he's talking about. That still leaves a lot of Washington Post readers terribly ill-served.

-- Hillary Clinton's cattle deal was not just a political favor from Tyson Food, the same firm that would later pay a $6 million penalty for bribing an official of the Department of Agriculture. The sheer mathematical probabilities against it happening legally present us with a smoking gun. There is no statistically logical way in which HRC could have done what she did without someone committing a felony. This case screamed for investigation and never got it. Dubya's sweetheart deal in which he gained an highly profitable interest in the Texas Rangers was, in fact, much closer to the Clinton's original Whitewater scam in which Jim McDougal put up the cash and the Clintons got the percentage. There is, however, one major difference which makes even Whitewater far more sinister: Clinton was a public official at the time. But then Cohen doesn't worry about things like that, dismissing Whitewater as "a mess about something no one can keep straight."

-- Here are some excerpts from a Agbiz Tiller article on the cattle dealing:

||| Mrs. Clinton's ability to turn $1000 into a near $100,000 in ten months of futures trading, a Congressional study would learn, coincided with a period of time that a select group of executives from packing houses, grain companies, feedlot operators and commodity brokers reaped tens of millions of dollars in an "insider" trading scheme in the cattle futures market. . . Between February, 1978 and April, 1979 some 32 cattle industry insiders made profits of $110 million by selling cattle futures after they received some 15 "secret signals," which was followed within an average two and one half day period, by a marked drop in cattle future prices. Then Rep. Neal Smith (Dem.-Iowa), chairman of the House Small Business Committee, which released the report in February, 1981 noted that in all a total of some 1027 individuals made total net profits of approximately $156 million. Thus, three percent of the large traders --- those with 50 contracts or more --- with correlated trading activity and/or common business affiliations accounted for 70% of the total net profits of this group of traders. Mrs. Clinton traded 50 or more contracts three times . . . A previous USDA study in 1979, for example, pointed out that during 20 of the 21 months preceding October, 1979 there was not a single day in which a farmer-feeder could have used the futures market to hedge in a profit and only five days in the remaining month that the farmer-feeder could have broken even . . . Meanwhile, the eight largest packers, who at the time were slaughtering 44% of the nation's beef, held over one-half of the futures contracts and made twice as much money in the futures market as they did in trading cattle . . . In all, between February, 1978 and December, 1980, some 29 "secret signals" were given although Smith's Committee staff made no estimates on the profits earned after April, 1979 . . . There are estimates that 75% to 95% of individual investors lose money in commodity futures markets. ||||

-- If Cohen had looked into Bush a little more closely he would have found something far more interesting to report. In 1984, after his firm, Arbusto Energy, had fallen on hard times, he managed to get a job as the 30-something president of Spectrum 7 Energy Corporation, the firm that had purchased Arbusto. He also got 14% of Spectrum's stock. Meanwhile, his 50 investors got paid off at about 20 cents on the dollar. In 1986, after Spectrum 7 had lost $400,000 in six months, Bush sold it to Harken Energy. He became a major Harken stockholder and also received a good salary as a director and consultant. When Bush and his Harken partners ran short of cash they hooked up with investment banker and Clinton crony Jackson Stephens who got them a $25 million stock purchase by Union Bank of Switzerland. The government of Bahrain chose Harken (over Amoco) to drill its offshore wells even though it had never dug overseas or in water before. On June 22, 1990, Bush sold two-thirds of his Harken stock for a 200% profit just 40 days before the start of the Gulf War and one week before the company announced a $23 million quarterly loss, setting off a 60% drop in share price over the next six months. Bush waited almost a year past the legal deadline to file the necessary SEC report on his Harken stock deal. In short, in six years Bush made a bundle on three money-losing energy companies. Most other stockholders did not do anywhere near as well. Cohen, in the classic fin-de-siecle Washington manner, excuses HRC because what she did was no worse than what George the Lesser did. To the extent there are similarities, it is only because they should both be answering the questions of a prosecutor rather than running for election.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR HRC

1978 - HILLARY CLINTON makes a $44,000 profit on a $2,000 investment in a cellular phone franchise deal that involves taking advantage of the FCC's preference for locals, minorities and women. The franchise is almost immediately flipped to the cellular giant, McCaw.

THE TRAVEL OFFICE SCANDAL

1993 -HILLARY CLINTON and David Watkins move to oust the White House travel office in favor of World Wide Travel, Clinton's source of $1 million in fly-now-pay-later campaign trips that essentially financed the last stages of the campaign without the bother of reporting the de facto contribution. The White House fires seven long-term employees for alleged mismanagement and kickbacks. The director, Billy Dale, charged with embezzlement, will be acquitted in less than two hours by the jury. An FBI agent involved in the case, IC Smith, will write later, "The White House Travel Office matter sent a clear message to the Congress as well as independent counsels that this Whit House would be different. Lying, withholding evidence, and considering - even expecting - underlings to be expendable so the Clintons could avoid accountability for their actins would become the norm."

CNN OCT 18 2000 - Independent Counsel Robert Ray's final report on the White House travel office case found first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's testimony in the matter was "factually false," but concluded there were no grounds to prosecute her. The special prosecutor determined the first lady did play a role in the 1993 dismissal of the travel office's staff, contrary to her testimony in the matter. But Ray said he would not prosecute Clinton for those false statements because "the evidence was insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt" that she knew her statements were false or understood that they may have prompted the firings. . . The final report concludes that "despite that falsity, no prosecution of Mrs. Clinton is warranted."

CNN, JUN 22 2000 - Ray also criticized the White House on Thursday for what he called "substantial resistance" to providing "relevant evidence" to his investigators. "The White House asserted unfounded privileges that were later rejected in court," Ray said. "White House officials also conducted inadequate searches for documents and failed to make timely production of documents, including relevant e-mails."

WHAT WHITEWATER WAS REALLY ABOUT

At one point Hillary Clinton wrote Jim McDougal, "If Reaganomics works at all, Whitewater could become the Western Hemisphere's Mecca." In fact, the 203 acre plot was fifty miles from the nearest grocery store. The Washington Post later reported that some purchasers of lots, many of them retirees, "put up houses or cabins, others slept in vans or tents, hoping to be able to live off the land." More than half of the purchasers lost their plots thanks to the sleazy form of financing used. In short, Whitewater was the sort of resort land scam for which a local TV station would have won an Emmy for exposing.

WHY HRC DOESN'T KEEP A DIARY

On the Jim Lehrer Newshour in 1996, HRC was asked if she kept a diary:

JIM LEHRER: Are you keeping a diary? Are you keeping good notes on what's happened to you?

HILLARY CLINTON: Heavens no! It would get subpoenaed. I can't write anything down. (laughing)

JIM LEHRER: So well, when it comes time to write this book, you're just going to sit down and try to remember all this?

HILLARY CLINTON: I have tons of, you know, schedules and information and all that stuff, but you know, there's been a real crimp put in history by these absurd investigations that have gone on where people, you know, don't even want to, you know, say I had dinner last night with--because if you say that, the person you had dinner with is likely to get called before some committee somewhere. Her response: "Heavens, no! if I could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything." She added that her comments would be used to "go after and persecute every friend of mine, everybody I've ever talked with, everyone I've had a conversation with. ~ It's very sad."

JUNE 2005. . .

THE REAL PROBLEM WITH ED KLEIN'S BOOK

ONE ONLY NEEDS TO READ a chapter or two of Ed Klein's book on Hillary Clinton to understand the problem. It is written by - and in the style of - someone who has contributed to both Parade Magazine and Vanity Fair, two of the most unnecessary publications in the land. It is Walter Scott and Dominic Dunne go to Arkansas.

The real crime in the eyes of the establishment, however, is not the style but the target. After all, Vanity Fair feeds off of the same class that is so upset about the Klein book. Clintonistas are big Vanity Fair readers. But when you come right down to it, it is little more than Parade Magazine for the college educated. A sterling investigative journalist once went to the monthly with a major scoop. It was rejected on the grounds that Vanity Fair does not do "substantive stories."

No, Klein's real crime was applying the accepted standards of Vanity Fair to a political icon of its readership and of fans so fanatical they rival those of Michael Jackson. And even during the latter's entire trial we never heard one of his critics described as a "Jackson hater." In the case of HRC's supporters, however, you are either with them or you "hate her," a dichotomy worthy of psychotherapy.

So, yes, the Klein book is trash journalism, but of precisely the sort people gladly accept when applied to movie stars and Donald Trump. It is only when the subject is a major political figure that the media and other establishment prudes come out in force because politics is their religion and if it were not so then they would have to admit that they hobnobbed daily with egomaniacal lowlifes rather than with sacred figures of American democracy.

If this were Britain, Klein would have no problem. The Brits take trash journalism in stride, implicitly understanding that it performs the democratic service of keeping a nation's leaders from taking themselves too seriously and the voters from following suit. One need only compare the coverage of Princess Diana and Saint Hillary to get the idea.

If we were to follow the British model, we might be able to bring our own monarchy into disrepute as well. Instead, the media has treated two of the greatest frauds in American political history - Clinton and Bush the Younger - as admirable and profound and wrapped them in a bubble of immunity from serious examination and criticism. And Hillary Clinton with them. In short, the media has been an unindicted coconspirator in a major fraud against the American people and their republic.

It began, in the Clintons' case, with a media-wide refusal to look seriously at what had happened in Arkansas, one of the most corrupt and drug-infested stats of the union, and in the Clinton machine that ran it. Instead, here are some of the early media messages on the Clintons:

- "If we could be one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been in the White House, we'd take it right now and walk way winners . . . Thank you very much and tell Mrs. Clinton we respect her and we're pulling for her." -- Dan Rather, talking with the Clintons via satellite at a CBS affiliates meeting

- "Roger Clinton's life is in some ways the story of any younger sibling clobbered by the spectacular success of the one who came before . . . If your brother is Christ, you have a choice: become a disciple, or become an anti-Christ, or find yourself caught somewhere between the two" -- Laura Blumenfeld, Washington Post

- "In the midst of redesigning America's health care system and replacing Madonna as our leading cult figure, the new First Lady has already begun working on her next project, far more metaphysical and uplifting.... She is both impersonal and poignant -- with much more depth, intellect and spirituality than we are used to in a politician . . . She has goals, but they appear to be so huge and far off -- grand and noble things twinkling in the distance -- that it's hard to see what she sees." -- Martha Sherrill, Washington Post

The real problem with Klein's book is that he wastes a lot of time on Hillary Clinton trivia without touching (or touching only lightly) on many of the major issues and conundrums, a number of them raising criminal questions. Even his coverage of the psychosexual HRC fails because he does not resolve or even illuminate such fascinating questions as how come alleged lesbian Clinton had an alleged affair with Vince Foster?

The Clintonistas say this is none of our business. But as your editor argued early in the Clinton administration, sexual behavior can be a window onto political landscape. For example, Clinton's Don Juan approach to sex was directly mirrored in his political infidelity to issues, principles and the truth.

Further, Clinton was accused of serial sexual abuse of women up to and including rape - women who had often been multiple victims: first as abused sexual partners and then as terrorized, bribed, or publicly trashed former partners. One even left the country to get away from it all.

Yet in one of the great gestures of political hypocrisy, the women's movement - having achieved all sorts of laws to prevent such occurrences in private business - dismissed the Lewinsky case as none of anyone's business even though Clinton's lying directly affected the right of another woman to receive a fair trial on her charges against the president. In one swoop, the women's movement announced, de facto, that sexual abuse by powerful male bosses didn't matter as long as it agreed with them politically.

Similarly, certain aspects of Hillary Clinton's life are politically and journalistically important even though they involve sex.

For example, before she is elected president, it would be good to know whether - as White House FBI agent Gary Aldrich has claimed - she and aides really did hang sexual ornaments on the presidential Christmas tree. Not a big deal to be sure, but somewhat in the same category of an Arkansas state trooper's claim that Bill Clinton had sex in the parking lot of his daughter's elementary school. Does one really want someone that graceless in the White House?

On a far more substantive matter, it would be enlightening to know more about Hillary Clinton's relationship with Vince Foster because - whether he was killed or committed suicide - he clearly didn't die at Ft. Marcey Park and HRC's behavior around the time of his death needs closer examination.

Less than three hours after Foster's body was found, his office was secretly searched by Clinton operatives, including Mrs. Clinton's chief of staff. Another search occurred two days later. Meanwhile, US Park Police and FBI agents were not allowed to search the office on grounds of "executive privilege." It will be reported later that Whitewater files were among those removed.

Foster's suicide note was withheld from investigators for some 30 hours. The note was in 27 pieces with one other piece missing. Foster's personal diary was withheld from the special prosecutor for a year despite being covered by a subpoena.

Jerry Parks, a Clinton security aide in Arkansas known to have been keeping dossier on Clinton, was gunned down two months after Foster's death in his car outside of Little Rock. Parks was shot through the rear window of his car and shot three more times, thru the side window, with a 9mm pistol. 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 also collected detailed data on Clinton's sexual escapades, including pictures and dates, perhaps for HRC. The night before Foster died, Parks' wife Jane says she heard a heated telephone conversation with Vince Foster in which her husband said, "You can't give Hillary those files, they've got my name all over them." Mrs. Parks also claimed federal agents subsequently removed files and computer from their house. And she said that upon learning of Vincent Foster's death, her husband told her, "I'm a dead man."

Thus do sex, politics and misdeeds intermingle. But there is plenty else Klein could have investigated but didn't - except sometimes with a passing mention. Such as the sudden reappearance of the Whitewater files, the dubious cattle futures deal, the scummy nature of the Whitewater real estate scam from the start, and the abuse of the White House travel office.

For example, shortly after moving into the White House Hillary Clinton and David Watkins moved to oust the White House travel office in favor of World Wide Travel, Clinton's source of fly-now-pay-later campaign trips. Little Rock Worldwide Travel had provided Clinton with $1 million in deferred billing for his campaign trips. Clinton aide David Watkins boasted to a travel magazine, "Were it not for World Wide Travel here, the Arkansas governor may never have been in contention for the highest office in the land." In fact, without agency's dubious largess, the Clinton campaign might not have made it through the later primaries.

In order to get its friends the job, the White House fired seven long-term travel office employees for alleged mismanagement and kickbacks. The director, Billy Dale, charged with embezzlement, was acquitted in less than two hours by the jury. An FBI agent involved in the case, IC Smith, wrote later, "The White House Travel Office matter sent a clear message to the Congress as well as independent counsels that this White House would be different. Lying, withholding evidence, and considering - even expecting - underlings to be expendable so the Clintons could avoid accountability for their actions would become the norm."

In short, there's still a good book out there for someone to write about Hillary Clinton. Ed Klein didn't do it.

EDWARD KLEIN IN INTERVIEW WITH NATIONAL REVIEW - I think Elizabeth Moynihan, Senator Moynihan's wife, had it right when she told me that Hillary is duplicitous. Hillary acts as though she is chosen by God, and that gives her the right to use any means to justify her ends. If she becomes president, it's going to be deja Clinton all over again. . .

Like Nixon, Hillary is paranoid and has an enemies list. Like Nixon, Hillary has used FBI files against her enemies. Like Nixon, Hillary believes that the ends justify the means.

WHO NEEDS BILL WHEN HILLARY HAS ALL THESE GOP FRIENDS?

THE HILL- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was having trouble l drumming up support for his bill to offer full-time benefits to military reservists. Then, about 20 minutes before he was to hold a news conference announcing the bill, Graham's staff got a message that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) wanted to become his chief co-sponsor, an idea that caught Graham entirely by surprise. Graham agreed, and when Clinton arrived at the press conference a few minutes later, Graham recalled, "It seemed like a tornado came through. . . . Cameras started clicking like crazy because it was me and her.". . .

Now other conservative Republicans are teaming with Clinton, or allowing her to team up with them, hoping to bring a touch of glamour and a seal of bipartisanship to their legislation. In fact, Clinton has systematically formed partnerships with many of the Senate's most powerful and conservative members on a host of legislation, even as she has helped to craft the Democratic leadership's overall legislative agenda.

Last week, Clinton joined Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to launch yet another bipartisan joint venture, this one on health-information technology. . . Clinton was more willing to offer personal praise for Frist, expressing her appreciation on the floor for his "leadership" on the issue. "I'm pleased to be introducing this legislation today with the majority leader," she said. "It's a priority for both of us."

MAY 2005. . .

JUDY WOODRUFF - Record numbers of Americans continue to die in Iraq. No end to the violence in sight that most people can see. When should the United States begin significant troop withdrawals?

HILLARY CLINTON - You know, I am not one who feels comfortable setting exit strategies. We don't know what we're exiting from. We don't know what the situation is moving toward. . . How do we know where we're headed, when we don't know where we are?

BEHIND THE ROSEN ACQUITTAL

The acquittal of Hillary Clinton's former fundraiser David Rosen follows a bizarre trial in which a Clinton-appointed judge announced Mrs. Clinton not culpable before any evidence had been presented and a prosecutor concealed from the jury an damaging tape astounding even the judge.

As Newsmax reported on May 18:

Prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg announced yesterday that he would not introduce the government's strongest evidence that Rosen is guilty . . . 'The government does not intend to introduce the tape or elicit any testimony from the witness about that conversation,' Zeidenberg told Judge A. Howard Matz.

Judge Matz was stunned by Zeidenberg's announcement, and hinted that the Bush prosecutor was throwing away his case. 'You couldn't keep [the tape] out,' an incredulous Matz protested. 'I wouldn't let you keep it out.'"

"But eventually the Clinton appointed judge relented, saying he said he would allow Zeidenberg to file a 'real pithy' argument in lieu of introducing the Rosen tape.

"The Bush prosecutor went so far as to trash the Rosen audiotape, arguing that it was 'hearsay,' and requesting that Judge Matz bar even the defense from referencing it.

The recording, made by Kennedy in-law Raymond Reggie during a September 2002 meeting with Rosen at a Chicago steakhouse, was believed to offer evidence supportive of the prosecution's argument that Rosen deliberately understated the costs of an August 2000 gala fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton. Said Newsmax:

News that the Bush Justice Department has decided to deep-six its best evidence against Rosen not only improves his chances for acquittal - it dramatically lessens the pressure on him to implicate higher-ups in additional crimes.

The Bush administration has a long history of abandoning prosecutions against top Clinton figures. Just last month, Noel Hillman - head of the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section - declined to prosecute former national security adviser Sandy Berger for his admitted theft of top secret terrorism documents, some of which he destroyed. Instead, Berger was allowed to plead guilty to a one-count misdemeanor of unauthorized removal of classified material. Hillman recommended that he serve no jail time, and instead pay a $10,000 fine. Hillman's signature appears on Rosen's indictment.

In 2003, the Bush Justice Department dropped a compelling case against Mrs. Clinton, despite strong circumstantial evidence that she traded votes in the Hasidic enclave of New Square, N.Y., for presidential clemency that her husband later granted to four village leaders.

Though New York's Hasidic community overwhelmingly backed her opponent Rick Lazio in 2000, New Square voted for Hillary by a staggering margin of 1,400 to 12.

In 2002, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York dropped an even more compelling case against former first brother Roger Clinton, who was accused of accepting bribes in exchange for presidential pardons.

In its first month in office, the Bush Justice Department struck a deal with Indonesian billionaire Mochtar Riady, who had funneled millions of dollars in illegal foreign donations into Clinton campaign coffers.

Riady was ordered to pay an $8 million fine and perform community service in his home city of Jakarta, where U.S. officials had no jurisdiction to enforce the sentence.

The Bush family has grown increasingly close to Mr. Clinton over the last year - especially since Bush 41 teamed up with Mr. Clinton in tsunami relief efforts. Recent reports claim that President Bush and his brother Jeb now refer to the former president as "Bubba" and "Bro."

In his opening statement in the Rosen trial, prosecutor Zeidenberg promised he would take great pains not to implicate Mrs. Clinton in any wrongdoing, telling the court:

"You will hear no evidence that Hillary Clinton was involved in any way shape or form. In fact, it's just the opposite. The evidence will show that David Rosen was trying to keep this evidence from the campaign." |||

On May 20, Martha Carr in the New Orleans Times Picayune - the only major paper to give the story serious coverage - reported:

A transcript of the tape obtained by The Times-Picayune shows that while some parts could have helped bolster the government's case, others contained potentially embarrassing details about the fast-and-loose practices of top Democratic fund raisers and party officials. The judge ultimately agreed to exclude its contents. . .

While Reggie agreed to help the feds almost three years ago, his role as government informant was kept secret until recently in an effort to conceal his cooperation in at least two other unrelated investigations, one involving a state senator, and the other, a prominent political figure who may have been illegally soliciting national campaign donations from foreign nationals, according to an FBI affidavit. The government has agreed to recommend that Reggie's sentence not exceed five years in return for his cooperation, he testified Thursday.

Like several other actors in the political drama being played out in the Los Angeles courtroom, Reggie, who was invited to state dinners and even slept at the White House, watched his high-powered world come crashing down after his wheeling and dealing got out of control. . .

The underwriter of the Hollywood gala, Peter Paul, is a three-time convicted felon who built an Internet company with Spider-man creator Stan Lee. He awaits sentencing for bilking investors out of $25 million. His former company, Stan Lee Media, is now defunct.

Tonken, who organized the gala, is serving five years in prison for defrauding charities out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, after years of consorting with the rich and famous in Los Angeles, driving luxury vehicles and living off borrowed money.

Lastly, there is Jim Levin, a Chicago businessman and Clinton confidant who has pleaded guilty to federal bribery, fraud and conspiracy charges in connection with the awarding of public contracts to his family's fencing company.

The judge - a Clinton patronage pick pushed by Barbara Boxer - not only didn't recuse himself as a more cautious jurist might have under the circumstances, he was unusually loquacious. In a NY Sun story he was quoted as saying that Paul was "a thoroughly discredited, corrupt individual" and "a con artist." Metz also said, "This isn't a trial about Senator Clinton. Senator Clinton has no stake in this trial as a party or a principal. She's not in the loop in any direct way, and that's something the jury will be told."

What's curious about this is that at least two witnesses had told investigators that they had informed Mrs. Clinton about the hidden campaign cash.

Prsecutor Zeidenberg was equally anxious to exonerate Hillary Clinton, telling Matz, "You will hear no evidence that Hillary Clinton was involved in any way, shape or form. In fact, it's just the opposite. The evidence will show that David Rosen was trying to keep this evidence from the campaign."

But as Newsmax reported on May 12:

Zeidenberg didn't explain, however, how Mrs. Clinton's then-spokesman, Howard Wolfson, seemed to have knowledge of the event's true costs at a time when senior Clinton campaign officials were supposedly in the dark. Speaking to the Washington Post five days after the Aug. 12 event, Wolfson acknowledged that Mr. Paul had contributed "$1 million" - far more than the $400,000 Rosen would later report. Wolfson also seemed to know specific details about the underreported contribution, telling the Post: "It was an in-kind contribution ... and not a check." Paul told NewsMax last month that Wolfson's comments show that senior Clinton campaign officials "knew there was an issue about my involvement and they knew there was an issue about how much it cost" well before Rosen filed false reports with the FEC.

It helps to remember that the Clinton-Bush coziness goes back to the days of Iran-Contra, when Papa Bush was supervising covert arms shipments to Latin America out of Arkansas (with drugs making the return trip) and Governor Clinton was busy looking the other way. Further, as was clear during abortive Republican investigations into various Clinton scandals, in the culture of impunity of Washington, politics stops at corruption's edge. Almost all major corruption is either bipartisan or common enough that one side can effectively blackmail the other.

Still, the Rosen case could be a forewarning of what lies ahead for 2008. As we have pointed out, the GOP Justice Department has all the Hillary files and the Bush regime might just be holding its fire until a more useful time - like during the middle of a presidential campaign.

TIMES PICAYUNE MAY 20

NEWSMAX MAY 18
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/18/94801.shtml

REGGIE-ROSEN TAPE EXCERPTS

THE PROSECUTORS seem to have deliberately drained the life out of the Rosen case, which comes within a hair's breath of Hillary Clinton, but the New Orleans Times Picayune did better with this May 7 story:

MARTHA CARR AND GORDON RUSSELL, NEW ORLEANS TIMES PICAYUNE - Hotshot political fund-raiser David Rosen didn't hesitate when an old friend, visiting Chicago, called to invite him to a pricey meal at Morton's steakhouse. What Rosen didn't know was that his buddy, Democratic Party operative Ray Reggie of New Orleans, was working with FBI agents to record secretly the entire conversation, a tape that is expected to be key evidence as one of the hottest political trials of the year begins Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

A partial transcript of the Sept. 4, 2002, tape obtained by The Times-Picayune captures a conversation rife with gossip about the seamy side of political life, including the sex, drugs and prostitutes enjoyed by big-name Democratic stalwarts. But in due course Reggie deftly steers the conversation toward the feds' main interest: an August 2000 Hollywood fund-raiser for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton that is at the center of Rosen's alleged crimes.

In a detailed discussion of the event, Rosen acknowledges that the gala probably cost far more to produce than he reported on federal campaign forms, a criminal offense and the central question at issue in the case. . .

Reggie first met Rosen when he signed on as a fund-raiser and media strategist for Hillary Clinton's Senate bid. Rosen was Clinton's national finance director, and Reggie, with his ties to the Kennedy family, was a powerhouse fund-raiser for the Clintons in Louisiana. After their months spent together separating wealthy Democrats from their hard-earned cash, Rosen was likely not surprised that Reggie would call to catch up with him during a stop in Chicago. . .

The chit chat ranges from speculation that a wealthy Clinton donor was using cocaine to lusty remarks by Rosen about the donor's young daughter. Rosen does not hesitate to disparage President Clinton, noting that he began calling regularly -- once a week -- after Rosen went to work for Hillary Clinton. "Go screw yourself , Mr. President," Rosen says, pretending to pick up one such call.

The salaciousness reaches its pinnacle with Rosen's rambling anecdote about a fat cat Clinton donor who said after a night of partying that he sent prostitutes to the hotel rooms of two top Clinton loyalists.

"So the next day, (one of the loyalists) calls (the donor) from the golf course with Clinton," Rosen told Reggie. "Clinton gets on the phone, he goes, I just wanna tell you something. . . . The day I'm outta office, I'm going out with you."

A lawyer for one of the Clinton insiders named on the tape denied the substance of the story. Kendall, Clinton's lawyer, declined to comment on the anecdote.

Reggie takes his own swipe at a party big shot, Al Gore, who flew into New Orleans for the 2002 Super Bowl, absent the privilege he enjoyed as vice president. "I mean, I felt bad," said Reggie, who took Gore to the Ritz Carlton while he waited to fly out. "Here you are, the former VP, and the guy's like flying in a little, you know, nothing plane. And he's gonna catch a Yellow Cab. I'm like, no."

To that, Rosen added that he'll never work for Gore again. The former vice president, whom he thought he knew well, failed to recognize him at an event. "I won't cross the street for that guy," he said. "I was willing to get talked back into another round with his ass. And I went to an event, and he was there. And I'm with him one-on-one a hundred times. At least. And he thought I was the valet parker."

JANUARY 2005

HILLARY CLINTON SUCKS UP TO CHRISTIAN RIGHT

MICHAEL JONAS, BOSTON GLOBE - On the eve of the presidential inauguration, US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton embraced an issue some pundits say helped seal a second term for George W. Bush: acceptance of the role of faith in addressing social ills. In a speech at a fund-raising dinner for a Boston-based organization that promotes faith-based solutions to social problems, Clinton said there has been a "false division" between faith-based approaches to social problems and respect for the separation of church of state.

"There is no contradiction between support for faith-based initiatives and upholding our constitutional principles," said Clinton, a New York Democrat who often is mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2008.

Addressing a crowd of more than 500, including many religious leaders, at Boston's Fairmont Copley Plaza, Clinton invoked God more than half a dozen times, at one point declaring, "I've always been a praying person." She said there must be room for religious people to "live out their faith in the public square."

APRIL 2004

TAKES 40 ROOMS TO VACATION WITH HILLARY

JAMAICA OBSERVER - Former US first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, left Jamaica yesterday after a one-week vacation at the exclusive Tryall Club in Hanover, highly placed sources confirmed. Hotel officials declined to confirm or deny Rodham Clinton's stay at the property, but one knowledgeable source told the Observer: "She had a quiet, delightful and restful holiday. That was the way she wanted it." According to Observer sources, between her aides, friends and Secret Service protectors Rodham Clinton's entourage occupied 40 rooms.

FEBRUARY 2004

ETHICS-CHALLENGED BRIDGE COMMISSION TOLD TO IMITATE HILLARY CLINTON

GARRETT THEROLF, MORNING CALL - The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, urged to reform its relationship with the public in the wake of deception and possible ethical lapses last year, has defied its critics by pulling an even thicker veil of secrecy over itself. More business has moved out of public meetings to behind closed doors, including presentations and deliberations related to lucrative contracts for engineering and public affairs work.

The communications strategy has also helped to obfuscate the commission's affairs with the hiring of two media consultants who trained nine senior staffers how to duck tough questions, in part by gathering them around a videotape monitor twice to study Hillary Clinton's "blocking" techniques during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Bridge commission staffers also were ordered to use vague language in any writing they prepare in case those documents are seen by outsiders.
That order, obtained by The Morning Call, advises staffers and frequent bridge commission contractors against using about 60 common words and phrases, including "must," "thorough," "final" and "safe."

Chief Engineer George Alexandridis explained the reason for the ban in a preface to the memo: "Because documents that are prepare by us or our consultants are scrutinized carefully by other agencies, the public and the media, it is important that they do not include absolutes and positive statements.". . .

Patellen Corr and Jennifer Franklin taught a technique they called "blocking and bridging," Corr said in an interview. The technique teaches public officials ways to block tough questions and to bridge to topics that the official would rather talk about. . .

To demonstrate the technique, the executives scrutinized a tape of Hillary Clinton's January 1998 interview on NBC's "Today Show" shortly after news of the Lewinsky affair was first reported in The Washington Post. The interview began with anchor Matt Lauer asking Hillary Clinton if President Clinton had described to her the nature of his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Clinton responded by changing the subject to the then-recent death of co-anchor Katie Couric's husband and issued her condolences - a pivot identified as the "block" during Corr and Franklin's training.

Clinton then said, "Well, have talked at great length. And I think as this matter unfolds, the entire country will have more information" - identified during the session as a "bridge" to more comfortable terrain without answering the question directly or completely.

Corr said the condolences for Couric are the example of a useful interview technique because "that is showing how someone can start an interview that will probably be hostile, making sure that potential hostility does not let anyone forget that they are human."

OCTOBER 2003

WHY BUSH'S SUDDEN
INTEREST IN SEX TOURISM?

To those surprised by George Bush's sudden interest in the evils of sex tourism (in his UN speech), Undernews Irregular Richard L. Franklin offers this theory: it was a shot across Hillary Clinton's bow, a reminder that now the Justice Department files are in the hands of the Republicans.

One of those deeply involved in the Clinton fundraising scandals was an Asian businessman described in some reports as a major underground crime figure with a specialty in brothels, including those featuring under-aged girls.

This could be a big embarrassment for Hillary Clinton, who once told a women's conference, "We are working to stop trafficking of women and girls in this region and around the world. No government and no citizen can rest until we stop this modern form of slavery, protect its victims and prosecute those who are responsible."

The embarrassment is heightened by the existence of a photo of the two Clintons and the businessman with big smiles, standing in front of the shield of the Democratic National Committee.

SEPTEMBER 2003

REUTERS - Federal authorities in New York on Monday said they have completed the extradition of Peter Paul, the co-founder of defunct online entertainment company Stan Lee Media, from Brazil to the United States to face conspiracy and securities fraud charges. Paul left the United States in late 2000 or early 2001 and was arrested in Brazil in August 2001. He has been held in a Brazilian prison. In July the Brazilian Supreme Court ordered his return to the United States to face charges. . . He is represented by Judicial Watch, an organization well known for pursuing claims of government corruption. . . They have claimed Paul has detailed information about donations made to the 2000 U.S. Senate campaign of former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites), who was eventually elected to represent the state of New York. "Judicial Watch is pleased that Peter is finally back in the United States," Tom Fitton, the president of the organization, told Reuters. "He's eager to cooperate so that all are held accountable, especially Hillary and Bill Clinton."

JIM DWYER, NY TIMES - By the end of the night, 'no' was not quite the word ringing in every ear as the guests - about 150 major campaign donors to the former president or to the senator - left the gathering. During cocktails in the back yard, one group heard former President Bill Clinton say that the national Democratic Party had 'two stars': his wife, the junior senator from New York, and a retired general, Wesley K. Clark, who is said to be considering a run for the presidential nomination."

And during the dinner, according to a dozen people who were at the event, they heard Mrs. Clinton say how important their support would be 'for my next campaign, whatever that may be.' Later, Mr. Clinton, in discussing the presidential field, said, 'We might have another candidate or two jumping into the race.'

To others at the party, Mrs. Clinton, in alluding pointedly to an unspecified campaign, was merely having mild fun about a candidacy that not only has never been announced but whose existence has repeatedly been denied.

Any other interpretation, say Senator Clinton and her aides, was a matter of wishful listening among eager political supporters. While they did not deny the remarks attributed to either of the Clintons, they said that these were casual comments, made about the need to raise funds for Mrs. Clinton's race for the Senate in 2006 - not about a run for president next year.

Asked if it was impossible that she would run for president next year, she laughed. Asked again, she laughed again, then responded: 'I have said I am not running. If I knew another foreign language, I'd say it in that. I'm saying, 'I'm not going to do it.'

AUGUST 2003

HILLARY CLINTON - Many of those who are most adamantly against me are really throwbacks to closing the door of opportunity on working people and middle-class families and on women's rights and civil rights.

HILLARY LEAVES JET PASSENGERS IN HOLDING PATTERN

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton seems to be following in her husband's footsteps in more ways than one, even holding up commercial air traffic when it suits her schedule. Back in 1993, America got its first dose of the Clintons' royal pretensions, when newly minted President Bill Clinton held up air traffic at Los Angeles International Airport for two hours while he sat on Air Force One getting a $200 haircut from chi-chi stylist Cristophe.

Now comes word that Hillary caused a similar delay at New York's JFK airport, with the New York Post reporting that American Airlines kept a plane full of passengers on the ground because her highness couldn't manage to make it to the airport on time.

"The flight out of JFK the other night sat on the tarmac without explanation until an hour and a half after the scheduled departure time," the paper's Page Six reports. "A few people in first class found out the reason for the delay when an unapologetic Hillary Clinton and her entourage of flunkies and bodyguards hurried onto the plane so she could make it to a book signing for 'Living History.'"

JUL 2003

||| HILLARY CLINTON TO BBC

I liked the traditional duties of keeping a house . . I'm not the greatest at it in the world but I loved doing it. I mean, it was inviting people to come to your home and therefore it mattered to me what china we used, what the flowers looked like, what the menu was. . .

[HRC also continue to foster the myth that she was the first professional woman in the White House when, in fact, Lady Bird Johnson was an accomplished businesswoman.]

Well, I think that there's a lot of debate about the issues that I present - not only the ones you're referring to, but certainly to being the first professional woman to be in the position of first lady.

||| NEWSMAX

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has subtly but carefully altered her stance on running for president in 2004. . . During her trip to London this weekend, Mrs. Clinton hinted during a television interview that a 2004 run "might happen." Appearing Friday on BBC Channel 4's "Richard and Judy Show," Mrs. Clinton was pressed on whether she might challenge President Bush as early as next year. "You never know what might happen," she told the TV duo, after first dismissing as "rumors" reports that she was considering a run in 2004.

The day before, Mrs. Clinton was challenged by BCC radio interviewer Martha Kearney, who complained that the top Democrat's often-repeated answer that she has "no intention" of running for president in either 2004 or 2008 "doesn't really rule anything out, does it?" Well, but it is as close as I can come," Mrs. Clinton responded.

JUN 2003

THE BOOK ON HILLARY

DICK MORRIS, NATIONAL REVIEW - In your new book, Living History, you correctly note that when you asked me to help you and Bill avert defeat in the congressional election of 1994 I was reluctant to do so. But then you assert, incorrectly, that my reluctance stemmed from difficulties in working with your staff. . . The real reason I was reluctant was that Bill Clinton had tried to beat me up in May of 1990 as he, you, Gloria Cabe, and I were together in the Arkansas governor's mansion. At the time, Bill was worried that he was falling behind his democratic primary opponent and verbally assaulted me for not giving his campaign the time he felt it deserved. Offended by his harsh tone, I turned and stalked out of the room.

Bill ran after me, tackled me, threw me to the floor of the kitchen in the mansion and cocked his fist back to punch me. You grabbed his arm and, yelling at him to stop and get control of himself, pulled him off me. Then you walked me around the grounds of the mansion in the minutes after, with your arm around me, saying, "He only does that to people he loves.". . . When the story threatened to surface during the 1992 campaign, you told me to "say it never happened.". . . That, and not the invented conversation in your memoir, was the reason that I was reluctant to work for Bill again.

BYRON YORK, THE HILL - When she learned in 1993 that there were "concerns of financial mismanagement and waste" in the White House Travel Office, Clinton writes, "I said to Chief of Staff Mack McLarty that if there were such problems, I hoped he would 'look into it.'" According to Living History, that's when the investigative Dr Pepper machine geared up. After Clinton's "offhand comment," she writes, an audit by KPMG Peat Marwick discovered financial irregularities in the office. Then, "based on these findings, Mack and the White House Counsel's Office decided to fire the Travel Office staff and reorganize the department."

To hear her tell it, Clinton had almost nothing to do with any of it. But the independent counsel's report on Travelgate tells another story. McLarty told a grand jury that Clinton pressed him to take action on the Travel Office issue. "The fact that the first lady, one of the principals, had raised this issue, that adds an element of priority to any matter, and it did to this one," he testified.

Former White House aide David Gergen told the grand jury that he remembered a conversation with McLarty in which McLarty said the first lady was "very upset" about the Travel Office and was "ginned up on that issue ... and that there were at least two occasions when she made it clear to him that she wanted action taken."

GREG ESTABROOK, TUESDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK, ESPN - Once again, Clinton is presented as the author of what is actually a ghosted book. . . This time around, the pages of "Living History" thank three people -- the much-admired former White House speech writer Alison Muscatine, veteran ghost Maryanne Vollers and researcher Ruby Shamir -- who are assumed to be the actual authors. But the cover and the frontispiece still boldly state, "by Hillary Rodham Clinton."

"Living History" is a 562-page book. A work of that length would take an average writer perhaps four years to produce; a highly proficient writer might finish in two years, if working on nothing else. Clinton signed the contract to "write" the book about two years ago. About the same time, she also was sworn in as a member of the United States Senate. Clinton took an oath to protect the Constitution and to serve the citizens of New York. So in the last two years Clinton has either been neglecting her duties as a United States Senator - that is, violating her oath -- in order to be the true author of "Living History," or she is claiming authorship of someone else's work. . .

If you didn't write something, and claimed to the world that you did, what you would be doing is lying. Wouldn't it be a nice gesture if United States senators did not lie?

Perhaps you're thinking, "But all people who reach the limelight lie about being authors." No, they don't. Consider that the previous book project of Maryanne Vollers, one of Hillary's ghosts, was about Jerri Nielsen, the doctor who had to be airlifted out of Antarctica. How was that book presented? As "Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole" by Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers. No lying about the true author.

Consider that John McCain's autobiographical work, "Faith of My Fathers," proclaims on its cover "by Mark Salter, with John McCain." The true author's name is there for everyone to see, and this neither detracts from sales ("Faith of My Fathers" was a commercial success) nor causes anyone to think any less of McCain. Famous people who care about their honor, like McCain, freely acknowledge using ghostwriters -- this is called "honesty." Famous people with serious ego problems, or who don't care about their honor, lie about being authors.

Now suppose you were a college student, hired someone to write a thesis paper for you, then submitted the work as your own. Suppose, when caught, rather than confess, you indignantly insisted you were the true author. What would happen to you is that you'd be expelled. For you to lie about having written something would be considered inexcusable.

HRC HAS BEEN A NON-CANDIDATE BEFORE

LARRY KING SHOW, APRIL 29, 1997 - CALLER: Are you considering running for office in the future?

H CLINTON: No, no.

KING: At all?

H CLINTON: No.

KING: No circumstance under which you would?

H CLINTON: Not that I can imagine. That is not anything I have ever thought of for myself...

Two years later she was running for Senate.

WHY HILLARY CLINTON IS IMPORTANT

1. Hillary Clinton is not a figure out of the past nor a has-been. She and Al Gore are currently the most popular candidates for president among Democrats. For all the money and effort that Lieberman, Kerry, Gephardt and the others have put into the race, they still lag HRC by 13 points or more and Gore by 33 points or more. What this means is that HRC remains a significant dark horse candidate regardless of what she says now. So who she is and what she does matters. Especially since Republicans are salivating at the thought of her running.

2. The Review's recent coverage of HRC has been slight compared to the archaic media. In fact, the article in question was 398 words long, only 97 more words than in the complaining letters. In contrast, the NY Times has written six articles totaling 5,700 words in the past week, the LA Times sent two reporters and two researchers to the Big Apple to cover the story, the Washington Post gave a detailed timeline of book sales, and NPR gave an extraordinary four minutes to a discussion of HRC's opus.

We thus have a long way to go before our coverage becomes obsessive. Further, our dossier on the Clintons has been more than matched by our archives on the Bushes, which has received more than a quarter of a million hits in the last three years.

3. The myth that the Clinton story is about sex makes about much sense as the Bush story about WMDs in Iraq. Even the impeachment story wasn't about sex but about presidential lying to prevent a fair court case for Paula Jones. The Clinton machine story was one of a never-ending list of scandals that included successful convictions of drug trafficking, racketeering, extortion, bribery, tax evasion, kickbacks, embezzlement, fraud, conspiracy, fraudulent loans, illegal gifts, illegal campaign contributions, money laundering, perjury, and obstruction of justice. The Clintons were basically mobbed-up politicians from one of the most corrupt states in the union and acted that way.

4. The sex angle is important primarily as a window onto the values and principles of participants. As I wrote in 1994 in 'Shadows of Hope:'

"There is sometimes a dizzying ad hoc quality to Clinton's policies. Perhaps this should be expected of a president who may be the first to have cited Machiavelli as a defense. Clinton often seems a political Don Juan whose serial affairs with economic and social programs share only the transitory passion he exhibits on their behalf." Besides if a politician lies that easily to his wife, why should I believe he'll tell me the truth?

5. It perhaps helps to know something rarely reported about the scandal that gave all the others their name. Whitewater was basically a resort land scam fifty miles from the nearest grocery store. A local TV reporter exposing it would have probably have won an Emmy. More than half of the purchasers, many of them retirees, would lose their plots thanks to the sleazy form of financing used. Two months after commencing the Whitewater deal, Hillary Clinton invested $1,000 in cattle futures. Before bailing out she earned nearly $100,000 on her investment. Many years later, several economists would calculate that the chances of earning such returns legally were one in 250 million.

5. The real Clinton story has always been available to any journalist curious enough to look into it. Several months before the 1992 convention, the Review published a list - the first in the country - of more than two dozen individuals and institutions whose connections with Clinton raised question about his candidacy. Some of this information, incidentally, came to us from liberal student activists at the University or Arkansas. Each of these connections would later figure in what became known as the Clinton scandals. It is wiser to learn and act on such information before rather than after a nominating convention.

6. The massive coverage of Hillary Clinton's book has generally ignored HRC's repeated lack of forthrightness on a variety of matters. For example, in a statement answering questions from a House investigating committee, Hillary Clinton said "I don't recall" or its equivalent 50 times. Her statement was only 42 paragraphs long.

4. In fiercely defending Clinton, liberals dissed integrity, their own political heritage, women, and set themselves up for losing the 2000 election. Missing from all the discussion of that election are some important results from the exit polling:

- 68% of voters thought Clinton would go down in history more for his scandals than for his leadership.

- 44% said that the scandals were somewhat to very important.

- 57% thought the country to be on the wrong moral track.

4. The Clinton years were disastrous for the Democratic Party, again something party members refuse to admit. At every level - from Senate to statehouse - the Democrats lost more seats during their incumbency than at any time since Grover Cleveland.

5. The Clinton administration was the warm-up band for the Bush administration. During that period, the country drastically lowered its expectations of public decency, integrity, civil liberties, and social democracy. The failure of liberals to stand up against Clinton's crypto-Republican policies foreshadowed the unwillingness of liberals to stand up against Bush in his anti-constitutional and manically belligerent acts. By the end of the Clinton years, liberal America had lost the capacity and the will to defend itself.

6. It is not the Review, but the Democratic Party that needs to put the Clintons behind them. As long as Hillary Clinton remains the best idea that Democrats have for a president, both the party and the country will remain in critical danger.

7. That's news and we'll report it. - SAM SMITH

QUESTIONS OF THE DAY

Why should Jayson Blair be held to a higher standard of truth-telling than Tony Blair? Or George Bush? Or Hillary Clinton?

If it's wrong for newspapers to have published Jayson Blair's articles, why is it all right for them to promote Hillary Clinton's book?

What is the objective way of covering a lie?

And while we're on the subject, in what ways do Martha Stewart's stock trading practices differ from Hillary Clinton's cattle futures trading practices?

THE JAYSON BLAIR OF POLITICS

AFTER spending weeks trying to convince us how shocked - shocked - it was to find a liar in its midst, the American media has gone back to promoting one of the country's most prominent dissemblers.

Although there is no evidence that Hillary Clinton was a role model for Jayson Blair, she and her husband left as a legacy to young America the idea that it was okay to lie if you were clever enough about it.

And so now we are back to business with Time putting HRC on the cover, newspapers and TV shamelessly promoting her book and the Washington Post even giving space to Clinton flakmeister Mandy Grunwald on how the media should have handled the Blair story.

Grunwald says, "Damage control requires being independent enough to assess the depth of the damage. It means defining the audiences you need to communicate with . . . Then you need a credible message, credible messengers (inside and outside your organization) and effective channels for communication."

Thus the Post sought advice from a Clinton adviser on how to handle lies within the media, which is almost as telling as the fact that so few within either the media or politics understand the difference between words that are merely 'credible' and those that are actually truthful. - SAM SMITH

NEWSMAX- Former senior White House advisor Dick Morris is challenging Hillary Clinton's claim that her husband's affair with Monica Lewinsky came as a surprise to her, revealing that on several prior occasions, one of Mrs. Clinton's most trusted aides was dispatched to interrupt Mr. Clinton's extramarital liaisons. "I know that she wasn't [surprised] because Betsey Wright, his chief of staff [in Arkansas], had the full time job - in addition to helping him run the state - of fishing him out of bedrooms," he told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley on Saturday. . . "[Wright] once told me over the phone, 'I've had to pull [Bill] out of one-too-many bedrooms,'" Morris claimed.

Working on Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign, Wright compiled a list of 19 women who she described as potential "bimbo eruptions." According to published accounts, Mrs. Clinton personally sought out San Francisco private detective Jack Palladino, whose job it was to discourage the women from coming forward. According to Federal Election Commission records, Palladino was paid $110,000 from the campaign's federally matched account.

NEWSMAX - A photo showing Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton frolicking on a sailboat together during the time Sen. Clinton now claims she was shunning her husband has deepened doubts about the credibility of her book, "Living History." Seen above aboard Walter Cronkite's sailboat on August 25, 1998, the photo was snapped as Cronkite took his guests for an outing off Martha's Vineyard. The excursion took place just ten days after Mrs. Clinton claimed she had banished her husband from family activities after he admitted the truth about Monica Lewinsky. Instead of looking abandoned and forlorn, Mr. Clinton strikes a triumphant pose, standing in back of his smiling wife with his fist pumped into the air. In her book, however, Mrs. Clinton insists that while she and her family were vacationing at the Vineyard, "I could barely speak to Bill, and when I did it was a tirade. Buddy the dog came along to keep Bill company. He was the only member of our family who was still willing to." But as this telltale photo indisputably reveals, the above statement is incontrovertibly false.

NY POST - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was facing questions yesterday about her new book's dramatic account of when she first learned about Monicagate. In "Living History," Clinton writes that she didn't find out the truth of the Monica Lewinsky affair until Aug. 15, 1998, when her husband told her. But a previous, well-regarded account tells a very different story. Washington Post reporter Peter Baker, author of a 2000 book on the Lewinsky scandal, wrote that Bill Clinton asked his lawyer, David Kendall, to break the news to Hillary. Kendall told Hillary on Aug. 13 - two days before she says she found out, according to Baker. Baker said yesterday he has "several very good sources" who assure him that Hillary first learned of the affair from Kendall. "I stand by what I wrote," Baker said of the differences, reported in The Washington Post's Reliable Sources column. But Kendall backed Hillary's account. Hillary's office had no comment.

NEWSMAX - In an interview to be broadcast Sunday, New York Senator Hillary Clinton makes the bizarre claim to ABC's Barbara Walters that her husband had never lied to her before Aug. 15, 1998, when he supposedly came clean about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. "She went through all of the investigations in the White House, all of which turned out to be either a false alarm or that they had done nothing wrong," Walters told syndicated radio host Sean Hannity. "So when [Lewinsky] happened, [Hillary] said, and I'm almost quoting, 'Oh my gosh, one more thing,'" the ABC News star explained. "She also said that her husband had never lied to her. And I think that his lying to her was almost worse that the fact that he had this relationship."

Hannity was incredulous at the claim that Clinton's Lewinsky lie was his first. "Am I understanding you correctly?" he asked Walters. "She's telling you in this interview, even though Gennifer Flowers, when she held that press conference in 1992 . . . [that] the only time she really believed that he had this relationship with Gennifer Flowers was after he gave the deposition?" Growing a bit defensive, Walters replied, "Look, I'm just telling you what she says, OK?"