Occasionally, someone steps out of those parameters and we are forced to see them. We label them "crazy," or some other euphemism that helps explain the disruption in our expectations. That same need for continuity exists with our leaders. We expect them to behave in a certain way, within certain parameters. We don't want them to step out of those parameters, because when they do, their conduct has to be explained. Maybe that is why it is so hard to even consider the possibility that the president is as calculating and dangerous as I think he is. I admit, I struggled with whether any of this made sense. But then I detached myself from my expectations and looked at the facts that were available and I made my assessment. There have been several strange deaths associated with the Clinton White House that individually appear to be accidents, or tragedies, but may in fact have been connected by one theme: they all benefited the president politically. My last two columns looked at the circumstances of some of those deaths (all but a couple of which took place since 1993), and now I would like to focus on what the president was trying to hide. Clinton has always tried to stay one step ahead of the game, always keeping his enemies in front of him and his friends afraid of him. He is most likely guilty of the following crimes: conspiracy to commit murder, accessory to murder, campaign fraud, obstruction of justice, money laundering, extortion, drug running, bribery, destruction of subpoenaed documents, federal witness tampering . . . the list goes on and on. I believe that the president is a criminal. I believe this because I don't believe in massive coincidences. I believe this because I know that there is nothing the man wouldn't do to become president and stay there. If, as we are supposed to believe, all these events are isolated occurrences, then the president is the luckiest man in the world. Consider the following facts. Ron Brown died while under investigation and while he was facing a grand jury indictment. Vince Foster, probably the only man with all the facts about Whitewater (other than Clinton) "killed himself" shortly before he was to be questioned about his role in that scandal. Luther Parks was killed before he could talk about Clinton's extra-marital affairs. Gary Johnson, Gennifer Flowers' neighbor, had a surveillance camera in front of his house that had Clinton on tape entering and leaving her house. He was beaten and the tape was stolen, while nothing else was taken. Understandably, he has declined further comment. Sally Perdue was a former Miss Arkansas. She admitted to doing cocaine with the president several times, and even taped a show with Sally Jessie Raphael, but once again it was conveniently never aired. The stories behind Clinton only point to one conclusion -- Clinton is a dirty politician, but more than that, a habitual criminal. The stories of his cocaine use, of his sexual assaults, of his abuse of power, all lend credence to that. In the past four years, Clinton has proved to be the Teflon man -- nothing sticks to him. When he had underlings procure over 1,000 confidential FBI files of prominent Republicans, he told us it was a mistake (read: it was a mistake that he got caught). When his Whitewater partners were convicted, he asked us to believe that even though they were guilty, he did nothing wrong. The most telling statement came on "60 Minutes" after the Republican Convention. When asked about the unusual number of scandals associated with his administration, Clinton answered that "nothing has been proven," not that he was innocent. That's because the president knows he is a criminal. Clinton has been hiding his past and covering his tracks since he began his political career. In 1994, when Whitewater was heating up, a fire broke out in the office of Pete Marwick. It wasn't a bad fire, just bad enough that it destroyed the 1986 audit of Madison Guaranty, the company that was being investigated for fraud in connection with Whitewater. A similar fire broke out in Clinton's doctor's office in Arkansas. The fire again wasn't bad, but it did destroy all of Clinton's medical records prior to taking office in 1993. The story is that Clinton's nasal passage is destroyed, by a "childhood ailment" he claims, but most likely from repeated cocaine use. Again, we will never know, because the records are gone. Pretty convenient, huh? Doesn't it all seem a little too convenient? If it were one or two isolated events, I would dismiss it as a Republican fantasy. But the facts are out there. The dam is bulging, waiting to break. There is too much. Clinton is most likely going to win re-election in a few weeks. He will do so under a cloud. I said before that many of the people I talked to (including a U.S. senator and four U.S. Congressmen) have stated that nothing will be released until after the election. This is to diffuse the claim that this is simple partisan politics, instead of a criminal investigation. After the election, the dam is going to break. James McDougal, Clinton's Whitewater partner convicted of fraud, is talking to Ken Starr, the special prosecutor. His testimony, in conjunction with that of David Hale's (the man who, in court, stated that Clinton pressured him to make an SBA loan to Susan McDougal), will be enough to start the crack. And I firmly believe that given time, the truth will come out about a majority of this. When I was a little kid, my mother told me not to lie. She said lies were dangerous because you had to keep lying to cover your first lie. Eventually, you lost the truth in a mountain of lies. That is what we have here. There are so many separate events that are all linked by one theme: They all were politically beneficial for the president. 56 plus deaths. Several fires. Numerous bureaucratic snafu's. Sexual harassment. Drug use. Financial impropriety. Cover-ups and damage control. Certainly abuse of power. Lies, lies, and more lies. That is the real Bill Clinton.
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