Back in the early 90s, I worked with a number of foreign military intelligence officers who were liaisons to US intelligence. We used to get together once a month for a “curry” hosted by one of the Brits followed by a friendly game of poker. Shortly after the ‘91 election, while playing poker, one of the Aussies and a good friend of mine said, “I can’t believe you Americans actually elected Bill Clinton to be your president.”
A lengthy conversation ensued and I was bombarded with stories about Bill Clinton from Canadian, German, Israeli, Korean, British, Australian and French officers. Those stories included accounts of Danny Casolaro, Mena, Barry Seal, Seth Ward, Park-O-Meter, Terry Reed, Webster Hubbell and, of course, Kevin Ives and Don Henry - the two boys murdered in Mena. All of these stories were covered in the foreign press, none of which I’d heard of in the US press. In the weeks that followed, each of them provided me with hard copies of English translations of those articles, which were routinely provided to liaison officers as part of their “foreign press clippings” every month.
Keep in mind that, at that time, the Internet was just getting on its feet. There were almost no “conservative” news outlets and Rush Limbaugh was a brand new phenomenon. I’ve continued in my association with the Intelligence Community from the outside and I’ve yet to see any indication that any of those accounts were false; if anything, they were downplayed.
Rush was a major political player in the early 90’s but he didn’t do conspiracy theories.