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Excerpt - The bitterness Susan McDougal held toward special counsel Kenneth Starr, who headed the Whitewater real estate investigation, has been replaced with g ratitude, she said Friday at the Women’s Action for New Directions Mother’s Day luncheon. “The judge looked over at the independent counsel’s table and thanked them for their prayers, as if God had something to do with our convictions,” McDougal said about the trial that ended in her conviction. McDougal was convicted in 1996 of four counts of felony fraud and conspiracy relating to illegal loans obtained through the Small Business Administration. In September 1996, U....

Excerpt - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Justice Department lawyer says that Whitewater figure Susan McDougal did not provide any legal reason to unseal federal grand jury testimony from the now-closed investigation and that her request should be denied. Justin Shur said in a memorandum filed Tuesday in response to McDougal's petition that the courts have ruled "that continued grand jury secrecy is needed not only due to the immediate effects of disclosure upon a particular grand jury but also the possible consequences upon the functioning of future grand juries." Shur said McDougal did not provide any recognized exception to...

Excerpt - LITTLE ROCK — Susan McDougal of Camden, a friend and former business partner of President Clinton’s who became well-known in the late 1990s for refusing to cooperate with a special Whitewater prosecutor, on Tuesday sought to have her federal grand jury testimony unsealed. “There’s going to be a movie produced about Susan’s role in this [the Whitewater investigation], and there’s some information in her grand jury testimony that’s relevant to that, and Susan and I think the public ought to have aright to know about it,” said her attorney, Bobby McDaniel of Jonesboro. McDaniel said the testimony, as...

Excerpt - U.S. District Court Judge George Howard Jr. of Pine Bluff, whose tenacity against racial injustice played a major role in prompting and defining his history-making legal career, died early Saturday at Jefferson Regional Medical Center. Howard, 82, Arkansas’ first black federal judge, had been battling failing health for some time. “Judge Howard was a lawyer’s lawyer and a truly outstanding judge,” said Pine Bluff attorney Robert Morehead, who began practicing law in 1970. “He helped so many people both in his work with the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and as an attorney. He...

Hillary Clinton addressed a gathering Wednesday night organized by the Greater Voices Coalition of New York, a consortium of LGBT Democratic organizations, according to Gay City News. In her first statements following Wednesday's New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that same-sex couples must be afforded the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples, Clinton said that her position on LGBT issues "has certainly evolved" and added that were New York Gubernatorial hopeful Eliot Spitzer to introduce same-sex marriage legislation in the state as he has promised, she would support it: "My position is consistent. I support states making the decision. I think...

Dick Morris: Hillary will be next president...

An upcoming book by a longtime Democratic insider asserts that Sen. Hillary Clinton is “ethically unfit” to hold public office. The author of the book is Jerry Zeifman, who was counsel to the House Judiciary Committee for 17 years. He was chief counsel to the committee during the Watergate episode, a role he chronicled in an earlier book, “Without Honor: The Crimes of Camelot and the Impeachment of President Nixon.” Hillary was a committee staffer at the time. And Zeifman’s new book “Hillary’s Pursuit of Power” is based in large part on his personal experiences with Hillary. A press release...

HILLARY GOES NUCLEARPROLIFERATION IN THE AGE OF CLINTON by Mia T, 5.30.06     For more than a half decade, the Clinton administration was shoveling atomic secrets out the door as fast as it could, literally by the ton. Millions of previously classified ideas and documents relating to nuclear arms were released to all comers, including China's bomb makers. William J. BroadSpying Isn't the Only Way to Learn About Nukes The New York Times May 30, 1999 Nuclear is now very much in the news as a potential power source because of its lack of contribution to global warming....

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is getting her bid for a second term under way with a sometimes emotional 18-minute video that features praise from her husband and even some New Yorkers who opposed her candidacy six years ago. "I didn't vote for her. I think I will this next election," says Tim Damon, owner of Damon Rods in Potsdam, N.Y., whose company's Web site shows former President Bush with a Damon fishing rod. The video, previewed for The Associated Press, will be shown Wednesday at the state Democratic convention in Buffalo as the former first lady...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, the so-called "butcher of the Balkans" being tried for war crimes after orchestrating a decade of bloodshed during his country's breakup, was found dead Saturday in his prison cell. He was 64. Milosevic, who suffered chronic heart ailments and high blood pressure, apparently died of natural causes and was found in his bed, the U.N. tribunal said, without giving an exact time of death. He had been examined following frequent complaints of fatigue or ill health that delayed his trial, but the tribunal could not immediately say when his last medical checkup...

Milosevic feared he was being poisoned: lawyer March, 11 2005 BELGRADE (Reuters) - Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic feared he was being poisoned in his detention cell in The Hague, his lawyer Zdenko Tomanovic said on Saturday hours after the tribunal announced Milosevic's death. "Today, I have filed an official request to the tribunal to have the autopsy carried out in Moscow, having in mind his claims yesterday that he was being poisoned in the jail," Tomanovic told reporters in The Hague. Acting on a request from Milosevic, Tomanovic said he had made a request for protection for his client...

It is a cast worthy of a political thriller: a former convict whose claims about a former president and first lady spurred a criminal investigation; a prominent senator's brother-in-law, who worked undercover for federal agents looking into the case; political enemies of the former first family trying to dig up fresh dirt; and some of Hollywood's biggest stars. All these characters will share some of the spotlight beginning Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom, where David F. Rosen, the former fund-raising director for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, will go on trial on charges that he illegally underreported the cost of...

LITTLE ROCK — Arkansans turned out Tuesday night for the world premiere of "The Hunting of the President," a film claiming to expose "the 10-year campaign to destroy Bill Clinton." The 90-minute documentary re-creates interviews done for the New York Times best-selling book by the same name written by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons. Rough versions have already played at four film festivals. The first public showing, at $50 a ticket — going to a couple of Arkansas-based charities — drew a little more than a thousand people to a ballroom at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock,...

In her own book, "Living History," Hillary Clinton warmly praises Susan McDougal, the Whitewater witness who saved her co-presidency by going to the slammer rather than telling what she knew about the Clintons' fraudulent land deal. But in "Rewriting History," Dick Morris reveals that Hillary had a different opinion of McDougal behind the scenes. Before it was clear that Susan had decided to stonewall prosecutors, Morris says Hillary warned him about her former Whitewater partner. "She is such a liar. She worked for [the famous conductor] Zubin Mehta and stole his silver. She's crazy, unstable and totally dishonest. You can't...

From the rabidly pro-Clinton Arkansas Times - Fond farewell The Office of the Independent Counsel in the Whitewater investigation sent out its last press release this week, announcing that the office had, finally, "terminated all operations." What interested us most was seeing the names of Kenneth Starr's favorite journalistic cheerleaders on the list of recipients. At the very top, and deservedly so, was Sue Schmidt of the Washington Post, known as "The Stenographer" for her practice of repeating verbatim everything Starr's people told her. And there were the too-familiar others: Pete Yost of the Associated Press, Mike Isikoff of Newsweek,...

WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court rejected Susan McDougal's request to have the government pay her legal bills stemming from the special counsel's investigation of President Clinton. A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said McDougal could not receive $345,412 from the government for legal bills in connection with her indictment by then-special counsel Kenneth Starr on charges of obstructing the probe. A jury acquitted McDougal of one count and deadlocked on two others, which were later dismissed. "Congress did not say that fee awards are available to an individual who is...

HARRISON, Ark. (AP) - A lawyer who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge filed by Whitewater prosecutors died Thursday when the small plane he was piloting crashed while trying to land at an airport, officials said. John Haley, 72, who was once the personal lawyer of former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, had recently joined a new law firm. A partner, Peter B. Heister, confirmed Haley's death. One passenger, Farish Kincaid, 70, also was killed in the crash. Authorities said the men, both from the Little Rock area, apparently were due at a business meeting in Harrison. Haley and Tucker...

Hot Springs is a haven for serious movie goers this weekend, as the 12th Annual Documentary Film Festival kicks off.  Friday's featured film was titled "Hunting The President," it's based on a book by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons.  The film's producer, Harry Thomason, is an Arkansas native. He was on hand, along with the authors, for a question and answer session Friday night. Channel 7's Michelle Rupp reports: Movie goers only saw pieces of the film.  Thomason tells me it will be finished by the first of the year and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. ...

8/5/2003 CLINTON LEGAL FEES’ DECISION JUST MEDICINE by Prof. L. Lynn Hogue Chairman, Legal Advisory Board, Southeastern Legal Foundation Hogue, an Arkansas-licensed attorney, filed the successful Bar complaint against former President Clinton resulting in the first-ever surrender of a law license by a sitting President. As appeared in Knight-Ridder newspapers across the nation, July 2003 A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that it is time for the Clintons to pay the piper, in large measure because, as attorneys, they should have known better. The Clintons’ sleazy shenanigans in Arkansas land...

<p>A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that it is time for the Clintons to pay the piper, in large measure because, as lawyers, they should have known better.</p> <p>The Clintons' shenanigans in Arkansas land dealings, Rose law firm misconduct and playing fast and loose with Jim and Susan McDougal (Whitewater, Madison Guaranty), not to mention Travelgate and related matters prompted an extensive, time-consuming investigation.</p>

GOP's new map stirs uprising in West Texas By SEBASTIAN KITCHEN AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Many West Texas entities appear to be leading a charge and a public information campaign against congressional redistricting plans before the Legislature. The Lubbock Chamber of Commerce believes the Republican-backed plan would hurt business and representation in West Texas and all of rural Texas. Plains Cotton Growers also is opposed to the plan based on the loss of representation in agriculture and loss of rural representation. State Rep. Delwin Jones, R-Lubbock, voted against the plan this week because his constituents, Republican and Democrat, were against it and believe...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A federal judge on Monday upheld the Whitewater fraud conviction of former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, rejecting his claim that the government withheld information about benefits afforded a key witness. In a telephone interview Monday, Tucker said he wouldn't make a decision to appeal the ruling until after he had reviewed it and sought counsel from his attorney. The decision by U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr. was the latest ruling in the long-running Whitewater saga, the Arkansas land deal that also involved Bill and Hillary Clinton. Tucker's appeal attacked the credibility of David...

WASHINGTON — A number of their most notable friends and enemies have joined former President Clinton and New York’s U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in saying that the government owes them for Whitewater. In all, 38 individuals, including some of the Clintons ’ best friends, such as Bruce Lindsey and Susan McDougal, as well as some of their staunchest enemies, such as conservative billionaire Richard M. Scaife and former Pulaski County Municipal Judge David Hale, are asking a federal appeals court for reimbursement of legal expenses. The requests, as well as the amounts being sought, are filed under seal...