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RUSSELL WELCH: We’d been so busy investigating, just concentrating, focusing, that it took a while to register that nothing was going to happen.

BILL DUNCAN: We could not understand what was happening. Neither Mr. Welch nor I were ever subpoenaed to testify before the Grand Jury and present massive amounts of evidence of wrongdoing by associates of Barry Seale. No indictments were ever returned against any of the
individuals and I can tell you there was extensive evidence.

CHARLES BLACK (Polk County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney): There definitely was some suppression of evidence and definitely a cover up of an investigation and somebody should be held accountable as to why that happened.

[snip]

CHARLES BLACK: During the 1992 attorney general’s race in Arkansas, a member of Clinton’s staff had approached Mr. Bryant and had asked him to stay away from the Mena affair or the Mena matter.

WINSTON BRYANT: I’ve done quite a bit of investigation into Mena, Barry Seale case myself, and quite frankly it is a federal problem.

RUSSELL WELCH: After Winston took office, Bill told me that he was no longer allowed to discuss the Mena airport investigation from the attorney general’s office...

[snip]

JOHN BROWN: Well, a lot of people have said that the Mena operation stopped in 1986 when Barry Seale was gunned down; it’s not true. Covert operations are still going on in Mena, Arkansas, today. And if you stop and think,
back when Bill Clinton was Governor, he was asked about Mena. He said, “Well, that’s a federal problem; I’m not going to get involved in it.”

Well, he’s not the Governor of Arkansas anymore; he’s the President of the United States.

[snip]

BILL DUNCAN: I’ve always thought it was a wonderful thing to be able to serve your country as a federal law enforcement agent, and for 15 years I did not encounter anything like the corruption which I encountered after the Mena investigations began.

NARRATOR: PRESIDENT CLINTON’S VERBAL COMMITMENT TO A WAR ON DRUGS HAS
BEEN NEGATED BY HIS ACTIONS. DURING HIS FIRST WEEKS IN OFFICE CLINTON REVOKED RANDOM DRUG TESTING FOR WHITE HOUSE STAFF MEMBERS; HE ELIMINATED 121 POSITIONS AT THE OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL; AND HE APPOINTED JOCELYN ELDERS AS U.S. SURGEON GENERAL, DESPITE HER WELL-KNOWN DESIRE TO LEGALIZE DRUGS.

ONE OF HILLARY’S INVESTMENTS, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF TYSON FOODS COUNSELOR JAMES BLAIR, NETTED ALMOST A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ON AN INITIAL ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR INVESTMENT, A NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE FEAT USING LEGAL METHODS. [The Cattle Futures scandal.]

HILLARY CLINTON: I can’t read their minds or speculate, but I had absolutely no reason to believe that I got any favorable treatment.

NARRATOR: COINCIDENTALLY, GOVERNOR CLINTON ENACTED A NUMBER OF STATE REGULATIONS, ALLOWING TYSON FOODS TO GROW INTO THE LARGEST INDUSTRY IN ARKANSAS.

[That’s right — Tyson Foods. Ever eat Tyson chicken? Great chicken. I still eat it. But here’s the dirty little secret ...]

LARRY NICHOLS: Don Tyson put in six, seven hundred thousand dollars all told in all of Bill Clinton’s campaign. Guess what he got out of it? He got ten million dollars. Guess from where? The Arkansas Development Finance Authority. And he never paid a dime for it.

DOC DELAUGHTER: Now, I had heard rumors of Don Tyson and his alleged cocaine use and distribution. I went through the intelligence files and came up with enough that I thought was a sufficient amount of evidence to launch an investigation on Mr. Tyson simply out of the Arkansas
State Police intelligence files that had been accumulating for years.

SCOTT WHEELER: (Journalist): A great deal of criminal investigation files were surfacing with Don Tyson’s name mentioned in there as being involved with some drug and narcotics trafficking activities. So I interviewed some of the investigators who worked on the Tyson case.

Most of them felt that Tyson should have been indicted, but the investigations were always sabotaged, often times from within.

One particular undercover narc agent told me that another criminal investigator in that department, named Doug Fogley, was furnishing Don Tyson with photographs of the undercover narcotics agents that were working on his case.

[I emailed Scott Wheeler once, a tenacious China-gate invetigative journalist. He was furious years later that this recording was put in the movie. But good heavens! When can this be talked about? After everyone dies?]

JOHN BROWN: Donald Smaltz was actually hired to look into the allegations that Tyson had given bribes to different people, specifically to the Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Espy.

Now what came out of that investigation was very remarkable: drug abuse, drug distribution, money laundering, even murder for hire. Now, Smatlz collected all this stuff, he compiled it, he put it in proper order. And
he approached Janet Reno and he said, “Look, I need to broaden my investigations; I’m finding more here than just simple payoffs.”

What do you think happened? Well, by now most of you already know; he was turned down... Tyson already hired lobbyists, attorneys, who all approached
Congress, trying to get everybody to stop Smaltz.

[snip]

[I recall seeing Janet Reno ‘testify’ during Chinagate. She hid behind, ‘Not allowed to say because of ongoing investigations.’ Completely stonewalled those few brave congress members who could not be intimidated by the stolen FBI files.]

LARRY NICHOLS: Don Tyson was in the middle of the cocaine just like BillClinton, just like Dan Lasater, just like Roger Clinton and all the others. So, you see, all of this incest and all of this drug running, all of the trafficking of drugs, sending them all over the nation, came out of little Mena, Arkansas, right under the nose of little Governor Billy Clinton.

I went to Bill, and I said, “Bill, you’ve got two weeks to tell the truth or I’m gonna tell it. You’re breaking the law and I can’t be a part of it. You made a mistake, I’m not one of your buds. At least I’m not that big a buddy.”

[more in a little while — need to clean up format]

"The Whitewater controversy (also known as the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater) began with investigations into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s."

Whitewater Convictions

Jim Guy Tucker: Governor of Arkansas at the time, removed from office (fraud, 3 counts)

John Haley: attorney for Jim Guy Tucker (tax evasion)

William J. Marks, Sr.: Jim Guy Tucker's business partner (conspiracy)

Stephen Smith: former Governor Clinton aide (conspiracy to misapply funds). Bill Clinton pardoned.

Webster Hubbell: Clinton political supporter; Rose Law Firm partner (embezzlement, fraud)

Jim McDougal: banker, Clinton political supporter: (18 felonies, varied)

Susan McDougal: Clinton political supporter (multiple fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.

David Hale: banker, self-proclaimed Clinton political supporter: (conspiracy, fraud)

Neal Ainley: Perry County Bank president (embezzled bank funds for Clinton campaign)

Chris Wade: Whitewater real estate broker (multiple loan fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.

Larry Kuca: Madison real estate agent (multiple loan fraud)

Robert W. Palmer: Madison appraiser (conspiracy). Bill Clinton pardoned.

John Latham: Madison Bank CEO (bank fraud)

Eugene Fitzhugh: Whitewater defendant (multiple bribery)

Charles Matthews: Whitewater defendant (bribery)

Ultimately the Clintons were never charged, but 15 other persons were convicted of more than 40 crimes, including Bill Clinton's successor as Governor, who was removed from office.[40]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_%28controversy%29#Convictions

or,

https://web.archive.org/web/20090326122112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_%28controversy%29
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