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]
neatest things about Bill Clinton is how he handles the media. You see, Bill Clinton is an attorney, and when a
witness comes out against his client, what’s the first thing an attorney does? He tries to discredit that witness.
They accused me of everything under the sun. Day in, day out, every week, every week there was some new scandal in the paper that I was involved in. Six, eight weeks later they’d print a retraction, it wasn’t me. But to this day people in Arkansas think that I’m some evil person.
JUDGE JIM JOHNSON: As a result of that, the boy had to pay a high penalty in his credibility, he had to pay a high penalty in his acceptability. And then, when the new evidence came out that supported everything that Larry Nichols had said, he finds himself, I think, probably in the position of knowing that he had been exonerated, but
he has not been exonerated in the minds of the people generally, in my view. And he finds himself, probably, in the position of wondering where he goes now to get his good name back.
[snip]
GARY JOHNSON (Former attorney for Larry Nichols): It’s just a small state, a one party state. What tends to happen in small states like that, I think, is the longer the person remains Governor, that I think the greater the abuses are. And I think the abuses were very, very widespread under Bill Clinton.
[snip]
GARY JOHNSON: The way they were doing these bond issues, and just the whole political atmosphere, quite frankly, was a scandal. But that’s the way things had historically been done in Arkansas.
LARRY NICHOLS: But imagine this, imagine the power this man has in Washington, D.C.
[And oh DID we find out. It was at the dawning of Windows 95 — the counter-media was not yet the ‘din of small voices’ that Matt Drudge envisioned. Being on the cutting edge, we were easily belittled as oddball kooks even though the Clinton Chronicles had video-taped such damning accounts by so many.]
[I’ll get into more detail about Clintons in the White House later. Since the economy limped along moderately well and investors didn’t want to endanger their investments. They were just as eager as democats and ‘filegated’ republicans to keep Clinton scandals suppressed.]
NARRATOR: DURING THE 1990 ARKANSAS GUBERNATORIAL RACE, LARRY NICHOLS, IN A LAST-DITCH ATTEMPT TO ALERT THE PUBLIC, BOLDLY FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST BILL CLINTON. AS EXPECTED, THE LAWSUIT WAS EVENTUALLY QUASHED, SEALED AND ILLEGALLY DISMISSED BY A CLINTON-APPOINTED JUDGE. WHAT NICHOLS
DIDN’T EXPECT WAS A COMPLETE MEDIA BLACKOUT OF THE FACTS HE HAD PRESENTED.
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Part Two — Bill Clinton’s Bimbo Eruptions and More Strange Deaths
LARRY NICHOLS: When I worked at ADFA, it was not uncommon for Bob Nash to call me up and say, “Hey Nichols, the Governor needs about five grand transferred to his travel account, so he can go see his ladies.” And we would at
ADFA transfer five to ten thousand dollars for him to go see his girlfriends, in either LA or New York.
[snip]
Back in 1990, after all the damage they had done to me, I did something that most people wouldn’t do in Arkansas: I sued Bill Clinton. Now it’s very important to note that in that lawsuit I brought out the names of five women. On October the 19th the only press conference I’ve ever held in my life was on the Capitol steps of Arkansas.
[snip]
[Nichols launched a massive press release covered by an army of reporters, but everything was blacked out.]
NARRATOR: EVENTUALLY, EVERY ALLEGATION STEMMING FROM NICHOLS’ 1990 LAWSUIT AND PRESS CONFERENCE WOULD PROVE VALID REGARDING CLINTON’S TAXPAYER-FINANCED SEXUAL LIAISONS, HIS DRUG USAGE AND HIS CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES RELATING TO ADFA AND WHITEWATER.
GRADUALLY, THE WOMEN WHO HAD CARRIED ON ADULTEROUS AFFAIRS WITH CLINTON BEGAN TO EMERGE. THE FIRST WAS GENNIFER FLOWERS WHO, LIKE ALL THOSE CLOSE TO CLINTON, WAS FACED WITH A DECISION: EITHER KEEP QUIET AND RECEIVE A GOVERNMENT JOB, OR GO PUBLIC AND FACE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION IN THE PRESS.
BETSY WRIGHT, CLINTON’S FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF, ADMITTED SHE HAD BEEN HIRED TO CONDUCT MEDIA SMEAR CAMPAIGNS AGAINST ANYONE PLANNING TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GOVERNOR’S SEXUAL HABITS. SHE WAS PREPARED TO GO AFTER AT LEAST 26 WOMEN WHO HAD THE POTENTIAL OF DESTROYING CLINTON’S
CHANCE AT THE PRESIDENCY. [The notorious ‘Bimbo Eruptions’]
[snip]
LARRY NICHOLS: During the 1992 presidential campaign, I was getting bludgeoned by the media because Gennifer Flowers had come out of my lawsuit. A man called me on the phone on a Monday, his name was Gary Johnson. He was an attorney. He told me that he felt bad because I was being bludgeoned, and he wanted to talk to me about handling
my case. Well, I was craving an attorney, any attorney to help me.
GARY JOHNSON: You know, I saw Larry out there doing battles, so to speak, on his own, and I felt like he needed some help.
LARRY NICHOLS: I met him on a Tuesday. He was a special attorney; I didn’t even know it. You see, he lived next door to Gennifer Flowers.
NARRATOR: FOR SECURITY PURPOSES, GARY JOHNSON HAD INSTALLED A VIDEO CAMERA NEAR THE FRONT DOOR OF HIS QUAPAW TOWER CONDOMINIUM.
GARY JOHNSON: Looking at someone in front of my door, it got a perfect shot of them in front of Gennifer Flowers’ condominium, and it wasn’t my intention ever to take pictures of Bill Clinton going in to see Gennifer Flowers.
[snip]
[And it showed Bill Clinton with a key to her door.]
LARRY NICHOLS: Go back to 60 Minutes when Bill and Hillary were love and kisses. They stood up and lied, and Bill said that he’d never been to her apartment, that he’d only called her once from the kitchen and from his office. That’s an absolute lie, and these tapes proved it.
NARRATOR: THE 60 MINUTES INTERVIEW HAD BEEN DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY TO SAVE CLINTON’S CAMPAIGN, NOT NECESSARILY TO GET TO THE TRUTH.
DON HEWITT (Executive Producer, “60 Minutes”): And they came to us because they were in big trouble in New Hampshire. They were about to lose right there and they needed some first aid. They needed some bandaging. What they needed was a paramedic. So they came to us and we did it and that’s what they wanted to do. When I told Tim Russer that I was persona-non-grata at the White House, he said, “Why?” I said, “The Gennifer Flowers interview.” He said, “You got him the nomination.” I said, “I know that.” As far as I know from the conversations I’ve had, Bernie Nussbaum knew that, Gergen knows that, Lloyd Cutler certainly knows it ‘cause Lloyd had a hand in his coming on that night.
You know it was strong medicine the way I edited it but he was a very sick candidate. He needed very strong medicine, and I’m not in the business of doctoring candidates but he got up out of a sick bed that night and walked to the nomination and as I said to Mandy, “You know if I’d edited it your way, you know where you’d be today? You’d still
be up in New Hampshire looking for the nomination.” He became the candidate that night.
JUDGE JIM JOHNSON: When the Gennifer Flowers story broke, that story was a hundred times more credible than the story that literally knocked Gary Hart out of the campaign.
[snip — not that this transcript EVER gets boring! And this is just the tip of the iceberg of Clinton corruption.]