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Dick Morris Reveals Whitewater Secret in New Book
Newsmax ^ | 5-4-04 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 05/04/2004 7:48:58 PM PDT by truthandlife

In his new book "Rewriting History," longtime aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, Dick Morris reveals that he's guarded a secret about the Whitewater scandal for nearly a decade that could have led to Clinton's removal from office.

"What I was not talking about and have not for eight years is an incident that took place in 1996," he told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" on Tuesday.

Morris alleged that Clinton improperly influenced U.S. District Court Judge Henry Woods to dismiss Whitewater charges against then-Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who had threatened to go public about Hillary's involvement in the fraudulent Castle Grande land deal.

After Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno ruled that Starr had jurisdiction over Tucker's involvement in Whitewater, Tucker was "furious," said Morris.

Using Morris as a go-between, Tucker sent a warning: "Tell the president that if that SOB wants to play the game this way, I know all about the IDC," the formal business name for Castle Grande.

When Morris passed on the threat to Clinton, "he turned white as a sheet."

"Clinton sat down, put his head in his hands and said, 'Oh my God, do you know what he means?"

Morris said he replied, "No, but I think you know what he means."

Later that night, Morris said Clinton told him, "I took care of that problem today." Three weeks later Judge Woods tossed out the Tucker indictment.

Though the case was later reinstated, Tucker never followed through on his threat, which, according to Morris, could have precipitated perjury and fraud charges against Hillary.


TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: book; bookreview; clinton; dickheaddis; dickmorris; morris; rewritinghistory; tease; whitewater; x42
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To: ken5050
banned..one of my all time favorite threads was when Laz got suspended by Jim for three days...

3 days dosn't sound too bad for most of us, but with Laz, you would have to count that in something like dog years. ;~))

101 posted on 05/05/2004 2:36:54 PM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: Alamo-Girl
...please let me know if you do find it available somewhere

Gladly- wish I'd kept the darn thing!

102 posted on 05/05/2004 3:46:44 PM PDT by backhoe
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To: FBD
"Clearly, the war on terrorism is working."

It most certainly is...and the Left is imploding...MUD

103 posted on 05/05/2004 3:47:03 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Landru
"G) None of the above"

What do I win?!

MUD

104 posted on 05/05/2004 3:49:50 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: truthandlife
And this helps HOW?? Unless clinton's legacy book is entitled How I Did It this does nothing but p*ss people like me off even more.
105 posted on 05/05/2004 3:51:28 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Quick, act casual. If they sense scorn and ridicule, they'll flee..)
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To: Alamo-Girl; backhoe
I never heard of the book. Let's make it a priority to find a copy or two. Heaven knows, though, we dug very deep right here!
106 posted on 05/05/2004 7:05:20 PM PDT by T'wit ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society" - Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: MHGinTN
Yeah, Dick Morris is a scumbag but I can't wait to buy his book. What does that make me?
107 posted on 05/05/2004 7:14:53 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: T'wit
"IDC laundered Mena money, yes?"

One suspects that Mena may well have been the reason for IDC's formation in the first place.

In the late eighties, I had the "pleasure" of meeting some of the IDC's "representatives". A friend of mine was seeking investment in a manufacturing facility for an agricultural product of his invention.

I was shocked at the all-around sleaziness of the representatives, their manner of operation and the nature of their proposals.

After meeting with them, it was time to take a shower. An altogether odd response to a supposed official instrument of the state...

108 posted on 05/05/2004 7:32:04 PM PDT by okie01 (www.ArmorforCongress.com...because Congress isn't for the morally halt and the mentally lame.)
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To: potlatch
Sounds fair to me....always good to compare notes
109 posted on 05/05/2004 8:15:12 PM PDT by MarthaNOStewart
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To: T'wit
Indeed. I'd like to read it also!!!
110 posted on 05/05/2004 8:19:23 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: truthandlife
Hey you ingrates!
Given the way Kerry is slipping in the polls, this is a pretty good prevent defense against Hillary filling the Torrecelli option.
111 posted on 05/05/2004 8:24:18 PM PDT by G Larry (Support John Thune!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
"What do I win?!"

Yea, you win alright.

C'mere.

...bend over. :o)

112 posted on 05/05/2004 8:33:07 PM PDT by Landru (Indulgences: 2 for a buck.)
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To: MarthaNOStewart
Thanks Martha!!
113 posted on 05/05/2004 8:38:17 PM PDT by potlatch ( Medals do not make a man. Morals do.)
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To: Ditter
Curious ...
114 posted on 05/05/2004 9:33:07 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: backhoe
I find zero reference to Bresnan or the book in ABE, various bookfinder services and the Library of Congress. I don't suppose these are exhaustive or foolproof searches, but holy smokes, where is this book?
115 posted on 05/05/2004 11:08:55 PM PDT by T'wit ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society" - Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: T'wit
I find zero reference to Bresnan or the book in ABE, various bookfinder services and the Library of Congress. I don't suppose these are exhaustive or foolproof searches, but holy smokes, where is this book?

It's eerie- last time I searched, there were at least two references to where you could buy "Cover-Up!" and several more of David's work in general. Memory Hole, anyone?

116 posted on 05/06/2004 1:10:50 AM PDT by backhoe (--30--)
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To: backhoe
See if you can find Bresnan in person. Also, if you are able, double-check to be sure the name is spelled correctly. Even one little letter off would wreck a search, I imagine.

Fwiw, I've seen the Memory Hole at work in Arkansas. When the "tainted blood" scandal got particular malodorous in the Bubba days, an outside agency -- from California -- was called in to investigate. Its report was damning. Every copy disappeared, even from state libraries and official files. Then the investigating agency suffered a "mysterious" fire, yes, in California, and its own files were destroyed. A summary report of the findings also disappeared (much shorter, less detailed, but still damning). One legislator remembered that he'd put his copy away in his garage. Mike Galster (author of BLOOD TRAIL), his helper and I drove to a small town, retrieved the document, and went straight to a copying facility. That whole adventure was plenty scary.

117 posted on 05/06/2004 6:41:59 AM PDT by T'wit ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society" - Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: T'wit
I've seen the Memory Hole at work in Arkansas. When the "tainted blood" scandal got particular malodorous in the Bubba days, an outside agency -- from California -- was called in to investigate. Its report was damning. Every copy disappeared, even from state libraries and official files. Then the investigating agency suffered a "mysterious" fire, yes, in California, and its own files were destroyed. A summary report of the findings also disappeared (much shorter, less detailed, but still damning). One legislator remembered that he'd put his copy away in his garage. Mike Galster (author of BLOOD TRAIL), his helper and I drove to a small town, retrieved the document, and went straight to a copying facility. That whole adventure was plenty scary.

Not only do I recall that, mysterious fires seemed to visit other sites with potentially damaging information... kind of like all those car accidents, plane crashes, and ( ahem! ) "suicides and robberies gone bad" that seemed to haunt former friends of you-know-who...

I'll recheck David's name later- I seem to recall some spelling error previously that caused problems.

118 posted on 05/06/2004 10:48:58 AM PDT by backhoe (--30--)
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To: backhoe
Sonny B!tch...

PRESIDENT CLINTON IS USING ANOTHER HITLER TACTIC IN DEFENDING ...
... National columnist, David Bresnahan, throws additional light on how this technique
works, in his book, "Cover Up: The Art and Science of Political Deception". ...
www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1237.cfm - 30k - Cached - Similar pages

119 posted on 05/06/2004 11:24:45 AM PDT by backhoe (--30--)
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To: backhoe
> like all those car accidents, plane crashes, and ( ahem! ) "suicides and robberies gone bad" that seemed to haunt former friends of you-know-who...

That's why our excursion to a small Arkansas town was so darn scary. We were packing a lot of heat, but what if the "enemy" is the state police? We could have ended up down a well.

More power to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard for moving around Bubba's Arkansas, talking to frightened witnesses -- even though his own cultivated British voice was an instant giveaway that he was a "furriner"! Now THAT kind of investigation took real guts.

120 posted on 05/06/2004 11:26:36 AM PDT by T'wit ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society" - Theodore Roosevelt)
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