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.
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. ;~))
Gladly- wish I'd kept the darn thing!
It most certainly is...and the Left is imploding...MUD
What do I win?!
MUD
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...
Yea, you win alright.
C'mere.
...bend over. :o)
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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