Posted on 05/25/2005 8:15:23 PM PDT by CHARLITE
At long last, what the media wouldn't tell you about...BILL AND HILLARY'S 11TH-HOUR CRIME SPREE
Final Days
by Olson, Barbara
"Disgraceful." That was former president Jimmy Carter's word for the final days of the Clinton administration. But as the late Barbara Olson shows in this riveting book, it was worse than disgraceful; it was well-nigh criminal.
Here's the whole shocking story of a manic Clinton White House consumed with self-enrichment, gifts, pardons, federal land grabs, and an orgy of spending and regulating. If the Clinton administration was the most corrupt in American history, here was its most obscenely corrupt moment. As even Paul Goldman of the Democratic National Committee said, "Mr. Clinton didn't just take the White House china; he took its soul and flushed it down the toilet."
Getting the truth about Bill and Hillary Clinton isn't easy. As even Bob Woodward of the Washington Post lamented, "If we had Clinton here on sodium pentathol [truth serum] - we might need a lot of the drug." But under Olson's intense, journalistic interrogation, the ultimate truth about the Clintons is revealed.
"Pardons for Sale": How the Clintons used the pardon power to advance their own political and financial interests -- and those of their friends, cronies and allies
Four outright lies Clinton told in justifying his pardons
Was Clinton trading pardon consideration for sexual favors, in at least one notorious case?
The scandalous story of Marc Rich -- his connection to Castro's Cuba, Libya's Gaddafi ... and Bill Clinton
How Hillary Clinton shamelessly solicited expensive gifts -- a shakedown artist in a pink dress
How the Clintons absconded with furniture and other White House property -- some historic -- valued in the tens of millions
White House insider: it was "Mrs. Clinton herself" who ordered 70 artworks to be quietly shipped to an Arkansas warehouse
The four thousand pages of federal rules signed into law during the Clinton administration's final days, including this chilling new definition of a baby: a "fetus, after delivery, that has been determined to be viable"
How Clinton used last-minute Executive Orders to sabotage the Bush presidency -- and create potent political issues for the 2002 and 2004 elections
Follow the money ... straight to Hillary's campaign coffers
The strategic role played by the $125 million Clinton Library as a place to channel donations and reward friends
How the Clinton federal land grab locked up tens of millions of acres
The other Travelgate: how Bill Clinton's globe-trotting cost taxpayers half a billion dollars. How he remodeled Air Force One in a way that would make Hugh Hefner green with envy
A pardon lawyer's confession: "I think Clinton wanted to pardon all of them. He just can't stand law enforcement." And an unrepentant pardoned criminal's confession: "It won"t really change a thing. I'm going to be mean no matter what happens."
Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard on why he was overlooked for a pardon: "I should have waved a dollar bill in front of them and convinced them I had a lot of money"
Exactly what did Susan MacDougal do to win her pardon? And what did Webb Hubbell not do that kept him in jail?
What was First-Brother-In-Law Hugh Rodham up to while living round-the-clock at the White House in those final weeks?
Why the White House refused to consult with the Justice Department on certain pardons
How a controversial set of pardons earlier in Clinton's term startlingly foreshadowed those in his final days, according to a former Justice Department pardon attorney
The real reason Hillary's once-floundering Senate campaign took on new life, and achieved a near-landslide victory
Did Clinton deliberately deceive a government agency to gain approval for the posh Manhattan offices he wanted to rent?
Expensive gifts that Bill and Hillary neglected to list on the required disclosure forms -- including a designer dress she was photographed wearing
Special treatment received by pardon candidates proposed by Clinton's half-brother Roger
Justice Department official takes you inside the pardon process: "They wanted this done outside the ordinary course of business"
How Hillary's brothers made a fortune advocating a pardon for a high-volume cocaine trafficker
How the Clintons? Vietnam-era radicalism helped determined who got out of jail free
Clinton's 11th-hour obsession not just with granting pardons but also getting one -- to avoid prosecution for perjury in the Paula Jones case
You've heard about tax-scamming billionaire fugitive Marc Rich. But how about these OTHER recipients of Clinton pardons?
The unrepentant pro-Communist terrorist who, after a string of crimes, had finally been caught with 640 pounds of explosives -- enough to create a holocaust of Oklahoma City proportions
The former U.S. congressmen (a Democrat, naturally) who was convicted of having sex with an underage girl and laundering union political donations, among other serious crimes. Soon after his pardon, he was sighted in a chauffeured limousine
The "reverse Robin Hood" -- and close colleague of Jesse Jackson -- who used government funds slated for homeless children to buy, among other things, a fur coat and a Mercedes
PLUS assorted small-time crooks, quacks, scammers, frauds, tax cheats, money launderers, arms dealers and drug dealers
Think we've seen the last of Clinton administration depravities? Hardly. With Senator Hillary already setting her sights on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and liberal journalists busily "erasing" the nation's memory bank of Clinton corruption, Barbara Olson's timely reminder of the Clintons' scandalous Final Days couldn't be more appropriate.
YES !
It reminds me of what a courageous and gifted lady BKO was.Those were tough days for a lot of FReepers when we found out she was gone.
It reminds me of what a courageous and gifted lady BKO was.Those were tough days for a lot of FReepers when we found out she was gone.
Ditto.
Ditto.
What is the title of this book, and when was it published?
Final Days. Came out soon after 9-11. Hell to Pay was another great book, circa 1999.
Tha pardons were the clearest example of bribery of a high official I can remember in my lifetime.
| "If Bill Clinton had been a virgin, he would still have been the most immoral president in this country's history. In exchange for illegal campaign contributions from the government of China, he allowed the Chinese to buy American technology, which now makes them capable of hitting American cities with nuclear missiles." -- Dr. Thomas Sowell, HERE |
| "The Clinton administration's legacy may be that it restarted the Cold War just to perpetuate itself in office. [Thanks to Clinton] the Chinese now have everything they need [in nuclear weaponry and missile guidance technology] to make the world an unsafer place." -- Cal Thomas |
| See Chip Bok's "Clinton at the Bank of China Drive Thru" cartoon HERE. |
| "I have known Bill Clinton a long time and spent a lot of time with him, more than I wanted to. I have never been able to accept Bill Clinton as a mature, responsible adult." -- retiring House Majority Leader Dick Armey to Chris Matthews on the "Hardball College Tour" at George Mason University 9-25-2002 |
| "I found myself marveling at Mr. Clinton's thinking, which in the short term was savvy and in the long term spoke of a kind of moral retardation." -- Peggy Noonan |
| "When you walk into the presidency as a fully formed adult your first thought is, 'What should I do first and how and when?' When you walk into it with more vanity than sense, more hunger than purpose, your first thought is of what history will say of you. ... Mr. Clinton spent all his time thinking about his legacy, and by the end he had one: He was the president who spent his time thinking about his legacy -- while Osama made his plans. He wasted history's time." -- Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal and HERE. |
| Interview On Orange TV 7-15-2003: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: "We didn't need to have 9-11. 9-11 happened because Rep. Tom Feeney: "In fairness, they were busy building nuclear plants for North Rep. Rohrabacher: "Right. Precisely." |
| "Remember, Osama Bin Laden was offered to the United States on a silver platter and the Clinton administration said no." -- Neal Boortz, HERE and: "A former CIA official told NBC News last week that [Clinton] White House orders to spare Bin Laden's life cut the chances of getting him in half. Once again, they viewed terrorism as a law enforcement problem, worrying about Bin Laden's rights instead of just unleashing the CIA to exterminate him." -- 3-25-04 HERE |
| "I've been to Sudan. And I was in Khartoum and met with some of the higher-ranking people with the Sudanese government. They told me personally – I had heard that before – that they actually offered [him] up to the Clinton administration – that is, Osama bin Laden – if they wanted him." -- Sen. Richard Shelby of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to Chris Matthews 7-22-04 |
| "At the time, 1996, [OBL] had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America." -- WJC as quoted by Mansoor Ijaz in an editorial in the Los Angeles Times Dec 5, 2001 |
| "Yesterday we learn that Clinton has delivered a letter to the Supreme Court resigning [as an attorney eligible to argue before the Supreme Court]. Yes, he resigned … resigned rather than being disbarred. No appeal. No arguments. Just submission. He tucks his tail between his legs and slouches off. "Just more of the sleazy legacy of the most corrupt, most dishonest president in |
| "The Clinton impeachment wasn’t about sex. It was about perjury, obstruction of justice, and an attempt by the nation’s number one elected official to deny a woman a day in court under a law that he signed!" -- Neal Boortz, 2-3-2001 |
| "Clinton still doesn't get it. Just because most of us didn't want to see him convicted doesn't mean we all minded his being impeached. And it certainly doesn't mean we maintained any respect we might have had for him." -- Bert Rand |
| "Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool." -- Paul Begala, personal aide and confidant of Bill Clinton, giddily advocating and enabling dictatorship in America (of which Clinton's putrid Executive Order 13083 was only an insidious part). |
| "The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." -- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous on Larry King Live |
| "We could give [YOUR money] all back to you and hope you spend it right. But I think -- here's the problem: If you don't spend it right, here's what's going to happen ... [Social Security might go bankrupt in 13 years, etc., etc.]" -- W. J. Clinton in Buffalo, NY, 1-20-99 |
| "... It seemed to me emblematic of the Clinton White House, a place where opponents' FBI files were read aloud over pizza and foreign contributors with cash invited in the back door. ... Mr. Clinton's problem, his real sin--a fundamental lack of respect for his country, for its citizens, for his colleagues, for all of us. ... I believe he demonstrated that people and principles are, to him, objects to be manipulated." -- Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal HERE. |
| "Clinton is not the worst president the republic has had, but he is the worst person ever to have been president." -- George Will, Jan. 12, 2001 |
| "Bill Clinton is like PigPen. A cloud of dirt just follows him around wherever he goes." -- Time Magazine political correspondentJames Carney on Charlie Rose 2-22-2001 |
| "Read this to reinforce that feeling you have that Bill Clinton was a dishonest, corrupt, lying sleaze-bag. http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003549 " -- Neal Boortz, 5-28-2003 |
| On November 24, 2001 former DEMOCRATIC congressional aide Chris Matthews told former DEMOCRATIC congressional aide Tim Russert (AND his nationwide TV audience) on MSNBC that former DEMOCRATIC pollster Pat Caddell had said, "The Clintons -- they're 'white trash,' and I can say that because I'm from Florida." |
| "Bill Clinton is, without question, the most amoral, corrupt, dishonest and dangerous man ever to serve as president. FDR was just as dangerous perhaps … but not as corrupt. And he was reported to have a semblance of a moral code. The people who put this cretin into office have struck a blow more severe than any enemy has been able to strike with guns in the past 225 years." -- Neal Boortz in Nealz Nuze July 11, 2000 |
| "...Clinton had contact with Coia no fewer than 120 times...[FBI] investigators doing a background check wrote, 'Coia is a criminal associate of the New England Patriarca organized crime family'." -- Linda Chavez, 6-16-2004 |
| "It's like having the Caligula Legacy Project." -- Ann Coulter, referring to the "Clinton Legacy Project" on CNN's Crossfire, 12-26-2001 |
| "This is not to say that Clinton will leave no legacy. He will. He will leave a legacy of unprecedented corruption of all the fundamental institutions of government." -- Thomas Sowell, 1-19-2001 |
| "The Declaration (the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- NOT the US's Declaration of Independence nor its Constitution) has become the standard for international human rights law." -- W.J.Clinton, 10-23-98 |
| " 'Bill Clinton never lied to me' is one of those statements that polygraph operators could use as a benchmark of a certain lie." -- Tony Blankley, 6-11-2003 |
| From The Don Imus Show with Chris Matthews visiting on Nov. 1, 2001, the day Matthews’ book, Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think, was released: Matthews: “...all he did was use up all his political capital to get Marc Rich off. Imus: “I think what’s missing is he’s morally and ethically corrupt. And he’s Matthews: “So tell me what you really think.” |
| Maybe Clinton Should have Prospectively Pardoned Himself A federal grand jury now is investigating whether there were direct links between Bill Clinton’s good buddy, Marc Rich, and Saddam Hussein. Hmm. Maybe “60 Minutes” will do a big expose on this story. On the other hand, maybe they’re having snowball fights in hell right about now… -- Jayson Javits, Dec. 17, 2004 |
| "Bill ran after me, tackled me, threw me to the floor of the kitchen in the mansion and cocked his fist back to punch me." -- Dick Morris |
| "He's the all-time self-indulgent vindictive pig." -- Neal Boortz, 1-27-2001 |
| "From the Son of Heaven down to the common people, all must regard cultivation of the personal life as the root or foundation. There is never a case when the root is in disorder and yet the branches are in order." -- Kong Fu-Dzuh ("Confucious") |
The REAL Legacy of the Clinton Years All Summed Up
What REALLY Made Clinton deserving of impeachment.
a voluminous catalog of Clinton's disregard of the law
A few more examples of the more relevant Clintonian
lies, corruption and despotism are recorded here.
The chaos and paralysis of Clinton's mind
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-- Thomas Jefferson "Great, but what if you don't HAVE any principles?" -- ed. "Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." -- Groucho Marx |
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted in important affairs." -- Albert Einstein
"This will be the most ethical administration in
the history of the United States" -- Bill Clinton
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats
those who can do nothing for him." -- James D. Miles
"Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made." -- Daniel Schorr
“If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes
a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.
-- ”Theodore Roosevelt, in a letter to his son Kermit,1915
“There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification
of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.”
-- Teddy Roosevelt, 1903 Speech
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The article made me think that this was a new book, published posthumously.
Final Days was published posthumously. It had already been scheduled for release and Hillary tried to stop it from being released.
Char :)
OK, al baby. I got you down for $10.
Pardoned of what ..?? They haven't been convicted of anything.
And .. you can't "pardon" impeachment.
I've read this book - it's stunning.
I hope that the new one which is being "rushed into print" will get more publicity than Barbara's book did. Hillary is still prancing around like the Queen of Sheba.
Talk about "teflonized!" Ditto for Billery.
Char
Consult tagline...
"We need to stop worrying about the rights of the individual and start worrying about what is best for society." -- Hillary Clinton
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." -- Hillary Clinton, 6-28-04
"God bless the America we are trying to create." -- Hillary Clinton
"It may be that women leaders are less corrupt, but she (Hillary Clinton) sure brings down the average." -- Dick Morris on H&C 3-8-05
"in a large hall [Hillary] ... is shrill; she sounds like some boomer wife from hell."- Peggy Noonan
"Hillary is a Pol Pot wanna be." -- ashtanga
"The clouds got as dark as Hillary Clinton's heart."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook."
"Hillary Clinton is a socialist; she is anti-individual; she is cruel, and she is mean."
"Our liberties face a far greater threat from Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party than from Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. I am not saying that for impact; I believe that to the core of my being."
"Making Hillary Clinton President of the United States is like taking cyanide."
"Yep, I think Hillary Clinton is the Anti-Christ."
-- all by Neal Boortz
"[Hillary's] husband ... is the happy recipient of low expectations regarding his personal behavior."- Peggy Noonan
Char :)
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