Posted on 10/31/2006 8:03:12 AM PST by cinives
Will the saga of the world's most famous fellatrice return to haunt Hillary in 2008? There's this fascinating whisper making the Washington rounds that says yes.
While convoluted and circumstantial, a number of plugged-in Washingtonians believe it. The story starts with Boris Yeltsin.
Yeltsin was President of Russia from its emergence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 to 1999. In October of 2000, part three of his autobiography was published, Midnight Diaries .. In it, there was an astounding revelation:
That in "late 1996," after Bill Clinton's re-election in November, he (Yeltsin) received a highly classified report from his Foreign Intelligence Service (Russian acronym SVR, formerly a branch of the KGB). Russian intel had learned that the President of the United States was having an affair with an intern named Monica Lewinsky.
This was over a full year before the world learned of the scandal via the Drudge Report internet website on January 19, 1998.
Lewinsky's first tryst with Clinton was in November 1995. Her last ones were March 28 and 29, 1997, as shown by White House Security logging her in to visit the Oval Office. In her testimony for Ken Starr's Grand Jury, she told of a curious comment of Clinton's after she performed her services: that he was worried about a "foreign power listening in" to their activities and conversations.
He was especially concerned about the many phone-sex conversations he had with her, calling her from the White House and Air Force One.
Somehow, it seems, Clinton had learned of Yeltsin's SVR memo. Who told him? Suspicion has focused on a meeting in Moscow between Clinton confidante Strobe Talbot and Russian power-broker Anatoly Chubais on March 5, 1997 - three weeks before Clinton told Monica of his "worry."
Talbot was far more than just Deputy Secretary of State. A fellow Rhodes Scholar with Clinton at Oxford, he was one of Bill's most closely trusted friends. Fluent in Russian, his contacts among the Russian power elite were deep. One of his best contacts was Anatoly Chubais.
Yeltsin had placed Chubais in charge of the "privatization" program selling off Soviet state enterprises. It was a multi-multi-billion dollar scam, creating "oligarch" billionaires, of whom Chubais became one himself.
The scam, however, was threatened with exposure by the IMF (International Monetary Fund). By early 1997, Chubais's looting of the Russian economy was so vast that a complete crash was imminent. A "rescue package" of billions in IMF loans was required to stave off disaster. The green eyeshades at the IMF examining Russia said no way, José. Chubais was desperate.
Yeltsin told Chubais of the SVR memo. Chubais asked his buddy Talbot to come and see him in Moscow, where he explained that if the IMF loan wasn't approved, he might not be able to keep the lid on Lewinsky. The President of the United States was being blackmailed.
Thus Larry Summers, Clinton's new Treasury Secretary, who had before was aghast at even the hint of approving IMF loans to Russia, suddenly began calling Chubais and his cronies a "Dream Team" for their "superb" job of running the Russian economy.
The IMF loan was approved, the lid on Lewinsky kept on, and not until Linda Tripp taped her phone talks with Monica in November 1997 and Drudge got wind of it, did the scandal break. The IMF loan did its job, temporarily staving disaster off until August, 1998, when the Russian economy collapsed into almost total meltdown.
Now - what has all this to do with Hillary?
One of Hillary Clinton's closest friends and traveling companions is a lady named Brooke Shearer. She retains her maiden name, for she is Strobe Talbot's wife. She also just happened to be working at the White House in charge of the White House intern program.
The thinking goes that it is inconceivable that Talbot would not tell his wife that one of her interns was fellating the president and being blackmailed by the Russkies for it - and that she would not tell Hillary.
One can easily imagine how explosively Hillary would have reacted, and how she would have demanded Bill cave to the Russian IMF demands. Thus her fingerprints would be all over a blackmail payoff of billions of American taxpayer dollars, and the resultant impoverishment of millions of Russians.
She'll be questioned on this during her 2008 campaign - as she will on so much else. The Russian Blackmail story will be one of many skeletons lurking in her presidential wannabe closet. It's yet another example of why so many Dems, desperate to recapture the White House, are so busy flogging alternatives to her.
Alternatives such as Barack Obama. That the Dems would hysterically hype a guy whose total national experience has been being a Senator for 21 months (since January 2005), and whose total real world business experience was working one single year for a company while in his early 20s (an entry-level job with the Business International Corporation), shows how terrified they are that Hillary will doom their White House dreams.
The Russian Blackmail scandal will make an interesting addition to the Democrats' Hillary Nightmare.
This assumes that Hillary ever has an actual press conference..she hasn't had one yet..
Do you really have to ask?
It would be nice. I still can't figure out why Berger got a slap on the wrist and Hillary continues to skate clear of any investigations.
I'd like to know why the Bush administration won't ever go after any of these people.
they turned the government into a high school sand box, complete with macho sc*mb%g, uncontrollable, adolescent males, twittering adolescent girls chasing those macho sc%mb#gs and world leaders having a wonderful laugh at the decline of the American Republic.
Nothing to see here...move along. /s
People have forgotten that this is why your leaders should be squeaky clean. If you're an adulterer, a drug addict, a gambling addict, a thief, you can be easily blackmailed into anything. Clinton never passed any of these tests in my mind, except maybe gambling.
Interesting tidbits here. Thanks for posting it.
At least these days we have an alternative media to get out at least some of the truth.
Interesting story.
However, I find it nearly impossible that a story of such import could be kept quiet in Washington, DC, of all places, for years. Too many people knew about this to keep quiet about it. People near power in DC love to whisper secrets in the ears of their friends to show them how much "juice" they've got with important government officials.
Not that I wish Mrs. Clinton well. I don't.
However, if the story is fairly accurate. Cowahbunga!
New information to me, and I've read a lot of Clinton books.
I will be saving this for 2008 just incase Hilldebea$T doesn't get dumped by the Rats.
I just can't see this story going anywhere. There were rumors of this and plenty of speculation during the impeachmen, but it never went anywhere. Clinton will simply put this down as Yeltsin trying to sell books in the US.
I htink he gambled on no one finding out about his adulterous behavior.
fellatrice
Ah, a new word for my vocabulary. I hate vile language, so it'st nice to have a respectable way in which to refer to Lewinsky in one word.
"Barack Osama is being trotted out to energize the black vote in the upcoming election."
So true and another example of the Democrats hosing African-Americans. Promise them the moon before an election and afterwards, tell them the servants entrance is around back.
There is another rumor that the Clinton admin suspected Isreal had a mole within the White House. Attempts to ferret the agent out was squashed when the Mossad hinted to Clinton about knowledge of Monica tryst.
"...Why didn't the media investigate this in 1998..."
You shouldn't have to ask that. Who are we talking about on this thread? The klintons. The lsm will cover for them even after they become worm food. One thing we have to understand. The klintons will NEVER be convicted of ANY crime, no matter how big or small. THEY ARE UNTOUCHABLE. Of course, there's always hope.
I don't know if I believe this or not.
I always believed that the Clintons benefitted from the IMF loan via kickbacks from Marc Rich.
That is the likely reason for Yeltsen telling such a tale in retribution for not getting all the money. The story goes much much deeper than Monica..... Algore was not mentioned at all at you can bet that he was not left out.
I wrote years ago that Hillary and now Chelsa and bill all have creditccards on foreign banks to access the illgotten gains.
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