'Obscenely corrupt' Clintons savaged from beyond grave

The Times ^ | MONDAY OCTOBER 08 2001 | MARTIN FLETCHER

[CommiesOut]

MONDAY OCTOBER 08 2001

'Obscenely corrupt' Clintons savaged from beyond grave

FROM MARTIN FLETCHER IN WASHINGTON

ONE of Washington’s most prominent and outspoken conservatives is about to shatter the capital’s political truce with a book savaging Bill and Hillary Clinton for the way they left the White House.

Barbara Olson is utterly beyond reproach, however. She died on one of the hijacked aircraft on September 11.

Mrs Olson, 45, wife of Ted Olson, the US Solicitor-General, finished The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House just days before she boarded American Airlines Flight 77 to Los Angeles at Washington’s Dulles airport. She had delayed her departure overnight so that she could see her husband on his 61st birthday.

In the few minutes before the aircraft crashed into the Pentagon Mrs Olson twice managed to telephone her husband, making reverse charge calls. The first time she said the aircraft had been hijacked, the second that the passengers and crew had been herded to the back. “What can I tell the pilot?” she asked before being cut off a second time.

Her book claims to tell “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.”

It pulls no punches, which presented an obvious problem for Regnery, Mrs Olsen’s conservative publisher. Since September 11 the partisan sniping that is such a central feature of life in Washington has ended and Republicans and Democrats have put on an unprecedented show of unity.

The company suspended the printing and conferred with Mr Olson.

Finally it decided to proceed. “Barbara never shied away from controversy,” Alfred Regnery, its president, said. “Her family, friends and colleagues all thought she would be pleased to know that even terrorists could not keep her opinions from being known . . . She never would have countenanced the thought that terrorism could still her voice or cancel her work.”

In fact, Regnery not only decided to proceed with the printing, but increased the run to more than 100,000 copies. The book will not reach the shops until late this week, but has already reached number 36 on Amazon’s bestseller list on the basis of advance orders. The dedication reads: “To My Best Friend, Ted.” An envelope in each copy invites readers to donate to the Barbara Olson Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Mrs Olson worked as an investigator for Congressional Republicans during the Clinton scandals of the 1990s, wrote a caustic book on Hillary Clinton called Hell to Pay and became a combative television pundit. She named her two dogs Reagan and Maggie.

Her husband is an equally controversial figure. He led the legal team that blocked a recount of Florida’s presidential election votes, thereby ensuring George Bush’s victory, and Democratic senators believe that he was a pivotal figure in what Mrs Clinton once labelled a “vast right-wing conspiracy” to discredit her husband.

[IncPen]

I don't doubt that the Clinton's take some comfort in Barbra Olson's death.

But I know this: she will outlive them, in history...

The lady had courage.

Rest in Peace

[IncPen]

I don't doubt that the Clinton's take some comfort in Barbra Olson's death.

But I know this: she will outlive them, in history...

The lady had courage.

Rest in Peace

[patriciaruth]

Bump.

[self_reliant]

I ordered my advance copy from Amazon, and when I receive the book, I'll contribute to the scholarship fund.

I'm so sorry that her smiling face won't be there promoting the book. Maybe for that reason and others, it won't get the attention it deserves.

But it will be there -- for future generations to read -- to know the truth about the corruption of the Clintons. That's no small thing.

[clintonh8r]

I can't wait to read it. Let's see if Boner Bill will attack a dead woman the way he did the living ones. I hope he is hounded, hassled, subpoened, deposed, interrogated, doubted, despised, betrayed, criticized, ridiculed, lampooned, disappointed, depressed, loathed, self-deceived and every other bad thing until his last day on earth.

[boomop1]

I can hear Hitlary now, this could have been your war you miserable bastard, and my stairway to power.

[ladyinred]

I am looking forward to reading this book. I read her other one, and admired her courage greatly. To think of how she died just breaks my heart. Her voice was not really silenced however, since we will have her books to speak for her one more time.

[Cicero]

Go for it! Bush has to hold himself above the fray, but that doesn't a private citizen has to keep quiet. One way or another, the slime that clinton has left on our country needs to be wiped away. I'm delighted to hear that the book is going forward.

[jwalsh07]

Barbara Olsen was a patriot, the Clintons released terrorists to garner votes. Enuff said.

[MissAmericanPie]

Absolutely, her legacy already shines, the Clintons must wither thinking of what theirs will be.

[Diogenesis]

[jackbill]

Her husband is an equally controversial figure.

The only reason that Ted is "controversial" is that he isn't a Lying, Stinking, Liberal, DemocRAT. He's an honest, decent human being, unlike the stinking media.

[TLBSHOW]

BUMP

Greetings Bill & Hillary its only a matter of time till the book comes out

HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS
FReep FReep

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

I thought you might want to know about this.

[Victoria Delsoul]

In fact, Regnery not only decided to proceed with the printing, but increased the run to more than 100,000 copies.

Great news!

[The Kitten]

I plan to buy the book.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...St. BARBARA of America = St. JOAN of Arc...

[abner]

You can buy it on Amazon. Move it on up the bestseller list!

[appeal2]

This is going to be a major sh-tstorm. What can the Clintons do to diminish a dead persons reputation without appearing to be even lower than they already are. At last someone they can't attempt to destroy.