Posted on 11/30/2002 10:45:01 PM PST by kattracks
A famous Los Angeles private detective who was busted by the FBI last week with an arsenal of explosives big enough to arm a small al Qaeda terror cell was deeply involved in former President Bill Clinton's efforts to intimidate his ex-girlfriends into silence, according to senior Bush White House advisor Mary Matalin.
Before joining the White House in 2001 as counselor to Vice President Cheney and assistant to President Bush, Matalin worked as political director of Bush 41's failed 1992 reelection effort.
In the interim, while hosting her own nationally syndicated talk radio show on Washington, D.C.'s WRC-AM, Matalin went public with what she knew about Clinton private eye Anthony Pellicano, whose Sunset Blvd. office was raided by a dozen FBI agents nine days ago.
Among other evidence tying Pellicano to the Clintons, the top White House advisor revealed she had audio tapes of the famed detective attempting to intimidate women into silence.
"I controlled the money in the (Bush 1992) campaign," Matalin explained during a 1997 broadcast. "And Betsy Wright announced that she was putting $28,000 on the 'bimbo' patrol and on Jack Palladino and Pellicano, the other guy."
The top White House advisor told her WRC audience:
"And $28,000 to me, the political director, was four states in the Rocky Mountains. You had a limited budget. I said, how could they spend this much money? How could they basically give up four states to track down 'bimbos'?
"That's why it was kind of shocking to me that it must have been a bigger priority than putting money into states for the purpose of winning and that's why I flagged it at the time. I don't even remember how many or what kind of women.... They didn't want to come forward......
"Then I got the letters from Pellicano to these women intimidating them. I had tapes of conversations from Pellicano to the women. I got handwritten letters from the women."
Matalin continued:
"I got one letter from one of the women's dad's saying, 'This is so horrible. Here's what they're going to do to us,' you know, essentially. It's not like they said, 'We're going to go out there and bust your kneecaps. (It was more like) we're going to say this, that and the other.'
"A lot of these women are now, you know - time had gone by. They have kids, they have families. They're in their communities. They don't want to be splashed out there and trashed like Gennifer Flowers was. And that's one of the ways they were intimidated. Or say, if they were employed, (the Clinton PI's) were going to go to their bosses. You know, I don't have to go through the litany of things of how to intimidate a witness."
Matalin said that even though she had smoking gun proof of the Clinton campaign's heavy handed attempts to silence the future president's ex-girlfriends, then-President Bush refused to use the damaging material to save his reelection bid.
"When I went to my boss in the campaign with this information and then they went to Bush, Bush himself called me up and said, 'I don't want to hear it. Don't even tell me what you have. Throw it all out,'" she told her WRC audience.
Matalin said she stored the information in her "top drawer" for a while but "I did ultimately throw it out."
Pellicano was arrested earlier this month in connection with an attempt to intimidate Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch, who was investigating an extortion plot against actor Steven Seagal.
Busch allegedly discovered the windshield of her car broken and a dead fish on the front seat with a red rose in its mouth. Former ex-con Alexander Proctor told prosecutors that Pellicano paid him $10,000 to scare the Times reporter off.
After searching the famed private detective's office, investigators found plastic explosives, blasting caps and detonating cord, along with $150,000 in cash.
Pellicano's past involvement in the O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson cases has prompted wide coverage of his arrest, though only NewsMax.com has detailed his connection to the Clintons.
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I've wondered that since the '92 campaign when Bush 41 didn't even give the appearance of trying to win. The Clintons have got to have some pretty heavy dirt on him or someone else in the family. It's sad, really.
As did Nixon, when made aware that Kennedy stole the election. Our side places a higher value on doing the right thing than winning.
U.S. Senate hopeful Rick Lazio alleged yesterday that his opponent Hillary Clinton hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on him as soon as he announced he would run against her.
The New York congressman said the development is an indication of the kind of dirty tricks campaign he expects Mrs. Clinton to wage in her bid for elected office.
Speaking to WABC radio's Sean Hannity Wednesday afternoon, Lazio revealed the Clinton campaign shocker:
"The first day, the first day that I got out of the box, they had an investigator with a camera following me around everywhere we went upstate. So that's the kind of tactics that we're up against."
The Clintons are notorious for hiring private investigators to go after opponents, enemies, witnesses or anyone else they perceive as a personal or political threat.
In 1992 the Clinton presidential campaign paid San Francisco gumshoe Jack Palladino $100,000 from its campaign kitty to help silence a number of women who staffers believed might claim affairs with the candidate.
According to longtime Clinton insider Dick Morris, Mrs. Clinton is behind the White House's "Secret Police" operations. Morris also claims that PIs like Palladino were bankrolled with taxpayer subsidized federal election matching funds.
Last year one-time Clinton mistress Gennifer Flowers told a New York talk radio audience that Palladino went around asking all her friends, "Is Gennifer the type to commit suicide?"
Though Lazio did not identify the Clinton investigator by name, other known Clinton dirt diggers include investigators Terry Lenzner, Anthony Pellicano and Democratic operative Ron Tucker.
With her husband in the White House, Mrs. Clinton's Lazio scandal patrol can rely on powerful elected Democrats to do her dirty work. On Monday New York State Comptroller Carl McCall wrote to the Securities and Exchange Commission requesting a probe of Lazio's investments.
Lazio told Hannity that the Clinton campaign turned sharply negative after several polls showed him in a dead heat with the first lady.
"She's been around campaigning for a year upstate. And after a year, I'm in the race and we're ahead of her by ten points upstate. I mean, she's got to say to herself, listen, the only way we win this race is if we try to make this guy into something that he's not. And that's what they're trying to do."
Lazio assured Hannity that he had no Sexgate-like skeletons in his closet, the kind of dirt Clinton investigators are sure to seek out.
"I've never had a girlfirend. Except for my wife. That's the only girlfriend I've had since I've been married and I'm proud of that."
Lazio said that Mrs. Clinton has virtually unlimited resources to wage her war for higher office.
"She has got enormous financial resources at her disposal. When Bill Clinton goes out and raises $25 million dollars at one dinner for the Democratic National Committee, you got to believe that a chunk of that money is going to find its way back to New York."
Though Lazio vowed to respond to Mrs. Clinton's attacks, he avoided specifics when Hannity asked if he would use some of her own scandal baggage against her.
"Yes, the answer is yes," said the Long Island Republican. "We will respond forcefully every time she goes on the attack, especially with these malicious attempts at distorting records and, again, trying to fool the people of New York about my record."
The GOP hopeful made only one direct reference to any administration scandal when he brought up the latest flap over missing nuclear secrets at Los Alamos.
"Every time one of these situations happen about national security lapses, another reminder of another scandal, people, I think, in New York have just had it. They don't want any more of the soap opera."
But when Hannity pressed Lazio on whether he would raise other questions about Mrs. Clinton's involvement in an assortment of White House scandals, the candidate responded only in general terms:
"Well, I mean, I think it's - character is an issue. For the people who said, you know, character doesn't count, they ought to hang their heads in shame, frankly. It's a core issue."
I hope she is FORCED to provide evidence on exactly how these PI's were paid. If they did use campaign cash-with matching federal funds in tow, every single person who was stupid enough to donate to the DNC deserves to know how funds were used.
The clintons'filth continues to degrade our nation.
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