LAWSUIT ALLEGES COMPANIES SOLD BAD BLOOD (Alert!!-Is this connected to Clinton & Arkansas?)

AP ^ | 6/3/03 | AP

[EternalVigilance]

Ping!

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Oh, good grief!! This story just keeps on going--like the Eveready Bunny.

[T'wit]

Linda Miller's site. She's a friend/member of this forum and of the Bloodhound group, and in fact, she met with us in Hot Springs, AK while we pursued this story. Linda worked so hard on this, it wore her out, but she's okay now. Note her many links to us Bloodhounds in FR.

[T'wit]

> Dave, I first heard about the Blood Trail tale in 1997

You're a little early. I'm virtually certain the story broke in August, 1998 -- right here in Free Republic -- timed for the arrival of the first copies of Blood Trail fresh from the printer. It was picked up in Canada and in a column by Maggie Gallagher that still poses an intriguing question, and there was a WTimes column soon after too, but I can't recall who wrote it (tip of my tongue, but...)

The story never really got picked up, despite all the labors of the Free Republic Bloodhounds. Clinton was and probably still is immune to exposure of his crimes in the liberal media.

[T'wit]

> This has nothing to do with Clinton and Arkansas.

It may very well go back to the Clinton tainted blood scandal, due to oddities in the law. American blood fractionaters were not permitted to work with prison blood plasma, but it was legal to do it in Canada (Connaught Laboratories, Cutter), and legal to reimport it to the U.S. There was a lot of traffic in prison plasma up to Canada and back, for years. Some of it moved in channels thought to be mob-linked. If this (posted) story refers to the incidents reported in the New York Times recently, then yes, this is very probably Arkansas (or other southern) prison plasma and Clinton was certainly involved with the scam.

[T'wit]

Budge's site is a trip! I was just going back through a handful of these links, and oh, such memories they stir.

[T'wit]

Suzi wrote this in a Washington, D.C. hotel room late at night, ignoring a fair amount of kibitzing and harassment from the several gentlemen present. The larger occasion was Mike Galster's press conference at the National Press Club February 24, 1999, at which he outlined the Blood Trail story and introduced a number of its Canadian victims (AIDS, Hep C or both), their Canadian and American lawyers, Canadian MP Grant Hill (an outspoken supporter of compensation for the tainted blood victims), top spokesmen for both the American and Canadian (BigM) hemophiliac groups; present also were a few other interested bystanders (Wallaby, T'wit, Rikki Magnussen as a reporter).

[backhoe]

You may be right- I'd have to find & dig through my anti-clinton scrapbook of newspaper clippings to be certain... I still have the first Washington Times article saved, but am not positive about the date.

[T'wit]

The book was published in 1998 -- I had a look -- and I myself immediately ran a book review in FR along with a tiny paid ad elsewhere. Maggie Gallagher very quickly added in a detail unknown to Mike Galster and the future Bloodhounds, from her friend Linda Tripp. Namely, that a day or two after Vince Foster's death, somebody called the White House legal office (not the main switchboard, so this guy was an insider) -- Linda took the call -- and said that what was bothering Foster was an issue of contaminated blood. Given that detail -- which Tripp later put on the public record in a deposition -- and evidence that Foster was about to break, we developed a strong suspicion that he got eliminated before he could talk about the Blood Trail. Iow, the deadly contaminated blood was the issue -- one unsuspected in all previous investigations and propaganda. This happens to be the way Mike portrayed it in Blood Trail -- but that was pure fiction, before he had the evidence from Tripp. Amazing.

[backhoe]

Thanks for the info!

[ladylib]

I used to work for these bums.

I saw the president of the company on TV when the anthrax scare hit. He was trying to defend the company's alleged gouging on the anthrax vaccine.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I have researched the Tainted Blood scandal a little. It's ugly. The Clintons, once again, have blood on their hands, if the reports I read are accurate. I'd read, though not well confirmed, that it also affected Italy.