Whatever Happened to Iraqgate? Candidate Clinton vowed to get to the bottom of the Iraqgate scandal. Was it swept under the rug because of the CIA - - or Hillary? Kenneth R. Timmerman The American Spectator November, 1996 Kenneth R. Timmerman is the author of The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq (Houghton Mifflin) and publisher of Iran Brief, a monthly newsletter. As the 1992 presidential race reached its final days, Bill Clinton promised that, if elected, he would appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate allegations by congressional Democrats that the U.S. government had secretly been aiding the...