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Clintons top list of 2002's 'most corrupt' December 25 2002 Former US first lady Hillary Clinton, now a Democratic senator from New York, is Judicial Watch's sleaze queen for 2002, topping the legal watchdog's "Dirty Dozen" list published today. Her husband, former president Bill Clinton, is the runner-up. The conservative group which targets government corruption calls Hillary "a modern-day Gollum" who "in her quest for brass rings frequently descends into evil," a reference to the greed-possessed Lord of the Rings lake-dwelling gnome. It alludes to Bill Clinton's "eight tawdry years" in the White House, replete with sex, lies and complicity....

<p>With fund-raising lagging for former President Bill Clinton's presidential library, cash-strapped Clintonistas have taken to selling Christmas ornaments to finance the glass-and-steel structure.</p> <p>For a $35 contribution to the William J. Clinton Foundation, true believers will receive a first-edition 2002 Clinton library commemorative ornament, the New York Daily News reported.</p>

Dereliction of Duty: Senator Graham blames Clinton administration for September 11 disasterBy Notra Trulock, III CLICK HERE FOR SONG Then enjoy music as you read. Senator Bob Graham and his colleagues have pinned the blame for the September 11 disaster squarely on the Clinton administration. Graham said Clinton lacked the political will to strike Al Qaeda at its roots in the 1990s. According to Graham, we knew where the camps were, we knew they were turning out freshly trained terrorists every month, and we knew that a significant number of these were coming to the United States of America. We...

Alice Mason, the prominent New York private residential real estate broker gave her annual holiday dinner at her Upper East Side residence for several dozen friends and associates. This year Mrs. Mason had an honored guest, President William Jefferson Clinton. Once all the guests, including the guest of honor, were assembled, Alice, standing by the roaring fire in her fireplace on this cold and rainy winter’s night, told her guests about her long time association with Mr. Clinton. Mr. Clinton met Alice for the first time in 1991 when he was seeking support for his first Presidential campaign. Alice, who...

Former senior White House adviser Dick Morris has donated to the Counter Clinton Library the written schedules of his daily meetings with ex-President Bill Clinton during the days when he worked to get Clinton re-elected amidst the swirl of scandals like Whitewater, Travelgate and Filegate. "These were often secret meetings that no one on his staff knew anything about," CCL co-founder, former Rep. John LeBoutillier, told WOR Radio's Bob Grant Tuesday. "That's something that you never would have seen across the street in Bill Clinton's [authorized] library." The CCL will also feature videotapes of both Bill and Hillary Clinton...

Bill Clinton is back where he wants to be -- in the news; no doubt intent on developing a post-presidential image as one who is a far-sighted, wise First Citizen. This Tuesday, he took it upon himself to dispense advice to his party at the annual meeting of the Democratic Leadership Conference. Clinton told the DLC that his party had a "heavy responsibility to cooperate in uniting this country on security issues." Certainly, any desire that Democrats have to display true bi-partisanship by working with President Bush on improving our national security must be welcomed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but...

Charles Kushner, the Port Authority commissioner who is New Jersey Governor James McGreevey’s choice to be the agency’s next chairman, may soon find the dreaded appellation "embattled" attached to his name. Mr. Kushner is facing a whistle-blower lawsuit that could jeopardize his appointment to head the Port Authority—an appointment he doubtless helped to secure through generous contributions to New Jersey Democrats. He was the single largest donor to Mr. McGreevey’s campaign fund last year; to Hillary Clinton’s in 2000 and 2001; and to Senator Robert Torricelli’s in 1999 and 2001. Kushner companies collectively provided the largest bundle of contributions to...

<p>Bill Clinton is using his substantial mental faculties to analyze one of the great enigmas of our time: Harvey Weinstein.</p> <p>"Something happens to you when you’re a child and makes you feel that if you really want to have an impact in life, you have to be in a hurry - and you can’t be milquetoast," Bubba tells Ken Auletta in this week’s New Yorker profile of the Miramax chief.</p>

Alternative Clinton Library Keeps the Truth Alive Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Thursday, Dec. 5, 2002 WASHINGTON – Bill Clinton, America’s only elected president ever impeached, will not get away with rewriting the history of his legacy. In the fall of 2003, a Counter Clinton Library is scheduled to open in Little Rock, Ark., to set the record straight. Furthermore, it will be located just a short walk from the official Clinton Library that will spin the legacy, as presented by Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Counter Clinton Library is set to open about six months ahead of the sanitized Clinton version....

It has dawned on me that Bill Clinton is not our problem, the country's problem or a Republican problem. He's the Democratic Party's problem - their nightmare. They could make a new movie: A Nightmare on K Street. They could use Clinton's office in Washington as the locale. If you listen to what he said on Tuesday in the EIB stories linked below, his whole point was giving the Democrats advice on how to glorify him. But what did he do for his party? I know you think the Democrats are going to hear this and eventually react to it...

<p>Bill Clinton failed to lead the Democratic Party during last month's midterm elections, the Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday, and the former president is now compounding the party's poor showing by blaming others.</p> <p>"For him to say that the Democrats failed to bring out a message is wrong," Mr. Sharpton said in an interview with The Washington Times. "He was the messenger, he was the one out there and helped run the campaign, him and [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Terry McAuliffe. So how can he give an objective opinion with his subjective involvement?"</p>

For the longest time, the media would caterwaul anytime I mentioned Bill Clinton's name. People would e-mail asking, "Just can't get along without him, can you?" I always said, "I wish I could avoid him, but I can't with him out there talking." Well, I've changed my mind. I want Clinton and Pelosi and Kerry to keep on talking. I want Clinton out there talking every single day, whining about how the Democrats looked "weak" on national security- complaining in a way that we never did when we lost elections. I want Clinton saying what he said on Tuesday, as...

WASHINGTON – Bill Clinton, America’s only elected president ever impeached, will not get away with rewriting the history of his legacy. In the fall of 2003, a Counter Clinton Library is scheduled to open in Little Rock, Ark., to set the record straight. Furthermore, it will be located just a short walk from the official Clinton Library that will spin the legacy, as presented by Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Counter Clinton Library is set to open about six months ahead of the sanitized Clinton version. John LeBoutillier, former congressman and current NewsMax pundit, is a co-founder of the project,...

ormer President Bill Clinton said yesterday that the Democratic Party had lost the midterm elections because its candidates had failed to offer a convincing case that the party could manage national security during dangerous times.In his most public and extensive analysis of the state of the Democratic Party since it lost control of the Senate last month, Mr. Clinton told Democrats in New York City that they could break through to the American public only if they directly confronted the issue of national security. He said the party should challenge Republicans on what he suggested was the administration's failure...

After reading threads about Clinton, and one of the posts, especially, "What is wrong with Clinton?" (which refers to his recent, disgraceful speech at Georgetown), it made me wonder, really, what is wrong with him, what created him and those like him, and why anyone admires him. My input on "what's wrong with Clinton," those like him, and his "admirers," is for the purpose of enlightenment (myself included) and prevention (in ourselves and over those whom we have some control, i.e., our children). I. Philosophically: In the Republic, Plato attributes Socrates as saying "in all of us, even in good ...

Any day now the authorities may issue an all-points-bulletin for Bill Clinton. The ex-President was last seen barnstorming through Florida, Maryland, Minnesota, and New York doing his best "Boss Tweed" impersonation. But he has been missing since sometime late election night as the returns were starting to show a Republican landslide. The ex-President issued a statement defending his hand-picked party chairman, but has otherwise stayed out of sight. Beginning with the Paul Wellstone memorial-cum-political rally, Clinton, the party boss, seemed to be everywhere. He was in Florida chanting, "One Bush at a time," and then in Maryland stumping for Kathleen...

<p>One day in 1998, I was invited to have an off-the-record chat with an important staff person on the Clinton administration's National Security Council. We met, at the important person's suggestion, at the important person's important club, where the major domo was kind enough to lend me a tie. We sat in important old chairs and drank important old whiskey and had a made-for-TV version of an important old Washington conversation--the personage from the White House setting me right, one important man to another, on the real and complex forces at work behind our government's seemingly mindless, but actually deep and subtle and clever, actions. And me trying to nod in a way that suggested a fine blend of Kissingerian cunning and Lippmannesque wisdom, which is hard to do in a borrowed tie.</p>

Sant Chatwal lives in a 7,000-square-foot East Side penthouse, presides over a massive hotel and restaurant empire and counts celebrities and politicians - including Bill and Hillary Clinton - among his friends. On weekday mornings, when he leaves the 45th-floor apartment where he's entertained the former First Couple, Sen. Chuck Schumer and rap mogul Russell Simmons, he steps into a chauffeured Land Rover for the ride to his offices on the West Side. It's an entire building with its own private garage. Chatwal has been lionized by Schumer as the personification of the American Dream - an immigrant who made...

<p>Did Bill Clinton help or hurt the candidates he stumped for this year? Some commentators argue that the former president has lost his appeal since most of the candidates he campaigned for lost. "The stumpers got stomped," says Newsweek political writer Howard Fineman, referring to the Clintons. "This election was the official end of the Clinton-Gore era."</p>

<p>AL Gore is back, breathing fire and revising history. His fire - that Bush's economic policy is "catastrophic" and his foreign policy goal is world domination - is harmless. His revisionism is not.</p> <p>Well. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Gore's historical fiction demands refutation.</p>