The Final Days II: Has the Post flipped?Sometimes the smallest of items can be revealing. For example, on the Jim Lehrer-Archer Daniels Midland Newshour, HRC was asked if she kept a diary. Her response: "Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything." She added that her comments would be used to "go after and persecute every friend of mine, everybody I've ever talked with, everyone I've had a conversation with. ~ It's very sad."
The publication of Roger Morris's Partners in Power is just about a week off and the mainstream press is still trying to pretend it isn't coming out. Morris's book is expected to the most hard-hitting critique of the Clintons yet published. Morris was the award-winning author of a biography of Richard Nixon and has spent three and a half years writing the Clinton book. He was the co-author (with Sally Denton) of an article on drug dealing out of Mena, Arkansas, that Washington Post high-ups spiked at the last minute.
The Media Research Center studied TV coverage from Feb. 29 to May 20 and found only 23 reporter-based stories about Whitewater on all four major networks' evening news shows. NBC aired only one reporter-based story in the eleven weeks and CNN carried 43% of all the Whitewater stories that were run.
A well-connected reporter explained the Washington media's handling of Clinton to us this way: "They want him to win." The irony is that the cover-up and denial by liberals and the media have simply made it far more likely that the Clinton crisis will come to a head at the worst possible time for the Democrats.
The media -- with a few exceptions such as Jon Greenberg of NPR -- couldn't even get the Tucker-McDougal trial straight. In the end, the jury did a far better job of understanding the story than the professional journalists who insisted on oversimplifying the issue as a battle between the veracity of Clinton and Hale. For example, noted Clinton toady Lars-Erik Nelson wrote on April 11 in the Los Angeles Times:
After all the right wing's huffing and puffing, the Whitewater 'scandal' is dying out in wisps of smoke. President Clinton's main accuser, David Hale, is currently tangled up in his own lies at a Whitewater trial in Little Rock. Hale has had two years in the witness program to practice his story, and it didn't survive two days of cross examination.Just as in the Vince Foster case, the media has been studiously disinterested in the anomalies surrounding the deaths of Ron Brown and Admiral Boorda. Serious questions have been raised as to how bad the weather was at the time of the Brown plane's attempted landing. According to an article in Aviation Week, visibility was actually 8 kilometers in light to moderate rain. In the case of Boorda, we not only have no non-military evidence on the cause of death but the Navy has not even released a suicide note Boorda addressed to the Navy's sailors.
Meanwhile, the British press -- which knows a scandal when it sees one -- has been dishing out reality on a regular basis. This from a piece by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph:
"The New York Times and the Washington Post, the two newspapers that set the political agenda for most of the American media, have systematically ignored critical stories. They have not reported -- in a serious fashion -- that the lead prosecutor investigating the death of White House aide Vincent Foster resigned in disgust last year after being prevented from raising serious evidence of foul play.In another article Evans-Pritchard tells the story of the seventh judicial district task force appointed to investigate corruptionamong public officials in 1990:"They have not printed a word about astonishing allegations in sworn testimony from a court case in Little Rock suggesting that Bill Clinton had ties to a drug trafficking organization when he was governor of Arkansas. They have never reported on Jerry Parks, the head of security for the Clinton-Gore campaign, who was murdered in Little Rock in 1993. And although they have touched on the Troopergate scandal, they have never given readers an inkling of the sheer scale and character of Bill Clinton's philandering exploits. 'Marital infidelity,' as they delicately put it, is hardly the same thing as compulsive one-night stands with scores of women. "
"It was closed down when an informant, Sharlene Wilson, testified before a federal grand jury that she had witnessed Governor Bill Clinton and other key figures taking cocaine. Soon afterwards Wilson was charged with minor drug dealing and sent to prison, although the US Supreme Court has now ruled that her conviction was a clear case of entrapment. The prosecutor in charge of the task force, Jeanne Duffey, was forced into hiding, and eventually moved to Texas."An Indiana GOP congress member claims to have evidence of an electronic transfer of $50 million from the Arkansas Development Financial Authority to a bank in the Cayman Islands. Grand Cayman has a population of 18,000, 570 commercial banks, one bank regulator and a bank secrecy law. It is a favorite destination spot for laundered drug money.
Our best bet continues to be that Clinton will not be the candidate in November. We believe that there are efforts to get Clinton to pull out --especially by those around Al Gore and among those in the Washington establishment and intelligence agencies. The latter are especially anxious that the Clinton debacle not unravel so far as to expose bipartisan and intelligence participation in other scandals such as those involving drugs and BCCI and possibly including the covert arming of Iraq and secret banks accounts held by top Washington officials. If Clinton goes, it is likely that pardons will soon be handed out to make sure the American public never gets the full story.