Previously
Undisclosed Internal Memos Spell Out Criminal Case against Hillary
Clinton Over 1990s Whitewater/ Castle Grande Land Transaction Scandal
We have a special Weekly Update
for you today that you will want to keep in your files and share far
and wide. Just yesterday, we released 246 pages of previously
undisclosed Office of Independent Counsel (OIC) internal memos revealing
extensive details about the investigation of Hillary Rodham Clinton for
possible criminal charges involving her activities in the
Whitewater/Castle Grande fraudulent land transaction scandal. (Links to
the full set of documents are below.)
The
memos are "statements of the case" against Hillary Clinton and Webster
Lee "Webb" Hubbell, Hillary Clinton's former law partner and former
Associate Attorney General in the Clinton Justice Department.
Ultimately, the memos show that prosecutors declined to prosecute
Clinton because of the difficulty of persuading a jury to convict a
public figure as widely known as Clinton. But it wasn't a lack of
evidence of criminality that led to the decision not to prosecute
Hillary Clinton.
Although some details of the documents were
previously reported, Judicial Watch's disclosure was the first public
release of the independent counsel's prosecution memos. The prosecution
memos-portions of which are heavily redacted-were obtained from the
National Archives and Records Administration through a Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) request.
An April 10, 1998, memo summarizes "the crimes under consideration"
What,
then are the crimes under consideration? Between January 1994 and
February 1996 both Hillary Clinton and [Webster] Hubbell made numerous
sworn statements to the RTC, the FDIC, the Senate and the House of
Representatives, and to the OIC. Each of these reflected and embodied
materially inaccurate stories relating to: how RLF [Clinton and
Hubbell's Rose Law Firm] came to be retained by MGSL [the Madison
Guaranty Savings & Loan]; Hillary Clinton's role in the IDC/Castle
Grande venture; Hillary Clinton's role in representing MGSL; Hillary
Clinton's role in representing MGSL before state agencies; Hubbell's
representations to the RTC [Resolution Trust Corporation] and FDIC
regarding Hillary Clinton's role in the IDC/Castle Grande venture; and
the removal of records from the RLF. The question, generally, is not
whether the statements are inaccurate, but whether they are willfully
so.
The records released yesterday by JW were
prepared for an "All OIC Attorneys" meeting on April 27, 1998, at which a
final decision about whether to indict Clinton and Hubbell was the
subject of a lengthy debate. The records explore in detail the role
Clinton played in the fraudulent Castle Grande transaction, the role of
Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, and the subsequent lengthy cover-up
as the Clintons sought and won the White House.
Clinton,
according to prosecutors, drafted an option agreement that concealed
from federal bank examiners a fraudulent $300,000 cross-loan in the
Castle Grande transaction. Her concealment of her role in this
fraudulent transaction, including the hiding of her Rose Law Firm
billing records concerning her legal work for Madison, was the subject
of an OIC obstruction of justice probe.
The 1998 memoranda
include substantial evidence depicting Clinton and her former Rose Law
Firm partners-Hubbell and Vincent Foster, both of whom went on to senior
positions in the Bill Clinton presidency-as complicit in activities
that "facilitated crimes."
Page 18 of the OIC documents notes that Clinton "destroyed" her personal records of her work for Madison Guaranty. Page 39 of the documents notes:
Section
II contains a chronological background and contextual summary of the
investigation so that the facts relating to possible obstruction can be
placed in the context of the ongoing investigation by OIC.
The evidence in the new documents covers:
Castle Grande.
"The Castle Grande transactions were crimes." The statement is followed
by an explicit six-paragraph dissection of the land-flipping scheme.
Madison Guaranty S&L.
Clinton minimized the role she played in seeking state regulatory
assistance for the corrupt savings and loan, headed by key Clinton
financial and political supporter James McDougal. At the time, Bill
Clinton was governor of Arkansas.
Vincent Foster and the Missing Rose Law Firm Billing Records.
The Rose records were a key piece of evidence in the probe. They were
missing for years. After Foster's July 1993 suicide, the OIC documents
note, where the billing records went "is an open question.... Several
pieces of evidence support the inference that personal documents which
Hillary Clinton did not want disclosed were located in Foster's office
at the time of his death and then removed."
Removal of Records from Vincent Foster's Office. "[O]n the afternoon of July 21st
Bernard Nussbaum, then White House Counsel, initially agreed to allow
two career DOJ employees to review the documents in Foster's office for
evidence that might shed light on the cause of his death. That evening
and the next morning Nussbaum, Hillary Clinton, Susan Thomases, and
Maggie Williams (Hillary Clinton's chief of staff) exchanged 10 separate
phones calls ... That morning, according to the DOJ employees, Nussbaum
changed his mind and refused to allow the DOJ prosecutors to review the
documents; instead, he reviewed them himself and segregated several as
'personal' to the Clintons."
Hiding the Billing Records. "On the evening of July 22nd,
Thomas Castleton ... assisted Williams [Maggie Williams, Hillary
Clinton chief of staff] in carrying a box of personal documents up to
... a closet in Hillary Clinton's office. The closet is approximately 30
feet from the table in the Book Room, where the billing records were
found 2 years later....
There is a circumstantial case that the records were left on the table
by Hillary Clinton. She is the only individual in the White House who
had a significant interest in them and she is one of only 3 people known
to have had them in her possession since their creation in February
1992."
Buying the Silence of a Co-Conspirator? Hubbell,
criticized by the OIC for his lack of cooperation with the probe,
received several "jobs" from Clinton supporters for which he apparently
did little or no work. During a taped conversation in prison, Hubbell
appears to acknowledge that he withheld information from the OIC.
Several of Hubbell's job-providers fell most strongly within the hush
money allegation. The OIC notes eight of them on page 197.
The Missing Draft Indictment.
More than 60 pages of the OIC memoranda are completely censored,
withheld by the National Archives. Multiple sources tell Judicial Watch
that these pages include a full draft indictment of Clinton and Hubbell,
as well as a detailed "order of Evidence" list.
Despite
this document dump, the National Archives is withholding additional
documents Judicial Watch believes to be critical to understanding
Clinton's full role in the Whitewater scandal.
On March 9, 2015,
Judicial Watch submitted a FOIA request seeking all draft indictments of
Clinton in the files of Hickman Ewing Jr., who served as deputy
independent counsel in the Whitewater probe. In 1999, Ewing testified
that he wrote a draft indictment of Clinton.
On March 19, 2015,
the National Archives admitted locating records responsive to the Ewing
material request, confirming that it found 38 pages of responsive
records in a folder entitled "Draft Indictment," and approximately 200
pages of responsive records in a folder entitled "Hilary Rodham
Clinton/Webster L. Hubbell Draft Indictment." We are now in federal
court to force the release
of the draft indictment, which is being withheld by the National
Archives to protect the privacy of Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a
public figure running for president of the United States. Why would
her alleged privacy outweigh the public interest in a draft indictment
of her by federal prosecutors!
Ultimately, as an April 24, 1998, memo
suggests, prosecutors were persuaded that a jury would not convict
Clinton based upon circumstantial evidence. OIC attorney Paul
Rosenzweig wrote:
In a high profile case of this
sort, however, I think that some jurors are likely to put OIC to the
full measure of proof beyond a reasonable doubt and, in effect, insist
that circumstantial evidence is an inferior form of evidence on which
they cannot convict. Such a distinction would be "lawless" in a formal
sense, as contrary to their jury instructions - but we blink reality if
we do not expect this reaction to a primarily circumstantial high
profile case.
The prosecutor concluded:
Bottom
line: We can anticipate the following: 2% = Rule 29; 18% = Acquittal;
70%=Hung Jury; 10% = Conviction. Not enough in my view.
These
new Hillary Clinton prosecution memos are damning and dramatic.
Hillary Clinton's bank fraud, obstruction, lies, and other fraud began
in Arkansas, continued in the White House and actually accelerated
because the suicide of her friend Vincent Foster.
The memos
suggest that if she weren't First Lady, she would have been successfully
prosecuted in federal court. As we continue the court fight to get the
actual draft indictment of Hillary Clinton we first uncovered in this
investigation, Americans would do well to read these memos.
If
you want to understand the deplorable ethics and corruption at Hillary
Clinton's State Department, these documents provide important
background.
We have more on this topic coming soon, so be sure to
check in. In the meantime, you have a weekend's worth of educational
reading, as good as any potboiler, about the corruption of Hillary
Clinton (and her co-conspirator, Bill).
Links to the complete set of documents are available here:
Part one of "HRC Meeting" NARA Whitewater OIC document
Part two of "HRC Meeting" NARA Whitewater OIC document
Part three of "HRC Meeting" NARA Whitewater OIC document
Part four of "HRC Meeting" NARA Whitewater OIC document
Part five of "HRC Meeting" NARA Whitewater OIC document
Part six of "HRC Meeting" NARA Whitewater OIC document
NYPD Prioritizes Sensitivity toward Muslims over Public Safety
Advocates
for terrorists control the debate, and too often, the policies of how
to counter the threat from Islamic terrorism. These special interest
groups, ranging from the ACLU to terrorist fronts such as Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), have law enforcement on a leash. Our
Corruption Chronicles
blog reported the latest assault on our security in which the New York
City Police Department was targeted by the Left because of an effective
anti-terrorist program focused upon radical Muslims:
The
New York Police Department (NYPD) is the latest of several law
enforcement agencies-including the FBI-to succumb to the pressure of
Islamic groups demanding changes in anti-terrorism investigations and
training they claim discriminate against Muslims.
As part of a court settlement announced this month the NYPD will purge a highly acclaimed report (Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat)
that's proven to be a critical tool in terrorism investigations. The
NYPD will also limit the use of undercover officers and informants in
Muslim communities and create a policy that bans religious
discrimination. The department will "provide additional guidance to
police officers at part of a settlement of lawsuits accusing the NYPD of
improperly investigating Muslim groups," according to a statement
issued by the law enforcement agency. The change comes on the heels of
an increase in terrorism attacks by radicals associated with groups like
the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The settlement
stems from a 2013 lawsuit filed by three New York Muslims, two mosques
and a Muslim nonprofit accusing the NYPD of "discriminatory
surveillance" after 9/11. Muslim communities and their institutions
were singled out and officers and informants were deployed to mosques to
surveil innocent religious leaders and followers, the lawsuit alleges.
The department also employed invasive tactics to spy on area Muslims,
according to the complaint. The now-censored report "stigmatizes an
entire faith community and invites discrimination," the Muslim
plaintiffs claim in their suit. The 90-page NYPD report says that most
Islamic terrorists in the West start as "unremarkable people" who become
religious and radical in a four-stage process.
"Many of the
terrorist attacks or thwarted plots against cities in Europe, Canada,
Australia and the United States have been conceptualized and planned by
local residents/citizens who sought to attack their country of
residence," the 2007 NYPD report says. "The majority of these
individuals began as "unremarkable" - they had "unremarkable" jobs, had
lived "unremarkable" lives and had little, if any criminal history."
After the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, a New York newspaper
published a story
documenting how the brothers who carried out the attack fit the profile
of homegrown terrorists outlined in the NYPD's "prescient but
controversial" document.
The now-banned report was created to
provide law enforcement agencies and legislators with information
related to the operations of domestic terrorists after the 9/11 attacks.
It was put together by the NYPD Intelligence Division under former
police Commissioner Ray Kelly. The city's agreement to delete it from
the NYPD's website is a "blatant act of cowardliness,"
according to Patrick Dunleavy, the former deputy inspector general of
the New York State prisons' criminal intelligence division. Dunleavy
worked with the NYPD's intelligence division for several years and
assures there was no bias in the department's anti-terrorism work.
"Seeing the NYPD and city officials caving in to the demands of a few is
most disheartening," Dunleavy writes in a recently published piece.
This
appears to be a frightening trend that Judicial Watch has reported on
extensively in the last few years. Muslim rights groups, especially the
terrorist front organization CAIR, have proven they wield tremendous
power in the Obama administration. This is especially true when it comes
to the way the nation's law enforcement agencies conduct anti-terrorism
training. In fact, it was CAIR that got the FBI to purge anti-terrorism
material determined to be offensive to Muslims. Judicial Watch
uncovered that scandal a few years ago and obtained hundreds of pages of
FBI documents with details of the arrangement. JW also published a
special in-depth report in 2015.
CAIR and its allies also got several police departments in President Obama's home state of Illinois to cancel
essential counterterrorism courses over accusations that the instructor
was anti-Muslim. The course was called "Islamic Awareness as a
Counter-Terrorist Strategy" and departments in Lombard, Elmhurst and
Highland Park caved into CAIR's demands. Just a few months ago Islamic
activists got the FBI to suspend
a new internet program aimed at preventing the radicalization of youth
because Muslim and Arab rights groups determined that it discriminates
against Muslims and will lead to bullying, bias and religious profiling
of students.
This is one of those stories that makes
one ask: Is there anything our own public officials are doing now that
paid foreign agents hostile to the U.S. would do differently?Until next week...
 Tom Fitton President
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