Here they are: Hillary's 22 biggest scandals ever
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Hillary Clinton
During his 1992 campaign for the presidency, Bill Clinton was fond
of promising America, “You get two for the price of one,” indicating
Hillary Clinton would act as his co-president.
But the nation got much more than it bargained for, as the top
power couple brought a load of baggage with them into the White House
from their days in Arkansas.
After the Clintons moved into the presidential mansion, the
political scandals multiplied – from use of the IRS and FBI to target
political opponents to stalking and harassing subjects of Bill Clinton’s
sexual advances and even attempts to loot taxpayer-funded items from
the White House. Americans also witnessed capers such as Travelgate, Chinagate, Filegate and Pardongate.
Bill Clinton’s sexual escapades and subsequent impeachment by the
U.S. House of Representatives on charges of perjury and obstruction of
justice consumed more than a year of American public life and bitterly
divided the nation.
In the years since the memorable Clinton presidency, Hillary has
brought America Emailgate and the Benghazi scandal, among others. New developments in the Clinton Foundation scandals emerges almost daily.
1) Clintons turn IRS into ‘gestapo’
Few federal agencies are more feared and loathed by Americans than
the Internal Revenue Service – especially when corrupt presidents abuse
the power of the IRS to harass and exact revenge on political enemies. As WND has reported,
during Bill Clinton’s terms in office, IRS audits were conducted
against individuals and groups who caused problems for the
administration. Several prominent conservative groups found themselves
facing IRS audits following their criticism of the president and his
policies. Among the conservative groups targeted for audits were the
Heritage Foundation, the National Rifle Association, Concerned Women of
America, Citizens Against Government Waste, National Review, American
Spectator (which was burglarized three times), the National Center for
Public Policy Research, the American Policy Center, American Cause,
Citizens for Honest Government, Progress and Freedom Foundation, David
Horowitz’s Center for the Study of Popular Culture and the Western
Journalism Center.
Individuals singled out for audits during the administration
included Clinton paramours Gennifer Flowers and Liz Ward Gracen, sexual
assault accusers Paula Jones and Juanita Broaddrick, fired White House Travel Office Director Billy Dale
and attorney Kent Masterson Brown. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, an
outspoken critic of both Bill and Hillary Clinton, said he was audited
three times during the Clinton presidency.
A 1996 survey by the Washington Times could not identify a single liberal public policy organization that had been audited during the entire Clinton administration.
2) Covering Bill’s dirty deeds
The Clintons have been accused of hiring private investigators to
not only dig up dirt on perceived adversaries – such as Juanita
Broaddrick, the woman allegedly raped by Bill, and other abused women
such as Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones – but to
stalk, scare and threaten them. Willey asserts Hillary was behind a
campaign of intimidation and harassment against her that fit a pattern
employed against numerous other women whose claims of sexual impropriety
or assault by Bill Clinton threatened the couple’s political fortunes.
As WND reported, Willey
and her husband, Ed, were Democratic activists who founded Virginians
for Clinton and helped send Bill and Hillary to the White House in 1992.
While serving as a volunteer in the White House and facing financial
hard times, Willey says she met with Bill Clinton in the Oval Office to
request a paying position. But instead of getting help, she says, she
was subjected to “nothing short of serious sexual harassment.”
Distraught, Willey fled Clinton’s presence, only to discover that her
husband Ed had committed suicide that same tragic afternoon. Later, she
was drawn “unwillingly” into the Paula Jones lawsuit, the Ken Starr
investigation and impeachment proceedings.
Willey, author of the 2007 book, “Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton,”
has claimed the Clinton tag team used mob-style intimidation campaign
to keep her silent, even purportedly breaking into her home to steal her
memoirs of the events.
Kathleen Willey
Despite Bill’s 20 years of alleged and admitted extra-marital
relationships, Hillary famously came to his defense shortly after the
Monica Lewinsky affair broke in 1998. Asked about the accusations, the
then-first lady said, “Certainly, I believe they’re false. Absolutely.”
Then, in a memorable interview with the “Today” show’s Matt Lauer,
she explained years of accusations by women such as Willey, Gennifer
Flowers and Dolly Kyle Browning: “Bill and I have been accused of
everything, including murder, by some of the very same people who are
behind these allegations,” she said, pointing to a “vast right-wing
conspiracy. … So from my perspective this is part of a continuing
political campaign against my husband.”
Later, however, when placed under oath, Bill Clinton admitted to an
affair with Flowers, as he did with Lewinksy. But Hillary’s actions,
Willey contends, indicated by word and deed that her main concern was to
ensure her husband’s proclivities didn’t ruin their political careers.
In her book, Willey cites sources who contend Hillary began engaging private investigators
during their time in Arkansas so she could head off any repercussions
from her husband’s behavior. The first to be dispatched were her own
father and brother when she committed to marry Bill, according to author
Jerome Levin in “The Clinton Syndrome.” Bill had left Yale University
for Arkansas to teach law, and she went to work in Washington, D.C.
When Bill was governor, Hillary sent out a group of investigators
known at the “Truth Squad” to discourage many of her husband’s lovers
from going public.
3) Looting the White House
When the Clintons left 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2001, they reportedly vandalized and looted the White House. Hillary tried to ship furniture to the Clintons’ personal home in Chappaqua, New York.
The Clintons came under fire when they reportedly tried to take
$190,000 in gifts and furnishings from the presidential mansion.
Additionally, the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of
Congress, reported that ”damage, theft, vandalism and pranks did occur
in the White House complex” during the presidential transition from Bill
Clinton to George W. Bush – including the theft of a presidential seal.
According to the General Accounting Office, the cost of the White House
vandalism reached about $14,000 and included $4,850 to replace computer
keyboards with damaged or missing “W” keys. The agency said some of the
destruction was intentional, including glue smeared on desks, broken
furniture, offices full of trash and graffiti in a men’s restroom stall
that disparaged Bush. There were also missing doorknobs, medallions and
office signs.
During their time in the White House, the Clintons also reportedly auctioned off and sold taxpayer-financed government goods and services
in exchange for political campaign contributions and personal profit.
Among the items sold by the Clintons, which Judicial Watch uncovered in
various lawsuits, and the media and Congress in their investigations,
were: 1) seats on overseas trade missions; 2) export licenses for high
technology sales to communist China and elsewhere; 3) commissionerships
and judgeships; 4) rides on Air Force One; 5) overnight stays in the
White House’s Lincoln Bedroom; 6) graves at Arlington Cemetery; 7)
meetings with key Clinton-Gore administration leaders; and other favors.
The Clintons’ $1.7
million home in Chappaqua, N.Y., where Hillary attempted to send White
House furniture and other items as her husband left office in 2001
4) Filegate: FBI files on GOP enemies
The Clinton duo was involved in a scandal known as “Filegate” in which they illegally obtaining FBI files on perceived adversaries, most of whom served in previous Republican administrations.
“In an effort to discredit the women who charged President Clinton
with sexual misconduct, personal files and papers were illegally
obtained and released. The courts found, under the Privacy Act, that the
privacy of Linda Tripp and Kathleen Willey had been violated,” a Judicial Watch report said,
citing just a few of more than 900 relevant files. Judicial Watch said
Hillary had been linked “directly to the center” of the controversy.
The scandal was first detected by the House Government Reform and
Oversight Committee, which investigated the Clintons’ Travelgate caper.
The committee found that the FBI files had been improperly accessed by
Craig Livingstone, a former bar bouncer Hillary had hired to work in the
White House Counsel’s Office. However, Hillary called the whole affair a
“completely honest bureaucratic snafu.”
5) Hillary’s ‘Muslim Brotherhood princess’
Huma Abedin
Huma Abedin, who served as Hillary’s longtime deputy chief of staff
and has worked with her for nearly 20 years, has known ties to the
Muslim Brotherhood – a group bent on “destroying Western civilization
from within” – and other Islamic supremacists. As WND has extensively reported,
the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic supremacist connections not only
extend to Abedin’s mother and father, who are both deeply tied to
al-Qaida fronts, but to Abedin herself.
As WND reported,
a manifesto commissioned by the ruling Saudi Arabian monarchy places
the work of an institute that employed Abedin at the forefront of a
grand plan to mobilize U.S. Muslim minorities to transform America into a
Saudi-style Islamic state, according to Arabic-language researcher
Walid Shoebat.
Abedin was an assistant editor for a dozen years for the Journal of
Muslim Minority Affairs for the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs.
The institute – founded by her late father and currently directed by her
mother – is backed by the Muslim World League, an Islamic organization
in the Saudi holy city of Mecca that was founded by Muslim Brotherhood
leaders. The 2002 Saudi manifesto shows that “Muslim Minority Affairs” –
the mobilizing of Muslim communities in the U.S. to spread Islam
instead of assimilating into the population – is a key strategy in an
ongoing effort to establish Islamic rule in America and a global
Shariah, or Islamic law, “in our modern times.”
Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin
WND reported
Abedin also was a member of the executive board of the Muslim Student
Association, which was identified as a Muslim Brotherhood front group in
a 1991 document introduced into evidence during the terror-financing
trial of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation.
At her father’s Saudi-financed Islamic think tank, WND reported,
Abedin worked alongside Abdullah Omar Naseef, who is accused of
financing al-Qaida fronts. Naseef is deeply connected to the Abedin
family.
WND was first to report Huma’s mother, Saleha Abedin, was the official representative of Naseef’s terror-stained Muslim World League in the 1990s.
Shoebat previously reported that as one of 63 leaders of the Muslim
Sisterhood, the de facto female version of the Muslim Brotherhood,
Saleha Abedin served alongside Nagla Ali Mahmoud, the wife of Muslim
Brotherhood figure Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s now ousted president.
Saleha Abedin and Morsi’s wife both were members of the Sisterhood’s Guidance Bureau, Shoebat found.
WND also recently reported Abedin used emails hosted on HIllary’s private server while she was secretary of state.
6) Vince Foster’s 1993 death
Hillary and Vince Foster
Vince Foster was deputy White House counsel and Hillary’s friend
and law partner who had connections to the Travelgate and Whitewater
scandals. In 1993, Foster was found dead in a park with a fatal gunshot
wound to his mouth. As WND reported, his suicide was the subject of much speculation and three official investigations.
Investigations by the U.S. Park Police, the Department of Justice,
the FBI, Congress, Independent Counsel Robert B. Fiske and Independent
Counsel Kenneth Starr concluded Foster’s death was a suicide. However,
as WND reported in 2003,
one of Starr’s key investigators challenged the official line,
insisting the probe’s result was predetermined, only a few plotters were
required to engineer the result, the crime scene was altered and that
major newspaper editors killed stories by reporters pursuing the truth. The Washington Post reported
that federal investigators were not allowed to enter Foster’s office
after his death, but “White House aides enter[ed] Foster’s office
shortly after his death, giving rise to speculation that files were
removed from his office.”
In his 2005 book “The Truth about Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, And How Far She’ll Go to Become President,” Edward Klein wrote of Hillary’s involvement in the effort to remove Foster’s files:
The night of [Foster’s] death, Hillary launched one of the most shameful – and illegal – cover-ups of her entire career.She sent two of her most trusted White House loyalists – Maggie Williams, the First Lady’s chief of staff, and Patsy Thomasson, who was in charge of White House administration – into Foster’s office to retrieve embarrassing and incriminating documents related to Whitewater and Hillary’s other personal affairs. While White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum barred investigators from entering Foster’s office, Maggie Williams, Patsy Thomasson, and Craig Livingston, Hillary’s director of White House security, removed armloads of files and loose-leaf binders.“In addition, a White House staffer allegedly tampered with the titles of several memos and removed the First Lady’s initials in an effort to erase her role in improper behavior.”
7) Emailgate: ‘She should go to prison for this’
In March 2015, WND reported
Hillary kept all her official correspondence as secretary of state, as
well as her personal emails, on a private email server located at her
home – instead of using the government-mandated process while serving in
the high appointed position. Her email system was unsecured for months
while she used it for government business, and she did not sign a
standard agreement when she left office that promised she had left
government property behind.
The Hill reported
Hillary did not encrypt her private email service with a digital
certificate for the first three months of her tenure as secretary of
state.” That was while she was traveling to China, Egypt, Israel, Japan
and South Korea.
Several present and former members of the U.S. intelligence
community said Hillary’s private email server was a major security risk,
and America, going forward, ought to assume enemies of the state all
had access to it.
“The name Clinton right on the email handle meant this was not a
difficult find,” said John Schindler, a former National Security Agency
counterintelligence officer, Investors Business Daily reported.
In April, J. Michael Waller – a longtime consultant to government
entities ranging from the secretary of defense to the U.S. Senate to the
U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory – told WND the Russians hack
into the U.S. government, and so does any foreign intelligence worth its
salt, most likely through Hillary’s private server. Waller said Hillary deserves prison time for insisting on an email system that clearly left the nation vulnerable to attack.
“This is the national-security equivalent of drunken driving,” he
said. “She should go to prison for this. When you drink and drive, you
know in advance that you’re putting other people in danger. Yet, you
think because you’re so smart or so clever or just don’t care, that
nothing’s going to happen and then something does, so it’s your fault.
This is precisely what she did on the national security sphere.”
Hillary gave 55,000 emails from her private email account to the State Department in December. On March 10,
Clinton announced she had deleted 30,000 emails she considered
personal. She was warned by Congress way back in 2012 against using a
private email account for government business – and her response?
Silence.
8) Chinagate: Sale of high-tech secrets
Chinagate, documented by Judicial Watch,
was uncovered by Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman. Technology
companies allegedly made donations of millions of dollars to various
Democratic Party entities, including President Bill Clinton’s 1996
re-election campaign, in return for permission to sell high-tech secrets
to China. B
ernard Schwartz and his Loral Space & Communication Ltd. later
allegedly “helped China to identify the cause of [a rocket failure],
thereby advancing China’s missile program and threatening U.S. national
security,” according to records.
In a 2013 column titled “Proof Hillary isn’t fit to be president,” Klayman wrote:
Not to be outdone by her prior scandals, Hillary … masterminded a scheme whereby the Clinton-Gore presidential campaign of 1996 took bribes from communist Chinese banks and their government to bankroll the president’s and the Democratic Party’s re-election efforts when it appeared, due to their low standing in the polls, that all the stops needed to be pulled out. It was the lawsuit that I brought against Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, where at Hillary’s instruction, he literally sold seats on Department trade missions to China and elsewhere, which principally uncovered this. In late 1996 and early 1997, the scandal had burgeoned to such a level that joint congressional hearings were empaneled, ultimately to be shut down when Democrats uncovered illegal fundraising by some Republicans. The two parties, faced with mutual assured destruction, simply took an exit stage left. However, I soldiered on with my lawsuit. And, while I uncovered a lot about Bonnie and Clyde and their Chinese ‘friends,’ this scandal ultimately took back seat to the Monica Lewinsky scandal, since the media preferred sex to foreign espionage and graft. Hillary and Bill were ironically saved by Monica, who became the lightening rod drawing attention away to what at the time was perhaps the biggest scandal – Chinagate – in American history.
9) Travelgate: Always room for friends
In the Travelgate scandal, the staff of the White House travel
office was fired to make way for Clinton cronies, including Bill’s
25-year-old cousin, who was reportedly promised the position of office
director.
Hillary allegedly fired seven employees and gave the positions to her Arkansas friends. According to the Washington Post, there was an effort to award a White House airline contract to a Clinton friend.
Also, Hillary reportedly had the FBI investigate the former head of
the travel office, Billy Dale, who was fired without notice and removed
from White House grounds. Dale was charged with embezzlement but found
not guilty of the crime in 1995. He was later audited by the IRS.
10) Whitewater: Jail for friends, but not Clintons
The Whitewater investigation by independent counsel Kenneth Starr
began in 1994 with accusations of impropriety against the Clintons and
others concerning improper campaign contributions, political and
financial favors, and tax benefits. Its initial subject was a failed
Arkansas real-estate venture involving the Clintons in the 1980s that
was linked to the collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, a
Little Rock savings bank run by the Clintons’ Whitewater business
partners. Clinton friends James and Susan McDougal went to jail for
fraud (James died while serving his sentence), as did former Arkansas
Gov. Jim Tucker and municipal judges David Hale and Eugene Fitzhugh.
The probe eventually expanded to include the death of deputy White
House counsel Vincent Foster, the dismissal of White House travel office
employees, receipt by the White House of a number of FBI files and the
issue of whether President Clinton lied or obstructed justice to hide an
affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
11) ‘Landing under sniper fire’ in Bosnia
In her March 17, 2008, foreign-policy speech on Iraq, then-Sen.
Hillary Clinton recalled a trip she made to Tuzla, Bosnia, in 1996.
“I remember landing under sniper fire,” Hillary said of her visit
while she was first lady. “There was supposed to be some kind of a
greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads
down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
But news footage of her visit revealed her “sniper fire” claim
wasn’t just exaggerated. It was completely false. And Hillary had
repeated the claim several times, including during her time on the
presidential campaign trail in 2007.
Rather, Hillary landed on a tarmac and greeted a crowd, including
an 8-year-old child who gave her a poem, under no duress. According to
the Washington Post, a review of more than 100 news articles revealed no
security threats to Hillary at the time.
After the 2008 speech, Hillary was asked about her statements, and
she stood by them: “There was no greeting ceremony, and we basically
were told to run to our cars. Now that is what happened.”
But, a week later, Hillary told the Philadelphia Daily News that
she “misspoke.” Hillary claimed she had been told there was a threat of
sniper fire in the area.
The following day, she declared: “So I made a mistake. That happens. It shows I’m human, which for some people is a revelation.”
12) Hillary’s ‘missing’ law firm billing records
In 1994, federal investigators subpoenaed Hillary’s billing records
from her days as a partner in the Rose Law firm during the Watergate
scandal. The White House said it didn’t have the 115 pages of files.
While Hillary claimed she had a minor role in the affair, the Washington Examiner reported that “when the records mysteriously turned up in the White House in 1996, they showed she met repeatedly with key figures in the scandal.”
13) Pardongate: Hillary Senate contributions
Before Bill Clinton left the White House in 2001, he granted numerous controversial pardons – including to convicted tax evader Marc Rich, whose wife made significant contributions to Hillary’s 2000 Senate campaign and the Clinton presidential library.
The Associated Press reported that Rich had been “indicted by a
U.S. federal grand jury on more than 50 counts of fraud, racketeering,
trading with Iran during the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis and evading
more than $48 million in income taxes – crimes that could have earned
him more than 300 years in prison.” Rich fled to Switzerland in 1983
after his indictment and remained on the FBI’s Most Wanted List until
President Clinton pardoned him.
Also, Hillary’s brothers, Tony and Hugh Rodham, reportedly received
large amounts of money from people who were pardoned by Bill Clinton.
Hillary said she and Bill were unaware of the scheme.
Accuracy in Media reported,
“Hugh Rodham, Hillary’s brother, was taking money and promising access
to help get pardons. Two such high profile cases were those of drug
kingpin Carlos Vignali and convicted swindler Glenn Braswell. Rodham
received hundreds of thousands of dollars from each, and they were both
granted pardons. Rodham was quoted as telling a top White House aide
that the pardon for Vignali was ‘very important’ to Hillary.”
14) Hillary’s cash cows and 9,987 percent profit
In March 1994, it was revealed Hillary – with no previous
experience – had made massive profits from cattle futures trading
between 1978 and 1979, when Bill Clinton’s salary as Arkansas attorney
general had been modest. She reportedly made $99,537 in profit on a
$1,000 investment (a 9,987 percent profit) in just nine months because
of a highly placed connection at Tyson Foods, which was the largest
employer in Arkansas and a big Clinton donor.
The New York Times reported:
“During Mr. Clinton’s tenure as Governor, Tyson benefited from several
state decisions, including favorable environmental rulings, $9 million
in state loans, and the placement of company executives on important
state boards. … The commodities trades were the most successful
investment the Clintons ever made. The nearly $100,000 profit enabled
them to buy a house, invest in securities and real estate and provide a
nest egg for their daughter, Chelsea.”
15) Clinton body count: ‘You find dead people’
“The Clinton body count,”
first published in WND and later circulated by Linda Tripp to Monica
Lewinsky, is a collection of names of people associated with Clinton
administration scandals who have died mysterious and often violent
deaths. Reporter David Bresnahan broke the story of the list during the
summer of 1997 while researching his book, “Cover Up: The Art and
Science of Political Deception.”
“I started looking into all the various deaths of people that were
involved in various Clinton scandals,” Bresnahan said. “I started to
investigate the entire picture instead of just one focused event.
“Nobody out there was putting it all together,” he said. “If you
look at one scandal, you’ll find one dead guy. When you investigate all
Clinton scandals, you find similarities, you find common tactics, you
find common actions and you find dead people.”
The list was not just a source of terror among sworn enemies of the
administration. It was an even greater terror for those close to
Clinton – for those closest, it appeared, died younger and more
inexplicably than those on the outside looking in.
In his research, Bresnahan came up with more than one list.
“Not only did I find a list of dead people, but I also found that
there are over 100 people who have refused to testify,” he said at the
time.
“There is also a list of people who have gone to jail. There are 45
people who have gone to jail, some of them White House staff, Cabinet
members as well as people from the Justice Department. So many of those
(lists) developed when I started to pursue the big picture.”
Saul Alinsky
16) Hillary’s radical pal, Saul Alinsky
As WND has reported,
the exact nature and extent of Hillary’s relationship with radical
community organizer Saul Alinsky has long been the subject of
speculation and intrigue. The interest has been largely fueled by her
suppressed and later released 92-page senior thesis for Wellesley
College offering an extensive, largely positive critique of Alinsky and
his work.
WND recently found that long after Alinsky’s death in June 1972, a
group Clinton co-chaired maintained a working relationship with
Alinsky’s main community organizing outfit, the Industrial Areas
Foundation, or IAF.
The partnership extended into the 1990s and yielded influence over
the education policy of the Clinton presidency. Dick Morris, a former
top political adviser to Bill Clinton both as governor of Arkansas and
as president, noted to WND that education reform “is the key issue
Hillary Clinton used to propel herself independently to the forefront of
Arkansas politics during Bill’s governorship.”
“The revelation of how closely linked her efforts were back in the
80s – and have been since – to an Alinsky radical front group is deeply
disturbing and expands our understanding of Hillary’s fundamental
radicalism and commitment to the new left of Saul Alinsky,” Morris said.
Hillary Rodham in
1965, when she was president of Wellesley College’s Young Republicans,
shown here with the cover page of her senior thesis from 1969 on radical
organizer Saul Alinsky
Hillary was said to have met with Alinsky several times in 1968,
when she was writing her thesis. In her most recent memoir, Hillary
wrote that she rejected a job offer from Alinsky to instead attend law
school.
The Hillary-Alinsky relationship received more media attention last September, when the Washington Free Beacon uncovered direct correspondence between Clinton and Alinsky
from the archives of Alinsky’s IAF. The correspondence dates to the
summer of 1971, when the 23-year-old Clinton was living in Berkeley,
California, and interning at the law firm Treuhaft, Walker and
Burnstein. In a July 8, 1971, letter to Alinsky marked “personal,”
Hillary wrote: “Dear Saul, When is that new book [Rules for Radicals]
coming out – or has it come and I somehow missed the fulfillment of
Revelation?
“I have just had my one-thousandth conversation about Reveille [for
Radicals] and need some new material to throw at people,” she wrote,
referring to a 1948 Alinsky treatise on community organizing.
The Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman noted the letter documents Hillary
and Alinsky had kept in touch since she entered Yale and that Alinsky
even offered her advice on campus activism.
Hillary wrote that she missed their regular conversations and asked
if Alinsky would be able to meet her the next time he was in
California.
“I am living in Berkeley and working in Oakland for the summer and
would love to see you,” she wrote. “Let me know if there is any chance
of our getting together.”
17) Hillary laughs about defending child rapist
Hillary Clinton in 1975, the year she defended 41-year-old Thomas Alfred Taylor, who had been accused of raping a 12-year-old child
As WND reported,
Hillary explained her defense of a child-rape suspect as just part of
the job. But she hasn’t explained her laughing about his passing of a
lie-detector test, which “destroyed” her faith in such evaluations.
“Once I was appointed I fulfilled that obligation,” she said in an interview with Mumsnet, a U.K. community of parents providing and sharing information on a variety of subjects and issues.
In the video she is asked, “As a lawyer, you defended the rapist of
a 12-year-old girl, calling the victim ’emotionally unstable’ and
saying that girls have a tendency to ‘exaggerate or romanticize sexual
experiences especially when they come from disorganized families.'”
Comments?
Clinton said: “When I was a 27-year-old attorney doing legal aid
work at the law school where I taught in Fayetteville, Arkansas, I was
appointed by the local judge to represent a criminal defendant accused
of rape. I asked to be relieved of that responsibility. But I was not
and I had a professional duty to represent my client to the best of my
ability, which I did.
“He later pled guilty to a lesser included offense. When you’re a
lawyer you often don’t have the choice as to who you will represent, and
by the very nature of criminal law there will be those who you
represent you don’t approve of, but at least in our system, you have an
obligation and once I was appointed, I fulfilled that obligation.”
However, she did not address the reports of unearthed recordings
in which she almost boasts of knowing of her client’s guilt and
laughing about the case. The tapes reveal her discussing the case of
Thomas Alfred Taylor, then 41, who was accused of raping a 12-year-old
in Springdale, Arkansas, on May 10, 1975.
“It was a fascinating case, it was a very interesting case,” Clinton said on the tape. “This
guy was accused of raping a 12-year-old. Course he claimed that he
didn’t, and all this stuff. … I had him take a polygraph, which he
passed – which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs.” She laughed at
the statement.
Listen to the audio of the interview. (Warning: Description of the case may disturb some listeners):
The Washington Free Beacon report on the recordings also confirmed
she was laughing several other times while discussing the case,
including “when discussing the crime lab’s accidental destruction of DNA
evidence that tied Taylor to the crime.”
Published profiles of the case reveal that
Clinton’s strategy at the time was to attack the 12-year-old. She
submitted an affidavit that said she was told the girl was “emotionally
unstable” and was viewed as having a “tendency to seek out older men and
engage in fantasizing.” She claimed the child “in the past made false
accusations” and she exhibited “an unusual stubbornness and temper when
she does not get her way.”
The woman who says she was raped by the defendant blasted Hillary
in 2014, accusing her of intentionally lying about her in court
documents. “Hillary Clinton took me through hell,” she told the Daily Beast.
18) Hill ca$hes in: Iranian fundraising
Former Clinton fundraiser Hassan Nemazee received a 12-year prison sentence in 2010
As WND recently reported,
Hillary received funds from an arm of the Iranian government and hired a
convicted Iranian-American multimillionaire with ties to Tehran as her
national campaign finance director in 2008. The Bill, Hillary, and
Chelsea Clinton Foundation accepted $30,000 between April 2005 and March 2006 and another contribution of between $25,000 and $50,000 in 2008
from the New York-based Alavi Foundation, which U.S. government
prosecutors have identified as an arm of the Iranian government.
For her 2008 presidential campaign, Clinton hired Hassan Nemazee as her national campaign finance director,
who was known for his efforts to normalize relations with the
theocratic Iranian regime. In 2010, Nemazee pleaded guilty to running a
Ponzi scheme in which he obtained $292 million in fraudulent loans. He
was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy,
spelled out the problem with the Clinton Foundation receiving funds from
the Alavi Foundation in a Jan. 5, 2009, article published by Forbes.
“Alavi’s contribution [in 2008] to Clinton came just two days after
the Treasury Department also designated Alavi’s partner, the New
York-based Assa Corp., as a terrorist entity, and the New York Southern
District’s attorney seized and forfeited its assets,” Ehrenfeld wrote.
19) Clinton Foundation: Scandals keep coming
As WND reported,
the Clintons appear to have siphoned off tens of millions of dollars
annually from funds the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation
has received from a United Nations-sponsored program that uses levies on
airline tickets to help HIV/AIDs victims in the Third World, charges
Wall Street analyst and investor Charles Ortel. The Clinton Foundation
also reportedly distributed useless drugs to AIDS patients in Third-World countries.
Although Hillary was appointed to the board of directors of the
Clinton Foundation in 2013, after she had resigned as secretary of
state, Ortel contends she is complicit in what he has described as systematic financial fraud warranting a criminal investigation.
After months of tedious investigation, Ortel has concluded the
foundation has filed financial and tax forms that were materially
misleading, incomplete and in error with the goal of enriching the
Clintons and their close associates. Ortel alleges Hillary advanced an
“inurement” scheme – enriching oneself through a nonprofit organization –
in complicity with her husband by positioning various key associates
within the Clinton Foundation structure while she served as U.S. senator
from New York and subsequently as secretary of state under President
Obama.
“Ongoing analysis of legally required public disclosures reveals
that while Mrs. Clinton served as director, the Clinton Foundation and
its principal constituent elements, filed false and materially
misleading tax returns with the IRS and with other governmental
authorities, for multiple years,” Ortel charges in his second report on
alleged Clinton Foundation mismanagement.
As WND also recently reported,
based on Ortel’s findings, a prominent lawyer and a top government
watchdog in the nation’s capital are calling for the Clinton Foundation
to be shut down.
In April, the New York Times reported, “Cash flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians pressed for control of uranium company.”
Hillary has said, “I am very proud of the work the Foundation
does,” but just 9 percent of the Foundation’s money went to charity in
2013. Fox News’ John Stossel noted,
“Charity Navigator, the biggest charity rating service, won’t even list
the Clinton Foundation in its rankings. This is repulsive. If a
Republican candidate ran a charity that did that, it would be a scandal.
But the Clintons must be immune.”
WND reported Sunday that before Hillary completed her first year as President Obama’s secretary of state, Ortel calculates $17 million went missing from Clinton Foundation financial reports.
The New York Post recently reported
Hillary’s former chief of staff and counselor, Cheryl Mills, “knows
where the bodies are buried” in many Clinton scandals, has been at
Hillary’s side since the 1990s and “has a long track record of hiding
Clinton documents.” According to the Post, Hillary gave her the job of
“identifying and preserving all emails that could potentially be federal
records.” The Post added, “And, presumably, deleting.” Mills, who has
officially been accused of perjury and obstruction of justice, is a key
member of the Clinton Foundation board.
20) Benghazi: 4 American lives lost
On Sept. 11, 2012, while Hillary was secretary of state, Islamic
militants attacked a U.S. special mission in Benghazi, Libya, and
murdered U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service
Information Management officer Sean Smith. Two CIA contractors, Tyrone
Woods and Glen Doherty, were also killed.
In the months leading up to the attack, Hillary’s State Department
cut security in Libya. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., accused Hillary of
“dereliction of duty” that led to the deaths of the four Americans.
“The State Department not only failed to honor repeated requests
for additional security, but instead actually reduced security in
Libya,” Johnson wrote in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
“Although no one can say with certainty, I firmly believe a relatively
small contingent of armed military guards would have prevented the
attack, and those four lives would not have been lost.”
As WND reported,
a security decision finalized personally by Hillary may have
unwittingly doomed the Americans in Benghazi. Hillary herself signed
waivers that allowed the facility to be legally occupied, since it did
not meet the minimum official security standards set by the State
Department. The waiver legally allowed the CIA annex to be housed in a
location about one mile from the U.S. special mission.
According to accounts from Benghazi survivors, the delayed response
time by those at the CIA annex may have cost the lives of Stevens and
the three other Americans killed at the special mission. If the CIA
annex had been co-located with the U.S. special mission, a rapid
response team would have been on site during the initial assault in
which Stevens was killed. Clinton’s waiver allowed the CIA annex to be
housed at the separate location.
Hillary Clinton testifying on the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack
As WND also reported, State Department emails show Clinton knew while the attack was under way that it was being carried out by terrorists.
Judicial Watch has obtained previously classified documents
from the U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of State
revealing that DOD almost immediately reported that the attack on the
U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was planned and carried out by
al-Qaida and Muslim Brotherhood-linked terrorists. A federal court
ordered the government hand over more than 100 pages of previously
secret documents that showed then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and
other senior Obama officials were given reports within hours of the
Sept. 11, 2012, attack. In those memos, the DOD described details of a
plan 10 days in advance “to kill as many Americans as possible.”
Nonetheless, Hillary falsely blamed it on “rage and violence over
an awful Internet video” when she spoke at a ceremony at Andrews Air
Force Base on Sept. 14, 2012, as the remains of the four Americans were
returned to the U.S.
To this day, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., says the State Department has failed to comply with requests for information about Benghazi.
21) Peter Franklin Paul: Another Hillary friend goes to prison
Hillary Clinton greets Peter Paul at Hollywood gala in August 2000 (Courtesy Peter F. Paul)
As WND reported, Hillary was named in a lawsuit brought by Peter Franklin Paul
for allegedly directing to her 2000 Senate campaign an illegal, in-kind
contribution from Paul that included a fundraiser at the exclusive
Spago restaurant in Beverly Hills, a tea hosted at the Beverly Hills
home of socialite Cynthia Gershman and a lavish, A-list,
million-dollar-plus Hollywood gala honoring Bill Clinton. At the trial
of Clinton’s finance director for the 2000 senatorial campaign, David
Rosen, the government told the jury Paul personally gave more than $1.2
million to produce the events.
Paul, a former business partner of Spider-Man creator Stan Lee who sued Bill for fraud and accused Hillary of hiding nearly $2 million in Senate campaign donations,
alleged they sabotaged the media company he formed with Lee to get out
of a $17 million agreement made with Bill Clinton to serve as an
international promoter for the company after he left the White House.
Paul was indicted in June 2001 for manipulating the price of the stock
in his company, Stan Lee Media, as it was collapsing. A judge determined
Paul didn’t profit from the attempt to save his company, but he
accepted a plea bargain and served three years in prison. WND reported in 2012
that Paul charged Attorney General Eric Holder and his Justice
Department obstructed justice by reneging on a sentencing agreement.
“Hillary is carrying out her promise to finally destroy my family
to punish me for exposing the corruption that elected her to the
Senate,” Paul told WND at the time.
The Clintons were effusive in their praise of Paul
until just days after an August 2000 Hollywood gala, when the
Washington Post reported Paul’s 1970s criminal convictions in a story
that accused the senator of being soft on crime. Clinton continued, however, to quietly solicit money from Paul and sent him letters expressing friendship.
Paul has extensive video corroborating his contention he and Hillary
spent hours together and sat next to each other at the fundraising
events.
22) Watergate: Fired for being a ‘liar’
Hillary actually played a role in the Watergate saga, and her actions as a young attorney may have set the tone for her career.
The 27-year-old Clinton was fired from the staff of the House Judiciary committee investigating the Watergate scandal in 1974. She was fired by her supervisor, lifelong Democrat Jerry Zeifman, who called her a liar and much worse.
“She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer,” he said. “She conspired
to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the
committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
Zeifman also refused to give Clinton a letter of recommendation,
making her one of only three employees he snubbed during his 17-year
career.
Hillary Clinton and Princess Lalla Meryem wearing Moroccan caftan
Bonus!
Gift-gate:
Hillary blasted former Clinton adviser Dick Morris when he alleged in a
New York Post article that the former first lady hadn’t disclosed “three
or four” pricey handbags from designer Judith Leiber worth more than
$3,000 each, five dresses received from the king of Morocco (one of
which Hillary was seen wearing), a gold bracelet Chelsea Clinton
accepted in India and other gifts Hillary was given during the Clinton
administration.
Morris wrote, “Hillary Clinton got many expensive and personal
gifts during her eight years as first lady and never disclosed them.”
A Clinton aide acknowledged the handbags were given to Hillary,
but he said one was received before the inauguration, another was
listed on a 1994 disclosure form and others were turned over to the
National Archives. He said four dresses were returned to the king, and
Hillary gave the fifth dress to the National Archives after she wore it.
The aide claimed the bracelet was also sent to the National Archives.
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