Bill Clinton: Bill Clinton will probably be remembered as the most
corrupt president in American history. Aside from being the ONLY
popular elected president ever impeached, Bill Clinton's legacy extends
to little more than widespread rococco corruption. On this page we look
at the great events (scandals) of the Clinton presidency and what they
involve.
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Whitewater:
Most of Clinton's involvement in the Whitewater scandal took place
while Clinton was governor of Arkansas. Whitewater is the name given
to the alleged banking and real estate scandals of Clinton and his friends.
After money loss and a failed real estate venture, an illegal method to
recover the losses was conceived. The scandal involves Clinton allegedly
pressuring Arkansas Small Business Administration (SBA) worker David Hale
into making an SBA loan to Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan. The
money from the loan was then funneled out with cashier checks and personal
accounts (many under false names) to pay for Clinton's debts from the failed
Whitewater land project. In other words, tax dollars bailed Bill and Hillary
out of a financial crisis after illegal means were used to acquire them.
Cattlegate:
This scandal involves Hillary's investment
of approximately $1,000 in cattle futures. Not much later $100,000
had been "earned." In other words, Hillary invested a small amount
of money and made a several thousand percent profit from it under very
questionable circumstances.
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Nannygate:
An early scandal about Zoe Baird's business relations
with illegal immigrants effectively stopped Clinton's first Attorney General
nominee.
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Helicoptergate:
David Watkins, at the time a Clinton aide, used
the presidential helicopter to make golf trips. Each use of the Helicopter
cost taxpayers thousands.
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Travelgate:
The Clintons fired seven white house travel
office employees in favor of hire cousins and friends. The employees
were lifelong employees in good standing. After stating no other
reason for the firings than the employees were viewed as disloyal to the
administration, officials began to question the White House. Soon
after the firings were questioned, the White House allegedly used the FBI
to investigate the employees then attempted to ruin the worker's reputation
by making the fact of an FBI investigation public. Travel employees
ended up spending their life savings defending themselves in court against
the false charges. Further investigation revealed that former travel
office chief Billy Dale's FBI file was among the nine hundred plus requested
files of Filegate.
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Gennifer Flowersgate:
In 1992 Clinton denied a 12 year affair
with Gennifer Flowers. She taped phone calls with him but he claimed they
were false. After appearing on television branding Flowers a liar
and strongly denying the relation, Clinton has again changed his story.
Now he has admitted to at least some of the affair. It ironically
turns out Clinton is the liar (big suprise). How can we trust this
guy?
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Filegate:
This Clinton scandal involves the discovery
of over 900 Republican FBI files in the White House. Files of former
Secretary of State James Baker, former National Security Advisor Brent
Scowcroft, and Newt Gingrich's spokesman Tony Blankley were found to be
on this list. Upon the discovery of these files, the White
House issued an excuse claiming that the files were mistakenly requested
by a White House employee working with an outdated list. They were
called a simple "snafu." Investigations into Filegate revealed that
not a common White House worker but the President's friend and close advisor,
Anthony Marceca, had requested the files. When the presidency starts
illegally compiling an enemies list it is a sure sign he is not fit to
serve office and that, just maybe, a crime has been committed.
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Vince Fostergate:
Soon after Clinton lawyer Vince Foster committed
suicide under mysterious circumstances, his office was cleared out.
Along with his office went the Whitewater billing records and several key
pieces of evidence. Evidence suggests that Clinton associate Bernard
Nussbaum purposely delayed access to the office to investigators.
Not to mention the mysterious suicide in which there is some hint that
evidence was tampered with. Witnesses have testified they saw Clinton
aides clearing the supposedly sealed office.
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I wonder where those whitewater billing
records came fromgate:
Years after they had disappeared from Vince fosters
office, subpoenaed Whitewater billing records appeared in the White House.
In January of 1996 an aide stumbled across them sitting on a table in the
White House. They couldn't have been sitting their all these years
unnoticed. Hillary's finger prints were on them.
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Paula Jonesgate:
Paula Jones sued Bill Clinton after alleging
he exposed himself to her in an Arkansas hotel room. After inviting
her to what was supposed to be a promotion. Jones claims she was
pressured by Clinton as he made advances on her. Though the administration
has fought the entire way, refusing to cooperate with investigation while
constantly attacking Jones's credibility, the case has been successful
in revealing many more scandals of the Clinton presidency. Although the
case was thrown out recently, it was successful in uncovering several other
of Clinton's affairs as well as declaring that the president is not above
the law (supreme court). More may come of this one with an
appeal. Now that the Supreme Court has specifically defined sexual
harassment, the Jones case has a good chance of coming back! Clinton
has also become the first US president cited for contempt of court.
His testimony under oath was ruled as both false and designed to be
evasive and obstruct the course of the Paula Jones case. Clinton faces
being disbarred and a potential of over a million dollars in fines due
to this contempt charge.
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Federal Building Campaign Phone Callgate:
Algore made over 75 illegal phone calls to solicit
contributions to the DNC from federal property yet Janet Reno refuses to
investigate it further. Janet Reno launched another investigation
of these phone calls. Note: soliciting campaign donations from federal
property is illegal in America. Why does Algore get away with breaking
the law?
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Lincoln Bedroomgate:
DNC donors were allowed to spend the night in the
Lincoln bedroom for a contribution of $150,000. Make your reservations
now by contacting the Gore 2000 campaign. I'm sure Bill will help
out his friend on the campaign. This just proves that the White House
is for sale. See the names here
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White House Coffeegate:
Another donations prize for the $50,000 range. Over 100
coffee visits have been confirmed. These visits gave the DNC over
$25 million. See the names here
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Donations from convicted drug and weapons
dealersgate:
The Clintons and Algore were photographed on numerous
occasions meeting with drug ring leader Jorge Cabrera at fundraiser events.
Other Clinton donations came from a convicted illegal arms dealer, Chinese
government agents, and many other drug smugglers. Many photographs
only reconfirm this data
Buddhist Templegate:
Algore attended a money funneling event/fundraiser
for the DNC at a buddhist temple then claimed he never knew about it being
a fundraiser. Buddhist monks were used in a money funneling scam
to the DNC. This could be big
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Web Hubbell hush moneygate:
This scandal involves what seems to be extra income
from a mysterious source. Web Hubbell supposedly received certain payments
after he had been convicted for crimes in other Clinton scandals.
Though much of this remains to be investigated, some theories tie the Lippo
Group into this scandal. Though this one is in early stages of investigation,
knowing the Clinton administrations past history, anything could come of
this. Keep on the lookout for more on this one.
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Lippogate:
The term given to the illegal foreign donations
to Clinton from the Indonesian Lippo group. A total of $452,000 in illegal
donations was given to the DNC. Other evidence suggests that the Lippo
group has ties to Clinton friend and convict Web Hubbell. John Huang,
a Clinton cronie and former Commerce department official with top level
FBI clearance - even for several months after his dismissal from his post
- pled guilty to funneling Lippo group and Chinese donations. Unfortunately
for Bill, foreign campaign contributions are illegal.
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Chinagate:
Attempts were made by Communist China to
funnel money to the Clinton campaign and influence elections in 1996.
Charlie Trie, one of Bills trusted DNC fundraisers, attempted to funnel
this money. When faced with indictment he fled to China for refuge.
Another money funneler for the communists and Clinton campaign, Johnny
Chung, is now in jail. The funds came from divisions of the Chinese
army, one of which had been caught only months earlier while attempting
to smuggle AK-47's to LA street gangs. This is the government of
RED CHINA - definitely a serious matter. If any scandals do catch up with
him, which probably will happen, this is by far the worst. Amidst
the sex scandals another DNC fundraiser scandal, Johnny Chung, openly admitted
to knowingly taking funds from the Chinese government. Chung also
testified that the DNC knew the source of this money was communist China.
They accepted it anyway. The money is said to have been funneled
through Chinese government official Liu Chao-ying then Chung and
then to the DNC. Even more revealing was that Liu Chao-ying, daughter
of Liu Hauqing (recent head of the Chinese military and top official of
the Chinese communist party) and a Peoples Liberation Army and Chinese
space agency official, attended a DNC fundraiser. Here she was photographed
with Clinton. Chung also visited the White House over 45 times.
Chung took several thousand dollars from commies and contributed them to
a partisan candidate for President of the United States and leader of the
free world. Chung was only a powerful campaign contributer/supporter
with ties to the DNC and White House. Johnny Chung testified under
oath to Congress on his admitted relations with the Chinese Commies and
the ties to the President. Ironically Chung is one of a very small
number of people who had greater White House access than Monica Lewinsky!
Chung is said to have made over 50 visits compared to Monica's 39! Even
better, only a week later Charlie Trie entered a guilty plea for his fundraising
crimes and agreed to talk with investigators! Who next? Well it happened
to be John Huang! Huang, another Clinton cronie, pled guilty to funneling
Chinese funds less than a week after Trie! Well, at least we know
the commies endorse Bill Clinton for president.
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IRS Tax auditgate:
Though the IRS has long been a political
tool, major abuses for political reason have a link to the Clinton presidency.
Remember that this is a presidency that at one time was compiling an enemy
list with 900 illegally requested FBI files - all of which were of Republicans.
Several conservative groups have been subjected to IRS probes in recent
years. The strange part arises, however, when comparison is made
to groups of the left. These "random" investigations, almost all
of which produced no results, included many conservative groups and no
liberal groups. Some organizations targeted by the probes were the
NRA, a political foundation of Oliver North's, and The Heritage Foundation.
Many other groups and businesses have alleged that they were monitored
through devices such as phone taps. Though it may seem skeptical,
I would not put anything past this administration. Oddly enough,
the democrats get away with millions in illegal foreign campaign donations.
It would seem the IRS would find at least an opportunity in this area!
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Zippergate/interngate - the Lewinsky
affair itself:
Monica Lewinsky made 37 visits to the White House
AFTER she left to another job. She admitted in taped phone calls
to a long affair with Bill Clinton in the oval office. Her account
has only been reinforced by an immunity agreement in which she gave testimony
of the affair. Also suggested was that Bill Clinton gave her instructions
to hide the matter. A Secret service agent testified of escorting
her to Clinton. Lewinsky turned over a stained dress from which
DNA has positively traced the stain to Bill Clinton. Also turned
over were answering machine tapes and a photograph. Bill Clinton
admitted to a relationship, one he long denied, on August 17, 1998.
In doing so he destroyed his credibility and let down all who had spent
the previous seven months defending him. It takes a great arrogance
to think of oneself as above the law. Bill Clinton has been impeached
for lying in grand jury deposition and for obstruction of justice in attempt
to coverup as a direct result of this scandal.
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Willeygate:
Lifelong Democrat Kathleen Willey has directly accused
President Clinton of fondling her in the White House then attempting to
hide it. Why would a Clinton supporter attack Clinton? She
did appear on national TV and accuse the leader of the free world of fondling
her and then pressuring her to lie about it. It's the word Bill Clinton,
a president who has a reputation for lying, verses the word of Kathleen
Willey, a Democrat and enthusiastic Clinton supporter who would have little
reason to attack him (not to mention the word of several others with whom
the president has been accused by).
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Web Hubbell prison phone callgate:
This scandal surrounds Web Hubbell, former
bureaucrat, ,Clinton friend and partner, and convicted criminal.
While in prison, Hubbell was taped making phone calls in which methods
to achieve pardon and evidence on other Clinton scandals was discussed.
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Selling Military Technology to the Chinese
Commiesgate:
Essentially, Bill Clinton has given military
technology to Communist China. This information included satellite
guidance technology and enough information for communist China to modernize
their nuclear arsenal. Reports suggest that China has missiles positioned
to where they could attack us. Chinese missile weapon technology
has greatly improved due to Clintons "gift." Keep in mind that a
guidance chip was also found missing from an American satellite that crashed
on take off over China. The military is investigating who removed
it since the crash site was blockaded for several hours following the crash
- restricted to Chinese officials. Launching our satellites on Chinese
rockets from communist China? Another Clinton policy. Remember also that
this all came out just as Clinton and the Chinese dismissed investigations
into the "China Scandals" as groundless. I think Johnny Chung proves
otherwise. Many investigations are underway with the most recent
being the Cox report which revealed that China was actively spying on the
United States and had been stealing top secret nuclear weapons plans for
two decades. Worse, Clinton was informed of the espionage problem months
and years in advance of it breaking to the public yet did absolutely nothing
about it and even continued to transfer other technology and pursue close
relations with China! Maybe the commies finally received something
in return for all the campaigning and donations they made to Bill's reelection.
This is yet another to keep your eye on.
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Illegal Funds for Advertisementsgate:
On Janet Reno decided investigate evidence that
Bill Clinton wrongly used DNC funds to bypass spending limits on 1996 campaign
advertisement. Again Reno faultered to pressure from Democrats by
refusing to appoint an investigator. This matter needs to be investigated
but it is up to Congress now. Similar measures involving Al
Gore are also under investigation.
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Coverup for our Russian Comrades as Wellgate:
This recently revealed "snafu" involves a CIA memo
that was sent to Algore's office. The memo included evidence of major
corruption in Russian leadership. It was returned with little more
than a post it note telling the CIA that Gore didn't want to here about
it right now. The reports included charges that former Russian Prime
Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin used many illegal means for personal gain.
Chernomyrdin is said to have charged $1 million for a meeting with a German
businessman. The CIA set aside the evidence that this event occurred
because of Gore's dismissal of the earlier reports. So power is being
sold by the same guys we give massive aide checks to? Then again
selling power is not a crime according to the Clinton administration.
I don't see any difference between this incident and the '96 coffee breaks.
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Wag-the-Dog-gate:
This applies to the repeated use of the United States
military to draw attention away from the presidential impeachment and expulsion
proceedings. Please make no mistake. All of the listed actions
are fully justified. Their timing, however, has been manipulated to suit
Bill Clinton's desire to use them as a political bailout tool. Three
incidents where Clinton has used military action to divert press attention
have occurred. The second was simply a use of timing as given. The
first and third actions were manuevered to occur when they fit Clinton
best politically.
Yet another female indescretion from Clinton's Arakansas
history! Jaunita Broaddrick, a former Clinton campaigner in Arkansas, appeared
on national television and accused Clinton of raping her in the late seventies.
Again we have the word of an ordinary citizen with past allegiance to Clinton
as a campaign worker faced against a proven perjurer and chronic liar with
a long history of adultery and womanizing. Congratulations to the
Democrats in the Senate! You just acquited an apparant rapist!
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The most recent in a series of scandals involving
PBS soliciting donor lists to liberal activist groups directly involves
the Clinton administration. In at least three cases it has been discovered
that PBS recieved donor lists to solicit directly from the Clinton-Gore
1996 campaign, a violation of federal law. This issue alone has greatly
damaged PBS's credability while placing the question of federal funding
for PBS under severe scrutiny. As of now, the administration has refused
to answer any questions about the matter
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Email-gate:
The Whitehouse email system apparantly contained
a glitch that allowed thousands of emails to escape record, many of which
were evidence to other Clinton scandals. The nature of this glitch was
allegedly undisclosed so as to hide email evidence from investigators
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Vandalgate:
Before leaving the White House, members of the Clinton
administration, particularly the Vice Presidents office, are reported to
have vandalized the Whitehouse as a "prank" on the incoming Republican
administration. Democrats have tried to downplay this scandal and dismiss
it as false, but the fact remains that several pranks did occur including
the removal of "W" keys off computer keyboards. This prompted office supply
companies to donate replacement keyboards and keys. Elsewhere the Clinton
staffers wrote lewd messages on door nameplates and left their trash including
pizza boxes (perfectly fitting for the Clinton administration) in the offices.
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Looter-gate:
Bill and Hillary Clinton left the Whitehouse with
their pockets full - full of silverware, furniture, and pretty much everything
else they could grab that wasn't theirs. Included was a multi thousand
dollar furniture set belonging to the interior department, which the Clintons
had tried to claim as a gift before being forced to return it under pressure
and outrage.
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Pardongate:
On the night before and morning of his departure
from office, Bill Clinton made several controversial "midnight" pardons.
Aside from pardoning political allies and scandal co-conspirators such
as Susan McDougal, Henry Cisneros, and his brother Roger, Bill pardoned
fugitive criminal millionaire Marc Rich. Rich was charged in the early
eighties with several felony offenses but fled to Switzerland to avoid
facing trial. Among Rich's crimes were oil deals with Iran during the hostage
crisis and ties to arms smuggling. Amazingly, Clinton completely disregarded
pardon protocol in the Rich case and failed to properly inform many authorities
in the justice department of Rich's fugitive status. The story becomes
more interesting considering that Marc Rich's ex wife Denise, who fought
for his pardon, is a close Clinton friend and DNC donor. Denise Rich gave
$1 million in contributions to the DNC, $450,000 to Bill Clinton's library
fund, and $70,000 to Hillary Clinton's senate campaign according to the
Washington Times (2/22/00). The Rich pardon appears to be a political pay
off and, though the president may constitutionally pardon anyone, it appears
he abused his authority in a quid pro quo pardon in exchange for political
donations. Clinton's pardon of Rich has prompted criticism from even the
most liberal Clinton defenders and several prominent Democrats. Former
President Carter called the pardon "disgraceful" while Senator Tom Harkin
and even Rep. Barney Frank criticized it!
But that is by no means all. Hillary Clinton's brother
Hugh Rodham was paid over $400,000 dollars for successfully fighting for
pardons and commutations for criminals Carlos Vignali and Almon Glenn Braswell,
two included in Clinton's last minute pardons and commutations list. Upon
the eve of this story breaking, Hillary and Bill denied any knowledge of
Hugh's involvement and, under pressure, called on him to return the money.
Translation: they got caught.
Clintongate:
The administration can only be accurately described
by this one word.
Haircutgate:
Bill Clinton held up LA international airport traffic
for hours while receiving a $200 haircut aboard Air Force One. While this
is more of an embarrassment than scandal, it is included to show another
aspect of the administration
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Hillary talks with Eleanor Rooseveltgate:
Amidst the scandals, it was discovered that Hillary
Clinton hired a "psychic" and attempted to "talk" with Eleanor Roosevelt.
Quite an unusual method of going about a scandal.
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Burgergate:
Bill Clinton, in late 1997, made a claim that he
has not "eaten at McDonald's a single time" since he has become president.
Soon to follow were several news reports that showed pictures and video
clips of Clinton in McDonald's restaurants. This guy will lie about
anything!
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Extra: Who is Joycelyn Elders?
The Former Surgeon General and Clinton doctor who
quit due to extremist and controversial policies. She was known for
favoring drug legalization, justifying drug use, holding extreme views
on sex, and making outspoken, often inappropriate remarks on all of these
issues. Hear an audio of a quote on Eric Clapton.
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The Bill Clinton Tiananmen Peace Tour
Vacation:
While more of a mishap than a scandal, I included
this section because it truly shows the character of this administration.
The visit to China itself had been purposely scheduled at the time the
Paula Jones trial was to take place. What has truly upset many, however,
was the both the time of year this visit was to take place and the ceremony
at Tiananmen square. Clinton's visit took place over an unprecedented
nine day span. Beginning in late June, the tour did not end until
July 3rd. In other words, Clinton did not return home until July
Fourth, Independence day. For Clinton to be spending the days in
preparation for July fourth in communist China is upsetting to many.
Worse was the "kowtow" to Chinese demands about
a Tiananmen Square ceremony. If you are not aware, Tiananmen was
the location of a massacre of thousands of pro democracy protesters in
1989. This visit came the same week that the government released
a report about the Chinese stealing a top secret guidance chip from one
of our satellites that crashed in China. In other words, Clinton
made a visit to a place of oppression and massacre on the anniversary month
of that massacre only a few years after it occurred. At the same
time, reports indicating that this communist country had threatened national
security were released. More so, The visit comes only a month after
the eruption of several major scandals surrounding Clinton and China -
scandals in which national security and presidential election procedures
were quite possibly threatened. What if Kennedy had visited the Kremlin
during the cuban missile crisis? Or maybe Harry Truman touring Soviet
military bases during the Berlin blockade and airlift. All I am saying
is that this "visit" to China came at a very dangerous time.
Though I acknowledge some diplomatic intents of
this trip, I find the time period and nature of it to be in poor taste.
The president is taking much criticism for this visit by all sides of the
political spectrum. Has he truly crossed the line?
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Shameless Administration. Part Two:
The Lewinsky address by the president
displayed both extreme arrogance and a shameless attempt to pass the responsibility
and troubles of the administration onto Ken Starr. Clinton truly has no
decency.
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The Clinton Response to Starr's Report:
Within hours of Starr's report, Clinton's lawyers
issued a response.
Within this response, they essentially argue a simple apology serves justice
and supersedes the law in the matters of which Clinton committed an offense.
They too argue that Clinton technically did not perjure himself even though
he has shown to have contradicted himself in testimony. They attempt
to blame Kenneth Starr, Bettie Currie, Lewinsky and others for actions
that lie in the sole responsibility of the president. The report
attempts to label impeachment, an essential key to checks and balances
as well as law enforcement, as an act which " presents the potential for
greater injustice -- injustice both to the Chief Executive and to the people
who elected him" and an act which threatens to "undo popular will."
Sorry Mr. President, elections do not void out the law. A crime is
a crime no matter who it applies to. Clinton is essentially arguing that
the law doesn't apply to him because he was elected and because he said
he was sorry (a bad apology at that). Evidently the administration failed.
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