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Date: 2 Jun 2000 12:43:13 -0400
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Juanita's Audit and America's Pravda Press

News/Current Events News Keywords: MEDIA CORRUPTION
Source: NewsMax.com
Published: Wednesday May 31, 2000; 1:15 PM EDT
Author: With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 06/01/2000 08:43:34 PDT

by highbottom

One might expect news that Clinton rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick was hit
with an IRS audit would warrant front-page coverage everywhere, given the
overwhelming odds that it was a case of White House sponsored revenge
against yet another Clinton-era whistleblower.

But since this president came to town, the Washington press corps has
metamorphosed into Pravda on the Potomac. And so the Broaddrick audit story
rates just a mention here and there - nothing to get too worked up about and
certainly nothing that warrants the attention of Peter, Tom, Dan and Bernie
on the nightly TV news.

Never mind that even Clinton defenders find it hard to argue the Broaddrick
audit was coincidental. Coming on the heels of similar audits for Clinton
sex accusers Paula Jones, Liz Ward Gracen and Gennifer Flowers, the
handwriting is pretty much on the wall.

America's Pravda press corps certainly hasn't forgotten that President Nixon
's attempt to get his IRS to go after political enemies was one of Watergate
's worst abuses of power. At least that's what reporters claimed at the
time, despite the fact that Nixon's IRS commissioner rebuffed his orders.

During "Tricky Dick's" years in power, no one ever emerged, as Broaddrick
did yesterday, to claim his or her fate was punishment for testifying
against the president or his minions. Jones, Flowers and Gracen have all
voiced similar suspicions, claims that reporters have obediently ignored.

But it's not just these four women who have suffered politically inspired
retaliation, the kind of KGB-like revenge that dwarfs anything that happened
during Watergate. In fact, the list of Clinton accusers, witnesses and
otherwise dissident figures who have suffered for their candor is positively
staggering.

LINDA TRIPP: She was Bill Clinton's John Dean. But instead of winning the
kind of plaudits the media awarded Watergate's whistleblower, Tripp was
vilified on national TV by the president's Hollywood allies, threatened with
physical harm, had confidential files leaked to reporters, and to top it all
off, was indicted for gathering the very evidence that led to the first
impeachment of an elected president in American history.

KATHLEEN WILLEY: After Clinton sexually assaulted her in the White House in
1993, Willey tried to keep it secret. But when Monicagate forced her into
the spotlight, bad things began to happen. Willey's car was vandalized, her
pets were killed, her children were threatened and she was smeared in the
press when the White House released her personal correspondence. After years
of legal bills and debt left over from a previous husband (who killed
himself the day Clinton sexually assaulted his wife), Willey filed
bankruptcy last month.

SALLY PERDUE: Perdue came forward on the eve of Clinton's 1992 presidential
nomination to claim only a brief affair. But coming on the heels of Gennifer
Flowers, her story could have been politically lethal. Perdue also alleged
that she and Clinton did cocaine together. Private detectives were hired to
discredit Perdue. Democratic operatives tried to bribe and threaten her into
silence. One, whom she identified as Ron Tucker, told her, "We know you go
jogging by yourself and we can't guarantee what might happen to your pretty
little legs." Shortly after Paula Jones filed suit, Perdue disappeared to
China, where she remains - unreachable - today.

JAMES MCDOUGAL: Bill and Hillary's Whitewater business partner absorbed the
losses on the failing investment while the Clintons took tax deductions.
After years of stonewalling, McDougal finally decided to cooperate with
prosecutors in 1996. His crucial testimony implicated the first couple in a
whole host of crimes. But still, America's most important government witness
was sent to jail, tossed into solitary confinement, had his heart medicine
confiscated and promptly died of cardiac arrest. (McDougal's death is
credited with saving Hillary from indictment by Whitewater reporters Sue
Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf in their recent book, "Truth at Any Cost.")

DAVID HALE: He was the first to implicate Clinton in Whitewater perjury and
was later corroborated by McDougal. Like McDougal, Hale served prison time
as part of a plea bargain with the independent counsel - despite three
previous heart attacks. Upon his release an Arkansas district attorney
allied with Clinton prosecuted Hale on questionable insurance fraud charges.
While Hale and McDougal were both sent to jail despite long histories of
heart trouble, stonewalling Whitewater witness Susan McDougal was set free
after she complained of a backache.

BILLY DALE: The only thing Dale did wrong was get in the way of Hillary
Clinton, who wanted to replace his White House travel office staff with
Arkansas cronies. But it wasn't enough to fire Dale and his coworkers. The
Clintons called in the FBI and had the 30-year White House veteran
prosecuted on bogus embezzlement charges. He was also hit with an IRS audit.

DENNIS SCULIMBRENE: This FBI veteran was assigned to do background checks on
new White House employees. He ran afoul of the Clintons when he testified on
Dale's behalf in 1994. From that day forward, Sculimbrene reports systematic
harassment by his FBI superiors. When the FBI veteran produced a smoking gun
memo implicating Hillary in the hiring of Filegate's Craig Livingstone, he
was forced out of his job.

JOHNNY CHUNG: He remains the only witness to offer full cooperation in the
White House's Chinagate scandal, implicating top PRC military officials in
attempts to bankroll Clinton's 1996 campaign.

Chung also fingered the first lady in illegality, testifying that he gave
Hillary $50,000 inside the White House using her chief of staff as a
conduit. He was assured that Hillary would know where the money came from.
When he met her hours later, the first lady greeted the Taiwanese-American
stranger with the words, "Welcome to the White House, my good friend." After
Chung came clean, top Democratic officials urged his sentencing judge to
throw the book at him. Since then, there have been three attempts on his
life. Last March the FBI arrested a lone gunman outside Chung's Los Angeles
office.

The list of potential Clinton witnesses who have met misfortune is almost
endless. Some have been threatened, some audited, some beaten, some jailed
and some have suffered fates far worse.

Their names include Sharlene Wilson, Gary Johnson, Kathy Ferguson, Vince
Foster, Ron Brown, Luther Parks, Larry Nichols, Dolly Kyle Browning, L.D.
Brown, Larry Patterson, Roger Perry, Adler Berriman Seal, Gary Aldrich,
Johnny Lawhon, Sean Haddon, Harry Don Denton, Patrick Knowlton and dozens
more, all with stories virtually ignored by America's mainstream press.

The names on that list are the reason reporters don't want to give Juanita
Broaddrick's audit too much attention. To do otherwise would be to admit
that America's Pravda press has been blind to a frightening mountain of
evidence of an abuse of government power the likes of which this country has
never known before.



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