The World According To Guyer

Today we will be continuing our series on the dark and sordid history of the Clinton administration for the young and perpetually uninformed. The man in this picture is named Dan Lasater. If one investigates most of the infamous Clinton scandals, his name is surely to pop up. One really cannot understand the Clinton legacy without taking a close look at this man. Dan Lasater was an Arkansas native who grew up in poverty. He started his own hamburger chain in Indiana when he was just 19-years-old. He became a very wealthy man and decided to eventually liquidate his business and move back to Arkansas. He founded the Ponderosa Steakhouse national restaurant chain and began to pursue an interest in his life-long love of racing horses.

Micah Morrison of the Wall Street Journal did an in depth investigation into Lasater in 1995 and she provides much of his backstory. Bill Clinton lost his gubernatorial reelection bid back in 1980 and was introduced to Dan Lasater soon afterwards. Multiple witnesses in Arkansas described Lasater as Bill Clinton’s frequent partying companion. Dan Lasater began working with Bill Clinton almost daily on a plan for Clinton to regain the governor’s seat.

Dan Lasater had actually been a friend of Bill Clinton’s brother and mother since 1979. He met them both at the Oaklawn Park horseracing track because their boxes at the track were sitting directly adjacent to each other. Roger Clinton was working intermittently as a struggling musician in Hot Springs when the two first met. In 1982, Bill Clinton and his mother both encouraged Dan Lasater to provide Roger Clinton with a job. Lasater then hired Roger to work with him on his horse racing farm in Florida.

One day, Roger Clinton approached his new boss and informed him that he owed a drug dealer eight thousand dollars. Roger told him that he feared for his own family’s safety if this debt was not repaid so Dan Lasater reluctantly agreed to loan him the money. Lasater would go on to explain that this private revelation from Roger would introduce both himself and Bill Clinton into Roger’s secret world of cocaine use. To this day, Dan Lasater admits that he and Bill Clinton would provide free cocaine to young girls at parties but that Roger was the only person actively involved in the sale of cocaine for personal profit. Former girlfriend Patty-Ann Smith reported that she once witnessed Dan Lasater and Bill Clinton snorting cocaine in the kitchen of Lasater’s house. Lasater would later admit under oath that he would also provide free cocaine to some of his own employees in an effort to control them.

Over the next few years, the personal bond between Dan Lasater and Bill Clinton would grow stronger. Lasater began to sponsor fundraising parties for Clinton at his offices. He made his airplane available for both Bill and Hillary Clinton to use for campaigning as well as private events. By 1983, Bill Clinton would regain the governor’s mansion. Dan Lasater owned a bond firm which would be approached by Governor Clinton and allowed to become an official underwriter with the ADFA for state issued bonds. A whistleblower would later reveal that this state agency was being used to launder money for the cocaine trade. When an Arkansas State Trooper privately confronted Governor Clinton about personally witnessing airplanes full of cocaine being flown into the state, Clinton reportedly responded, “That is Lasater’s deal.”

Dan Lasater’s bond firm was sued in 1985 alleging that his company committed securities fraud by illegally using funds from a struggling Savings and Loan named First American for unauthorized treasury bonds futures trades. His world began to unravel even further the following year when he was publicly accused of cocaine possession and drug trafficking. The FDIC seized First American during a nationwide bailout of failing S&L banks in 1986 and they decided to pursue the lawsuit against Mr. Lasater in order recoup some of the financial losses for the American taxpayers.

This is the part where the story starts to become very “sticky” for Hillary Clinton. The FDIC hired Vince Foster and Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Rose Law Firm for their assistance in going after Dan Lasater. Mrs. Clinton did not recuse herself from the case at the time or report any close personal association with Mr. Lasater. Mrs. Clinton and her law firm would proceed to sue Dan Lasater on behalf of the FDIC and the United States government. She proceeded to only provide two billable working hours and work with fellow law partner Vince Foster to quickly negotiate a secret out-of-court settlement which only recouped a little over half of First American’s total losses. Most outside observers viewed this as a very favorable deal for Dan Lasater. Only afterwards would the FDIC learn of Hillary Clinton’s glaring and obvious conflict of interest and would eventually issue a critical public report regarding the issue. Hillary Clinton defended herself publicly by saying that Dan Lasater was never her personal friend… Dan Lasater was simply Bill’s friend.

The American taxpayers would never end up recouping the other half of their bailout losses. Dan Lasater and Roger Clinton would both go on to serve prison sentences for the illegal distribution of cocaine. Both men would eventually be pardoned by Bill Clinton.

Today we will be continuing our series on the dark and sordid history of the Clinton administration for the young and perpetually uninformed. People often ask themselves, “If the Clintons were really so corrupt back in the 1980s then how could they possibly get away with all of it?” The answer to that age old question is simply, Webb Hubbell. The person in this picture is named Webster Lee Hubbell. He was an offensive tackle for the Arkansas Razorbacks and was drafted to play for the Chicago Bears until a serious knee injury ruined his career. He went on to become a lawyer at Rose Law Firm.

Webb Hubble had very close ties to Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster while working at Rose Law Firm. In 1983, Hillary Clinton, Webb Hubbell, and Vince Foster all joined an investment scheme which named each other, rather than their spouses, as beneficiaries. Just a few years later, Hubbell would draft the legislation called Act 1062 which would allow the creation of the Arkansas Developer Finance Authority (or ADFA) to completely take over the state bond business. Hillary Clinton and Webb Hubbell also did the initial audit of the ADFA while working at Rose Law Firm and found this to be a new business in good standing. The ADFA was advertised to the public as a new state agency that would provide important loans to business, schools and churches. These bonds that were issued by the ADFA were valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars and were personally approved by Governor Clinton with the details being managed by Roger Clinton and underwritten by Dan Lasater. Both Roger and Dan would eventually be charged and convicted for the illegal distribution of cocaine.

A man named Larry Nichols would soon go to work at the Arkansas Developer Finance Authority. He would eventually become a whistleblower and attempt to reveal the work that he believed was really going on there. After working there for only two weeks, Nichols asked the President of the ADFA about the criterion for giving out a loan. He reports being told that they are to provide money to whomever the Clintons wanted. Nichols would describe himself as being at the very epicenter of the Bill and Hillary Clinton’s underground political machine.

All applications for state bonds in the ADFA were required to go through the Rose Law Firm for a fee of fifty thousand dollars each. There were five other companies which were more qualified to do this kind of work, yet Rose Law firm received 100 percent of this business. Larry Nichols would go on to discover that many of the close friends of Bill and Hillary Clinton who received these loans were never even required to pay them back. He believed that these funds were being used for political “payback” and “hush money.” These loans would exist at the ADFA for a few months and then would mysteriously “zero balance” meaning that they would just disappear into the nether. After doing independent internal research into these massive questionable loans, Larry Nichols would eventually conclude that the Arkansas Developer Finance Authority was actually a large money laundering operation for a nationwide cocaine distribution operation being run out of the small town of Mena, Arkansas. There was reportedly around 100 million dollars of cocaine money coming in each month and it needed a place to go. Nichols alleges that the ultimate destination for this drug money was the Arkansas Developer Finance Authority. Webb Hubbell and Hillary Clinton helped to create the ADFA where two convicted cocaine dealers helped to manage all of the money from within while Governor Bill Clinton signed off on every single loan.

Webb Hubbell eventually became the Chairman of the Conflicts of Interests Committee at Rose Law Firm. In 1988, he would advance the Ethics in Government Act which would require Arkansas legislators to report any existing conflicts of interest within the state government. Incredibly, this law specifically exempted Governor Bill Clinton as well as any of his political appointees or relatives.

Webb Hubbell would go on to serve as the Mayor of Little Rock until he was appointed by Bill Clinton as Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court. After the 1992 Presidential election, Hubbell became one of the Clinton administration’s senior officials and was formally nominated as the Associate Attorney General of the United States. Hubbell would later be required to step down from this position after it was publicly revealed that he intentionally over-billed and stole from his clients for years while working right down the hall from Hillary Clinton at the Rose Law Firm. He would eventually confess and admit publicly to all of these crimes. Hubbell lost his law licence and would spend 18 months in federal prison.

I would be remiss in talking about Webb Hubbell without addressing the single most shocking unsubstantiated rumor which has been swirling around him for years. Many people genuinely believe that Webster Hubbell is the biological father of Chelsea Clinton. I am not a big fan of rumors as I try to only deal in facts. I must admit while considering these rumors that the two individuals do bear a striking resemblance to each other. I can tell you that independent investigator Robert Morrow has quoted Bill Clinton as previously saying, “I shoot blanks.” When inquired further about Chelsea, Clinton reportedly responded, “Oh, Webb sired her.” In 2014, The National Enquirer reportedly obtained DNA from Webb Hubbell at a book signing event and subsequent DNA testing concluded that Hubbell could not be excluded at Chelsea’s father. At a press conference, Morrow publicly asked Chelsea Clinton, “Has your mother ever told you that you’re the daughter of Webb Hubbell and not Bill Clinton?” Chelsea calmly answered, “I’m so proud to be my parent’s daughter.” Webb Hubbell was also publicly asked if he was the father of Chelsea Clinton. His answer was even more revealing… he simply replied, “No comment.”

Please try to remember everything you just learned about Webb Hubbell and the serious allegations of illegal money laundering at the Arkansas Developer Finance Authority throughout the 1980’s. This will provide a helpful backstory when we eventually examine the 189 million dollar “charity” otherwise known as The Clinton Foundation.

Today we will be continuing our series on the dark and sordid history of the Clinton administration for the young and perpetually uninformed. The person in this picture is named Linda Ives. She is the mother to one of the children who famously became known as “The Boys on the Tracks.” This story will focus on the very short lives of Kevin Ives and Don Henry. On August 22nd, these two boys went out for a night of deer hunting in a secluded area of rural Arkansas. The next morning at 4:25 AM, a Union Pacific train ran over their bodies which were both sprawled all over the railroad tracks.

The Arkansas State Medical Examiner and Governor Clinton appointee Dr. Fahmy Malak quickly ruled both deaths as “accidental” stating that both boys were “unconscious and in a deep sleep” on the tracks after consuming a large quantity of marijuana. Documents would later show that neither boy was ever even tested for marijuana. The investigation was so sloppy that one of Kevin’s feet was actually left in plain sight at the scene. Linda Ives eventually challenged these findings resulting in their bodies being exhumed and reexamined. A second independent autopsy by Dr. Joseph Burton showed that Don Henry had been stabbed in the back and Kevin Ives had been beaten with the butt of a rifle. In September 1988, a grand jury concluded that both deaths were definite homicides. Police records eventually revealed a “confidential informant” who stated these two boys were hunting right in the middle of a drop zone for an elaborate cocaine smuggling operation which was being run out of the small town of Mena.

Public pressure began to build over the mishandling of the two original medical examinations. Governor Clinton promised to get to the bottom of this discrepancy and called in two pathologists from out of state to review the work of the state crime lab. However, when a Saline County grand jury later tried to subpoena those experts for testimony in the case, Governor Clinton refused to allow it. Bill Clinton continued to publicly defend and support Dr. Fahmy Malak for many years despite a huge public outcry for his removal due to numerous questionable examination reports. Dr. Malak had once famously ruled that a decapitated victim had died from a perforated ulcer and that another victim with multiple gunshot wounds to his back had somehow committed suicide. Just before Clinton announced that he was running for President, Fahmy Malak was assigned by Clinton to another high-paying job within the state government. All of Governor Clinton’s peculiar actions must be evaluated within the context of the growing chorus of accusations that Clinton himself was intimately involved with the cocaine smuggling operation out of Mena.

In 1996, the New York Times Magazine asked Phillip Weiss to write a story on “The Clinton Haters.” His assignment was to interview the Clinton conspiracy theorists and reveal them for the nut-cases that they were expected to be. The first call that Mr. Weiss made when he got to Arkansas was Linda Ives. Weiss later admitted that the four hours that he spent interviewing Linda Ives changed his life forever. He later recounted, “When I left Linda’s house, late at night… I promised her I wouldn’t sell her out… I didn’t realize it yet, but I was already becoming a Clinton-hater.”

Linda Ives continues to speak out publicly about this case. Because of Linda Ives persistence in trying to find justice for her son over the years, she was reportedly placed on Bill and Hillary Clinton’s official “enemies list.” The individuals who brutally murdered Kevin Ives and Don Henry in that pitch black Arkansas field were never found.

Today we will be continuing our series on the dark and sordid history of the Clinton administration for the young and perpetually uninformed. The man in this picture is named Barry Seal. Mr. Seal was an American aircraft pilot and drug smuggler who repeatedly transported large quantities of cocaine for the Medellin Cartel of Colombia.

Barry Seal began his career flying for TWA in 1964. He was fired in 1972 on charges of flying illegal explosives into Mexico. His life soon turned to drug smuggling and in 1981, Seal would find his base of operations inside an airport facility in Mena, Arkansas. In March of 1984, Mr. Seal would be caught by federal agents and “flipped”. He would secretly become a covert government informant for the DEA.

Investigators and Barry Seal soon uncovered multiple powerful government officials who secretly fostered this cocaine trade. Investigators believed that this small airport in Mena was being used by our own government as a part of what soon would be known to everyone as the “Iran-Contra affair.” This was a plot devised during the Reagan administration to free seven American hostages in Lebanon by using Israel as a proxy in order to sell illegal weapons to Iran in exchange for the hostage release. Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North reportedly decided later to use the profits from these weapons sales to fund the anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua. Mena Regional Airport appeared to be doing more than just flying cocaine into the United States… it appeared to also be supplying unauthorized weapons to forces inside Nicaragua at Oliver North’s direction.

This investigation suggested some sort of involvement with George H.W. Bush’s family, Oliver North, and the CIA itself. Barry Seal was beginning to tell people that Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton knowingly provided protection for all of this illegal activity going on at the Mena airport in exchange for assistance with his political aspirations. It appeared that some covert DEA operations accidentally ran into CIA operations and government corruption with Barry Seal caught in the middle. Barry Seal was beginning to reveal the darkest secrets of some very powerful people.

On February the 19th, 1986, Barry Seal was returning to a Salvation Army halfway house at precisely 6:00 PM as part of his probation for a recent drug convictions. A man with a machine gun approached his Cadillac. Two quick bursts hit Barry Seal’s head and a third struck his body. He died instantly. Seal was murdered just before he was supposed to testify in front of an Arkansas grand jury. If anyone is interested in learning more about the life and death of Barry Seal, Tom Cruise will be playing him on the big screen in a movie called “American Made” set for release next September.

Bill Clinton has always denied any involvement with Barry Seal and the massive cocaine smuggling operation in Mena, Arkansas. However, it should be noted that in March of 1992, during Bill Clinton’s Presidential campaign, members of Clinton’s staff were instructed to remove all documents pertaining to the Mena cocaine trafficking investigation from the Attorney General’s office after word got out that the media was in the process of filing official Freedom of Information Act requests. It should also be noted that Bill Clinton’s brother Roger and one of Bill’s close personal friends named Dan Lasater, both went to prison for cocaine related crimes. Roger Clinton went to prison for selling cocaine to an undercover officer. Arkansas State Trooper L.D. Brown reportedly once told Bill Clinton that he had personally seen drugs on flights going out of Mena to which Mr. Clinton responded, “that is Lasater’s deal.” Dan Lasater would eventually be quoted as saying that Bill and Roger Clinton both regularly brought huge piles of cocaine to parties and usually provided these drugs to young girls. Dan Lasater and Roger Clinton, along with twelve other convicted cocaine dealers, were eventually pardoned by President Clinton.

Remember the name Dan Lasater. He is not just your every day run-of-the-mill cocaine dealer. He has a suspicious and controversial past with Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Today we will be continuing our series on the dark and sordid history of the Clinton administration for the young and perpetually uninformed. The person in this picture is named Marc Rich. This man was wanted for multiple felony charges going back decades. He profited wildly for years by doing illegal business with our enemies while they were still under strict embargo. He did business with dirt bags and murderers and made a killing in the process. He propped up our enemies all around the globe. He was deservedly on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. He fled to Switzerland and lived a life in exile until he arranged for multiple third-party cash payments to the Clintons for millions of dollars.

On January 20th, 2001, Bill Clinton issued an inexplicable Presidential pardon on his very last day in office in the wee hours of the morning. Marc Rich was basically allowed to purchase a “get out of jail free” card from the Clinton administration. The New York Times referred to this act as a shocking abuse of presidential power. He continued to provide the Clintons with millions of dollars in funding long after his release.

This act sent a powerful message around the world which still exists to this very day: Bill and Hillary Clinton have a price and can be bought.

Today we will be continuing our series on the dark and sordid history of the Clinton administration for the young and perpetually uninformed.  The man in the far left side of this photograph is named Johnny Chung.  Mr. Chung was born in Taiwan and was the owner of an automated faxing business in California.  In 1996, he would find himself in the middle of one of the most serious and damaging scandals in the history of the United States.

Johnny Chung made at least 49 visits to the White House throughout the early years of the Clinton administration.   During one of these visits, he handed a 50,000 dollar check to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Chief of Staff, Margaret Williams.  Williams accepted this check and then handed it over to the Democratic National Committee even though federal law bars government employees from accepting campaign donations while on government property.  For the two years leading up to the 1996 election, Johnny Chung would end up providing twelve separate donations to the DNC totaling 366,000 dollars.

Johnny Chung’s suspicious contribution behavior would ultimately trigger a federal investigation. Mr. Chung was charged with funneling illegal campaign contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign by asking his friends and the employees of his office technology firm to make contributions for which they were later reimbursed.  Johnny Chung agreed to cooperate with federal investigators as part of his plea agreement.  He soon admitted that a Chinese Army Lieutenant Colonel named Liu Chaoying (who was an executive with a state-owned aerospace company) provided him with 300,000 dollars to donate to the Clinton campaign.

This is where the story becomes extremely sticky and disturbing.  Immediately after Chung made these illegal campaign contributions to the Clinton campaign, President Clinton agreed to voluntarily transfer some of our top secret missile technology over to China for no obvious reason.  This is the technology that would help companies like Liu Chaoying’s aerospace company to improve the accuracy of its long-range ballistic missile technology.  This would drastically improve the effectiveness of the weapons which could be used at any time against the United States.

Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown was intimately involved with the business dealings going on between the United States and China during this time.  He would allegedly tell his business partner Nolanda Hill that Hillary Clinton had conceived of a scheme to sell trade mission plane seats to businessmen who gave at least 50,000 dollars to the DNC.   Ron Brown would soon be placed under tremendous pressure to testify against the Clintons about the illegal fundraising operation that had been recently discovered.   Ron Brown would die in an apparent accidental plane crash on April 3^rd, 1996 before he would ever get the opportunity to testify in court.   Many people have deep skepticism regarding the details surrounding Secretary Brown’s death which still exists to this very day.

Johnny Chung would eventually be convicted of bank fraud, tax evasion, and two counts of conspiracy to violate election law.  The DNC would go on to raise tens of millions of dollars which would lead to the successful reelection of President Bill Clinton.  The black box from Ron Brown’s plane crash into a Croatian hillside would never be recovered.

Today we will be continuing our series on the dark and sordid history of the Clinton administration for the young and perpetually uninformed. The person in this picture is named Linda Tripp. She was a former White House aide who worked at the Pentagon’s Public Affairs Office. In April of 1996, she met another former White House aide named Monica Lewinsky who had just been transferred to work in the Pentagon as an assistant. Over the course of that summer, Lewinsky began to reveal to Linda Tripp that she was having an ongoing affair with the President of the United States. She informed Tripp that she was deeply in love with Bill Clinton.

Over the course of the next year, Lewinsky’s relationship with the President gradually deteriorated. Lewinsky began to voice frustration over the way she was being treated and sent Mr. Clinton an angry letter. Lewinsky informed the President that only she and Linda Tripp knew about the ongoing affair but threatened to go public with this information if he did not agree to meet with her. Linda Tripp quickly became concerned about this situation. Tripp had been working in the White House on the night that Jerry Parks was assassinated back in 1993. She reported witnessing a flurry of phone calls and secrecy by the White House senior staff as information regarding the death of Mr. Parks came in over the fax machine. She had reportedly seen a similar burst of action in the West Wing on the night that Vince Foster had died. After looking into these two incidents, Linda Tripp suspected that these people were killed in the first few months of President Clinton’s term in order to keep them both quiet.

Linda Tripp ultimately decided to start recording her conversations with Monica Lewinsky. She explains that she felt compelled to do this in order to provide herself with some potential leverage because she was beginning to fear for her life. Tripp continues to record and collect conversations with Monica Lewinsky over the course of many months. During this period, President Clinton is becoming entangled in an ongoing sexual harassment lawsuit by former Arkansas state employee, Paula Jones. Lewinsky and Tripp are both subpoenaed to testify in this ongoing lawsuit which reportedly makes President Clinton very nervous.

Linda Tripp eventually calculates that she might end up in real physical danger if she doesn’t quickly go public with her knowledge of President Clinton. She soon provides her recorded conversations to investigators. She leaks information to the press and to the personal attorneys of Paula Jones. She agrees to wear a wire and extract as much information from her friend as possible. The public backlash which Linda Tripp faces for her actions is brutal. The press painted Tripp as a terrible friend who betrayed someone who trusted her. People made fun of Linda Tripp’s weight as well as her looks. Actor John Goodman developed a morbidly obese character on Saturday Night Live named Linda Tripp and the show mocked her appearance almost every single weekend. In Linda Tripp’s mind, the public scrutiny was almost unbearable but at least she had kept herself and Monica Lewinsky safe.

The released information eventually led to the discovery of one famously stained blue dress. Bill Clinton was forced to publicly admit to his prolonged affair in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky and his repeated lies to the American people. The President was subsequently impeached by the House of Representatives on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. According to Linda Tripp herself, no one was more ruthless towards her during the aftermath than Hillary Clinton. Tripp stated that Mrs. Clinton routinely attempted to destroy her in the media. Friends reportedly overheard Hillary Clinton tell her staff, “Get anything and everything on Linda Tripp.” Tripp believed that Hillary wanted the defamation of her character and the destruction of her credibility to begin right away.

Linda Tripp may be one of the most misunderstood characters in this whole saga. She did not consider her role as a traitor to Monica Lewinsky but as a protector. She simply believed that she was trying to help bring down a corrupt administration while keeping herself and those around her safe. She has remained out of the public spotlight until just very recently. She decided a few months ago to speak out publicly against Hillary Clinton’s Presidential aspirations. She recently proclaimed in a public statement, “Without a doubt it’s time for a female president but it is without a doubt not the time nor will it ever be the time for Hillary Clinton to be that president. She simply lacks the integrity.”

Today we will be continuing our series on the dark and sordid history of the Clinton administration for the young and perpetually uninformed. This is one of the most difficult cases to provide a fair examination given that it was one of the least reported on and investigated at the time. The information from these witnesses are very difficult to corroborate and the reader should probably take this into account as one attempts to digest this terrible tale. However, this single incident sets off a chain of events that almost brings down Bill Clinton’s presidency and therefore must be addressed.

The man in this picture is named Jerry Parks. Mr. Parks was reportedly watching television on July 21st, 1993 when breaking news stated that White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster had died the previous day from a gunshot wound to the head. Further details revealed that Foster’s body was found just outside of Washington D.C. in Fort Marcy Park. Jerry Parks reportedly turned to his son during this news report and told him, “I am a dead man.”

According to family accounts, Jerry Parks was a “nervous wreck” over the next few months. He began carrying a sidearm with him almost everywhere that he went and drove evasively in order to avoid being followed. Mr. Parks had been the security chief for the Clinton-Gore campaign headquarters in Little Rock the previous year. He reportedly told his family that Bill Clinton was “cleaning house” and that he was “next on the list.”

Jerry Parks had a son named Gary who described a long and complicated history between Vince Foster and his father. Vince Foster had reportedly approached Mr. Parks years ago asking him to carry out surveillance missions for Hillary Clinton. All the way back in 1981, Governor Bill Clinton had lost his reelection bid. His rising star was beginning to fall for a brief period of time and rumors of his infidelity had begun to surface. According to Gary Parks, Hillary Clinton had approached Vince Foster and asked him to gather evidence against her husband which she could use to eventually divorce him. According to Jerry’s wife, her husband carried out sensitive assignments for Hillary Clinton’s inner circle for almost a decade. Gary reported that he even accompanied his father on a few of his missions. He describes them both using long-armed cameras to gather incriminating evidence while Governor Clinton was engaging in various infidelities.

Jerry Parks rarely had any communications with Vince Foster after Bill Clinton’s inauguration, but he did reportedly receive a phone call in mid-July of 1993 from Mr. Foster stating that Hillary had become anxious about any files in Jerry’s possession that could do real political damage to the President and herself. Jerry Parks reassured him over the phone that the data he collected was secure. Just a couple of weeks later, Mr. Parks home was burglarized by sophisticated criminals. Phone lines were cut and alarm systems were turned off. The Parks family states that the incriminating files on President Clinton went missing.

On September 23, 1993, as Jerry Parks was driving towards his Little Rock home along Chenal Parkway, a white Chevy Caprice with two men inside pulled up beside him and showered Jerry’s car and his 320 pound hulking frame with semiautomatic gunfire. After the target car slowly came to a halt, one of the men emerged from the mysterious vehicle and fired two 9-mm rounds into the chest of Jerry Parks then quickly sped away. Several bystanders witnessed the murder in real time but the killers were never found.

Half way across the country, Pentagon Public Affairs employee Linda Tripp would eventually learn about the brutal assassination of Jerry Parks… and this would lead to a chain of events that would change Bill and Hillary Clinton’s legacy in our nation’s capital forever.

 

Today we will be continuing our series on the dark and sordid history of the Clinton administration for the young and perpetually uninformed. The man in this photograph is named Vince Foster. His story is the most convoluted and controversial in the entire Clinton saga. I plan to only report his story using the facts as they are known to us today. The readers will be allowed to extrapolate this data in any manner that they see fit.

Vince Foster was from Hope, Arkansas and was a childhood acquaintance of Bill Clinton. He eventually became a law partner and close personal friend of Hillary Rodham Clinton. When it came to friendship with the Clintons, a person didn’t get much closer than this. He was an extremely good and ethical lawyer by all accounts and he had become the head of the Arkansas Bar Association. He was a tall and elegant man. He was soft-spoken and extremely intellectual. Foster reluctantly agreed to leave his Little Rock office in 1993 and join the Clinton team as Deputy White House Counsel.

Vince Foster had no experience with politics and was not considered to be a “political animal.” His wife and family stayed behind in Little Rock. He was a lifelong friend of Hillary Clinton and he came to Washington D.C. in order to work by her side. Hillary Clinton rarely ever appointed men to work with her. When it came to appointing her own staff at the White House, she chose twenty-nine women and only one man. Hillary Clinton was quoted as saying once that she usually chooses to work with women because men can be “assholes.” Vince Foster was a man whom Hillary Clinton trusted deeply. Mrs. Clinton once described Foster as being like Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch – reserved, upright, and dependable. It was Vince Foster’s shoulder where Hillary Clinton rested her head and cried during her father’s funeral. Rumors swirled for years about a strong romantic link between the pair but this was always denied by both sides.

One of Vince Foster’s first White House jobs was to interpret and defend the Clinton’s tax returns regarding their controversial Whitewater land deal. Foster wrote in a private note to the President and his wife warning them that “this is a can of worms that you shouldn’t open.” He was also asked to look at the paperwork surrounding allegations that funds from the failed Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan had been illegally diverted to the Clinton campaign. This responsibility also caused Mr. Foster to have grave concern. Most upsetting to Vince Foster however, was the recent firing and public smearing of seven White House Travel Office employees. Foster felt a personally responsibility for this and feared a congressional investigation into his role. White House aide David Watkins quoted Foster as saying about this incident, “My God, what have we done?”

Vince Foster’s professional situation continued to deteriorate as time went on. Around the date of July 13th of 1993, Hillary Clinton held a meeting to discuss health care legislation when she suddenly humiliated and publicly ridiculed Foster in front of his peers. She reportedly told Vince Foster that he didn’t see the big picture. She told him that he would always be a little hick town lawyer who was obviously not ready for the big time. She blamed him for the previous improper vetting of failed political nominations and finished the rant by saying, “You are not protecting us… you have failed us.”

As the investigations circling the White House gathered from all sides, Vince Foster might have known that he could eventually be pressured into misleading congressional investigators under oath. He reportedly began to lose weight and became very quiet. A few days later on July 16th, Foster met his wife Lisa for dinner. He reportedly began to cry when his wife asked him if he felt trapped. He told her that he was done with the Clintons and was seriously thinking about resigning. Three days later, it was reported that he called his doctor who prescribed him an antidepressant. Throughout that next day, Hillary Clinton was desperately trying to reach Mr. Foster by phone. She asked her Chief of Staff on three separate occasions to have Vince Foster call her immediately. Vince Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy Park along the Potomac River that very same evening at 5:50 PM on July 20th, resting on a slope beside an old Civil War cannon. Within just a few hours, White House aide Craig Livingstone and many others were observed by secret service agents removing boxes from Vince Foster’s office.

A note was found soon after Vince Foster’s death. Some believed it to be a suicide note but it turned out to be a rough draft of a resignation letter. It was found torn into twenty-seven pieces in Foster’s briefcase. It included this statement: “The public will never believe the innocence of the Clintons and their loyal staff.” The letter ended with Vince Foster’s last known words, “I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport.”

Many rumors continue to swirl around Vince Foster’s death. His death was ruled as an act of suicide by the FBI and other official investigative bodies. However, many people believe that the circumstances surrounding Vince Foster’s death remain suspicious. Some people questioned just how little actual blood was discovered near the body. I do not intend to provide evidence today to either substantiate or refute those rumors. I can tell you that a bullet was never recovered from the scene of Vince Foster’s death. I can also report to you that a resignation letter eventually surfaced by Miguel Rodriguez, the lead investigator of the Office of Independent Counsel, which emphatically stated that Vince Foster had a second gunshot wound to his neck.

Given all of the information currently available to me, the only conclusion that I can reach with a fair degree of confidence is this one: If Vince Foster had never met Bill and Hillary Clinton… he would probably still be alive today.

Today we will be continuing our series on the dark and sordid history of the Clinton administration for the young and perpetually uninformed. The person in this photograph is named Billy Dale. Mr. Dale was the lifetime director of the White House Travel Office. Billy Dale and his department was responsible for making travel arrangements for the White House Press Corps. He had faithfully served seven U.S. Presidents over the past 32 years. Billy Dale actually voted for Bill Clinton for President and was excited to see him arrive in Washington D.C in January of 1993.

Hillary Clinton had a very close friend from Arkansas during this time named Harry Thomason who ran an aircraft charter company. Mr. Thomason was very interested in obtaining the White House travel business. One of Thomason’s representatives called Billy Dale during this early transition period and expressed interest in this charter company working with the White House. Mr. Dale declined the offer explaining that he did not need another middleman with more unnecessary overhead for the work that they do.

Within a matter of days, Hillary Clinton began to talk of rumors that the White House Travel Office had been taking “kick-backs” and profiting illegally from their position. She became very vocal regarding her concern about financial mismanagement in the Travel Office and insisted that her staff look into it further. The staff was informed that there would be “hell to pay” if Hillary Clinton didn’t get her way.

On May the 19th, Billy Dale and his staff of six other people were abruptly fired. Mr. Dale was publicly accused of embezzling 14,000 dollars. The White House Press Secretary announced that the entire Travel Office staff was being let go due to gross criminal misconduct. Mr. Dale spent the next two years and over 750,000 dollars attempting to clear his name. This required him to sell his own home. He was audited by the IRS twice over this same time period. After scores of evidence and testimony were presented in court, it took only two hours for Billy Dale to be acquitted of all charges. The Office of Independent Counsel later announced that Hillary Clinton’s sworn testimony in the case was completely inaccurate and untruthful.

The saddest part about this whole story is that Billy Dale and his Travel Office staff worked at the behest of the President. Mr. Dale could have been legally dismissed on President Clinton’s very first day in office without cause.

In Hillary Clinton’s world, when someone insults and rebuffs one of your closest friends over the phone, you don’t simply “let them go”… you completely destroy their entire life.