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Hillary Rodham Crook? (Sowell gem from 1998 on Atty firings)
JWR ^ | Sept. 15, 1998 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 03/13/2007 7:50:26 PM PDT by bamahead

AFTER FINISHING HIS WORK on potentially impeachable offenses growing out of the Lewinsky scandal, Kenneth Starr is still investigating......potentially impeachable offenses by the president and criminal indictments against others.

Let's go back to square one. This all started with the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into financial frauds in Arkansas, in institutions connected with Hillary and Bill Clinton.

The Clintons were partners with Jim and Susan McDougal in the Whitewater Development Corporation, whose accounts were kept in the Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, run by Jim McDougal, with Hillary Clinton as an attorney. Federal bank examiners testified that Madison Guaranty was a "politically corrupt institution that routed millions of dollars to politically connected Arkansans."

In the more reserved language of an official report, Madison Guaranty was the scene of "embezzlement," "money laundering," "falsification of loan records and board minutes," "wire fraud" and "illegal campaign contributions" -- among other crimes.

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When both state and federal investigators first moved in, Hillary Clinton was able to stop the state officials from closing down Madison Guaranty. She was more than just another lawyer appearing before state officials. She was the wife of the governor who appointed those officials.

The Clintons could not interfere with the feds, however -- at least not until they were in the White House. By then, Madison Guaranty had been closed down and federal investigators were on the trail of the frauds. By firing all U.S. Attorneys shortly after becoming president -- something no other president had ever done before -- Bill Clinton got rid of the U.S. Attorney in Arkansas who was investigating the Whitewater-Madison Guaranty scandals and replaced him with Paula Casey, a Clinton protege and one of his political campaign workers.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: againsthillary; clinton; hillary; usattorneys; whitewater
Surfed upon this today in my readings on the Dim's witch-hunt du-jour.

Sowell is timeless. Always good stuff.
1 posted on 03/13/2007 7:50:33 PM PDT by bamahead
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To: bamahead
Save for later...
2 posted on 03/13/2007 7:54:55 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: BartMan1; Nailbiter; stanley windrush

sproing


3 posted on 03/13/2007 7:59:52 PM PDT by IncPen (When Al Gore Finished the Internet, he invented Global Warming)
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To: bamahead; AbeKrieger; Alia; Amalie; AmeriBrit; American Quilter; arthurus; awelliott; Bahbah; ...

OLDIE THOMAS SOWELL PING!


4 posted on 03/13/2007 8:06:53 PM PDT by jazusamo (http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/DefendOurMarines.htm)
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To: bamahead

Nice work!


5 posted on 03/13/2007 8:14:21 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: bamahead

saved


6 posted on 03/13/2007 8:17:40 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: bamahead

Dr. Sowell is well aware of arkancide and I'm sure that he is well prepared.(silver bullet weight is dependent on weapon).


7 posted on 03/13/2007 8:18:21 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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To: jazusamo
By firing all U.S. Attorneys shortly after becoming president -- something no other president had ever done before -- Bill Clinton got rid of the U.S. Attorney in Arkansas who was investigating the Whitewater-Madison Guaranty scandals and replaced him with Paula Casey, a Clinton protege and one of his political campaign workers.

I suspect that the Rodham-Clintons dared to do what they did because they knew that the media would look the other way.

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8 posted on 03/13/2007 8:22:32 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: bamahead
Hardly a week goes by that at least one letter to the editor attacks Thomas Sowell wit a vengeance. Articles like this one is an example of why the left hate him.
9 posted on 03/13/2007 8:29:31 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (In this (political) War, Republicans are gutless appeasers. -- Ann Coulter)
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To: jazusamo

you have freepmail!


10 posted on 03/13/2007 8:32:33 PM PDT by bamahead
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To: Seaplaner
This deal also saved Harold Ford, Sr's butt too. He was under investigation in Tennessee for bank fraud as well. The old fart should have been breaking big rocks into small ones for the past 12 years instead of running Jr's campaigns.
11 posted on 03/13/2007 8:39:09 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is the Democrat's George Galloway?)
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To: Seaplaner

"media would look the other way"

And they still are looking in the same direction. Always have, always will.


12 posted on 03/13/2007 8:45:09 PM PDT by Texagirl4W (Jesus came to forgive sin, not to accept sin.)
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To: Seaplaner

I'm sure you're right. If they would have had a media looking for every little thing like the media does with President Bush, both Clintons would have gone to jail, IMO.


13 posted on 03/13/2007 8:45:39 PM PDT by jazusamo (http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/DefendOurMarines.htm)
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To: bamahead

THANKS MUCH.


14 posted on 03/13/2007 8:48:41 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS WORTHY; GOD ALONE PAID THE PRICE; GOD ALONE IS ABLE; LOVE GOD WHOLLY)
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To: jazusamo; All
I'm sure you're right. If they would have had a media looking for every little thing like the media does with President Bush, both Clintons would have gone to jail, IMO.

Indeed.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook." -- A Syndicated Talk Show Host

15 posted on 03/13/2007 8:51:53 PM PDT by FreeKeys ("Once Hillary is elected she will create a new form of secret police."- Dick Morris (her ex-employee)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Funny that NONE of this is coming up in the MSM's "Debate" about it, eh???


16 posted on 03/13/2007 8:53:28 PM PDT by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: bamahead

What a coincidence. On another thread today I mentioned Paula Casey being put in place to squash Whitewater and protect them.


17 posted on 03/13/2007 8:53:33 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: bamahead
And the "CONSENSUS" among Historians is that that Global Warming,

oops Presidential Greatness accrues to Bilk Xlintoon!

Hillarious follows in his sludge steps!

18 posted on 03/13/2007 8:59:48 PM PDT by Young Werther ( and Julius Ceasar said, "quae cum ita sunt.")
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To: bamahead
And the "CONSENSUS" among Historians is that that Global Warming,

oops Presidential Greatness accrues to Bilk Xlintoon!

Hillarious follows in his sludge steps!

19 posted on 03/13/2007 8:59:50 PM PDT by Young Werther ( and Julius Ceasar said, "quae cum ita sunt.")
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To: bamahead
And the "CONSENSUS" among Historians is that that Global Warming,

oops Presidential Greatness accrues to Bilk Xlintoon!

Hillarious follows in his sludge steps!

20 posted on 03/13/2007 8:59:51 PM PDT by Young Werther ( and Julius Ceasar said, "quae cum ita sunt.")
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To: bamahead
And the "CONSENSUS" among Historians is that that Global Warming,

oops Presidential Greatness accrues to Bilk Xlintoon!

Hillarious follows in his sludge steps!

21 posted on 03/13/2007 9:00:00 PM PDT by Young Werther ( and Julius Ceasar said, "quae cum ita sunt.")
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To: bamahead
And the "CONSENSUS" among Historians is that that Global Warming,

oops Presidential Greatness accrues to Bilk Xlintoon!

Hillarious follows in his sludge steps!

22 posted on 03/13/2007 9:00:11 PM PDT by Young Werther ( and Julius Ceasar said, "quae cum ita sunt.")
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To: bamahead
bump

 

THE DRAMATIC INCREASE IN HILLARY CLINTON'S DISCLOSED ASSETS: An Alternative Theory


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ON ICE: WM. JEFFERSON'S FREEZER vs. THE WM. JEFFERSON CLINTONS' SWISS ACCOUNTS


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THE RUBES' GOLDBERG MACHINE
A STATE OF PERPETUAL CLINTON BEGGARY

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY:
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DUBAI-ITIES:
HILLARY 'KNOWNOTHING VICTIM' CLINTON STRIKES AGAIN


DICK MORRIS:
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CLINTON 'CULTURE OF CORRUPTION'


clintonCORRUPTION: the more things change. . . .




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CROOKS PARDONING CROOKS PARDONING CROOKS:
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(the specs, not the pants or the socks)


HILLARY FLUNKED D.C. BAR EXAM
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by Mia T, 3.14.07





COPYRIGHT MIA T 2007


23 posted on 03/13/2007 9:41:39 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: bamahead

so the current body count of "friends of the Clintons" is ???


24 posted on 03/13/2007 9:45:29 PM PDT by GaltTrader
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To: bamahead

Thank God For The Internet. Imagine if you will, what laws she'd sign regarding "The Internet"! That is another disturbing thought.


25 posted on 03/13/2007 10:19:11 PM PDT by Pagey (Horrible Hillary Clinton is Bad For America, Bad For Business and Bad For MY Stomach!)
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To: Michael.SF.
"Sowell"

At least your paper prints some of Dr. Sowell's columns. With my home paper I get a throng of lib anti-Bush scribblers like E. J. Dionne, Trudy Rubin, David Broder, etal. I would bet that many readers of my hometown rag have never read a Tom Sowell column...or not too many other conservatives for that matter.

26 posted on 03/14/2007 3:01:54 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftless2

Well, he is the balance. They also use to run Ivin's column and have replaced her with Estrich.


27 posted on 03/14/2007 3:46:00 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (In this (political) War, Republicans are gutless appeasers. -- Ann Coulter)
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To: Seaplaner

I remember when there were movies about THE PERFECT CRIME well folks, we have witnessed it in our lifetime .Just fire all the attorneys ,appoint your own tainted attorney general Reno ,and walla ,you now are the police !! Where do you go folks when the police are corrupt?


28 posted on 03/14/2007 4:12:28 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: bamahead

Good stuff! Thanks for posting this oldie but goodie!


29 posted on 03/14/2007 4:19:56 AM PDT by PilloryHillary (againsthillary.com)
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To: bamahead

read later


30 posted on 03/14/2007 10:00:14 AM PDT by TwoSue
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To: bamahead

Bed rock information on the clinton crime syndicate. Thanx for the post.


31 posted on 03/14/2007 10:04:22 AM PDT by carolinalivin
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