Posted on 10/31/2006 8:03:12 AM PST by cinives
Will the saga of the world's most famous fellatrice return to haunt Hillary in 2008? There's this fascinating whisper making the Washington rounds that says yes.
While convoluted and circumstantial, a number of plugged-in Washingtonians believe it. The story starts with Boris Yeltsin.
Yeltsin was President of Russia from its emergence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 to 1999. In October of 2000, part three of his autobiography was published, Midnight Diaries .. In it, there was an astounding revelation:
That in "late 1996," after Bill Clinton's re-election in November, he (Yeltsin) received a highly classified report from his Foreign Intelligence Service (Russian acronym SVR, formerly a branch of the KGB). Russian intel had learned that the President of the United States was having an affair with an intern named Monica Lewinsky.
This was over a full year before the world learned of the scandal via the Drudge Report internet website on January 19, 1998.
Lewinsky's first tryst with Clinton was in November 1995. Her last ones were March 28 and 29, 1997, as shown by White House Security logging her in to visit the Oval Office. In her testimony for Ken Starr's Grand Jury, she told of a curious comment of Clinton's after she performed her services: that he was worried about a "foreign power listening in" to their activities and conversations.
He was especially concerned about the many phone-sex conversations he had with her, calling her from the White House and Air Force One.
Somehow, it seems, Clinton had learned of Yeltsin's SVR memo. Who told him? Suspicion has focused on a meeting in Moscow between Clinton confidante Strobe Talbot and Russian power-broker Anatoly Chubais on March 5, 1997 - three weeks before Clinton told Monica of his "worry."
Talbot was far more than just Deputy Secretary of State. A fellow Rhodes Scholar with Clinton at Oxford, he was one of Bill's most closely trusted friends. Fluent in Russian, his contacts among the Russian power elite were deep. One of his best contacts was Anatoly Chubais.
Yeltsin had placed Chubais in charge of the "privatization" program selling off Soviet state enterprises. It was a multi-multi-billion dollar scam, creating "oligarch" billionaires, of whom Chubais became one himself.
The scam, however, was threatened with exposure by the IMF (International Monetary Fund). By early 1997, Chubais's looting of the Russian economy was so vast that a complete crash was imminent. A "rescue package" of billions in IMF loans was required to stave off disaster. The green eyeshades at the IMF examining Russia said no way, José. Chubais was desperate.
Yeltsin told Chubais of the SVR memo. Chubais asked his buddy Talbot to come and see him in Moscow, where he explained that if the IMF loan wasn't approved, he might not be able to keep the lid on Lewinsky. The President of the United States was being blackmailed.
Thus Larry Summers, Clinton's new Treasury Secretary, who had before was aghast at even the hint of approving IMF loans to Russia, suddenly began calling Chubais and his cronies a "Dream Team" for their "superb" job of running the Russian economy.
The IMF loan was approved, the lid on Lewinsky kept on, and not until Linda Tripp taped her phone talks with Monica in November 1997 and Drudge got wind of it, did the scandal break. The IMF loan did its job, temporarily staving disaster off until August, 1998, when the Russian economy collapsed into almost total meltdown.
Now - what has all this to do with Hillary?
One of Hillary Clinton's closest friends and traveling companions is a lady named Brooke Shearer. She retains her maiden name, for she is Strobe Talbot's wife. She also just happened to be working at the White House in charge of the White House intern program.
The thinking goes that it is inconceivable that Talbot would not tell his wife that one of her interns was fellating the president and being blackmailed by the Russkies for it - and that she would not tell Hillary.
One can easily imagine how explosively Hillary would have reacted, and how she would have demanded Bill cave to the Russian IMF demands. Thus her fingerprints would be all over a blackmail payoff of billions of American taxpayer dollars, and the resultant impoverishment of millions of Russians.
She'll be questioned on this during her 2008 campaign - as she will on so much else. The Russian Blackmail story will be one of many skeletons lurking in her presidential wannabe closet. It's yet another example of why so many Dems, desperate to recapture the White House, are so busy flogging alternatives to her.
Alternatives such as Barack Obama. That the Dems would hysterically hype a guy whose total national experience has been being a Senator for 21 months (since January 2005), and whose total real world business experience was working one single year for a company while in his early 20s (an entry-level job with the Business International Corporation), shows how terrified they are that Hillary will doom their White House dreams.
The Russian Blackmail scandal will make an interesting addition to the Democrats' Hillary Nightmare.
-bflr-
It has been written, that nothing that is hidden shall remain forever unexposed.
LOL!
I'll bet ministers from China, Russia and a bunch of other countries were having loud back-slapping dinner parties about this. At least they had the discipline to shut up and quietly snicker while waiting for events to happen the way they have. That's honorable sneakiness and rare.
It's the seriousness of the charge that matters, not whether or not the charge is accurate.
Which dims knew about this and when did they know it? This must be investigated by all the powers available to the Federal Government.
who was it that said, "we are the president?"
And then there's the bombing of the Chinese Embassy. To this day, I don't believe we know the names of anyone who was killed in the bombing.
Anyways, I try not to be Made in China stuff. It's usually cr**.
Snip:
But as bad as Gore's compromise with Hammer was, it was even worse with former Russian premier Viktor Chernomyrdin. The two served on a joint commission that was supposed to smooth out relations between the U.S. and Russia. The commission was also supposed to come to the assistance of American businessmen who were threatened with death or beaten by members of the Russian mafia. But as WorldNetDaily has reported, Gore and his staff largely ignored pleas of Americans who were subjected to such brutal treatment.
Between 1993 and 1999, billions of dollars of foreign aid intended to help ordinary Russians was instead diverted to the pockets of high-ranking officials who ruled Russia and members of the Russian mob, or siphoned off and deposited in offshore bank accounts to be laundered.
LOL! Senor Ranch style eggs. And if it took both of them to make one miserable excuse for a President, how can half of that President, legally run for a third term?
He certainly didn't think a "very naive intern" would save a blue dress.
He pushed the envelope. He's likely "done his thing" HUNDREDS of times....not just the few we know of.
This is where the story breaks down.
That little appendage probably looks like a golf ball on a tee, after so many bjs. No wonder he never released his medical records.
What's more, they liked Clinton. They liked him because a.) he wasn't a credible threat to any of them and b.) those aware of his appetites knew how to handle (i.e., use) him.
We paid his bill.
Hmmmmm. Maybe Hillary will have to rewrite that section in her book where she claims that when Bubba told her about Monica, she was "speechless, gasping for air."
One should notice that Hillary's response is "nearly identical" to Valerie Plame's response when she found out she was outed.
So, where's the tie??
Mandy Grunwald!!! Mandy is Hillary's best friend, media advisor and Bubba's last campaign manager.
Mandy's husband, Matt Cooper....was the dude that called both Libby and Rove at the Whitehouse, dropping Valerie's name. It was MATT's testimony that was in conflict with Libby.
Oh, yeah, by the way, Mandy Grunwald's father was the FIRST to write that Nixon should resign!!!
Sorry folks, I believe in coincidences....but there's a limit.
Occam's Razor.
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