Hillary campaign takes cash from the people that Bill pardoned

Cha-ching! Hillary campaign takes cash from the people that Bill pardoned
posted at 10:05 am on November 15, 2007 by Bryan
Three recipients of controversial 11th-hour pardons issued by former President Bill Clinton in January 2001 have donated thousands of dollars to the presidential campaign of his wife, Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., according to campaign finance records examined by ABC News, in what some good government groups said created an appearance of impropriety…
One of the pardonees who has become a donor to Sen. Clinton is David Herdlinger, a former prosecutor in Springdale, Ark., who, according to press accounts at the time of his pardon pleaded guilty in 1986 to mail fraud after taking bribes to reduce or drop charges against defendants charged with drunken driving offenses.
Now a life and business coach in Georgia, Herdlinger was pardoned by President Clinton in January 2001; he donated $1,000 to Sen. Clinton’s presidential campaign in August.
Insurance agent Alfredo Regalado, who gave Hillary Clinton $2,000, was pardoned by her husband for failing to “report the transportation of currency in excess of $10,000 into the United States,” according to the Department of Justice.
The third is John Deutch, the Clinton CIA Director who was accused of mishandling government secrets. ABC’s phrasing on this is worth repeating.
Pardoned by President Clinton for charges he had mishandled government secrets — but before the Department of Justice could file the proper paperwork against him — Deutch, now a professor at MIT, gave Sen. Clinton the maximum allowable donation, $2,300.
We never learned, and never will learn, the true extent of Deutch’s actions. Just like Sandy Berger, who is one of Hillary’s national security advisors.
Read the whole story. ABC does a good job of reminding readers about the controversial January 2001 pardons and shenanigans that the Clintons conducted on their way out of power, even mentioning Hillary’s brother’s involvement.
Hillary’s accepting these donations isn’t illegal. But it sure looks like a payback, and taken together with the massive and corrupt bundling that Norman Hsu did on Hillary’s campaign’s behalf, her campaign looks like it’s the most corrupt of the lot by a long shot.
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/11/15/cha-ching-hillary-campaign-takes-cash-from-the-people-that-bill-pardoned/

Kathleen Willey suspects Clintons murdered husband

Kathleen Willey suspects Clintons murdered husband

New book details evidence of ’smear’ campaign orchestrated by Hillary
Posted: November 5, 200711:55 p.m. Eastern
By Art Moore© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
In a new book alleging a campaign of slander and intimidation orchestrated chiefly by Hillary Clinton, Kathleen Willey points a finger of suspicion at the former first couple for the death of her husband, who was believed to have killed himself.
Willey, who claims she was groped by President Clinton in the White House, acknowledged in an interview with WND today that she stands by the speculation she poses about her husband’s demise in “Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton,” set for release this week by World Ahead Publishing, WND Books’ partner.
Asked if she suspects her husband Ed, a lawyer and son of a prominent Virginia lawmaker, was murdered, Willey replied, “Most definitely.”
“I’m having someone with a forensics background look at this, and I intend to pursue this further, now that these questions have been raised,” she told WND, pointing to alleged discrepancies in the autopsy report.
Does she believe the Clintons were involved?
“I do have suspicions,” Willey said, “yes.”

It was Ed Willey’s dire financial straits that prompted Kathleen, then a White House volunteer, to seek a meeting with President Clinton in the Oval Office to plead for a paying job and any other help the commander-in-chief could give.
But Willey alleges the Nov. 29, 1993, meeting ended abruptly when the president cornered her in a private passageway and sexually assaulted her.
At the time of that meeting, Clinton and Willey were unaware that Ed Willey was lying dead of a gunshot wound to his mouth in the woods near his car, parked on a hunting path in rural King and Queen County, Virginia.
Kathleen Willey became known in the summer of 1997 after lawyers for Clinton accuser Paula Jones gave her name to a national magazine reporter. She was scheduled to become one of only three witnesses in the Clinton impeachment trial until some members of the House and Senate refused to allow her to testify.
In the book, Willey recounts numerous incidents she believes were designed to terrorize her into silence, with the latest taking place in September, just as the book was in its final stages.
As WND reported, Willey said she was the target of an unusual house burglary over the Labor Day weekend for which she blames the Clintons. While asleep upstairs in her Virginia home, she said, a copy of a manuscript for “Target” was stolen.
Willey told WND the break-in at her house reminded her of the widely reported incident 10 years ago in which she claimed she was threatened near her present Richmond-area home by a “jogger” just two days before she was to testify against President Clinton in the Jones case.
She contends elements of the autopsy report of her husband’s death are inconsistent with suicide, pointing to similarities to the death of White House aide Vince Foster, also believed to have killed himself.
“I’ve seen too much evidence regarding other people who have been involved with the Clintons,” she told WND.
Facing a deadline to repay hundreds of thousands of dollars he owed to “bad people” who threatened him, Ed Willey had an apparent motive for suicide, and five notes to loved ones were discovered by his secretary.
But Kathleen Willey writes “she could never understand how he could leave us,” noting that while the letters are in his writing, “I also know that anyone would write anything at gunpoint.”
What motive could anyone have to murder him?
Willey writes that after her husband’s death, her friend Carole in Colorado told her something she had not known. Ed had confided to Carole’s husband that he had taken a briefcase full of cash to Little Rock, Ark., during the presidential campaign.
Willey said she was shocked but acknowledged her husband could have done it. Later she found a reference on a blog that explored illegal fundraising activities by the Clintons and noted Ed Willey was known for “handling large briefcases full of cash” as part of the 1992 presidential campaign.
She speculates: “I have no idea how anyone other than the Clintons would know that Ed might have carried cash in briefcases. So why would he be killed? Because he was carrying illegal money? That’s probably not enough reason. But what if, in his desperation, Ed had ‘illegally borrowed’ from the campaign?”
Left-handed
Willey said she requested a copy of the autopsy report and spoke to a medical examiner who told her the powder burns on her husband’s right hand were consistent with suicide.
“When I asked if the burns were indicative of a left-handed person committing suicide, [the examiner] said no. The room started to spin, and I went into the bathroom and threw up. By the time she sent me the full report, though, she’d reconsidered, saying it could be consistent with a left-handed person. She suggested that he held the gun with both hands but pulled the trigger with his right. That’s exactly how Vince Foster is said to have killed himself.”
Willey writes the report raised other questions, including the existence of blood spatter on the back of his left hand rather than his palm; the positions in which his hands were found; livor mortis discovered on the back of his body even though it should be on the front because he was found lying face down; and the fact that the bullet was not recovered.
Willey says she also doesn’t know why he would have gone to King and Queen County, which she had never heard of, and where he would have obtained a .38 Special.
In the book, Willey says she goes back and forth in her mind on what happened to her husband, and “as I do, the possibility lingers, logical or not, that Ed was murdered.”

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/staticarticles/article58533.html

Condoleezza Rice taps Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter for Middle East advice

Rice taps Clinton, Carter for Middle East advice
By Sue PlemingFri Oct 26, 5:27 PM ET
Anxious not to repeat mistakes of past Middle East peace-making, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has turned to former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter for tips ahead of her own conference this year.
Rice invited Carter, a vocal critic of Bush administration policies, to the State Department on Wednesday where the two discussed his Arab-Israeli peacemaking efforts in the 1970s, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said on Friday.
Their talks were “good and cordial,” he said. They focused on the Middle East and not Carter’s recent criticism of President George W. Bush’s policies in Iraq and elsewhere.
A Soviet specialist, Rice also telephoned another former Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who tried, and ultimately failed, in his eight years in office to bring the Israelis and Palestinians together.
“She’s trying to draw on the historical record and the experiences of others to see — see what she can glean and how that may be applicable to the current day,” McCormack said.
“She is a student of history and has a keen appreciation for how we can apply the lessons of history, what we can learn from those who have gone before us,” he said.
Other sources of advice have been former U.S. negotiator Dennis Ross and ex-secretaries of state James Baker, Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright. Rice meets frequently for lunch with Albright, whose father taught Rice at Denver University.
Rice has made clear she will devote all her energy in the Bush administration’s final 14 months to get what others have failed to attain in the past — a viable, independent Palestinian state living side by side with a secure Israel.
The top U.S. diplomat, who has been to Israel and the Palestinian Territories seven times this year and returns next week, is preparing the ground for a Palestinian statehood conference expected to be held in late November or early December, in Annapolis, Maryland.
Clinton hosted many Middle East peace summits at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, even in his final month in office in January 2001, but never managed to get an Israeli-Palestinian deal.
Carter held secret negotiations at Camp David that led to a 1978 deal between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
Rice also has been scouring historical records for pointers. During her summer break in August, she checked out volumes of historical background from the State Department’s library on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, a department official said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071026/ts_nm/mideast_rice_advice_dc_1&printer=1;_ylt=Aq82S6ZTw61RD.jzt9_FQyFg.3QA

President Gerald Ford saw Bill Clinton as a sex ‘addict’

Newser’s book: Ford saw Clinton as a sex ‘addict’
BY TRACY CONNOR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, October 28th 2007, 4:00 AM

Gerald Ford was disturbed by Bill Clinton’s skirt-chasing ways – and thought he should check into a sex addiction clinic.
A new book on the late 38th President reveals he had strong views about the Clintons: He thought Hillary wore the pants and that Bill couldn’t keep his zipped.
“He’s sick – he’s got an addiction. He needs treatment,” Ford told Daily News Washington Bureau Chief Thomas M. DeFrank, author of “Write It When I’m Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford.”
Ford’s wife, Betty, who founded a pioneering treatment center after her battle with alcoholism and drugs, agreed.
“You know, there’s treatment for that kind of addiction,” she told DeFrank during the same conversation in 1999. “A lot of men have gone through the treatment with a lot of success. But he won’t do it, because he’s in denial.”
The Fords first got to know the Clintons in the summer of 1993, when they invited the new First Family to their home in Colorado.
Gerald Ford’s impressions of the Oval Office’s latest tenant were mixed. He believed Clinton was charismatic, articulate, a “helluva salesman” and the best politician he’d ever seen – even better than John F. Kennedy.
But he considered Clinton a foreign-policy wimp, and sensed that he hadn’t learned from mistakes in his personal life – allegations of womanizing that dogged him during the campaign for the White House.
That opinion was based on behavior Ford witnessed the weekend he hosted the Clintons in Colorado.
“I’ll tell you one thing: He didn’t miss one good-looking skirt at any of the social occasions,” Ford said later.
“He’s got a wandering eye, I’ll tell you that. Betty had the same impression; he isn’t very subtle about his interest.”
Nevertheless, when the Monica Lewinsky sex-and-perjury scandal erupted and barreled toward impeachment, Ford was willing to help Clinton – to a point.
After the House voted to impeach Clinton but before the Senate’s decision on whether to convict him, the sitting President phoned the ex-President.
“He said he needed my help and wanted to know if I could help,” Ford recalled not long after.
Ford had written two Op-Ed pieces in which he called for Clinton to admit he had lied to federal investigators in exchange for censure over impeachment.
He told Clinton that he would help him, if he agreed to such a deal.
“Bill I think you have to admit that you lied. If you do that, I think that will help – and I’ll help you. If you’ll admit to perjury, I’ll do more,” he said.
“I won’t do that,” Clinton told him. “I can’t do that.”
Ford was stunned by Clinton’s lack of contrition. “It’s a character flaw,” he concluded.
Still, he seemed to feel for Clinton on a personal level.
“I’m convinced that Clinton has a sexual addiction. He needs to get help – for his sake. He’s already damaged his presidency beyond repair,” he told DeFrank.
In Ford’s eyes, Clinton’s weaknesses were in sharp contrast to his wife’s iron will.
“She’s stronger and tougher than he is,” he said. “When she takes a point you’re gonna have to be damn sure you’re well informed because she won’t compromise as quickly or as easily as he.
“She’s very bright. She’s strong, and I think he defers to her. When she gets her dander up, she ain’t gonna roll over.”
And he had no doubts about her ambitions. “Hillary is gonna be on the ticket in ‘04 or ‘08, one or the other, you can write that down,” he said in 2002.
Yet he didn’t think she would win – “I don’t think the country is ready for a lady President,” he said – and he didn’t live long enough to find out if he was right.
The Clintons, through spokesman Howard Wolfson, declined to comment about the book.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/10/28/2007-10-28_newsers_book_ford_saw_clinton_as_a_sex_a.html

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Bill Clinton goes to London with his entourage of over 20 bodyguards

Bill Clinton brings Reservoir Dogs to London with his entourage of over 20 bodyguards

By COLIN FERNANDEZ
Whoever said it’s lonely at the top, it wasn’t Bill Clinton.
The former President is constantly surrounded by an entourage of more than 20 bodyguards.
So when he attended a book signing in London on Thursday, he brought a crowd of his own.
The one-time US leader looked like he was auditioning for a part in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
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The burly men in suits fanned out around 61-year-old Mr Clinton as he went window shopping in Jermyn Street before arriving at the Piccadilly branch of Waterstone’s.
Fortunately for the former resident of the White House, they turned out to be heavily outnumbered by 1,000 or so fans who bought his book Giving – How Each of Us Can Change the World.
Mr Clinton stood down in 2001. Former Presidents and their spouses are entitled to be guarded by the Secret Service for ten years after they leave office.
He flew to Britain to attend a fundraising meeting at a private house in Windsor for Democrats Abroad.
His wife Hillary is a frontrunner to win the Democrats’ presidential nomination.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=485696&in_page_id=1770

Bill Clinton says Hillary wants me to restore image of US

Bill Clinton: Hillary wants me to restore image of US
Oliver BurkemanFriday October 5, 2007
GuardianIf Hillary Clinton wins the US presidency, Bill Clinton will be given the job of repairing America’s damaged international reputation, the former president tells the Guardian in an interview today.
Mr Clinton, 61, reveals that his wife has said she would ask him to “go out and immediately restore America’s standing, go out and tell people America was open for business and cooperation again” after eight years marked by unilateralist policies that have “enrage[d] the world”.
For the first time in his political life, Mr Clinton says, “ordinary US voters in the heartlands are concerned about who would be most likely to restore America’s standing in the world” in the wake of the Iraq war, lack of action on climate change and other policies.
“The average American knows instinctively that we have almost no problems in the world that we can solve all by ourselves,” he says. “And that, I think, is helping her candidacy, because people believe – I think rightly – that if she were elected she would quickly move to restore our standing in the world, and tell people there may be a few occasions when we have to do something on our own, but our strong preference is going to be to be cooperative.”
The collective effect of American unilateralism has been “to enrage the world at the very moment when we had more support than we’ve had in recent memory, because of 9/11″, Mr Clinton says.
The former president was visiting London this week to host a fundraising dinner for his wife’s campaign, and to promote his new book, Giving, which urges people to give time and money to good causes regardless of their age or wealth.
Inspired by Nelson Mandela, Mr Clinton has played a key role in tapping new wealth from the IT sector as a source of philanthropic funds. At last week’s Clinton Global Initiative event in New York, he said, individuals, corporations and world leaders pledged at least $10bn (£4.9bn), and possibly twice that.
Mr Clinton argues that American voters are tiring of a politics and media that have been under the sway of “the most ideological, rightwing element of the Republican party”, leading to a national climate in which “three-dimensional reality” has been turned into “two-dimensional cartoons, and then [the rightwing media] try to get people to divide up on the basis of whether you like the cartoon or not … I want the American people to stop rewarding the ideological wing of the Republican party, so we can have a centre-left party and a centre-right party and they can have real debates about real things.”
Ms Clinton’s presidential campaign is looking stronger than ever. One recent poll shows the New York senator opening up a 33% lead over her closest contender for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama, and a Washington Post/ABC News poll released yesterday suggested she would beat the Republican frontrunner, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, by a 51-43% margin in an election.
Mr Clinton says his wife’s image as a ruthlessly ambitious politician is unfair. “Contrary to the image that has been cultivated about my wife, she’s always been a rather reluctant electoral person,” he says. Soon after they met, he says, he suggested they split up so that both could enter politics. But she told him: “You know, it’s just not my thing … I don’t know if people would ever want to vote for me. I’m just too outspoken.”
Mr Clinton reveals that he advised Tony Blair to take a break after leaving No 10, but said there was no way he could turn down the opportunity to become an international envoy to the Middle East. “He and I care too much about the Middle East peace,” he says.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,330889967-110878,00.html

Ann Coulter Blames Clinton and Carter for 9/11

Coulter Culture
Ann Blames Clinton, Carter for 9/11 and Dreams of Denying Women the Vote
Published: October 2, 2007
Ann Coulter’s new book, If Democrats Had Any Brains They’d Be Republicans, hits bookshelves today, and as is his wont, George Gurley sat down with the self-proclaimed right-wing polemicist for a long chat [UPDATED: read the complete interview here].

George gave us a few bits of wit and wisdom from his interview, while the television is going wild about the beminiskirted babe.

On how much blame Bill Clinton deserves for the terrorist attacks of 9/11:

A lot. Jimmy Carter got the whole thing started, Bill Clinton let it build, build, build, build, build. He wouldn’t deal with it, because he had no credibility on deploying the military. He was a pot smoking draft dodger, and so when he was presented with credible evidence that this or that country was behind a terrorist attack, he’d just have to look the other way: “No, don’t let me hear that. Call in Monica!”

On women:

If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.

It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it’s the party of women and ‘We’ll pay for health care and tuition and day care — and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?’

On why global warming is religion on the left:

Because we can’t prove them wrong for a thousand years, and I think the other thing about it is, it goes back to Chesterton’s statement: that when people stop believing in God, the problem isn’t that they believe in nothing, it’s that they’ll believe anything. And that’s what you constantly see with people who don’t believe in God: They’re always imitating the most ridiculous, primitive religions. And it is like a primitive religion, thinking if we just change these lightbulbs, we can change the temperature of the ocean. It’s the craziest thing! Even primitive people wouldn’t believe something that silly.
http://www.observer.com/2007/coulter-culture

Bill Clinton Appointed San Francisco Judge extends block on illegal worker laws

Judge extends block on illegal worker plan
Mon Oct 1, 9:35 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. federal court judge on Monday extended an order preventing the Department of Homeland Security from launching a controversial new program to root out illegal immigrants in the nation’s workforce.
Judge Charles Breyer of the U.S. District Court for Northern California, after a two-hour hearing, extended a temporary restraining order for 10 days while he prepares a decision on the legality of the department’s efforts.
Breyer’s order also blocked the Social Security Administration from sending out 140,000 letters to employers with employees whose names don’t match their Social Security numbers.
An earlier order by the court blocking the government program was to expire on Monday.
Breyer raised a number of issues in the hearing, including the language and legality of the “no-match” letters, possible discrimination in firing illegal Hispanic workers and not other illegal employees, staffing and cost burdens for companies to comply with regulations, and responsibilities and liabilities for employers.
The government’s enforcement campaign was rolled out in August after Congress failed to pass a comprehensive overhaul of immigration laws.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the proposed program was the most the government could do to fight illegal immigration as long as Congress did not act.
The AFL-CIO, American Civil Liberties Association and other labor and business groups, however, challenged the government in a lawsuit claiming that the rules could discriminate against immigrant employees and place an unfair burden on employers.
Employers currently must verify that their workers are in the United States legally by collecting their Social Security numbers and immigration documents.
Those numbers are checked against the federal government’s databases and employers are notified if employees don’t match up but they are not required to take action.
Under the new rule, however, employers notified of a mismatch will have 90 days to confirm that an employee is in the country legally or fire him if not.
Employers also could face fines as well as possible criminal charges if they don’t comply with the program.
There are an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S.
The government has already stepped up raids of companies employing illegal workers, deporting a record 185,421 in fiscal year 2006.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071002/ts_nm/usa_immigration_dc_2

Bill Clinton Chastising America