High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton by Ann Coulter

Author:Ann Coulter [Coulter, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781596986701
Amazon: B004K6MCM4
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2011-01-06T23:00:00+00:00

As Clinton’s deputy attorney general asked, “[A]re you hiding something?”

THE WHITE HOUSE HIDES THE TRUTH

Foster’s death occurred during the period when the Whitewater investigation was heating up. Foster had been heavily involved with Madison’s affairs at the Rose Law Firm; at the White House he had been the designated water-carrier on the Whitewater/Madison issue. After his death—and by the White House’s own admission—tax and business files pertinent to the Clintons were removed from his office.

Indeed, some months after Foster’s death, Associate White House Counsel William Kennedy and Clinton adviser Bruce Lindsey met with Clinton’s personal lawyer, David Kendall, and his staff to bring them up to speed on Whitewater. At first the White House asserted attorney-client privilege to protect notes taken by taxpayer-funded White House lawyer Kennedy at the November 5, 1993, meeting. When the twelve pages of notes were finally produced, the reason for the White House’s reluctance became clear. Among other intriguing entries, Kennedy had written: “Vacuum Rose Law Firm files. Never know go out. Quietly.” The White House tried to explain that “Vacuum Rose Law Firm files” simply referred to an existing vacuum in the files. And oral sex is not adultery.

Secrecy, blocking official investigative work, phone calls involving Mrs. Clinton, executive privilege research, failing to call Mrs. Foster, delivering files to the family quarters of the White House—all these suggest, at a minimum, a panicked effort to suppress incriminating documents, possibly on Whitewater, possibly on Travelgate, possibly on both, or on other scandals. Congressional committees, and later Special Prosecutor Robert Fiske and Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, would have had a legitimate interest in these documents. Deliberately preventing their discovery is an act of obstruction of justice.

Of course, it’s hard to prove documents have been destroyed once they’ve been destroyed. Or vacuumed. It is evident that officials high in the Clinton White House hierarchy at least wanted to make sure that reliable political spear-carriers—not law-enforcement agents—took the first cut at Foster’s papers. This suggests an interest in obstructing justice, or at least in taking a peek to see if there was any justice there that needed obstructing.

There is a reason the law imposes severe penalties for obstruction of justice. Criminals have incentive enough to destroy incriminating documents. The law needs to create a strong counterweight.

Members of Clinton’s splinter party of defenders continually insist that they do not believe the president should be above the law, but he shouldn’t be below the law either. Well, other citizens can’t turn the FBI away when it drops in for an investigation. Other citizens go to jail for carting off documents from an office subject to an investigation. Other citizens apparently do not have as much to hide as the president.

The president and first lady, it seems, wanted to obscure something about Foster’s work on Whitewater, which may have revealed presidential corruption, or Foster’s work on the Travel Office firings, which may have revealed presidential abuse of power. But now “the American people will never know really what was in there.”

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