Whitewater investigation finally ends

[electropop]

"Whitewater investigation finally ends

Monday, March 20, 2006; Posted: 4:16 p.m. EST (21:16 GMT)

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- The seven-year, $70 million Whitewater investigation that toppled an Arkansas governor and dogged Bill Clinton for most of his presidency officially drew to a close Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the last remaining appeal.

...

"It has been drawn out a long time," said W. Hickman Ewing, who was a chief deputy to Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr. "It just shows you people can keep things going."

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Clinton was never charged."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/20/scotus.whitewater.tucker.ap/index.html

Great. One more opportunity to talk about the Clenis.

[Fenris]

1. Jesus, what a fucking waste of resources.

[Rex]

2. More BS that Dems should NOT put up with!

A 70 million dollar witch hunt that netted NOTHING.

[MADem]

3. And one LAST opportunity to whine about Whitewater

The GOP Supremes could have kept hope alive, but they chose to let it ride. About time the GOP just "got over it!"

[babylonsister]

4. I don't see many talking about this; $70Mil? That's a

huge embarrassment!

[SpiralHawk]

8. And less than $11 million to investigate 9/11

and produce an incompetent report that is a pack of cover up lies

Thje Republicon culture of corruption is an Anal Cyst on America

[MissWaverly]

15. 70 million = zero results, priceless

another Republican triumph

140 hours investigating Clinton's Christmas cards for evidence of malfeasance
8 hours spent investigating Abu Ghraib

[flamingyouth]

5. Well, that was money well spent.

Assholes.

[HereSince1628]

6. That's OK. I'm gonna enjoy 5 more years of Fitzgerald.

Just imagine what good he can do for the world once the Chimp can't give pardons :)

[SomewhereOutThere424]

10. 5 years?

If they dragged out whitewater this long I can only hope fitzgerald is an embarassment to the bush family for a loooong long time...

[bananas]

7. Great photo of Bill with the article!

[warrens]

9. And when to the Repukes apologize?

Bunch of lying, warmongering, budget-busting, incompetent nazi freaks that they are.

[unblock]

11. thank god dubya is an upstanding christian so we don't need investigations

:sarcasm:

[chelsea0011]

12. Whitewater? Those were the days when an investigation had

to go forward to find out why Clinton lost money on a backwater Arkansas land deal.

[daleo]

13. 70 million dollars

That could have kept the Iraq war going for what, 3 or 4 hours?

[WI_DEM]

14. And yet the democrats are reluctant to even censure Bush over

his very real lawlessness.

[Zenlitened]

18. Yep. Hard to figure, isn't it?

:(

[Imalittleteapot]

16. Hallelujah! With all of the money we will save,

now that the investigation is ended, could we take some of what we would have spent and put it into an investigation of GWB lawbreaking and lying?

[Zenlitened]

17. Democratic leaders ought be trying to make this a major story.

It's a perfect opportunity to paint a contrast between the zeal to go after Clinton back then, versus the rubber-stamp, anything-goes repuke Congress we have now.

But then, our party leaders haven't exactly distinguished themselves in making the most of opportunities lately.

:(

[chaumont58]

19. Someone should tell Len Downie

Back when Clinton was President, I used to pepper WaPo editor Len Downie with tidbits of what I thought of his work, and his paper's work. He replied only one time, and that was near the end of the OIC's work. He was convinced the final report covering Whitewater would castigate the Clintons, and that's what his reply email predicted. It didn't, but I heard nothing more from him. I've never understood the hatred the beltway whores had for the Clintons, but it was real.

[Divernan]

20. Still lying -Ken Starr today- submitting forged witness statements.

From Wikipedia' entry on Kenneth Starr:

Anti-Death Penalty
In 2005, Starr worked to overturn the death sentence of Robin Lovitt, who was on Virginia's Death Row for murdering a man during a robbery in 1998. Starr provided his services to Lovitt pro bono. On October 3, 2005, the Supreme Court denied certiorari. (Lovitt was granted clemency and had his sentence commuted to life in prison without parole, on November 29, 2005, by Governor Mark Warner of Virginia.)

On January 26, 2006, the defense team of convicted murderer Michael Morales (which included Starr) sent letters to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger requesting clemency for Morales <4>. Letters purportedly from the jurors who determined Morales's death sentence were included in the package sent to Schwarzenegger. Following revelations on February 11 that these jurors have denied the validity of the declarations <5>, Starr and his team had to withdraw the forged documents.
************************************
Same old, same old game playing. He pressured Susan McDougal to lie and she wouldn't. Now he evidently just makes up statements and forges signatures.

[jansu]

21. It's not the first time he has use perjuried testamony.......

The rumor is that the "cops" who testified in the
Paula Jones case were bought for $10,000.00. He was the lawyer
behind all of this, right from the start.  Still trying to
find that info. Anyone have it? 

[chrisfloyd]

22. What a waste

Truly. A waste.

[Old and In the Way]

23. Gee, Republicans did so much investigating of Presidents in the 90's,

they wore themselves plumb out.




:sarcasm:

[Old and In the Way]

24. K & R.....we should see this amped all over the blogosphere.

[dbt]

25. Kick for the innocent Arkansans deliberately RUINED by Kenneth Starr!

"Oh, we know you didn't do anything," said Starr's minions to my niece's husband, "but if you don't give us something we can use (against Clinton), we're going to take everything you have." And so it was.

Starr, you smug, sanctimonious, puritanical Son Of A Whore, I hope the last thing you see before you catch the red-carpet flight to the brand new CNN Circle Of HELL is Susan McDougal's laughing face. Maybe she'll let you wear her chains.

BURN, MOTHERFUCKER.
BURN.

[AndyA]

26. No double standard

We just spent millions of dollars and years trying to pin something - ANYTHING - on the Clintons, and the activities of The Bush Crime Family™ go unquestioned.

The hypocricy is explosive!

[The Backlash Cometh]

27. Whitewater should be the definition of a frivolous lawsuit.

70 million dollars JUST to dog a Democratic president. That's what it was always about, because they sure don't have the same zeal to go after corruption when it involves members of their own party.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

28. This is Exhibit A for MSM double standard.

The Clintons were exonerated in 1995 by the Madison Sutro report, The NYT continued to back the irresponsible reporting of Jeff Gerth who had been misled by operatives of the infamous Arkansas project. All of this has been documented by Gene Lyons and Joe Conason in Fools for Scandal and The Hunting of the President.

The NYT will NOT, to this day, admit their culpability in misleading the American public about a Democratic president, something they would not have done to a Republican.

[underpants]

29. "The Hunting of the President" I *HIGHLY* recommend it

I have to admit that I had no idea how much complete BS was wrapped around this whole mess. A complete waste of time. You are right the NYT and Newsweek both created and nurtured this BS as they tried to create their own Watergate...and to aid their Republican friends.

[electropop]

32. Oh, the NYT misleads about Republican

misleaders too. They parrot all the Republican lies.

[Minnesota Libra]

30. Suppose neocons will FINALLY quit obsessing on Clinton?? nt

[Gregorian]

31. As sick as this is, there's a bright side.

Bush won't outlive the litigation that he will face.

Edit- And Cheney.