The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr

[RamboLiberal]

Book comes out Feb 16th.

Eye-opening findings in an upcoming book on the Bill Clinton impeachment saga, by interim Duquesne University Law School Dean Ken Gormley, surfaced on a leading political Web site yesterday afternoon.

The book includes reports on how close both Mr. Clinton and his wife, Hillary, were to being indicted, on an affair Mr. Clinton had with an Arkansas woman who went to jail for refusing to answer questions from prosecutors, and a new claim by Monica Lewinsky that the president lied under oath.

Mr. Gormley's book does not spare independent Whitewater counsel Kenneth Starr either. "The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr" describes a secret report from the Justice Department criticizing the prosecutor's early handling of Ms. Lewinsky, how the investigation led to high-stakes fights between the FBI and the Secret Service, and how Mr. Starr's team drafted impeachment papers for Congress before the Lewinsky matters ever surfaced.

The Whitewater scandal, Mr. Clinton's affair with his intern and his subsequent impeachment -- which the House approved 11 years ago tomorrow -- may seem like ages ago. Mr. Gormley's 769-page book, the first major, scholarly look at the scandal, took him more than nine years to complete. The research included 50 hours of interviews with Mr. Starr and three interviews with Mr. Clinton, including a meeting with the former president on the top floor of the Omni William Penn Hotel.

"Look back -- there were terrorists stalking the country and we were fixated on this. It's really a tragedy in many ways," Mr. Gormley said yesterday. "The hope is is a small contribution toward all of us realizing the dangers of pushing so far for our team that we forget the institutions we're all trying to protect."

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09352/1021884-455.stm#ixzz0a3WolcOF

[Bucky]

1. It was barely news 10 years ago. Today it's less than trivial.

I've met some of the Arkansas people in this circle being redragged back into the public glare. They're decent people who made a few ordinary mistakes in their lives. It's really not worth the bother and it's certainly not a scandal when the Clintons & MacDougals actually lost money on this deal.

Gormley might have written an interesting book here, but the only thing getting mention in all this seems to be the gossipy crap.

[PRETZEL]

3. They not only did lose money,

but when Madison Guarantee was taken over by the OTS this deal was reviewed by the KC Regional Office and was found not to have been a fraudulant deal.

That in and of itself should have shut Whitewater down. It's unfortunate that nobody even bothered to question the motives of the people in KC.

[Nite Owl]

2. And Bu$h and Cheney

are free...and and all the others in that administration.