Susan McDougal
AP 3/11/99 Pete Yost "… For the first time, prosecutor
Kenneth Starr's office alleged today that a fraudulent $300,000 federal loan
taken out by Susan McDougal in the mid-1980s was used to help pay off an
earlier loan taken out in President Clinton's name for the Whitewater land
venture. In testimony at Mrs. McDougal's obstruction of justice and contempt
trial, FBI agent Mike Patkus made the first link between the fradulent federal
loan and a possible benefit to Clinton, who at the time of the 1986
transactions was Arkansas governor…. But Patkus testified that he discovered a $27,600
loan from Madison S&L to Clinton taken out in 1982 while pouring through
microfilm records of the failed thrift. And he then traced for the jury a
series of complex transactions that showed how the 1982 Clinton loan came to be
reimbursed through the $300,000 loan Mrs. McDougal took out from a SBA lender
four years later. Patkus, an accountant, said Whitewater real estate agent
Chris Wade paid off most of the $27,600 loan in Clinton's name and then was
reimbursed from proceeds by another bank loan Mrs. McDougal took out. Mrs.
McDougal then took the proceeds from the fraudulent $300,000 loan and paid off
the bank loan used for Wade…."
Conservativenews.com 4/24 Chris Vlasto Investigative Reporter
ABC News "…"I know where all the bodies are buried." Those were
the words that Susan McDougal said to me long before any pundits decided to
call her a martyr, something likely to continue after her scheduled appearance
today in front of the Whitewater grand jury in Little Rock… It took three years
and a felony conviction for her to agree to do an interview. It came suddenly.
She called in August 1996 and said she was ready to tell all. She wanted to
come to New York without her lawyer’s knowledge to be interviewed by Diane
Sawyer. She flew up to New York alone. We met at the Essex House bar to discuss
the areas we were going to cover in the interview. The conversation was
off-the-record, but at the time she promised she was going to answer all the
questions on television. Overnight, everything changed. After the arrival of
her brother, Bill Henley, and her fiancé, Pat Harris, in the wee hours of the
morning, Ms. McDougal began singing a different tune. With the cameras rolling,
Ms. McDougal was constantly interrupted by the two men when Ms. Sawyer asked
her sensitive questions involving President Clinton. She couldn’t get a word in
when Ms. Sawyer asked her whether Mr. Clinton knew anything about the illegal
$300,000 loan she received from David Hale. The president has denied under oath
knowing anything about that loan. Here’s how the interview went: Ms. Sawyer:
"Did Mr. Clinton know anything about your loan?" Ms. McDougal:
"That’s probably something that my attorney would not want me to talk
about." [To Messrs. Henley and Harris: "I hate that, guys!"]
"God, I hate this, Diane! Sorry!" Ms. Sawyer: "Did he?" Mr.
Henley: "That’s a perfect answer." Ms. McDougal: "Jeez, I hate
that though!" Mr. Henley: "That’s the only answer you have." Ms.
McDougal: "That’s the only answer I have." I was confused by her
silence. I knew she was angry at Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, but we at
"Prime Time Live" weren’t the prosecutors. I asked her fiancé why she
wouldn’t answer the questions. He said "we have to save something for the
prosecutors, we have to give them something." I concluded that she must
know something incriminating about Mr. Clinton, and reluctantly accepted her
silence. Ms. McDougal went back to Little Rock to face the federal grand jury.
Five days after the taping of our interview, she was cited for contempt of court.
I watched Ms. McDougal outside the courthouse stridently declare she wasn’t
going to answer Mr. Starr’s questions, which got her 18 months in jail. I know
she met with her attorney Bobby McDaniel and talked with Alan Dershowitz after
our New York interview. But that Wednesday in Little Rock, I saw a completely
different Susan McDougal. She no longer told her intriguing tales. After
countless conversations, there was silence. Did someone get to her, or was she
playing a game with me all along? …"
Reuter via NewsEdge Corporation 3/15/99 "…An FBI agent
testified Monday that the only evidence linking President Clinton to an alleged
1980s loan linked to the Whitewater land deal is testimony from a convicted
felon who died last year. ``The only thing that connected Bill Clinton to that
loan was Jim McDougal's testimony,'' agent Michael Patkus said at the trial of
McDougal's ex-wife, Susan, who is charged with obstruction of justice for
refusing to testify to a grand jury called by independent counsel Kenneth Starr….
Before he died in prison last year, James McDougal had begun cooperating with
Starr and had told investigators that he had made a $27,600 loan to the
president when Clinton was governor of Arkansas, reversing testimony he had
given at another trial….. Starr deputy Hickman Ewing, prosecuting the case
against Susan McDougal, based his allegation on earlier testimony from Patkus
that James McDougal had called the check a loan to Clinton….."
Newsmax 3/24/99 "…Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reports a
juicy little tidbit that should be of interest to those following Susan
McDougal's current criminal contempt trial, according to the advance word on
his upcoming book, "Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story". It seems
St. Susan's persistent silence before Ken Starr's grand jury had to do with
sex, at least in part. She feared that Whitewater prosecutors would question
her about her suspected liaison with then-Governor Clinton; one that would have
coincided with his alleged efforts to steer an illegal SBA loan her way. Before
McDougal's Sept. 1996 grand jury appearance, legal gadfly Alan Dershowitz
reportedly advised that she'd have to answer the sex question if prosecutors
posed it…. This January, onetime White House campaign-guru Dick Morris told FOX
News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" that Clinton himself was
worried that the Whitewater-sex connection would be exposed. Morris revealed
that the President asked him how he should respond if prosecutors raised the
issue during his April 1996 Whitewater trial testimony….."
Washington Weekly 3/29/99 L D Brown "…"It was his (Jim
McDougal's) idea to get the horse." Susan McDougal was referring to the
goofy television advertisement for one of the many money making escapades
launched with her husband Jim during their glory days in Arkansas. Much to the
amusement of the assortment of journalists, Susan recalled this and other
events as she sought to explain away refusing to answer prosecutors questions
at her trial for criminal contempt in Little Rock. I remember Bill Clinton and I
watching that commercial one day at the Governor's Mansion in Little Rock. As
Susan sat astride her mount she delivered a pitch for Maple Creek Farms, at the
time a McDougal real estate project. "She looks good in those riding pants
doesn't she?" Bill asked me, knowing I would agree that the then-trim
Susan cut an attractive figure. Relevant to the trial subject matter scheduled
for this week, Bill added, "She looks even better out of them!"
…"
Capitol Hill Blue 6/9/99 "...VULNERABILITY: Unknown. Did
she hold a candle for Clinton? Or was this a Joan of Arc complex?..."
Female Secret Service
NY Post 3/11/99 Richard Johnson Jeane MacIntosh Kate Coyne
Freeper Prince Charles "…PRESIDENT Clinton survived his impeachment trial,
but might not be out of the woods yet. His next scandal is expected to be the
allegation that he had the hots for three female Secret Service agents.
Confidential FBI files, according to Star magazine's ace reporter Richard
Gooding, reveal how ''three female agents told colleagues of presidential
hanky-panky - including one who is said to have filed a complaint that he
frequently 'hit on her,' sources say. That agent later withdrew the complaint
when her request for a transfer was granted.'' The FBI files - kept under lock
and key by Congress - were said to be the deciding factor for several wavering
House members who ultimately voted to impeach…."
Capitol Hill Blue 6/9/99 "...One agent is said to have been
sexually assaulted by the president and two others to have been sexually
involved with him...."
Freeper Gary Aldrich 6/11/99 reports "...My sources close
to the Secret Service tell me that there is something to the claims that at
least one female Secret Service agent is in hiding, sheltered in a position
where she will get maximum protection from Clinton friends, and a curious media
who are on to the story. I have more details on this, but I see no point to
exposing the story when there seems to be no interest on the part of any Secret
Service agent to protect their own against this kind of outrage. In my opinion,
there is a limit to what a federal employee (even an SS agent) should put up
with. I read my oath the other day, and it clearly states that I take my oath
to the Constitution.....not to any man, not to any group. I'm fairly certain that
SS agents take that same oath........Is there one patriot among the bunch of
them? I guess we shall see...."
14 Year Old
NewsMax.Com 3/10/99 Carl Limbacher "…Of
all the Jane Doe leads described to NewsMax.com, one was more shocking than all
the others put together. And because of its sensitive nature, Rick Lambert
stressed that he had but one witness account to substantiate the story. Still,
it was the case that troubled him the most. This Jane Doe was just 14 years old
at the time of her Clinton encounter. And, according to the witness in whom she
confided years later, she had attended a 1984 party co-hosted by Arkansas bond
daddy Dan Lasater and Clinton's brother Roger. Both would later serve jail time
on drug charges. As told to Lambert, the girl was rendered unconscious by a
deliberate overdose. And when she came to she was half-naked, with the governor
of the state of Arkansas on top of her. Beyond that single sourced account, the
evidence to back up the story is circumstantial. Lasater was, for instance,
convicted of "social distribution," based on allegations he used the
lure of free cocaine to get wayward young women to entertain his male party
guests. Other corroboration comes from Roger Clinton's then-landlady, Jane
Parks, who has spoken on the record about the wild parties Roger threw attended
by his older brother, the governor. Parks says marijuana and cocaine were the
intoxicants of choice and the women came and went at all hours of the day and
night. Sometimes the female company was "surprisingly young,"
according to Parks. Her office shared a wall with Roger's apartment and she was
able to hear as well as see quite a lot. In 1997 Parks told the London
Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard that she could clearly distinguish Gov.
Clinton's voice through the ventilation duct when, on at least two occasions,
he had sex with the party girls. Parks' assistant told Evans-Pritchard she
thought that some of Roger's female guests were perilously close to underage,
"probably 17, 18 years old." According to Lambert, the young assault
victim fled Arkansas when Gov. Clinton won the 1992 Democratic presidential
nomination. Lambert and several reporters traced the girl, now a woman in her
late 20s, to California. But she remained elusive till the end…."
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