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    So the Clinton's weren't so bad...or were they?

    So the Clinton's weren't so bad...or were they?

    Posted by Amy L. Geiger-Hemmer on Nov. 7, 2015

    The following has made its rounds on the Internet for quite a while, but now with Mrs. Clinton being crowned "The One" as the Democratic presidential candidate, it bears repeating. (Author unknown).
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    If you're under 50 you really need to read this. If you're over 50, you lived through it, so share it with those under 50.

    When Bill Clinton was president, he allowed Hillary to assume authority over a health care reform. Even after threats and intimidation, she couldn't even get a vote in a democratic controlled congress. This fiasco cost the American taxpayers about $13 million in cost for studies, promotion, and other efforts
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    Then President Clinton gave Hillary authority over selecting a female attorney general. Her first two selections were Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood - both were forced to withdraw their names from consideration.

    Next she chose Janet Reno - husband Bill described her selection as "my worst mistake."Some may not remember that Reno made the decision to gas David Koresh and the Branch Davidian religious sect in Waco , Texas resulting in dozens of deaths of women and children.

    Husband Bill allowed Hillary to make recommendations for the head of the Civil Rights Commission. Lani Guanier was her selection. When a little probing led to the discovered of Ms. Guanier's radical views, her name had to be withdrawn from consideration. Apparently a slow learner, husband Bill allowed Hillary to make some more recommendations. She chose former law partners Web Hubbel for the Justice Department, Vince Foster for the White House staff, and William Kennedy for the Treasury Department. Her selections went well: Hubbel went to prison, Foster (presumably) committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.

    Many younger votes will have no knowledge of "Travelgate." Hillary wanted to award unfettered travel contracts to Clinton friend Harry Thompson - and the White House Travel Office refused to comply. She managed to have them reported to the FBI and fired. This ruined their reputations, cost them their jobs, and caused a thirty-six month investigation. Only one employee, Billy Dale was charged with a crime, and that of the enormous crime of mixing personal and White House funds. A jury acquitted him of any crime in less than two hours.

    Still not convinced of her ineptness, Hillary was allowed to recommend a close Clinton friend, Craig Livingstone, for the position of Director of White House security. When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of about 900 FBI files of Clinton enemies (Filegate) and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, suddenly Hillary and the president denied even knowing Livingstone, and of course, denied knowledge of drug use in the White House. Following this debacle, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office after more than thirty years of service to seven presidents.

    Next, when women started coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment and rape by Bill Clinton, Hillary was put in charge of the "bimbo eruption" and scandal defense. Some of her more notable decisions in the debacle was: She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit. After the Starr investigation they settled with Ms. Jones.

    She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor. After $80 million dollars of taxpayer money was spent, Starr's investigation led to Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs. Hillary's devious game plan resulted in Bill losing his license to practice law for 'lying under oath' to a grand jury and then his subsequent impeachment by the House of Representatives.

    Hillary avoided indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice during the Starr investigation by repeating, "I do not recall," "I have no recollection," and "I don't know" a total of 56 times while under oath.

    After leaving the White House, Hillary was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork that she had stolen.

    What a swell party - ready for another four or eight year of this type low-life mess? Now we are exposed to the destruction of possibly incriminating emails while Hillary was Secretary of State and the "pay to play" schemes of the Clinton Foundation - we have no idea what shoe will fall next.

    But to her loyal fans - "what difference does it make?"


    Electing Hillary Clinton president would be like granting Satan absolution and giving him the keys to heaven! Please pass this on. Our way of life may depend on it.
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    After leaving the White House, Hillary was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork that she had stolen.

    Did they rent a U Haul for it?
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    From the LA Times 2001.

    Clintons Began Taking White House Property a Year Ago


    February 10, 2001|From the Washington Post

    WASHINGTON — President Clinton and his wife started shipping White House furniture to the Clintons' newly purchased home in New York more than a year ago, despite questions at the time by the White House chief usher about whether they were entitled to remove the items.

    The day before the items were shipped out, chief usher Gary Walters said he questioned whether the Clintons should be taking the furnishings because he believed they were government property donated as part of a White House redecoration project in 1993, during Clinton's first year in office.

    But Walters was told by the White House counsel's office that the items he asked about--which included an iron-and-glass coffee table, a painted TV armoire, a custom wood gaming table and a wicker table with wood top--were "personal gifts received by the Clintons prior to President Clinton assuming office."

    Personal property brought to the White House by an incoming president does not have to be disclosed on financial reports. As a result of the counsel's determination, the furnishings were sent on to the Clinton's new home in Chappaqua, N.Y.



    However, government records show that the gifts that concerned Walters did not arrive at the White House until after the Clintons moved in. At least one of these items, a Ficks-Reed wicker table, was logged in at the White House on Feb. 8, 1993. The widow of the manufacturer, Joy Ficks, said last week that it was meant for the White House, not the Clintons.

    This week, the Clintons returned the four items to the White House, along with other furnishings, after questions were raised about whether they actually belonged to the Clintons. All the furnishings had been designated official White House property by the Park Service in 1993.

    Julia Payne, a spokeswoman for the former president, said the Clintons wanted to be "over cautious" in light of the concerns that had been raised. Despite the questions posed by Walters, Payne said the Clintons or their interior decorator acquired the four items in Little Rock, Ark., before they came to Washington.

    Kaki Hockersmith, the interior decorator, did not return repeated calls this week seeking comment.

    The Clintons came under strong criticism after disclosing that they were taking with them $190,000 in gifts received over the last eight years. GOP lawmakers and others criticized Hillary Rodham Clinton in particular for accepting many presents just before she joined the Senate and became covered by strict ethics rules that prohibit accepting gifts worth more than $50.

    Bowing to such criticism, the Clintons decided Feb. 2 to pay for $86,000 worth of gifts given them in 2000. This week, they agreed to return another set of gifts, including the four items questioned by Walters, and $28,500 more in furnishings identified by the Washington Post this week as having been legally designated as White House property by the National Park Service.

    Walters said he accepted the determination of the counsel's office that the gifts were personal Clinton property without a fuss. "I'm not a lawyer. I didn't feel I was in a position to argue with the counsel's office." He said he'd been troubled all along by the lack of donor letters.

    Payne said, "No item, nothing, was removed without the approval of the usher's and curator's office."

    Walters blamed himself for not raising questions when the rest of the furnishings were taken from the White House last month. He said an aide to Sen. Clinton had told him these too were "the Clintons' personal property."

    "I should have asked for more specifics on these items," he said. "I shoulder the blame for not saying, 'Hey, wait a minute.' "

    http://articles.latimes.com/2001/feb/10/news/mn-23723


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    ABC News
    Clintons Return White House Furniture
    Former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, have sent $28,000 worth of household goods back to Washington after questions arose over whether the items were intended as personal gifts or donations to the White House.

    “We have been informed that it is being shipped back, and the National Park Service is ready to receive it, take possession of it and take custody of it,” Jim McDaniel, the National Park Service’s liaison to the White House, said Wednesday.

    “The property is being returned to government custody until such time that the issues can be resolved. It may well turn out that that property is rightly the personal property of the Clintons.”

    Giving Back

    After they were criticized for taking $190,000 worth of china, flatware, rugs, televisions, sofas and other gifts with them when they left, the Clintons announced last week that they would pay for $86,000 worth of gifts, or nearly half the amount.

    Their latest decision to send back $28,000 in gifts brings to $114,000 the value of items the Clintons have either decided to pay for or return.

    McDaniel discussed the matter Wednesday with Betty Monkman, the White House curator, and Gary Walters, the chief usher, or executive manager of the White House.

    They were reviewing the gifts the Clintons chose to keep after $28,000 worth of items were found on a list of donations the Park Service received for the 1993 White House redecoration project. The Washington Post this week quoted three people who said that they assumed the furnishings they donated for the project would stay in the White House.

    “As a result of questions about the status of certain property donated to the White House during the Clinton administration, the National Park Service will accept the return of the property in question and act as a custodian of such property,” according to a statement released by the Park Service, which administers the White House as a unit of the national park system.

    A person familiar with the Clintons’ move out of the White House, who spoke on condition of anonymity, would say only: “They’ve been returned.”

    Furniture Movers

    While the Clintons’ decision to return these gifts was a way to get out from under this and other criticism surrounding their departure from the White House, the couple provided scant details about the shipment.

    Mrs. Clinton’s office referred all questions about the gift return to the former president’s transition office. Transition office workers said the Clintons would make no statement. They referred all questions to the Park Service, which wasn’t exactly sure which gifts were being returned or where they had been kept.

    In a statement released Monday, Clinton’s transition office said every item they accepted was identified by the White House gift office as a present to them. They said none of the gifts taken was on a curator’s list of official White House property.

    “Gifts did not leave the White House without the approval of the White House usher’s and curator’s offices,” the statement said. “Of course, if the White House now determines that a cataloging error occurred, ... any item in question will be returned.”

    Instead of waiting for the issue to be resolved, the Clintons returned the items.

    The gifts in question were: A kitchen table and four chairs valued at $3,650 from Lee Ficks of Cincinnati, Ohio; a $1,000 needlepoint rug from David Martinous of Little Rock, Ark.; two sofas, an easy chair and an ottoman worth $19,900 from Steve Mittman of New York; lamps valued at $1,170 from Stuart Shiller of Hialeah, Fla.; and a $2,843 sofa from Brad Noe, a businessman from California.

    The gifts were just one of several flaps that followed the Clintons out of the White House:

    Lawmakers are questioning Clinton’s desire to rent expensive office space in New York City at government expense. Because of the contention, the former president’s foundation has offered to pay at least $300,000 of an estimated $790,000 annual rent for the office Clinton favors.

    Mrs. Clinton, the new senator from New York, has faced questions about the propriety of accepting the gifts in the period between her election and her swearing-in. Senate rules would have limited what she could accept had she been a senator.

    Members of both parties also have criticized Clinton for granting scores of eleventh-hour clemency requests, including the pardon of Marc Rich, a fugitive in Switzerland from 51 counts in the United States of tax evasion and fraud.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121856



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    Many of these same people are now working for Obama.

    White House Provides Vandalism Photo
    Four months after Republicans first accused outgoing Clinton staffers of vandalizing government offices, the White House has provided photos of messy offices as proof.


    Still locked in a spin-control battle with Clinton staffers over what happened in the final hours of the former president's term, the Bush White House has handed out photos taken shortly after the handover.

    The photo at left, of an office in the White House counsel's suite at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, also known as the Old Executive Office Building, where many White House staffers work. It clearly shows disarray, with boxes, books, office supplies and papers piled about haphazardly. There does not, however, appear to be evidence in the photo of outright vandalism.

    Former Clinton White House staffers staged a media event last week outside the office building, which is adjacent to the White House, to deliver a letter addressed to President Bush requesting an apology for "the false allegations ... concerning damage done to the White House during the transition period."

    Last month, a review by the General Services Administration determined, "The condition of the real property was consistent with what we would expect to encounter when tenants vacate office space after an extended occupancy."

    Nude Photos, Sliced Phone Lines?

    But the White House has confirmed a report that first appeared in The Washington Post this weekend that catalogued what Bush officials consider real vandalism found in offices: pornographic messages left on phone lines, copier paper replaced with nude photos, sliced phone lines and computer keyboards missing the letter "W" — President Bush's middle initial. The White House did not, however, provide evidence of these allegations.

    Most of the damage, the White House says, was found in the Old Executive Office Building.

    But Clinton aides cite the GSA report, which the Post reported found "no wholesale slashing of cords to computers, copiers, and telephones, no evidence of lewd graffiti or pornographic images, no vandalism at the White House."

    The General Accounting Office also has said there is no documented evidence of vandalism at the White House.

    But White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters last week: "No apology is merited."

    White House officials claim the GSA only documented damage to "real property" and to the offices themselves. The study therefore would not include the sort of damage the Bush administration claims to have encountered. The GAO, they say, did not even investigate the allegations.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121599&page=1


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    White House Vandalized In Transition, G.A.O. Finds

    By ROBERT PEAR

    Published: June 12, 2002

    WASHINGTON, June 11— The General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said today that ''damage, theft, vandalism and pranks did occur in the White House complex'' in the presidential transition from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush. The agency put the cost at $13,000 to $14,000, including $4,850 to replace computer keyboards, many with damaged or missing W keys.

    Some of the damage, it said, was clearly intentional. Glue was smeared on desk drawers. Messages disparaging President Bush were left on signs and in telephone voice mail. A few of the messages used profane or obscene language.

    ''A Secret Service report documented the theft of a presidential seal that was 12 inches in diameter from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building,'' next to the White House, on Jan. 19, 2001, the accounting office said.

    Six White House employees told investigators that they had seen graffiti derogatory to Mr. Bush on the wall of a stall in a men's room. Other White House employees saw a sticker in a filing cabinet that said, ''Jail to the thief,'' implying that Mr. Bush had stolen the 2000 election. The report said all these employees were members of the current White House, but did not make clear whether any had also worked in the Clinton White House.

    The accounting office said similar pranks were reported in prior transitions, including the one from Mr. Bush's father to Mr. Clinton in 1993. ''We were unable to conclude,'' it said, ''whether the 2001 transition was worse than previous ones.''
    The accounting office interviewed more than 100 government employees, but said it could not establish who was responsible for the damage and the pranks.

    ''Any intentional damage at the White House complex, which is a national treasure, is both inappropriate and a serious matter,'' the report said. ''The theft of or willful damage to government property would constitute a criminal act.''
    The investigation was undertaken in response to a request from Representative Bob Barr, Republican of Georgia, one of Mr. Clinton's harshest critics. ''The Clinton administration treated the White House worse than college freshmen checking out of their dorm rooms,'' Mr. Barr said today.

    The Bush White House was deeply disappointed with the report. Alberto R. Gonzales, counsel to President Bush, had demanded that the accounting office provide more detail, including the full text of graffiti and other messages that were ''especially offensive or vulgar.''

    The accounting office said such details were unnecessary and inappropriate. But Bush administration officials said the details would have revealed the ''mind-set or intentions'' of Clinton administration pranksters. Moreover, in a response much longer than the actual report, the Bush administration said, ''It appears that the G.A.O. has undertaken a concerted effort to downplay the damage found in the White House complex.''

    In several instances, it appears, Clinton and Bush administration officials simply disagreed about the normal condition of federal offices. Bush officials said they had found offices full of trash, broken furniture and filthy carpets. Clinton administration officials insisted that the dirt and damage reflected normal wear and tear.

    The accounting office confirmed that $9,324 had been spent to repair or replace various items and to clean offices. That included $4,850 for 62 keyboards, $2,040 for 26 cellphones and $1,150 for professional cleaning. In addition, the White House and the General Services Administration estimated that it cost $3,750 to $4,675 to replace missing doorknobs, medallions and office signs and the large presidential seal, the accounting office said.

    Julia M. Payne, a spokeswoman for Mr. Clinton, referred questions to Jennifer Palmieri, a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee.

    ''The real scandal here,'' Ms. Palmieri said, ''is how much time and money the Republicans have wasted in a vendetta against the Clinton administration. It's troubling that the White House cooperated so enthusiastically with this investigation, but refused to provide the G.A.O. with records of the energy task force headed by Vice President Cheney.''

    Anne Womack, a spokeswoman for Mr. Bush, said: ''The G.A.O. confirmed that damage was done at the White House. We have considered this matter closed for more than a year. Our focus is on moving forward.''

    To minimize damage in future transitions, the accounting office said, the government should inspect office space, furniture and equipment of departing White House employees and penalize those who willfully deface federal property.


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    The Clinton Legacy

    Below is a list of the Clinton scandals and their legacy.

    Whitewater - the alleged banking and real estate scandals of Clinton and his friends.

    Cattle Futuresgate - This involved Hillary's investment of $1,000 in cattle futures that turned into $100,000.

    Travelgate - The Clintons fired seven white house travel office employees (without cause and several of these employees had 20+ years of faithful service) in favor of hiring relatives and friends. And, they fabricated lies and sicced the FBI on them.

    Gennifer Flowersgate - Bill Clinton denied a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers. She taped phone calls with him but he claimed they were false and branded her a liar. Now he has admitted to at least some of the affair. It turns out Clinton was the liar.

    Filegate - This involves the discovery of over 900 Republican FBI files in the White House. The Clinton administration called it a mistake.

    Vince Fostergate - Soon after Clinton lawyer Vince Foster committed suicide, his office was cleared out, which included Whitewater billing records and several key pieces of evidence.

    Whitewater Billing Recordsgate - Years after they had disappeared from Vince fosters office, subpoenaed Whitewater billing records mysteriously appeared in the White House.

    Paula Jonesgate - Accused then-Gov Bill Clinton of an illicit proposition in 1991.

    Federal Building Campaign Phone Callsgate - Al Gore made over 75 illegal phone calls to solicit contributions to the DNC from federal property.

    Lincoln Bedroomgate - DNC donors were allowed to spend the night in the Lincoln bedroom for a contribution of $150,000.

    Donations from Convicted Drug and Weapons Dealersgate - The Clintons were photographed on numerous occasions meeting with drug ring leader Jorge Cabrera at fundraising events. Clinton donations also came from a convicted illegal arms dealer and Chinese government agents.

    Buddhist Templegate - Al Gore attended a money funneling event/fundraiser at a Buddhist temple then claimed he never knew about it being a fundraiser.

    Lippogate - A total of $452,000 in illegal donations was given to the DNC from the Indonesian Lippo group. John Huang, a Clinton cronie and former Commerce department official with top level FBI clearance pled guilty to funneling Lippo group and Chinese donations to the DNC.

    Chinagate - Attempts were made by Communist China to funnel money to the Clinton campaign and influence elections in 1996. Charlie Trie, one of Clintons trusted DNC fundraisers, attempted to funnel this money. When faced with indictment he fled to China. Another money funneler for the communists and Clinton campaign, Johnny Chung, went to jail.

    Lewinskygate - Clinton's affair with an intern and the subsequent denial to the American People, which turned out to be a lie.

    Perjury and Jobs for Lewinskygate - There was evidence that Lewinsky was instructed how to hide the affair by Clinton and offered a job by Vernon Jordan - as an "incentive" to remain quiet.

    Willeygate - Kathleen Willey directly accused President Clinton of fondling her in the White House then attempting to hide it. Willey was a Democrat and enthusiastic Clinton supporter.

    Web Hubbell Prison Phone Callgate - While in prison, Web Hubbell was taped making phone calls in which methods were discussed to achieve a pardon and evidence on other Clinton scandals was discussed.

    Selling Military Technology to the Chinesegate - Clinton administration gave military technology to Communist China. This information included satellite guidance technology and enough information for communist China to modernize their nuclear arsenal.

    Wag the Doggate - The repeated use of the United States military to draw attention away from the Presidential impeachment proceedings. One day before he was to be impeached, Clinton called an uncharacteristic suprise air attack on Iraq.

    Jaunita Broaddrick Gate - Jaunita Broaddrick, a former Clinton campaigner in Arkansas, appeared on national television and accused Clinton of raping her in the late seventies.

    Vandalgate - Before leaving the White House, members of the Clinton administration vandalized the Whitehouse as a "prank" on the incoming Republican administration.

    Missing Nuclear Codesgate - The country was vulnerable to a nuclear attack and unable to retaliate while Bill Clinton misplaced the nuclear codes for 4-hours! The first President to ever do so!

    Lootergate - Bill and Hillary Clinton left the Whitehouse with silverware, furniture, and many items that were donated to the White House. They claimed the items were given to them. Included was a multi thousand dollar furniture set belonging to the Interior Department, which the Clintons had tried to claim as a gift before being forced to return it under pressure.

    Pardongate - On the night before and morning of his departure from office, Bill Clinton made several controversial "midnight" pardons. Aside from pardoning political allies and scandal co-conspirators such as Susan McDougal, Henry Cisneros, and his brother Roger, Bill pardoned fugitive criminal millionaire Marc Rich. Among Rich's crimes were oil deals with Iran during the hostage crisis and ties to arms smuggling. Hillary Clinton's brother Hugh Rodham was paid over $400,000 dollars for successfully fighting for pardons and commutations for criminals Carlos Vignali and Almon Glenn Braswell. Hillary and Bill denied any knowledge of Hugh's involvement and, under pressure, called on him to return the money.


    A book that ought to be required reading reading for people who care about politics is Edward Klein's The Truth About Hillary.

    Among the many revelations in this book:

    • How Bill cheated on Hillary from the very start of their relationship at Yale -- but she married him anyway, in a "Faustian bargain" that accepted his womanizing as the price of political power


    • "Bill owes me": how Hillary allowed Bill to get away with his infidelities to make him fall deeper and deeper into her debt
    • Clinton insider: "Hillary never wanted to be a wife. She wanted to be president"
    • Hillary confidant confirms: she knew about Monica long before the affair became public


    • How Hillary personally stage-managed and coordinated the damage-control effort in response to the Lewinsky scandal
    • Juanita Broaddrick: her encounter with Hillary that told her "she knew" Bill had raped her, and that Hillary only wanted Broaddrick to keep quiet
    • The Hillary White House staffer known as "Mother Superior" charged with keeping women away from Bill -- and Bill away from them
    • How Hillary knowingly allowed women to be hired that were regarded as "safe" for Bill to have affairs with
    • How Bill has gone back to his old womanizing tricks since Hillary's election to the Senate. His torrid affair with a stunning divorcee who lived near the Clintons in Chappaqua
    • How Bill tried to talk Hillary into running for President in 2004 -- and why she refused


    • Hillary's temporary betrayal of her old leftist allies to build a moderate image for her White House run
    • Why Hillary regards Howard Dean's naming as DNC Chairman as a threat to her
    • The cynical politicking behind Hillary's hawkishness on the Iraq war
    • How Hillary banned wearing military uniforms in the White House -- and then lied about it later on
    • How Hillary campaigned for herself under the guise of campaigning for John Kerry in 2004 -- knowing that her future depended on his not winning
    • How Hillary made her first moves in the 2008 campaign within days of Kerry's defeat
    • The New Hillary: how she's remodeling herself as a "God-fearing, church-going Bible reading Democrat from a Southern state" -- and is also "Botoxed to the hilt," according to a physician who knows
    • Why one former Clinton Administration official warns: "Hillary Clinton needs to be kept away from the White House for the rest of her life"
    • http://oldbluejacket.com/H&P-hillary.htm

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    I know. It's just unthinkable they could move back in.
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    Vince Fostergate - Soon after Clinton lawyer Vince Foster committed suicide, his office was cleared out, which included Whitewater billing records and several key pieces of evidence.

    Whitewater Billing Recordsgate - Years after they had disappeared from Vince fosters office, subpoenaed Whitewater billing records mysteriously appeared in the White House.
    The government is being run by the same old bad actors. JMO

    Obama’s HHS Nominee Proved Her Loyalty to Clinton by Digging Through a Dead Man’s Trash

    BY: Andrew Stiles
    April 11, 2014 1:15 pm


    AP

    President Obama on Friday formally nominated Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) following the botched resignation of Kathleen Sebelius.

    Burwell served in several positions under the Bill Clinton administration, including as a deputy aide to then-budget director Jack Lew. In July 1995, Burwell (then Sylvia Mathews) was one of several key aides questioned by the Senate Whitewater Committee regarding the death of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster.

    Foster’s death was officially ruled a suicide. The Clinton White House eventually admitted to misleading investigators about how senior officials had seized and disposed of files relating to the first couple’s controversial investments in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed real estate venture.

    Clinton spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers admitted that then-White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, who had recovered documents relating to the Whitewater controversy from Foster’s office after his death, did not turn over the documents to the Clinton family’s personal attorney, contrary to what White House officials had claimed. Nussbaum had actually given the documents to Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, who placed them in a White House safe for five days before being turned over to the family attorney.

    Under questioning, Sylvia Mathews and her colleagues denied impeding a police investigation into Foster’s death after his body was found in a northern Virginia park. According to the New York Times, Mathews testified “in laborious detail about what she had found in Mr. Foster’s garbage on the night he died.”

    That experience may come in handy as she prepares to oversee the implementation of Obamacare.

    http://freebeacon.com/blog/obamas-ne...ad-mans-trash/




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    No Intention To Question First Lady

    By STEPHEN LABATON

    Published: July 26, 1995

    WASHINGTON, July 25— The chairman of the Senate committee investigating the Whitewater affair today ruled out calling Hillary Rodham Clinton as a witness unless strong evidence emerged of her involvement in the mishandling of papers from the office of a White House aide who committed suicide two years ago.

    The chairman, Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, said in response to a request by Senator Lauch Faircloth, Republican of North Carolina, that Mrs. Clinton testify that she would not be called "unless there is clear and convincing facts and reason" to do so.

    "It would have to be very, very, very strong evidence and facts that have been established very, very clearly," said Mr. D'Amato, Republican of New York. "Otherwise there will be no appearance before this committee of the First Lady."

    The committee today began what will be weeks of intensive questioning of White House aides about whether Mrs. Clinton, in advance of investigators, had told officials to remove papers from the office of Vincent W. Foster Jr., her close friend and former law partner who was the deputy White House counsel at the time he killed himself on July 20, 1993.

    This afternoon, Patsy L. Thomasson, a White House aide who, like Mr. Foster, was a friend of the Clintons' from their Arkansas days, described to the committee a harried search through Mr. Foster's office for a suicide note on the night of his death.

    The committee also heard from the White House communication director, Mark D. Gearan, about the distress of Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Janet Reno, over the White House's handling of the official search of Mr. Foster's office.

    In the days to come, the committee will be asking a series of witnesses whether Mrs. Clinton participated in the decision to prevent investigators from looking at sensitive papers in the office after Mr. Foster's body was found in a park in Virginia overlooking the Potomac River.

    In the months before his death, Mr. Foster handled many sensitive political and personal affairs of the Clintons, including the couple's investment in the Whitewater land venture and their handling of tax issues raised by their sale of their stock in the venture after the 1992 election.

    Mrs. Clinton's role in the handling of papers in Mr. Foster's office after his death is a central unresolved question of the investigation. On Wednesday, a Secret Service agent is expected to testify that he saw Mrs. Clinton's senior aide, Margaret Williams, remove papers from Mr. Foster's office, an assertion Ms. Williams is expected to vigorously contest when she also appears before the committee this week.

    Also today, Mr. D'Amato said the committee's lawyers had reviewed heavily edited portions of White House files in Mr. Foster's office that had been supplied to the committee and had concluded that the lawyers for the Clintons had not inappropriately removed any Whitewater material. Mr. D'Amato said "pertinent" records would continue to be made available to the committee, and he praised the Clinton's lawyer, David E. Kendall, for his cooperation.

    The day's most vivid testimony came from Ms. Thomasson, who described how she was electronically paged at a restaurant by her boss, David Watkins, who ordered her to return to the White House to look for a possible suicide note in Mr. Foster's office on the second floor of the West Wing.

    After talking to Mr. Watkins, Ms. Thomasson went to the White House, where she ran into Bernard W. Nussbaum, the White House counsel. She said she had only recently met the counsel and rarely had contact with him.

    "Mr. Nussbaum never talked much to me because I was so low on the food chain," Ms. Thomasson said.

    The two then went into Mr. Foster's office at about 11 P.M. that evening.

    "I sat at Vince's desk and opened drawers and looked on all surfaces," she said. As she searched, she said, Mr. Nussbaum paced the office back and forth, running his hands through his hair and looking deeply upset.

    She said that after a few minutes, Mr. Nussbaum left the office and Ms. Williams, Mrs. Clinton's aide, arrived. As Ms. Thomasson sat in Mr. Foster's desk chair, looking for a suicide note, Ms. Williams sat across on a sofa, sobbing.

    Ms. Thomasson said Ms. Williams then left and Mr. Nussbaum returned.

    "Bernie came in and said, 'We haven't found anything so we should probably get out of there,' " Ms. Thomasson said. "We left empty-handed."

    Ms. Thomasson testified that none of the officials had removed any documents or files from Mr. Foster's office that evening. Nonetheless, Republicans criticized her for rifling through Mr. Foster's papers at a time in which she had not received any security clearance.

    Reading from his notes of July 29, 1993, Mr. Gearan, recounted a discussion he had had in which the Deputy Attorney General, Philip B. Heymann, said that he and Ms. Reno had strongly disagreed with Mr. Nussbaum's control of the investigation.

    Recording Mr. Heymann's views, Mr. Gearan wrote in his own shorthand: "There's a sense from Park Police and including Phil and DOJ and probably Washington Field office that too much of investigation and inquiry before, when, after was exercised by WH and those too close to Vince." Mr. Heymann also indicated that because the White House had controlled the investigation "in all ways," the Justice Department could not legitimately claim it had conducted its own independent inquiry, according to Mr. Gearan's notes.

    His notes indicate that there had been "heated discussions" about the way the papers were handled between Mr. Heymann and Mr. Nussbaum and that Ms. Reno had been distressed that Mr. Nussbaum had initially overlooked a note Mr. Foster had written reflecting his unhappiness with Washington. Ms. Reno was concerned, according to Mr. Gearan's notes, that it took about 30 hours between the time the note was found to be turned over to investigators. The White House has said it took that long because aides wanted to apprise Mr. Foster's widow, Lisa Foster, about the note's contents.

    The committee also focused today on Mr. Foster's office trash. Members questioned Sylvia Mathews, a former White House aide, in laborious detail about what she had found in Mr. Foster's garbage on the night he died. Other than a few routine documents, the garbage contained nothing that shed light on Mr. Foster's thinking, said Ms. Mathews, who is now chief of staff at the Treasury Department.

    Republicans on the committee found it significant, however, that Ms. Mathews had also managed to retrieve a special bag of garbage containing classified and sensitive papers that was usually destroyed by the Secret Service. The contents of that bag were never examined by anyone to see if Mr. Foster had left anything in it that might shed light on his state of mind.

    Ms. Mathews said that she got the bag from the Secret Service and began looking briefly through it, when she discovered that it contained all of the classified garbage from the West Wing. Concerned about a possible security breach, she sought Mr. Nussbaum's opinion about whether to continue looking through it. She said she was told by Mr. Nussbaum that since Mr. Foster did not have a classified garbage bin in his office, it was doubtful that there would be anything from Mr. Foster in the bag. Therefore, she said, Mr. Nussbaum told her to return the bag unexamined to the Secret Service to be disposed.

    The White House said after the hearing that a Secret Service agent on detail that evening said Mr. Nussbaum had been mistaken and that in fact there had been a special classified garbage bin, or "burn bag," in Mr. Foster's office. But the agent also said Mr. Foster's classified bin had never been emptied into the bag that Ms. Mathews had retrieved.
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