When Bill Clinton was President, he allowed Hillary to assume authority over health care reform.
She couldn’t even get a vote in a Democrat-controlled Congress.
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.
Next she chose Janet Reno – husband Bill described her selection as “my worst mistake.”
Reno made the decision to gas David Koresh and the Branch Davidian religious sect in Waco, Texas, resulting in many dozens of deaths of women and children.
Husband Bill allowed Hillary to make recommendations for the head of the Civil Rights Commission.
Lani Guinier was her selection.
When a little probing led to the discovered of Ms. Guinier’s radical views, her name had to be withdrawn.
Bill allowed Hillary to chose former law partners Web Hubbell for the Justice Department, Vince Foster for the White House staff, and William Kennedy for the Treasury Department.
Hubbell went to prison.
Foster committed suicide, although almost certainly not in the park where his body was found (far too little blood was found there)
Kennedy was forced to resign.
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 -- commingling personal and White House funds in the same account for convenience -- he was not accused of stealing a penny.
A jury acquitted him of any crime in less than two hours.
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.
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 were:
- She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit.
After the Starr investigation they settled with Ms. Jones for about $850,000.
- 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 plan resulted in Bill losing his license to practice law for 'lying under oath' to a grand jury, and then his 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.
Now we are exposed to the destruction of possibly incriminating e-mails while Hillary was Secretary of State, and the obvious “pay to play” schemes of the Clinton Foundation.
But to Hillary's loyal fans -- “what difference does it make?”
Since leaving the White House, the Clinton's, through 2014, have made over $221 million dollars, and both are drawing large taxpayer funded U. S. Government pensions.
