Lawsuit: Obama Administration Withholding Draft of Clinton Whitewater Indictment Bill and Hillary Clinton at the White House in February 2000. ( by BRENDAN BORDELON October 20, 2015 6:15 PM @BRENDANBORDELON Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch is suing the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to obtain copies of a 20-year-old draft indictment against Hillary Clinton for her role in the Whitewater scandal. In a press release sent to reporters late on Tuesday, Judicial Watch announced its intent to file a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against NARA for withholding an indictment written by Hickman Ewing, Jr., the deputy independent counsel and prosecutor investigating Whitewater, in 1996. The agency admitted it had found the records in March 2015 but is withholding the documents, claiming their release would constitute an unwarranted invasion of Clinton’s privacy. “Judicial Watch has confirmed the existence of draft indictments of Hillary Clinton for her lies and obstruction in the Whitewater bank-fraud investigation,” the group’s president Tom Fitton wrote in the statement. “The Obama administration is refusing to release these records out of concern for Hillary Clinton’s privacy. Hillary Clinton’s privacy cannot be allowed to trump the public’s interest in knowing more about whether she obstructed justice and lied to a federal grand jury.” In the early 1990s, the current Democratic presidential front-runner and her husband, then-President Bill Clinton, were accused of being complicit in a series of illegal loans provided to the Whitewater Corporation, a failed real estate venture run by close associates of the Clintons during their time in the Arkansas governor’s mansion. As a lawyer for Whitewater’s chief creditor, Clinton herself was suspected of creating false documents to conceal an illegal $300,000 loan to the doomed corporation from federal investigators. Hillary Clinton was alleged to have concealed her role in that transaction by hiding the pertinent law-firm–billing records after she became First Lady. That, in turn, became the subject of a perjury and obstruction of justice investigation. In 1999, the New York Post reported that Ewing “had problems” with some of Clinton’s testimony to investigators in 1995, and had drafted and circulated the indictment against her — now sought by Judicial Watch — some time shortly after September 1996. Ewing ultimately declined to prosecute either of the Clintons for their role in the scandal. — Brendan Bordelon is a political reporter for National Review.
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ReplyDeleteBill and Hillary Clinton never visited the actual Whitewater property. In May 1985, Jim McDougal had sold the remaining lots of the failed Whitewater Development Corporation to local realtor Chris Wade. By 1993, there were a few occupied houses on the site, but mostly just "For Sale" signs; after swarms of Whitewater reporters made the trek there, one owner hung a sign saying "Go Home, Idiots." By 2007, there were about 12 houses in the subdivision, with the last lot up for sale by son Chris Wade, Jr., for $25,000. In Flippin, Jim McDougal's savings and loan bank had been replaced by a variety of small businesses, most recently a barbershop.
The length, expense, and results of the Whitewater investigations turned the public against the Office of the Independent Counsel; even Kenneth Starr was opposed. In particular, Democrats portrayed Whitewater as a political witch-hunt, much as Republicans had at the end of the 1980s Iran-Contra investigations. As such, the Independent Counsel law expired in 1999. Indeed, no one ended up happy with the Whitewater investigation; Democrats felt that the investigation was a political witch-hunt, Republicans were frustrated that both Clintons had escaped formal charges, and those without partisan involvement found press coverage of Whitewater, which spanned four decades, difficult to understand.
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