The Clintons' War on Women
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In 2007, as Willey was writing her book, intimidation tactics turned up again. Willey’s home was burglarized and nothing but the book manuscript was stolen.
World Net Daily reported in an article, “Kathleen Willey: Clintons Stole My Manuscript,” at the time:
Kathleen Willey, the woman who says Bill Clinton groped her in the Oval Office, claims she was the target of an unusual house burglary over the weekend that nabbed a manuscript for her upcoming book, which promises explosive revelations that could damage Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Willey told WND little else was taken from her rural Virginia home as she slept alone upstairs–electronics and jewelry were left behind–and she believes the Clintons were behind it.
The break-in, she said, reminded her of the widely reported incident 10 years ago in which she claimed she was threatened near the same Richmond-area home by a stranger just two days before she was to testify against President Clinton in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
The theft of the manuscript early Saturday morning was suspicious, she told WND, coming only days after the first mainstream media mention of her upcoming book, which is expected to include accusations of campaign finance violations and new revelations about harassment and threats by the Clintons and their associates.
‘“Here we go again; it’s the same thing that happened before,” Willey told WND. “They want you to know they were there. And they got what they wanted. They pretty much managed to terrorize me again. It scared me to death. It’s an awful feeling to know you’re sound asleep upstairs and someone is downstairs.’”111
The Powhatan County Sheriff’s Department confirmed there was indeed a break-in at a home in the vicinity of Kathleen’s home on early Saturday morning, September 1, 2007, and that there was an investigation.
Willey told World Net Daily that she believed the break-in was specifically to steal her manuscript and was designed to look like a burglary. She pointed out her home is very isolated, hard to find, and is out on a gravel road on ten acres. Willey went to bed and woke to find a missing manuscript that she had printed out and a missing purse. Her laptop, which she kept running, had been turned off. “Also her car was keyed, the antenna broken and her DirecTV satellite system was ‘messed with.’”112
In 2008, Willey penned an open letter to Senator Barack Obama, who was challenging Hillary for the Democratic nomination for president. Willey warned the candidate about “the Clintons’ secret private-investigator army, which no doubt has already been deployed to counter the threat that you present. I know that army’s tactics well. They have threatened my children and my friend’s children. They’ve threatened and killed my pets. They’ve vandalized my car. They’ve entered my home and stolen my book manuscript.”113
iii Rosenfeld, Seth. “Watching the Detective.” San Francisco Gate. January 31, 1999.
CHAPTER 6
POUND OF FLESH
“It’s often said, by people trying to show how grown-up and unshocked they are, that all Clinton did to get himself impeached was lie about sex. That’s not really true. What he actually lied about, in the perjury that also got him disbarred, was the women. And what this involved was a steady campaign of defamation, backed up by private dicks (you should excuse the expression) and salaried government employees, against women who I believe were telling the truth. In my opinion, Gennifer Flowers was telling the truth; so was Monica Lewinsky, and so was Kathleen Willey, and so, lest we forget, was Juanita Broaddrick who says she was raped by Bill Clinton.”
—Christopher Hitchens
In December of 1993, the American Spectator published a report by David Brock, “His Cheating Heart: Living with the Clintons: Bill’s Arkansas bodyguards tell the story the press missed,” which went into detail on Bill’s sexual promiscuities. In the piece, a woman named “Paula” was described as meeting Clinton in a hotel room at the Excelsior. She said afterward that she was available to be Bill’s regular girlfriend.
The faulty account enraged Paula Jones.
In pre-lawsuit filings, Jones did not ask for any money. Instead, “Clinton would just admit that he didn’t challenge her claim that the two had met in a hotel room, state that Jones did not engage in any improper conduct, and express regret about any aspersions on her good name.”114
After she received no apology, Jones retained more legal help and filed suit for sexual harassment just before the three-year statute of limitations ran out on her tort. In response, the White House hired Robert Bennett, who started “investigating” Jones and began a rumor campaign that targeted her as a gossipy slut.115
“Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find,” Clinton loyalist James Carville quipped.
When White House intern Monica Lewinsky later asked Clinton why he didn’t settle the Jones case, his reply was ominous. “You don’t understand. I can’t. There are hundreds of them,” Clinton said.116
Following the 1996 general election, legal journalist Stuart Taylor examined the Jones case for American Lawyer and concluded in a 15,000-word article that she might be telling the truth. The article prompted some members of the media to believe Jones.
The testimonies of Willey, Flowers, and Jones were not enough. The president’s denials held strong until revelations about his affair with a young intern, ignored by the mainstream media, were published on a little-known political website.
Here is the post that made the career of Matt Drudge:
Web Posted: 01/17/98 23:32:47 PST -- NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN
BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT
**World Exclusive**
At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, NEWSWEEK magazine killed a story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White House intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States!
The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that reporter Michael Isikoff developed the story of his career, only to have it spiked by top NEWSWEEK suits hours before publication. A young woman, 23, sexually involved with the love of her life, the President of the United States, since she was a 21-year-old intern at the White House. She was a frequent visitor to a small study just off the Oval Office where she claims to have indulged the president’s sexual preference. Reports of the relationship spread in White House quarters and she was moved to a job at the Pentagon, where she worked until last month.
The young intern wrote long love letters to President Clinton, which she delivered through a delivery service. She was a frequent visitor at the White House after midnight, where she checked in the WAVE logs as visiting a secretary named Betty Curry, 57.
The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that tapes of intimate phone conversations exist.
The relationship between the president and the young woman become strained when the president believed that the young woman was bragging about the affair to others.
NEWSWEEK and Isikoff were planning to name the woman. Word of the story’s impending release caused blind chaos in media circles; TIME magazine spent Saturday scrambling for its own version of the story, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The NEW YORK POST on Sunday was set to front the young intern’s affair, but was forced to fall back on the dated ABC NEWS Kathleen Willey break.
The story was set to break just hours after President Clinton testified in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
Ironically, several years ago, it was Isikoff that found himself in a shouting match with editors who were refusing to publish even a portion of his meticulously researched investigative report that was to break Paula Jones. Isikoff worked for the WASHINGTON POST at the time, and left shortly after the incident to build them for the paper’s sister magazine, NEWSWEEK.
Michael Isikoff was not available for comment late Saturday. NEWSWEEK was on voice mail.
The White House was busy checking the DRUDGE REPORT for details.
On January 18 Drudge followed up with the intern’s name: Monica Lewinsky. Three days later, Drudge hit pay dirt again by pointing out that the possible existence of a “DNA trail” that could “confirm President’s sexual involvement with Lewinsky”:
Web Posted: 01/21/98 12:56:27 PST -- WATERGATE 1998
**WORLD EXCLUSIVE**
**MUST CREDIT THE DRUDGE REPORT**
**CONTAINS GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS**
REPORT: LEWINSKY OFFERED U.N. JOB; INVESTIGATORS: DNA TRAIL MAY EXIST
U.N. AMBASSADOR RICHARDSON OFFERED ME A JOB DURING A BREAKFAST MEETING AT THE WATERGATE HOTEL -- WORDS WHITE HOUSE INTERN MONICA LEWINSKY, 24, ALLEGEDLY TOLD PENTAGON WORKER LINDA TRIPP LATE IN DECEMBER 1997.
THE OFFER CAME AS LEWINSKY WAS ASKING TO RETURN TO THE WHITE HOUSE, THE DRUDGE REPORT HAS LEARNED, UNHAPPY IN THE PENTAGON JOB SHE HELD -- A JOB THAT SHE STARTED IN APRIL 1996 AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM A WHITE HOUSE POSITION.
“THEY WANTED HER OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE DURING THE ELECTION,” A SOURCE CLOSE TO THE INVESTIGATION TELLS THE DRUDGE REPORT.
AMBASSADOR RICHARDSON WAS NOT AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT.
WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY MIKE MCCURRY OFFERED NOTHING WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE ALLEGED RICHARDSON JOB OFFER DURING WEDNESDAY’S PRESS BRIEFING.
SEPARATELY, THE DRUDGE REPORT HAS LEARNED, INVESTIGATORS HAVE BECOME CONVINCED THAT THERE MAY BE A DNA TRAIL THAT COULD CONFIRM PRESIDENT CLINTON’S SEXUAL INVOLVEMENT WITH LEWINSKY, A RELATIONSHIP THAT WAS CAPTURED IN LEWINSKY’S OWN VOICE ON AUDIO TAPE.
TRIPP HAS SHARED WITH INVESTIGATORS A CONVERSATION WHERE LEWINSKY ALLEGEDLY CONFIDED THAT SHE KEPT A GARMENT WITH CLINTON’S DRIED SEMEN ON IT—A GARMENT SHE SAID SHE WOULD NEVER WASH!
Shortly after the Drudge stories broke, former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos was on TV talking about impeachment. Clinton privately told Dick Morris that he would have to lie his way out of the mess.
On January 26, the night before his State of the Union address, with Hillary by his side, President Clinton spoke to the nation.
“Now, I have to go back to work on my State of the Union speech,” Clinton said. “And I worked on it until pretty late last night. But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I’m going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time—never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people.”117
Clinton later learned that Ken Starr had Lewinsky’s semen-stained dress in his possession.
On August 17, 1998, Clinton admitted in a taped testimony that he had had an “improper physical relationship” with Lewinsky. That night, the president gave a nationally televised statement and admitted his relationship with the young intern was “not appropriate.”118
Fearful that the courts would reinstate the Jones sexual harassment case, Bill decided to settle out of court on November 13, 1998. Jones never got her apology from Bill Clinton, but she did get a whopping $850,000 and credibility. Of this sum, Jones received $200,000 personally; the rest went to her lawyers. In April 1999, Judge Wright also made Bill pay an additional $1,202 to the court (for civil contempt of the court) and another $90,000 to the Jones lawyers for expenses incurred.119
Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives in December 1998 and was put on trial in the Senate in February 1999.
Before he left office on January 19, 2001, Clinton also agreed to be stripped of his law license for five years and to pay a fine of $250,000 out of his legal fund.
Paula Jones had extracted her “pound of flesh” from Bill Clinton.
CHAPTER 7
ORGY ISLAND
“Well, he owes me a favor.”
—Jeffrey Epstein, convicted pedophile, on Bill Clinton120
The post presidency of Bill Clinton was party time. Time to get away from Senator Hillary, time to earn huge money from speaking engagements, time for traveling (usually in someone else’s personal jet), and time to chase women. And he kept bad company.
After he left the presidency in 2001, Bill Clinton took up friendships with some pretty questionable characters, birds of a feather, one could say. One of these men was Ron Burkle, a major Clinton fundraiser and someone who Mediaite called “a well-known womanizer and model hound.”121 Burkle paid Clinton at least $15 million to act as a “rainmaker” for him, and another side benefit for Clinton was that he got to hang out with Burkle and all his “pretty young things” and fly on Burkle’s plane, which his aides referred to as “Air Fuck One.”122
But that was the tip of the iceberg. Another even more questionable friend with whom Bill associated post presidency was billionaire and pedophilia ringmaster Jeffrey Epstein. If Burkle was a case of a man with a taste for “young girls,” then Jeffrey Epstein would be the case of a man with a taste for “far too young girls.”
Epstein was handsome, muscular, charming, and cultured. He was connected, and although he lived an opulent lifestyle, he remained low key. His address book, seized by Palm Beach police, was a cornucopia of A-list contacts, including international bankers, scientists, athletes, lawyers, and politicians. He had a palatial home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a cloistered Palm Beach mansion, and a high-security private island where he could conduct his late-night parties, within the U.S. Virgin Islands. FOX TV pundit Sean Hannity dubbed it “Orgy Island.”
Bill Clinton in the early 2000s became quite personally close to Epstein, whom had had met while he was still president in the 1990s. Clinton took eighteen trips on Epstein’s plane (which was known as the “Lolita Express” for orgies with underage girls). He also gave Epstein twenty-one ways to contact him, basically sharing the phone numbers of all key people close to him.
Hillary was not one of the contacts. Epstein was, however, wired to Hillary’s closest advisors, Cheryl Mills and Ann Stock.123
Cheryl Mills, whose cell phone number and email address were listed in the book, was Hillary’s chief of staff at the State Department after serving as senior advisor for her 2008 presidential campaign. In the 1990s, she was an associate counsel for the Clinton White House. Cheryl Mills is as inner circle with Hillary as Huma Abedin has been.
Dubbed Hillary’s “henchwoman,” Mills is thought to have obstructed the Benghazi investigation into the death of four Americans, vetted and erased Hillary’s emails, and—incredibly—sat on the Clinton Foundation Board while she was a State Department employee. This was a stunning conflict of interest considering the staggering level of largesse the foundation took from companies and interests doing business in the armament business.
As for Stock, she was hired by Hillary to run her Social Office in the White House. Kathleen Willey, who worked as a volunteer in the Social Office, says Stock “had no sense of decorum or good taste, which was typical of the Clinton White House. She cussed like a sailor, dropping the ‘F bomb’ every other minute.”124 Perhaps Stock was Hillary’s point of contact with Epstein for the little stuff, while heavyweight Mills was Hillary’s point of contact with Epstein for the big stuff.
Bill and Hillary Clinton need to explain why the Clinton Foundation in July of 2006 accepted $25,000 from the C.O.U.Q Foundation, which was being run by Epstein.125 This donation occurred just after Epstein had been arrested for sex crimes, but had not yet received his jaw-dropping, favorable plea bargain courtesy of Florida prosecutors and later federal prosecutors.
Epstein also had a longtime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. According to the lawsuit of victim Virginia Roberts, Maxwell was heavily involved in Epstein’s activities. She is said by Roberts to have assisted Epstein in his “hobby” of having sex with underage girls. Maxwell and five other women, according to Roberts, would even go down to the Fort Lauderdale bus station as she would troll for underaged girls to be sexually pandered to her boyfriend Epstein. Ghislaine became very close to Bill Clinton and was even allowed to attend Chelsea Clinton’s wedding on July 31, 2010. She had contributed $2,300 to the presiden
tial campaign of Hillary Clinton on March 30, 2007.126
Maxwell was also “on a list of delegates for a Bill Clinton charity conference” and “is listed as the managing director of the New York Strategy Group, of which there seems to be little trace.”127 A question for Bill and Hillary might be: Is the Clinton Foundation shoveling money to Maxwell in return for, say, staying silent about any of Bill Clinton’s sexual activities with underage girls of the Epstein entourage?
Bill Clinton has been socially close with both Epstein and Maxwell. Was Bill being provided underaged girls for sexual purposes? You gauge the odds on that. “One thing is clear,” Hannity once noted, “and that is that former President Bill Clinton had a very close relationship with a shady pedophile.”128
A Democratic mega-donor and billionaire, Epstein was linked by the FBI and Palm Beach Police to as many as thirty-five underaged girls and allegedly provided minor girls to Prince Andrew, among other VIP pedophiles.
There is currently a lawsuit by several of the child sex victims of Epstein to overturn a questionably light plea bargain that resulted in this prolific pedophile Epstein having to serve only thirteen months in jail with a sixteen-hour-a-day pass. After molesting perhaps up to one thousand girls (as Epstein confessed to his sex slave Virginia Roberts), Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to just sleep nights in the county jail while the rest of his day could be spent in luxury at his Palm Beach mansion. Based on what thirty-three child victims who have actually settled lawsuits with him have said, Epstein should be serving a twenty-year sentence in state prison.