by Roger Stone
The Bushes and Clintons share their deepest bonds in connections with the CIA. Cord Meyer, Roger Morris, and Christopher Hitchens said that in the summer of 1968, while at the University of Oxford, young Bill Clinton was recruited by the agency to infiltrate left-wing anti-war groups in Eastern Europe and snitch on their activities to the boys at Langley.
“I think he was a double,” Hitchens says. “Somebody was giving information to [the CIA] about the anti-war draft resisters, and I think it was probably him. We had a girlfriend in common—I didn’t know then—who’s since become a very famous radical lesbian.”271
Washington insider Jack Wheeler related in his 1988 essay “How the Clintons Will Undo McCain” how his friend told him an important nugget about this history of Bill Clinton. He wrote:
Back in the ’90s, years after he retired, if Cord drank a little too much Scotch he would laugh derisively at those conspiracists who accused Bill Clinton of being connected with the KGB. They all darkly point to Bill’s participation in anti-war peace conferences in Stockholm and Oslo, and his trip to Leningrad, Moscow and Prague while he was at Oxford. ‘“Who could have paid for this?” they ask. ‘“It had to be the KGB!’” they claim.” Cord would shake his head. “What rot—we paid for it. We recruited Bill the first week he was at Oxford. Bill’s been an asset of The Three Bad Words ever since.”272
Cord passed on in 2001.
Young George Bush would be among the agency assets raising the money for the Bay of Pigs operation as early as 1963.
Zapata Oil’s offshore well platforms and the company itself fronted for the CIA. Bush himself pursued politics more than he did oil deals. When George H. W. Bush said in his confirmation hearings that he had never worked for the agency, he was committing perjury, yet became the director of Central Intelligence years later. As Vice President Bush oversaw an operation to import narcotics into the United States through rural areas of Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas. Governor Bill Clinton knew about and ordered state police to look the other way as the feds moved millions in cocaine through Mena. Clinton would tell his bodyguard, “Bush knew all about it.” The Clintons and the Bushes share the CIA tie.
The public displays of affection between the two families in the last few years is not a surprise. Both families share some of the same dark secrets.
In September 2013 Jeb Bush was presenting Hillary Clinton with a “Liberty Medal” from the National Constitution Center. “Former Secretary Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy,” Jeb said. “These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year’s Liberty Medal.”273
In January 2014, former First Lady Barbara Bush said in a C-SPAN interview, “I love Bill Clinton. Maybe not his politics, but I love Bill Clinton…. My husband, Bill Clinton and I have become friends. And Bill visits us every summer.”274
Barbara P. Bush, the daughter of George W., said in August of 2013 that Hillary was “unbelievably accomplished” and it is her hope that Hillary runs for president in 2016.275 George W. Bush likes to call Bill Clinton his “brother from another mother.” Bush said that would make Hillary “my sister-in-law.”276
The Associated Press reported, “Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, political opposites who became friends, launched a new scholars program at four presidential centers with an opening act that might have been mistaken for a comedy routine. The two former presidents shared laughs and buddy-like banter on stage Monday, talking about presidential leadership while trading stories about their famous families and life after the White House. Clinton said he and Bush laughed backstage about people coming up to them at restaurants and asking to take ‘selfie’ photos. Quipped Bush, ‘At least they’re still asking.’”277
The article added: “George W. Bush campaigned for president in 2000 on restoring ‘honor and dignity’ to the White House following Clinton’s impeachment over a sex scandal. But the two former presidents have developed a bond, strengthened by their mutual admiration for the elder Bush, whom Clinton visited in Maine last week.”278
The Bushes, the Clintons, and the LBJ Library have teamed up to form a Presidential Leadership Program. It seems like coordinated propaganda to us.
In early April of 2014 Bill Clinton and George W. Bush sat side by side in Arlington, Texas, in the luxury box of Jerry Jones to watch the NCAA college men’s basketball championship. Both had big smiles on their faces as “a large crowd attending the NCAA championship game in Arlington, Texas, between Connecticut and Kentucky took a moment to loudly applaud an image displayed on the large video boards inside AT&T Stadium.”279
The public likes these images of civility. It makes them feel good knowing that leaders of opposite parties can get along.
“I’ve always found the friendship between Bill Clinton and the Bush family to be very endearing,” reporter John Daly wrote. “It’s something genuine, positive, and quite unlikely in an American political landscape marred by bitter, hyper-partisan animosity.”280
In 2005, Clinton and Bush, Sr., took a trip to Asia to raise money (and more importantly, polish their public relations image) for tsunami victims. “US ex-President George Bush Sr. has praised his successor Bill Clinton for letting him sleep on their plane’s only bed on their tour of tsunami-hit areas,” the BBC reported. “Mr. Bush, 80, told Newsweek magazine that the 58-year-old Democrat spent the night on the floor in the next room so that he could get a proper rest. Mr. Clinton was respectful of his age and ‘that meant a great deal to me,’ the current president’s father said.”281
Then there was “Laura Bush shows ‘pure class’ in message to Clintons” as blogger Joe Saunders congratulated Laura Bush for tweeting on April 18, 2014, “Congratulations @BillClinton and @HillaryClinton, grandchildren are the greatest gift. @ChelseaClinton & Marc will be wonderful parents!” The Internet erupted with many gushing that Laura Bush had “class” and “style” and “warmth” for this pedestrian well-wishing for the arrival of a baby.282
In October 2013 Jenna Bush-Hagar got into the act. The Daily Mail covered it in an article, “Jenna Bush: Hillary Clinton and I are ‘related’ through ‘Uncle’ Bill—George W Bush’s ‘brother from another mother.’” The subtitle was “Former first-daughter Jenna Bush-Hager joked about her Clinton family ties at a charity gala earlier this week; When former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took the stage, she spoke about the ‘special feeling of kinship’ she had for Jenna.”283
When Jenna Bush-Hagar was emceeing a gala for the Save the Children organization, she honored Hillary and Jenna stated, “I’m not sure if you know this, but Secretary Clinton and I are actually related. Yes, she’s married to Uncle Bill. Uncle Bill has become so close with my grandparents and my father … that my dad calls him a brother from another mother.”284
Hillary replied that she, too, felt a “special feeling of kinship” with Jenna.
In November 2014, Toby Harnden, the Washington bureau chief of the Sunday Times, wrote “Bush: My Sweet Dad, A Wonderful Father to Bill Clinton and Me.”
“He’s got a good spirit about him,” said Bush, who at sixty-eight is just six weeks older than Clinton. “We’re the only baby-boomer presidents. We were both Southern governors and we both like each other. He’s fun to be around. I hope he would say I’m fun to be around. And we’re both grandfathers.”285
Bush talked about how he had called Clinton to congratulate him on the birth of a granddaughter and told him to get ready to be the low man on the totem pole. “And he laughed. We get along great.”286
Bush discussed the friendship of Bush, Sr., and Clinton: “It speaks to the character of both men. Bill Clinton treated Dad with great deference and Dad has become a friend of his. There are things that are more vital in life than allowing defeat to embitter you.”287
That was quite a change from February, 2000 when George W. Bush emphatically told John McCain in a debate before the South Carolina primary, “What
ever you do, don’t equate my integrity and trustworthiness to Bill Clinton. That’s about as low a blow as you can give in the Republican primary.”288
In hacked emails the Romanian hacker Guccifer released in 2013, there was an interesting note from George W. in which he refers to Clinton as “bubba” and told his siblings that if he was going to give the eulogy at his dad’s funeral rather than Clinton then he would need some help. “Hopefully I’m jumping the gun … But since the feeling is that you all would rather me speak than bubba, please help,” Bush wrote.289
In December of 2014, according to political reporter Mike Allen, “[Bill Clinton] got a heads-up from the camp of President George H. W. Bush a few days before former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush made his surprise Facebook announcement in December that he would ‘actively explore’ a [presidential] campaign.”290
Allen said that Clinton and Bush, Sr., “have developed a friendly bond, partly because of their work together on relief for the 2004 Asian tsusami.”291
The bond between the Bushes and Clintons is special. It was formed on the elite level of politics where the decisions of the few are unheard by the many.
“It’s a big club,” said comedian George Carlin shortly before his death. “And you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe, what to think, and what to buy. The table is tilted, the game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest, hardworking people continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them at all…. Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every day.”292
PART 3
CRIPPLING POWER
CHAPTER 12
MADAM PRESIDENT
“Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security.”
—Christopher Hitchens’s description of Hillary Clinton293
A humorous yarn was spun and spread at the beginning of the Clinton presidency. It went something like this: The Clintons were driving in Hillary’s hometown of Park Ridge, Illinois. While stopping for gas, Hillary recognized the station attendant as someone she used to date in high school. Later in the day, Bill shrewdly quipped, “See, if you’d married him, you’d be working at a gas station.” Hillary smugly replied, “If I’d married him, he’d be president.”294
To the people working in Washington, there was no doubt who was on the top of The Hill.
Campaigning for the presidency in the 1992 election, Bill openly said that voters were getting “two for the price of one.” During the transition phase after the Clinton-Gore ticket was elected, Hillary played a big role in vetting the cabinet of the incoming Clinton administration.
Hillary began inauguration day 1993 cursing and shrieking profanities at Bill as she demanded to have Vice President Al Gore’s White House office.295 In the spring of 1993 Hillary spearheaded the signature legislative initiative of the Clinton administration: the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, the forerunner to Obamacare.
Hillary Clinton had always been the take-charge alpha of the Clintons.
Hillary Clinton has a long history of being domestically violent with Bill. By any reasonable definition Hillary is a domestic spousal abuser, and she should have been carted off to jail a long time ago. Hillary has beaten Bill, hit him with hard objects, scratched and clawed him, and made him bleed. In 1979 the Clintons went on vacation to Bermuda. Bill told one of his new drinking buddies, “I’m going back to my cottage to rape my wife.”296
As author Ed Klein tells the story, the next morning one of Bill’s new friends, a New York investment banker, went by the Clintons’ cottage. “When we get there, the place looks like World War III. There are pillows and busted-up furniture all over the place. Obviously, Hillary’s got pissed off at Bill, and threw a few things across the room. I guess that’s the price he paid for going back to his room and taking the initiative and demanding sex.”297
Before David Brock wrote his December 1993 blockbuster article “His Cheatin’ Heart: Living With the Clintons: Bill’s Arkansas bodyguards tell the story the press missed,” he spent more than thirty hours with Bill Clinton’s state troopers. The stories that Brock heard were not just about Bill’s flaming adultery but also about Hillary’s outrageous, nasty, and even violent behavior. The troopers were in a position to know, Brock pointed out, because “the troopers functioned as chauffeurs, butlers, body-guards, errand boys, and baggage handlers” for the Clintons.298
State trooper Larry Patterson gave this account: “I remember one time when Bill had been quoted in the morning paper saying something she didn’t like … I came into the mansion and he was standing at the top of the stairs and she was standing at the bottom screaming. She has a garbage mouth on her, and she was calling him motherfucker, cocksucker, and everything else. I went into the kitchen, and the cook, Miss Emma, turned to me and said, ‘The devil’s in that woman.’”299
David Brock, back when he hated the Clintons, reported on this disturbing outburst of Hillary’s domestic violence: “‘Even though she knew what was going on, he would hide it because he didn’t want the confrontation,’ [Trooper Roger] Perry said. Bill did get caught every once in a while. Generally a heavy sleeper, Hillary once woke up in the middle of the night, flicked on the bedroom light, and called down to the guard house looking for Bill. ‘The sorry damn son of a bitch!’ she exclaimed when told the governor had gone out for a drive. Perry grabbed the cellular phone, turning Clinton up at one of the women’s homes, and told him to get back to the residence fast. ‘He started saying “Oh god, god, god. What did you tell her?”’ Perry recalled. When Clinton arrived soon after, Hillary was waiting in the kitchen, where, not unexpectedly, a wild screaming match ensued. When Perry entered the kitchen after the dust had settled, the room was a wreck, with a cabinet door kicked off its hinges.”300
Author Chris Andersen describes that Bill-Hillary kitchen melee as involving “shattering glass and slamming doors. When it was over, staff members … [found] broken glass, smashed dishes and a cupboard door ripped off its hinges.”301
Hillary had a habit of frequently throwing objects at Bill in the governor’s limousine. The objects included “yellow legal pads, files, briefing books, car keys, Styrofoam coffee cups.” And the battles were reportedly usually pitched by Hillary: “‘They’d be screaming at each other, real blue-in-the-face stuff,’ one of their drivers said, ‘but when the car pulled up to their destination it was all smiles and waving for the crowd.’”302
If Bill was cowed by the domestically violent Hillary, then the Arkansas state troopers were terrified by her, and later her Secret Service detail was appalled by her atrocious and disrespectful behavior. There was even one state trooper whom Hillary used to be so cruel with that the grown man would break down and cry. In 1984 Hillary was named “Arkansas Mother of the Year.” While the Clinton entourage was waiting for the honorary ceremony to begin, one of the state troopers Ralph Parker sneered incredulously, “Mother of the Year?” and then improvised, “How about Motherfucker of the Year?” The eyewitness to this precious moment said that the others “looked as if they had been struck by lightning. They were scared shitless that Hillary might have heard. It was truly a great moment.”303
Early on in Bill’s first term the Clintons brought their Jerry Springer–style dysfunction to the White House. Barely a month into the nation’s residence, the Chicago Sun-Times reported the story of Hillary smashing a White House lamp: “Seems first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has a temper to match her hubby’s. Wicked Washington whispers claim Hillary broke a lamp during a heated late night argument with the president. Not to worry: the lamp was in the family quarters, belonged to the Clintons and ‘wasn’t a priceless antique, or anything li
ke that,’ says a White House source.”304
On Inauguration Day, January 21, 1993, Hillary had launched into a screaming, profane fury as she lashed out at Bill for not letting her have the West Wing office of Vice President Al Gore. White House staff and the Secret Service were appalled at these continual outbursts and they leaked the story of Hillary smashing the lamp to the press. The Clintons have referred to the Secret Service as “personal trained pigs” (source: Chelsea to her Secret Service detail).
In March of 1993, Hillary’s father Hughie suffered a massive stroke that put him in a coma and on life support. Hillary, Chelsea, and her brothers flew into Little Rock to watch vigil at the St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center. Bill was in Washington, DC, and the media reported that Barbra Streisand, who had earlier performed at the Clinton Inauguration, had stayed overnight in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Hillary “had also heard that during her absence Bill, spiffy in a black-sequined tuxedo, had escorted Streisand and his mother, who had become very friendly with the singer, to the Gridiron Dinner, an annual media-politico event. There, in a party-hardy mood, the president wailed on his sax to the Coasters’ golden oldie, ‘Yakety Yak.’”305
Upon hearing the news about Bill partying with Barbra Streisand, an enraged Hillary, while her dad was lying in the hospital (eventually dying on April 7, 1993), got on a plane and stormed back to the White House. Not long after, Bill Clinton was sporting a nasty-looking scratch on his neck. Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers said, “I’m the idiot who said he cut himself shaving before I’d seen him. Then I saw him—it was a big scratch, clearly not a shaving cut. Barbra Streisand was clearly around at the time.”
Except it had not been Barbra doing the scratching. Nor was it Socks the cat. Nor was it Chelsea. It was Hillary in one of her patented “attack Bill” modes. Paul Fray, who personally bore the brunt of Hillary’s rage on election night 1974, said, “Hillary left Little Rock like a rocket, went back, and caught the son of a bitch. You know who got hit in the chops, who got smacked around.”306