Aug 19, 2016 | Liberty Articles
By Harold Pease, Ph. D
Even as I write fallout from Hillary’s Email Scandal has apparently cost the life of our Iranian friend and informer Dr. Shaharam Amiri, a pro-American nuclear scientist, and the pro-Hillary news sources either refuse, or minimize, coverage on it. Those who are covering it attribute Hillary as having “blown his cover.” There were emails with her senior staff on Amiri. He was compromised by our potential next president and hanged recently for being an American spy. Other deaths from Clinton’s reckless email behavior are sure to follow.
Clinton’s more than 270-day refusal to hold a press conference prohibits reporters from asking her questions on this, other breaking stories, and past scandals. She is counting on voter ignorance of these stories to place her in power. This is why we continue to cover a few of the scandals attributed to her that her news outlets refuse to share as they have already, in their minds, elected her president. Someone once said, “Those who fail to understand history are condemned to relive it”
In previous columns we have covered Whitewater, Cattle-Futures Gate, Travelgate, Filegate, and the Lincoln Bedroom for profit. Hillary largely masterminded these and the other older scandals we review today. She has always been the brain of the combo with Bill’s many “gates” primarily due to his inability to keep his pants up.
Chinagate: high-tech secrets exchanged for campaign contributions.
This could still be America’s biggest scandal, far larger than Watergate. The Clinton-Gore campaign in 1996 was low in the polls and needed additional funding thus became open to bribes from Chinese banks in exchange, it is alleged, for high-tech secrets, some perhaps with nuclear application. Part of the plan, under Hillary’s instruction to Ron Brown, then Secretary of Commerce, was to sell “seats on department trade missions to China,” and elsewhere, to “corporate figures in return for big contributions.” On one such “pay to play” mission, Ron Brown, who allegedly opposed the scandal and could have derailed it, was killed in a plan crash in Croatia. Joint congressional committees already conducting hearings on what was already labeled Chinagate, ended abruptly when Democrats discovered wrongful acceptance of campaign contributions by the Republicans. Bipartisan support for non-disclosure of mutual corruption was complete, besides the Monica Lewinski Sex Scandal had taken front page and American was far more interested in it.
Clinton’s Sexual Proclivities protected.
The sexual proclivities of President Bill Clinton concern us in two ways. First, how could Hillary “stand by her man” with the vast number of extra marital affairs that he conducted under her nose as governor of Arkansas and in the White House? Was she that naive? Two women, Paula Jones and Kathleen Willy had to flee from him and another Juanita Broaddrick, unable to flee, claimed rape. Second, Clinton’s sexual victims accused Hillary of using her position of power as First Lady, to “stalk, scare and threaten them,” thereafter.
White House Looting
When the Clinton’s left the White House they absconded with furniture and other valuables—even silverware. They argued that these were donated articles to them but contact with the manufactures and donors showed them to have been donated to the White House, not the Clinton’s, in a “redecoration project in 1993, during Clinton’s first year in office.” All such had been “designated official White House property” at the time by the Park Service. Public pressure resulted in their returning some of the furniture.
Pardongate: how much does a pardon cost?
One of the special constitutional powers of a president is the pardoning power allowing him to extend grace under unusual circumstances, but the Clintons’ learned how to use this power for cash and extended such to many their final days in power when 176 pardons and commutations were given. The most controversial was to Marc Rich an international fugitive, on the FBI’s Most Wanted List until the pardon, who pled guilty to 78 felony counts and who was “indicted on fifty-one more counts of illegal activity, including tax evasion and racketeering.” Wife, Denise Rich, “gave about a million and a half dollars combined to the Clinton Library and other Clinton causes,” according to the House Government Reform Committee. The Hillary Clinton 2000 Senate campaign also received a sizable contribution from Denise. Two other controversial pardons went to Bill’s brother Roger and Hillary’s brother Hugh Rodham, both received money for lobbying for pardons for others.
IRS Auditing Scandal: adversaries come first.
Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have each used the IRS against their political adversaries. The audit, or fear of an audit, is a very powerful weapon to silence and intimidate others; a power that should never be at the discretion of the president at all, yet President Clinton used it for eight years. Those who resisted his sexual advances especially Paula Jones and Juanita Broaddrick and went public, even Gennifer Flowers after her disclosure of his 14-year adulterous relationship with her, received audits, presumably at the instigation of Hillary. Virtually every national conservative organization in this country was audited, some more than once, yet during the same eight years the Washington Times could not “identify a single liberal public policy organization “ that had been audited (WND, “Here They Are: Hillary’s 22 Biggest Scandals Ever,” May 05, 2015).
Again, “Those who fail to understand history are condemned to relive it.”
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He has taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
Aug 15, 2016 | Liberty Articles
By Harold Pease, Ph. D
In the vetting procedure of finding a president of the United States both major political parties normally stoop to new lows to find a scoop that paralyzes their opponent. Donald Trump is said to have over 24 agents assigned to him to do just this. Presumably every wrong, or even the appearance of wrong, is usable fodder to destroy. No one normally escapes this scrutiny but one, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Yes, recent scandals, as for example, Benghazi, the violation of the Federal Records Act with respect to preserving national security secrets, the Clinton Foundation Scandal, still under FBI investigation, and the DNC email scandal to derail Bernie Sanders, are well known. Most major presses have faulted her on honesty some few even using the phase “compulsive liar” to describe past behavior but few give new voters any detail on old unresolved scandals as we do in this column.
Basically, the Clinton strategy has been to outlast the scandal until the public grows tired of it and devoted follower’s demand that we move on. With an adoring press, as the Clinton’s have had for forty years, this is possible and party faithful conclude that nothing must have been there in the first place. It is nothing like Richard Nixon’s Watergate where the press was relentless until the corruption exposed was driven from the White House. Some of the 22 scandals attributed to Hillary by WND TV are equal to, or worse than, Watergate. Still, as with Whitewater, everyone else involved traditionally goes to prison and the Clinton’s move upward in power.
We now identify four more of the major Hillary Clinton scandals for those not old enough to have experienced them personally. This could explain why the older generation is not so willing to have this couple back in the White House.
Cattle Futures and Hillary’s 9,987 percent profit.
In Hillary’s first commodity trade, in 1978, a $1,000 investment in 10 cattle futures, which normally cost $12,000, netted her in 10 months $100,000; some $6,300 the first day. She attributed this “profit miracle” to her having read the Wall Street Journal but it was instead through the help of James B. Blair, counsel to Tyson Foods Inc., and Robert L. Bone of AK Financial Services, who allowed the unusual, and apparently, unlawful trades. Bone was suspended for three years and fined the “largest fine at the time in exchanges history,” but Hillary walked. Insider trading most certainly was involved. Martha Stewart, convicted of something similar years later, served time.
Travelgate: A lucrative job for my friends.
Soon after moving into the White House what became known as Travelgate emerged. Hillary, seeking a financially lucrative place for her friends Harry and Susan Thomases, had Billy Dale, head of the White House Travel Office, fired on trumpt-up income tax fraud charges. This not enough, she had six others (the whole department, all career employees not subject to replacement without cause) fired as well replacing them with her Arkansas political cronies. Hillary used the FBI and IRS and the Attorney Generals Office under Janet Reno to harass Billy Dale for several years. Dale was subsequently found innocent of all charges. Hillary was found to have made false statements to investigators (perjury) but still walked free. Her real crime was in trying to send an innocent man to prison.
Filegate: Collecting 900 files on potential political adversaries.
In 1993 and 1994 Craig Livingstone, Director of White House Personnel Security gathered, presumably at the request of his Arkansas friend Hillary Clinton, FBI background files on some 900 potential political enemies most Republican. Hillary is alleged to have viewed some of the files but there is no evidence that these were used on anyone. That they were gathered with the intent to use is serious enough. Hillary called this a, “completely honest bureaucratic snafu,” when this was brought to light by the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee. The Committee also showed that President Clinton “had illegally released Privacy Act protected information from White House files to smear Kathleen Willey, a woman who was a material witness in the impeachment proceedings, as she was also sexually harassed … while working for him in the White House” (Larry Klayman, Proof Hillary isn’t fit to be president, Renew American, Jan. 26, 2013)
The Lincoln Bedroom: What is a sleepover worth to you?
The Clinton’s learned that they could rent the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House for hefty campaign contributions and acquired $5.4 million in 1995 and 1996 alone doing just this. The average contribution for the 800-900 persons who eventually did this was $100,000 each. The biggest donors included Dirk Ziff at $411,000, Steven Spielberg at $336,000, William Rollnick at $235,000 and Lew Wasserman at $225,000 (Lincoln Bedroom Guests Gave $5.4 Million, Allpolitics , CNN Time, Feb. 26, 1997). Although the funds went to Bill in particular, there is no way that Hillary was not highly involved in this activity. That the use of government property or assets for political purposes was illegal was circumvented because no specific amounts were discussed and no money exchanged at the site.
Someone once said the past is the best predictor of the future.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He has taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
Aug 9, 2016 | Liberty Articles
By Harold Pease, Ph. D
No woman in America’s political history has had more scandals attributed to her than Hillary Rodham Clinton. WND TV lists the number at 22 and that was in May 2015. They follow her like flees on a dog, often two or three simultaneously.
Right now Hillary Clinton is dodging four: the death of four democratic colleagues in Benghazi over whom she had protective responsibilities as Secretary of State, her use of a private home server as Secretary of State passing classified intelligence messages abroad in violation of the Federal Records Act, the Clinton Foundation Scandal raising money by offering State Department favors to nations providing high dollar contributions to it, and the most recent, the Democratic National Convention emails (presumably authorized by Hillary) designed to derail Bernie Sanders in his race for the presidency. But these are only a few of many.
What is most amazing with respect to these scandals, she always gets a pass even when the evidence seems bullet proof, as for example, in Whitewater in the nineties and the FBI’s summary of her guilt on the Email Scandal more recently. Instead of jail time, as would be the case for you or I doing the same thing, she is elevated to even higher positions of power. Today her party and the establishment media are working vigorously to make her the nation’s first female president.
Returning to the Bill and Hillary Clinton Administration of the nineties may give us our best measure for their return to power. After Bill’s election he announced that America had gotten two for the price of one, indicating that Hillary would be a key advisor. Hillary has already announced that Bill will serve as her economic advisor should they return to the White House.
Absent from the political dialogue in this presidential election are the scandals so present the last time this couple served. Space only allows detail for Whitewater. Although the intrigue was of a different issue, time and place it had all the drama of today’s Benghazi or the Email Scandal. There is death and everyone associated goes to jail except the Clinton’s.
Here the Clinton’s (Bill and Hillary), while governor and first lady of Arkansas and the McDougals (Jim and Susan), formed the Whitewater Development Corporation. The four purchased 230 acres of undeveloped land on the White River intending to create vacation home lots for retirees. It is alleged that Bill Clinton used his influence as governor to pressure David Hale to lend $300,000 to Susan McDougal in the land deal. At the time Jim McDougal was Governor Clinton’s economic adviser and later created his own bank, the Madison Guaranty to fund the project, hiring attorney Hillary Clinton of the Rose Law Firm to make everything legal.
The four equal partners were intricately connected. The scheme collapsed in 1989. Ultimately fifteen associated with this fraudulent land deal, which ended costing many retirees their life savings, and the taxpayer some $73 million, went to jail—everyone except the Clinton’s. Even Jim Guy Tucker, the governor succeeding Bill, served time, so extensive did Whitewater become.
By the time everything came to a head the Clinton’s were in the White House and had legions of defenders and records were strangely hidden or misplaced. Independent Counsel Robert Fiske ordered the Clinton’s to surrender documents relating to the corrupt Madison Guaranty. The Clinton’s reported them as missing. But two years later they mysteriously reappeared, found on the desk of Hillary’s personal secretary. By this time much of the heat was off and the story largely undermined by a sympathetic Clinton press. Besides, the special prosecutor for Whitewater, Robert Fiske, was chosen by President Clinton to be his new Attorney General.
Kenneth Starr continued the Whitewater investigation but leading witnesses Susan McDougal, Jim Guy Tucker, and Clinton’s former Attorney General Webster Hubbell, a Rose Law Firm friend of Hillary Clinton, refused to cooperate as key witnesses against the Clintons with the latter pleading the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination. President Bill Clinton later pardoned Susan McDougal and Jim Guy Tucker. The story fades away replaced largely by the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.
The mysterious death of the Clinton Deputy White House counsel, Vince Foster, added much intrigue to the story. He had been the special friend of Hillary and a Rose Law Firm associate, and was charged with defending the Clintons on Whitewater charges. He was murdered or committed suicide, at Fort Marcy Park, Virginia. White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum removed Foster’s files on Whitewater from Foster’s desk so they could not to be discovered by park police.
But Whitewater is only one of a good number of scandals in which Hillary is a leading participant. Perhaps another column will be necessary outlining her involvement in: File Gate, Cattle Futures Gate, Travel Gate, and half dozen more. She, and her devoted followers, would say that it is just the “vast right conspiracy,” but there are far too many of these to feel comfortable with this explanation.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He has taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
Aug 2, 2016 | Liberty Articles
By Harold Pease, Ph. D
The first night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) was Bernie Sanders night and it took him three minutes to begin his speech mid continuous crowd applause. The interruptions of “Ber–nie!!, Ber–nie !!” and “We want Bernie!” chants were unmistakable. It was his convention. His warriors were clearly in place to fight for him and not Hillary Clinton. He was the “legitimate” Democratic Party presidential nominee. Hillary had engineered a fraudulent victory through her Super Delegates, they believed, “designed from the beginning to ensure her victory,” should she not be able to manage the masses in her favor. Besides, she was corrupt.
So much for a party that had always pushed the democratic principle of “one person, one vote.” Obviously the Super Delegate concept was undemocratic.
Sanders had built a socialist movement of Democrats from his initial following of but 6% to around 50% (delegate vote day 2 of the Convention was 40%) against a candidate that had been anointed by Wall Street as far back as 2008. Hillary belonged to corporate America. Sander’s supporters booed and jeered at any mention of her.
This loyalty was intensified, and the Democratic National Convention embarrassed, when it was revealed by WikiLeaks, the Friday before the Philadelphia Convention, that some DNC emails were designed to undermine Sanders in his race for the nomination. One such was to cause him to acknowledge that he was atheist, a negative to help bring him down in close Christian states such as Kentucky and West Virginia. His following became even more anti-Hillary and dedicated to his becoming the party nominee. Suddenly the Clinton Email Scandal, although not really related except for the deception that was common to both events, became relevant to them. “Feel the Bern” followers outside the conventions clearly were upset.
His constant theme, “The top one-tenth of 1 percent now own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent,” had resonated with his devoted followers. He had successfully hinted throughout the campaign that Hillary had represented the 1% her entire political career and was funded by them now. Indeed, Hillary is the establishment
How rich is she? It is difficult to separate her money from that of her husband and sources are often dated and elusive on the subject but all sources show her very rich and therefore the 1% –the enemy class that Sanders most opposed. As of 2012, the Center for Responsive Politics “estimated Hillary Clinton’s net worth at between $5.2 and $25.5 million.” Mother Jones magazine, May 21, 2014, estimated that she made $5 million alone her last 15 months as Secretary of State. In 2008 when she last ran for president she was listed as having $34.9 million.
Bill Clinton’s resources add millions more. The book “Clinton Cash,” by Peter Schweizer, perhaps the most authoritarian source on the subject, has Bill Clinton making, during Hillary’s four-year stint as Secretary of State, “about $48 million of a $105 million speaking haul amassed between 2001 and 2013;” spiking during Hillary’s tenure at $7.5, $10.7, $13.4 and finally $17 million her last year in office.
“More than half of the $48 million was paid by companies in China, Japan, Canada, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Cayman Islands, among others.” Most reason that these nations were buying influence from Hillary by lavishing her husband with hundreds of thousands of dollars for a speech. It was also no secret that she could become the next president.
The initial endless chorus of elation changed to “Ber…nie“ chants throughout his speech. Then followed Sanders endorsement of his supposed ideological enemy, “Based on her ideas and her leadership Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States.” Clinton supporters roared but Sanders supporters were stunned. “Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president, and I am proud to stand with her here tonight,” continued Sanders.
Sanders effectively fell on his own sword mid a chorus of boos and thumbs down signs by his own followers, but the boos were unmistakable. Some networks refused to show crowd scenes of thumbs down they were so biased in Hillary’s favor. Others stormed out of the Convention holding up Bernie signs and chanting, “Hey, hey, D.N.C., we won’t vote for Hillary.”
His carefully nurtured followers, most millennials, were not prepared, as older voters, to be sold out. Having been used they had nowhere to go but to the same people that Sanders had convinced them had always been the ruling establishment—the 1 percent. His asking, the next day, for the suspension of the rules allowing her to be nominated for president of the United States by acclamation reeked of hypocrisy and betrayal. Some of his followers again walked out.
Bernie Sanders demonstrations continued outside the Convention on day 2 most demonstrators disillusioned with the political system or vowing to go to Donald Trump or another political party. Most inside the Convention will probably plug their nose and switch to Hillary but confidence that she will continue his revolution is small.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He has taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
Aug 1, 2016 | Liberty Articles
Dr. James Dobson on
Donald Trump’s Christian Faith
Only the Lord knows the condition of a person’s heart. I can only tell you what I’ve heard. First, Trump appears to be tender to things of the Spirit. I also hear that Paula White has known Trump for years and that she personally led him to Christ. Do I know that for sure? No. Do I know the details of that alleged conversion? I can’t say that I do.
But there are many Christian leaders who are serving on a faith advisory committee for Trump in the future. I am among them. There are about 25 of us that include Jerry Falwell, Jr., Robert Jeffress, Jack Graham, Ben Carson, James Robison, Michele Bachmann, and many others whom you would probably know. We’ve all agreed to serve. How will that play out if Trump becomes president? I don’t know. It is a good start, I would think.
If anything, this man is a baby Christian who doesn’t have a clue about how believers think, talk and act. All I can tell you is that we have only two choices, Hillary or Donald. Hillary scares me to death. And, if Christians stay home because he isn’t a better candidate, Hillary will run the world for perhaps eight years. The very thought of that haunts my nights and days. One thing is sure: we need to be in prayer for our nation at this time of crisis.
By Dr. James Dobson
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Jul 24, 2016 | Globalism, Liberty Articles
By Harold Pease, Ph. D
Something of a mega earthquake happened when Donald Trump selected Governor Mike Pence as his vice presidential running mate over my predicted long-term Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member, and former distinguished Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich. I was wrong and delightfully so. Pence has no known establishment connections and has praiseworthy constitutionally centered credentials.
I have studied special interest groups all my adult life and for at least 70 years either the president or his vice president has been a member of this globalist organization. In fact I have said that one cannot be president without their permission. Membership also belonged to his secretary of state, a third of his cabinet, and his ambassador to Russia and China, whether Democrat or Republican. The Trump presidency, as now constituted, is the only exception, making his election the most “establishment free” and historic in modern U.S. History, thus the earthquake. The Trump revolution is more profound than realized.
Had Trump selected Gingrich I would have seen this election in the same light as that of Ronald Reagan when we last had the best chance of throwing the globalists (the establishment) out of power. I would have joined the “Never Trump” movement. Reagan, like Trump today, had/has no globalist connections.
At the Republican National Convention in 1980 Reagan promised a small group of delegates led by Dr. W. Cleon Skousen, that he would not, “under any circumstance, have that man,” George Bush, as his running mate. The next day Reagan announced Bush as his vice presidential selection. The small group confronted Reagan with the contradictions to which Reagan responded before walking away, “Had one Hell of a night with David and Henry.”
I reasoned that the establishment found it necessary to work with Reagan because of unplanned popular support and could drop their intense opposition to him if he would accept their man, a former CFR director, as his vice president. The CFR could still govern indirectly through Vice President George Bush on the things that mattered most to them.
Both David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger, now old men 101 and 92 respectively, were known then as leading architects of world government and were managing the CFR. They created the Trilateral Commission (TC) in 1973 to work a similar influence on the world level. This organization worked to influence three geographical regions, Japan, North American and Western Europe and divided its then 270 members of preselected industrialists, bankers and politicians among these regions. The view was that if consensus could be obtained between these powerful regions those involved essentially economically managed the world. The Jimmy Carter Administration had the largest number of TC members 16, and fewer numbers have served in every presidential administration since.
Trump left me feeling as though I was watching the Reagan movie again when he made two announcements. Pressed for a list of advisors on March 3rd he offered three names, two of which were CFR members. First on the list was Richard Haass, the same advisor as Hillary Clinton, who is presently serving his 13th year as president of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a member of the Bilderbergers and the Trilateral Commission, two other globalist organizations. The second announcement, made May 18, revealed that Trump met with Henry Kissinger after disclosing that they had had several prior phone conversations.
The people have clearly rejected the “establishment,” whether they fully understood what it was or its impact over previous administrations, they knew something was wrong when those sent to change Washington DC became Washington DC. Nobody in America is more globalist and establishment than Haass and Kissinger. There should be nothing that Donald Trump should wish to emulate from either man, so why the meetings with a Secretary of State seven presidents ago? Nothing more was made public.
That Trump would select Mike Pence, far to the right of what he himself has been in the past, suggests sincerity to better govern. Pence even endorsed for president political rival Ted Cruz, so he is not being rewarded for loyalty.
The presidency of Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885), the most corrupt candidate for the office of vice president in the 1800’s, comes to mind. The assassination of James A. Garfield elevated him to the presidency. Sobered by the importance of the office he implemented Civil Service Reform, which he had previously opposed, and became a very honest and respectable president.
If Trump fails to do the same I am here to write columns exposing the practices of any president outside the Constitution. For now I am giving Trump a grateful node.
By rejecting Gingrich there is no doubt that Trump has upset the CFR, who see the White House as their personal property. Before, they were the president or were one heartbeat from, should he be too independent. I do expect Trump to attempt to placate CFR people in his government, perhaps Gingrich as Secretary of State and Chris Christy, or Rudy Giuliani as Attorney General. I object, but cleaning house immediately of globalists may not be possible, but he has kept the CFR out of the Executive Branch of Government for the first time in at least 70 years.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He has taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
