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A number of accounts would: Woodward, Shadow, 265.
Heymann did include: Ken Starr, interview by author.
“I was told that”: Philip Heymann, interview by author.
“As much as I like”: Jo Ann Harris, interview by author.
“as highly regarded”: Philip Heymann, interview by author.
frosting on the cake: Philip Heymann, interview by author; Woodward, Shadow, 242.
Upstairs, Janet Reno’s top advisers: Robert B. Fiske, interview by author.
Fiske sat alone: David Johnston, “Counsel Granted a Broad Mandate in Clinton Inquiry,” New York Times, 20 Jan. 1994, A1. For all practical purposes, Fiske possessed the same power as did the attorney general to investigate this particular matter. The charter gave him broad power to investigate “President William Jefferson Clinton’s or Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s relationships” with (1) Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association; (2) Whitewater Development Corporation; and (3) David Hale’s Capital Management Services Company. The jurisdictional charter also gave Fiske the authority to investigate obstruction of justice, perjury, and conspiracy with respect to any of these matters, a provision Fiske had added to give himself breathing room. The broad “related to” provision also gave the independent counsel authority to probe other matters “connected with or arising out of ” the principal Whitewater and Madison investigations (Code of Federal Regulations, title 28, sec. 603.1).
“Are you satisfied”: Robert B. Fiske, interview by author; Woodward, Shadow, 240–42.
“the epitome of what”: Michael Isikoff, “Whitewater Special Counsel Promises Thorough Probe,” Washington Post, 21 Jan. 1994, A1; Woodward, Shadow, 242.
“All I wanted was”: Bill Clinton, interview by author.
Fiske’s appointment prompted: Bill Clinton, interview by author. See also Randolph, “Fiske Seen as No ‘Publicity Hound.’”
“The Attorney General has made”: Johnston, “Counsel Granted.”
Robert Fiske took: U.S. Senate, Testimony of Robert B. Fiske, Jr., 206.
Julie O’Sullivan, who had worked: Julie O’Sullivan, interview by author.
this case created “a question”: Robert B. Fiske, interview by author.
“It really wasn’t”: Rusty Hardin, interview by author.
Chapter 9: David Hale Visits Justice Jim
“a paranoid liar”: Max Brantley, interview by author.
“He is a grifter”: Larry Jegley, interview by author.
The FBI had raided Hale’s office: Ultimately, the evidence indicated that Hale had extracted $3.4 million in federal funds, distributed it to dummy corporations, defaulted on the loans, and then kept the proceeds for himself (Sidney Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars, 75; Lyons, Fools for Scandal, 110; Office of the In dependent Counsel, Final Report of Robert B. Fiske, Jr., Independent Counsel: In Re Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association (under seal), 6 Oct. 1994 (hereinafter cited as Fiske Final Report/Madison), 31–32; Indictment, 23 Sept. 1993, Heuer papers.
(Some conspiracy theorists): James Ring Adams and R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., “The Case Against Hillary,” American Spectator, February 1996, 22. Among the items specified in the search warrant for Hale’s office were the files relating to Susan McDougal’s Master Marketing loan (ibid., 26).
Some of the proceeds: Fiske Final Report/ Madison, 14–15; Murray Waas, “False Witness: Part I,” Salon, 12 Aug. 1998; Woodward, Shadow, 242.
the McDougals allegedly would loan: Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars, 76; Conason and Lyons, The Hunting of the President, 91.
In footage: David Hale, interview by NBC, unedited video, 6 Nov. 1993, segment 3, Sam Heuer files.
Hale’s early appearances: Woodward, Shadow, 242; Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars, 75; Jeffrey Toobin, A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President, 65; Robert L. Bartley, ed., Whitewater: A Journal Briefing from the Editorial Pages of the Wall Street Journal, 1:89–90.
Johnson rose: interview by author.
In one issue, he penned: Jim Johnson, Arkansas Faith, March 1956, 14 (courtesy of Arkansas History Commission).
“mongrelization”: Ibid., April 1956, 13, and June 1956, 5.
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