Death of American Virtue - Ken Gormley [512]
“Theory of the Case” memo: Memo, 10 Apr. 1998, “HRC Meeting” binder, confidential source.
These entries, circled on the billings records: “Once Upon a Time in Arkansas: Rose Law Firm Billing Records,” Frontline, PBS, October 1997; Final Report/Ray, vol. 2, 468–72.
There was plenty of evidence: Among other things, the Senate Whitewater Committee had obtained the handwritten notes of New York lawyer Susan Thomases, one of Mrs. Clinton’s closest advisers. The notes indicated that Mrs. Clinton had numerous conferences with officials at Madison and that “she did all the billing” (Jerry Seper, “Once-Secret Memos Question Clinton’s Honesty,” Washington Times, 8 May 2008).
“There is a circumstantial case”: “Summary of Crimes,” “HRC Meeting” binder, confidential source; Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author.
Hillary Clinton had the motive: These points regarding the motive and opportunity for Mrs. Clinton to lie are set forth in detail in Final Report/Ray, vol. 3, 140–44; Final Senate Report/ Whitewater, 240–61. Mrs. Clinton, however, insisted that she was pleased that the billing records turned up because they had confirmed what she had said all along: that her involvement in Madison Guaranty work was minimal by the standards of any busy lawyer. A summary of Mrs. Clinton’s position can be found in Final Senate Report/ Whitewater, 659–68 (minority view).
Ewing would later say: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author.
To further add: Final Report/Ray, vol. 1, 140–41. See also “Second Set of First Lady’s Billing Records Found,” CNN AllPolitics, 26 Mar. 1998.
This single piece of paper: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author. Hillary Clinton’s story had always been that she was brought into the case to collect an old bill from McDougal that was due on Bank of Kingston work. Ewing would say: “That document right there proved that certain statements she made were not so. They definitely were not true.”
that Mrs. Clinton “knowingly made”: Draft Indictment, “HRC Meeting” binder, confidential source. For a discussion of these events, see Stewart, Blood Sport, 123–25 and n.
For two straight hours: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author; Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 155.
“a bunch of nothing”: Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 156.
“overstat[ing] in favor of the Clintons”: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author.
A secret memo written: Memo, Paul Rosenzweig to File, 24 Apr. 1998, Records of Independent Counsel Starr/Ray, National Archives, obtained through FOIA request.
The final witness for OIC would: Order of Proof, “4–22–98, HRC meeting” binder, confidential source.
By midnight, Starr’s: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author.
“like Moses on Mt. Nebo”: Paul Rosenzweig, interview by author.
“As far as I’m concerned”: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author.
Instead of indicting Hubbell: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author; Schmidt and Weisskopf, Truth at Any Cost, 156–57. OIC files now reveal that in June 1998, OIC also tried its hand at drafting an indictment against Hubbell based on the Madison Guaranty—related charges, simply removing Hillary Clinton’s name from the indictment and leaving her, in essence, as an unindicted co-conspirator. See Seper, “Once-Secret Memos.”
“On the other hand, I’ve been”: Hickman Ewing, Jr., interview by author.
Chapter 39: Out-Gunning the Secret Service
“Until they announce they will not”: Stephen Labaton, “Testing of a President: The Grand Jury; On Last Day, No Indictment of First Lady,” New York Times, 6 May 1998, A20.
“parallel investigations”: John Crudele, “The Jury’s Still Out on Hillary,” New York Post, 6 May 1998.
Hubbell stood at the door: Susan Schmidt, “Indictment Claims Hubbell Lived Lavishly,” Washington Post, 1 May 1998.
the charges were particularly unfair: John Nields, interview by author; John Nields to author, 3 Aug. 2009.
The House committee investigating: House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, “Hubbell Master Tape Log,” 30 Apr. 1998.
Republican Chairman: In one conversation recorded on the Master Tape Log in March 1996,