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   On 11 Feb 2004 14:43:59 -0800, darth_sidious70@yahoo.com (Senator   
   Palpatine) wrote:   
      
   >WOW and not one liberal! How about the fact that Howard the coward   
   >Dean lied about his back ailment and spent his time in colorado skiing   
   >and pouring cement?   
   >   
   >how about Bill Clinton fleeing to Oxford for college?...and then went on to   
   accomplish so much as president:   
      
   ...and THEN he went on to accomplish such great liberal advances as   
   president:   
      
   CLINTON Administration Records Set   
      
   - The only president ever impeached strictly on grounds of personal   
   malfeasance   
      
   - Most convictions and guilty pleas   
      
   - Most Cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation   
      
   - Most witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify   
      
   - Most witnesses to die suddenly   
      
   - Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions   
      
   - Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad   
      
   Historical Context   
      
   - Number of independent counsel inquiries since the 1978 law was   
   passed: 19   
      
   - Number that have produced indictments: 7   
      
   - Number that produced more convictions than the Starr investigation:1   
      
   - Median length of investigations that have led to convictions: 44   
   months   
      
   - Length of Starr-Ray investigation (7/00): 67 months.   
      
   - Number of Starr-Ray investigation convictions to date (including one   
   governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton business   
   partners): 15   
      
   - Median cost per Starr investigation conviction: $3.5 million as of   
   3/00   
      
   - Total cost of the Starr investigation (3/00) $52 million   
      
   - Total cost of the Iran-Contra investigation: $48.5 million   
      
   - Number of Clinton Cabinet members who came under criminal   
   investigation: 5   
      
   - Number of Reagan cabinet members who came under criminal   
   investigation: 4   
      
   - Number of top officials jailed in the Teapot Dome Scandal: 3   
      
   Crime Stats   
      
   - Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton   
   machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47   
      
   - Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33   
      
   - Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61   
      
   - Number of imprisonments: 14   
      
   - Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth   
   Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of   
   foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122 (9/99)   
      
   Smaltz Investigation   
      
   - Guilty pleas and convictions obtained by Donald Smaltz in cases   
   involving charges of bribery and fraud against former Agriculture   
   Secretary Mike Espy and associated individuals and businesses: 15   
      
   - Acquitted or overturned cases (including Espy): 6   
      
   - Fines and penalties assessed: $11.5 million   
      
   - Cost of investigation: $22.2 million through 9/99   
      
   - Amount Tyson Food paid in fines and court costs: $6 million   
      
   - Amount Tyson Food still has in annual government contracts: $200   
   million   
      
   - Reasons individuals other than Espy went free: Concealing knowledge   
   of gifts to Espy and his girlfriend (1), providing illegal gratuities   
   to Espy(4), illegally supplementing the salary of a government   
   official (2), concealing receipt of illegal funds on behalf of Espy   
   (1) (Espy's chief of staff was sentenced to prison in this case)   
      
   Crimes for Which Convictions Have Been Obtained   
      
   Drug trafficking (3), racketeering, extortion, bribery (4), tax   
   evasion, kickbacks, embezzlement (2), fraud (12), conspiracy (5),   
   fraudulent loans, illegal gifts (1), illegal campaign contributions   
   (5), money laundering (6), perjury, obstruction of justice.   
      
   Other Matters Investigated by Special Prosecutors   
   and Congress or Reported in the Media   
      
   Bank and mail fraud, violations of campaign finance laws, illegal   
   foreign campaign funding, improper exports of sensitive technology,   
   physical violence and threats of violence, solicitation of perjury,   
   intimidation of witnesses, bribery of witnesses, attempted   
   intimidation of prosecutors, perjury before congressional committees,   
   lying in statements to federal investigators and regulatory officials,   
   flight of witnesses, obstruction of justice, bribery of cabinet   
   members, real estate fraud, tax fraud, drug trafficking, failure to   
   investigate drug trafficking, bribery of state officials, use of state   
   police for personal purposes, exchange of promotions or benefits for   
   sexual favors, using state police to provide false court testimony,   
   laundering of drug money through a state agency, false reports by   
   medical examiners and others investigating suspicious deaths, the   
   firing of the RTC and FBI director when these agencies were   
   investigating Clinton and his associates, failure to conduct autopsies   
   in suspicious deaths, providing jobs in return for silence by   
   witnesses, drug abuse, improper acquisition and use of 900 FBI files,   
   improper futures trading, murder, sexual abuse of employees, false   
   testimony before a federal judge, shredding of documents, withholding   
   and concealment of subpoenaed documents, fabricated charges against   
   (and improper firing of) White House employees, inviting drug   
   traffickers, foreign agents and participants in organized crime to the   
   White House.   
      
   Unexplained Phenomena   
      
   - FBI files misappropriated by the White House: c. 900   
      
   - Estimated number of witnesses quoted in FBI files misappropriated by   
   the White House: 18,000   
      
   - Number of witnesses who developed medical problems at critical   
   points in Clinton scandals investigation (Tucker, Hale, both   
   McDougals, Lindsey): 5   
      
   - Problem areas listed in a memo by Clinton's own lawyer in   
   preparation for the president's defense: 40   
      
   - Number of witnesses and critics of Clinton subjected to IRS audit:   
   45   
      
   - Number of names placed in a White House secret database without the   
   knowledge of those named: c. 200,000   
      
   - Number of persons involved with Clinton who have been beaten up: 2   
      
   - Number of women involved with Clinton who claim to have been   
   physically threatened: 5 (Sally Perdue, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen   
   Willey, Linda Tripp, Elizabeth Ward Gracen)   
      
   - Number of men involved in the Clinton scandals who have been beaten   
   up or claimed to have been intimidated: 9   
      
   Arkansas Sudden Death Syndrome   
      
   - Number of persons in the Clinton orbit who are alleged to have   
   committed suicide: 7   
      
   - Number known to have been murdered: 2   
      
   - Number who died in plane crashes: 11   
      
   - Number who died in automobile accidents: 3   
      
   - Number killed during Waco massacre: 4   
      
   - Number of key witnesses who have died of heart attacks while in   
   federal custody under questionable circumstances: 1   
      
   - Number of medications being taken by Jim McDougal at the time he was   
   placed in solitary confinement shortly before his death: 12   
      
   - Number of unexplained deaths: 3   
      
   - Total of above deaths: 31   
      
   - Number of northern Mafia killings during peak years of 1968-78: 30   
      
   - Number of Dixie Mafia killings during same period: 156   
      
   Arkansas Alzheimer's   
      
   - Number of times Hillary Clinton said "I don't recall" or its   
      
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