If I recall correctly, Kathleen was first approached by Bill Clinton when
she was in
a small crowd listening to him speak. He sent a secret service agent out
to her with
his card and the request that she call. Isn't it great having a president
using
secret service agents as pimps?.....AAC
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:22:50 -0500, "Patriot Games" <Patriot@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,309796,00.html
>
>Sex Assault Accuser Lobs Fresh Charges At Clinton Duo
>Friday, November 09, 2007
>
>WASHINGTON - Warning that American voters risk returning a sexual
predator
>to the White House in 2008, the woman who accused President Bill Clinton
of
>fondling her in the Oval Office nearly 15 years ago is renewing her
>allegations and making new ones in a tell-all book.
>
>Kathleen Willey, whose husband was found dead in the Virginia woods in
1993
>of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound - the same day Willey claims
the
>then-president made an unwanted sexual pass at her, now suggests that the
>Clintons may have had something to do with Ed Willey's death.
>
>But the former White House volunteer said that's not her primary purpose
in
>writing the book.
>
>"One of the other reasons that I wrote the book is that ... I would hope
>that women especially would read this story because statistics show that
one
>in three women today have to deal with sexual harassment and that's way
too
>many women in this world today in the year 2007," Willey told FOX News on
>Thursday.
>
>"I'm speaking for women out there who were afraid to come and talk and
speak
>up," Willey said.
>
>In a broad array of charges, Willey's latest claim is that someone tried
>over Labor Day to steal from her house the manuscript for her new book,
>"Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton."
>
>In the book, she rehashes several charges first made at the end of the
>Clinton administration - including that her cat Bullseye went missing and
on
>the day she was supposed to testify for another Clinton accuser, Paula
>Jones, a would-be jogger approached her and cryptically suggested that
>Bullseye was dead. Jones, who sued the president for sexual harassment,
>received an out of court settlement from Clinton for $875,000 in 1998. In
>the settlement, he never admitted to any improprieties.
>
>Willey claims Hillary Clinton, now a Democratic presidential candidate,
had
>"enabled" her husband's alleged sexual indiscretions by coercing and
>intimidating the women who made claims against him. She said the
then-first
>lady orchestrated smear campaigns against her and other women and hired
>public investigators and lawyers to protect the Clinton's political
>interests.
>
>"Through no fault of our own, we were smeared in the media, terrorized by
>thugs, audited by the IRS, followed by strangers and victimized by
threats,"
>Willey wrote in her book. "Our homes were broken into and our pets were
>killed. And we know that Hillary and her minions were behind the terror."
>
>"She's behind the secret police. She's the one who sets up the war room
when
>he goes out and he does what he does and he zeroes in on women," Willey
told
>FOX News, noting that her book offers considerable details on that
charge.
>
>Willey's is the latest in a series of books recently released that casts
>aspersions on the former first lady ahead of the competitive Democratic
>presidential primary and general 2008 election, and it makes the boldest
>accusations in terms of Hillary Clinton's political ambitions and the
former
>president's reputation as a womanizer.
>
>Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has not responded to numerous
>requests for comments. At the time the accusations were first made, Bill
>Clinton denied making unwanted advances to Willey and testified as such
to
>White House investigators.
>
>Meanwhile, Willey's own credibility has been questioned on several
>occasions, and her book glosses over discrepancies found in her
deposition
>in the Paula Jones suit and testimony she later gave to the independent
>counsel investigating the Monica Lewinsky case. (The House of
>Representatives approved impeachment articles in 1998 against Clinton for
>lying about his affair with the White House intern, but the Senate voted
not
>to impeach the president.)
>
>Noting the discrepancies, Independent Counsel Robert Ray concluded in his
>final report in 2002 that "in short, there was insufficient evidence to
>prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that President Clinton's
testimony
>regarding Kathleen Willey was false."
>
>As the impeachment scandal was emerging, Willey gave her story to CBS'
"60
>Minutes." Later, Salon.com writer Ben Shapiro shared his doubts about
Willey's
>story, pointing out that court documents revealed that her late husband,
who
>had served as a prominent fundraiser for the Clintons, had been accused
of
>fleecing a brother and sister in a real estate scheme. Ed Willey was in
bad
>financial straits and was facing a lawsuit from the two when he died.
>
>After his death, Kathleen Willey refused to pay back the brother and
sister
>the money, according to the documents, and she accused them of pushing
her
>husband to his death.
>
>Critics have also questioned why Willey sought a paying job at the White
>House after the alleged incident with Clinton. Willey had been working as
a
>volunteer in the White House social office and as she tells it, had
>approached the president before and after her service seeking work
because
>of her family's financial problems - a need that became more intense
after
>Ed Willey's death.
>
>In her defense, Willey says she didn't ask for a job in the East Wing of
the
>White House, just for help from Clinton getting in contact with people in
>her hometown of Richmond, Va., who would hire her.
>
>"My family was facing the worst financial crisis, the worst family crisis
we
>had ever faced. I went to him in a time of need, I needed help. And I
have
>no problem. I have been criticized for going to him and asking him for
help.
>I didn't have a problem with that. I had helped him when he needed help,"
>she told FOX News.
>
>In her book, Willey suggests that perhaps her husband didn't kill himself
>after all, that perhaps his death had to do with his fundraising for the
>Clintons, rather than a crooked real estate deal. "The possibility
lingers,
>logically or not, that Ed was murdered."
>
>Willey adds that she can't believe that Hillary Clinton would now try to
use
>her gender in order to defend herself against criticism in the Democratic
>campaign.
>
>"I think it's interesting that she's pulled out the gender card now and
>they're both accusing everyone of piling on. Well, I know what piling on
>feels like, they did it to me. They piled on. It was awful. My character,
my
>reputation, the things that were so untrue and twisted around and
>misinformation and mysteries," Willey said. "She talks about piling on.
You
>know what? You know what I want to say to Hillary Clinton? How does it
feel?
>Now you know."
>
>The book, released this week by a small conservative publisher, World
Ahead
>Publishing, Inc., a partner of the WorldNet Daily news outlet, is meant
to
>dredge up many of the scandals and conspiracy theories swirling around
the
>Clintons' time in office from 1993 through 2001 in order to put a dent in
>Hillary Clinton's armor, said Juan Williams, FOX News contributor and
>correspondent for National Public Radio.
>
>"It's all part of this double-edged sword represented by Bill Clinton,"
>Williams said, pointing out that on one hand, Sen. Clinton's presidential
>campaign can invoke all the good feelings for President Clinton as a
highly
>regarded and well-liked leader at a time the country was doing well. On
the
>other hand, "the cutting edge is you go back to all the questionable
>scandals, beginning with Whitewater, and then to people like Kathleen
>Willey."
>
>"What you are seeing are the storm clouds gathering, this is the leading
>edge of what's going to be an attack on Hillary Clinton," said Williams.
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