Lowlights of the Bill Clinton presidency

[rambone]

I'm working on a project to compile a list of negative things that Bill Clinton was responsible for while in office. I've got the following list going and looking to expand it, and include a paragraph description of each offensive act.

This is a work in progress. Contributions will be greatly appreciated. Links would be very helpful, and using the actual Congressional legislation name will be needed for the final product.

If you can write an explanation of the links you are posting that would be great.


Some highlights of the Clinton legacy
- NAFTA
- Assault Weapons Ban
- Brady Bill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Handgun_Violence_Prevention_Act)
- Undeclared war in Kosovo
- Undeclared war in Somalia
- Bombed the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factory) in Sudan; Operation Infinite Reach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_missile_strikes_on_Afghanistan_and_Sudan_%2 8August_1998%29)
- Iraq sanctions; killed 500,000 Iraqi children. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4PgpbQfxgo)
- FMLA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_and_Medical_Leave_Act_of_1993); more federal intervention in the workplace.
- Balanced budget was a myth; Debt went up every year. (http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16)
- Waco massacre
- Death penalty reform (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiterrorism_and_Effective_Death_Penalty_Act_of_1 996); Increased the likelihood that innocent people will be killed on death row by limiting appeals
- Community Reinvestment Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act); mandated loans to low income individuals; led to a certain housing bubble.
- Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act
- Supported tons of corporate welfare
- Expanded, militarized, and federalized law enforcement across the country
- Ballooned prison population to record levels; ramped up the Drug War.
- Communication Decency Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act); censorship of the internet
- Expanded executive powers in the name of fighting terrorism
- Ramped up the use of Extraordinary Rendition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition); transferred suspects to countries where they could be legally tortured.
- Violence Against Women Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Against_Women_Act); federalizes crime, enlarges DOJ, mandatory sentencing, infringes on state powers.
- Operation_Merlin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Merlin); CIA asset provided nuclear plans to Iran.


Then there were the scandals, murder coverups, drug running, false flag terrorism, and more.
- Whitewater scandal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_controversy)
- Vince Foster
- OKC
- Shady deals with the Chinese (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5009279); illegal campaign donations, missile deal

[kcchiefs6465]

Al Shifa.

Operation Infinite Reach.

[kcchiefs6465]

Beginning or mainstreaming the rendition program.

[tod evans]

Brady bill.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Pick any day out of those eight years.

[RonZeplin]

The Roadless Initiative http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2000/05/01/making-roadless-initiative

[FindLiberty]

However, his lies may have helped the economy seem so good back then... Those sex scandals helped waste his time by limiting, distracting and perhaps even preventing other damage to the Republic thereby accidently protecting Liberty as we knew it.

[Ronin Truth]

List of Clinton(s) Scandals and Trials

http://www.uhuh.com/clinton/list-cli.htm#Top

Hope this helps. :)

[seraphson]

In regards to the surplus myth here is an article with a good deal of research w/sources:

http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16

This is part two of the article:

http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/30

[FSP-Rebel]

Treason and bribery
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5009279
There are other sources of Bill's allowance of advanced military technology to fall into Chinese hands. The New American was the leading chronicle back then of all of this treason. Frank prob has the links.

[rambone]

The Roadless Initiative http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2000/05/01/making-roadless-initiative

From what I'm reading, Clinton prevented roads from being built on 5,000 acres of federally-controlled park land. Is that accurate? Is there more to this story?

[LatinsforPaul]

Why do I have a feeling that in our public schools they are going to teach how "great" the Clinton years were just like the FDR years. :(

[thoughtomator]

you may want to peruse this for additional items in your list: http://alamo-girl.com/

[oyarde]

Waco

[erowe1]

In addition to Iraq sanctions, he made the pursuit of regime change in Iraq official US policy. Bush's Iraq War was the execution of the policy Clinton signed into law.

[erowe1]

He committed perjury and obstruction of justice while in office, impeding the investigation of himself for committing crimes against a law that he himself signed.

[Miss Annie]

Repeal of Glass-Steagall Act

[Henry Rogue]

He sent that kid back to cuba. Whitewater scandal. Economic bubble expansion, although it can't be directly attributed to him.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Don't forget Clinton presidency & capital hill's repetitive voting/signing... "China, Most Favored Nation"

Mack McLarty - Arkansas business and political leader and former White House Chief of Staff for US President Bill Clinton. He is the President of Kissinger McLarty Associates (his Washington-based consulting company with Henry Kissinger), as well as Chief Executive Officer of the McLarty Companies. His public service, including various roles, DNC PRESIDENT, advising three Presidents: Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Was appointed to the National Petroleum Council and the Council on Environmental Quality. Clinton's "special envoy to the Americas," in which capacity he was a key mover and shaker in the creation of NAFTA and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which originated from the Council of the Americas, established by David Rockefeller in 1965. He was a top official at the 1994 Miami Summit of the Americas, which laid the groundwork for this Trade bloc; as well as serving as a key liaison to Clinton for Rockefeller's Council in the implementation of this trade agreement.

Treason and bribery
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5009279
There are other sources of Bill's allowance of advanced military technology to fall into Chinese hands. The New American was the leading chronicle back then of all of this treason. Frank prob has the links.Loral Aerospace & the CFR Bernad Schwartz... then huge donations in the millions, to the Clinton Library by, the China, Dubai, Kuwait, Royal Saudis, Bahrain, Qatar, etc. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, contributing more than $25 million, Chicago Crime Cabal: media magnate Fred Eychaner $20 million) and the family foundatio J.B. Pritzker and his wife, M.K. $2.5 - $5 million.


Repeal of Glass-Steagall ActYes indeed, party like it's 1999... Look at all the USUAL SUSPECTS in this pic; Boehner, Gramm, Summers, Dodd, Edwards, Gorton, Lee Hamilton, Greenspan, etc

http://online.wsj.com/media/steagall_G_20091027162126.jpg

[rambone]

Repeal of Glass-Steagall Act

Can somebody give me a layman's explanation of the Glass-Steagall Act? And if Ron Paul has written on it, please post it here. I believe he voted against repealing the GSA.

[mad cow]

Search for James Riady,Lippo Group,Campaign Donations,Quid Pro Quo.Plenty there to write a book.

[AngryCanadian]

Waco and the operation in Bosnia.

[pcosmar]

Some highlights of the Clinton legacy
- NAFTA


Not wanting to defend Clinton,, But from the top of that list..

NAFTA was a Bush idea. He pushed it and it was signed by Clinton,, but the ground work was Bush.

I would bet that digging into the rest of the list would be a lot of Bi-Partisan fuckery.

[pcosmar]

Double post glitch..
It's back again.

[Ronin Truth]

Can somebody give me a layman's explanation of the Glass-Steagall Act? And if Ron Paul has written on it, please post it here. I believe he voted against repealing the GSA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Legislation

[PaleoPaul]

The Violence Against Women Act. Demonized the male gender and stripped men of their due process rights.

[enoch150]

Operation Merlin. In 2000 the CIA used a defected Russian nuclear scientist to supply flawed blueprints for key parts to a nuclear warhead to the Iranians in an effort to delay their work. According to the author of the story (New York Times correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner James Risen), the Russian scientist saw the flaws, didn't know they were deliberate, and corrected them for the Iranians. Clinton approved the plan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Merlin

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Lowlights of the Bill Clinton presidency

My personal favorite was always the funeral of Ron Brown, in which Clinton was laughing until he noticed cameras filming him and immediately pretended to look sad and cry.

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