I was under the impression McDougal died of something cancer related. This article from NewsMax sheds some interesting light on his death. Any wonder why Mrs. McDougal refused to testify against Billary?
I've said it before, if you ever have occasion to cross the Clintons, watch your six.
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http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2000/5/16/232416
Wednesday May 17, 2000; 12:22 AM EDT
Hillary Saved by McDougal's Death: Whitewater
Authors
During her Tuesday night speech accepting the state Democratic
party's nomination to be New York's next U.S. Senator, Hillary
Clinton thanked retiring Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, New
York junior Senator Chuck Schumer, state party chairman Judith
Hope and, of course, her husband, Bill Clinton - who made a
special trip to Albany for the occasion.
But there's another group of individuals, who couldn't attend
and whose names went unmentioned, to whom Mrs. Clinton owes
perhaps an even greater debt of gratitude.
Without the actions of the government jailers who operated the
Federal Prison Medical Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, where key
Whitewater witness Jim McDougal died on March 8, 1998, Mrs.
Clinton likely would have been otherwise engaged Tuesday evening
- as a defendant in her own criminal Whitewater trial.
The astonishing turn of events that spared the first lady from
indictment two years ago is described in the latest Whitewater
tome to hit the bookstores, "Truth at Any Cost," by The
Washington Post's Sue Schmidt and Time magazine's Michael
Weisskopf.
On April 27, 1998, Independent Counsel Ken Starr's chief Little
Rock deputy Hickman Ewing assembled his team of prosecutors to
decide whether to indict Hillary.
"[Ewing] paced the room for more than three hours, recalling
facts from memory in his distinctive Memphis twang. He spoke
passionately, laying out a case that the first lady had
obstructed government investigators and made false statements
about her legal work for McDougal's S&L, particularly the
thrift's notorious multimillion-dollar Castle Grande real estate
project."
However, as Schmidt and Weisskopf report, Ewing's case against
the first lady had a giant hole in it.
"The biggest problem was the death a month earlier of Jim
McDougal.... Without him, prosecutors would have a hard time
describing the S&L dealings they suspected Hillary Clinton had
lied about."
Immediately after McDougal's death, Starr's office suggested
that hours of interviews with McDougal had given investigators
such a complete record that his demise would make little
difference in the outcome of the case.
But apparently that wasn't true, at least according to Schmidt
and Weisskopf.
So when McDougal's jailers pulled him out of his regular cell
for a drug test that chilly Texas Saturday night, they
inadvertently did Mrs. Clinton a huge favor.
Prison records later revealed McDougal had been excused from
urine drug tests; the fourteen different medications he was on,
including several to treat his heart condition, left him unable
to urinate on demand.
But somebody apparently forgot to tell the guards on duty that
night.
When he couldn't comply, guards tossed the key Whitewater
witness into solitary confinement - after confiscating his heart
drugs. Fellow inmates told McDougal biographer Curtis Wilkie
that guards ignored the dying man's cries for help as he lapsed
into cardiac arrest that night.
At 10:30 a.m. guards "discovered" his body. Jim McDougal would
never testify again.
Two years later Mrs. Clinton, instead of planning her legal
defense strategy, is strategizing on how to extend the Clinton
era well into the 21st Century.
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"Put a rifle in the hands of a Subject, and he immediately becomes a Citizen." -- Jeff Cooper
"The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies." -- H.L. Mencken, February 12, 1923, Baltimore Evening Sun
"If God had not wanted them to be sheared, he would not have made them sheep." -- Bad guy from the Magnificent Seven.
"Don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blow." -- Bob Dylan
I've said it before, if you ever have occasion to cross the Clintons, watch your six.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2000/5/16/232416
Wednesday May 17, 2000; 12:22 AM EDT
Hillary Saved by McDougal's Death: Whitewater
Authors
During her Tuesday night speech accepting the state Democratic
party's nomination to be New York's next U.S. Senator, Hillary
Clinton thanked retiring Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, New
York junior Senator Chuck Schumer, state party chairman Judith
Hope and, of course, her husband, Bill Clinton - who made a
special trip to Albany for the occasion.
But there's another group of individuals, who couldn't attend
and whose names went unmentioned, to whom Mrs. Clinton owes
perhaps an even greater debt of gratitude.
Without the actions of the government jailers who operated the
Federal Prison Medical Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, where key
Whitewater witness Jim McDougal died on March 8, 1998, Mrs.
Clinton likely would have been otherwise engaged Tuesday evening
- as a defendant in her own criminal Whitewater trial.
The astonishing turn of events that spared the first lady from
indictment two years ago is described in the latest Whitewater
tome to hit the bookstores, "Truth at Any Cost," by The
Washington Post's Sue Schmidt and Time magazine's Michael
Weisskopf.
On April 27, 1998, Independent Counsel Ken Starr's chief Little
Rock deputy Hickman Ewing assembled his team of prosecutors to
decide whether to indict Hillary.
"[Ewing] paced the room for more than three hours, recalling
facts from memory in his distinctive Memphis twang. He spoke
passionately, laying out a case that the first lady had
obstructed government investigators and made false statements
about her legal work for McDougal's S&L, particularly the
thrift's notorious multimillion-dollar Castle Grande real estate
project."
However, as Schmidt and Weisskopf report, Ewing's case against
the first lady had a giant hole in it.
"The biggest problem was the death a month earlier of Jim
McDougal.... Without him, prosecutors would have a hard time
describing the S&L dealings they suspected Hillary Clinton had
lied about."
Immediately after McDougal's death, Starr's office suggested
that hours of interviews with McDougal had given investigators
such a complete record that his demise would make little
difference in the outcome of the case.
But apparently that wasn't true, at least according to Schmidt
and Weisskopf.
So when McDougal's jailers pulled him out of his regular cell
for a drug test that chilly Texas Saturday night, they
inadvertently did Mrs. Clinton a huge favor.
Prison records later revealed McDougal had been excused from
urine drug tests; the fourteen different medications he was on,
including several to treat his heart condition, left him unable
to urinate on demand.
But somebody apparently forgot to tell the guards on duty that
night.
When he couldn't comply, guards tossed the key Whitewater
witness into solitary confinement - after confiscating his heart
drugs. Fellow inmates told McDougal biographer Curtis Wilkie
that guards ignored the dying man's cries for help as he lapsed
into cardiac arrest that night.
At 10:30 a.m. guards "discovered" his body. Jim McDougal would
never testify again.
Two years later Mrs. Clinton, instead of planning her legal
defense strategy, is strategizing on how to extend the Clinton
era well into the 21st Century.
------------------
"Put a rifle in the hands of a Subject, and he immediately becomes a Citizen." -- Jeff Cooper
"The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies." -- H.L. Mencken, February 12, 1923, Baltimore Evening Sun
"If God had not wanted them to be sheared, he would not have made them sheep." -- Bad guy from the Magnificent Seven.
"Don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blow." -- Bob Dylan
