Most people remember Kenneth Starr as the man who investigated Bill Clinton with regard to the Monica Lewinsky fiasco. They conveniently ignore the other things that Starr investigated. In order to understand Hillary, you need to look at her record through the Hubbell telescope.
Following is the link to the Wikipedia.org article on Webster Hubbell. This appears to be consistent with other reports about him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster_Hubbell
I will summarize some of the “interesting facts” about Mr. Hubbell.
Webster Hubbell was a close friend of the Clintons. He was a partner in the Rose Law firm that also included Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster. He was appointed by Bill Clinton to be the Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court. He was later appointed to Associate Attorney General. Hubble was also one of the key people responsible for vetting Clinton Cabinet appointments.
In December, 1994, Hubbell pled guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges in connection with his position as partner of the Rose Law firm. The same firm which had Vince Foster and Hillary Clinton as partners. In March, 1995, he was sentenced to 21 months in prison. As part of his guilty plea, Hubble signed an immunity agreement with independent counsel Kenneth Starr in exchange for his cooperation in the Whitewater Investigation.
During the 16 months after Hubble resigned, he received more than $450,000 in consulting fees from 17 consulting contracts. An amazing coincidence! The independent counsel found that Hubble did little or no work for the consulting fees paid under these contracts but not find sufficient evidence to conclude that the money was intended to influence Hubbell’s testimony with regard to Whitewater.
Part of Hubbell’s plea deal was that he would testify before a grand jury regarding the production of 11 categories of documents regarding Whitewater. Instead, Hubbell invoked the Fifth Amendment. Ultimately he did release some documents and the result was a second indictment. Hubbell appealed to the Supreme Court and won. The second indictment was thrown out.
On November 14, 1998, Hubbell was indicted a third time for fraud and lying to the House Banking Committee and federal banking regulators. On June 30, 1999, he entered a new plea agreement with Kenneth Starr, pleading guilty to two charges.
On May 22, 1998, the New York Times released excerpts from the tapes of Webster Hubbell’s prison phone conversations from 1996. While you read these, you will note frequent references to the 1996 Presidential election:
Ironically, Hillary gets heat from the far left and the far right. The following link to Progressive review gives an example. I could easily provide numerous conservative blogs with similar information:
This is a lot of smoke if there is no fire. Obviously the media knew all about this, and they knew it stunk to high heaven. Yet they did nothing. Now Hillary Clinton is mysteriously ill, just when it was time to answer some hard questions, under oath, with regard to Libya. Once again, an amazing coincidence! Once again, the main stream media will probably yawn and keep promoting Hillary as the most popular and respected politician in the world. I suspect most people know very little about Hillary’s personal history. But if you look at her record through the Hubble Telescope, the picture becomes a lot clearer.
TDM