Originally posted by WhiteHawk
5 girls claimed bill clinton raped them? Man, your just throwing crap on the wall. Are there any serious rape charges against bill clinton, past present or future?
It doesn't just become coincidence when this many woman report on Clinton.
Here is Bill Clinton's legacy of mistreatment of women.
The common threads are that, almost to a woman:
(1) they had some vulnerability that he could exploit.
(2) they were victims of a smear campaign, and
(3) there is an eerie similarity to the stories they tell of intimidation, threats, and burglaries of odd items, such as photographs and tapes.
JUANITA BROADDRICK: She admired and campaigned for then Attorney-General Clinton until an episode 21 years ago when, she said, he brutally attacked, bit and raped her in her hotel room. In a sign that the act was premeditated, Clinton had telephoned her from downstairs to move a planned campaign meeting from the cafe to her room because, he said, there were reporters downstairs. When he left her room, he turned and, noting her swollen and bruised upper lip, told her, "You better put some ice on that." She told a handful of close friends, including a nurse, who saw her injuries shortly after the incident and has corroborated her story.
Clinton's Republican enemies pressured her to come out and spread rumors, yet she refused for years to come forward. After a year of prodding by NBC's Lisa Myers, she reluctantly told her story to the nation, chiefly to counter a tabloid story that she and her husband had received hush money.
Although opinion polls indicated that people who saw her interview believed her, the news media dropped the issue within a few days. Clinton did not give a direct response, thus depriving the media of an easy reaction story. Instead the president's lawyer released a terse statement denying that there had been an assault, leaving the inference that any relationship must have been consensual. That stopped the story and had the added effect of attempting to smear the victim. Others have made much of her long silence.
She told NBC,s Dateline that "I was afraid that I would be destroyed like so many of the other women."
She also felt direct pressure from Clinton, who in 1991 approached her while she was attending a meeting for nursing home business. Here's her recollection e-mailed on June 2, 1999:
"A gentleman came to the door and said that I was needed outside the meeting room. I went outside the conference room to the hallway [one of the nurses followed me] and was directed by the man to go around the corner. When I turned the corner, I saw Bill Clinton just a few steps from me. I walked over to him, too stunned to really think about what I was doing. He immediately tried to take my hand, which I would not allow, and began this profuse apology to me. He was saying things like, 'I am so sorry for what I did,' --'Can you ever forgive me?'--'How can I make this up to you?' ' I am not the same man I used to be,' etc. I finally gathered some composure and said, 'You can just go to hell.' I then turned and walked back to my nurse friend. We both were absolutely stunned by this incident." A few weeks later, she learned that Clinton had announced his candidacy for president.)
More recently, she has reported that a man in a car was obviously following her, and she said that her house was burglarized. All that was stolen was her telephone answering machine tape.
VULNERABILITY: Her nursing home business was regulated by the attorney general's office.
Speaking of lip biting...
ELIZABETH WARD GRACEN: Former Miss America said to have had a one-nighter with Clinton in 1983, although some reports say he forced himself on her. Michael Isikoff's new book, Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story, page 256, relates, "According to Gracen's later account, Clinton flirted with her-then invited her to the apartment of one of his friends at the Quawpaw Towers. They had sex that night. It was rough sex. Clinton got so carried away that he bit her lip, Gracen later told friends. But it was consensual."
In 1992 when the Clinton campaign was trying to keep a lid on his womanizing, Gracen said that she got threatening calls. Then Clinton's Hollywood friend Harry Thomason plus Mickey Kantor and Gracen's agent, Miles Levy, met to arrange acting jobs for Gracen that would take her far away, to Croatia and then to Brazil.
When she was subpoenaed in the Jones case, Gracen again received threatening calls from people who knew where she was at all times. "I was physically scared," she told the New York Post. She has been quoted as saying that during a vacation, her room was ransacked by men wearing suits who were admitted by the innkeeper. And her lawyer has said she was threatened with an IRS audit if she spoke out. Gracen hired Bruce Cutler, best known as John Gotti's attorney, and gave an interview to NBC's Dateline to acknowledge having consensual sex with Clinton one night at Quapaw Tower.
VULNERABILITY: She was Miss Arkansas (later Miss America) and he was her state governor.
A third biting report...
AN ATTORNEY: "A young woman lawyer in Little Rock claimed that she was accosted by Clinton while he was attorney general and that when she recoiled he forced himself on her, biting and bruising her," writes Roger Morris on P. 238 of Partners in Power. He continues, "Deeply affected by the assault, the woman decided to keep it all quiet for the sake of her own hard-won career and that of her husband." Her husband ran into Clinton later and threatened to kill him if Clinton ever approached her, writes Morris.
If women have kept quiet, at least part of the reason can be traced to what happens when they come forward...Just one example: Last Monday, June 7, a reporter ran into famed feminist Betty Friedan at a Washington social event. Asked about the Juanita Broaddrick case, she first said, "Who?" and then, when reminded that it was a charge of rape against Clinton, she said, "They probably paid her off!"
Apparently there is a payoff-in pressure and threats-for those women who speak out or consider speaking out.
KATHLEEN WILLEY: For all of the confusion surrounding her charge that she was groped in the Oval Office on Nov. 29, 1993, one thing seems clear: She was the victim of some kind of intimidation and vilification effort.
(1) Jared Stern, a private eye for Prudential Associates, said in interviews that his late boss, Bob Miller, told him the White House had asked them to provide a chronology on Willey. Exactly who hired the firm has yet to be established. Stern has said he called Willey to warn her that he had been hired to investigate and intimidate her.
(2) Willey said she found masses of nails in three of her car tires about two months before her Jan. 11, 1997 deposition in the Jones case. The tire repair shop concurred to the Associated Press that it did not look like an accident. Shortly afterwards her cat disappeared. And on Jan. 9, said Willey, a mysterious jogger appeared in the predawn hours and asked about her cat, her tires and her children by name. "Don't you get the message?" he allegedly told her. The man she fingered has an alibi, leaving this mystery unsolved.
(3) Clinton himself undercut Willey by releasing personal letters from her and by speaking to the grand jury about her reputation in her hometown of Richmond, Va. Journalist Christopher Hitchens has stated that he learned from White House aide Sidney Blumenthal of a planned campaign to destroy Willey's credibility.
VULNERABILITY: Her husband had just told her not only that they were broke, but he had essentially embezzled some clients' money. On the day of her Oval Office meeting, her husband killed himself.
PAULA JONES: Dismissed by White House defenders as too lowly to be taken seriously, Jones showed them they would have to take her very seriously. Clinton refused to acknowledge he knew her, much less that he had once dropped his pants and asked her for oral sex in a hotel room in 1991. After her name became linked to him as a willing participant, she filed suit and stubbornly fought him to the Supreme Court and back. She became the focus of a major dirt-digging effort by private investigator Terry Lenzner. The Clinton team spread allegations that she was a loose woman, although the Jones detectives checked out the leads and found them to be bogus.
More recently, she spoke of concern about her safety. "Through this whole thing I've felt very scared," she told Larry King. "I don't drive crazy, so I won't run off the road; and I'm not suicidal. So if something happened to me, there's a reason."
VULNERABILITY: She was a powerless clerk.
