Reply #9: 'Starr-gate': Cracks on the Right = Hale's motives could devastate Starr

[L. Coyote]

'Starr-gate': Cracks on the Right
By Robert Parry
http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/clinto13.html

... the conservative campaign to impeach President Clinton through endless "scandal" has started to come unglued ... Whitewater witness David Hale was receiving cash and other gratuities from a conservative operative, a Clinton-hating sportsman named Parker Dozhier ... working for The American Spectator's Arkansas Project ... financed by right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.

... a pattern of cash payments to Hale ... when the former municipal judge stayed at Dozhier's cabin in Hot Springs, Ark. ... free lodging and free use of Dozhier's car.

... Hale and Dozhier met with ... investigators from Starr's staff ... Hale's motives could devastate Starr's Whitewater investigation ... just as he is drafting a report recommending President Clinton's impeachment.

... Scaife has heaped his largesse onto offices at Pepperdine University where Starr planned to go to work after finishing his Whitewater investigation ... Scaife also has financed a number of other right-wing lawyer groups with close ties to Starr, such as the Washington Legal Foundation, the Federalist Society and the Landmark Legal Foundation..

... Hale ... only fingered Clinton in 1993 after the FBI caught him defrauding the Small Business Administration of $2 million ... but Hale's account still is expected to be one of the twin pillars of Starr's impeachment ... other pillar reportedly will consist of allegations that Clinton lied when he denied sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky.....