Atlas Interview: Dick Morris on the Clintons

How rich that after my Clinton VLOG FLOG I would have the opportunity to interview Dick Morris.  If anyone knows Clinton it's Morris.
One Jerusalem. org once again sets up the penultimate Clinton interview with Ann, Boker tov, Boulder, John, Gateway Pundit Alan, One Jerusalem Jerry, Israpundit, Broadsword,  Liberally Conservative.

Here is the audio, it runs about 25 minutes. Download dick_morris_92706.wav

Mr. Morris has had a varied public career. He has earned a reputation for being one of America's leading political commentators and experts in the art of politics. Mr. Morris is best known as a central strategist in Bill Clinton's re-election campaign for President of the United States.

Last week, Mr. Morris and Eileen McGann published a critical article about the Clinton's that the Main Stream Media largely ignored. Entitled "Emir's A Gusher for Bill and Hillary" the op-ed charges that Bill Clinton and those in the inner circle of both Clintons have enjoyed large financial benefits from Clinton's relationship with Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. This story involves the controversial Dubai ports deal. NY POST OpEd here

Since publication of this largely ignored column the news media has been hotly debating President Clinton's handling of   the hunt for Osama bin-Ladin. Did he do enough or didn't he? Did Senator Clinton know that her campaign consultants were on the payroll of the Sheik?

Today on ABC News— - Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich believes former President Clinton's blow up during an interview on "Fox News Sunday" -- and the escalating war of words over whether he or President Bush mishandled opportunities to catch or kill Osama bin Laden before the Sept. 11 attacks -- was premeditated to shore up support for Democrats ahead of the November midterm elections.

"I think that as the most experienced professional in the Democratic Party, he didn't walk onto that set and suddenly get upset," Gingrich said. "He probably decided in advance he was going to pick a fight with Chris Wallace."

This, Gingrich said, may have been a good strategy.

"I think as a calculated political decision, it's reasonably smart," he said.

Dick Morris is a blog reader. And so he spoke effusively of the participants  conducting the interview. He digs my blog - "nice site"

Hillary of course is running for reelection in New York and while I doubt she can be defeated but it will be terribly important in her presidential race f she does better or worse than she did against Lasio 4 years ago. If she wins by more than 12 points than I think it's going to be a huge ratification on her Senate career  that really does not deserve ratification on the other hand if she wins by 5 or 6 7 or 7 % I think she is going to have a lot of explaining to do as to why she get elected by 12 and the reelected by only 5 or 6.

I think the relationship between the Clintons and the Emir of Dubai really is going to be the dominant scandal of the 08 election when Hillary runs. I think the rapport and this relationship really is in a sense the new Whitewater  or the new Watergate of their careers.

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Clearly we can infer that Clinton had a big role in bringing the Emir in and then the other question was we don't know how Clinton is being compensated for this. We do know he was being paid a flat fee plus a percent of the commission on the investments. We don't know how much that is. The disclosure form that Hillary filed and the Senate only requires that she indicate whether or not he is being paid more than a thousand dollars a year, and of course he is. But there is a substantial basis for believing that this could be a very large sum that he receives annually and an even larger sum after 5 years.

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The flip side of this is that their is an increasing close political relationship between the Emir and his political interests and the Clintons.

Morris thinks should point our lasers on this scandal and stay tuned;

It's very significant. Obviously the public policy issues are that you have this foreign head of state paying conceivably an enormous amount of money to the husband of a United States Senator and conceivably the husband of a President or at least a Presidential candidate.

The implications  for influence peddling and all of that are very severe.

And this Emir is a barbarian. He has been indicted in the Miami courts of kidnapping two and three year old boys from Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc brought to Dubai for camel jockeying. The lawsuit was brought by the parents of kidnapped children. And of course Dubai has been cited for human rights violations particularly in its abuse/treatment of women by the US State department.

When Jerry asked Morris about the Clinton relationship with the current Saudi Ambassador to the US (Clinton classmates at the University of Georgetown) - Morris didn't know that. Further he asked about Clinton's special visas to issued to characters with ties to terrorism and again, Morris was unaware - but thought it needed investigating, researching and suggested Jerry follow up with the former Governor of  Tennessee Ray Nabus (Clinton's former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia - not a Clinton loyalist).

I asked Dick why he jumped to the other side and come out blasting.

I did not jump to the other side. I strongly supported his welfare reform.

I said that was Republican.

His work on crime, balanced budget......[...]

Yes, but I have always been more of a Republican

And he outlined his history of working for and with Republicans

......but there were really three points of departure. I really hated how Hillary would have these secret police go out and investigate the women he [Bill] was involved with. Not to reform to him or divorce him but simply to cow the women into silence so that he could get elected

Strongly disapproved her running for Senator from New York. I am New Yorker and the last thing she is a New Yorker.

And then finally after 9/11. Anyone looking at that and reading the  9/11 report has to understand on terrorism Clinton was a dismal failure.

[..] It's not Bill Clinton I am opposing so strongly it's Hillary Clinton because she'd be a terrible, rotten President. She is a European Socialist, with that kind of view that we have to increase taxes not to pay for programs but to redistribute income. She would very much like to see 40 45% of our economy going taxes like they do in Sweden, France and Germany with staggering effects on the economy.

I followed up with the Chris Wallace meltdown. I thought it was deliberate, that Clinton is calculated but with the internet and blogs he could never get away with those lies. What was he thinking.?And while he didn't think the rage was planned, he did agree with me that there is nothing that Clinton ever does that is not calculated.

Clinton's no more in control of himself as when he is going through a rage.  His "rages" are not flying off the handle, not losing control, they are the ultimate form of control.
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The closer you get to the truth the more vociferous he is in his indignation

Listen to it all.............good stuff on Sandy Berger.

And the dialogue gets better. The Weekly Standard reports;

Warning Signs
Hillary Clinton attempts to rewrite history.
by Thomas Joscelyn

YESTERDAY, in the wake of President Clinton's interview on Fox News, Senator Hillary Clinton defended her husband's counterterrorism track record. Reacting to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's assertion that the Bush administration "was at least as aggressive" in the eight months preceding September 11, 2001 as the Clinton administration was in the years prior, the former first lady remarked:

"I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled 'Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United States' he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team."

Apparently referring to the August 6, 2001 presidential daily briefing, which was entitled "bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US," Senator Clinton suggested that her husband did not receive the same type of warnings that President Bush did.

In fact, President Clinton signed a similar classified document--which contained an explicit warning from the U.S. Intelligence Community that bin Laden intended to strike inside the United States, more than two years prior to leaving office. And the U.S. intelligence community collected numerous pieces of intelligence concerning bin Laden's determination to strike inside the United States during President Clinton's tenure. In addition to the failed plot against the World Trade Center in 1993 and the failed al Qaeda plot against LAX airport in 1999, there were clear indications that bin Laden's terror empire intended to strike targets in the continental United States.

 

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Comments

[Thomas Carney]

Pamela, dear, please, PLEASE don't put that Billary photo up again. That can be construed as VISUAL ASSAULT!!! ;)

There are things that scare me but nothing scares me more when it comes to the:
1. security of our nation,
2. assaults by the Left on Constitutional rights,
3. growing power of government and misuse of government power by bureaucrats, and
4. really losing our educational system
than these three words,

President Hillary Rodham.

She'll divorce Bubba if she's elected ....

[john jay]

pamela:

listened to the telephone interview w/ dick morris. i most certainly appreciated his comments on sandy berger, and the fact that berger was stealing documents with hand written notations on them from the participants in the decisioins on terror. i wish that someone had asked him at whose instance did he do these things. my view is that he was paid. my view is that if someone will track down who paid his legal fees during his prosecution, and who may have been contributing to his financial support during this period, that it will go a long way in exposing the full extent of the conspiracy, and the conspirators.

i think it will lead to hillary and soros. i can not imagine him sullying himself for anybody less. as dick morris stated, he might have been secretary of state in a subsequent democratic administration. one does not throw one's self upon the sword, and sacrifice a career like that, for light and transient reasons, nor for insubstantial persons, persons who wield great power, influence, and financial temptations.

john jay

[john jay]

pamela:

sorry, just could not resist. folks, with my abject apologies, some very bad poetry for your consideration.--

sandy berger’s pants

he gots ants in his pants
and a bowling ball, blue,
three pairs of socks,
and an old brown shoe.

he gots ants in his pants,
some bricks and some mortar, too,
some sand and six pounds o’ rocks,
gots to repair an old chimney flue.

stuffed his briefcase under his belt,
full of papers and micro-fishies
hand carried his lunch out in a paper sack,
didn’t want no mayo, gettin’ on his micro penisiche.

he gots ants in his pants,
a framed autographed glossy of monica, brand new,
two ink pens and a magic marker,
and an old recipe for whatchacallit stew.

he gots ants in his pants,
why, my goodness, if you worked for bill, wouldn’t you?
gots some sins and omissions for the commissions,
why, my goodness, working for bill, whatchagonna do?

oh yeah, he gots ants in his pants,
and some used-to-be-state-secret stuff, can’t view,
i’d like to know some of that guff, wouldn’t you?
but, my goodness, working for bill, what you gonna do?

end up like vincent, with the 9 millimeter flu?

oh, sandy, he gots ants in his pants,
some chump change, case he gots to get frugal
and a road map of arkansas, and environs,
case he gots to go hide, with the billings, and susan mcdougal.

chorus for soros, ….
so who gots the papers,
think that they belongs to billy,
or do you ‘spose, just like the law office billings
that they wind up on a desk belonging to hilly?
she smells like the sweetest rose, if they vanish in the vapors.
oh, yeah, just vanish in the air, wraiths of swirling ether.

john jay @ 09.17.2006

[syn]

That is one freaky photo.

[Westerner]

We had to listen to the GOP snipe at Clinton for the 8 years of his Presidency and we've had to listen to nearly 7 more years of it since Bush got into office. That's 15 years of attacking Pres. Clinton. So much effort and time was spent at it, in fact, that almost nothing else was done.

Today we are flooded with illegal aliens, a lot of them terrorists, and Bush and cronies have done nothing. It is now admitted that the Iraq war has increased our danger instead of decreasing it, as well as greatly increasing global terrorist activity.
Add to that the incredible increase in our National Debt, which was actually being reduced under Pres. Clinton, the huge boost in oil and gasoline prices and the utter failure of Congress to deal with our border security, and I think maybe its time to shut the hell up about President Bill Clinton and start doing the job we pay them for. Bad-mouthing Bill Clinton for 15 years does NOT make the Republicans look good, it makes them look like do-nothing drunkards. Which I have come to believe they are. At least under Clinton we had exactly NONE of these problems!

Getting after Clinton for not stopping Bin Laden doesn't fly with anyone. Bush didn't stop him either. I don't think the American public is all that bright but they're not that stupid, either.

Bad-mouthing Hillary Clinton won't work. All the Republicans are accomplishing by that in the public eye is to show that she scares them to death. Keep it up and she won't even need to campaign. The Republicans will get her elected for her.

The GOP needs to realize that running their mouths non-stop is not why we voted for them nor what we pay them for. We pay them to run this country in a positive, bipartisan and forward-moving manner, to forgo personal interests and personal gain in favor of helping America to get what America needs.

Attacking Democrats demeans the Republican Party. If I indulge in mean gossip about my neighbors, how do you suppose my neighbors will view me?

The Democrats shoot themselves in the foot plenty without any help from the Republicans, who have been blasting away at their own feet for some time now. All of them need to straighten up and fly right. It's not about political parties and personal political careers. It's about the invasion of America. He who does right in these days will be called a hero and no one will care which party he - or she - hails from.

Rastaman
www.islamanazi.com

[Richard Davis]

now we know what hillery would look like with a face lift...

[Richard Davis]

Hillary - "this is what happens when you live too close to a nuclear power plant, that's why we can't build anymore...."

Bill - (grinning) "yeah, but the ladies love what it did to Little Bubba heh heh"

[Richard Davis]

Wefterner - how dare you defend Clinton - he LOST IT when he was FINALLY asked a tough question - and I DO MEAN lost it. Look how many times over the last 6 years that Bush has been interviewed and the "questions" and criticisms he gets from the Looney Left and yet Bush handles himself with class.

Bush's handles them the exact opposite of how your boy handled it ONE TIME...... what a joke he is.... just ask anyone in the military who they would rather have as Commander-in-Chief and they'll tell you.... and it ain't Clinton. The Military's opinion is the only one I care about, not some misguided brainwashed liberal.

[PMarc]

Ack!! MY EYES!!

Y'know, that picture is a perfect visual metaphor for a codependent relationship.

[duncan]

"Toe Suck" Morris. Now there's a respected, authoritative source of information.
Ugh!