The Impeachment of Clinton
New Clinton special prosecutor linked to religious fundamentalists
By Martin McLaughlin, November 25, 1999
The new head of the Office of Independent Counsel, who succeeded Kenneth Starr last month, has longtime links to the extreme-right circles which organized the impeachment coup against the Clinton admi...
Kenneth Starr and his accomplices: new aspects of the impeachment conspiracy
By Martin McLaughlin, August 23, 1999
Two developments this past week have shed additional light on the connections between right-wing political forces, the media and the investigation into the Clinton White House by Independent Counsel K...
The New York Times and Clinton's contempt fine: the impeachment cover-up continues
By Martin McLaughlin, August 4, 1999
Nearly six months after the right-wing campaign to remove Bill Clinton from the White House ended with the defeat of two impeachment counts in the Senate, the opinion-makers of the ruling class are st...
Clinton at the Gridiron Club: making light of a political coup
By Martin McLaughlin, March 24, 1999
The Gridiron Club dinner, sponsored by the Radio & Television Correspondents' Association, is an annual ritual of the Washington establishment. Two thousand journalists, politicians, judges, lobbyists...
In second week of Arkansas trial
Witnesses undermine Starr case against Susan McDougal
By Martin McLaughlin, March 19, 1999
The trial of Susan McDougal on criminal contempt and obstruction of justice charges continued this week in Little Rock, Arkansas with prosecutors from the Office of Independent Counsel increasingly on...
Aftermath of the US impeachment drive: Starr presses persecution of Susan McDougal
By Martin McLaughlin, March 13, 1999
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr has resumed his attack on one of the victims of his long-running political campaign against the White House, putting Susan McDougal on trial in Little Rock, Arkansas....
China spy scare: a new stage in the political warfare in Washington
By Martin McLaughlin, March 10, 1999
Congressional Republicans have seized on reports of Chinese espionage against US nuclear weapons facilities to launch a new round of political attacks on the Clinton administration. Senate Majority Le...
Monica Lewinsky describes intimidation and threats by Kenneth Starr
By Martin McLaughlin, March 6, 1999
The television interviews with Monica Lewinsky, broadcast Wednesday in the United States and Thursday in Britain, and her ghost-written book released at the same time, provide chilling details of the ...
The Broaddrick affair: the media renews the war against the White House
By Barry Grey, March 4, 1999
In a February 27 editorial ("The President's Missing Voice") the New York Times denounced Bill Clinton for refusing to personally respond to Arkansas businesswoman Juanita Broaddrick's charges, avidly...
Right-wing in US mounts new political provocation
The Wall Street Journal and Juanita Broaddrick
By Barry Grey, February 27, 1999
The latest round of scandal-mongering against the White House demonstrates that extreme right-wing elements, backed by the media, are determined to press ahead with their campaign of political destabi...
Behind the Clinton impeachment trial
Profile of a right-wing conspirator
The case of Theodore Olson
By Martin McLaughlin, February 13, 1999
Last November, at a conference of the Federalist Society at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, attorney Theodore Olson welcomed his audience to "the vast right-wing conspiracy. In fact, you're at the heart...
Journalist who turned in Clinton aide
Scoundrel time redux: Christopher Hitchens as a social type
By David Walsh, February 13, 1999
These are politically instructive times, and that perhaps has its own objective significance. At historical turning points a variety of pretensions and guises fall away. Individuals, as well as social...
