Key Figures

President William Jefferson Clinton   Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He could point to the lowest unemployment rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home ownership in the country's history, dropping crime rates in many places, and reduced welfare rolls. He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and achieved a budget surplus.   In 1998, as a result of issues surrounding personal indiscretions, Clinton was the second U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. He was tried in the Senate and found not guilty of the charges brought against him.

Hillary Clinton     From Wellesley College, Hillary entered Yale Law School in 1969, where she met Bill Clinton. They married in 1975, and in 1978, Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas. Their daughter, Chelsea, was born in 1980.   As the nation's First Lady, Hillary continued to balance public service with private life. Her active role began in 1993 when the President asked her to chair the Task Force on National Health Care Reform.  Her public involvement with many activities sometimes led to controversy. She was elected United States Senator from New York on November 7, 2000. She is the first First Lady elected to the United States Senate and the first woman elected statewide in New York.


Janet Reno:  First female Attorney General of the United States.  On the advice of President Clinton, Janet Reno reinstated the Independent Counsel Act as a means of answering growing concerns about the Clinton’s involvement in Whitewater.


Robert Fiske:  Past president of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Federal Bar Council. In January 1994 Attorney General Janet Reno appointed Robert Fiske Chief Independent Counsel in the Clinton Whitewater Investigation.  At the time, the Independent Counsel statute had lapsed. Kenneth Starr replaced Mr. Fiske when Congress reauthorized the Independent Counsel law six months later.

Kenneth Starr    Independent Counsel in the Whitewater investigation of the President and Mrs. Clinton. His announcement that he was leaving to become dean at Pepperdine University's law school fueled speculation that the investigation was over; he reversed his decision four days later saying that it seemed unwise to leave before the investigation had concluded.   Solicitor General of the United States from 1989-1993, United States circuit judge for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1983-1989, Counselor to U.S. Attorney General William French Smith from 1981-1983. Prior to practicing law for the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, P.C., in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., Judge Starr was a law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals Judge David W. Dyer and also to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger.

Robert Bennett  The president's attorney was a Washington superlawyer who  represented many celebrity clients, including former House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, Reagan Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Washington attorney Clark Clifford and Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott. Bill Clinton’s legal advisor during the Paula Jones case. Brash and bullying, he famously referred to the Jones case as "tabloid trash with a legal caption."   Bennett made the case to the Supreme Court that being President of the United States is not consistent with being involved in an active lawsuit.  Unanimously the Supreme Court turned down this argument, forcing Clinton to become the first sitting President to face sexual harassment charges while in office.  In the film, Bennett recalls counseling President Clinton on the Paula Jones case in the midst of emergency negotiations during the 1998 Kosovo Crisis.


James Carville  One of the country's best known (and probably most colorful) political consultants has probably managed more campaigns than any other political consultant in America.  While managing Lloyd Doggett's unsuccessful bid for governor of Texas, he acquired the nickname "Ragin' Cajun" and began his odd-couple professional collaboration with Paul Begala, who had just graduated from the University of Texas. The two teamed up full time in 1989 and formed the Carville & Begala political consulting firm, specializing in strategy, message development, "earned media," and, above all, winning elections for Democrats.

Carville and Begala's biggest win was Bill Clinton's election to the presidency in 1992, the first time a Democrat had claimed the White House in 12 years.  Carville is the author of the recently published We're Right, They're Wrong: A Handbook for Spirited Progressives (Random House).


Paul Begala   is co-host of Crossfire, CNN's political debate program with James Carville. Begala first entered the national political scene after his consulting firm, Carville & Begala, helped elect President Bill Clinton in 1992. Serving in the Clinton Administration as Counselor to the President, he helped define and defend the Administration's agenda and served as the principal public spokesman.  A native of Texas, Begala earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas, where he taught before his work at the White House. After leaving the Clinton Administration, Begala joined Georgetown University's staff as a research professor of government and public policy.

Author of the best-selling book Is Our Children Learning?: The Case Against George W. Bush, he also recently co-authored the current best-seller Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up with Carville. Begala helped John F. Kennedy, Jr. launch George magazine, where he served as a contributing editor.

Susan McDougal and James McDougal.   President Bill Clinton's former business partners in Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan.  Before his conviction for involvement in Whitewater, Jim McDougal did not cooperate with independent counsel Ken Starr and said he was innocent.  After being convicted on 18 felony counts, McDougal began to cooperate in exchange for a reduced prison sentence. Initially facing 84 years, he was sentenced to a three-year term and would have been released in September 1999.  He also was a key witness as prosecutors investigated the fraudulent Castle Grande real estate development south of Little Rock on which Hillary Clinton conducted work as a partner in the Rose Law Firm.  His death, at age 57 while in jail, meant the Clintons no longer face the prospect of McDougal giving damaging testimony against them, fueling new assasination conspiracy theories from the right wing.  Susan McDougal also refused to cooperate with Kenneth Starr. She was convicted on May 28, 1996 of all the charges and sentenced to three 24-month prison terms to run concurrently, plus three years' probation on the fourth felony charge. She could have received as much as 17 years in prison and $1 million in fines, and the leniency of the sentence came as a surprise to some trial-watchers. President Clinton pardoned her shortly before he left office in 2001.  [More about Susan here]


Jim Guy Tucker:  Arkansas Governor who along with failed Whitewater real estate partners Jim and Susan McDougal were successfully prosecuted by Ken Starr on fraud charges.  Tucker, Hale, and McDougal, came up with a complex financial scheme that eventually would be valued at $3 million, and would defraud both the savings & loan owned by McDougal and the government- backed Small Business Investment Corporation owned by Hale.


Claudia Riley   The widow of former Arkansas Governor Bob Riley, Claudia Riley has been a long-time personal friend of the McDougals and the Clintons. The Riley's home in Arkadelphia was a common meeting place for many of the state's rising political stars.

Vernon Jordan  One of President Clinton's closest friends and most trusted advisers, Jordan, 62, was a famous civil rights activist before beginning a second career as a Washington power broker and consummate fixer. In late 1997, after getting a call from Clinton's personal secretary, Betty Currie, Jordan helped Monica Lewinsky find a job, referring her to Revlon and another company where he serves on the board of directors.

Independent counsel Kenneth Starr charged in his report to Congress that Clinton lied under oath in his deposition for the Paula Jones lawsuit in describing his conversation with Jordan about Lewinsky.  Starr also investigated whether Jordan urged Lewinsky to lie or helped find her a job in order to hush her up.  Starr was already investigating a similar allegation against Jordan before the Lewinsky matter even came up. Jordan arranged a $60,000 retainer at Revlon for former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell in 1994, when Hubbell was being pursued as a witness in the Whitewater matter.   But those allegations, which Jordan has strongly denied, were not addressed in his report. Currently he is a partner in the investment firm of Lazard Frere & Company in New York.


Vince Foster    Bill and Hillary were good friends with Foster, who was a partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock.   Early in 1993, the first of what would be many Clinton administration scandals broke loose — the so-called Travelgate scandal.  Travelgate can be summed up thusly: A bunch of travel staffers were fired by the White House on the pretext of wrongdoing, allegedly at the urging of Clinton friend Harry Thomason. The media jumped all over Travelgate, particularly the Wall Street Journal, which ran a scathing editorial about the specific evils of Vince Foster, who had been appointed by Hillary Clinton to "take care of" the alleged shenanigans of the Travel Office workers. As deputy White House counsel, he had supervised the investigation of the employees and met with the FBI, which had also investigated the workers at the behest of the White House (the FBI found no wrongdoing).

An investigation of the Travel office investigation ensued, and Foster began obsessively taking notes on the affair, in which his concern about protecting Hillary was clear, but any actual wrongdoing in the incident was not. After the Wall Street Journal articles, Foster appeared to go into a deep depression, and on July 20, 1993, Vincent Foster committed suicide by shooting himself through the back of the head.  Foster had been involved in various Clinton legal matters, including Whitewater. The questions began almost immediately, and were deepened when the White House tried to restrict access to Foster's files as the investigation into his death began.


Dale Bumpers was elected to the Senate in 1974.  He subsequently served four terms as a Democratic Senator from Arkansas.  Before joining the U.S. Senate, Bumpers served two terms as Governor of Arkansas.  Bumpers retired from the Senate on January 3, 1999.  Less than three weeks later, he was called back to the Senate to deliver the closing argument in defense of President Bill Clinton in only the second impeachment trial in the history of the country.   Senator Bumpers and his wife, Betty, have long been national leaders in protecting the health of chil­dren by promoting childhood im­munization.  Since 1991, Mrs. Bumpers and Rosalyn Carter have been actively involved in “Every Child by Two,” a program dedicated to fully immunizing every child by the age of two.


Vince Foster's death was ruled a suicide, but conspiracy theorists continue to allege he was assasinated by people associated with the Clintons. Most of the above allegations of foul play in the Foster death originated with Christopher Ruddy (right), a reporter for a small-town newspaper in Pennsylvania owned by billionaire arch-conservative Richard Mellon Scaife (left), and the Western Journalism Center, a non-profit institution supporting "independent journalism," which is primarily funded by Scaife. Scaife ultimately spent more than 2.4 million dollars on the ARKANSAS PROJECT, a nationwide effort of lawyers, journalist, and freelance investigators working to discredit President Clinton.

Richard Ben-Veniste:  Chief counsel (minority) of the Senate Whitewater Committee (95-96) as well as the chief of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office from 1973 to 1975.  Ben-Veniste is the co-author of Stonewall: The Real Story of the Watergate Prosecution (Simon & Schuster), and Presidential appointee to the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group, which is mandated to review and declassify secret documents relating to World War II era war crimes.

Jonathan Alter:  Newsweek senior editor and columnist. Alter joined NBC News as a contributing correspondent in 1996 and appears frequently on the "Today" show, NBC Nightly News, and MSNBC.  In the film Alter discusses the impact of the Clinton scandal on journalism and media.


John Camp:  CNN Reporter and six time Peabody Award Winner. In the film, Camp discusses his experience at CNN and the frenzied changes he witnessed in the media as the coverage of the Clinton investigations unfolded.

 
David Brock     Former premier reporter for The American Spectator.  Brock made initial investigations into Troopergate and the Arkansas sex scandals.  In the film, Brock talks about his experience working on the Arkansas Project, a Richard Mellon-Scaife funded initiative that ultimately spent more than 2.4 million dollars to bring forth allegations to criminalize and discredit President Clinton.  David Brock is the author of the new bestselling book, “Blinded By The Right,” about his former experiences in the anti-Clinton machine. He admitted  that when he was covering the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings in 1991, he libeled Anita Hill in depicting her as “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty” and as a liar in American Spectator magazine and in his book, The Real Anita Hill.


Andrew Cooper   New Zealand Reporter for THE DOMINION who arrives in Little Rock shortly before the 1992 Presidential Election and encounters local pariah Everett Ham near his houseboat on the banks of the Arkansas River.  Armed, Ham offers the extra room on the houseboat in exchange for work.  In the film, Cooper discusses his conversations with Ham concerning A.R.I.A (Alliance for the Rebirth of an Independent America), an organization that actively worked to politically disgrace Bill Clinton.


Sidney Blumenthal   Former advisor to President Clinton and author of several books including, The Permanent Campaign, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, and The Clinton Wars.  Blumenthal's Clinton Wars is aptly titled, describing the culture conflict between the left and right, as interpreted by a liberal journalist who joins the Clinton White House in 1997.  In the film Blumenthal discusses Clinton’s alienation from the Washington Establishment, and his dialogue with Brock about the Arkansas Project.

Howard Kurtz      Kurtz is the media reporter for The Washington Post and writes a regular column called Media Notes.He has also served as The Washington Post's New York bureau chief. He has covered the media since 1990.  Kurtz recently published his fourth book, The Fortune Tellers (Free Press), which takes a look at the relationship between the media and Wall Street. He is also the author of Spin-Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine (Free Press), a best-selling book about how the Bill Clinton White House dealt with scandal and the press. Kurtz also has written Hot Air: All Talk All the Time, described by The New Yorker as "the definitive book on the talk show explosion." His first book, Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers, was voted the best recent book about the media by American Journalism Review in 1995.


Jeffrey Toobin Staff writer at The New Yorker, legal analyst at ABC News, and author of the critically acclaimed bestseller A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President.  Toobin’s book critically examines the Hillary Clinton’s infamous words, “vast right wing conspiracy.” and unravels the three strands of a national scandal - those leading from Paula Jones, Kenneth Starr, and Monica Lewinsky - that created a legal, personal, and political disaster for Bill Clinton.

 

Dan Moldea:  A veteran crime reporter who interviewed every cop or investigator involved with the Foster case for his book, "A Washington Tragedy: How the Death of Vincent Foster Ignited a Political Firestorm."  Moldea confirms that Foster’s death was a suicide and that a cabal of right-wing groups -- financed by banking heir Richard Mellon Scaife – were responsible for keeping the case alive years after Foster’s death to tarnish the Clinton White House.


Max Brantley    Editor in Chief of the Arkansas Times.  In the film, Brantley discusses Larry Case, the story of Judge David Hale, and the effect that Kenneth Starr’s O.I.C Investigation had on Little Rock and Arkansas.


William Rempel    LA Times reporter who did the initial Arkansas investigation of Clinton’s sex life, including Troopergate and Gennifer Flowers.   Central to the Los Angeles Times story was the newspaper's accusation that the president had offered Ferguson and Perry -- during conversations between the president and Ferguson -- federal jobs in exchange for their silence. The newspaper said the claim was made by Perry and that Ferguson "confirmed the accuracy of what Perry said about the substance of the calls."

Rempel quoted from the interview, which appears to contradict Ferguson's sworn testimony in the Jones case.  Ferguson claimed to have turned Clinton down, only to have the president persist. "He said, 'Well, there is going to be a regional job open up with the Federal Emergency Administration.' ... He didn't specify a city. He said, 'Or there is a U.S. marshal's job open.'" In his deposition, Ferguson insisted that many of the stories about Clinton's extramarital affairs that troopers Perry and Larry Patterson told to the Times and the American Spectator were exaggerated, or not true at all.

Ferguson later filed an affadavit reversing his statement and claiming Rempel "badgered" him and tried to "put ... words in my mouth [as to] what the president what might have said."   Rempel said Ferguson's charges were "ludicrous" and stated he had a tape recording of Ferguson telling him that Clinton had offered Ferguson and Perry jobs in exchange for their silence.


Newt Gingrich   House Leader Gingrich was one of the prime movers of the media, on air suggesting that every possible tabloid accusation be investigated because "the people have a right to know"  the truth.  Magazine covers, talk-show appearances and daily newspaper headlines made his name a household word as he pushed for his "Contract with America," but celebrity turned sour for Gingrich. Democrats attacked him with dozens of ethics charges. The ethics complaints might not have hurt Gingrich’s image so much if President Clinton and the Democrats hadn’t already given him such a shellacking during 1995 budget talks. Polls showed that he had become one of the most unpopular men in the nation.  He remained speaker, but with a diminished bank of political capital. Gingrich ended up leaving office early, resigning in January 1999, after his party fared poorly in the 1998 midterm elections as a result of its handling of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and Gingrich's misjudgment of the country's support for Clinton.


Juanita Broaddrick    At first, she was just known as Jane Doe number five, a woman who filed an affidavit in the Paula Jones case, denying that Bill Clinton had made any unwelcome sexual advances to her.  But when it came time to talk to investigators for independent counsel Ken Starr, Juanita Broaddrick claimed that she was raped by Bill Clinton in 1978 when he was then the attorney general of Arkansas.  She did not report the alleged incident to the authorities at the time.



Kathleen Willey    Former White House volunteer, testified in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. She created a stir the following week when she went on 60 Minutes to discuss the details of an alleged sexual advance made by President Clinton in 1993. The President denied under oath that he had groped Willey.



Gennifer Flowers The woman who claimed she had a 12-year affair with Clinton could not corroborate Jones' claim that the president has "distinguishing characteristics" in his genital area.

Paula Jones      Former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones was a regular outside Governor Clinton’s Capitol offices.  According to staff, Jones was “that girl with the hair and the nose,” who frequented the building, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Governor.  She filed an appeal after her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton was dismissed by U.S. district judge Susan Webber Wright. The judge concluded that even if the allegations against Clinton were true, Jones's lawyers failed to prove any emotional, financial, or professional harm from the alleged incident. After Gil Davis and Joe Cammerata successfully negotiated a $700,000 settlement from Clinton’s attorney Bob Bennett, Jones turned it down on the advice of her secret counsel, referred to as "The Elves.".  By turning down the settlement, Paula Jones case was turned into a federal investigation, leading to the appointment of an Independent Counsel.   


Mike Gauldin  Governor Clinton’s Press Secretary.  In the film, Gauldin reflects upon his experiences seeing Paula Jones as a regular visitor to the Clinton office in hopes of meeting Clinton. 



Joseph Cammarata   Along with fellow attorney Gilbert Davis, this Washington-area attorney removed himself from Jones' legal team, citing "fundamental differences" with his client. Those differences seemed to center on Jones' refusal to settle the case.

"The Elves"  George Conway, Jerome Marcus, Richard Porter, and Ann Coulter.  A team of legal advisors that secretly began to assist Paula Jones in her sexual harassment suit against President Clinton.  After the Elves convinced Jones to turn down the $700,000 settlement with Clinton’s lawyer Bob Bennett, and Davis & Cammerata ended their representation of Jones, they were instrumental in getting Jones’s to seek new legal representation with the Rutherford Institute, a law firm closely affiliated with religious conservative Jerry Falwell. 


Susan Carpenter McMillan (Paula Jones advisor)   The Glendale-born daughter of a millionaire real estate developer, Carpenter-McMillan left the University of Southern California without graduating to marry Bill McMillan and help put him through law school by working with her mother in a baby goods store.

In 1980, she joined the antiabortion movement, rising to become the top media representative of the Right to Life League of Southern California. She drew national attention with her crusade to force Loma Linda University Medical Center to provide a heart transplant to a dying newborn known as Baby Jesse. But Carpenter-McMillan formally left the movement – because, she says today, it was dominated by "misogynists who don't care about women" and "crazies who murder doctors." Coincidentally, her departure came shortly after the Los Angeles Times reported that she herself had undergone an abortion as a 21-year-old unmarried college student. For three years, she was a regular commentator on KABC-TV while running the Women's Coalition from her home in a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles. She championed causes such as legislation requiring sex offenders submit to chemical castration, and the banishment from California of convicted rapist Reginald Muldrew, known as the "Pillowcase Rapist."

Carpenter-McMillan's entry into the Paula Jones case and her clout with their client caused friction within Team Paula. Cammarata "went ballistic," according to Carpenter-McMillan, after she sent out a press release anointing herself Jones's official spokeswoman. The lawyer and Carpenter-McMillan then haggled over the extent of Jones's participation in the news conference.

Judge Susan Webber Wright  The federal judge overseeing the Paula Jones case in Little Rock, Ark. Conservative Republican appointed by George Bush and the same judge who presided over the bank fraud trial of the Clintons' Whitewater partners, Jim and Susan McDougal. Though she imposed a strict gag order over the Jones case, Wright granted Starr access to both Clinton's deposition and Monica Lewinsky's sworn affidavit from the Jones lawsuit.


Monica Lewinsky    Former White House intern, was granted immunity to testify about her relationship with President Clinton. Though she had denied having a sexual relationship with the President when allegations first arose, secretly recorded conversations with former friend Linda Tripp revealed otherwise. Lewinsky testified before the grand jury in August that she had fallen in love with Clinton in the course of their affair.


Linda Tripp     Former White House secretary who came to epitomize the self-righteous tattle-tale, threw herself into the middle of the Clinton investigation by secretly taping revealing conversations with one-time friend Monica Lewinsky. With school-girl breathiness, Lewinsky confided the details of her affair with President Clinton, providing Tripp with 20 hours of recorded evidence. The legality of and motives behind Tripp's actions became new material for investigation.


Betsey Wright    Governor Clinton’s Chief of Staff.  In the film, Wright discusses her experiences in dealing with the groupies and adoring fans, including Paula Jones.



Everett Ham   Principal Little Rock member of A.R.I.A organization.  In film, journalist Andrew Cooper details his discussions with Hamm about his organization A.R.I.A and their nationwide network of money and resources aimed at undermining and discrediting President Clinton.

Cliff Jackson    Native Arkansan lawyer and fellow classmate of Clinton at Oxford.
Following Clinton’s election to the Presidency, Jackson managed Arkansas State Troopers Larry Patterson and Roger Parry in the release of their story of witnessing and covering up Clinton’s extramarital liaisons while Governor.  Jackson is also credited with the expose on Clinton’s Draft Record and being Everett Hamm’s co-partner in A.R.I.A.     


Larry Patterson , Roger Perry, Danny Ferguson  Arkansas State Troopers who alleged that they had arranged and helped cover up numerous extramarital liaisons for Clinton while he was Governor.  Ferguson alleged that he brought Paula Jones to meet Clinton at the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock.  In interviews with David Brock, Ferguson alleged that after her initial visit with Governor Clinton, Jones agreed to see Clinton again.  In an effort to profit and disgrace the Clinton’s after not being invited to join the President’s security detail in Washington, Patterson and Perry took their story to lawyer and former Clinton Oxford classmate, Cliff Jackson. Jackson agreed to manage and represent the troopers and “cut them in” on everything from magazine features to movie deals.  The Troopergate story led the CNN evening news the same day that Brock’s story was published in The American Spectator. 


Larry Case  and Larry Nichols   Although the campaign to scandalize and destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton involved politicians at the highest levels of the Republican Party, it also attracted freelance operatives whose motives were more pecuniary than ideological. During the 1992 election campaign, two of the most energetic of those in pursuit of scandalous allegations was a pair of raffish Arkansans named Larry Nichols and Larry Case.

A disgruntled former state employee fired at then-Governor Clinton's behest, Nichols played a key role in bringing Gennifer Flowers' allegations of her alleged 12-year affair with Clinton to The Star tabloid newspaper. Case was a colorful Little Rock private eye with a flair for searching out the sexual secrets of public figures. Between them, Nichols and Case quickly established ongoing relationships with the Star, the National Enquirer, and the TV programs "Hard Copy" and "A Current Affair." Nichols's extensive connections with Sheffield Nelson and the Arkansas Republican Party led to the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Cable News Network, and other mainstream outlets.

Case and Nichols hoped to get rich by derailing the Clinton campaign, a quest they began in early 1992 with great confidence and soon found themselves occupied full-time, frantically interviewing women of all ages and descriptions who were willing to accuse Clinton of sexual impropriety.



Jerry Falwell    Right Wing religious associate of John Whitehead and the Rutherford Institute.  Falwell was the primary financier of The Clinton Chronicles, a documentary detailing the scandalous drug trafficking, sex, and murder syndicate organized under  “Little Billy” Clinton while Governor. Trooper Larry Patterson appears in the film, as does Paula Jones.  Larry Nichols narrates. 

 

David Hale:  Former Arkansas municipal court judge and head of a lending operation licensed by the federal Small Business Administration, Hale was crucial to the Whitewater investigation because he has alleged that Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, pressured him to provide an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, a partner of the Clintons in the Whitewater land deal.  When the SBA found out about Hale’s other financial misgivings relating to his lending operation, he was charged with felony fraud, and attempted to tie his legal dilemmas to Clinton in an attempt to escape prison.

Parker Dozhier: Arkansas sportsman and fur trapper who served as the local watchdog and go to man for the Arkansas Project.  Doszier housed David Hale at his Hot Springs fishing cabin complex between 1994 and 1996, during Hale’s criminal investigation for defrauding the Small Business Association.  Doszier also served as courier for funds to Hale from Scaife and the American Spectator for his work on the Arkansas Project. 



Ted Olson:  Current Solicitor General of the United States.  Theodore Olson represented George W. Bush in the controversial 2000 Presidential Election.  Olson also represented David Hale in his case against the US Attorney’s Office in which Hale and counsel attempted to link their financial problems to Clinton’s through a Whitewater loan to Susan McDougal.    

Ted Olsen’s wife Barbara Olson was a former federal prosecutor who served as Chief Investigative Counsel to the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight during its probe into the Clinton Administration’s "Travelgate" scandal.  She appeared frequently as a commentator on CNN.  Barbara Olson was one of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks who alerted her husband by cell phone that her plane was being hijacked by terrorists.

Sheffield Nelson:  Little Rock attorney and former gubernatorial candidate

Bobby McDaniel:  Arkansas Lawyer and Susan McDougal’s legal adviser.