The news that former Associate Attorney GeneralWebster Hubbell was about to be indicted brokeWednesday, March 11. NBC News, in an exclusivereport citing confidential sources, said IndependentCounsel Kenneth Starr was about to charge Hubbellwith income tax evasion, making false statementsand fraud.
The network said its sources provided theunexpected tidbit on Tuesday, March 10. That sameday, a source with a name, Charles S. Hayes,--purported master CIA spook, hacker extraordinaire,public frontman for the legendary Fifth Column,convicted criminal -- had a thing or two to say aboutMr. Hubbell from the visiting room of the FederalMedical Center in Lexington, Ky.
The conversation was, at the time, centered aroundthe sex scandal involving President Clinton andMonica Lewinsky. But Hayes, in his characteristically disjointed, off-handed style, tossed an observation in sideways: Theres one thing that people better start paying attention to and thats one thing, Hayes said. Youre going to see Hubbell turn states evidence, because they are going to go back on other charges with him. Theyre not through with him yet, feller.
Lucky guess? Prescience? Can Hayes still gazethrough a crystal ball behind the filter of a prisonwall?
Hubbell, who was convicted in 1994 of federal mailfraud and tax evasion charges connected to thenotorious Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark.(where Hillary Clinton also was a partner in the1970s and 80s), had no comment on the report,nor did Starr immediately confirm it. Nonetheless,Hayes seemingly prophetic utterance comes as nosurprise to those whove heard his outlandishpredictions, and had their healthy skepticismeventually overcome by the passage of time and the truths thereby revealed.
For the benefit of those readers who may not havefollowed the published saga of Charles S. Hayesfrom its inception (August 95 MB), and for thosewho might benefit from a quick refresher course,the essential Hayes file is printed below. We willwait right here while you first consult it, to aid in the comprehension of that which follows. For thosealready versed in the fantastic claims of Col. Hayes,lets jump right in. The Fifth Column is alive andwell, Hayes said during the scant two-hourinterview granted by prison officials. No pictures,they said. A picture would have revealed that Hayes,in his plain beige prison garb, has dropped a fewpounds in the hoosegow. Although he otherwiseseems well, at least on the surface, Hayes claimsprison officials Ric Azar fail to adequately monitorhis high blood pressure. James McDougal, a formerLexington inmate, had high blood pressure too,Hayes noted, two days after McDougal was founddead in a federal medical facility in Fort Worth,Texas.
However, in a bizarre discovery last year, a canceledcashiers check for $27,000 from McDougals S&Lto Clinton was discovered in the trunk of anabandoned car by a junkyard mechanic, and turnedover to Starrs office. Although apparently paid, the check was not endorsed. The mysterious findbolstered the story McDougal was telling theOffice of Independent Counsel.
Hayes intimates that the mechanic didnt just makea timely, lucky find. Chalk another one up to thepesky Fifth Column: That carload of papers theyfound in that Mercury, in the junkyard, relative toWhitewater, the banks and everything else? Id saythe Fifth Column has been blamed for it, Hayessaid, explaining that in this instance, the FifthColumn was not falsely accused.
McDougal, who was serving a three-year sentencefor fraud and was scheduled for a September 1999release, was transferred from Lexington to FortWorth on Aug. 26. Hayes said he and McDougalspoke occasionally, but declined to address whetherMcDougal may have related anything that mightbe of use to somebody else.
Thats awful to say, he said. Let me just leavethis one down here temporarily, OK? We ate in thesame mess hall, and I know McDougal, hows that?I dont want to say I was chummy with him becausethats not exactly right, either.
Now, to put this back on what happened withMcDougal down there in Texas. Theyre bringingdoctors in here that dont know their ass from ahole in the ground. If you have high blood pressureas McDougal does and I do, I cant get my[expletive] blood pressure checked unless I go downthere to sick call today and go through one helluvalot of [expletive]...If youre lucky, theyll check it every two or three months. Now, they said theyhad McDougal [in solitary confinement] for nottaking a drug test. Let me ask you this, have youever seen a time when a man tell you to piss andyou couldnt if you had to? They say he did notcooperate. Its not a matter of not cooperating, its a matter that he couldnt piss... because of some ofthe medication he was taking, Hayes said. Itsmore than a possibility, its a probability...Listen to me. If they thought he had drugs in his body, theywould have done a blood test whether he liked it ornot.
Another thing, why did they transfer him out ofhere? Nobody knows. And here they have one ofthe finest cardiac centers, at the University of Kentucky, that you got going anywhere.
McDougals first refusal to urinate resulted inseven days in Fort Worths special housing unitbeginning Oct. 23. The latest such incident broughtseven scheduled special-housing days beginningSaturday, March 7. McDougal died March 8.
The urine sample was requested as part of theroutine and random urine-surveillance program atthe institution, said Sue Beasley, publicinformation officer for the Forth Worth FederalMedical Center. A blood-test is not a part of ourstandardized procedure. Under BOP [Bureau of Prisons] policy, an inmate is presumed to be refusing if he fails over a two-hour period to provide a urine sample. She added that inmates placed in the special housing unit are more closely monitored by the health staff than inmates in the general population. The Office of Independent Counsel was notified the day of McDougals death, Beasley said.
With regard to McDougals transfer fromLexington, the spokeswoman said inmates oftenreceive a secondary designation once they areevaluated by the medical staff. It was determinedMr. McDougal should be designated to FMC FortWorth, as it is a facility able to accommodate hismedical condition and also be closer to his releaseresidence.
Preliminary autopsy results revealed that McDougaldied of cardio-pulmonary arrest, said MichaelFloyd, investigator for the Tarrant County MedicalExaminer. Once lab tests, including a toxicologyreport showing the presence of any drugs inMcDougals system, are reviewed by doctors, afinal autopsy report should be released by the end of April, Floyd said.
McDougal was known to suffer from a variety ofailments, including heart disease and blockedarteries. Still, the circumstance and convenience of McDougals demise remain suspect, with Hayessaying theres a good chance McDougal wasmurdered, but I dont know it for a fact.Furthermore, Hayes claimed to have it on goodauthority that McDougal was getting ready to talkabout Mena...he was sharing information with someother people about Mena, in Texas he was doingthis. Mena hasnt stopped, dammit, not Mena, butsix miles from there.
The people with whom Mr. McDougal spoke aboutthe notorious government cocaine-smugglingoperation in rural Arkansas, Hayes claimed, werefederal investigators. Meanwhile, prominentInternet scribe Matt Drudge reports that McDougalleft behind a book that will now be rushed intopublication.
Howd you meet her? one might wonder.
If you let this out I tell you I will absolutely...Hayes, purported to be a very dangerous man,answered the question. His response checked out,as far as one can go on deadline. Who knows?
Linda Tripp vaulted to the center of Starrsinvestigation in January, when it was learned thatTripp had secretly taped Monica Lewinskycontradicting her own sworn testimony, given in thePaula Jones case, that she did not have a sexualaffair with the president. A career civil servant who worked as a White House executive assistant before transferring to a public-relations post at the Pentagon, Tripp befriended Lewinsky when theformer intern herself arrived at the Pentagon.
Tripps involvement in the case can be tracedthrough Kathleen Willey, who with her husbandwas a major contributor to Clintons 1992presidential campaign. After Clinton assumedoffice, Willey worked as a volunteer handling WhiteHouse correspondence, then took a paid part-timeposition. Later, Willey learned that she and herhusband -- a lawyer under investigation for allegedembezzlement -- were in deep financial straits.Willey needed a full-time job, and approached thepresident for help. After she pleaded for the favor in the Oval Office (while unknown to Willey herspouse was committing suicide) on Nov. 29, 1993,Clinton allegedly and with some aggression kissedand fondled Willey, who broke away, left the officeand ran into Linda Tripp, to whom she related whathad just transpired.
Somehow, Willeys name came to the attention ofStarrs grand jury, and she swore under oath in adeposition as to the presidents alleged sexualadvance. The president denied her claim, also underoath. Somebody is lying. Somebody committedperjury. But not just anybody can be impeached,and thats why Willey makes Willie nervous.
Tripp explained her part in the scandal via astatement released by her attorney, James A.Moody. Until January 1998, I had nevervoluntarily or intentionally inserted myself into any alleged scandal which has tarnished thisadministration, Tripp wrote. Because I worked ona daily basis with President Clinton and the counselto the president, I, along with many others, wassubpoenaed by the independent counsel and byCongress to testify in numerous investigations,including Whitewater, the tragic suicide of Vince Foster, and Travelgate.
I did not volunteer to become a witness in thePaula Jones lawsuit. Kathleen Willey named me tothe press as a corroborating witness. I wassubpoenaed to testify about Ms. Willey and anyother women who may have had an intimaterelationship with the president. I went to theindependent counsel to report potential crimes,which included the possibility of obstruction ofjustice and perjury. I was being solicited toparticipate in a plan to conceal the true nature of the relationship between Monica Lewinsky andPresident Clinton...I felt especially at risk if I told the truth in my deposition in the Jones case because the president, through his counsel, Robert Bennett, was quoted in the national media last August as saying, She is not to be believed.
A competing version holds that Tripp is more than a simple civil servant -- she purportedly is a seasoned operative who has long monitored allegednational-security breaches emanating from theClinton White House. Tripps own resume notesshe worked as an operations assistant for DeltaForce at Fort Bragg, N.C. in the late 1980s, andearlier as an administrative assistant at U.S. Army Intelligence Headquarters at Fort Meade, Md.,according to NBC News, which obtained a copy.
Linda Tripp was among a few White House aides towhom Deputy White House Counsel VincentFoster offered M&Ms before he departed around 1 p.m. on July 20, 1993, saying hed be back later. Tothe contrary, Fosters ultimate destination was FortMarcy Park, where his neatly laid-out body, gun inhand, was found around 5:45 p.m. Foster was, atthe time, under investigation for passing nationalsecurity secrets to the government of Israel,according to James Norman, former senior of Forbes magazine, writing in Media Bypass (Aug. 95 MB). Hillary Clinton also had been implicated in the spy scandal.
Hayes was asked to confirm whether, to his knowledge, Tripp was part of any counter-intelligence operation that had Foster, Mrs. Clinton, and others in the inner White House sanctum under surveillance on suspicion of espionage. Reverting to his customarily crypticways, mindful of the setting and aware that othersmight be listening in, Hayes said while barelynodding in apparent agreement: I dont likeanswering that, but as you can guess, you canunderstand what Im saying to you...You got mebehind the rules here...She has S-2 [security]clearance. Thats just a little thing you pick up.
Is that the highest?
No, I got a S-1, he chortled. Hayes said Tripp iswith the good guys, and bet his life that herpurported intelligence duties did not includeinvolvement in foul play regarding Fosters death.
The weekend before his demise, Foster and his wifewere found at the posh eastern Maryland estate ofMichael Cordozo, head of Clintons legal defensefund. Other notables in attendance included oneWebster Hubbell -- there by coincidence,according to the Whitewater report of Starrspredecessor Robert Fiske -- and Cordozosfather-in-law, big-time Democratic contributor andD.C. real-estate developer Nathan Landow(sometimes spelled Landau). Hubbell claimed theweekend was just a laid-back gathering for tennisand poolside chit-chat. Not so, Norman wrote.
According to sources connected to the CIA, JusticeDepartment and another intelligence agency, themeeting was under heavy surveillance. The agenda?Heavy duty damage control. Foster was grilled. Towhom else could the Swiss money be traced? Howcould the scandal be contained?
Foster had discovered, just days earlier and to hishorror, that his $2.73 million account at the BancaDella Svizzera Italiano in Chiasso, Switzerland,filled with illgotten gains and encoded for supposedsafety, had been electronically transferred to anescrow account at the U.S. Treasury. Foster thencanceled his plane ticket for a oneday jaunt toSwitzerland, purchased on his American Expresscard through the White House travel office,according to documents obtained by a privateinvestigator.
The weekend gathering at Landows estatepurportedly included discussion of hush money aspart of the scandal-containment effort; Foster mayhave been hesitant to play along, thus sealing hisfate. At any rate, in a strange case of deja vu allover again, Landows name surfaced recently in thesame context of White House damage control: ABCNews reported on Feb. 27 that Willey claimed shehad been encouraged by one Nathan Landow tochange the story she gave to Starrs grand jury.
In a March 15 interview on CBS News 60 Minutes, Willey said Landow met with her several times, but she declined to confirm that Landow had applied pressure, the nature of which remains unclear.
I cant say at this time, Willey told correspondentEd Bradley. Because of all that has been going on[with the investiga-tions]. She declined furthercomment on the advice of her attorney. The FBIreportedly has opened an investigation into Landow,who declined to be interviewed.
Dont expect Whitewater prober Kenneth Starr tospill any beans. He was in-house counsel to ReaganAttorney General William French Smith at the timethe Inslaw PROMIS software was expropriated forintelligence use, he wrote. Later, as SolicitorGeneral, he recused himself from an Inslaw-relatedmatter without explanation. It seems likely Starrwould have been personally involved in launchingthis covert bank-spy effort, which Washington is so nervous to keep secret. All in the family, you might say.
Indeed, those few dogged researchers who havesince probed the voluminous underlying record ofFosters death, including regular MB contributorHugh Sprunt [who met with and provideddocumentation to Starrs investigators], claim Starr ignored glaring evidence suggesting that thesuicide in Fort Marcy Park was anything but. Thequestion that begs answering: Should Starr inspireconfidence as an honest seeker of truth?
Dont underestimate Mr. Starr, Hayes said. Butwhile the Fifth Column has purportedly providedStarr with reams of scandal-related information,Hayes said he has been asked not to answerwhether he has continued cooperating from behindbarbed wire. He would not elaborate.
A railroad tracks got two rails, he continued.You got one rail in Arkansas and one inWashington -- hes got two grand juries and theyregoing full blast, and Ill tell you now hes comingout with stuff. He said Starr had to concentratelimited resources on aspects of the wide-ranginginvestigation that he deemed most easilyprovable.
And then came the Lewinsky scandal. The onlyreason Monica Lewinsky worked at the Pentagon isbecause Bill put her over there. She could not evenhave passed the security clearance withoutsomebody interceding, Hayes said. Ms. Lewinskywas [fornicating with] everybody around and youre[expletive] right that makes her a security risk. Tripp probably made it a point to be her friend, thats quite a possibility in my opinion.
Hayes discounted speculation, based oncircumstantial evidence, that Lewinsky may havebeen operating on behalf of the Israeli governmentof Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whichClinton apparently had angered by pressing forcompliance with the Israeli-Palestinian peaceaccord. Among many curiosities, the Lewinskyscandal erupted during a visit by Netanyahu andYassir Arafat to the White House. Bottom line,Hayes says, is that Lewinsky is too dumb to be an intelligence operative. She was operating on behalf of herself, he says.
If you rolled her brain out flat you wouldnt haveenough material for a bikini to cover a gnats ass,Hayes chuckled. She figured that if she got thepresident where she wanted him, she could getanything she wanted...She was hungry for money,power, whatever she could get. But Linda workedher...Linda had to know something. When theytransferred Monica [to the Pentagon], do you thinkLinda Tripp, some of the people been around in thiskind of work, knew what was going on? That was abig red flag.
Hayes predicted that ultimately, Starrs investigationwill (perhaps in a roundabout way) confirm the helpof the Fifth Column, address the issue of WhiteHouse espionage and bring Clintons resignation inthe face of impeachment
Paxons stunning reversal, which sent tremorsthrough Republican ranks, came just months afterhis wife and fellow rising Republican star, SusanMolinari, quit Congress, ostensibly to take care of their new baby. She then signed a reported $3million contract to become a talking head on CBSNews Saturday Morning.
I looked at my daughter and...I said to myself, Icannot do this to her and I cannot do it to Susan,who gave up a promising political career to be athome, Paxon told reporters.
Where have we heard such lame excuses before?
From some of the more than 50 unexpectedcongressional retirees who fled Capitol Hill in late 1995 through mid-1996. The bipartisan exodus,unprecedented in U.S. political history, includedsuch entrenched (read: virtually unbeatable)heavy-hitters as Sens. Sam Nunn, Bill Bradley,Nancy Kassebaum, Paul Simon and Alan Simpson,and Reps. Patricia Schroeder, Kweisi Mfume anddozens of others. Besides going to play with thekids, stated rationales included the desire to gofishing, or escape the incivility that they saidplagues Congress.
Since that initial flurry, several more abruptcongressional retirements have arisen, includingSen. Dan Coats and Rep. Lee Hamilton, twoHoosiers at the height of power. Molinari, Paxon,Rep. Bob Livingston and Rep. Joseph Kennedy arebut the most recent defections which, depending onwhom you believe, may or may not be attributableto the workings of the mysterious Fifth Column.
The skepticism expressed in Huffingtons March 5column was extraordinary, and echoed a headlineon congressional defections, courtesy the FifthColumn, in the February 1996 Media Bypass:Congresional retirees leaving voluntarily -- and we should all believe in Mother Goose. For her part, Huffington wrote:
The unexpected departure from the House ofRepresentatives of one of its rising stars wouldusually trigger a frenetic round of questions andnavel gazing. But instead, the pols and pundits alikeseem determined to break with 200 years of historyand accept a public figures dubious explanation atface value.The columnist said she spoke with Paxon, andfound it implausible that the day after he spenthours drumming up support for a race he had beenmasterminding for months, he decided to put an endto his political life. As to the abruptness of theresignation, Paxon told Huffington, My presssecretary also counseled me to drag it out over amonth so as to not shock people. But I wanted toclose that door. I dont want to run for office,and I dont want to be on TV.Here is the Paxon chronology, and why it doesntadd up: On Monday, Feb. 23, Roll Call, the CapitolHill newspaper, came out with a front-page storytitled, With Newts Help, Armey Fights to SaveJob... Furious that Gingrich and Armey areworking to undermine him, the piece reported,Paxon on Friday called dozens of members fromhome and said he is now seriously consideringjumping into the race soon. Then, on Wednesdaymorning, Paxon announced to the RepublicanConference that on Saturday he had made up hismind not only to refrain from running againstArmey for majority leader but to retire from politics altogether. Why the big rush?
Concluding, the incredulous Huffington wrote, Inthe absence of a plausible explanation, the vacuumis filled with rumors. But the most persistentquestion remains: Was Paxons decision the resultof pressure, even a threat, and if so, by whom? InOctober, Sandy Hume, the talented Hill reporterwho shot himself last week, wrote, perhapsprophetically, that according to one Republicanmember, There is a concerted effort to take BillPaxon out before he becomes a bigger threat toGingrich than he is.
Rumors have surfaced that Paxon and Hume, 28,the son of television newsman Bret Hume, werehaving a homosexual affair that somehow spawnedboth Humes death and Paxons resignation. Butyou cant believe that cyberspace crap, or what you read in The Enquirer... can you? Then surely you can believe whats reported in The JerusalemPost...cant you?
Hotel a MadridIn a March 5 column, the Israeli newspaperdescribed Hume as a brilliant 28-year-oldjournalist who committed suicide, as the storygoes, over a homosexual affair with the leader ofthe plot...a senior Republican...confirmed supporterof Israel. The article, by the Posts AvinoamBar-Yosef, did not name Paxon.
There is at least one other possibility to explainPaxons resignation -- one not involving babysfaces nor homosexual affairs. An alternativeexplanation involves new notches etched into theFifth Columns Cray supercomputer, the grim tallyrising even as the star player languishes in prison.
But what about the wife? How to explain herequally abrupt resignation last fall? Did shesuddenly come to believe that baby and career, atleast a political one, were incompatible? Or was shetoo gay at heart and beyond? It should be noted thatthe Fifth Column, as best is known, is not in thebusiness of outing homosexuals, nor in assistingsuicide.
Molinari, chosen by George Bush to give thekeynote address at the 1992 RepublicanConvention, held significant political stock, and was being groomed as a moderate model to attract more women to the GOP. Her book, RepresentativeMom, is due out in May. According to reviewersof an advance copy, Molinari says she left Congressto devote more attention to her kid, and because shecould no longer work for the good of the orderwith people who found it convenient to shove myhusband out of the picture.
You can do whatever you want with that, Hayessaid. Id say the Fifth Column paid [both Paxonand Molinari] a visit, that would be a goodprobability... How would I know whats going onout there [expletive], Im in jail! The Column hasbeen busy with that and a lot of other things peopledont want to give them credit for, and thats theway the Fifth Column likes it. The Columns notout for any fame or glory, were interested incleaning it up.
So jail means youre out of touch with the fellowFifth Columnists?
Im pretty close to them, yes sir, Hayes said.
Youve got to understand here that Im in prison,Hayes said. I answer some of these questions...Imean give me a break. You have no idea.
There was a time when Hayes boasted that if anymove were ever made against the Fifth Column,utterly damning documentation targeting corruptofficials would be released in a flood. WithHayes conviction last year on what many saw as atrumped-up case of soliciting murder, it was clearthat a major move had been made against a memberof the shadowy group.
The Column wanted to come out with everything,absolutely, Hayes said. But we have ourcredibility, we aint worried about it. Theres a dateset, when if it hasnt come out by then, it will comeout in a flood. Besides, Hayes said he doesnt needthe leverage (and enhanced credibility) suchdocumentation would provide in order to shed hisprison garb. He claimed to have a letter from ahigh-ranking intelligence official stating that if he were willing to do certain things, Hayes could be released in 48 hours. Hayes declined to detailwhat was required, but said he may cooperateunder certain circumstances. Another avenue tofreedom would be the success of his appeal whichseeks to overturn the conviction on grounds oftainted evidence and other alleged trial irregularities.
I do not intend to spend much more time in prison, said Hayes, who is scheduled for release in 2005.
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