-Caveat Lector- Clinton's "Asa" in the Hole? Sam Smith's online newspaper the Progressive Review has some disturbing news for those now lionizing one of the House trial managers whose star shone so brightly during the impeachment trial debacle. It's a little background on Arkansas Rep. Asa Hutchinson. And it comes on the heels of Saturday's St. Petersburg Times report, which noted that, "Hutchinson beat back attempts by (Lindsey) Graham and (James) Rogan to expand the investigation into charges of intimidation against women who had come forward with stories damaging to Clinton." The women in question were alleged Clinton assault victims Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey. Smith reports: Among the 13 House impeachment trial managers was a Republican from Arkansas: Asa Hutchinson. This is not the first time that Hutchinson has showed up in W.J. Clinton's life. As mentioned here last month, he was the prosecutor who let Roger Clinton cop a plea on drug charges despite Roger's ties to the Dixie Mafia and the Medillin cartel. Roger Clinton was 'one tentacle of cocaine distribution in Arkansas,' said US attorney Hutchinson at the time, but thanks to the deal, the case fell apart. "We had a lot more than Roger . . .' one officer told Clinton biographer Roger Morris. 'But Roger [Clinton] cops out, our narcs get taken out, and the case stops there." Morris also noted that Hutchinson was on the scene when people began to get too nosy about what was going on at Mena: "Though the Reagan-appointed US attorneys for the region at the time, Asa Hutchinson and J. Michael Fitzhugh, repeatedly denied, as Fitzhugh put it, 'any pressure in any investigation,' [key investigators] Duncan and Welch watched the Mena inquiry systematically quashed and their own careers destroyed as the IRS and state police effectively dissolved their investigations and turned on them. 'Somebody outside ordered it shut down,' one would say, 'and the walls went up.'" Now comes Arkansas Times columnist Mara Leveritt with another memoir of the ubiquitous Mr. Hutchinson: "Having listened to Hutchinson expound repeatedly on his desire only to get at 'the truth' of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, I am struck by how remarkably unaggressive he was -- in fact, how surprisingly hands-off he was -- back in the 1980s when, as the U.S. attorney for western Arkansas, Hutchinson had the chance to prosecute [Barry] Seal, the smuggler. " �Former IRS agent William Duncan has testified that Hutchinson, who was among the first to know of Seal's arrival in Arkansas, called a meeting in early 1983, at which Duncan was assigned to investigate Seal's suspected money laundering. Duncan did, and he tried to have members of Seal's gang indicted. But when the IRS investigator asked Hutchinson to subpoena 20 witnesses who were prepared to testify about the alleged drug-trafficking at Mena, Hutchinson balked. Only three of the 20 were called, and of those, two later complained that they had not been allowed to present their evidence to the federal grand jury. The grand jury never indicted Seal or anyone else involved with him at Mena. "....Since then, I have spoken with Paul Whitmore, a former Chief of Criminal Investigation for the IRS, who was Duncan's superior. He oversaw the Seal investigation and concurs with Duncan's assessment that presentation of Duncan's evidence was blocked by Hutchinson's office. 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