Washington Times-EDITORIAL � June 27, 2000
Hillary unindicted
A dispassionately analytical word for Independent Counsel
Robert Ray's statement on the White House travel office
investigation is "perplexing." Mr. Ray has attested to finding
what he calls "substantial evidence" of Hillary Rodham Clinton's
"role" (Mr. Ray's quotation marks) in firing seven White House
travel office employees. He has determined that Mrs. Clinton
"ultimately influenced" that decision. But despite the first
lady's repeated denials, under oath, of any role (or "role") in
what is known as "Travelgate," Mr. Ray announced last week that
he will not bring any charges against the first lady for making
false statements, committing perjury or obstructing justice.
It's not that the Ray statement is exculpatory of Mrs.
Clinton � or the White House, for that matter, which Mr. Ray
excoriates for a range of blatant stonewalling tactics, from
asserting "unfounded privileges" consistently rejected in the
courts, to conducting "inadequate searches" for documents. The
statement cites Mrs. Clinton's travel office "discussions" with
then-deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster, then-Chief of
Staff Mack McLarty and "longtime friend and adviser Harry
Thomason," the wealthy Hollywood producer whose travel service
stood to benefit from a change in White House personnel. Mr. Ray
cites "one direct conversation" with David Watkins, the White
House official directly in charge of the travel office whose
infamous "hell to pay" memo about Mrs. Clinton would eventually
trigger the Independent Counsel's investigation. As Mr. Ray very
carefully puts it, "These individuals discussed her concerns
among themselves, which produced a momentum to take immediate
action."
"Produced a momentum to take immediate action." Sure sounds
like the way any eminence rose worth her hotline operates. Even
this somewhat rarefied vision of Mrs. Clinton at work contradicts
the first lady's many denials, including testimony provided under
oath. "Nevertheless" � Mr. Ray's interesting word � the evidence
he first characterizes as "substantial" turns out to be also
"insufficient" to "prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that
any of Mrs. Clinton's statements and testimony regarding her
involvement in the travel office firings were knowingly false."
Would that he had given a jury a chance to make that
determination.
In conclusion, Mr. Ray sounds what may strike one as a
hopeful note: "The matter is now closed." To be sure, the report
is now finished. But Mr. Ray may by now have an inkling of how
difficult it is to achieve what is these days known as "closure"
when logic appears to have been defied. In a deft display of the
art of interviewing, NBC's Tim Russert quizzed Mr. Ray on "Meet
the Press" on Sunday on the statement's startling contradictions,
repeatedly inviting the independent counsel to reconcile Mrs.
Clinton's record of denial with the evidence of her involvement
in what amounts to the shoddiest scandal in two terms of the
Clinton-Gore administration: the pitiless abuse of seven White
House employees who did nothing but occupy jobs Bill and Hillary
Clinton wanted to fill with assorted "cousins" and cronies.
Mr. Ray has determined that, despite "substantial evidence"
of both Mrs. Clinton's involvement in and subsequent cover-up of
this outrageous abuse of power, she remains beyond the reach of
the law. "This matter then returns appropriately to the people
and to the political process where it belongs," Mr. Ray told Mr.
Russert. Without the law's guidance, one wonders what will they
make of it.
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