-Caveat Lector-
Sunday, Feb. 11, 2001 12:05 a.m. EST
Clinton Library Foundation Director Accused of Witness Tampering
The director of the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation,
which is expected to be the next focus of the House Pardongate
probe, has been accused of witness tampering by a former Clinton
bodyguard.
The foundation, which plans to collect $200 million in
tax-deductible donations from Clinton intimate Denise Rich and
other fat-cat backers, is administered by Skip Rutherford - a
close friend of the ex-president who runs an Arkansas-based
public relations firm.
In his 1999 book "Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton
Investigation," former Arkansas state trooper and one-time
Clinton bodyguard Lawrence Douglas Brown charges that Rutherford
tried to silence him because of what he knew about Clinton's
personal misconduct and involvement in Whitewater.
At the suggestion of his brother Dwayne, Brown says he accepted
Rutherford's invitation to meet in late 1993, just as Whitewater
was heating up.
"Skip was glad-handing me as I entered the office as if we were
old friends," Brown writes.
"'Want some coffee L.D.?' he asked."
Before long, says Brown, Rutherford got down to business.
"What do they know, L.D.?" he asked, referring to reporters who
had begun talking to Brown's colleagues about Clinton's
womanizing.
"Rutherford wanted a detailed list of the women the media knew
about. He wrote them all down - Susan McDougal, Gennifer Flowers,
Beth Coulsen, just about all of them."
"There were questions about Madison as well," Brown told the
Clinton Library director, referring to the bank owned by the
president's Whitewater business partners Jim and Susan McDougal.
Brown said Rutherford's tone turned ominous after his revelation.
"L.D., you know you're going to get subpoenaed over this, don't
you?"
"Now, L.D., you have to lay your head down on the pillow at
night," Rutherford continued. "You have to live with yourself."
Then came a warning, the former Clinton bodyguard says.
"And L.D., you wouldn't want all your credit card receipts
splashed all over the front page of the newspapers, now would
you?"
"Intimidation and a threat?" Brown wrote. "You bet. And that's
exactly what he was trying to get across. I left and was
determined then and there to tell my story."
Despite Rutherford's alleged threat, Brown would later tell
investigators that Clinton had guilty knowledge of an illegal
$300,000 SBA loan arranged for Susan McDougal.
The former Clinton bodyguard also charged that the president knew
about an illegal drug running operation in Mena, Arkansas.
When he was subpoenaed by the Senate Whitewater Committee a year
later, Brown told lead Republican counsel Michael Chertoff about
Rutherford's attempt to get him not to talk.
"Chertoff remarked, 'That's obstruction of justice,'" Brown
writes.
On Friday, House Pardongate probers said they would have to
subpoena the records of the William J. Clinton Presidential
Foundation since Rutherford refuses to voluntarily release them.
L.D. Brown guarded the Clintons from 1982 to 1985.
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