Asa Hutchinson seemed to protect Bill Clinton when he was governor and proved to be a weak prosecutor during Clintons Impeachment. Next, while working as a DC Lobbyist Asa Hutchinson endorsed Eric Holder for Attorney General. Maybe together we can put this puzzle together? First, let me introduce you to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Center): During his time in Washington, his stories often attracted the ire of the Clinton administration, and on Evans-Pritchards departure from Washington in 1997 a White House aide was quoted saying Thats another British invasion were glad is over. The guy was nothing but a pain in the ass. His efforts in ferreting out the witness, Patrick Knowlton, whose last name had been spelled Nolton in the Park Police report on Vince Fosters death, resulted eventually in a lawsuit by Knowlton against the FBI and the inclusion of Knowltons lawyers letter as an appendix to Kenneth Starrs report on Fosters death. In his book, Evans-Pritchard responded vigorously to White House charges against him. Part I A DEA report uncovered by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard will cite an informant claiming that a key Arkansas figure and backer of Clinton smuggles cocaine from Colombia, South America, inside race horses to Hot Springs. The London Telegraphs Ambrose Evans-Prichard writes, Basil Abbott, a convicted drug pilot, says that he flew a Cessna 210 full of cocaine into Marianna, in eastern Arkansas, in the spring of 1982. The aircraft was welcomed by an Arkansas State Trooper in a marked police car. Arkansas was a very good place to load and unload he said. IRS agent William Duncan and an Arkansas State Police investigator take their evidence concerning drug trafficking in Mena to US Attorney Asa Hutchinson. They ask for 20 witnesses to be subpoenaed before the grand jury. Hutchinson chooses only three. According to reporter Mara Leveritt, The three appeared before the grand jury, but afterwards, two of them also expressed surprise at how their questioning was handled. One, a secretary at Rich Mountain Aviation, had given Duncan sworn statements about money laundering at the company, transcripts of which Duncan had provided to Hutchinson. But when the woman left the jury room, she complained that Hutchinson had asked her nothing about the crime or the sworn statements shed given to Duncan. As Duncan later testified, She basically said that she was allowed to give her name, address, position, and not much else. The other angry witness was a banker who had, in Duncans words, provided a significant amount of evidence relating to the money-laundering operation. According to Duncan, he, too, emerged from the jury room complaining that he was not allowed to provide the evidence that he wanted to provide to the grand jury. Roger Morris & Sally Denton, Penthouse Magazine - According to l.R.S. criminal investigator Duncan, secretaries at the Mena Airport told him that when Seal flew into Mena, there would be stacks of cash to be taken to the bank and laundered. One secretary told him that she was ordered to obtain numerous cashiers checks, each in an amount just under $10,000, at various banks in Mena and surrounding communities, to avoid filing the federal Currency Transaction Reports required for all bank transactions that exceed that limit. Bank tellers testified before a federal grand jury that in November 1982, a Mena airport employee carried a suitcase containing more than $70,000 into a bank. The bank officer went down the teller lines handing out the stacks of $1,000 bills and got the cashiers checks. Law-enforcement sources confirmed that hundreds of thousands of dollars were laundered from 1981 to 1983 just in a few small banks near Mena, and that millions more from Seals operation were laundered elsewhere in Arkansas and the nation. Bill Clinton was reelected. Watch for Part II
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:05:17 +0000
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