Court blocks release of Whitewater indictments before election

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Washington Examiner:

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Hillary Clinton's right to privacy means draft indictments prepared during the 1990s-era Whitewater investigation should not be released publicly before Election Day.

 

The draft indictments, requested by conservative-leaning Judicial Watch, have never been published. The National Archives has, however, made a substantial number of records related to the independent counsel's expansive probe available in the years since the case was closed in 1998. The draft indictments were written by the special prosecutor's office.

 

Those files show investigators doubted the authenticity of Clinton's statements regarding her relationship to Madison Guaranty, an Arkansas savings and loan trust at the center of a complex scandal that predated her husband's presidency but made headlines throughout his administration.

 

The Clintons have always maintained Whitewater was nothing more than a failed real estate deal on which they lost money. But there were allegations they used their political and legal influence to unduly assist their business partners Jim and Susan McDougal.

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The ghost of scandals past.