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The Clinton Presidency Americas Darkest Hour

ngClinton’s mom, the deceased Virginia Kelly, of error in the negligent death of a young girl,Susie Deer, at Ouachita Memorial Hospital in 1981. Malak’s ruling helped Kelly escapescrutiny in the case of the teenage girl. In 1989, then Arkansas Department of HealthDirector Joycelyn Elders cleared Dr. Malak. Nine months later, Clinton calculated a$32,000 raise for Malak. Finally, in 1991, a month before Clinton pledged his intentionsto run for president, Dr. Malak was promoted to a new job, making $70,000 a year asHealth Department consultant to Dr. Elders, who reported directly to Clinton. All of this implies that Clinton was an accomplice in helping to conceal a doublehomicide. He has been quoted as saying that “he resents all of the implications of aconnection”, (Lane) and in 1994 ordered for further investigation of the case to be shutdown. However, a couple of weeks before he ordered it to be closed, the mother of oneof the boys, Linda Ives, obtained evidence implicating that the two boys were murdered bylaw enforcement officials because they had stumbled upon a drug drop from an airplane,known as Mena, involving government agents, such as Saline County ProsecutingAttorney Dan Harmon. A woman by the name of Sharline Wilson testified againstHarmon in August of 1999. She said that she “dropped then-prosecutor Dan Harmon offnear the tracks [the night the two boys were murdered], and waited while he went to pickup a drug drop.” (Satter). About an hour later, when asked how Harmon looked when hecame back, she said that “he had blood on his pants--as if he had wiped his hands onthem.” (Satter). As of August 12, 1999, Harmon was not available for comment, becausehe was currently serving time in an Illinois prison on drug charges. There is also the quite famous “suicide” case of Vincent Foster, White Housecounsel and confidant of President Clinton. On Tuesday, July...

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