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Date: 01-24-03
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ARI & I: RUSSELL MOKHIBER, EDITOR OF CORPORATE CRIME
REPORTER DESCRIBES WHAT IT’S LIKE TO COVER THE WHITE
HOUSE: “THEY KEEP YOU AT THE GATE. THEY DON’T
LET YOU IN. THEY DON’T GIVE YOU A PRESS PASS. IF THEY
LET YOU IN THEY LET YOU IN LATE. IF YOU GET IN THEY DON’T
CALL ON YOU. IF THEY CALL ON YOU. THEY DON’T ANSWER
THE QUESTION.”
“WHY I REFUSED TO TESTIFY AGAINST THE CLINTONS &
WHAT I LEARNED IN JAIL”: AN INTERVIEW WITH SUSAN MCDOUGAL
9:01-9:06 Headlines
9:06-9:07 One Minute Music
9:07-9:20 ARI & I: RUSSELL MOKHIBER, EDITOR OF CORPORATE
CRIME REPORTER DESCRIBES WHAT IT’S LIKE TO COVER THE
WHITE HOUSE: “THEY KEEP YOU AT THE GATE. THEY DON’T
LET YOU IN. THEY DON’T GIVE YOU A PRESS PASS. IF THEY
LET YOU IN THEY LET YOU IN LATE. IF YOU GET IN THEY DON’T
CALL ON YOU. IF THEY CALL ON YOU. THEY DON’T ANSWER
THE QUESTION.”
Polls indicate that most Americans are opposed to war, yet
there are few questions at the White House Press Briefings
with Ari Fleischer representing that point of view. Occasionally
though, some tough questions are asked:
“…, how many convicted criminals are on the White
House staff?...
“….what was the President thinking when he appointed
an alleged war criminal to investigate a war crime?...
…..the President wants regime change in Iraq, …..Why
don't you just say the President wants to overthrow the government
in Iraq?...
These are just a few of the questions that have been asked
by Russell Mokhiber, the editor of the Washington, D.C.-based
Corporate Crime Reporter. He co-authors the weekly “Focus
on the Corporation” column with Robert Weissman which
Common Dreams publishes and attends daily White House press
briefings with Ari Fleischer. Transcripts of his interviews
with Ari Fleischer are highlighted under “Ari &
I” on the Common Dreams website.
Guest: Russell Mokhiber, White House reporter and editor
of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter
Lower Third: White House reporter
Contact: www.commondreams.org
Email Russell Mokhiber at: russell@nationalpress.com
9:20-9:21 One Minute Music Break
9:21-9:30 ARI AND I, CONT’D
9:30-9:40 “WHY I REFUSED TO TESTIFY AGAINST THE CLINTONS
& WHAT I LEARNED IN JAIL”: AN INTERVIEW WITH SUSAN
MCDOUGAL
Susan McDougal, grew up in a small Arkansas town, one of
seven children of a US army sergeant and his Belgian bride.
In her teens, she made patriotic speeches at her local American
Legion hall. In 1976, she married Jim McDougal, a mercurial
entrepreneur, who soon turned their life into a rolling sideshow
of bank acquisitions and real estate deals including one fatefully
dubbed Whitewater. She was imprisoned after refusing to testify
against the Clintons during the Whitewater trial.
A recent article in the Washington Post discussed the case
of Susan McDougal.
“It will forever be the question people ask her. Why?
Why didn't Susan McDougal just answer the questions? Why on
earth would anyone choose to spend two years in jail, when
all it took to be free was to provide a few simple, incriminating
sentences?
“The offer was there: The Office of the Independent
Counsel, Kenneth Starr, would give her immunity from any charges
related to the failed 1980s Whitewater real-estate venture,
in which she and her husband, Jim McDougal, were business
partners with President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton,
if only she would connect the Clintons to the deal.
“She said no. And she went to jail. The pictures are
hard to forget: McDougal on the day she went to prison, a
woman in chains, taken away wearing black stockings. She served
the maximum 18 months for civil contempt of court for her
refusal to testify, and three and a half months of a two-year
term for fraud in a 1996 Whitewater case brought by Starr's
office. Her husband, also convicted of fraud, cooperated with
the Starr investigation. He died of a heart attack while in
prison.”
Today we talk to McDougal about her new book “ The
Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk” and about her experiences
in seven different prisons during her eighteen month incarceration.
Guest: Susan McDougal, she grew up in a small Arkansas town
and became a househouse name when she was jailed after refusing
to testify against the Clintons in the Whitewater. She still
lives in Arkansas and recently published a new memoir, “The
Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk: Why I Refused to Testify Against
the Clintons & What I Learned in Jail.”
Lower Third: Refused to Testify in Whitewater Case
9:40-9:41 One Minute Music Break
9:41-9:58 MCDOUGAL, CONT’D
9:58-9:59 Outro and Credits
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