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Saturday Nov. 30, 2002; 10:45 p.m. EST
Matalin: Busted PI Deeply Involved in Clinton 'Bimbo' Operations
A famous Los Angeles private detective who was busted by the FBI last week with an arsenal of explosives big enough to arm a small al Qaeda terror cell was deeply involved in former President Bill Clinton's efforts to intimidate his ex-girlfriends into silence, according to senior Bush White House advisor Mary Matalin.
Before joining the White House in 2001 as counselor to Vice President Cheney and assistant to President Bush, Matalin worked as political director of Bush 41's failed 1992 reelection effort.
In the interim, while hosting her own nationally syndicated talk radio show on Washington, D.C.'s WRC-AM, Matalin went public with what she knew about Clinton private eye Anthony Pellicano, whose Sunset Blvd. office was raided by a dozen FBI agents nine days ago.
Among other evidence tying Pellicano to the Clintons, the top White House advisor revealed she had audio tapes of the famed detective attempting to intimidate women into silence.
"I controlled the money in the (Bush 1992) campaign," Matalin explained during a 1997 broadcast. "And Betsy Wright announced that she was putting $28,000 on the 'bimbo' patrol and on Jack Palladino and Pellicano, the other guy."
The top White House advisor told her WRC audience:
"And $28,000 to me, the political director, was four states in the Rocky Mountains. You had a limited budget. I said, how could they spend this much money? How could they basically give up four states to track down 'bimbos'?
"That's why it was kind of shocking to me that it must have been a bigger priority than putting money into states for the purpose of winning and that's why I flagged it at the time. I don't even remember how many or what kind of women.... They didn't want to come forward......
"Then I got the letters from Pellicano to these women intimidating them. I had tapes of conversations from Pellicano to the women. I got handwritten letters from the women."
Matalin continued:
"I got one letter from one of the women's dad's saying, 'This is so horrible. Here's what they're going to do to us,' you know, essentially. It's not like they said, 'We're going to go out there and bust your kneecaps. (It was more like) we're going to say this, that and the other.'
"A lot of these women are now, you know - time had gone by. They have kids, they have families. They're in their communities. They don't want to be splashed out there and trashed like Gennifer Flowers was. And that's one of the ways they were intimidated. Or say, if they were employed, (the Clinton PI's) were going to go to their bosses. You know, I don't have to go through the litany of things of how to intimidate a witness."
Matalin said that even though she had smoking gun proof of the Clinton campaign's heavy handed attempts to silence the future president's ex-girlfriends, then-President Bush refused to use the damaging material to save his reelection bid.
"When I went to my boss in the campaign with this information and then they went to Bush, Bush himself called me up and said, 'I don't want to hear it. Don't even tell me what you have. Throw it all out,'" she told her WRC audience.
Matalin said she stored the information in her "top drawer" for a while but "I did ultimately throw it out."
Pellicano was arrested earlier this month in connection with an attempt to intimidate Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch, who was investigating an extortion plot against actor Steven Seagal.
Busch allegedly discovered the windshield of her car broken and a dead fish on the front seat with a red rose in its mouth. Former ex-con Alexander Proctor told prosecutors that Pellicano paid him $10,000 to scare the Times reporter off.
After searching the famed private detective's office, investigators found plastic explosives, blasting caps and detonating cord, along with $150,000 in cash.
Pellicano's past involvement in the O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson cases has prompted wide coverage of his arrest, though only NewsMax.com has detailed his connection to the Clintons.
Saturday Nov. 30, 2002; 10:45 p.m. EST
Matalin: Busted PI Deeply Involved in Clinton 'Bimbo' Operations
A famous Los Angeles private detective who was busted by the FBI last week with an arsenal of explosives big enough to arm a small al Qaeda terror cell was deeply involved in former President Bill Clinton's efforts to intimidate his ex-girlfriends into silence, according to senior Bush White House advisor Mary Matalin.
Before joining the White House in 2001 as counselor to Vice President Cheney and assistant to President Bush, Matalin worked as political director of Bush 41's failed 1992 reelection effort.
In the interim, while hosting her own nationally syndicated talk radio show on Washington, D.C.'s WRC-AM, Matalin went public with what she knew about Clinton private eye Anthony Pellicano, whose Sunset Blvd. office was raided by a dozen FBI agents nine days ago.
Among other evidence tying Pellicano to the Clintons, the top White House advisor revealed she had audio tapes of the famed detective attempting to intimidate women into silence.
"I controlled the money in the (Bush 1992) campaign," Matalin explained during a 1997 broadcast. "And Betsy Wright announced that she was putting $28,000 on the 'bimbo' patrol and on Jack Palladino and Pellicano, the other guy."
The top White House advisor told her WRC audience:
"And $28,000 to me, the political director, was four states in the Rocky Mountains. You had a limited budget. I said, how could they spend this much money? How could they basically give up four states to track down 'bimbos'?
"That's why it was kind of shocking to me that it must have been a bigger priority than putting money into states for the purpose of winning and that's why I flagged it at the time. I don't even remember how many or what kind of women.... They didn't want to come forward......
"Then I got the letters from Pellicano to these women intimidating them. I had tapes of conversations from Pellicano to the women. I got handwritten letters from the women."
Matalin continued:
"I got one letter from one of the women's dad's saying, 'This is so horrible. Here's what they're going to do to us,' you know, essentially. It's not like they said, 'We're going to go out there and bust your kneecaps. (It was more like) we're going to say this, that and the other.'
"A lot of these women are now, you know - time had gone by. They have kids, they have families. They're in their communities. They don't want to be splashed out there and trashed like Gennifer Flowers was. And that's one of the ways they were intimidated. Or say, if they were employed, (the Clinton PI's) were going to go to their bosses. You know, I don't have to go through the litany of things of how to intimidate a witness."
Matalin said that even though she had smoking gun proof of the Clinton campaign's heavy handed attempts to silence the future president's ex-girlfriends, then-President Bush refused to use the damaging material to save his reelection bid.
"When I went to my boss in the campaign with this information and then they went to Bush, Bush himself called me up and said, 'I don't want to hear it. Don't even tell me what you have. Throw it all out,'" she told her WRC audience.
Matalin said she stored the information in her "top drawer" for a while but "I did ultimately throw it out."
Pellicano was arrested earlier this month in connection with an attempt to intimidate Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch, who was investigating an extortion plot against actor Steven Seagal.
Busch allegedly discovered the windshield of her car broken and a dead fish on the front seat with a red rose in its mouth. Former ex-con Alexander Proctor told prosecutors that Pellicano paid him $10,000 to scare the Times reporter off.
After searching the famed private detective's office, investigators found plastic explosives, blasting caps and detonating cord, along with $150,000 in cash.
Pellicano's past involvement in the O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson cases has prompted wide coverage of his arrest, though only NewsMax.com has detailed his connection to the Clintons.
