and the late Glen Wilburn and his wifernKathv (whose grandsons had been killedrnin the bombing), Evans-Pritchard showsrnthat a commune of neo-Nazis at ElohimrnCih’, Oklahoma, though implicated inrnthe bombing, was nevertheless protectedrnb- the FBI, despite the fact that the FBIrnwas informed by seeral witnesses thatrnthe commune was sheltering a manrnwhose looks and activities match those ofrnJohn Doe II exactK, as well as anotherrnman, a mvsterious illegal alien. A formerrnGerman military’ intelligence officer andrnbomb expert named Andreas Strassmeir,rnthis fellow was probablv the agent provocateur,rnand doubtless also protected byrnthe FBI.rnAn’one who has hung onto the EfremrnZimbalist, Jr., view of the American politicalrnpolice will have lost it after finishingrnthese two books. As the authorsrndemonstrate, agents of the FBI, far fromrnprotecting the citizenrs’, serve the state byrnan means necessar’, intimidating witnessesrnto change their stories to conformrnwith the official line and smearing themrnwhen ihev refuse to do so. The FBI lab isrnnot the onlv hotbed of bureaucraticrncrooks. Similarly, any reader who persistsrnin regarding the mainstream mediarnas “adversarial” will be disabused as well.rnThese instituhons are activelv on the sidernof the state, defending it vociferouslv andrnattacking anyone who questions itsrnmoral innocence. The problem is notrnliberal but governmental bias. Just whenrnthe media seem about to do the rightrnthing, the)’ invariably stop short. ABC’srn20/20 was prepared to run a segment onrnElohim City, but pulled it at the lastrnminute. Vlien assistant producer RogerrnCharles protested, he was fired. The storrnhad to be suppressed, he was told, becausernit woidd “bring the cormtr}’ down”rnand lead to the “abolifion of the ATF.”rnMeanwhile, at a dme when the FBIrnwas conducting 25,000 interviews aboutrnthe bombing, Strassmeir was not includedrnamong the interviewees; indeed, hernwas allowed to leave the country. Hernhad a superduper U.S. intelligence ratingrnas well, later erased from the INS’srncomputers. But he was clearly wrackedrnwith guilt, and what he admits to Eans-rnPritchard after man interviews is astounding.rnIn a recorded phone conversahon,rnF,’ans-Pritchard tells Strassmeir,rnthen in German-, that there comes arnfime in a botched sting operation whenrntile plant has to go public to save his ownrnskin. “How can he?” shouts Strassmeir.rn”VVliat happens if it was a sting operationrnfrom the ver}’ beginning? Wliat happensrnif it comes out that the plant was a pro’ocateur?rn. . . What if he talked and manipulatedrnthe others into it? What then?rnThe countr’ couldn’t handle it. The relativesrnof the victims are going to go crazy.rnHe’s going to be held responsible for thernmurders of 168 people Of course, therninformant can’t come forward. He’srnscared shitless right now.”rnExploring Arkansas, which a relativernof former governor Lawrence Rockefellerrnonce told me had the brutal andrndeadly politics of Montenegro, Evans-rnPritchard has turned up interesting facts.rnClinton clearly had a personal involvementrnwith cocaine (he found it uscfiil inrnattracting underage girlsj and perhaps arnprofessional one as well. Certainly DanrnLasater, his confederate in coke, women,rnand song, was a major importer of therndrug, as v’ere the GIA-Contra gun suppliersrnat the infamous Mena airport.rnThere are een interesting connectionsrnamong Clinton, George Bush, and OlliernNorth.rnMore murders occurred in Clinton’srnArkansas circle than the mainstream mediarnhave discussed, crimes that went unpunishedrnthanks to corrupt cops, judges,rnand medical examiners. One of these examiners,rnan Egyptian immigrant, wasrneventualK’ promoted by Goernor Clintonrnafter the immigrant doc ruled thatrnMa Clinton, a nurse-anesthetist who, accordingrnto the author, had perhaps beenrndrinking when she cut off oxygeir to a 19-rnyear-old girl’s brain during routinernsurger}’, was not at fiult in the resultantrndeath. The same examiner also helpedrncover up the horrendous stabbing deathsrnof two teenage bos who inadvertentlyrncame upon one of Lasater’s cocainerndrops —a deed that, according to Evans-rnPritchard, our President may havernapproved as well.rnSo far we have only skimnred the surfacernof Bill Clinton’s Arkansas as exploredrnby Evans-Pritchard in this extraordinaryrnbook, which also considers thernapparent murder of the President’srnArkansas croiry, Vincent Foster. The expertrnon tiiat case, however, is another starrnreporter, Christopher Ruddy of the PittsburghrnTribune-Review. The official stor’rnof Foster’s deatir. Ruddy proves, is entire-rn1 phon’, the co’er-up having been orchestratedrnby executive branch operativesrnlike Bernard Nussbaum, WebsterrnHubbell, and Craig Li ingstonc, withrnthe a.ssi.stance of tile Wliitc House politicalrnpolice, the FBI.rnRuddy is cautions in stating his conelusions,rnbut it is clear from his book andrnEvans-Pritchard’s —and also from thernwork of rile redoubtable Texas attorneyrnHugh Sprunt, a source for both authorsrn—that Foster was not clinically depressed.rnHis body was not found wherernthe Park Police claimed it was. Thernfirearm —a classic, untraceable droprnweapon commonly used by crookedrncops —was not the murder weapon. Foster’srncorpse had an additional wound onrnthe neck. The “suicide” note was forged.rnWhite House operatives, with the help ofrnthe MIG GROUP safe-cracking divisionrnof the Secret Ser’ice, went through Foster’srnfiles and his safe, remov ing materialsrnBill and Foster’s alleged longtime lover,rnHillar}’ Clinton, did not want seen.rnWitnesses who testified to having seenrnstrange men going through Foster’s carrnat Ft. Marcv Park or who otherwise challengedrnthe official storv’ were smeared b’rnthe FBI as homosexuals or adulterers.rnThe autopsy was a joke, as was the entirernPark Police investigation. The Starr andrnFiske reports were cover-ups. And that,rnas Ruddy shows, is only the beginning.rnIt is clear that Clinton knew about hisrn”close friend’s” death before giving arnhappy, hour-long TV interview with Lar-rnThe Secret Life ofrnBill Clinton:rnThe Unreported StoriesrnOn the American Elite:rn^^’ I ‘he American elite, I amrn1 afraid to say, is almost beyondrnredemption. Moral relativismrnhas set in so deeply thatrnthe gilded classes ha-e becomernincapable of discerning rightrnfrom wrong. Everything can bernexplained awa, especially byrnjournalists. Life is one greatrnmoral mush—sophistr- washedrndown with Chardonna-.”rnOn Trurii and Consec[uences:rn^^’ I ‘he ordinarv’ citizens,rn1 thank goodness, still adherernto absolutes. A lie is anrnabomination. A vow is sacred.rnUnjustice cannot be excused.”rn—Ambrose Kvans-PritchardrnMARCH 1998/25rnrnrn