The latest scandal that has plagued Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is her e-mail scandal, which she’s currently under investigation for by the state department and the FBI. The scandal arose in March of 2015, when it was revealed that during her tenure as Secretary of State, Hillary had used a private email server to handle top secret government emails. Meanwhile, State Department regulations dictates that all classified emails must be handled on an official State Department server. Hillary’s argument is that the emails were not marked classified until after she had handled them on the account. This excuse, however, is ridiculous. Even if the emails were not marked as classified at the time, it is the policy of the State Department
The “Whitewater” scandal was a real estate scheme by the White Water Development Corp. Both President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton were involved in the scandal to make a land deal. Many people were involved in the scheme, which was held in the 1980s in Arkansas. Bill Clinton and his wife maintained their funds by the support of the Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, which represented the Clintons in the overthrow of their Whitewater shares. The Clintons were being investigated when there were improper campaign contributions, political and financial favors, and tax benefits.
Before Clinton was elected President he had an encounter with Paula Jones in a hotel room. After Clinton took office Paula Jones then sued Clinton for sexual harassment. A short time later Monica Lewinsky began her intern at the White House. Clinton and Lewinsky began a sexual relationship. Judge Kenneth Starr was the investigator of Whitewater. President Clinton denied any sexual relations with Lewinsky. On October 8, 1998, the House would vote to have an impeachment and won. Clinton was charged with perjury and obstruction to justice. Bill Clinton would end up not getting kicked out of office by senate.
The Iran-Contra affair survives as one of the most dramatic political scandals in American history. Approximately a decade after Watergate, the Iran-Contra scandal both shocked and captivated the public. The affair began in Beirut, 1984, when Hezbollah, a militant Islamic group sympathetic to the Iranian government, kidnapped three American citizens. Four more hostages were taken in 1985. The conservative Reagan administration hurriedly sought freedom for the Americans. Despite a 1979 trade embargo prohibiting the sale of weapons between the U.S. and Iran, members of Ronald Reagan’s staff arranged an arms-for-hostages deal with Iran in an attempt to free the American hostages in Lebanon. Meanwhile, back in the Americas, Reagan was pursuing an aggressive foreign policy in response to the Cold War. The Reagan administration was doing its best to curb Communist influence in Central and Latin America. In Nicaragua, Reagan wanted to support the democratic rebel Contras against the Marxist Sandinista regime, despite legislation passed in the early 1980s, the Boland Amendment, that made federal aid to the Contras illegal. In 1985, Oliver North, a staff member in the National Security Council, devised the scheme to divert surplus funds from weapons sales with Iran to the Contra cause in Nicaragua, violating the Boland Amendment. Following public exposure of the scandal, Oliver North and many other members of Reagan’s staff were put on trial; however not a single one of them was appropriately punished. Each person involved was either pardoned, granted immunity or had convictions overturned. The Iran-Contra scandal and its aftermath exposed both the executive branch’s lack of accountability to the American people and the other branches of g...
Many similarities come up when discussing Whitewater and Watergate. The scandals may be separated by two decades, but much irony is evident when they are compared. For example, in 1974, Hillary Rodham was employed as a lawyer by the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry, along with Bernard Nussbaum, former chief counsel at the Clinton White House.
2. The court said that it was difficult decide with the argument of executive privilege because there was no real claim to protect military, diplomatic, or sensitive national security secrets.
On August 17, 1998, exactly one year after making the statement above, President Bill Clinton prepared to deliver a speech concerning a scandal that had gripped the nation for months. It is needless to say that this was an important moment during the Clinton administration. After accusations of sexual harassment, Clinton addressed the nation and admitted to having a relationship with Monica Lewinsky. In this critical speech Clinton set out to admit to wrong-doings, provide a few reasons for his action, and ultimately persuade the audience into moving on and forgetting the scandal. This essay will break down his speech into sections and examine the most and least effective strategies that Clinton employed and how well he executed those strategies. This is an interesting speech given under rare circumstances. Not since Watergate had an American president been under such harsh moral criticism from the public. By looking critically at this speech we are able to gain valuable insight into Clinton's motives.
White collar crime is a term created by Edwin Sutherland in 1939 that refers to crimes committed by people of higher social status, companies, and the government according to the book “White-Collar Crime in a Nutshell” by Ellen Podgor and Jerold Israel. White collar crimes are usually non-violent crimes committed in order to have a financial-gain (Podgor and Israel 3). A very well known white collar crime that has even been taught in many history classes is the Watergate scandal. This is a white collar crime that was committed by government authorities. Watergate was a crime that shocked the nation.
Political leaders of the United States were, at one time, thought of as crucial members of our society. Ideally, their main goal was to represent and satisfy the needs of the American people. Unfortunately, over the last fifty years, our trust in our administrative representatives has drastically declined. Beginning with the great conspiracy theory that President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 was actually planned by political leaders, America had, for the first time in history, begun to question its faith in its very own government. Consequently, the American people became extremely hesitant when it came to electing officials into office. Despite his loss to JFK in the 1960 presidential election, in 1968, Richard M. Nixon was elected as the thirty-seventh president of the United States. He was praised by many for his comeback after previously losing an election and seemed to be an admirable man. While in office, Nixon made many achievements and followed through with all of his promises made during his campaign. For the first time in what seemed like forever, the American people had finally elected a leader who seemed unquestionably trustworthy – or so they thought. Unfortunately, shortly after Nixon was elected to his second term of presidency in 1972, the Watergate Scandal changed America forever by creating a sense of mistrust toward the government for the American people because of The Nixon Administration’s actions.
A few days ago the FBI affirmed if they found sufficient information on the e-mail scandal relating to Hillary Clinton they will commence a criminal investigation. If they do find the evidence Lynch will be the one to say if they should press ahead. Now recently the FBI has officially said that the probe has been confirmed, but they have not launched an investigation yet. Critics are arguing that Lynch should not have a word if the investigation should be held since she has donated over $10,000 to the democratic party. Others are saying that Clinton should be debarred from the election. Lynch has not held a press conference yet, but the FBI is known to be searching the servers that Clinton used to send the e-mails. Right now Lynch is still alive and holds the position of Attorney General of the United States. Although she might lose her position after the next president is elected which is starting to look more and more likely to be a republican. Lynch right now lives with her husband and two
A couple weeks ago, I was sitting on the hallway waiting for my class to start when I heard a couple commenting about politics. Immediately their conversation caught my attention; I am always curious to know what other people think about the topic and their reasoning behind it. As it was expected, Hillary Clinton came up during their debate. To the mere mentioning of the name, one started to giggle, arguing that how was she supposed to be a president and control a nation when she cannot even control her husband or at least make him happy. Clinton should be so mean and so frigid that Bill did not have other choice but to commit infidelity. I was perplexed after having heard such theories. She did not ask to be betrayed, yet she was guilty
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I was trying to protect you and Chelsea.’,” Mrs. Clinton writes in her memoir, Living History. Not only did the affair between former President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky have an effect on his wife, former First Lady Hillary Clinton, but also the American people. This scandal also brought up questions of morality and whether or not Clinton was fit to finish his presidency. From 1995 to 1998, President Bill Clinton was keeping a secret from not only his family, but also the entire country. It all started when 21 year old
Lately, the top story in the news day after day, months after months have been about William Jefferson Clinton, also known as Bill. Who could blame them, there is nothing better than a story out of the ordinary, especially one with presidential status. For the past months he has been the most talked about figure, being the essential topic for news, talk shows, late night comedy and even going as far as the big screen. Talk about 'Primary Colors' and 'Wag the Dog.' What has gotten to me the most however, were the constant flow of Republicans, along with a few Democrats, who just want to say how shocked and embarrassed they are along with the people of the United States.The president had not just become the most talked about figure, but also one history had ever seen, so far that is, breaking the record and becoming a topic of conversation and debate 'twenty-four seven.' The people, who I think were most affected by this crisis and feel very sad for, are the Republicans, since they had lost severe amount of sleep over the president's bedroom crisis. They had to perform their republican duties by shocking our brains with the president's affair with Monica Lewinsky. We had to ignore the rest of the world news and its issues while they plough through the valley of lies, abuse of power and something they called high crimes and misdemeanors.
“It is time for us to come together as one united people,” Trump said in a victory speech, following a concession call from Clinton at nearly 3 a.m. Eastern. “It’s time.” (Goldmacher and Schreckinger) The first argument that people had found was that Trump and Putin’s foreign policy intentions see eye to eye. Trump’s unwillingness to defend NATO allies, leaves an open road for Russia’s plan to take over the Ukraine. Following that last point, Trump’s campaign may have left the hackers a runway. Trump had taken a clearer cut connections to Russia. Adviser, Paul Manafort, consulted with Putin’s backed Ukraine Politicians. In Addition, The Washington Post reported at a news conference in Warsaw on thursday, that President Trump again cast doubt on the US Intelligence community's assignment that the Russian government tried to interview on the 2016 election by stealing files and disrupting voting systems is helped by the fact that government agencies involved with the probe relied in classified information to find the russian’s ability to meddle into the election. After a bombshell indictment of 37 pages by robert Mueller against the Russian internet research agency and it’s leader shit and affiliated provides considerable detail in the russian’s information in the Warfare targeting the American public during the elections. This information
Starting off her political career at Yale University Clinton was able to study in the field of Law, there at Yale she met her now husband Bill Clinton and changed her political stance of a Republican to a Democrat. Changing her political stance she was turned to becoming an activist for many organizations, such as, women’s rights, health care and even children’s rights, her confidence in herself showed through her activism in the community traveling to many places to advocate better peace in the world. Hillary moved to Arkansas in the late 70’s with her husband Bill who she married in 1975, her role in Arkansas ranges from being a an Advocate for Children and Families to a Legal Services firm. As Bill became president scandals of