Art Bell and how politics never change and no one is ever held accountable.

I listen to episodes of Art Bell, Coast to Coast AM, Area 2000 and Dreamland on the internet archive at archive.org. There are a ton of episodes and it is a time capsule for the events of the time. The open line callers really reflect the opinions of the time. I keep it limited to the time before Art had to start screening calls.

My favorite is his and Whitley Streiber's confrontation with remote viewer Courtney Brown about the Hale-Bopp comet companion.

But what listening to these episodes has made me realize is that... Hillary has been a problem since before the 1990s and politics will never change. The other day I was listening to an episode of Coast to Coast from the Vince Foster "suicide" era, and he was mentioning how Hillary's aides may have taken Vince Foster's files immediately after his death and how an investigation revealed that her fingerprint was on the files and all of the surrounding controversy and thoughts that Hillary may be indicted and opining whether or not Bill would just resign if Hillary got indicted or if he would pardon her, etc.

And yet, nothing. Nothing has happened to Hillary. Here are a few New York Times articles circa 1995/1996 detailing the investigation. Archive links to avoid paywall.

Republicans on the special Senate Whitewater committee released a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation today showing that the fingerprints of the First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, were found on records discovered in the White House family quarters two years after they were first sought by investigators.

The F.B.I. report also found that the documents, copies of billing records from Mrs. Clinton's work as a lawyer in Arkansas, revealed fingerprints of five others. They were Vincent W. Foster Jr., the deputy White House counsel who committed suicide in July 1993; a personal assistant to the Clintons who had also worked at Mrs. Clinton's law firm; an aide to the Clintons' current lawyer, and two other law firm aides.

This is clearly important and relevant evidence," said Michael Chertoff, the counsel for the committee's Republicans. "It clearly means she touched these records at some point in time."

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A Secret Service officer today flatly contradicted the White House account of the night of Vincent W. Foster Jr.'s death, telling the Senate Whitewater panel that he had seen Hillary Rodham Clinton's top aide remove files from Mr. Foster's office. The aide vehemently denied doing it.

Testifying under oath before the special Senate committee investigating Whitewater, the officer, Henry P. O'Neill, said that on July 20, 1993, several hours after Mr. Foster's body was found in a Virginia park, he saw Mrs. Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret A. Williams, carrying two handfuls of folders from Mr. Foster's office.

Miss Williams, who testified that she had gone to the White House that night after being called twice by the First Lady, said she had been drawn to a light in office of Mr. Foster, the deputy White House counsel, in the irrational hope that she would find her colleague still alive there.

She said that she had gone inside and wept as another aide looked for a suicide note, but that she did not remove any material from Mr. Foster's office that evening and had never been instructed to remove any files. To support her position, she produced the results of a lie-detector test she said she passed last year in response to questions by Whitewater prosecutors about what she had done.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton testified for more than four hours today before a Federal grand jury investigating whether there has been obstruction of justice at the White House in the inquiry into the First Lady's former Arkansas law firm.

With a nervous but determined smile, Mrs. Clinton emerged from the extensive grand jury session and declared, "I tried to be as helpful as I could in their investigation efforts."

It's been a long day," she said after enduring the extraordinary event of the President's wife being summoned to defend her veracity in the convoluted issue, known broadly as Whitewater, that has been intensifying in the opening weeks of a Presidential election year.

"I was glad to have the opportunity to tell the grand jury what I have been telling all of you," she told a throng of reporters [...]

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If you ever listen to old episodes of Art Bell I also think the 9/11 call in shows are interesting because over the course of a couple weeks, the majority of callers switch from being pro-war... "let's get 'em, let's kill 'em all and send a message" to anti-war, with the sentiment being "well, if we attack them it will just make them more upset because they already hate us and make them attack us more or maybe use nuclear or chemical weapons next time, so we shouldn't attack them" I think it is interesting that none of the fears of extreme retaliation by the terrorist organizations came true. No nukes, no biological or chemical warfare. Nada. No retaliation for the 20 year failed war.

Those people are totally above law.
They mock truth and justice at every turn.

"Lots of luck!"

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I love the old Art Bell shows. I have been listening to them more frequently these days.

It's like private corporations and limited liability.