NYPost

SHAMED CRONY: BILL IS DISLOYAL

By DEBORAH ORIN

May 8, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - Disgraced Clinton associate Webster Hubbell - who was left out of the ex-president's pardon party - is now painting Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton as selfish and disloyal.

Hubbell, once No. 3 at the Justice Department, also belatedly admits he suspected Clinton was cheating on his wife years before Monica Lewinsky.

"Why everybody else but me? If you are going to take political heat for [pardoning] everyone, what is it about me that made you select me as the one who was not pardoned?" Hubbell asks in a Vanity Fair interview.

"For many years, people would say the Clintons are disloyal and I would say, 'You have to understand, they are required to do this.' So when this all happened, it forced me to say, am I in the same category?"

Hubbell's wife, Suzy, is even more blunt, telling one of her daughters: "Dad did not get pardoned. I am pissed off, and so is he."

Hubbell did 18 months in jail for defrauding clients and law partners, including Hillary, and he was threatened with new charges when he refused to spill the beans on the Clintons to independent counsel Kenneth Starr.

Asked about the report, Bill Clinton's aide Karen Tramontano said: "As they have said before, the Clintons understand that the last several years have been very difficult for the Hubbells. They sincerely hope that the years ahead will be good ones for Webb and his family."

The report says Hubbell's family was shocked when Clinton pardoned Whitewater figure Susan McDougal, fugitive Marc Rich and cocaine dealers - but not him.

Writer Marie Brenner says Hubbell refused to answer only one question: whether he was attacked in prison.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Answers

I thought they called it dating, not attacking, in prison.

Could be wrong.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001