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The Final Days: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House

by Barbara Olson

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New York Times best-selling author Barbara Olson, whose Hell to Pay laid bare the sordid political deals of Hillary Rodham Clinton, now turns her razor sharp vision on the Clintons' shocking excesses in their final days of office: the outrageous pardons to political cronies and friends, the looting of the White House, the executive orders that were sheer abuses of presidential power, the presidential library that is becoming a massive boondoggle of vanity more appropriate to a Third World dictator, and much more. This was how the Clintons chose to end their occupation of the White House, in a story whose reverberations are still shaking the political landscape.

Barbara Olson knows Washington politics from the inside -- with a depth of insight and fire-honed principled -- like few others. She has been an attorney with the Justice Department, a Congressional investigator, and a general counsel in the United States Senate. She knows the law. She knows the Constitution. She knows how power is meant to be responsibly exercised. In The Final Days she shows how the Clintons climaxed eight years of sleaze with a spree of payoffs and self-indulgence unprecedented in its vulgarity and possible illegality.

About the Author Former federal prosecutor Barbara Olson served as the Chief Investigative Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, where she spearheaded the investigation of the Clinton administration's travel office firings and eventually uncovered the explosive "filegate" scandal. She has also served as the Principal Assistant General Counsel and Solicitor to the House. A much sought-after legal analyst and commentator, she has appeared repeatedly on countless television and radio talk shows.

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2001

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Small nit: My understanding of Filegate is that it emerged from a mass of material turned over to a Senate investigating committee headed by Al D'Amato (sp?). But possibly she was involved with that committee.

Filegate was really a horrific scandal, which got only a tiny fraction of the attention it deserved from the media.

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2001