Comments on: Was The Reagan Administration The Most Corrupt Ever?

By: bs b

bs b — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:58 +0000

It was pretty bad. Bush beat his record for most time on vacation by a president and I do believe is working hard to beat this record as well. Reagan gets praise for the economy and his carried Carter policies to end the cold war and bring down the wall. He gets credit for things he didn’t do. His economy had no choice but to climb, even a chimp like Bush could have created a decent economy in the 80’s. It was the introduction into the techonolgy age, there was no way to go but up.

By: don c

don c — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:58 +0000

Key element to your question is
“was”
yes they certainly were
but W is doing everything he can to claim that honor now

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:58 +0000

I still have to say no. The Nixon and Clinton administrations were both more corrupt and if you go back farther I’m sure you will find others.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:57 +0000

Corruption? You’d have to talk to the Clinton’s about the definition of corruption…..

By: This name is better

This name is better — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:57 +0000

Yeah, and was the Clinton Administration the most ethical administration of the 20th Century? Is up down and down up? Is white black, and black white? If a woman was raped in the woods, has Bill Clinton left Harlem? Is Elijah the troubler of Isreal , as Ahab suggests? Whatareyouacommunistorjuststupid? Oh, yeah, and why did every indictable person from the Cliter administration die mysteriously before they could plea bargain for a bigger fish? Why did a left handed Vince Foster shoot himself with his right hand, etc?

By: rhino9jo

rhino9jo — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:57 +0000

I think Tricky Dick had the Acting President beat for crookedness in a LEGALLY elected administration. BUT NOBODY by a LONG SHOT is as crooked and evil as Dictator Dumbya!!! It isn’t close!!! Dumbya is a national disaster!!!

By: Rob P

Rob P — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:57 +0000

Oh come on! NOT Ronald Reagan!!!
It was all Oliver North’s fault - He got his own talk show did he not? Yes he did.. so the ends justified the means.

By: the_end_

the_end_ — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:57 +0000

If you are allowed to count their raping of the middle class, then yes they are the most corrupt.

By: Combatco

Combatco — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:57 +0000

No, Clinton’s administration was the most corrupt.

By: U.S.Vete

U.S.Vete — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:57 +0000

I don’t know.
nixon’s was very corrupt, as is george w. bush’s.
.

By: Trollbus

Trollbus — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:57 +0000

Learn something, hypocrite:
The Clinton Legacy
The Progressive Review
This list was compiled at the end of the Clinton administration.
Our Clinton Scandal Index
RECORDS SET
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
* According to our best information, 40 government officials were indicted or convicted in the wake of Watergate. A reader computes that there was a total of 31 Reagan era convictions, including 14 because of Iran-Contra and 16 in the Department of Housing & Urban Development scandal. 47 individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine were convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes with 33 of these occurring during the Clinton administration itself. There were in addition 61 indictments or misdemeanor charges. 14 persons were imprisoned. A key difference between the Clinton story and earlier ones was the number of criminals with whom he was associated before entering the White House.
Using a far looser standard that included resignations, David R. Simon and D. Stanley Eitzen in Elite Deviance, say that 138 appointees of the Reagan administration either resigned under an ethical cloud or were criminally indicted. Curiously Haynes Johnson uses the same figure but with a different standard in “Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years: “By the end of his term, 138 administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever.”
STARR-RAY INVESTIGATION
- Number of Starr-Ray investigation convictions or guilty pleas (including one governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton business partners): 14
- Number of Clinton Cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 5
- Number of Reagan cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 4
- Number of top officials jailed in the Teapot Dome Scandal: 3
CRIME STATS
- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton’s presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
- Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122
SMALTZ INVESTIGATION
- Guilty pleas and convictions obtained by Donald Smaltz in cases involving charges of bribery and fraud against former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and associated individuals and businesses: 15
- Acquitted or overturned cases (including Espy): 6
- Fines and penalties assessed: $11.5 million
- Amount Tyson Food paid in fines and court costs: $6 million
CLINTON MACHINE CRIMES
FOR WHICH CONVICTIONS
HAVE BEEN OBTAINED
Drug trafficking (3), racketeering, extortion, bribery (4), tax evasion, kickbacks, embezzlement (2), fraud (12), conspiracy (5), fraudulent loans, illegal gifts (1), illegal campaign contributions (5), money laundering (6), perjury, obstruction of justice.
OTHER MATTERS INVESTIGATED BY SPECIAL PROSECUTORS
AND CONGRESS, OR REPORTED IN THE MEDIA
Bank and mail fraud, violations of campaign finance laws, illegal foreign campaign funding, improper exports of sensitive technology, physical violence and threats of violence, solicitation of perjury, intimidation of witnesses, bribery of witnesses, attempted intimidation of prosecutors, perjury before congressional committees, lying in statements to federal investigators and regulatory officials, flight of witnesses, obstruction of justice, bribery of cabinet members, real estate fraud, tax fraud, drug trafficking, failure to investigate drug trafficking, bribery of state officials, use of state police for personal purposes, exchange of promotions or benefits for sexual favors, using state police to provide false court testimony, laundering of drug money through a state agency, false reports by medical examiners and others investigating suspicious deaths, the firing of the RTC and FBI director when these agencies were investigating Clinton and his associates, failure to conduct autopsies in suspicious deaths, providing jobs in return for silence by witnesses, drug abuse, improper acquisition and use of 900 FBI files, improper futures trading, murder, sexual abuse of employees, false testimony before a federal judge, shredding of documents, withholding and concealment of subpoenaed documents, fabricated charges against (and improper firing of) White House employees, inviting drug traffickers, foreign agents and participants in organized crime to the White House.
ARKANSAS ALTZHEIMER’S
Number of times that Clinton figures who testified in court or before Congress said that they didn’t remember, didn’t know, or something similar.
Bill Kennedy 116
Harold Ickes 148
Ricki Seidman 160
Bruce Lindsey 161
Bill Burton 191
Mark Gearan 221
Mack McLarty 233
Neil Egglseston 250
Hillary Clinton 250
John Podesta 264
Jennifer O’Connor 343
Dwight Holton 348
Patsy Thomasson 420
Jeff Eller 697
FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES: In the portions of President Clinton’s Jan. 17 deposition that have been made public in the Paula Jones case, his memory failed him 267 times. This is a list of his answers and how many times he gave each one.
I don’t remember - 71
I don’t know - 62
I’m not sure - 17
I have no idea - 10
I don’t believe so - 9
I don’t recall - 8
I don’t think so - 8
I don’t have any specific recollection - 6
I have no recollection - 4
Not to my knowledge - 4
I just don’t remember - 4
I don’t believe - 4
I have no specific recollection - 3
I might have - 3
I don’t have any recollection of that - 2 I don’t have a specific memory - 2
I don’t have any memory of that - 2
I just can’t say - 2
I have no direct knowledge of that - 2
I don’t have any idea - 2
Not that I recall - 2
I don’t believe I did - 2
I can’t remember - 2
I can’t say - 2
I do not remember doing so - 2
Not that I remember - 2
I’m not aware - 1
I honestly don’t know - 1
I don’t believe that I did - 1
I’m fairly sure - 1
I have no other recollection - 1
I’m not positive - 1
I certainly don’t think so - 1
I don’t really remember - 1
I would have no way of remembering that - 1
That’s what I believe happened - 1
To my knowledge, no - 1
To the best of my knowledge - 1
To the best of my memory - 1
I honestly don’t recall - 1
I honestly don’t remember - 1
That’s all I know - 1
I don’t have an independent recollection of that - 1
I don’t actually have an independent memory of that - 1
As far as I know - 1
I don’t believe I ever did that - 1
That’s all I know about that - 1
I’m just not sure - 1
Nothing that I remember - 1
I simply don’t know - 1
I would have no idea - 1
I don’t know anything about that - 1
I don’t have any direct knowledge of that - 1
I just don’t know - 1
I really don’t know - 1
I can’t deny that, I just — I have no memory of that at all - 1

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:56 +0000

Yes.
Until the bush regime, that is.

By: edubya

edubya — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:56 +0000

Well now, seems like arms, money and support for who was it…oh yea, Saddam, surly not corrupt…

By: alphabet

alphabet — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:56 +0000

No, Nixon, hands down.

By: Goldenra

Goldenra — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:56 +0000

No, when all is said and done I think that award will go to the current administration.

By: ?

Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:56 +0000

CLINTON STILL HOLDS THE TITLE (and defends it well)
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign
contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court

By: KickThem

KickThem — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:56 +0000

It’s all the same people. We’ve been ruled by the Bush crime family since the attepmt on Reagan’s life in 1981. Clinton was groomed by Bush Sr. and the Clinton’s and Bushes vacation together. That’s 28+ years under the same rule. Don’t take my word for it. Research the NWO. Don’t buy into the left/right paradigm. It’s all the same corporate whores.
Ron Paul is this countries last hope. Ron Paul in 08!

By: PATRICIA MS

PATRICIA MS — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:38:55 +0000

Bush is following in Reagan’s footsteps.
When do us citizens count ????
Thanks for all the info’.