Robert Parry

In a January 1998 interview, Hillary Clinton argued that the brewing sex scandal surrounding President Bill Clinton was the product of a “vast right-wing conspiracy.” In the following viewpoint, Robert Parry argues that her contention was not far off the mark. Since 1990, conservative political opponents of Clinton have financed and publicized numerous lurid allegations of sexual and political scandals against the Arkansas governor who was elected president in 1992. Parry argues that many of the stories of Clinton’s misdeeds as governor and president have been exaggerated or even fabricated as part of an effort to discredit him and drive him from office. Their actions raise critical questions as to how scandals are created and exploited by political operatives. Parry is a journalist and editor of...