Susan McDougal Says She's Tempted To Cooperate

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Sept. 3) -- One of President Bill Clinton's Whitewater real estate partners, Susan McDougal, said she's tempted to cooperate with independent counsel Kenneth Starr who, she says, is hell bent on implicating the Clintons in criminal acts.

Mrs. McDougal, who was convicted of bank fraud last May in the first Whitewater trial along with former husband Jim McDougal and former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, was interviewed by Diane Sawyer of ABC's "Prime Time." The Washington Post obtained a partial transcript and published portions of the interview in today's editions.

"There is not one thing the independent counsel wouldn't do, wouldn't use, wouldn't try to get me to say, wouldn't try to make me say to hurt them," McDougal said, according to The Post.

McDougal, who was sentenced Aug. 20 to two years in jail, says Bill and Hillary Clinton did nothing illegal related to Whitewater, but she also skirted several of Sawyer's questions about the affair.

"It is tempting every time (Star's team) put the carrot before my eyes," McDougal said. "It's very tempting. It's tempting when I see my mother crying. When I see my family hurting."

Susan McDougal Says She's Tempted To Cooperate

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