Richard Mellon Scaife

The vast right-wing conspiracy is back The vast right-wing conspiracy is back

Some of Bill Clinton's most unhinged foes are flinging wild charges at Obama. This time, they're better organized
By Joe Conason Oct 5, 2009

  • Friends in the right places

    How the conservative media is pushing "The Truth About Hillary."
    By Ira Boudway and J.J. Helland June 21, 2005

  • Why the Senate should reject Ted Olson

    His role in the sleazy Arkansas Project is bad enough. The fact that he hasn't told the truth about it is worse.
    By Gary Kamiya May 18, 2001

  • Southern governors declare war on divorce

    But their methods ignore social science, solutions and their neediest constituents.
    By Lisa Moricoli Latham January 24, 2000

  • Whose vast conspiracy is it, anyway?

    There was a plot to get President Clinton, argues Jeffrey Toobin. It just wasn't the one you think.
    By Gary Kamiya January 18, 2000

  • Why won't Kenneth Starr release the Shaheen report?

    Imagine if the White House claimed it was exonerated by an investigation, but wouldn't release the results.
    By Joe Conason August 10, 1999

  • Shaheen draws a blank

    After a year-long probe, the Justice Department's special counsel finds "insufficient" evidence of Whitewater witness-tampering.
    By Joe Conason July 28, 1999

  • A Vincent Foster for Usenet liberals?

    A Vincent Foster for Usenet liberals? By Andrew Leonard. The mysterious death of an online debater sparks a flurry of suspicions and theories.
    By Andrew Leonard March 19, 1999

  • A dozen questions Congress should ask Kenneth Starr

    By David Talbot, Murray Waas And Joan Walsh November 18, 1998

  • The sting

    Did Kenneth Starr, Linda Tripp and Paula Jones' legal team work hand in hand to set a perjury trap for the president?
    By Mollie Dickenson October 26, 1998

  • Scaife tells why he cut off Spectator's funding

    The reclusive billionaire points the finger at fellow Arkansas Project conspirators in testimony before the grand jury.
    By Murray Waas October 1, 1998

  • Cast of characters

    Cast of characters behind the Clinton-Starr scandal
    By Salon Staff September 10, 1998

  • The Salon Report on Kenneth Starr

    We now know more than we ever wanted to about the president's private life. Here's what the public should know about the prosecutor who may drive him from office.
    By David Talbot September 10, 1998

  • The Salon Report on Kenneth Starr

    We now know more than we ever wanted to about the president's private life. Here's what the public should know about the prosecutor who may drive him from office.
    By David Talbot August 30, 1998

  • Taking care of David Hale

    A Salon investigative report reveals how Kenneth Starr's key Whitewater witness secretly hooked up with a prominent anti-Clinton attorney.
    By Murray Waas August 13, 1998

  • False Witness, Part 2

    Kenneth Starr's key witness, David Hale, lied under oath during his testimony in the Whitewater case to conceal his secret ties to conservative activists
    By Murray Waas August 13, 1998

  • False Witness, Part 1

    Salon launches "False Witness," an investigative series on David Hale, President Clinton and the untold story of Whitewater.
    By Murray Waas August 12, 1998

  • The attack judge

    One federal jurist has shocked even hardened Washington insiders by suggesting that Clinton has declared "war" on the U.S. in his battle with Ken Starr.
    By Jonathan Broder July 21, 1998

  • The American Spectator's funny money

    The American Spectator wanted to bring down Bill Clinton with its Scaife-funded Arkansas Project. Instead, the conservative magazine may have opened itself to charges of tax fraud.
    By Jonathan Broder and Joe Conason June 8, 1998

  • Vincent Foster is still with us

    Vincent Foster's suicide is the Rosetta Stone of the right-wing conspiracy industry.
    By Lori Leibovich May 28, 1998

  • Investigating a conflict

    Kenneth Starr is proposing an "independent" investigator to look into the David Hale payments probe. The question is, how independent?
    By Murray Waas May 5, 1998

  • American Spectator audit: Is the fox guarding the henhouse?

    Theodore Olson, a close friend of Kenneth Starr's and a former attorney for David Hale, heads the embattled American Spectator's crucial internal investigation.
    By Jonathan Broder April 27, 1998

  • Salon's conspiracy

    How did it get the Hale-Scaife stories, and when did it get them?
    By David Horowitz April 20, 1998
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