Troopergate (Bill Clinton)

Troopergate is the popular name for a political controversy of the 1990s in which several Arkansas State Troopers claimed they had arranged sexual liaisons for Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton and had helped deceive his wife, First Lady of Arkansas Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The allegations by state troopers Larry Patterson and Roger Perry were first reported by David Brock in the conservative magazine American Spectator, in a piece entitled "His Cheatin' Heart" that was released in December 1993 with a magazine publication date of January 1994. Brock had found the story via a big donor to GOPAC, who connected him to Cliff Jackson, a longtime non-fan of Governor Clinton. Brock's story also included material from two other troopers who wished to remain unnamed. The same four troopers were also interviewed and their charges written about at length by the Los Angeles Times in a story published in December 1993 a day after the Spectator story came out. They also spoke on air to CNN in the same month.

The core allegations that the troopers made were that, while on official duty, they:

The troopers said that these episodes involved dozens of women, from long-running mistresses to one-off encounters. As far as they were aware, all of the women involved had been consensual involvees and that no alcohol or drugs abuse had been part of the encounters. One of the long-running group was Gennifer Flowers, who had come forward with her tale of a 12-year relationship with the governor at the start of the Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992; this had caused an early crisis in that endeavor which Clinton and his wife had to address in a televised and much-discussed 60 Minutes interview.

As for the governor and his wife, Brock wrote that, "As the troopers saw it, the Clintons’ relationship is an effective political partnership, more a business relationship than a marriage."

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