Just when you’re certain you’ve heard about and explored

every conceivable crime to which President Clinton has

been a party, another bombshell drops.

Like so many other Clinton administration scandals, this

one still hasn’t been broken in the establishment U.S.

press, but it has been covered extensively in Canadian

papers — from the Calgary Sun to the Ottawa Citizen. Those

reports have also appeared in WorldNetDaily, bringing this

story to the attention of radio talk-show hosts throughout

America.

Here’s the story: In the early 1980s, while Bill Clinton was

serving as governor of Arkansas, his administration

awarded a contract to Health Management Associates to

provide medical care to the state’s prisoners. The president

of the company was, naturally, a long-time friend and

political ally of Clinton and was later appointed by him to

the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. Later,

he was among the senior members of Clinton’s 1990

gubernatorial re-election team.

As part of the deal HMA struck with Arkansas, in addition

to treating the prisoners, the company collected their blood

and sold it. Because of the exploding AIDS crisis, U.S.

regulations didn’t permit the sale of prisoners’ blood

within the country. But HMA found a willing buyer in

Montreal, which brokered a deal with Connaught, a

Toronto blood-fractionator, which didn’t know the source

of the supplies. The blood was distributed throughout

Canada by the Red Cross. Sales continued until 1983, when

HMA revealed that some of the plasma might be

contaminated with the AIDS virus and hepatitis. The blood

was also peddled overseas.

Now the lid has been blown off this scandal by Michael

Galster, who conducted orthopedic clinics in the Arkansas

prison system during the period the blood was collected.

Afraid to tell the story any other way, Galster authored a

thinly veiled fictional book called “Blood Trail,” which

tells the story of an Arkansas governor’s role in the

mega-scandal — an Arkansas governor, by the way, who

later becomes president.

Galster charges HMA officials knew the blood was tainted

as they sold it to Canada and a half-dozen other foreign

countries. He also alleges that Clinton knew of the scheme

and likely benefited from it financially.

“We now have solid evidence he not only knew about it,

but he signed off on it,” Galster told the Calgary Sun.

Galster says Clinton organized a payoff plan to various

officials, including a judge, to make sure the blood sales

continued. He claims millions were made from the

conspiracy because between 5,000 and 8,000 units of blood

were shipped every week from one prison alone. He has

eyewitness reports that inmates were even drawing blood

from each other with dirty needles.

So fearful of the dreaded Clinton attack machine was

Galster, that he wrote the book under a pen name, Michael

Sullivan. But now, as of last week, he has gone public with

his story.

“Knowing the nature of politics in Arkansas, I felt unsafely

exposed,” said Galster.

Galster is understandably frustrated with the unwillingness

of the U.S. media to seize on this latest Clinton scandal —

even as the impeachment process begins to move forward.

“If you would just listen to all of the dying people out

there, you would understand that there are much greater

atrocities than a sexual liaison in the Oval Office,” he told

the Ottawa Citizen.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are now investigating

the blood trail, but Galster is frustrated that the FBI has not

yet conducted a probe. I have some advice for Galster on

that front: Don’t hold your breath.

If even a small percentage of Galster’s accusations are true

— and I have no doubt they are — this is criminal behavior

tantamount to mass murder. No one is certain how many

people in Canada and other foreign countries died as a

result of infections from the bad blood. It may have been

hundreds. It may be thousands.

It’s worth pointing out, however, that even if the

catastrophe was all the result of innocent mistakes, Clinton

is the president who wanted to take over the U.S.

health-care system — to nationalize it and, presumably, run

it as efficiently and humanely as he and his friends in

Arkansas did in the 1980s.

Can you imagine the kind of holocaust such a system

would have wrought on America?