When we see the term, “Citizens United” in the newspapers these days, it most often appears in quotation marks, referring to the January 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. That is the 5-4 decision that has opened the floodgates for money from all sorts of dubious sources to pour into the presidential campaign. Who knows if that was their purpose when Citizens United brought suit in defense of their right to air a film critical of Hillary Clinton? What I have found out about this organization, starting with my investigation into the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster in 1993, is that a better name for it might be “Certain Citizens United for Ulterior Purposes.” The article that follows, modified only slightly since I first posted it on my web site in April of 2000, explains why: