DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
SECTION: THE POLITICS OF PERSONAL DESTRUCTION
SUBSECTION: GENERAL PART 2
Revised 8/20/99
Capitol Hill Blue 2/12/99 Daniel Harris ".Despite official denials, the Clinton White House has collected new dossiers, complete with financial records, FBI investigative information and IRS reports on House impeachment managers and other perceived enemies of the administration, Capitol Hill Blue has learned. "It's payback time and payback will be a bitch," one White House aide said Thursday. "This won't be a gloat-free zone. It will be a 'get even' zone." Some White House aides worry privately that the President's lust for revenge will be so great it will create a new scandal and charges of abuse of power. "I've seen FBI and IRS files on members of Congress, complete dossiers on reporters and more," one worried aide admitted. "This is really scary." . There are new files from the investigators, files from the FBI and IRS financial information on Hyde, Barr, Hutchinston and others," one source confirmed Thursday night. "We will get even." Another source said Blumenthal has been working on the campaign "at the expense of everything else. This is Sid's ballywick and he is ready to serve his President." . But privately, aides say Clinton is unrepentant and angry and wants revenge for the attempts to remove him from office. "The President doesn't feel any remorse over what has happened," one aide said, "but he is angry...very, very angry."."
Capitol Hill Blue Doug Thompson 2/12/99 ".Clinton's professional smearmeisters are gearing up a full-bore "campaign of terror" aimed directly at any and all of those he feels were out to get him. One of the first victims will be Ken Starr. Once the paperwork on the impeachment muddle is complete, Attorney General Janet Reno will fire Starr. That's about as much of a foregone conclusion as Friday's acquittal of Clinton. With Starr gone, and Republicans on the Hill scared shitless of Clinton and his goons, who stands between the felons at 1600 Pennsylvania and his future victims? Good question. The Clinton that emerges from the impeachment process is unrepentant, still unwilling to accept responsibility for his actions and ready to inflict massive amounts of pain and punishment on his long list of real and perceived enemies. In other words, the next two years are going to be a real bitch, courtesy of a vindictive President who believes strongly in payback.."
Today Show 2/12/99 Katie Couric Freeper Steven W. ".Katie Couric poses the question to James Carvile, "now that it's over James, isn't it time to bury the hatchet?" - Carvile, adamant that he's "proud (his friend) the president called on him" to wage Clinton's war of personal destruction, declares a new battle on Judge Starr, "I'll bury the hatchet - I'll bury the hatchet in his head"."
National Post 2/13/99 David Frum Freeper praise ".Mr. Clinton's plans for the future were revealed on Thursday to The New York Times by unnamed aides who spoke of the president's fury at the House that impeached him and his determination to spend the rest of his final term getting even. He will deploy his considerable fundraising powers to collecting an enormous war chest to be used against vulnerable pro-impeachment Republicans and to return the House to Democratic control in '00. For Mr. Clinton, revenge is the next order of business.."
Dallas Morning News 2/13/99 David Jackson ".The impeachment battle is over, but it's only a cease-fire in the scandal wars. Independent counsel Kenneth Starr is still investigating President Clinton and his associates on a variety of fronts, some of which could rekindle the firefight that sparked impeachment. Mr. Starr himself is also under investigation, including a Justice Department review that some Republicans suggest is payback for the Monica Lewinsky investigation. Above all looms the big question: Will Mr. Starr try to obtain a criminal indictment of President Clinton before his term expires in 2001? He has retained consultants who argue that the Constitution permits indictments of sitting presidents.. Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, criticized Justice Department news leaks about Mr. Starr. "These press accounts ... support the impression many people have that this is a partisan Justice Department," Sen. Orrin Hatch, R- Utah, wrote in a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno.."
NewsMax.com 2/14/99 ".Rep. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called alleged Clinton rape victim Juanita Broaddrick repeatedly last month as House trial managers secretly debated whether to request her testimony during the President's impeachment trial, Inside Cover has learned exclusively. "He never encouraged her to come forward," a source close to Broaddrick revealed. "But Lindsey said he wanted her to know they'd support her whatever she decided to do." A civil war has broken out among House members over whether to release secret material now stored in D.C.'s Gerald Ford Building on "Jane Does" linked to Clinton, internet sleuth Matt Drudge reported Saturday night.One Arkansas insider contacted by House staffers was told that Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott "went ballistic" at the mere mention of Broaddrick's name. But, as Inside Cover reported exclusively on Friday, House Democrat Robert Wexler has hinted that a House vote to release the explosive sealed material could come soon.."
Freeper Jolly reports on TLC Real History "The Clintons: A Marriage of Power ".I was wondering if you had heard that Lousie from the Health add Harry and Lousie, (I do not rember the actress' name) was threatened. I saw last night on TLC's Real History The Clintons: A Marriage of Power - Episode 1. They interviewed the actress and she said that people came to her and told her that she could appear in the Rose Garden and apoligize to Hillary. If she accepted it would be very good for her career, if she declined it would be bad for her career. She then went on to say that she told them she was a democrat becuase she thought only republicans acted that way."
MSNBV 2/16/99 Jonathon Broder ".AUTHOR Edward J. Epstein, a friend of Blumenthal, told MSNBC that four years ago, Hitchens questioned whether the Holocaust had ever taken place. The Anti- Defamation League, which monitors anti-Semitism around the world, says Hitchens is not a Holocaust denier, and now Hitchens, a caustic critic of President Clinton, is accusing Epstein of launching a plot to destroy his reputation and is considering legal action against him. "Why now?" Hitchens said in an interview. "I suspect it is an effort by the Clintonoids to change the subject."."
Washington Times 2/17/99 Jerry Seper Freeper A Whitewater Researcher ".EXCERPTS: "A federal judge...will rule soon on...a defamation lawsuit by a woman who accuses...Clinton of threatening to destroy her if she revealed their sexual relationship....the suit...by Dolly Kyle Browning, a longtime friend of Mr. Clinton's...accused Mr. Clinton of defamation for what she said was a long-term sexual relationship. The suit...also named White House Deputy Counsel Bruce Lindsey, White House Deputy Personnel Director Marsha Scott and Jane Mayer, a reporter for the New Yorker magazine....They are accused of trying to block...a fictionalized account of the affair titled "Purposes of the Heart."...Mrs. Browning said Clinton operatives threatened to "destroy" her if she pursued publication of her book....Mrs. Browning's attorney, Larry Klayman, president of Judicial Watch...said he was "confident" the case would proceed..."Congress was unwilling to do the job, but Dolly will," he said, referring to the Senate's acquittal of Mr. Clinton on...the impeachment trial brought on by the Monica Lewinsky scandal...."
Newsmax 2/15/99 Debra J. Saunders ".How threatening Rogan's probity must be to Bill Clinton. You can see why Clinton, the most powerful man in the world, would want to hound out of office this two-term congressman from Glendale. The sight of Rogan's uprightness must rankle Clinton the way Snow White's looks got to her wicked stepmother. The chilling truth, at the moment when Americans can sigh with relief at the end of the trial, is that this president won't be satisfied with acquittal. He'll set out to bury the likes of Rogan. Whatever happens, scalp or no scalp, at least he won't be able to bring Rogan down to his level.."
Freeper report on The O'Reilly Factor 2/18/99 ".On the O'Reilly Factor tonight, Mary Frances Berry of the Civil Rights Commission was accusing the House Managers of being against civil rights for minorities. This, I believe, is simply a covert way of calling them racists. Bill O'Reilly insisted that she give one specific example (in regards to Henry Hyde). She just kept filabustering with generalities until O'Reilly cut her off and told her she must answer his questions, and could not fillabuster; especially since she was accusing people of pretty nasty stuff. After the break Ms. Berry was gone. She decided not to continue the interview.."
Washington Times 2/19/99 Greg Pierce ".President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton have already launched a campaign of vengeance against one of the most liberal Republicans in the House, The Washington Post reports. Rep. Jack Quinn, a New York Republican who had been friendly with Mr. Clinton, infuriated the the president when he decided to vote for impeachment back in December. "Clinton pointedly snubbed Quinn's outstretched hand after delivering his State of the Union Address and even more pointedly flew to Buffalo the next day for a huge rally in Quinn's district," said reporter Michael Grunwald. "Behind the scenes at the rally, Hillary Rodham Clinton asked several local Democrats about Quinn's prospects in 2000 and promised to campaign for whoever faced him," the reporter said.."
UPI 2/11/99 ".House impeachment manager Rep. Chris Cannon, R- Utah, fumed (Thursday) over a New York Times report that President Clinton plans to target his impeachment foes in the 2000 election. "This is the height of arrogance, this is the very arrogance of power," Cannon announced."
UPI S 2/11/99 ".Senate Republican leader Trent Lott (Thursday) objected to a New York Times story that claims President Clinton plans to retaliate against congressional Republicans for their impeachment efforts by working to unseat as many of them as possible in the 2000 elections. Lott issued this statement: ``It is deeply troubling that the president views closure of this constitutional process as an opportunity for revenge.'' ."
Cspan 2/20/99 Freeper LYNXCry reports ".On Cspan a panel was discussing Privacy and the Press, and Joe Conason was slamming Drudge, when Dick Morris jumped in and said "that is the third time you have slammed Drudge and I think we need to let people know that you are a Whitehouse lackey Mr. Conason." Conason fired back at Morris and the gloves were off. Morris tried to say that Conason had called him when Clinton was running for President in 96 to get some dirt to dish out to clintons opponents and Conason called Morris a liar. They continued to take shots at each other, with Conason telling Morris that he "may have more dirt on Morris (he reported the Morris scandal a few years back ). Morris challenged "go ahead, there is nothing to report". ."
Zola Times 2/22/99 Wesley Phelan "...In 1996, shortly after the publication of Unlimited Access, Gary Aldrich appeared on "This Week" with David Brinkley. The panelists derided Aldrich's claims that security had broken down in the Clinton White House. After the show, ABC and other networks canceled their remaining interviews with Aldrich. Elizabeth Vargas rounded out the media attack, stating on "Good Morning America" that Aldrich was under fire for "what appears to be sloppy reporting." [1] George Stephanopoulos, a senior adviser to the President, had attempted before the program to convince ABC to cancel its invitation to Aldrich. He accused Aldrich of being a "tool" in a right-wing plot "to destroy" the President. He said that Bob Dole, Clinton's opponent in the 1996 presidential election, had "a responsibility to repudiate him or he is complicit in this campaign of character assassination". Aldrich's claims, according to Stephanopoulos, were "vicious", "totally preposterous", "absurd" and "outrageous". [2] Now, two-and-a-half years later, any reasonably informed person knows who is guilty of "sloppy reporting" and who is "vicious", "totally preposterous", "absurd", and "outrageous". On January 12 of this year Ms. Vargas interviewed Larry Flynt on "Good Morning America." She allowed him to air charges against Congressman Bob Barr, pausing only momentarily to note that it "might be a stretch" to imagine that Flynt was a White House tool. [3] Stephanopoulos, for his part, has been sanctioned by a federal judge for not telling the truth in a deposition to Judicial Watch. [4] Vindication is sweet..."
Weekly Standard 8/4/97 Thomas M. DeFrank and Thomas Galvin "...When he started investigating President Clinton 's Whitewater dealings, Jim Leach knew he wouId be playing hardball. But the Iowa Republican never expected to see Jack Palladino lurking around his house. But there Palladino was, scoping out Leach's Northwest Washington premises one evening as the congressman arrived home in 1994. Palladino, a San Francisco private detective who had been paid more than $100,000 by the Clinton campaign in 1992 to deal with what Clinton intimate Betsey Wright called "bimbo eruptions," quickly scurried away, and Leach never went public with what he saw. But the House Banking Committee chairman privately told colleagues the intended message was clear: You mess with us, we'll mess with you. William Clinger got the same treatment. When the now-retired Pennsylvania Republican congressman was probing Commerce secretary Ron Brown's business dealings in 1995, a New Jersey detective named Louis Stephens suddenly started snooping around. Stephens had been hired by Brown's ex-business partner and mistress Nolanda Hill to button up Clinger's sources. About the same time, a member of Clinger's staff got a call from a reporter working on a Clinger profile. She'd been tipped by a supposedly solid source that Clinger was a wife-abuser who'd once viciously pushed his spouse down a flight of stairs in a rage..... "Can I prove it was the White House behind the story? No," concedes a well-informed source. "Do I think it was them? Absolutely. They do have a pattern of getting into your past." ....The president's impressive people skills and abundant personal charm mask a streak of political cold- bloodedness and score-settling worthy of a Mario Puzo novel. That's particularly true in the way he and his lieutenants deal with anyone-critic or innocent victim alike-who poses a potential menace to the massive effort to keep the lid on the various scandals dogging Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, and his administration...."
Weekly Standard 8/4/97 Thomas M. DeFrank and Thomas Galvin "...The most successful hit so far by Clinton's team was delivered on Gary Aldrich, author of Unlimited Access, a kiss-and-tell memoir of his days as an FBI agent posted to the Clinton White House that sent the president's men into orbit. When ABC invited Aldrich onto This Week last summer, Clinton aides went to red alert to try to get the interview scrubbed. Chief of staff Leon Panetta called ABC's veep for news to complain. Former congressman Tony Coelho leaned on a Brinkley producer, Capital Cities/ABC president Robert Iger got a call, and so did Michael Ovitz, then president of ABC's parent corporation, Disney. Democratic party chairman Chris Dodd and White House press secretary Mike McCurry hit the phones as well. The message was identical: Aldrich was a Clinton hating conservative nut case whose book wasn't worthy of network air time. ABC officials say it was the most aggressive and heavy-handed attempt to muzzle a presidential critic since the government went to court to block publication of the Pentagon papers...."
CBS radio network 3/1/99 Feeper meandog reports "…Heard this morning that Hustler huckster Larry Flynt was threatening to "out" television news anchors if they keep reporting on Larry's "beloved president's" sex habits…."
UPI 3/3/99 Freeper Brian Mosely "…Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt plans to detail the sexual escapades of as many as 21 congressional Republicans in a special 84-page report in the magazine's April 6 edition. Hustler editors told The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, (Wednesday) that the exposes include at least one senator and one House impeachment manager who continued their relationships during the impeachment and trial of President Clinton…."
WorldNetDaily 2/16/99 Charlton Heston at Harvard "…. I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural war that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart. I fear you no longer trust the pulsing lifeblood of liberty inside you ... the stuff that made this country rise from wilderness into the miracle that it is. Let me back up. About a year ago I became president of the National Rifle Association, which protects the right to keep and bear arms. I ran for office, I was elected, and now I serve ... I serve as a moving target for the media who've called me everything from "ridiculous" and "duped" to a "brain-injured, senile, crazy old man." I know ... I'm pretty old ... but I sure thank the Lord ain't senile. As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated. For example, I marched for civil rights with Dr. King in 1963 -- long before Hollywood found it fashionable. But when I told an audience last year that white pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone else's pride, they called me a racist. I've worked with brilliantly talented homosexuals all my life. But when I told an audience that gay rights should extend no further than your rights or my rights, I was called a homophobe. I served in World War II against the Axis powers. But during a speech, when I drew an analogy between singling out innocent Jews and singling out innocent gun owners, I was called an anti-Semite…."
Roll Call Online: News Scoops Via Drudge Report 4/20/99 Ed Henry "...Female conservative pundits are running scared from Playboy magazine, which is trying to do a story on the blond, leggy stars of political chat shows. ....But one conservative told HOH that the women are "fleeing in terror," out of a fear that the mag is developing a story charging that the gals are hypocrites for preaching conservative values while using sex appeal to get on TV..... John Fund, a writer on the Wall Street Journal editorial board, huffed that "feminist and liberal pundits would never be treated this way." ...."
The American Spectator 5/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman "...When I exposed the efforts of Defense Secretary William Perry to help the Chinese buy highly sensitive U.S. telecommunications gear over the objections of the National Security Agency ("Peking Pentagon," April 1996), Perry threatened to sue this magazine for defamation. Instead, he called prominent conservatives to his office in an attempt to organize a counter-attack against me. Meanwhile, I learned, photocopies of my article were being passed around gleefully behind Perry's back. ..."
New Republic 5/24/99 Jacob Heilbrunn "...It appears also that the Cox committee report contains new information about China's exploitation of the Clinton administration's willingness to allow American companies to sell the Chinese dual-use technology. Starting in 1993, with the support of then-Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, American firms began to promote the sale of computers and other high technology to China. The question is whether these firms were, in the process, also giving the Chinese dual-use technology--technology that arguably should be kept from the Chinese since, although it can be used for relatively benign purposes, it can also be used to achieve military ends. In particular, the Cox committee report apparently takes a close look at the sale of high-performance computers to China and whether these computers were used by the Chinese in modeling the miniaturized W-88 warhead..... On April 12, Notra Trulock, a senior Energy Department intelligence official, testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee that in July 1997--on the eve of Clinton's summit with Chinese President Jiang Zemin--he had alerted Sandy Berger to his suspicions of ongoing Chinese espionage in American labs. Trulock has said that he didn't get much of a response. Indeed, about the only thing Berger appeared to do "swiftly" in response to Trulock's allegations was to have his deputy, Gary Samore, commission an alternative study from the CIA about other ways--apart from stealing from the United States--the Chinese might have developed certain technologies. Not surprisingly, the CIA study was later used to cast doubt on Trulock's concerns..... But Trulock, in his congressional testimony, complained that Energy Department officials "strenuously resisted" implementing PDD-61. Then-Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Moler has maintained that Trulock's allegations are "absolutely false" and that the department did implement changes. Unfortunately, given the secrecy still surrounding the underlying events, this amounts to a high-level he-said-she-said dispute, and, at least until the Cox committee report is declassified--and maybe not even then--it's impossible to know exactly what occurred. .....Specifically, Kennedy points to an April 8 Times article by Gerth and James Risen that alleged Berger had learned about the theft of neutron bomb data as early as April 1996. "Four people at the meeting don't recall Berger being told," says Kennedy. But Gerth stands by the story. When I explained to Gerth that the White House was now targeting him by name, he read to me portions of an April 20 letter he had sent to National Security Council spokesman David Leavy in response to White House complaints about the April 8 story. Gerth wrote: "[N]o one knows precisely what transpired because the meeting was apparently not transcribed. Our reporting relied on officials who were present or had used materials present at the briefing. Moreover, one of our sources spoke to us with the knowledge and approval of the White House. We did not include this in the story ... because we did not want to point a finger at the White House as disclosing a highly classified briefing." ....."
New York Times 5/11/99 "....Recounting a tale of intrigue with mysterious meetings at smoky restaurants, hotel lounges and karaoke bars in Hong Kong, the fund-raiser, Johnny Chung, provided his first public account of his experiences, from 1994 to 1996, as he traveled the Far East prospecting for business clients eager for access to the Clinton Administration..... It was the Democrats from Chung's party who turned on Chung, bitterly denouncing him as an untrustworthy witness. "You've had your 15 minutes, Mr. Chung," said Representative Tom Lantos, Democrat of California. "You are a very minor, insignificant puppet of the Communist regime." Representative Henry Waxman, Democrat of California, accused Chung of providing the authorities with misleading accounts of his dealings with Hazel O'Leary, the former Energy Secretary, and Margaret Williams, a former White House aide, who were investigated before they were cleared of wrongdoing. Chung said that after investigators focused on him, he was offered money to keep him from cooperating with Federal authorities and was introduced to a Los Angeles lawyer, David E. Brockway, who Chung said would help him if he kept his silence. But after Tuesday's hearing, the lawyer denied Chung's account. "He's a huckster and a hustler," Brockway said in a telephone interview. "It's a lie." ..."
Freeper paul in cape reports 5/11/99 on Kathleen Willey on Hardball with Chris Matthews "...Opening statement - she expects to be verbally attacked starting after tonight's show ..." Truthkeeper adds "...She says Mickey Kantor is the one who applied pressure to Julie Hiatt Steele re: the flaky adoption of her kid...."
Washington Times 5/12/99 Jerry Seper "...A defiant Johnny Chung told a House committee yesterday of cash gifts for President Clinton's re-election campaign, of threats by the Chinese to his family if he didn't keep his mouth shut, and of hush money to defend himself if he did. The exact language of the threats was imprecise and polite, he said, but he got the message loud and clear that he would cooperate with the FBI and the Justice Department only at great risk. "The message was as follows: If you keep your mouth shut, you and your family will be safe," the one-time Democratic fund-raiser said At one point, the FBI believed the threat was serious enough to hide Chung and his family in a California hotel for three weeks.....Chung, who admitted last year as part of a plea agreement to making illegal donations to the Democratic Party, told the committee the threat and the hush money offer for attorneys' fees came from Robert Luu, a Chinese-American he first met in Beijing and whom he later met in Los Angeles -- while the FBI listened on a body microphone he wore and watched on a hidden camera. He said Mr. Luu represented himself as being in touch with a Chinese general who had earlier given Chung $300,000 for President Clinton's re-election campaign. The threat, he said, was veiled. "The Chinese are more polite and indirect, so the words do not precisely translate. . . . Nevertheless, this was how I interpreted the meaning of the words. Essentially, the message that I believe I was given was that me and my family would be safe if I didn't talk, and if I did talk, I could not be *certain what would happen," Chung said. In describing the threat, Chung said Mr. Luu told him he was in contact with "some people from Beijing," that he had received money from Chinese officials "to take care of my legal expenses, and that the lawyer, David Brockway, "was connected and knew the No. 3 person" at the Justice Department. Chung said Mr. Luu also told him that he might be able to get himself a presidential pardon. Chung testified that Mr. Luu said he was connected to Liu Chao-ying, a Chinese aerospace executive and lieutenant colonel in the People's Liberation Army.... "
Reuters 5/31/99 "...House Republican Leader Dick Armey of Texas blasted filmmaker Spike Lee again Sunday for his ``totally outrageous'' comment that the president of the National Rifle Association Charlton Heston should be shot. ``Charlton Heston does not deserve that kind of a cheap shot from this second-rate movie producer,'' Armey told Fox News Sunday. Lee, asked what he would do to combat violence in the United States, was quoted in Saturday's New York Post as saying the NRA should be disbanded and Heston should be shot ``with a .44-caliber Bulldog'' magnum pistol...."
Judicial Watch 6/1/99 "...Last week, at the height of the Chinagate scandal, the infamous Craig Livingstone returned to testify in Judicial Watch's $90 million dollar Filegate class action lawsuit. While the deposition is not complete, in six hours of testimony he broke new ground. First, it is now even clearer than ever that he was hired by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Based on his testimony, one can only conclude he was not fit for the job of head of the Office of White House Personnel Security. Second, Livingstone confirmed that the FBI files which he and others improperly procured are still at the White House, as they have been archived. This buttresses Judicial Watch's conviction that they were used to smear political and other adversaries as late at the Lewinsky scandal. Third, the former bar bouncer now claims a religious conversion, regretting aspects of his past life, including his threats to bash in the face of his next door neighbor, a feat which earned him a police report. Livingstone took umbrage at this, and testified that his neighbor was on a terror campaign to harass him, and that he really threatened to bash in the face of her dog. Fourth, Livingstone implicated James Carville in likely false testimony. When Carville was deposed, he stated that he could not remember meeting Livingstone, except for one time at the Palm Restaurant in Washington. At that encounter, Carville recounted that Livingstone came up to him and Carville asked, "Do I know you?" Livingstone says that, in fact, the two had contact during prior Clinton campaigns, and has an entirely different account of the story at the Palm. Given Carville's smear operation during the Lewinsky scandal, his contact with the White House over the Lewinsky scandal, his complicity with the President in releasing the Willey letters in violation of the Privacy Act, and statements by the daughter of Larry Flynt that her father may have had access to FBI files through Carville, the prior contact with Livingstone is significant. Incredibly, at the Palm, Livingstone told Carville, "...you're really doing a good job out there."...."
Investor's Business Daily 6/3/99 Editorial "...Energy Secretary Bill Richardson promised last weekend that heads would roll over the Chinese spying scandal. Earlier in May, Attorney General Janet Reno said the same thing. Is the White House finally taking responsibility? Don't bet on it. Richardson and Reno are engaging in typical Clinton-style accountability: Blame someone else. Richardson is in a tough spot. He took over a department that seemed to have scant interest in guarding U.S. nuclear technology. But Richardson has been a part of the Clinton administration long enough to learn the playbook. And blaming underlings is this White House's favorite pastime - one begun as early as 1993 over the Whitewater land deal When the White House-China fund-raising scandal blew up, the administration finally gave up a trio of stooges: John Huang, Johnny Chung and Charlie Trie. Even though they were charged with crimes ranging from obstructing investigations to illegal fund-raising, it appears that none will go to prison. Is that their reward for protecting the president? When the White House was found to have more than 1,100 FBI personnel files, administration officials pointed fingers at the Secret Service. The Clintons, they implied, were above digging for dirt on political opponents. The Secret Service immediately proved it hadn't been involved. The president once called Webster Hubbell his best friend....James McDougal, an ex-business partner of the president who died in prison, was convicted for his role in Whitewater. He protected the Clintons in court. Yet he implicated them while in prison. Susan McDougal, his wife, spent months in jail because she refused to testify before a grand jury. Her refusal proved to many that she had information on the guilt of the president. In April she was found not guilty of obstructing justice. The Clintons are like Mafia dons. They run the show but insulate themselves from the dirty work. When the heat's turned up, they expect their subordinates and associates to take the bullets intended for them...."
NewsMax.com 6/4/99 "...Reacting to Spike Lee's suggestion two weeks ago that NRA President Charlton Heston should be shot, Georgia Congressman Bob Barr has made a formal request that the movie maker be held officially accountable. Inside Cover has exclusively obtained a copy of a letter written by Barr regarding Lee's comment, which was sent to Navy Secretary Richard Danzig on Thursday. In it, the congressman asks the U.S. Navy to deep-six a seven figure deal it cut with the shoot-from-the-lip filmmaker earlier this year. Barr told Danzig: "According to press reports, the United States Navy has chosen to contract with filmmaker Spike Lee to direct the filming of a series of recruiting commercials. "It is bad enough that Spike Lee has a history of promoting racial division at every opportunity. However, his recent public comment that Charlton Heston should be shot for defending the Second Amendment is beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. "I request the Navy immediately cancel any contract with Spike Lee. Surely, in a nation with such a diverse array of talented directors and producers, the United States Navy can do better than choosing a divisive hate monger such as Spike Lee to direct its recruiting commercials." ... But Lee's "Shoot Heston" remark, along with his lucrative Navy deal, has drawn little media outrage to date. But for the efforts of New York talk radio host Steve Malzberg, who focused on Lee's remarks after the New York Post covered them deep inside their May 22 edition, the story would have likely disappeared. Malzberg's news judgement was vindicated when House Majority Leader Dick Armey took notice last week and sent out a press release denouncing Spike Lee's comments. Thus far Rep. Barr, a longtime defender of the Second Amendment and frequent ally of the National Rifle Association, is the only member of Congress to call on the Navy to remove the incendiary film maker from the taxpayers' payroll...."
UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE Garry Wills "...On the day when Bill Clinton testified to the Starr grand jury about Monica Lewinsky, Lanny Davis, his ally and one-time aide, appeared on the MSNBC network. When a criticism of the president by Gov. George W. Bush of Texas was quoted to him, Davis shot back in an ill-considered way: "I was in college with George Bush Jr., and if we start seeing smug, sanctimonious comments from political officials, especially Governor Bush, throwing stones in glass houses, I think everyone is going to be at risk." After a break in the show, Davis admitted he had no basis for this comment. "I admitted I just lashed out because I was under stress." But he still finds that people believed his first comment and not his second one. In the immediate aftermath of the show, he received approximately 200 phone calls from reporters and others wanting to get the dirt on Bush. The fact that people are still scrounging for gossip from Davis shows that they have not been able to turn up any other source of scandal. He regrets that the very thing he was criticizing in Clinton's foes is what Democrats now want him to indulge in with Bush...."
6/7/99 Judicial Watch "....Last Friday, Judicial Watch took the long awaited deposition of Bernard Nussbaum, the White House Counsel who presided over Travelgate and Filegate. In six hours of testimony in its Filegate class action lawsuit, where Hillary Clinton is a defendant, Nussbaum at times gave candid testimony.... Among the matters Nussbaum revealed or confirmed were: 1. Virtually the entire upper echelon of the White House Counsel's Office was hired at the recommendation of Hillary Clinton, including Vince Foster and Bill Kennedy, who oversaw Craig Livingstone and Anthony Marceca of Filegate fame. This supports Linda Tripp's and others' testimony and/or statements that Livingstone bragged about being hired by Mrs. Clinton. It also supports statements by Dick Morris and others that Hillary is the mastermind of Filegate. Nussbaum added that Mrs. Clinton had close contact with Foster, and was seen in the office on a number of occasions. Deborah Gorham, Foster's secretary, testified the day before that Mrs. Clinton had Foster water her plants. 2. Linda Tripp, who worked for Nussbaum, is an honest person. This confirms the truthfulness of her testimony that FBI files were misused in the White House Counsel's Office. 3. While not admitting that Filegate occurred, Nussbaum's testimony buttresses Tripp's, by confirming that certain key events took place.... 4. The '92 Clinton campaign tried to have Gennifer Flowers prosecuted for alleged false statements, and it clearly had an investigative element -- supporting the exact "mentality" of Filegate. 5. Nussbaum saw files of the same color and in the same place as Tripp saw in Kennedy's office and other key places. These files were identified by Tripp as FBI files, and many were of Republicans....."
Capitol Hill Blue 6/7/99 "....Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Shelby Sunday disputed an accusation by an energy department official that he had missed important nuclear security briefings. Energy Department Director of Counter-Intelligence Edward Curran said last Sunday that Congress had failed to allocate money to plug security holes, that Shelby never bothered to attend classified briefings about the problem and that Shelby's staff would not attend a CIA briefing on ``sensitive cases.'' Shelby acknowledged on NBC's ``Meet the Press'' program he had not met Curran on every occasion but said top Republican and Democratic committee staffers had attended the briefings. The Alabama Republican said Energy Secretary Bill Richardson called him last week and, while not directly apologizing for Curran's comments, ``indicated that it shouldn't have happened and it would never happen again.'' Calling Curran's comments ``off base,'' Shelby said Curran and Richardson were both expected to testify this week before his committee, which is examining lapses in U.S. nuclear security at the energy department that a congressional report says allowed China to obtain important secrets. ``But the main thing is we wish Mr. Curran well in his job,'' said Shelby. ``He's got a lot of experience and qualifications. I hope the pressure will not overwhelm him.'' ......Shelby disputed Richardson's assertion last week that the department's nuclear laboratories were now safe from unauthorized infiltration....."
Manchester Union-Leader 6/8/99 Joseph W. McQuail "...Just what is up with the Democratic Party and its obsession with tape-recording private conversations? A couple of years ago, it was then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich whose confidential telephone chat with fellow Republicans was illegally taped (and broadcast). Last week, right here in New Hampshire, Republican Presidential hopeful John Kasich got a taste of the tape..... Gingrich was at least talking with fellow politicians, about political matters. But Kasich's private meeting (it was purposely not put on his public schedule) was with women recovering from drug addiction. The meeting at the Odyssey Family Center was secretly taped by a woman who spies on Republican Presidential candidates for the Democrats - a fact the Democrats do not dispute. Infringing on the privacy of others, Kasich said, is "the worst kind of opposition research." ...."
WALL STREET JOURNAL, Michael Ledeen, 6/10/99 "...Shortly before Chinese President Jiang Zemin's arrival in Washington in the fall of 1997, the White House was pushing the State, Defense and Energy departments to support a presidential certification of China as a nuclear nonproliferator and to sign off on the creation of an "information exchange and technical cooperative reciprocal arrangement" on ostensibly civilian nuclear technology. This arrangement would give the Chinese easy access to American civil reactor sites, provide them with detailed information on how the U.S. handles fissionable materials, and give them access to operational data on U.S. nuclear sites. Jonathan Fox, an attorney on the arms-control staff of the Defense Special Weapons Agency, wrote a memo stating with certainty that China was a nuclear proliferator and that the proposed arrangement was "a technology transfer agreement swaddled in the comforting yet misleading terminology of a confidence-building measure. On Oct. 24, 1997, Mr. Fox was called out of an interagency meeting to receive an urgent telephone call. According to three people to whom he gave a contemporaneous account of the phone conversation, he was given an ultimatum from superiors in the Office of Non-Proliferation Policy in the Department of Defense: either revise the memo and recommend in favor of the agreement, or look elsewhere for employment. (Mr. Fox himself declined to comment on the matter.) Within an hour, all the critical language had been deleted, and the memo now simply concluded that the agreement "is not inimical to the common defense or the security of the United States." Worried that his earlier draft might fall into unfriendly hands, Mr. Fox's superiors insisted that somebody else sign the new memo. ...."
WALL STREET JOURNAL, Michael Ledeen, 6/10/99 "...Mr. Fox is not the only weapons expert in the government to have been instructed to lie or remain silent about the true consequences of sending military technology to China. Notra Trulock and his colleagues were told by their superiors at the Department of Energy hat they should stop annoying people with accounts of Chinese espionage at Los Alamos. Similarly, professionals in the Pentagon such as Michael Maloof and Peter Leitner were told to keep quiet about the approval of high-tech licenses that would strengthen Chinese military power. Both of them spoke out; others remain silent. But even when the professionals stick by their principles, their superiors have chosen to substitute facts with politically expedient disinformation. On at least two occasions, military experts who argued against high-tech exports to China later discovered that their recommendations had been altered in the Pentagon's computerized data base...."
Washington Times 6/11/99 Donald Lambro "...The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has begun a sweeping search of government correspondence by 10 Republican senators who are up for re-election. GOP officials call it an attempt to dig up political dirt, a charge the DSCC denies. The targeted GOP senators complain that the unusual governmentwide Freedom of Information Act request risks disclosing personal information contained in constituent casework letters. They also fear it will have a "chilling" effect on the right of people with personal problems to privately write their lawmakers seeking assistance with the government..... "This is tantamount to the taxpayers paying for opposition research and to engage in a dirty tricks campaign," said a Senate GOP leadership official..... Another DSCC target, Sen. Conrad Burns, Montana Republican, took to the Senate floor Tuesday to denounce the practice and to demand that President Clinton "put an immediate stop to this and any similar action." "What we are witnessing is an unprecedented attempt to corrupt the nonpolitical casework system of Senate offices for political gain," Mr. Burns said. "I find these efforts repugnant, and if there are any Americans alive who think politics can't sink any lower, they need look no further than the DSCC." Other targeted GOP senators were equally outraged. "This is the politics of personal destruction. This is FBI Filegate II," said Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania....."
Portland Press Herald (Maine) 6/13/99 Steve Campbell "... Sen. Olympia Snowe is crying foul over a tactic used by the Democratic Party to investigate her record in advance of next year's election. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has mailed a letter to the major departments in the Clinton administration, asking for information on Snowe and nine other Senate Republicans who are up for re-election in 2000. The Democratic letter requests that federal agencies turn over "all direct correspondence between the senators or members of their staff . . . including letters, written material, reports, constituent requests and other relevant information." "I also request that you state the specific legal and factual grounds for withholding any documents or portions of documents," wrote Alexis L. Schuler, research director for the Democratic group. Schuler said she is "gathering information for research purposes only," under the Freedom of Information Act. But like other Republicans on the list, Snowe said the letter was improper. This marks "a disappointing new low in political tactics that could jeopardize the privacy of constituents who are seeking help in dealing with the federal government," Snowe said. "I hope that Democratic officials will put an end to this practice, and reassure the American people that politics will not bear on these private casework issues." ...."
NewsMax.com 6/15/99 "...What happened to Georgia Rep. Bob Barr's complaint to the U.S. Navy over film director Spike Lee's outrageous advice that NRA chief Charlton Heston should be shot? Lee has a $2.5 million contract with the Navy to do six recruiting commercials, which Barr would like to see terminated in light of Lee's outburst about Heston. The pro-Second Amendment congressman was so offended that he fired off a letter to Navy Secretary Richard Danzig almost two weeks ago, which Inside Cover reported exclusively.... But on Monday, three days after Lt. Staggs said that Danzig would respond personally to the congressman, Barr's press office was unaware of any such reply...."
Wall St. Journal 6/16/99 Editorial "…At this juncture, the news that Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr is sticking to his mandate and will issue a final report on the Clintons would appear to be no news at all. But to some commentators Mr. Starr remains a clear and present danger to the Republic, and so the campaign to delegitimize the Independent Counsel continues unabated among the co-dependents. In point of fact--facts still mattering in most legal and press circles--Mr. Starr is bound by law to issue a final report….While a normal prosecutor is indeed supposed to shut up if he decides not to indict, the whole thrust of the Independent Counsel law has been that when an allegation concerns high officials, there may be some things that the public should know, even if you don't have a criminal violation that you think can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt…."
Washington Weekly 6/28/99 Marvin Lee "...Congressman Bob Barr (R-GA) on Friday filed suit in federal district court in Washington, DC against the Clinton White House for illegally requesting from the FBI and illegally transferring to publisher Larry Flynt, spinmeister James Carville, and reporter Dan Moldea, his FBI file. Flynt, Carville, and Moldea subsequently used information, which Barr contends must have been obtained from his FBI file, in an attempt to discredit him in his capacity as a critic of the White House. Also named in the lawsuit is the Clinton Justice Department for acceding to the illegal White House request for Barr's confidential FBI file. Barr contends that both the White House and the Justice Department violated the Privacy Act and asks for compensatory and punitive damages as well as attorney's fees. Barr is represented by Judicial Watch, which is already litigating a "Filegate" lawsuit on behalf of others whose FBI files were misused by the White House....."
The Miami Herald 6/25/99 Steve Bousquet "...FBI agents have questioned current and former employees and are scrutinizing the books of MWI Corp., a politically active Deerfield Beach company that sold water pumps to Nigeria with millions of dollars in loans backed by American taxpayers. The federal investigation revives interest in the company's past ties to Jeb Bush, who, long before becoming governor, was a partner with MWI President David Eller in a water pump marketing company, Bush-El Trading Corp., that did business worldwide, including in Africa. The Bush-Eller connection was an issue in the governor's race last year..... The FBI probe takes on political implications at a time when Bush's older brother, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, is seeking the Republican presidential nomination. Eller, a leading GOP fund-raiser in Florida, has contributed $1,000 to the elder Bush's campaign....."
POLITICS OF PERSONAL DESTRUCTION – Threats/Beatings
POLITICS OF PERSONAL DESTRUCTION
POLITICS OF PERSONAL DESTRUCTION
WorldNetDaily.com 7/13/99 Stephan Archer "…A tip-off by an anonymous informer to Judicial Watch has led the legal watchdog to believe that both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice have been keeping a computer database on pro-life leaders. Concerned about the existence of such a database, Larry Klayman, the chairman and general counsel of Judicial Watch, filed a Freedom of Information Act request at the end of March with both the FBI and Justice Department. The FOIA request had asked for all documents and records relating to VA-AP-CON, the database in question that is maintained by the FBI. Because no documents have been turned over to Judicial Watch, the group filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Justice Department and the FBI last Friday….. In the initial FOIA request back in March, Judicial Watch specifically asked for any databases containing biographical or other information on pro-life leaders and organizations including, but not limited to, Dr. Wanda Franz, Randall Terry, Judith Brown, the American Life League and the National Right to Life Committee…. The Freedom of Information Act only allows for a maximum 10-day extension to the 20-day deadline for producing requested documents. It is because of this clear violation of time in responding to Judicial Watch's FOIA request that the organization has filed suit against the FBI and Justice Department. Regarding this most recent case against the FBI and Justice Department, Klayman said, "The Clinton administration has used and continues to use the FBI as a political weapon against its perceived adversaries. We've seen this in spades in our $90 million Filegate lawsuit. Now, we understand that the Clinton Administration is keeping a FBI database on prominent Americans and other citizens who happen to be active in the pro-life movement and who believe it is wrong to kill unborn children." …"
WorldNetDaily 7/9/99 Larry Klayman "…The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce, a 331-page manifesto and brainchild of Associate White House Counsel Jane Sherburne and the DNC, was circulated to select reporters in a tortured effort to describe how the "right wing" conveyed "fringe" stories into mainstream American media. In essence, this document was an effort to "alert" friendly journalists that such a "conspiracy" was being promulgated by certain groups dissatisfied with the moral lapses of the Clinton White House. In short, it was an enemies list. …In December 1994, Associate White House Counsel Sherburne prepared a memorandum that outlined strategies to use against individuals and organizations perceived to be adversaries of the Clinton Administration. The memo also assigned staff members to carry out these strategies -- and specifically identified the Western Journalism Center for having investigated Foster's death. WJC was the only news organization targeted for action. ….Over the course of the investigation of WJC, nearly 20 conservative organizations -- including the Heritage Foundation, NRA and Citizens Against Government Waste -- felt the close, touch of the Clinton audit machine. Even more oddly, the media who knew of the Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce never saw any pattern developing that would signify an orchestrated White House effort -- much less actually troubled themselves to report it. Meanwhile, the WJC's offices were being broken into, with, mysteriously, nothing stolen. Their phone messages were apparently being monitored, and some of these developments happened to coincide with WJC breakthroughs in Clinton investigations. The scrutiny of the WJC by the IRS lasted nine months. WJC employees lost their jobs and livelihoods. Finally, in October 1996, Farah exposed these corrupt practices in a piece in The Wall Street Journal, and the tide began to turn. Margaret Milner-Richardson, IRS commissioner and close friend of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, abruptly resigned. The New York Post attributed her departure to political audits of conservative organizations. Some began to probe these rampant abuses, and the audit of the Western Journalism Center was "concluded" -- a verdict of "no wrongdoing" rendered in May 1997. Under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights enacted by Congress, Farah requested his case file from the IRS so he could review its contents. In keeping with the Clinton Administration standard practice, these rights were trampled in a terse refusal to turn over the documents -- the IRS frivolously citing "government privilege" as a means of keeping Mr. Farah from seeing justification for what had nearly bankrupted his organization…."
Washington Post 7/16/99 Juliet Eilperin "…House GOP sources said the committee has acquired documents showing that North, while working at his office computer, contacted the DCCC and offered to provide negative information about Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), Majority Leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.) and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). Each of these lawmakers has resisted Democratic efforts to more tightly regulate the islands' [Marianas] economy. The Hatch Act prohibits government employees from participating in political activity on the job or using their office for partisan purposes; penalties range from a 30-day suspension to removal from office…."
Roll Call 7/26/99 John Bresnahan "...House Resources Chairman Don Young (R-Alaska) is threatening to seek a contempt citation against a top Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee official over the DCCC's failure to comply with a subpoena. The subpoena, issued two weeks ago, stems from a probe of alleged illegal partisan political activities by an Interior Department employee who was trying to dig up dirt on several top Congressional Republicans. "This a very serious matter," Young wrote in a letter sent late Friday to DCCC Executive Director David Plouffe. "Unless you and the DCCC provide the subpoenaed materials, I intend to issue notice that the full Committee will consider a motion to hold you in contempt of Congress." .... Young is seeking evidence of contacts between North and the DCCC. North sent a former senior DCCC official a memo in October 1997 suggesting they cooperate in finding incriminating information on DeLay, Armey and Rohrabacher and their ties to the Mariana Islands, as well as the American corporations that do business there. ..."
World Net Daily 7/23/99 "...The former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate impeachment hearings says President Clinton's targeting of the Western Journalism Center by the Internal Revenue Service as exposed in WorldNetDaily is worse than similar offenses by President Nixon and clearly warrants impeachment.....Asked if Clinton is getting away with misdeeds for which Nixon was charged, Zeifman responded, "Of course!" He said Nixon did not have a team of people routinely forwarding investigation suggestions to the IRS. "There was no systematic plan" under Nixon, he said. "In my opinion, the misconduct of President Clinton and his White House is more egregious by far than the misconduct of the Nixon White House with respect to the misuse of the IRS. We found that in fact there was some misuse of the IRS [by Nixon], but it was not part of an overall systematic plan, as has been the case with the Clinton White House." Zeifman added that Watergate investigators also found misuse of FBI records. Charles Colson, for instance, went to jail for misuse of one FBI file. "Whereas in the Clinton administration there has been regular and systematic abuse," he said. "It's been documented, with Bernie Nussbaum's name, on regular and systematic requests for FBI files. I was a strong proponent of Nixon's impeachment and played a role in drafting the Articles of Impeachment. In my view, everything we said in Article II, Paragraph 1, clearly applies to Clinton on the basis of information already in the public record prior to WorldNetDaily's story." ..."
The Washinton TIMES 7/21/99 George Archibald "...Bruce E. Lindsey, President Clinton's chief advisor, prepared to discredit Kathleen E. Willey a year before the former White House employee publicly accused the president of sexually groping her in the Oval Office. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was also involved in Mr. Lindsey's planned use of 15 friendly letters from Mrs. Willey to Mr. Clinton to counteract her expected claims about Mr. Clinton's sexual advances, Justice Department lawyers stated in a civil lawsuit over Privacy Act violations. The disclosures came last week in lawsuit filings by Judicial Watch for former White House employees who accused the administration of misusing their FBI files in the so-called Filegate case. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered White House officials to answer Judicial Watch's questions about release of Mrs. Willey's letters in March 1998, saying "misuse" of materials from her White House file "could prove to be circumstantial evidence of file misuse aimed at the [Filegate] plaintiffs." ...."
Worldnet Daily 7/19/99 Jane Chastain "...Ask filmmaker Pat Matrisciana, who, until just recently, has been one of Clinton's most successful enemies. Matrisciana's videos, the Clinton Chronicles, Obstruction of Justice, Mena Cover-up, 60 Minutes Deception, The Death of Vince Foster and Bill Clinton's Rise to Power, have made him a household word, although they have been only a sideline....However, these last two years Jeremiah Films[Matrisciana] has managed just to stay afloat because of a $16 million "defamation" lawsuit filed by two Pulaski County sheriff's officers. Jay Campbell and Kirk Lane were briefly identified in Obstruction of Justice as suspects implicated in the 1987 murders of two Arkansas teenagers, Kevin Ives and Don Henry. In order to win their lawsuit the plaintiffs must prove that Matrisciana falsely singled them out with reckless disregard for the facts. However, Obstruction of Justice was assembled painstakingly based on years of documentation compiled by Linda Ives, the mother of one of the victims, and Jean Duffey, who headed a drug task force in Arkansas' Seventh Judicial District, whose investigation led straight to the murdered boys. The reference to the two officers in Matrisciana's video was taken from police files and news reports. When Western Journalism Center's Joseph Farah, who often is called as an expert witness in defamation cases, heard about this lawsuit, he volunteered his services saying, "If Matrisciana is found guilty you can throw the First Amendment out the window." Nevertheless, the lawsuit has been so expensive that just six weeks before the trial is set to begin Matrisciana has exhausted his resources, which may have been the point. The big question is how are these two lowly police officers paying their lawyers who cannot be working on a contingency. ..."
The New Australian No 128 8/2-8/99 Larry Boeske "...Congressman Bob Barr* said 90 percent of the serious scandals being revealed about the Clinton administration are due to the efforts of Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch. And he announced that he is putting all of his hopes in Judicial Watch as the only hope for bringing the Clintons' to justice and revealing the truth. Larry Klayman is now his attorney over the possible misuse of Barr's FBI file. And Bob Barr believes that the recent embarassments of the House Managers and other members of Congress who pushed for impeachment were a result of the illegal use of the FBI files. ..."
The Washington Weekly 4/6/98 Editorial "…In today's issue of National Review, Michael Ledeen makes a compelling case that the Clinton administration has modeled itself after the larger Mob families of organized crime. Indeed, the modus operandi of the Clinton administration is indistinguishable from that of organized crime: KEEPING THE CODE OF SILENCE (1) When Webster Hubbell started telling friends that he didn't believe that Vince Foster had committed suicide and word leaked out through Esquire magazine, his own law firm dug up incriminating material on him and turned it over to Kenneth Starr. Four months later, Hubbell resigned as Associate Attorney General….(2) When Nolanda Hill started saying that she believed that her former business partner and lover Ron Brown was murdered, and that there was a cover-up of the crimes in which he was involved, she told Judge Royce Lamberth that she was afraid "the Clinton administration and more particularly its Justice Department will try to retaliate against me." She was right. The Clinton Justice Department recently indicted Nolanda Hill on charges of filing a false tax return…..
The Washington Weekly 4/6/98 Editorial "…THREATENING OPPONENTS (1) In his recent Filegate deposition by Judicial Watch, Clinton private eye Terry Lenzner admitted to having investigated an untold number of Clinton opponents going back to 1992: judges, lawyers, prosecutors, reporters and women. There is little question about the intended purpose: to collect a "White House file" of negative information on every opponent and potential opponent to have it ready when it is needed in the cases cited above and below…."
Judicial Watch 8/17/99 Larry Klayman "…Yesterday, Johnny Chung, a key figure in the Chinagate scandal appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor," and provided information linking the Clintons and their Administration with illegal bribery during the Chinagate scandal. Weeks earlier, Judicial Watch had supplied Fox News and others -- consistent with its public interest function -- with video of sworn testimony of Johnny Chung. This sworn testimony, which is evidence, obviously formed the road map of the questions posed by Bill O'Reilly yesterday evening. More importantly, the sworn testimony substantiates what Chung confirmed to O'Reilly during the interview. Following the airing of Chung's interview yesterday, Clinton apologists went to the airwaves to try to discredit him. "However, sworn testimony, as provided to Judicial Watch, backs up his off the cuff account, as told to Bill O'Reilly. Since providing false testimony to Judicial Watch and the Court would place Chung at additional legal risk for perjury, it is extremely unlikely that he would have lied. Moreover, what would Chung have to gain? His life and those of his loved ones have already been threatened, and he is now at odds with his one time benefactors in the Clinton Administration. Ironically, it is Johnny Chung, not Democrats or Republicans, who now take Chinagate seriously enough to speak openly about the wholesale espionage and treason that was committed against this country. While he did wrong, Chung wants to make amends by now coming forward bravely to tell the truth. Others who have done so -- Nolanda Hill and Linda Tripp -- have been retaliated against, with no help from the 'opposition party,' the Republicans. Judicial Watch will stand by these witnesses, however, and react strongly to any further attempt to coerce them to be silent," stated Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman and President Tom Fitton…."
WorldNetDaily 8/17/99 Charles Smith "…Federal Judge Robert Payne issued a court order against this reporter to remove a secret DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) report from the Internet. I was ordered to remove the unredacted version of a DIA report by 5:30 p.m. eastern time that same day. Apparently, Department of Justice lawyer Joan Evans released the unredacted version by mistake. The DIA document sent to me contained the names of DIA agents who wrote the 1995 report on the Chinese Army Unit COSTIND. The DIA requested that the names of the agents be withheld under "Title 10, United States Code" to protect their identity. I replaced the secret version with the redacted (blacked out) version as per Judge Payne's orders, prior to the 5:30 p.m. deadline. As part of the process, I had to contact Assistant U.S. Attorney Evans, in an attempt to comply with Judge Payne's order to return the DIA document. Instead of resolving the situation, Evans swore vengeance and threatened to "get" me. I took her threats to be officially sanctioned by the U.S. Justice Department and the Clinton White House. Of course, this is typical of the Clinton administration. Its mistake compromised the identity of DIA agents. Instead of working to minimize the damage to U.S. national security, it has engaged in threats. Discover the truth, and come under attack…."
WorldNetDaily 8/17/99 Charles Smith "…The truth is that Ron Brown and the Commerce Department dealt with the Chinese army. My original Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) was for "all information on COSTIND" or the Chinese "Commission on Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense." In 1994, this PLA unit was led by General Ding Henggao with his two vice "minister" sub-commanders, General Huai Guomo and General Shen Rougjun. In my 1998 appeal to the Commerce Department, I submitted a document showing that "COSTIND Vice Minister Shen Rougjun" met with Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and LORAL CEO Bernard Schwartz in August 1994. The Commerce Department has correctly released a mountain of information on "COSTIND," including data on COSTIND "Minister" General Ding and "Vice Minister" General Huai. COSTIND Vice Minister Shen was a general in the Chinese army. COSTIND is a Chinese army unit. Gen. Shen traveled to the U.S. in May 1994 and arranged for COSTIND to purchase a Hughes Corporation satellite, called Apstar 2, that was later destroyed in a crash. The PLA blamed the satellite for the crash and tried to pin the higher insurance rates on Hughes. Afterwards, Gen. Shen investigated the crash. Commerce Department officials participated in and authorized the Hughes crash analysis to be passed back to the Chinese under Vice Minister Shen. In the process, Hughes passed significant nose cone technology directly to COSTIND under the direction of Shen. In 1994, Gen. Shen also actively sought help from the Commerce Department in obtaining employment for his son, Shen Jun, at LORAL. Gen. Shen succeeded in obtaining a sensitive position for his son at Hughes. Gen. Shen, his son, and Hughes officials met to discuss the satellite crash…."
WorldNetDaily 8/17/99 Charles Smith "…Another key report found at the Commerce Department is a 1997 Rand Report on the Chinese army. The Rand Corp. found that PLA bribes paid for "lavish parties, luxury foreign automobiles and Swiss bank accounts". The Rand report, "Chinese Military Commerce and U.S. National Security" also details the CITIC bank-owned Poly Technologies and the smuggling of 2,000 fully automatic AK-47s from Chinese army inventories. According to the Rand report, U.S. Custom agents, posing as U.S. drug gangsters, arranged to purchase the machine guns in a sting operation that led directly to the Chinese army in Beijing. However, the Customs PLA machine-gun sting crossed with Poly Tech President Wang Jun and his visits to the White House. The Rand report ignored the donations made by the PLA through operatives to Mr. Clinton. The Rand Corp. missed the Chinese atomic espionage altogether. ….. The answer to the big miss in Rand analysis becomes all too clear upon closer inspection. The 1997 Rand report was sponsored and, in part, authored by Asia-Pacific "policy" expert Gareth C.C. Chang. Chang is a familiar player in the Chinagate affair. Even in the 1997 Rand report Chang is listed as "Senior Vice President" of Hughes Corporation. In fact, Chang is also in the 1999 Cox report. On April 4, 1995, Hughes Electronics Senior Vice President Gareth Chang wrote a memorandum to Hughes CEO Steven Dorfman regarding the Apstar 2 failure. Chang wrote, "We need to personally share our findings with the Chinese leadership. A senior Hughes executive, armed with detailed scientific and technical evidence, should meet with General Shen of COSTIND and Chairman Liu of CASC before anything is said to the media." Hughes' Chang and COSTIND PLA General Shen traveled in the same small circle of international arms dealing as Poly Tech Wang Jun and Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz. All of the above elected to connect their weapons business through Commerce Secretary Ron Brown…."