HAS CLINTON ABUSED THE POWER OF HIS OFFICE?

[Dr. Jai Maharaj]

HAS CLINTON ABUSED THE POWER OF HIS OFFICE?

By various Free Republic posters
Thursday, October 22, 1998

* Paul Begala "Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool."
* Jeremy Taylor, director of natural resources studies at the Cato
Institute: "This president distinguishes himself from past presidents by the
aggressiveness with which he has expanded his authority without explicit
congressional approval."
* 7/9/98 The Winds "ů In other words, opposing the president's agenda
is partisanship, while the president ruling by decree is "progress." "This
president has a very strong sense of the powers of the presidency, and is
willing to use all of them," warned Paul Begala, another senior adviser. ů"
* Insight on the News 7/25/98 In his 1992 acceptance speech to the
Democratic National Convention, then-Gov. Bill Clinton pronounced, "President
Bush, if you won't use your power to help people, step aside. I will." He's
using it all right: by issuing executive orders to impose whatever he fails
to get through Congress. . . The president appears to be under the impression
that the United States is a monarchy -- one in which the president dictates by
executive order. Unfortunately for emperor Clinton, this is not a country
ruled by the stroke of a pen and a plea from a special-interest friend. . . .
"
* USA Journal James Hirsen " The founding fathers of this nation
established a republic with a highly effective system of checks and balances
precisely because they desired to avoid, at all costs, the consolidation of
power in any single individual. Our young country had just broken away from an
abusive despot, and the desire to prevent any future dictator from emerging
remained strong. The Presidential Executive Order was, at one time, a genuine
exercise of power, based upon law that was already in existence.
Unfortunately, it has been distorted into a tool for the illegitimate creation
of new law, which violates both the spirit and the letter of the Constitution.
This wrongful practice has been tolerated by Congress and, occasionally, even
concealed from the American people, in the name of expediency. When a
president creates law by fiat, representative government is completely
averted. Any notion of checks and balances or separation of powers is no
longer involved in the legislative processů"

PRIVILEGE CLAIMS
1993 - to block an inspection of Vince Fosterĺs files after his suicide
1994 - to block turning over documents from its ethics review regarding
Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy
1995 - to block lawyerĺs notes from conversations with Hillary Clinton
1996 - to block turning over documents relating to arms shipments from Iran to
Bosnia
1996 - to block turning over a memo by FBI Director Louis Freeh criticizing
the drug policy
1996 - to block turning over documents subpoenaed concerning Haiti police
violence
1996 - to block turning over Travel Office documents
1997 - to block turning over campaign finance related records
1997 - to block testimony of Bruce Lindsey concerning James Riady - campaign
finance
1997 - to block turning over documents pertaining to cancellation of an Indian
casino
1998 - to block testimony of Paul Begala - filegate
1998 - to block grand jury testimony of Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal -
Lewinsky
1998 - to block grand jury testimony of Bruce Lindsey ("attorney client") -
Lewinsky
1998 - to block Secret Service testimony - Lewinsky (new privilege,
"protective function") - Lewinksy
1998 - to block answers to 2 questions Hillary Clinton ("spousal privilege") -
Whitewater
RDMHQ Funding Document
Secret 3rd privilege claim.
* Wall St Journal 10-19-98 Peter Wallison "ůIn his opening statement
to the House Judiciary Committee on Oct. 5, Republican counsel David Schippers
omitted a reference to Count 11 of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's
impeachment report -- the much-maligned charge that, among other things,
President Clinton abused his office by invoking executive and attorney-client
privileges to fend off Mr. Starr's inquiries. Mr. Schippers's omission, as
well as Chairman Henry Hyde's recent statement that he intends to "streamline"
the charges considered by the committee, suggest that Count 11 will not be
considered by the committee. This would be a serious mistake. Count 11,
despite the abuse it has taken from many of the president's defenders, is
neither frivolous nor -- as Democratic counsel Abbe Lowell has asserted --
evidence of Mr. Starr's bias. Insofar as it deals with the president's
assertions of privilege, Count 11 is essential to a full consideration of the
impeachment issue. Count 11 makes out a case for the misuse of the
president's officeůIt is true, of course, that Mr. Clinton -- in common with
any defendant -- is entitled to use all defenses and privileges at his
disposal to protect himself against potential criminal liability. This would
certainly be true of a claim of a Fifth Amendment privilege, or protection
against unreasonable search and seizure. But are the president's executive or
attorney-client privileges in the same category? They are not. Attorney-client
privilege does not cover discussions between government lawyers and the
president concerning his private affairs. In such cases the privilege, like
executive privilege, belongs to the office of the president -- and not to the
president personally. Mr. Clinton is entitled to use these privileges only to
protect the confidentiality of his communications as president. As the courts
have repeatedly found, the president is not entitled to claim either privilege
in a matter in which he personally is a target of a criminal charge. Nor is it
appropriate to claim that Mr. Clinton was compelled to assert these privileges
in order to protect the historic institutional prerogatives of the presidency
itselfů."

PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INVESTIGATIVE RESOURCES
2300? FBI Files improperly acquired (White House) - Marceca testified about
these
FBI used in White House claims in the firing of the White House Travel
Office.
Terry Lenzer and firm (Private/White House)
Jack Palladino and firm (Private/Campaign)
FBI used to remove Chef Sean Haddon
* New York Post Richard Johnson 8/1/98 "ů Terry Lenzner, whose
Investigative Group International is disparagingly known as the White House
Secret Police, is a Harvard Law School alumnus who, on Clinton's behalf, has
been digging up dirt on Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones, and possibly on
Kathleen Willey and Linda Tripp.ů"
* 8/2/98 NY Times David Samuels "ů As the private investigator hired
by President Clinton's lawyers, Lenzner is a front-line soldier in a new kind
of war, in which embarrassing information about political and legal opponents
is provided for use as ammunition in today's partisan culture of scandal.
Within the past year, Lenzner has testified before a Senate committee about
the President's legal-defense fund and, most recently, before the grand jury
of the independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, about his activities on behalf of
the President's lawyersů"There's something satisfying about walking around
with a reserve bank of information that nobody else has, or few people have,"
Lenzner says. "With an understanding of things that go on inside companies and
universities and charities and Governments. But I never would have had that
chance if I hadn't become what I have become. And I love that part. I'll be
frank with you on that." "

INTIMIDATION, IRS AUDIT
Paula and Stephen Jones
Billy Dale (Travel Office)
Texe Marrs
Western Journalism Center (Joseph Farah)
Citizens for a Sound Economy
Manufacturing Policy Project (Pat Choate)
American Life League
Christian Film and Television Commission
National Rifle Association
National Review
American Spectator
National Center for Public Policy Research
American Policy Center
Heritage Foundation
American Cause (Pat Buchanan)
Citizens Against Government Waste
Citizens for Honest Government
Freedom Alliance (Oliver North)
Progress and Freedom Foundation (Newt Gingrich)
Council for National Policy
Concerned Women for America
Center for Bioethical Reform
Free Congress Foundation (warning?)
Fortress America (warning?)
Capitol Resource Institute, Sacramento, California
Center for the Study of Popular Culture (David Horowitz/head Drudge Defense
Fund)
Peoples Network Inc. (Chuck Harder)
Abraham Lincoln Opportunity Foundation (defunct, still being audited) (Newt
Gingrich)
GOPAC (Newt Gingrich)
H. H. Callaway Foundation (Newt Gingrich)
Kennesaw State University, Georgia (Newt Gingrich)
Reinhardt College, Georgia (Newt Gingrich)
Bruce Bate (National Religious Broadcasters)
Margie Gray (critical e-mail)
Christopher Emery (fired usher)
Patricia and Glenn Mendoza (shouted remark/Chicago)
Kent Masterson Brown (attorney for Association of American Physicians and
Surgeons)
Walter Gazecki (edited documentary "Waco, the Rules of Engagement")
Shelly Davis (whistleblower; author of "Unbridled Power")
Deletions:
Joseph Farah (World Net Daily)
David Horowitz, head of Drudge Defense fund
Chuck Harder (Peopleĺs Network Inc.)
Chuck Lee (talk show)
David Bresnahan (talk show)
George Putnam (talk show)
Grant Gillam (internet)
Richard Mack

INTIMIDATION, CHARACTER
Ken Starr and prosecutorial staff - press materials, Carville declared
"war," and White House officials "our continuing campaign to destroy Ken
Starr" and "stand up to Starr" campaign.
Gary Aldrich
Matt Drudge - $30m Sid Blumenthal suit
Linda Tripp - death threats, Pentagon information to New Yorker
David Hale - David Pryor
Rep. Barr & Judicial Committee Members - Mulholland
Billy Dale (Travel Office)
State Troopers via Buddy Young (Clinton) - (testified to procuring women)
Three state troopers testified that they or their families were threatened if
they talked.
Dolly Kyle Browning testified her brother, a 1992 Clinton campaign worker,
warned "we will destroy you" if she talked.
Kathleen Willey - Nathan Landow flew her to his estate, conversation and
Michael Viner
Jim Robinson - lawsuit threats
Bruce Bates
Jeff Evans
Margie Gray
Patricia and Glenn Mendoza (shouted remark at president)
William E. Kelly (Chicago)
Kent Masterson Brown
Walter Gazecki
Shelly Davis
Chief Petty Officer Kathleen Janoski
Lt. Col Steve Cogswell
Lt. Col David Hause
Maj. Thomas Parsons
John Deutch
R. James Woolsey
Gordon Oehler
Frederick Whitehurst
Dennis Patrick
Jean Duffey
Richard Jewell
Jack Wickman
Education and Information Project: Judicial Watch has subpoenaed from James
Carville 38,698 pages of documents and 5,000 pages of computer diskettes,
which reveal a well organized and financed opposition research effort. Records
include voting and driving records, court documents, mortgages, deeds, rumor
information. Some documents were faxed to Carville from Kendall, Blumenthal
and Begala. The following names are on the list:
1 Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr
2 Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN)
3 Independent Counsel Donald Smaltz
4 Senator Lauch Faircloth (R-NC)
5 House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA)
6 Pat Robertson
7 Congressman Henry Hyde (R-IL)
8 David Brock
9 Philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife
10 Floyd Brown
11 Olin Foundation
12 Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR)
13 Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA)
14 Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN)
15 L. Brent Bozell III
16 David Bossie
17 Common Cause
18 Kathleen Willey
19 Susan Carpenter McMillan
20 Jacob Stein
21 Gil Davis
22 Judge David Sentelle
23 David Hale
24 Jim Guy Tucker
25 Dick Morris
26 Paula Jones
27 Richard DeVos
28 Citizens for Honest Government
29 Lamar Alexander
30 Bradley Foundation
31 Bill Bennett
32 Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC)
33 Landmark Legal Foundation
34 Congressman Bob Barr
35 Concord Coalition
36 Joe DiGenova
7/2/98 Robert Novak on Carvilleĺs Intelligency Agency "ůOn Jan. 24, 1996, Lisa
Caputo of Mrs. Clinton's office transmitted to Carville questions-and-answers
about Whitewater. On July 1, 1997, senior White House aide John Podesta sent
him the resignation letter of the House investigating committee's chief
counsel. On July 15, 1997, communications aide Ruby Shamir faxed a copy of a
Ken Starr news release concerning the Vince Foster investigation. Much of the
White House documents were sent to Glen Weiner, who in November 1996 left the
Democratic National Committee to join Carville's Education and Information
Project. In August 1997, Weiner switched over to the White House
communications research office. To underscore the symbiotic relationship,
Weiner now works for Tom Janenda, who was a Carville lieutenant in previous
campaigns. Some of the material was tailored for Carville -- including an
annotated copy of my July 7, 1997, column faxed to Weiner. Somebody at the
White House went to the trouble of preparing for Carville "Points on Novak,"
refuting my criticism of the Treasury's statistics in fighting Republican tax
cuts. On Dec. 9, 1996, Weiner received an e-mail from Eric Berman, a master
of opposition research then working at the Democratic National Committee.
Berman prepared a four-and-a-half page, single-spaced rundown on Hyde, noting
that he defended Oliver North and opposed the Vietnam War Memorial. Two full
pages were devoted to a since-settled government lawsuit against Hyde as a
savings and loan director -- material for attack-dog Carville. "I've never
seen it," Carville told me. Such help for Carville from the Clinton
establishment continues -- as recently as June 17 from David Kendall, the
president's lead defense lawyer and his top personal strategist. Material
subpoenaed by Judicial Watch shows that Kendall's pricey Williams & Connolly
law firm prepared for Carville a five-page Freedom of Information request for
submission to Starrů"
* Stinson said he received a call from a 60 Minutes producer who told
him, among other things, "We just want to nail Ruddy."
* On Larry King, Carville indicated he had inside knowledge of Justice
Department investigations "I don't know what the judge did yesterday; I'm not
privy to that. But I know that the White House -- I KNOW ONE THING: he's under
investigation right now by the Justice Department; probably going be under
investigation about something else."
* The new magazine Content which was billed as a journalistic watchdog
publication, in its first issue made railing accusations against Ken Starr
which were subsequently emphatically denied by Starr. Notably, Steven Brill,
the publisher did not disclose his campaign contributions to President Clinton
and other Democratic candidates. Numerous other publications and reporters
assailed the article using such terms as "utterly garbarge" "fundamentally
dishonest" "slimy" - others said they were "mischaracterized" - others asked
for retractions.
* Wallaby found in Jack OĺDwyerĺs Newsletter dated August 13, 1997
MEDIA NEWS; Vol 30 No 32 Pg 3 "Steven Brill, founder of Court TV and American
Lawyer magazine, and Donald A. Baer, who is White House Communications
director and strategic planning chief, have joined up to start a media
magazine next year, called Connect. Baer was an editor at U.S. News & World
Report before joining the Clinton Administration in 1994. "
* Producers Michael Radutzky and Trevel Nelson courted Willey to tell
her story on 60 Minutes and a key selling point was the changing story of
Julie Steele, who was (they believed) being pressured by the White House into
changing her account in her affidavit in the Paula Jones case, which was
drafted with help from the presidentĺs lawyers. There was apparent pressure
concerning Steeleĺs adoption of a boy in Romania, whether the procedure was
handled properly. Radutzky and Nelson had shown up at Steeleĺs house, and when
they raised the adoption issue "she really freaked," says her lawyer, Nancy
Luque.
* In a video taped deposition for Judicial Watch, James Carville
admitted that on the day before Kathleen Willeyĺs appearance on 60 Minutes,
that he consulted with Clinton about their damage control plan and what they
could release on Willey.
* Kendall hired private eye Terry Lenzner of Investigative Group
International, who also dug dirt on Paula Jones, to do a thorough
investigation of Lewinsky's past, according to the Washington Post.
* In a 6/29/98 Washington Weekly exclusive by Wesley Phelan: "Larry
Klayman of Judicial Watch on Friday, June 26, deposed J. Lowe Davis, to whom
New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer attributed information about a 1969 arrest of
Linda Tripp. J. Lowe Davis admits telling Mayer that her former husband and
Linda Tripp's father, Albert Caretenuto, had once bailed Linda Tripp out of
jail. But Davis claims not to be the source of other quotes attributed to her
by Mayer. " Also in the interview, Klayman said that the documents obtained
from Carville (Education and Information Project) indicate that the
information comes from many sources and that if the information sent to him
from the White House comes from identifiable files of the White House, it may
constitute a violation of the Privacy Act which may have both civil and
criminal remedies. Klayman also said that the smear campaign used a
Washington Post editor William Hamilton who is the husband of Jane Mayer who
is a former colleague of Sidney Blumenthal. In deposition, Ms Davis
remembered little more than her former husband and Trippĺs father once bailed
Linda out of jail. Many of the quotes in Mayerĺs second article did not come
from Davis.
* 7/6/98 Washington Weekly Marvin Lee "Terry Good, head of the White
House Office of Records Management last week admitted that he had been ordered
by the White House Counsel to pull the file of Linda Tripp after the Lewinsky
story broke in January. The admission was made under oath during a deposition
by Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch. "There appears to be a concerted effort by
the Clinton administration to use government files to harm and intimidate
perceived grand jury witnesses," stated Larry Klayman. The files of Kathleen
Willey and Monica Lewinsky were pulled as wellů"
* 4/5/98 Washington Weekly concerning FreeRepublic Jim Robinson "ůBut
Caroline Little's (Washington Post General Counsel) cease-and-desist letter
has not been an isolated event. Over the past several months, Robinson has
received similar letters, almost identical in fact, from news organizations
Times Mirror, Dow Jones, and Reutersů.Orchestrating these attacks is the law
firm of Debevoise & PlimptonůThe name of Debevoise & Plimpton popped up
recently during the Filegate deposition of Clinton private eye Terry Lenzner.
Lenzner revealed under oath that he had been retained by Debevoise & Plimpton
to perform investigations of a political nature. Lenzner has admitted that he
performs research on White House critics. Debevoise & Plimton is the law firm
of the Democratic National Committee, and has conducted most of the
investigation of illegal foreign contributions received by the DNC. For this
work, the DNC owes Debevoise & Plimton $6 millionů.Jim Robinson is no less
combative in the face of attempts to threaten and intimidate him. As a
modern-day Patrick Henry, he defiantly declares from his wheelchair: "They'll
have to pry my keyboard from my cold dead fingers."
* 6/29/98 The Weekly Standard Tucker Carlson "ůDestroying a person's
reputation is messy work, and not everyone in the White House enjoyed it.
"Whenever I went off the facts and into attacks on Starr, I felt very
uncomfortable," says Lanny Davis, who must have spent much of his tenure as
special counsel to the president feeling uncomfortable. Nevertheless, the
strategy worked. By the time Monica Lewinsky became famous, Starr's approval
ratings were below even D'Amato'sů. "
* 7/7/98 Landmark Legal Foundation president, Mark R. Levin: "ůThe
point is, if Maryland courts are not willing to recognize a violation of this
law in a civil case without a showing of actual intent, they certainly won't
recognize it in a criminal case where the standard is far more stringent.
Levin added, "This raises serious questions about the timing and motives
behind Mr. Montanarelli's actions - on the same day Tripp is testifying before
a federal grand jury. Federal investigators need to determine if Mr.
Montanarelli's announcement today is intended to influence or intimidate
Tripp. "
* 7/11/98 Washington Post Bill Miller "A federal judge yesterday
ordered the Defense Department to seize and examine the computer of a Pentagon
official who has admitted releasing sensitive information contained on Linda
R. Tripp's security clearance form. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth
said he acted because the official, Clifford Bernath, deleted numerous
documents from his computer in the weeks after his release of information to
the New Yorker magazineů"
* A Commerce ITA Muslim employee, who remains anonymous, was
discovered in Freeper research led by Clintonĺs a liar; she will be speaking
with Judicial Watch about her being harassed out of her job, her home phones
tapped, etc. - there is documentation.
* Washington Times 7/15/98 Bill Sammon "Attorneys for Dolly Kyle
Browning, who says she had a long-term affair with President Clinton, accused
the president yesterday of defaming her and warned him to reach a settlement
by July 27 or face a civil lawsuitů"
* Rush Limbaugh 7/15/98 Summarized "Tim Russert on NBC Today Show this
morning says Clinton White House threatening USSS not to testify; Russert
says the USSS "facilitated" liasons for Clinton like Arkansas State Troopers.
Starr may be investigating if USSS facilitated and covered up."
* DRUDGE REPORT 7/20/98 "Last month, CNN producers nudged this
reporter off an episode of LARRY KING LIVE. Now a new report provides fresh
details of what may have gone done behind-the-scenes at the all-news network
on the show that started as a "talk on the future of journalism" -- with Steve
Brill, Larry King and myself -- but mysteriously ended up featuring James
Carville, Wolf Blitzer and others. "In the days before Drudge's announced
appearance, White House staffers Mike McCurry, Ann Lewis, and Rahm Emanuel are
said to have lobbied CNN news chief Rick Kaplan to pull the plug on Drudge,
warning that the network's White House reporters might otherwise lose access,"
reports August AMERICAN SPECTATOR. "So in the end, Drudge's seat was filled by
none other than CNN White House correspondent Wolf Blitzer." Calls to CNN on
Monday evening went unreturned... MORE "
* 7/24/98 AP "Paula Jones said Friday that letters written to her by
her previous lawyers should not have been made public in her sexual harassment
lawsuit against President Clinton. The letters were released last month when
U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright, who dissed the lawsuit, entered them
into the public recordů.' "
* Washington Weekly Carl Limbacher 7/26/98 " As part of its $90
million Filegate lawsuit against the Clinton administration, Judicial Watch
has obtained the names of hundreds of heretofore unidentified White House
employees whose FBI files were gathered by Clinton dirt digger Craig
Livingstone. And though Clintonites had denied that their collection of files
was an attempt to gather damaging information on political opponents, the new
list of White House Filegate targets includes the name of Linda Tripp, the
most damaging witness yet to testify against President Clintonů"
* The Washington Times 7/21/98 John McCaslin "ů"Yes, Linda Tripp was
recording calls while in her Maryland home; and yes, Maryland law requires
all-party consent," Mr. Ross agrees."However, the calls were not made within
the state of Maryland. They were interstate calls made between [Washington
D.C. and Maryland, and therefore the federal law applies, not state law. And
federal law allows taping when one party consents."ů"
* L. Jean Lewis, RTC Whistleblower on Whitewater, was harassed by
Democratic staff members on the House Banking committee. Among other things,
Jack Ryan, of RTC, was able to get hold of a private letter between Ms. Lewis
and her lawyer and provided it to Paul Kanjorski (D-Penn.)
* Richard Iorio, Lewisĺ boss, RTC official placed on leave
* 8/1/98 The New York Post Brian Blomquist and Marilyn Rauber "Linda
Tripp has testified a top Clinton aide threatened to "destroy" her and that
Monica Lewinsky passed along veiled threats from the president himself, a
source close to Tripp said yesterdayů Tripp also told the Sexgate grand jury
Lewinsky ominously warned her the president "was aware" of Tripp after she
surfaced in last summer's bombshell Newsweek article on Willey, the source
saidů"
* Don Nicholsĺ family (IGI investigation plan)
* LA Times 8/1/98 Ken Ellingwood "A veteran federal prosecutor who is
the president of the Hispanic National Bar Assn. was recommended Friday by
Sen. Barbara Boxer to be named U.S. attorney for the high-profile border
region of San Diego and Imperial counties. In asking President Clinton to
nominate 44-year-old Gregory Vega, Boxer passed over interim U.S. Atty.
Charles G. La Bella, who headed the attorney general's campaign financing task
force. La Bella urged the naming of an independent prosecutor to investigate
fund-raising abuses during the 1996 presidential campaign. ů"
* Freeper report "Drudge is reporting that Clinton forces plan to
expose GOP dirty Laundry if GOP pushes for IMPEACHMENTů"
* 8/7/98 Freeper report on CNN Julie Hiatt Steele "On Larry King Live,
Julie Hiatt Steele appeared to attack Kathleen Willey, Newsweek and Michael
Isikoff. During her appearance she disclosed the OIC is currently persuing her
for Contempt of Court for not disclosing details related to the picture of
Kathleen Willey she sold to the National Enquirer and also gave some hint as
to a possible reason why she (Steele) betrayed her friend to protect Clinton.
Ms. Steele also disclosed that the adoption of her child may not have been
legal. Apparently the adoption was "fixed" so she's not worried about any
problems (any more, at least)ů."
* Washington Times 8/10/98 Editorial "White House strategists seem to
be thinking up the darnedest things lately. But then, desperation is the
mother of goofy invention. The internet magazine "Salon" just launched a trial
zeppelin for the Clintonistas, one with Hindenberg written all over it.
According to Salon, the president's operatives are letting it be known that
they are ready to expose the "sexual improprieties of Republican critics, both
in Congress and beyond, should they demand impeachment hearings in the House."
As if the Clinton administration's sins aren't manifold enough, they are
adding to them the odious practice of blackmail. ů"
* Washington Weekly 8/31/98 Marvin Lee "ůJust how far Clinton is
willing to go became evident from other developments last week. Democrat Paul
McHale's call for Clinton's resignation was followed by an immediate call to
the Rivera Live show questioning the honor of McHale and alleging he had
fabricated his war record. The ploy backfired when it turned out that the
charges were false and Rivera named the White House as his source. The White
House had to backpedal. But only a few days later, Bill Clinton sent his
half-brother Roger on the "Larry King Live" show. Roger admitted that he had
been in contact with Bill just before the show and he said he was "issuing a
statement" that politicians who live in glass houses... "
* Indianapolis Star and News 9/1/98 John Strauss and Mary Beth
Schneider "In a rare case of the reaction coming before the story, Rep. Dan
Burton has begun warning people in his central Indiana district that a
national magazine is planning a ``scandal story'' about his personal life. A
reporter from Vanity Fair spent seven weeks in the state talking to more than
200 friends and associates, Burton said Mondayů"
* Capitol Hill Blue 9/2/98 Daniel Harris & Teresa Hampton "ůEven after
Clinton went before the nation and claimed his private life was "nobody's
business," his White House staff has continued to compiled dossiers on
opponents and leak information from those dossiers to reporters. Information
from the files compiled by private investigators, lawyers and other
investigators, are in the hands not only of Vanity Fair, but other reporters
considered "friendly" to the administration. Besides Burton, targets of this
campaign of leaks, include House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde, Senate
Majority Leader Trent Lott and Newsweek investigative reporter Mike Isikoff. A
plan to smear House Speaker Newt Gingrich was pulled when Gingrich softened
his criticism of Clinton. Sources within the White House said the campaign is
directed by Clinton smearmaster Sidney Blumenthal, who was brought on board to
wage war against opponents of the administration. A reporter from Vanity Fair
spent seven weeks in Indiana talking to more than 200 friends and associates.
But Capitol Hill Blue has confirmed that much of the information that Vanity
Fair is using as the basis of its "investigation" came from the White
HouseůLast week, sources confirmed, Blumenthal orchestrated leaks about
Democratic Congressman Paul McHale's military record to CNBC tabloid talk show
host Geraldo Rivera after McHale called on the President to resign. Rivera
later was forced to retract his statement that McHale had inflated his
military record aftrer the information furnished by the White House proved to
be inaccurateů."
* Wall Street Journal 9/2/98 Op Ed "The vast power prosecutors
wield--from Kenneth Starr on down--indeed merits scrutiny, so how is it that
Stephen Montanarelli, the Maryland state prosecutor who seems bent on
indicting Linda Tripp, has been virtually ignored? Mr. Montanarelli runs an
independent office charged with prosecuting public officials, a role similar
to Judge Starr's. It's his job to see if Linda Tripp violated Maryland's law
against taping without consentůMr. Montanarelli denies that he's under
political pressure, but acknowledges his timing on calling a grand jury was
inappropriate. GOP State Rep. Robert Flanigan says the move "certainly created
the impression he was trying to intimidate her." Mr. Flanigan says there has
been a "comprehensive effort" to urge a prosecution, including a January
letter signed by 49 Democratic members of the Maryland House.Obviously Mr.
Montanarelli must follow the law. But his track record doesn't inspire
confidence. In 1995, he refused to prosecute a county election commissioner
for nepotism because he ruled the person wasn't a "public official." Somehow,
Ms. Tripp, a Pentagon employee, qualifies as one. Should Mr. Montanarelli
proceed with a dubious prosecution, his own clear standing as a public
official should qualify him, as it does Judge Starr, for a measure of
scrutiny."
* Washington Post 9/6/98 "It's no surprise to find the Clinton
administration treating any problem as a public-relations challenge, looking
to spin instead of solve, vilifying critics instead of debating them. Even so,
turning the dogs loose on Scott Ritter is a new lowů. First came leaks about
an FBI investigation of Ritter for sharing confidential information with other
governments -- something he freely admits he did, as part of his job and at
the direct order of his U.N. bosses. Then Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright lashed out. Ritter "doesn't have a clue about what our overall policy
has been," she told CNN. Claiming great success for Iraq policy on behalf of
"the United States -- and, I must say, me personally," Albright nonetheless
didn't have enough confidence in that policy to sit by as Ritter testified to
Congress. She urged a House committee chairman to squelch one such hearing,
while Senate Democrats did their best to prevent Ritter's testimonyů."
* 9/6/98 Doug Fiedor A Weekly View from the Foothills of the
Appalachia "The White Houseĺs professional rumor mongering and disinformation
cabal is hard at work creating more lies and mistruths. Remember now, they
have those FBI files on over 900 Republicans and others. And, apparently,
they are using them to Clintonĺs best advantage. For instance, a few weeks
ago, Newt Gingrich publicly stated that he would continue relating the
administrationĺs misdeeds and crimes. Now, suddenly, heĺs quiet, almost
conciliatory. House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt mentioned impeachment two
weeks ago, then received a call from the White House and dummied up. And Rep.
Paul McHale (D-PA), the first Democrat to call for Clinton's resignation, was
immediately discredited by false rumors started by administration operatives.
Journalists are worried about covering the Clinton scandals, too. The White
House has dossiers on some of them as well as on GOP members of Congressů"
* ABC 9/16/98 "The chairman of the House Judiciary CommitteeŚand one
of the key people sitting in judgment of President Clinton over the Starr
reportŚsaid a story published today in an Internet magazine claiming he once
had an extramarital affair was an "obvious attempt at intimidation." Rep.
Henry Hyde, R-Ill., characterized the allegations in a Salon magazine report
as the work of White House staffů. "The statute of limitations has long since
passed on my youthful indiscretions," Hyde said in a statement Wednesday.
"Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time
agoů. Almost as soon as he got the Starr report, Hyde warned his members that
things might get rough. He pointed to media reports that the president's
supporters might try to dig up dirt on them, saying: "White House staff
may...be attempting to disseminate derogatory personal information about
members of the House Judiciary Committee." He called it "the Ĺscorched earthĺ
policy." Hyde made clear any effort to intimidate committee members could
amount to an obstruction of justice Even before he wrote that memo, he had
learned that the presidentĺs allies might be spreading a story about him. Two
reporters have told ABCNEWS that a senior White House official tried to peddle
a story to them that Hyde once had a girlfriend.
* AP 9/17/98 Ron Fournier "The White House says there is no ``scorched
earth strategy,'' but Republicans see a trend. They say it's been open season
on Bill Clinton's critics. Since the president admitted he had sex with
Monica Lewinsky, three Republican lawmakers were forced to acknowledge
adulterous affairs, and questions were raised about the military honors of a
Democrat who asked publicly for Clinton to resign. Suspecting White House
handiwork, Republican leaders asked FBI director Louis Freeh on Thursday to
investigate whether Clinton advisers or allies peddled stories of adulterous
relations to the mediaů.All three lawmakers came forward after reporters
questioned them about the relationship. There is no proof the White House or
Clinton backers planted or spread the stories, but even some colleagues wonder
if Blumenthal was involvedů."
* Freeper Report (Rev. George) on Fox News "Tom Delay is on FOX News
at this time calling for an FBI investigation. He is going to give the
(Democrats) a chance to sign on to the investigation. He just quoted the
statute that has been violated. He says this has nothing to do will the
Clinton problem. This is obstruction of justiceů. Cited that this is a
conspricy to obstruct by members of the White House. Is calling on Freeh to
look into this manner. Call's it a slezy operation performed by some sick
individualsů.Cites pattern of conduct of White House. Recites how White House
says they would fire anyone involed in this behavior. He brought up Ken Bacon.
Accused McCurry of lieing and possibly the White House of lieing. Recited many
case of intimidation. Said Demos as well as Repubs are repulsed by thisů."
* Fox News 9/17/98 "Republicans accused the White House Thursday of
orchestrating a sexual witch hunt after the respected elder statesman who
would head an impeachment inquiry into President Clinton became its latest
victim. Republican lawmakers angrily accused the White House of being behind
a personal smear campaign against Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde,
after the veteran Illinois lawmaker was forced to acknowledge having conducted
an affair with a married woman 30 years ago. "In recent weeks, several of our
colleagues have been subjected to vicious partisan attacks via the news media
by individuals who are clearly attempting to intimidate members of Congress,''
said California Republican John Dolittle. He said various Clinton supporters,
including his brother Roger, had warned Republicans to expect their personal
secrets to be exposed. "We will never be intimidated by these scorched earth
tactics, we will not back down from our constitutional responsibilities, and
we will not cower from the White House attacks. We will do what is right,'' he
said. Texas Rep. Tom DeLay, the third ranking House Republican, said he had
heard reports that Clinton allies were investigating Democrats as well as
Republicans. "Abuse of power is far more serious than having an affair 30
years ago. I just urge the president to stop his allies from engaging in this
kind of disgusting conduct,'' he saidů."
* Freeper Philly reports "This is my first post, so please bear with
me. I had to share this information. My girlfriend was riding on a train out
of Washington this week and an investigator from Investigative Group
International sat next to her. He asked her about her work and when she asked
what he did, he replied, "Heard of Ken Starr or Paula Jones? Well, my job is
to dig up dirt on them for the White House." He gave her his business card
which I have here in front of me. The man holds a very high position in the
firm and continued to brag about his work investigating "Starr and his team."
He then offered to interview my girlfriend for a job--keep in mind, she is a
young, attractive woman. I was completely surprised and disgusted by his
bragging about such sleazy tactics. The White House sleaze machine is in full
force and not ashamed!ů"
* WorldNet Daily Joseph Farah 9/22/98 "Thanks to the work of London
Telegraph investigative reporter Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the Communication
Stream of Conspiracy Commerce is back in the news. For those of you who never
heard of it or have forgotten what it is, the 331-page White House report
remains the most comprehensive "enemies list" produced by the Clinton
administration -- and, for that matter, perhaps any administration in history.
Evans-Pritchard connects, for the first time, the 1996 Communication Stream
of Conspiracy Commerce report and a $100,000 no-bid 1994 contract from the
White House to mud-slinging private investigator Terry Lenzner's firm
Investigative Group International. Were taxpayer dollars used to prepare and
distribute the report? I have long asserted just that. In fact, whether or not
Lenzner prepared the report, there can be no question that the White House
counsel's office was involved in the distribution of it to select members of
the media. Think about it. This was an overtly political document. It had one
purpose and one purpose only -- to slime those exposing the scandals of the
Clinton administration. It alleged there was a "vast right-wing conspiracy" in
the press. Three news organizations were found to be at the source of a "media
food chain" -- the American Spectator, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and my
group, the Western Journalism Center, the parent company of
WorldNetDaily.comů."
* Newsbytes 9/29/98 Bob Woods "Times Mirror's [NYSE:TMC] Los Angeles
Times newspaper, The Washington Post Co. [NYSE:WPO] and the Post's
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive subsidiary will later today file a lawsuit
against the owner of the FreeRepublic Web site, over what the plaintiff's call
copyright infringement, Newsbytes has learnedů. The lawsuit, which was slated
to be filed in a Los Angeles federal court, names FreeRepublic's operator Jim
Robinson as a defendant, and claims that FreeRepublic copies and posts
articles from the LATimes.com and Washingtonpost.com Web sitesů.The plaintiffs
also charged that FreeRepublic encourages its users to copy and post the full
text of the Times' and the Post's copyrighted newspaper articles on its Web
site. Both of FreeRepublic's actions constitute copyright infringement, all
three plaintiffs claim in their suitů."
* NY Times 9/28/98 James Bennett Jill Abramson "Broadening its
counterattack against possible impeachment proceedings, the White House has
coordinated a strategy with congressional Democrats to turn the tables and
investigate the investigators by examining how Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater
independent counsel, came to look into the Lewinsky matter, Clinton advisers
said Sunday. With help from Democrats in the House and Senate, the White
House is trying to obtain from Starr an accounting of how he persuaded the
Department of Justice in January to authorize him to broaden his inquiry to
include President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinskyů."
* 9/29/98 Drudge Report "ůA White House switchboard operator received
the first reprimand of his career after he "declined suggestions from the
White House counsel's office that he hire a lawyer from a recommended list
before testifying" before the Lewinsky grand jury, according to Wednesday's
NEW YORK TIMES. President Clinton's former political consultant Dick Morris
told the grand jury that "the White House maintains an operation to intimidate
women who have had affairs with the president." Morris identified them as
private investigators Terry Lenzner and Jack Palladino and White House Deputy
Chief of Staff Bruce Lindsey, reports Wednesday's CHICAGO TRIBUNE. "Morris
also told the grand jury that he knew of two instances, one involving himself,
in which the White House had leaked damaging information. Morris said that two
or three personally embarrassing stories that he told White House Chief of
Staff Erskine Bowles ended up in the NATIONAL ENQUIRER. Morris noted that
Clinton's private lawyer, David Kendall, also represents the ENQUIRER."
Morris also said that the White House improperly leaked damaging information
about GOP consultant Ed Rollinsů."
* Washington Weekly 4/6/98 "The Washington Post last month sent a
cease-and-desist letter to a small web site operator in Fresno, California.
The Washington Post objected to the posting of a copyrighted article in a news
discussion forum maintained by Jim Robinsonů..Orchestrating these attacks is
the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. On behalf of all of the news
organizations listed above, it last year filed a lawsuit against a commercial
Internet copyright infringer who later settled out of court. Bruce P. Keller
of the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton did not respond to Washington Weekly
questions about how Jim Robinson's site was selected, who selected it, and
whether outside interests played any role. The name of Debevoise & Plimpton
popped up recently during the Filegate deposition of Clinton private eye Terry
Lenzner. Lenzner revealed under oath that he had been retained by Debevoise &
Plimpton to perform investigations of a political nature. Lenzner has admitted
that he performs research on White House critics. Debevoise & Plimpton is the
law firm of the Democratic National Committee, and has conducted most of the
investigation of illegal foreign contributions received by the DNC. For this
work, the DNC owes Debevoise & Plimpton $6 millionůJim Robinson is no less
combative in the face of attempts to threaten and intimidate him. As a
modern-day Patrick Henry, he defiantly declares from his wheelchair: "They'll
have to pry my keyboard from my cold dead fingers." "
* Freeper report 9/26/98 on deardolly.com/lawsuit.htm "ů51. For
example, as part of this effort to prevent publication of Mrs. Browningĺs
manuscript, Jane Mayer, on information and belief, at Mr. Clintonĺs or his
agentsĺ direction and/or request, published an article in the May 26, 1997
edition of The New Yorker magazine that attributed false, misleading, and
disparaging statements about her manuscript, "Purposes of the Heart," to
Alfred S. Regnery, President of Regnery Publishing Company. According to Ms.
Mayerĺs article: Alfred S. Regnery, the heir to a small and influential
publishing firm, had recently launched several controversial best-sellers . .
and now had another hot prospect to consider: a typed manuscript purporting
to be a memoir disguised as fiction, by a Texas lawyer who claimed to have had
a two-decade-long affair with Bill Clinton. The manuscript, which had already
been rejected by a great many major publishing houses in New York, had finally
reached the more specialized quarters of Regnery Publishing, an independent
firm that ever since its founding, in 1947, has been associated with the
political right. * * * It seemed plausible, then, that a memoir by a putative
Presidential mistress would find a home at Regnery [Publishing Co.]. But this
time the companyĺs namesake and president was taking the high road. "Are we
going to publish a book that just talks about whom Clinton slept with?"
[Alfred S.] Regnery asked, casually spreading the calumny as he chatted. "I
wouldnĺt touch it with a ten-foot pole." One reason is that, given the
accounts of Clintonĺs private life that this company and others have already
published, a novel by a self-proclaimed mistress, he explained, "isnĺt
particularly newsworthy." Besides, he added, "itĺs far below our standards."
52. Contrary to the statement in The New Yorker that "the manuscript . . . had
finally reached the more specialized quarters of Regnery Publishing," Mrs.
Browning never sent Mr. Regnery a copy of her manuscript. 53. In fact, Mr.
Regnery never saw a copy of Mrs. Browningĺs manuscript and did not make the
false, misleading, and disparaging statements about the manuscript that Ms.
Mayer attributed to himů."
* Followup on Lawsuits against owner of Free Republic by Freepers are
keeping track of sites that link to Washington Post and/or Los Angeles Times.
So far they have found "Act Up DC" a web site promoting medical dope smoking
* NY Times 8/4/98 Editorial "Democrats have added a new tactic to the
campaign to protect President Clinton from an independent investigation of
White House fund-raising during 1996. That tactic is punishing the
truth-tellers. The victim in this tale of political revenge is Charles
LaBella, who was billed as an indispensable star when Attorney General Janet
Reno brought him in to direct the Justice Department's campaign finance task
force. Then in April, Ms. Reno's spokesman circulated word that Mr. LaBella
had done such a stellar job in getting the campaign investigation on track
that he would be returning to California as interim United States Attorney for
San Diego. He dreamed of permanent appointment. As he prepared to leave last
month, Mr. LaBella made a costly mistake, which is to say that he performed
his duty to the taxpayers. As the person in Justice with deepest knowledge of
the case, Mr. LaBella said in a written report that Ms. Reno had no choice, as
a matter of law, but to appoint an independent counsel. Only 15 days after Mr.
LaBella's burst of candor came the news that his interim appointment would not
be made permanent, even though he had the support of Louis Freeh, the Director
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Senator Barbara Boxer has recommended
that another Federal prosecutor, Gregory Vega, get the appointment. .."
* Investor's Business Daily 10/2/98 Editorial "Just the phrase
''secret police'' calls up images of the Gestapo or KGB. Now, says President
Clinton's former adviser, Dick Morris, it turns out White House allies have
used private detectives to threaten women who dallied with the president.
Buried in the next document dump from Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's
investigation is testimony from Morris before the grand jury that friends of
Bill had mounted a ''secret police operation to go around and intimidate
women.'' Morris says he didn't have firsthand knowledge of the operation, but
that he based his testimony on affidavits and published reports. Incredible.
And frightening. We already know that the Clinton camp used the services of
Terry Lenzner, a private detective, to investigate the ''bimbo eruptions'' in
the '92 campaign. We know that the White House had more than 1,000 raw FBI
files, mostly of Republicans. Clinton officials said it was ''a bureaucratic
snafu,'' but only after unjustly blaming the Secret Service. And Linda Tripp
has told the conservative Judicial Watch group, which is suing the
administration over the files, that she saw staffers in the White House
entering the data from the files into computers. And speaking of Tripp, we
know that when she became a central figure in the Monica Lewinsky scandal,
Kenneth Bacon of the Defense Department authorized the release of her
background investigation to the media - a violation of privacy laws - to
undermine her credibility. Also buried in the document dump, according to
sources who have seen it, is a tape-recorded statement from Lewinsky to Tripp:
''I wouldn't cross these people for fear of my life.''ů"
* Tony Snow 10/2/98 "By the time Congress completes its inquiry into
Bill Clinton's impeachability, you're likely to hear a lot about Billy Ray
Dale. Dale ran the White House Travel Office for eight years -- until May 20,
1993. On that fateful day, he and his staff were herded into a room, fired and
given an hour to clear out. Dale says the White House ``was a family'' when he
arrived in 1961. (He was once even Caroline Kennedy's Santa.) More than 31
years later, he was stuffed in a seatless van and hauled away. He didn't know
it, but he was about to become a poster boy for the abuse of presidential
power. Hours after the putsch, then-White House lawyer William Kennedy III
demanded that the FBI mount a criminal inquiry, claiming he was acting on
``the highest authority.'' The G-men dutifully cooked up a set of charges
against Dale: embezzlement, kickbacks, cooking accounting ledgers and living
beyond his means. Hollywood producer Harry Thomason predicted a
public-relations bonanza: ``This is going to be a great story -- Bill Clinton
cleaning up the White House!'' Instead, the administration got a black eye.
Reporters knew Dale and trusted him. He had handled their flight arrangements
on presidential trips for years. Furthermore, the facts didn't add up. The
books weren't a mess, as the FBI claimed: Dale had used an accounting system
created by the White House computer office. Under normal circumstances, he and
his staff could lay hands on any financial document within 10 minutesůThey
(FBI) accosted his daughter after she returned from her honeymoon. They
interrogated her for eight hours, repeatedly reducing her to tears. They asked
who attended her wedding -- any reporters? Any Republicans? What did they talk
about at the reception? How did she pay for her honeymoon? Another daughter
got a slightly milder grilling. Ditto for his son, who arrived home from a
business trip one evening at midnight -- only to find a G-man parked in his
driveway, clutching a subpoena. The nightmare lasted 30 months -- and a jury
threw out the case in just 20 minutesů."
* Judicial Watch website 10/1/98 Larry Klayman "Yesterday evening,
James Carville, was interviewed on CNN's Crossfire, and asked about documents
obtained by Judicial Watch from his Education Information Project. These
documents show that, contrary to the public statements of White House Press
Secretary Mike McCurry, that Carville is directed by The White House in waging
a smear campaign against perceived Clinton adversaries and material witnesses.
The documents also show that Carville has received information from a number
of sources about the sex lives of investigators. Carville's sources include
but are not limited to Gene Lyons of Salon Magazine -- the Clinton front
operation that recently smeared Chairman Henry Hyde and Speaker Newt Gingrich.
In addition, Judicial Watch subpoenaed from Carville audio tapes, which are
now in the Court's possession, delving into the sexual and personal
backgrounds of investigators. In other internal Carville documents obtained by
Judicial Watch under subpoena, Carville targets Starr and Republican leaders,
including Speaker Gingrich and Representative Dan Burton. Rep. Burton recently
was smeared as well. Importantly, discovery in Judicial Watch's Filegate
lawsuit also shows that Carville stays in regular contact with the President
and his lawyer, David Kendall, who hired investigators to presumably dig up
dirt on witnesses and perceived critics and adversariesů."
* NewsMax 10/9/98 Sam Smith "According to Judicial Watch, in his
deposition to the group, Clinton sleaze shamus Terry Lenzner admitted not only
investigating Republican officials, but members of the media, public interest
groups and even members of the judiciary. As we've pointed out before, one
of the best concealed subtexts in this whole story is the fear of some
journalists that the White House might use an Ellen Rometsch strategy against
them. ů"
* AP 10/9/98 Nicole Winfield " The American who resigned as a U.N.
weapons inspector has threatened to sue his former boss for saying he
illegally discussed Iraq's weapons capabilities. Scott Ritter has asked
chief U.N. weapons inspector, Richard Butler, to retract the statement if he
wants to avoid personal liability for defamatory comments. "If you wish to
avoid assuming personal liability, we require your prompt retraction of your
accusation,'' the lawyer wrote to Butler in a letter dated Oct. 7ů.According
to a transcript of the show, Butler said he told Ritter, "'You have broken the
law in speaking in public about things that you obtained while on official
duty, and I demand that you desist from doing that.'''ů"You must know that the
Constitution of the United States affords Mr. Ritter the precious guarantee of
free speech,'' Lifflander wrote. "Nothing in the United Nations Charter, its
rules or its unenforceable agreements supersedes Mr. Ritter's rights as an
American citizen.'' ů"
* The Red Bluff Daily News 6/11/97 Marsha Dorgan & Bryon Burruss "ůThe
U.S. Postal Police Tuesday afternoon temporarily shut down the post office at
the Paynes Creek Storeů.Paynes Creek Store owner, school board president and
post office operator, Monte Manwill, believes the shut down stems from
accusations he is opening some of the mail. "I got some complaints accusing me
of opening people's mail," Manwill said. "It's a lie. I wouldn't do that. I
have never done that. If a letter is open, it was that way when it got to the
post office." ů "There were all these guys in dark suits out here with rifles
guarding the place," said Ginn. "They were serious."ů" with followup Freeper
commentary "ůMonte Manwill is a former Marine, a huge man somewhere past 50,
who also is a licensed gun dealer. He is not a man who wears his patriotism on
his sleeve, but he is a constituionalist all the way. The agents that sealed
off the area were carrying automatic weapons when they cordoned off the town.
They entered the store looking for illegal weapons. They were BATF, but they
did not have local police with them on their raid. No charges were ever filed,
no irregularities were found in Manwill's record keeping, and the post office
boxes were returnedů."
* impeachclinton.org 10/98 "ůAs the impeachment debate heats up on the
Internet, pro-Clinton cyber crashers have been tampering with
www.impeachclinton.org and several impeachment sites we link to. Incidents
have ranged from mail bombs and sophisticated attacks on network routers to
domain removals and the intentional cutting of phone lines into one
webmasterĺs home! CIC is looking into these incidents to try to determine if
these attacks are a central, organized effort or individual prankstersů."
* ABCNEWS.COM 10/15/98 newspoll "ůI have to ask why ABC
http://www.abcnews.com/ would post the following poll on the front page of
their web site. "If there were an Ig-Nobel Peace Prize, who would win it?"
Choices: Slobodan Milosevic, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein Linda Tripp
* New York Post 10/20/98 Dick Morris "ůTHERE comes a time in the life
of a presidential scandal when the cure becomes more potentially lethal to the
president than the disease ever was. In legal terms, the cover-up becomes
more of an issue than the misdeed it is covering up. As in Watergate, the
Clinton scandals are entering this critical phaseů. But now the scandal enters
a new phase as evidence emerges of a systematic campaign to intimidate,
frighten, threaten, discredit and punish innocent Americans whose only misdeed
is their desire to tell the truth in publiců.ůSince Lenzner was awarded a
no-bid contract to train Haitian police at U.S. government expense, how can we
be sure public money is not being used to subsidize his dirty little war
against America's innocents? Congress should also probe The Washington Post's
allegation that Detective Jack Palladino was paid with federal funds during
the 1992 campaign to investigate the background of women who were sexual and
political threats to Clinton. The hearings should also focus on who is paying
for the secret police. To say that Clinton's lawyers are paying is to dodge
the question. Clinton's lawyers have basically never been paid. The president
and the First Lady have yet to pay them a dime, and the legal-defense fund has
largely been consumed by administrative and legal expenses. If the Clinton
lawyers are running on empty, you can bet that Lenzner is not. So who is
footing the bill?ů"
* New York Post 10/20/98 Dick Morris "ůBeginning as early as 1990,
Clinton surrounded himself with detectives and negative-research specialists
who collectively have become a kind of secret police force to protect his
interests. Consider the public evidence of their possible activities:
Kathleen Willey reports her cat was stolen and her tires were slashed on her
car. Shortly thereafter, while jogging in the park, a man ran up alongside
her, asked about her cat - calling it by name. He said that if she wasn't
careful, her children would be next. Former Miss America Elizabeth Ward
Gracen says she was offered acting jobs through the Hollywood-connected
Clinton operative Mickey Kantor in return for denying a sexual encounter with
Clinton when she was Miss Arkansas. She also reports that her hotel room was
ransacked - and $2,000 left untouched - in what she suspects was an effort to
find incriminating tapes. Linda Tripp's confidential personnel file winds up
in The New Yorker magazine in an attempt to discredit her. Dolly Kyle
Browning, who claims a former longtime relationship with Clinton, relates the
details of a long attempt to intimidate her and shut her up. The Washington
Post reports in 1992 that the Clinton presidential campaign aintained a staff
of detectives to dig up dirt on women to cow them into silence. In a telephone
conversation that same year, Betsy Wright, head of the Bimbo Patrol told me
much the same thing. Data from my confidential personnel file ends up in the
National Enquirer - for which Clinton lawyer David Kendall is the attorney -
and in Newsweek magazine in the first two weeks of September 1996. Republican
consultant Ed Rollins confides to me that White House staffer Sidney
Blumenthal wrote a negative story about him when Blumenthal worked for The New
Yorker, using material that, Rollins said, could only have come from my FBI
file. I kept Rollins' secret until I was asked a direct question in my
grand-jury appearance. Data smearing House Government Operations Committee
Chairman Dan Burton and Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde is released
just as possible impeachment proceedings open. Paula Jones' husband is
dismissed from his decades-long job with Northwest Airlines just as the CEO of
the airline seeks the Democratic nomination for governor of California. The
Washington Post reports detectives in Clinton's employ have spent months
digging up dirt on Monica Lewinsky to discredit herů."
* Freeper Kickme report from Palm Springs CA 10/20/98 "Reporting from
a bunker in the fairway of a remote, but exclusive private country club in the
deserts of Palm Springs, this reporter (notice clever use of third person just
like Dan what's-his-name) spoke to two of his golf buddies about the Clinton
Crisis. Coincidentally, both of this reporter's golfin' buds have wives that
are good friends of H. R. Justice Committee member Mary Bono. Interestingly,
these wives' friendships with Representative Bono developed through separate
social contacts only, not business, and certainly not politics. EACH of the
wives have received separate calls from a "reporter from the National
Inquirer" wanting anything they could get of a scandalous nature on the
private life of Ms Bono - current and/or historical. Both women hung up on the
callers, refusing to give them the time of day, and instructed the caller not
to call again. Please note one has a unlisted phone number, the other was
called at work. Discussion. In light of the fact Ms. Bono is on the H.R.
Judiciary Committee, it is not surprising that she is under the microscope.
The first question that comes to mind, however, is how were these low-profile
local ladies names and numbers brought into the foray? Of course the easy
answer is FBI files, etc. but I think that this is quite disconcertingů."
* Capitol Hill Blue 10/20/98 "ůAt a later meeting, the man is supposed
to have told the lawyers, Paula went down on him. It was, he said, her idea.
This portrait of young Paula as a wanton slut willing to spread her legs or
open her mouth for the cost of a free beer came from somebody named Michael
King, but reporters called the two Michael Kings in the Little Rock phone book
Monday and both said they had never met, let alone gotten it on with, anybody
named Paula Corbinů.ůBut the filings in the Paula Jones case joins an
ever-growing mountain of evidence that shows Bill Clinton, between blow jobs,
used the power of his office to destroy people. That, by anybody's definition,
is abuse of power and abuse of power is a "high crime and misdemeanor" against
the constitution of the United States. Which is more than reason enough to
throw the lowlife son-of-a-bitch out of office. "
* USA Today 10/20/98 AP "ůThree former FBI employees who claim the
bureau retaliated against them for reporting improper conduct sued the Clinton
administration Monday, contending it failed to protect bureau whistleblowers.
In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, the three said President Clinton
and Attorney General Janet Reno had failed to implement a 1989 federal law
requiring whistleblower protection for FBI employees. In April 1997, Clinton
ordered Reno to issue regulations protecting FBI whistleblowers as the 1989
law required, but she has yet to do so. Justice Department spokesman Bert
Brandenburg said the department is nearly finished drafting those protections.
He said Reno had asked Clinton to issue the April 1997 order when she learned
the 1989 law had never been implemented. Brandenburg had no comment on the
lawsuit's allegations. The FBI referred all inquiries about the lawsuit to the
departmentů."

INTIMIDATION - TAX EXEMPT STATUS
Christian Coalition
Christian Coalition, California chapter
San Diego Chapter of Christian Coalition
Three chapters of American Family Association
Life Legal Defense Foundation
Pierce Creek Church (Vestal, NY)
Second Baptist Church (Lake Jackson, Texas)

POLITICAL FIRINGS
William Sessions
All U.S. Attorneys
Chris Emory
Travel Office
Various intelligence officers were forced to retire or resign.

CLAIM: MALICIOUS IN PROSECUTING
Billy Dale
David Hale
Sharlene Wilson (another poster said it was Sharline)
Jeff Evans (talk show)
Charles Hayes
Nolanda Hill
James Sanders, "The Downing of TWA Flight 800" - theft of copies of reports
and piece of seat fabric
Linda Tripp, Montanarelli - Maryland taping, inquiries by 49 members of
Maryland General Assembly, which appropriates money for Montanarelliĺs office
* New York Post 7/14/98 Dick Morris "ůLast week, as Linda Tripp
testified day after day before the Starr grand jury, Maryland prosecutor
Stephen Montanarelli announced that his local grand jury would investigate
whether Tripp had committed a crime in taping the infamous phone calls with
Monica Lewinskyů.Two years ago, Little Rock prosecutor Mark Stodata made an
eerily similar announcement. On the very eve of the trial of Arkansas'
then-Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, Stodata announced that Starr's key witness, David
Hale, who had already pled guilty to federal criminal charges in the
Whitewater case, would be indicted on new state criminal charges of insurance
fraudůThe pattern is all too obviousů"
* MSNBC Investigating The President 7/20/98 GARY ALDRICH " ...a short
time ago when two Secret Service agents were put under a criminal
investigation by their own Treasury departmentůI hope we're not going to go
there with these Secret Service agents but I fear that the intimidation level
here is high with respect to people who have given damaging testimony against
the Clinton administration.... "
* 7/19/98 DRUDGE "Attorney General Janet Reno wants a Justice
Department investigation into whether Independent Counsel Ken Starr and his
deputies leaked secret grand-jury information, NEWSWEEK [7/27/98] is set to
report on Monday. Klaidman and Isikoff pop the story that has been the talk
of underground Washington: Reno has started to distrust Starr! "Reno may soon
notify Judge Johnson in a sealed court filing of her intention to start her
probe [of the leaks] -- and has alerted Starr's office as well," reveals
NEWSWEEK. ů"

APPEARANCE OF QUID PRO QUO
* Loral - China Missile Guidance
* Indonesia/Riady - Sweet Coal
* Webb Hubbell - $700,000 in business in 6 months ($3.5 million?)
* Teamsters/DNC - Mutual Financial
* Federal contracts to unionized companies (pending)
* IMF/Asia
* AMF (Arkansas) Kabila (Zaire) - mineral and diamond mining rights
* Barrelo/Intriago - Llanes
* Hudson/IBP - Tyson
* COSCO/Long Beach - China
* Encryption - Perry/Hambrecht & Quist/HUA MEI/Brooks
Telecommunications/SCM/Cylink (H&Q also linked with Salon, DNC)
* Transfer of Hot Seat technology from Department of State to
Department of Commerce
* Buddy Young (testimony) v. FEMA
* Suzanna Hubbell support-employment/Webb Hubbell conduct
* Tough tobacco negotiations v. China campaign contribution possible
links v. Chinese tobacco production higher than U.S.
* Motorola ``upgrading'' Chinese space boosters/missiles under a
``national-security waiver signed by the President.''
* Chungĺs Chinese PLA donations at same time Clinton was making it
easier for American civilian communication satellites to be launched by
Chinese rockets.
* Digital Equipment-supercomputers-China/Anthony Podesta
lobbyist(brother of John Podesta)
* Jim McDougal: 1984 $2,000/month payments to Gov Clinton via Henry
Hamilton (now deceased) to avoid problems with state regulators.
* Businesses that donated $2,300,000 to DNC committees and won seats
on trade missions in Clintonĺs first term, secured almost $5,500,000,000 to
support their foreign business operations from the Overseas Private Investment
Corp., a federal investment agency.
* Ickes to Clinton in September 1994 memo, regarding Schwartz to play
a role in generating campaign donations "in order to raise an additional
$3,000,000 to permit the Democratic National Committee to produce and air
generic TV/radio spots as soon as Congress adjourns."
* CDFI/Shorebank
* Enron, U.S. West, GTE, McDonnell Douglas and Fluor -- donated
$563,000 to the Democrats and received at least $2.6 billion in contracts
* Bernard Schwartz, CEO of Loral Space & Communications Ltd., gave
$112,500 to Democrats three months after being included in a 1994 China trade
trip and then received huge China contracts.
* McDonnell Douglas gave Democrats more than $98,000 from 1991-1994
and landed a deal on a trade trip to Saudi Arabia to sell that nation 61
commercial aircraft.
* AT&T made a 1992 donation of $400,000 to the DNC and received
received $4.13 billion in business deals and contracts
* Entergy Corp. made $80,000 contribution to DNC and went to China
with Ron Brown, returning with $845 million in new business.
* The Center for Public Integrity reports that 67 of 187 companies
participating in 14 trade missions are known to have contributed to Democrats.
* Even though there was a higher bid from a local union, China bought
machine tools from McDonnell-Douglas in Ohio. The company that was going to
use them to make commercial aircraft disappeared.
* Elizabeth Ward Gracen - via Harry Thomason /Michael Viner
* Larry Lawrence - Buried in Arlington
* Government Jobs for Sexual Favors - Various Testimony
* Paying for Silence - Jones (via Thompson) .
* Monica Lewinsky - Jobs/Vernon Jordan
* Monica Lewinsky - Job/U.N. Bill Richardson
* Larry Lawrence - Switzerland appointment (wife?)
* Gennifer Flower, State Job
* Tom Lantosĺ committee immunity votes, delays v. son-in-lawĺs
appointment as ambassador to Denmark (pending confirmation)
* Molten Metals and its directors from 1992 to 1996 donated $130,000
to Clinton/Gore or DNC and received $33 million in Department of Energy
funding, though it showed a loss every year except $400,000 in 1995. Bill
Haney, Molten Metals president worked at Goreĺs campaign office in Wyoming in
1988. Vic Gatto, Molten Metals chief of government sales in 1992 was Goreĺs
college friend Peter Knight, lobbyist for Molten Metals, was chairman of the
1996 Clinton-Gore campaign, raised up to $12.5 in a single event, was Goreĺs
top aide before he became vice-president, arranged meetings between Molten
Metals and Thomas Grumbly (dept of Energy) who had worked with Knight as a
member of Goreĺs congressional staff, attorney for Franklin Haney (part owner
of Portals an empty building that has cost the US $14 million) recipient of $1
million payment from Franklin Haney on the day the Portals lease was signed.
Maurine Strong , who is politically connected to Liberal Finance Minister Paul
Martin (whom he once hired as a university student), U.S. Vice-President Al
Gore, Middle Eastern royalty, and high-ranking members of the Communist
government in China, Senior Advisor to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan; Senior
Advisor to World Bank President James Wolfensohn; Chairman of the Earth
Council; Chairman of the World Resources Institute; Co-Chairman of the Council
of the World Economic Forum; member of Toyota's International Advisory Board.
* When stock prices fell in Molten Metals, a civil suit was filed that
alleged Molten Metal and its key executives, including Mr. Haney and Mr.
Strong, illegally practised insider trading and manipulated stock prices. All
the Molten Metal executives deny any wrongdoing. The contention is that the
company's officers knew its technology was not yet commercially proven, and
kept adverse news from the public while selling $ 15.3 million in company
shares. One detail cited that one of Molten Metal's key joint-venture
partners, contracting giant Lockheed-Martin, signaled grave doubts about the
technology on Sept. 20, 1996. That day the company registered its right to
sell 307,735 Molten Metal shares. The securities notice was signed by senior
Molten Metal executives, including Mr. Strong. It did not include any
confirmation that Department of Energy funding was also being curtailed,
although the department had made that clear in July, and issued a "stop work"
order to force proper technical and financial reporting from the company.
* AP 9/17/98 "Commerce Department officials asked the Democratic
National Committee to generate a list of candidates for a 1994 trade mission
to Russia, according to a Democratic Party memo. That memo plus others from
the party headquarters and the Commerce Department also show that Commerce
officials urged the DNC to develop a list of businesses in each congressional
district as a resource at a time when Democrats were gearing up for the 1994
elections. The memos, obtained by The Associated Press, offer new evidence in
investigations into whether Clinton administration officials improperly used
government-sponsored foreign trips to boost Democratic fund raising.
Congressional investigators have been looking into the allegations for
yearsů."
* Freeper DC Agent report 9/23/98 "A few years ago, summer of 1995, I
reported on a strange occurence at the PTO regarding some patents being
awarded to TRW. TRW had been trying to patent medium-earth-orbits for
satellites, and was to have two patents issue (sic). They issued for a few
hours (enough to be detected publicly), only to be pulled from the APS patent
text database system later the same day, a highly unusual act (in fact, I
think it is the only time it ever happened). ů Last week, at a luncheon talk
in San Jose, Commissioner Lehman let slip an ancedotal story about dealing
with pressures of politics in Washington that sheds some more light on the
oddities of the 1995 TRW patent handling. One of my readers was at the San
Jose talk, and forwarded me the following information. During his talk, Lehman
started out by jokingly saying that "even once I got a call from Air Force One
about a patent issue". To explain this to the audience, Lehman started talking
about the TRW patent, which he figured the San Jose crowd could relate to
because one of TRW's main competitors is Loral, which has a big presence in
Silicon Valley. The basic implication was that one or more of TRW's
competitors complained to the White House to such an extent that President
Clinton called Lehman from Air Force One and asked him to have the patent
reexamined. Remember all of this happened on the very day the patent was
issued and entered into the APS system and then withdrawn, unusual enough to
require lots of political clout to get the PTO to make such a rapid retraction
of a patent presumed to be valid.ů."
* NewsMax 9/25/98 "U.S.District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered
former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, deputy Chief of Staff John
Podesta and other top Commerce Department officials to explain their role in
Commerce's alleged practice of selling trade mission seats in exchange for
campaign contributions to the Democratic National Comittee. The judge's order
came as a result of a motion by Judicial Watch, a public interest law group
headed by Larry Klaymen. Judicial Watch has been pressing forward with its
"Chinagate" civil suit against Commerce Department, seeking a full accounting
of the departments trade mission practices. Earlier this year, Nolanda Hill,
former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's business partner, testified that "The
WHite House through Leon Panetta and John Podesta, had instructed [Brown] to
delay the [Judicial Watch] case by withholding the production of documents
prior to the 1996 elections, and to devise a way not to comply with the
court's orders." ů."
* Newsday 9/27/98 Karen Gullo AP "House investigators have gathered
evidence suggesting that the company of a major Democratic donor reimbursed
its employees for donations they made to President Clinton's 1996 re-election
campaignů. In an affidavit obtained by The Associated Press, one former
employee told the investigators that Jimenez's assistant told her that Jimenez
wanted to raise $20,000 from Future Tech employees for the Clinton campaign.
She was asked to make a $1,000 contribution for which she would be
reimbursedů. In 1997, the White House confirmed that Jimenez provided the
administration with information alerting it to the possibility of a military
coup in Paraguay. The United States took steps with the Organization of
American States to avert the coup. Future Tech does business in Paraguay.
Jimenez reportedly gave $100,000 to the DNC the day after the coup attempt
began. The White House said at the time there was no link between the donation
and administration policies affecting Paraguay."
* WorldNetDaily 10/1/98 Sarah Foster "ůThe House Resources Committee
has been investigating what went on behind the scenes in the establishment of
the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and why it was done in the
first place. "Monumental Abuse" contradicts the official version at every
point. The White House claims designation was necessary to protect a fragile
and important ecosystem in southwest Utah from mining and development. In
particular, the president wanted to include the 1,650-square-mile Kaiparowits
Plateau within the monument to save it from an impending mining operation. The
Kaiparowits Plateau contains the largest undeveloped coal field in the country
and was to be developed by Andalex Resources, Inc., which held the leases on
34,000 acres. Most of the paperwork had been completed and the project was on
track. Andalex planned on mining 100 to 120 million tons of coal over a
45-year period. This would have meant hundreds of jobs, new businesses, and
millions of dollars in taxes and royalty revenues for cash-strapped local
governments. That didn't matter to Clinton, who was angling for
environmentalist votesů.Clinton didn't mention that the coal he was
effectively locking away was a low-sulfur, clean-burning coal called
"compliance coal," so-named because it meets requirements set by the EPA. It
is in demand worldwide as a fuel for electric plants. Nor did he mention that
one of the only other places in the world where comparable coal is found is
Indonesia, the home of Mochtar and James Riady, the Chinese
government-connected billionaires who poured millions of dollars into Clinton
campaigns in 1992 and 1996ů."
* New York Times 10/7/98 David Johnston "ů A House panel investigating
the Teamsters union disclosed internal White House documents Tuesday that shed
a fuller and harsher light on an effort by Harold Ickes, former White House
deputy chief of staff, to resolve an agricultural labor dispute in California
in behalf of the union. The new documents are significant because they have
surfaced at a time when Ickes' truthfulness about his activities with the
teamsters is the subject of a 90-day Justice Department inquiry that could
lead to the appointment of an independent prosecutor. Attorney General Janet
Reno has until December to decide whether to go forward with an outside
inquiryů. But on Tuesday the House subcommittee on oversight and
investigations released a March 6, 1995, memorandum by Ickes to Mickey Kantor,
who was the U.S. trade representative at the time. It said Ickes had met with
a group of Teamsters officials and wanted to meet with Kantor to persuade him
to intervene in behalf of striking Teamsters. "Given the situation I would
like to meet with you at your very earliest possible convenience to discuss
this situation," Ickes wrote to Kantor. Additional documents released Tuesday
showed that Ickes did meet with Kantor on March 24, 1995, and followed up the
meeting with a thank-you letter on March 27, 1995. Then, on April 4, 1995,
Kantor telephoned William Cuff, the president of Diamond Walnut Growers.
Ickes' efforts on behalf of the Teamsters occurred against the backdrop of
White House efforts to rejuvenate a relationship that had cooled after the
union supported Clinton and other Democratic candidates in the 1992 campaign.
The Senate inquiry found that in the early months of 1995, Ickes considered
several specific proposals to enlist the Teamsters' supportů."
* AP 10/7/98 Josef Hebert Freeper migjagger summary "ů The gist of the
AP report ist that the federal government will make it more difficult for
people to build on wetlands preserves--unless, of course, you are Steven
Spielberg. Recently, Steven Spielberg's SKG (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen)
received a federal go-ahead on his studio project to be built on the Ballona
Wetlands, a wild life preserve in Los Angeles. I believe that that Mr.
Spielberg may be getting a return for his campaign contributions and for all
the money he helped raise for the Clinton's criminal defenseů"
* AP 10/13/98 "A lobbyist for a big California farm company talked in
1992 of getting ``keys'' to the top Agriculture Department office in the
incoming Clinton administration, a former company executive testified today.
Clinton's first agriculture secretary, Mike Espy, is on trial for allegedly
taking about $35,000 in illegal gifts from Sun-Diamond Growers of California
and other companies with business before his department. Weeks after Clinton's
election in November 1992, the Sun-Diamond lobbyist told executives at a board
meeting he had ties to several prominent Democrats, notes of the meeting show.
Lobbyist Richard Douglas singled out Espy, then a Democratic congressman from
Mississippi, as someone who would be influential with a Democrat moving in at
the White House. Douglas told the others at the Nov. 24 board meeting that
Sun-Diamond ``won't have keys to the secretary's office immediately,'' but was
in a good position with the new administration, another executive wrote in his
notes of the meeting. ů"
* AP 10/13/98 John Solomon " The Energy Department has spent $2.5
billion over the last decade on a program to develop new methods to clean up
its nuclear weapons sites but has used less than one-fifth of the technologies
it paid for, a congressional audit found. The audit, made public Tuesday,
criticized the department's Office of Science and Technology (OST) for
underwriting possible cleanup technologies without consulting with the weapons
sites that might benefit. It said many department weapons site project
managers shun the OST program because they ``lack confidence in OST's ability
to provide technical advice and assistance.''ůThe Associated Press reported in
May 1997 that a Massachusetts company with ties to Vice President Al Gore got
$33 million in development funds -- nearly all without bidding -- for its
experimental technology. The department often approved new funds around the
time the company, Molten Metal Technology, made donations to the Democratic
Party, records showed. The AP reported that the company's lobbyist, former
Clinton campaign manager and fund-raiser Peter Knight, arranged for company
executives to meet privately with the assistant secretary overseeing the
program. Knight also provided that official with complimentary tickets to a
black-tie Democratic eventů."
* Judicial Watch 10/13/98 Larry Klayman "ůWe first sued the Clinton
Legal Defense Fund in July 1994. We believed then, as we do now, that the fund
was not only unnecessary on its face, but it also served as a conduit for
bribes to the President. When regular citizens need money, they go to the
bank and borrow at market rates. This is what the Clintons MUST doů. "It
appears that the payment of the Clintons' legal bills has been, and will
continue to be, a popular and convenient method of laundering monies into the
President's accounts, in an attempt by domestic and foreign special interests
to buy influence and favors," Klayman said. "This is illegal and must be
stopped, before our nation succumbs to the same endemic government corruption
problems that countries such as Italy, Mexico and Brazil have been attempting
in recent years to correct." "A great nation cannot continue to exist when its
leaders can be bought and sold."ů"
* UPI 10/13/98 "Elections officials and Los Angeles County
authorities are investigating some 16,000 possibly illegal voter registration
cards. Secretary of State Bill Jones and District Attorney Gil Garcetti said
today the cards were among 40,000 submitted by the California Voter
Registration Project and Assembly Democrats Statewide Voter Registration
Project. Jones suggests they came from bounty hunters hired by political
parties to recruit new votersů."
* Freeper Charlie Chan observation from Court TV 10/15/98 "ůHave not
seen this story in print, but a.m. cable shows talked about Hirschfeld being
indicted by the IRS for tax evasion. Instead of that good old boy "Let's Put
This Behind Us" crap, could it be that this guy's offer of the million-dollar
Clinton bailout in the Jones case is no more than payola for "assistance" in
his federal criminal case pending? It wouldn't be the first time the Clintons
killed IRS cases involving "friends".
* AP 10/17/98 Pete Yost "ůCopperthite introduced Landow to tribal
representatives of the Cheyenne and Arapahos. They said Landow declared that
in order to get help with a longstanding tribal land claim they were making,
the Indians must pay $100,000 plus $10,000 a month to the law firm of former
Clinton campaign manager and fund-raiser Peter Knight. Earlier, the tribes
had donated $107,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 1996 in an effort
to win the Clinton administration's support for the claim. Landow, the tribal
leaders alleged, touted Knight's close relationship with Vice President Al
Gore. The tribal leaders said Landow also solicited them for a contribution to
a Gore 2000 Committee. Landow denies marketing Knight's close relationship
with Gore. Copperthite testified in the Senate campaign fund-raising
investigation in 1997 that Landow made threats, telling him and a lawyer for
the tribes that they had to do business with him or he would make sure they
never got the land back. Landow denied making the threats and Democratic
committee investigators attacked Copperthite's credibility as a witness by
alleging he had falsified job resumes. Under terms of proposed business
arrangements that never came about, Landow was to get 10 percent of any
settlement price for development of the land the tribes were trying to get and
10 percent of any revenue from gas or oil extraction. The tribes never got the
landů."
* American Spectator 10/1998 Byron York "ůTo reporters covering the
presidential campaign of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, August 14, 1992,
looked like just another day on the road. The candidate was in San Gabriel,
California, a middle-class suburb north of Los Angeles. He started the morning
with a conference call to top strategist George Stephanopoulos in Little Rock,
followed by an hour taping a campaign commercial. Then he headed off to a
fundraising lunch at the Sam Woo Seafood Restaurant on West Valley Boulevard.
Sam Woo, which can seat 900, is the largest Chinese restaurant in an area rich
with Asian eateries. Amid all the glad-handing and schmoozing with local
leaders that is standard for such events, Clinton set aside some time to meet
with one particularly notable guest at Sam Woo. "James Riady, owner of Lippo
Bank, will greet BC at elevator," reads a note on the candidate's daily
itinerary, referring to the Indonesian billionaire now at the center of the
campaign finance investigation. After the event, according to a memo written
by campaign aide Melinda Yee, Riady was scheduled to accompany Clinton during
a five-minute car ride to his next stop, a meeting of small business owners.
The brief drive, the memo made clear, was a very big deal for Riady: He has
flown all the way from Indonesia, where he is now based, to attend the
fundraiser. He will be giving $100,000 to this event and has the potential to
give much more. He will talk to you about banking issues and international
business. This is primarily a courtesy callů."
* New York Times Jeff Gerth 10/19/98 "Shortly after he took office in
1993, President Clinton traveled to Silicon Valley to lay out his vision of a
robust American economy buoyed by high-technology companies that could compete
anywhere in the world. The night before his speech, Clinton went out to
dinner with two dozen executives, some of whom complained bitterly about
Government rules impeding the overseas sale of computers and other
cutting-edge technologies. Clinton grabbed a pad, furiously took notes, and
promised relief, one executive recalled. Over the next five years, the
President delivered, personally presiding over what industry executives and
Government officials agree was one of the most sweeping relaxations of export
restrictions in American historyů.In 1995, Central Intelligence Agency
analysts wrote a report warning of the military implications of technology
transfers to China, but it never became an official assessment because senior
aides felt it was "not well done and lacked analytical depth," an American
official said.ů. But the United States maintained tight controls over what he
termed the most sensitive technologies -- those that could improve China's
missiles or anti-submarine capabilities. The fall of Communism brought a
precipitous drop in the Pentagon budget, prompting the defense industry to
scramble for new markets. Companies that once made spy satellites for American
spy agencies began making equipment for cellular networks that served China or
Russia. They quickly confronted a significant obstacle to making money on
sales to former adversaries. The cold war-era rules remained largely in
effect, and they were being interpreted by career officials who had devoted
their lives to blocking exports to Russia and its allies. Enter Bill Clinton.
His 1992 campaign had been driven by the slogan "It's the economy, stupid."ů
For decades, every proposed export of technology was weighed by a committee of
Western nations. It had authority to block sales involving military hardware
or so-called "dual-use" equipment that had military or civilian applications.
Even before the committee disbanded in 1994, the Clinton Administration moved
to ease restrictions on the sales of many dual-use items. The new rules
allowed companies to export many categories of technology without applying for
a Government license. American companies were delighted with the new system,
which relieved them of a time-consuming and frustrating process. But the
benefits came with a cost. Because sales could be made without export
licenses, the Government and its intelligence agencies no longer had a record
of many deals that involved dual-use equipment. There was no way to trace
patterns of sales, to know, for example, how many decoding devices were being
sold to a particular country. Commerce Department internal documents show
that China has been a major beneficiary of this policyů."

BYPASS BY EXECUTIVE ORDERS
* Assault Weapons
* Domestic (E.O. 12919)
* Kyoto Greenhouse (executive order threatened, EPA squeezing)
* American Heritage Rivers Initiative
* American Heritage Rivers Initiative - Biodiversity Treaty
* American Heritage Rivers Initiative - Council on Sustainable
Development (Agenda 21/92 Rio Earth Summit)
* Designation of 1.7 Million Acres in South Utah Off-limits to
Development (Sweet Coal)
* Funding for UN Rapidly Deployable Mission Headquarters (RDMHQ)
* Around the time of the Chinese contribution to the Clinton-Gore
Campaign, Clinton signed a retro-active Executive Order protecting Loral.
* China Missile Related E.O. 12924 8/19/94, contĺd 8/15/95
* China Missile Related E.O. 12981 12/6/95
* China Missile Related E.O. 12981 10/15/96 amendment
* China Missile Related E.O. (no num) 11/15/96 amends 12924
* China Missile Related E.O. 13020 amends 12981
* EO 12981 (Administration of Export Controls on Encryption Products)
states in part that encryption software "...shall not be considered or tested
as 'technology'..."
* One example of bypass by Executive Order was the aircraft engines
for the Lavi: powerful aircraft engines contain special technology that
greatly enhances their thrust, and this technology has long been on the
Munitions List of goods and services that would endanger American security if
they were sold to hostile or potentially hostile countries. It is illegal to
sell anything on that list to anyone, anywhere, without formal approval from
the State Department, which almost always clears its decisions with the
military. Congress passed laws forbidding the sale of anything on the
Munitions list to China, unless the president felt it so important that he
were willing to issue a formal waiver. Avoiding a formal waiver
confrontation with Congress, Clinton took the engine technology off the
Munitions List and shifted control from State to Commerce. Within days,
Commerce issued licenses permitting U.S. engine producers to sell the
technology to China.
* Another example of a bypass by executive order by Clinton was on
April 21, 1997 E.O. 13045 "Protection of Children from Environmental Health
Risks and Safety Risks" which at end revoked Reaganĺs September 2 1987E.O.
12606 which had nothing to do with the environment but rather was aimed at
blocking big-government.
* Even though the Climate Change Treaty signed by Al Gore in Koyoto
last year has not been submitted to the U.S. Senate for its Advice and Consent
- Clinton has begun implementation.
* The FCC (instigated by Al Gore) - proposes to tax everyone by
regulation without authorization from Congress.
* Executive Order June 22, 1995 "Termination of Suspension of Issuance
of Licenses for Export of Munitions List Articles to Peopleĺs Republic of
Chinaů"
* Clinton will issue an executive order to direct the Department of
Health and Human Services to begin documenting which brands of tobacco enjoy
favor among smokers age 12 through 17 as part "of the yearly National
Household Survey on Drug Abuseůdefiant gesture aimed at tobacco companies and
their congressional allies."
* Clinton tapped a special Treasury fund to bail out Mexico in 1995,
over the objections of Congress
* In March of 1995, Clinton issued an executive order to bar federal
agencies from signing contracts with companies that permanently replace
striking workers. The courts struck it down.
* Clinton authorized the Food and Drug Administration to declare
nicotine an addictive drug in the summer of 1995.
* Teenage tobacco use market research that died with the anti-tobacco
bill, was resurrected by Clinton in his order for a survey of the same
information
* Clinton orders for new protections for Medicare beneficiaries go
beyond the 1997 law adding many of the safeguards proposed by a presidential
advisory commission.
* With regard to telecommunications legislation mandating the poor
have access to the Internet, Congress left the details the FCC - who came back
with a proposal to tax business to pay for it.
* Louis Fisher, export on constitutional law at Congressional Research
Service citing actions ordered by the president in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and
Iraq, said that "Mr. Clinton's interpretation of presidential war power would
have astonished the framers of the Constitution."
* After the Senate blocked the nomination of Bill Lee to run the civil
rights division of the Justice Department, Clinton named him acting assistance
attorney general.
* 6/27/98 Joseph Farah "ůWith little fanfare and no media coverage,
Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala announced earlier this month
a plan to assign a national identification number to every health-care
provider in the country. ů "
* 6/29/98 The Reagan Information Interchange, Mary Mostert On May 29,
1998 Clinton issed E.O. 11478 to prohibit discrimination based on sexual
orientation. When considered in light of "Guidelines on Freedom of Religious
Expression in the Federal Workplace on August 14, 1997" Mary Mostert observes:
"ůwhat has occurred in the space of one year is an extremely clever attack on
the Freedom of Speech AND Freedom of Religion in Federal employment. If your
religion leads you to believe that homosexuality is morally wrong, you would
be charged with violating a homosexuals "rights." Or, if your observations
lead you to observe that the homosexual lifestyle cuts short a person's life
by approximately 40 years because of the increased suicides, murder rates and
AIDS infections attributed to that life style, you jolly well would be in
violation of the "civil rights" of a homosexual co-worker...using the power of
the Presidency of the United States and a presidential order, we now find
ourselves in a completely different kind of situation. Now, we are told,
people like me who point out that adopting a homosexual lifestyle
statistically shortens your life span by 40 years are suddenly violating their
civil rights.
EO 13083 deals with federalism, the relationship of the states and the federal
government - the distribution of power. It is a policy directive - guideline
- to executive departments and agencies about jurisdiction, state sovereignty
- the limits of federal powers. When EO 13083 goes into effect August 12
1998, it revokes EO 12612 issued by Reagan October 26, 1987 (limits the size
and scope of federal government) and EO 12875 issued by Clinton October 26,
1993 (promised to end unfunded mandates.) EO 13083 empowers bureaucrats and
federal agencies to determine for themselves if there is "constitutional and
legal authority" for whatever they want to do.
(1) When the matter to be addressed by Federal action occurs interstate as
opposed to being contained within one State's boundaries.
(2) When the source of the matter to be addressed occurs in a State different
from the State (or States) where a significant amount of the harm occurs.
(3) When there is a need for uniform national standards.
(4) When decentralization increases the costs of government thus imposing
additional burdens on the taxpayer.
(5) When States have not adequately protected individual rights and liberties.
(6) When States would be reluctant to impose necessary regulations because of
fears that regulated business activity will relocate to other States.
(7) When placing regulatory authority at the State or local level would
undermine regulatory goals because high costs or demands for specialized
expertise will effectively place the regulatory matter beyond the resources of
State authorities.
(8) When the matter relates to Federally owned or managed property or natural
resources, trust obligations, or international obligations.
(9) When the matter to be regulated significantly or uniquely affects Indian
tribal governments.
* 7/4/98 LA Times Elizabeth Shogren on executive orders "ůPresident
Clinton plans a blitz of executive orders during the next few weeks, part of a
White House strategy to make progress on Clinton's domestic agenda with or
without congressional help. His first unilateral strike will come today.
According to a draft of Clinton's weekly radio address obtained by the Los
Angeles Times, he plans to announce a new federal regulation requiring warning
labels on fruit and vegetable juices that have not been pasteurized. ů
Following that initiative, Clinton will take executive actions later in the
week that are intended to improve health care and cut juvenile crime,
according to a senior White House officialů "
* 7/6/98 National Review David Mastio "Imagine a world where the
Environmental Protection Agency can shut down a decades-old automobile plant
because neighbors decide they don't like the way it looks. It's called
"environmental justice" -- and thanks to an executive order signed by
President Clinton in 1994, it's already hereůin a textbook instance of
legislation without benefit of Congress, the EPA has leveraged the 1994
executive order into a massive expansion of its power. This February, the EPA
issued an eight-page document called a "guidance" that outlined the way the
agency intended to investigate "environmental justice" complaints filed under
Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Actů"
* From Insight, concerning the American Heritage Rivers Initiative,
Idaho Republican Rep. Helen Chenoweth: "We have virtually created a form of
dictatorship,"ů"It's purpose was ... a federal land grab, or a federal
takeover of power that rightfully belonged to the states," Chenoweth tells
Insight. "And they didn't do it through statutory authority. Instead, they
created a new animal called an 'initiative.' I am so amazed
* From Insight, concerning 11/96 when Clinton issued an executive
order to seize 1.7 million acres in Utah, Utah Republican Rep. James Hansen
"The manner in which the White House hid this decision from the people of Utah
.. displays an alarming disregard for the Constitution."
* 7/7/98 AP Sonya Ross "President Clinton today stepped up pressure on
health insurance companies to abide by a new law that bars them from denying
coverage based on pre-existing conditions when workers change jobsůThe
president signed an executive order directing the Office of Personnel
Management to inform insurers covering federal employees that they must meet
all the requirements of the 1996 Kennedy-Kassebaum health insurance law or
lose their federal contractsů"
* Joseph Farah: "ůPresident Clinton's glib announcement that he will
issue a barrage of executive orders to further his legislative agenda while
bypassing Congress is the ultimate fulfillment of those fears. More chilling
yet is the timing of the ominous announcement. It comes less than two months
after Clinton issued, while on foreign soil, Executive Order 13083,, which
annihilates the principles of federalism that have guided the nation for the
last 200 yearsů"
* 7/10/98 Manchester Union Leader Richard Lessner "ů If you think that
you still live in a free country, a republic, then you have not been paying
attention. Representative government is being slowly whittled away. Today we
Americans are ruled by executive orders issued by the Clinton Commissariat.
Just this week, Chairman Clinton issued the latest in a long line of executive
orders. The Chairman has issued more of these decrees than any of his
predecessors. This time around, Chairman Clinton decreed that government
health care no longer will be awarded to the lowest bidder, but by the favor
of the Commissar in Chief. Chairman Clinton ordered the "punishment" -- he
actually used the word -- of insurance companies that bureaucrats at the
Health Care Financing Administration deem insufficiently attentive to a 1996
law broadening heath insurance coverage. The penalty? Black-listed companies
would be barred from bidding for coverage of government workersů. "
* WorldNetDaily Sarah Foster 7/28/98 "President Clinton -- with
another stroke of his pen -- rewrote his own game plan for federalizing
American rivers. By an executive order signed yesterday, the president
increased the number of potential "heritage river" designees from 10 to 20.
Then at a press conference, Vice President Al Gore announced the names of 14
rivers the president had selected -- four more than expected. Clinton can now
add up to six more at whimů."
* NY Times 8/5/98 "President Clinton, under heavy fire from governors
and mayors for what they called a federal power grab, suspended an executive
order on federalism Wednesdayů. "
* NARA 8/13/98 "Executive Order 13095--Suspension of Executive Order
13083 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America and in order to enable full and adequate
consultation with State and local elected officials, their representative
organizations, and other interested parties, it is hereby ordered that
Executive Order 13083, entitled ``Federalism,'' is suspended. William J.
Clinton The White House, August 5, 1998. .."
* Wall Street Journal 10/5/98 Editorial "If Bill Clinton is given a
free pass for perjury, where will it stop? As a case history of the prevailing
mind-set, one need go no further than the humble Vacancies Act. That's the
federal law designed to prevent a President from circumventing the Senate's
"advise and consent" authority on executive branch appointments. Mr. Clinton
has stretched its meaning beyond previous bounds by appointing "acting"
officials and never sending their names to the Senate for confirmationů."
* U.S. Newswire 10/17/98 White House Press Office, 202-456-2100
"ůSTATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT I have today signed H.R. 3616, the "Strom
Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999." This Act
authorizes Fiscal Year 1999 appropriations for military activities of the
Department of Defense, military construction, and defense activities of the
Department of Energy. Naming this Act in honor of Senator Thurmond is a
well-deserved and appropriate tributeů. I am strongly opposed to a provision
that, effective March 1999, will transfer the jurisdiction over satellite
exports from the Department of Commerce to the Department of State. This
change is not necessary to ensure effective control of U.S. exports of
satellites and could hamper the U.S. satellite industryůIn the meantime, I
will take action to minimize the potential damage to U.S. interests that could
arise from the Act's export control related requirements. I will direct the
appropriate agencies to implement these provisions, subject to appropriate law
and regulation, in a manner that supports legitimate commercial communications
satellite exports while ensuring that the extensive safeguards needed to
protect our national security remain in effect. I will also direct all
concerned agencies, subject to appropriate law, regulation, and U.S. national
security interests, to employ, to the extent appropriate, time-lines and
transparent licensing practices for satellites and related items described in
section 1513(a) of the Act in a manner consistent with current dual-use export
license processingů. Further, I take note of the bill's legislative history
with respect to the export of U.S.-made items in connection with emergency
repair or replacement for commercial aircraft, and I will exercise the
certification authority consistent with that view. I am disappointed that the
Congress, in a well-meaning effort to further protect nuclear weapons
information, has included an overly broad provision that impedes my
Administration's work to declassify historically valuable records. I am
committed to submitting the plan required under this Act within 90 days. In
the meantime, I will interpret this provision in a manner that will assure the
maximum continuity of agency efforts, as directed by my Executive Order 12958,
to declassify historically valuable recordsů"

GOVERNMENT FACILITIES FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES
Lincoln Bedroom v Contributions
Queens Bedroom (overflow from Lincoln Bedroom)
Trade Mission Seats v Contributions
Coffees v Contributions
Fund Raising Calls from White House
White House Legal Office - Personal Defense
Camp David
Air Force One
Kennedy Center
350,000 Name Database
Trips - Lewinsky (Bacon) and Willey
* AP 10/7/98 John Solomon "A Republican-led House subcommittee accused
President Clinton and the White House of "theft of government property"
Wednesday in transferring data to the Democratic Party for fund-raising
purposes. Seeking to gain the attention of impeachment investigators, a
stinging report written by Republican congressional staffers detailed evidence
they contend conflicts with some of the White House's earlier assertions about
the use of a $1.7 million taxpayer-financed database created inside the
executive mansion. "The committee issues this report to expose the evidence
of the president's possible involvement in the theft of government property
and his abuse of power," said the report by the investigative subcommittee of
the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee. The report cites
testimony from top Democratic fund-raisers who acknowledged they got names and
addresses from the White House database on a regular basis and used them to
solicit donations or plan White House events for donorsů."
* NewsMax.com 10/18/98 Christopher Ruddy "ůFormer White House Counsel
William Kennedy admitted in a Judicial Watch deposition last week that his
office was a repository for hundreds of FBI background files, NewsMax.com has
learned. According to sources familiar with the videotaped deposition,
Kennedy said stacks of FBI files--which he repeatedly referred to as
"summaries"-- were all over his office, some lying on his desk and office
tables. Judicial Watch, a public interest law firm headed by Larry Klayman,
has filed a class action civil rights suit against the Clinton administration
for violating the Privacy Act. The Privacy Act makes it unlawful for any
government official to improperly obtain or use personal information held in
government files. In a stunning acknowledgment, Kennedy said that it was
illegal for any White House official to disclose information from personnel or
other files kept at the White Houseů."By admitting to the illegality of what
the White House has been doing, Kennedy essentially hung his former
colleagues," a lawyer familiar with the case saidů.Kennedy was said to have
appeared visibly shaken on the taped deposition when asked questions about
Foster.. Foster died suspiciously in July of 1993 and authorities ruled the
death a suicide. Kennedy came under fire in May of 1993 for improperly
summoning the FBI to investigate the Travel office. He resigned under a cloud
in November 1994ů."
* NewsMax 10/16/98 Carl Limbacher "ůIn October 1996, Marsha Scott was
identified as the White House operative put in charge of the secret database
project. In a Dec. 7, 1993, memo to then-Chief of Staff Mack McLarty, Scott
wrote, "Both the President and the First Lady have asked me to make this my
top priority." In January 1994, Scott assured Hillary Clinton in writing that
the database could be maintained in secrecy. Days later, White House Director
of Administration David Watkins issued a confidential briefing paper noting
that it would be illegal to use "Big Brother" as a fund-raising tool. "The
White House database will be government property and cannot be given to or
used by a campaign entity," Watkins wrote. Nevertheless, three years later,
the White House revealed that 12 interns and volunteers assigned to work on
the database were paid by the Democratic National Committee. Database manager
Marsha Scott has been described as Clinton's "hippie girlfriend," based on
reports that they dated some 30 years agoů. But NewsMax.com has learned that
long before she was linked to Clinton romantically in published accounts,
Schiff surfaced in a February 1997 report about the controversial database
project. In a story headlined, "Database Revelation Changes White House Intern
Policy," the Washington Times catalogued those with access to the secret
files: "Previous memos describing the White House database, known by the
acronym WHoDB, said the White House social office, the offices of personal
correspondence, public liaison, and legislative affairs, and the first lady's
operation and Oval Office would have access to the system. ... "Documents
showed that several other offices were granted access, such as the domestic
policy shop, the White House Office of Women's Initiatives and Outreach, the
White House Fellowship Program, and even the West Wing receptionist, Debra
Schiff." (Feb. 21, 1997) ů And where does Monica Lewinsky fit in? While not
serving the president personally, she handled correspondence at the White
House Office of Legislative Affairs, which had, according to the
aforementioned Washington Times report, access to the secret White House "Big
Brother" database.
* World Net Daily 10/20/98 Paul Chesser "ůIn another controversial
example of using public resources for political purposes, documents defending
President Clinton against impeachment have been posted on the White House's
Internet website. Upon linking to the White House's home page, Internet
"surfers" can instantly link to a "Memorandum Regarding Standards for
Impeachment." The memorandum, co-authored by lawyers from Clinton's private
legal team and the office of the White House counsel, vigorously defends the
president against the threat of impeachment. The document, written prior to
the House's vote to authorize an impeachment inquiry, is presented in a
two-point format. The president's attorneys first argue that the House
Judiciary Committee needs to define what an impeachable offense is before
authorizing an inquiry. The counsel's second point is that Clinton's conduct
does not constitute an impeachable offense. Once linked to the memorandum,
the site provides further access to both of the White House's initial
responses to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's impeachment referral. No
links presenting Starr's impeachment report are provided. In contrast, the
House of Representatives' Internet site links to Starr's referral and both of
President Clinton's rebuttalsů."

USE OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES FOR POLITICAL PURPOSE
FBI/Travelgate
INS/Pack the Vote 96
Justice/Firing all US Attorneys
Presidential Counsel's Office/Personal Work
IRS
Department of Defense Placements (Lewinsky, Tripp)
Mace v Clinton, once in the White House, Clinton substituted government
lawyers for his private lawyers.

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Updated and reposted for newcomers, from the Downside Legacy list,
draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Alamo-Girl (emailname) 10/22/98 09:43:58 PDT

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> To: Alamo-Girl

Another topic for this list, recess appointments.

The WSJ has had several editorials about all the recess
appointments made by Clinton of nominees whom the Senate would not
confirm. Many are in "acting" status far beyond the 90 days
allowable by law. Yet they retain the executive rule-making power.
A blatant violation of separation of powers.

> From: Nick Combs (ncc...@ibm.net) 10/22/98 09:49:10 PDT

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Source of the above and more news and discussion:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/t1000208.htm

Click on the "Latest on Clinton" link at
http://www.flex.com/~jai