Dumpster Diving for the cause
Wull
Are you collecting data for a new novel?
If you are, don't call it "Big", at least that is what is
inferred in this ng, ha ha ha
Wull
thurbers wrote:
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> NY POST
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> CLINTON'S SHADOWY SNOOP SQUAD
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> PRESIDENT Clinton has never met the private detective who has been
> shadowing his enemies, and after reading next month's Vanity Fair, he
> may not want to.
>
> 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.
>
> According to Vanity Fair, IGI has been investigating opponents and
> potential opponents of Clinton since 1989, when it targeted Tommy
> Robinson, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Arkansas.
>
> But it's Lenzner's other escapades that make for uneasy reading.
> Writer Judy Bachrach claims that among IGI's former operatives is
> Hillary Rodham Clinton's close friend Brooke Shearer, the wife of
> Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. Shearer's specialty during
> her time at IGI was divining information from people's trash, an art
> known in the spook biz as "dumpster dipping."
>
> "There's nothing more hilarious than seeing Brooke go through people's
> garbage," one of her former colleagues is quoted as saying.
>
> Brooke Shearer's twin brother, freelance journalist Cody Shearer, is
> alleged to have had cozy relations with IGI, using their office
> databases and hob-nobbing with operatives. In 1992 he is reported to
> have encouraged Lenzner to investigate an alleged affair between
> then-President George Bush and the State Department's Jennifer
> Fitzgerald, and allegations of marijuana use by Dan Quayle.
>
> Business has been brisk for IGI in recent years as its client list has
> grown. Virgin founder Richard Branson was targeted when Guy Snowden,
> disgraced chairman of lottery giant G-Tech, opposed him in a libel
> case. IGI spooks trawled for information on Branson's personal life.
>
> A top IGI executive resigned in disgust when the firm targeted a New
> Jersey-based executive who was in a feud with Korean electronics giant
> Samsung. Some feared the executive might be harmed.
>
> Ironically, Lenzner was so busy, what with operatives going through
> garbage, bugging homes and accessing credit records and toll calls
> that he missed the biggest coup of his career. In January 1996, an IGI
> employee, Susan Swanson, e-mailed Lenzner saying she had been
> contacted by people who had good reason to believe they had identified
> the Unabomber but needed a go-between to contact the FBI. Lenzner
> didn't reply and didn't return three calls because he was handling "a
> lot of significant cases."
>
> It turned out one of the prospective clients was David Kaczynski,
> whose brother, Ted, was arrested as the Unabomber a full four months
> later.