Capitol Hill Blue 2/12/99 Daniel Harris ".Despite official denials, the Clinton White House has collected new dossiers, complete with financial records, FBI investigative information and IRS reports on House impeachment managers and other perceived enemies of the administration, Capitol Hill Blue has learned. "It's payback time and payback will be a bitch," one White House aide said Thursday. "This won't be a gloat-free zone. It will be a 'get even' zone." Some White House aides worry privately that the President's lust for revenge will be so great it will create a new scandal and charges of abuse of power. "I've seen FBI and IRS files on members of Congress, complete dossiers on reporters and more," one worried aide admitted. "This is really scary." . There are new files from the investigators, files from the FBI and IRS financial information on Hyde, Barr, Hutchinston and others," one source confirmed Thursday night. "We will get even." Another source said Blumenthal has been working on the campaign "at the expense of everything else. This is Sid's ballywick and he is ready to serve his President." . But privately, aides say Clinton is unrepentant and angry and wants revenge for the attempts to remove him from office. "The President doesn't feel any remorse over what has happened," one aide said, "but he is angry...very, very angry."."

Capitol Hill Blue Doug Thompson 2/12/99 ".Clinton's professional smearmeisters are gearing up a full-bore "campaign of terror" aimed directly at any and all of those he feels were out to get him. One of the first victims will be Ken Starr. Once the paperwork on the impeachment muddle is complete, Attorney General Janet Reno will fire Starr. That's about as much of a foregone conclusion as Friday's acquittal of Clinton. With Starr gone, and Republicans on the Hill scared shitless of Clinton and his goons, who stands between the felons at 1600 Pennsylvania and his future victims? Good question. The Clinton that emerges from the impeachment process is unrepentant, still unwilling to accept responsibility for his actions and ready to inflict massive amounts of pain and punishment on his long list of real and perceived enemies. In other words, the next two years are going to be a real bitch, courtesy of a vindictive President who believes strongly in payback.."

Today Show 2/12/99 Katie Couric Freeper Steven W. ".Katie Couric poses the question to James Carvile, "now that it's over James, isn't it time to bury the hatchet?" - Carvile, adamant that he's "proud (his friend) the president called on him" to wage Clinton's war of personal destruction, declares a new battle on Judge Starr, "I'll bury the hatchet - I'll bury the hatchet in his head"."

National Post 2/13/99 David Frum Freeper praise ".Mr. Clinton's plans for the future were revealed on Thursday to The New York Times by unnamed aides who spoke of the president's fury at the House that impeached him and his determination to spend the rest of his final term getting even. He will deploy his considerable fundraising powers to collecting an enormous war chest to be used against vulnerable pro-impeachment Republicans and to return the House to Democratic control in '00. For Mr. Clinton, revenge is the next order of business.."

Dallas Morning News 2/13/99 David Jackson ".The impeachment battle is over, but it's only a cease-fire in the scandal wars. Independent counsel Kenneth Starr is still investigating President Clinton and his associates on a variety of fronts, some of which could rekindle the firefight that sparked impeachment. Mr. Starr himself is also under investigation, including a Justice Department review that some Republicans suggest is payback for the Monica Lewinsky investigation. Above all looms the big question: Will Mr. Starr try to obtain a criminal indictment of President Clinton before his term expires in 2001? He has retained consultants who argue that the Constitution permits indictments of sitting presidents.. Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, criticized Justice Department news leaks about Mr. Starr. "These press accounts ... support the impression many people have that this is a partisan Justice Department," Sen. Orrin Hatch, R- Utah, wrote in a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno.."

NewsMax.com 2/14/99 ".Rep. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called alleged Clinton rape victim Juanita Broaddrick repeatedly last month as House trial managers secretly debated whether to request her testimony during the President's impeachment trial, Inside Cover has learned exclusively. "He never encouraged her to come forward," a source close to Broaddrick revealed. "But Lindsey said he wanted her to know they'd support her whatever she decided to do." A civil war has broken out among House members over whether to release secret material now stored in D.C.'s Gerald Ford Building on "Jane Does" linked to Clinton, internet sleuth Matt Drudge reported Saturday night.One Arkansas insider contacted by House staffers was told that Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott "went ballistic" at the mere mention of Broaddrick's name. But, as Inside Cover reported exclusively on Friday, House Democrat Robert Wexler has hinted that a House vote to release the explosive sealed material could come soon.."

Freeper Jolly reports on TLC Real History "The Clintons: A Marriage of Power ".I was wondering if you had heard that Lousie from the Health add Harry and Lousie, (I do not rember the actress' name) was threatened. I saw last night on TLC's Real History The Clintons: A Marriage of Power - Episode 1. They interviewed the actress and she said that people came to her and told her that she could appear in the Rose Garden and apoligize to Hillary. If she accepted it would be very good for her career, if she declined it would be bad for her career. She then went on to say that she told them she was a democrat becuase she thought only republicans acted that way."

MSNBV 2/16/99 Jonathon Broder ".AUTHOR Edward J. Epstein, a friend of Blumenthal, told MSNBC that four years ago, Hitchens questioned whether the Holocaust had ever taken place. The Anti- Defamation League, which monitors anti-Semitism around the world, says Hitchens is not a Holocaust denier, and now Hitchens, a caustic critic of President Clinton, is accusing Epstein of launching a plot to destroy his reputation and is considering legal action against him. "Why now?" Hitchens said in an interview. "I suspect it is an effort by the Clintonoids to change the subject."."

Washington Times 2/17/99 Jerry Seper Freeper A Whitewater Researcher ".EXCERPTS: "A federal judge...will rule soon on...a defamation lawsuit by a woman who accuses...Clinton of threatening to destroy her if she revealed their sexual relationship....the suit...by Dolly Kyle Browning, a longtime friend of Mr. Clinton's...accused Mr. Clinton of defamation for what she said was a long-term sexual relationship. The suit...also named White House Deputy Counsel Bruce Lindsey, White House Deputy Personnel Director Marsha Scott and Jane Mayer, a reporter for the New Yorker magazine....They are accused of trying to block...a fictionalized account of the affair titled "Purposes of the Heart."...Mrs. Browning said Clinton operatives threatened to "destroy" her if she pursued publication of her book....Mrs. Browning's attorney, Larry Klayman, president of Judicial Watch...said he was "confident" the case would proceed..."Congress was unwilling to do the job, but Dolly will," he said, referring to the Senate's acquittal of Mr. Clinton on...the impeachment trial brought on by the Monica Lewinsky scandal...."

Newsmax 2/15/99 Debra J. Saunders ".How threatening Rogan's probity must be to Bill Clinton. You can see why Clinton, the most powerful man in the world, would want to hound out of office this two-term congressman from Glendale. The sight of Rogan's uprightness must rankle Clinton the way Snow White's looks got to her wicked stepmother. The chilling truth, at the moment when Americans can sigh with relief at the end of the trial, is that this president won't be satisfied with acquittal. He'll set out to bury the likes of Rogan. Whatever happens, scalp or no scalp, at least he won't be able to bring Rogan down to his level.."

Freeper report on The O'Reilly Factor 2/18/99 ".On the O'Reilly Factor tonight, Mary Frances Berry of the Civil Rights Commission was accusing the House Managers of being against civil rights for minorities. This, I believe, is simply a covert way of calling them racists. Bill O'Reilly insisted that she give one specific example (in regards to Henry Hyde). She just kept filabustering with generalities until O'Reilly cut her off and told her she must answer his questions, and could not fillabuster; especially since she was accusing people of pretty nasty stuff. After the break Ms. Berry was gone. She decided not to continue the interview.."

Washington Times 2/19/99 Greg Pierce ".President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton have already launched a campaign of vengeance against one of the most liberal Republicans in the House, The Washington Post reports. Rep. Jack Quinn, a New York Republican who had been friendly with Mr. Clinton, infuriated the the president when he decided to vote for impeachment back in December. "Clinton pointedly snubbed Quinn's outstretched hand after delivering his State of the Union Address and even more pointedly flew to Buffalo the next day for a huge rally in Quinn's district," said reporter Michael Grunwald. "Behind the scenes at the rally, Hillary Rodham Clinton asked several local Democrats about Quinn's prospects in 2000 and promised to campaign for whoever faced him," the reporter said.."

UPI 2/11/99 ".House impeachment manager Rep. Chris Cannon, R- Utah, fumed (Thursday) over a New York Times report that President Clinton plans to target his impeachment foes in the 2000 election. "This is the height of arrogance, this is the very arrogance of power," Cannon announced."

UPI S 2/11/99 ".Senate Republican leader Trent Lott (Thursday) objected to a New York Times story that claims President Clinton plans to retaliate against congressional Republicans for their impeachment efforts by working to unseat as many of them as possible in the 2000 elections. Lott issued this statement: ``It is deeply troubling that the president views closure of this constitutional process as an opportunity for revenge.'' ."

Cspan 2/20/99 Freeper LYNXCry reports ".On Cspan a panel was discussing Privacy and the Press, and Joe Conason was slamming Drudge, when Dick Morris jumped in and said "that is the third time you have slammed Drudge and I think we need to let people know that you are a Whitehouse lackey Mr. Conason." Conason fired back at Morris and the gloves were off. Morris tried to say that Conason had called him when Clinton was running for President in 96 to get some dirt to dish out to clintons opponents and Conason called Morris a liar. They continued to take shots at each other, with Conason telling Morris that he "may have more dirt on Morris (he reported the Morris scandal a few years back ). Morris challenged "go ahead, there is nothing to report". ."

Zola Times 2/22/99 Wesley Phelan "...In 1996, shortly after the publication of Unlimited Access, Gary Aldrich appeared on "This Week" with David Brinkley. The panelists derided Aldrich's claims that security had broken down in the Clinton White House. After the show, ABC and other networks canceled their remaining interviews with Aldrich. Elizabeth Vargas rounded out the media attack, stating on "Good Morning America" that Aldrich was under fire for "what appears to be sloppy reporting." [1] George Stephanopoulos, a senior adviser to the President, had attempted before the program to convince ABC to cancel its invitation to Aldrich. He accused Aldrich of being a "tool" in a right-wing plot "to destroy" the President. He said that Bob Dole, Clinton's opponent in the 1996 presidential election, had "a responsibility to repudiate him or he is complicit in this campaign of character assassination". Aldrich's claims, according to Stephanopoulos, were "vicious", "totally preposterous", "absurd" and "outrageous". [2] Now, two-and-a-half years later, any reasonably informed person knows who is guilty of "sloppy reporting" and who is "vicious", "totally preposterous", "absurd", and "outrageous". On January 12 of this year Ms. Vargas interviewed Larry Flynt on "Good Morning America." She allowed him to air charges against Congressman Bob Barr, pausing only momentarily to note that it "might be a stretch" to imagine that Flynt was a White House tool. [3] Stephanopoulos, for his part, has been sanctioned by a federal judge for not telling the truth in a deposition to Judicial Watch. [4] Vindication is sweet..."

Weekly Standard 8/4/97 Thomas M. DeFrank and Thomas Galvin "...When he started investigating President Clinton 's Whitewater dealings, Jim Leach knew he wouId be playing hardball. But the Iowa Republican never expected to see Jack Palladino lurking around his house. But there Palladino was, scoping out Leach's Northwest Washington premises one evening as the congressman arrived home in 1994. Palladino, a San Francisco private detective who had been paid more than $100,000 by the Clinton campaign in 1992 to deal with what Clinton intimate Betsey Wright called "bimbo eruptions," quickly scurried away, and Leach never went public with what he saw. But the House Banking Committee chairman privately told colleagues the intended message was clear: You mess with us, we'll mess with you. William Clinger got the same treatment. When the now-retired Pennsylvania Republican congressman was probing Commerce secretary Ron Brown's business dealings in 1995, a New Jersey detective named Louis Stephens suddenly started snooping around. Stephens had been hired by Brown's ex-business partner and mistress Nolanda Hill to button up Clinger's sources. About the same time, a member of Clinger's staff got a call from a reporter working on a Clinger profile. She'd been tipped by a supposedly solid source that Clinger was a wife-abuser who'd once viciously pushed his spouse down a flight of stairs in a rage..... "Can I prove it was the White House behind the story? No," concedes a well-informed source. "Do I think it was them? Absolutely. They do have a pattern of getting into your past." ....The president's impressive people skills and abundant personal charm mask a streak of political cold- bloodedness and score-settling worthy of a Mario Puzo novel. That's particularly true in the way he and his lieutenants deal with anyone-critic or innocent victim alike-who poses a potential menace to the massive effort to keep the lid on the various scandals dogging Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, and his administration...."

Weekly Standard 8/4/97 Thomas M. DeFrank and Thomas Galvin "...The most successful hit so far by Clinton's team was delivered on Gary Aldrich, author of Unlimited Access, a kiss-and-tell memoir of his days as an FBI agent posted to the Clinton White House that sent the president's men into orbit. When ABC invited Aldrich onto This Week last summer, Clinton aides went to red alert to try to get the interview scrubbed. Chief of staff Leon Panetta called ABC's veep for news to complain. Former congressman Tony Coelho leaned on a Brinkley producer, Capital Cities/ABC president Robert Iger got a call, and so did Michael Ovitz, then president of ABC's parent corporation, Disney. Democratic party chairman Chris Dodd and White House press secretary Mike McCurry hit the phones as well. The message was identical: Aldrich was a Clinton hating conservative nut case whose book wasn't worthy of network air time. ABC officials say it was the most aggressive and heavy-handed attempt to muzzle a presidential critic since the government went to court to block publication of the Pentagon papers...."

CBS radio network 3/1/99 Feeper meandog reports "…Heard this morning that Hustler huckster Larry Flynt was threatening to "out" television news anchors if they keep reporting on Larry's "beloved president's" sex habits…."

UPI 3/3/99 Freeper Brian Mosely "…Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt plans to detail the sexual escapades of as many as 21 congressional Republicans in a special 84-page report in the magazine's April 6 edition. Hustler editors told The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, (Wednesday) that the exposes include at least one senator and one House impeachment manager who continued their relationships during the impeachment and trial of President Clinton…."

WorldNetDaily 2/16/99 Charlton Heston at Harvard "…. I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural war that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart. I fear you no longer trust the pulsing lifeblood of liberty inside you ... the stuff that made this country rise from wilderness into the miracle that it is. Let me back up. About a year ago I became president of the National Rifle Association, which protects the right to keep and bear arms. I ran for office, I was elected, and now I serve ... I serve as a moving target for the media who've called me everything from "ridiculous" and "duped" to a "brain-injured, senile, crazy old man." I know ... I'm pretty old ... but I sure thank the Lord ain't senile. As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated. For example, I marched for civil rights with Dr. King in 1963 -- long before Hollywood found it fashionable. But when I told an audience last year that white pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone else's pride, they called me a racist. I've worked with brilliantly talented homosexuals all my life. But when I told an audience that gay rights should extend no further than your rights or my rights, I was called a homophobe. I served in World War II against the Axis powers. But during a speech, when I drew an analogy between singling out innocent Jews and singling out innocent gun owners, I was called an anti-Semite…."

Roll Call Online: News Scoops Via Drudge Report 4/20/99 Ed Henry "...Female conservative pundits are running scared from Playboy magazine, which is trying to do a story on the blond, leggy stars of political chat shows. ....But one conservative told HOH that the women are "fleeing in terror," out of a fear that the mag is developing a story charging that the gals are hypocrites for preaching conservative values while using sex appeal to get on TV..... John Fund, a writer on the Wall Street Journal editorial board, huffed that "feminist and liberal pundits would never be treated this way." ...."

The American Spectator 5/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman "...When I exposed the efforts of Defense Secretary William Perry to help the Chinese buy highly sensitive U.S. telecommunications gear over the objections of the National Security Agency ("Peking Pentagon," April 1996), Perry threatened to sue this magazine for defamation. Instead, he called prominent conservatives to his office in an attempt to organize a counter-attack against me. Meanwhile, I learned, photocopies of my article were being passed around gleefully behind Perry's back. ..."

New Republic 5/24/99 Jacob Heilbrunn "...It appears also that the Cox committee report contains new information about China's exploitation of the Clinton administration's willingness to allow American companies to sell the Chinese dual-use technology. Starting in 1993, with the support of then-Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, American firms began to promote the sale of computers and other high technology to China. The question is whether these firms were, in the process, also giving the Chinese dual-use technology--technology that arguably should be kept from the Chinese since, although it can be used for relatively benign purposes, it can also be used to achieve military ends. In particular, the Cox committee report apparently takes a close look at the sale of high-performance computers to China and whether these computers were used by the Chinese in modeling the miniaturized W-88 warhead..... On April 12, Notra Trulock, a senior Energy Department intelligence official, testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee that in July 1997--on the eve of Clinton's summit with Chinese President Jiang Zemin--he had alerted Sandy Berger to his suspicions of ongoing Chinese espionage in American labs. Trulock has said that he didn't get much of a response. Indeed, about the only thing Berger appeared to do "swiftly" in response to Trulock's allegations was to have his deputy, Gary Samore, commission an alternative study from the CIA about other ways--apart from stealing from the United States--the Chinese might have developed certain technologies. Not surprisingly, the CIA study was later used to cast doubt on Trulock's concerns..... But Trulock, in his congressional testimony, complained that Energy Department officials "strenuously resisted" implementing PDD-61. Then-Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Moler has maintained that Trulock's allegations are "absolutely false" and that the department did implement changes. Unfortunately, given the secrecy still surrounding the underlying events, this amounts to a high-level he-said-she-said dispute, and, at least until the Cox committee report is declassified--and maybe not even then--it's impossible to know exactly what occurred. .....Specifically, Kennedy points to an April 8 Times article by Gerth and James Risen that alleged Berger had learned about the theft of neutron bomb data as early as April 1996. "Four people at the meeting don't recall Berger being told," says Kennedy. But Gerth stands by the story. When I explained to Gerth that the White House was now targeting him by name, he read to me portions of an April 20 letter he had sent to National Security Council spokesman David Leavy in response to White House complaints about the April 8 story. Gerth wrote: "[N]o one knows precisely what transpired because the meeting was apparently not transcribed. Our reporting relied on officials who were present or had used materials present at the briefing. Moreover, one of our sources spoke to us with the knowledge and approval of the White House. We did not include this in the story ... because we did not want to point a finger at the White House as disclosing a highly classified briefing." ....."

New York Times 5/11/99 "....Recounting a tale of intrigue with mysterious meetings at smoky restaurants, hotel lounges and karaoke bars in Hong Kong, the fund-raiser, Johnny Chung, provided his first public account of his experiences, from 1994 to 1996, as he traveled the Far East prospecting for business clients eager for access to the Clinton Administration..... It was the Democrats from Chung's party who turned on Chung, bitterly denouncing him as an untrustworthy witness. "You've had your 15 minutes, Mr. Chung," said Representative Tom Lantos, Democrat of California. "You are a very minor, insignificant puppet of the Communist regime." Representative Henry Waxman, Democrat of California, accused Chung of providing the authorities with misleading accounts of his dealings with Hazel O'Leary, the former Energy Secretary, and Margaret Williams, a former White House aide, who were investigated before they were cleared of wrongdoing. Chung said that after investigators focused on him, he was offered money to keep him from cooperating with Federal authorities and was introduced to a Los Angeles lawyer, David E. Brockway, who Chung said would help him if he kept his silence. But after Tuesday's hearing, the lawyer denied Chung's account. "He's a huckster and a hustler," Brockway said in a telephone interview. "It's a lie." ..."

Freeper paul in cape reports 5/11/99 on Kathleen Willey on Hardball with Chris Matthews "...Opening statement - she expects to be verbally attacked starting after tonight's show ..." Truthkeeper adds "...She says Mickey Kantor is the one who applied pressure to Julie Hiatt Steele re: the flaky adoption of her kid...."

Washington Times 5/12/99 Jerry Seper "...A defiant Johnny Chung told a House committee yesterday of cash gifts for President Clinton's re-election campaign, of threats by the Chinese to his family if he didn't keep his mouth shut, and of hush money to defend himself if he did. The exact language of the threats was imprecise and polite, he said, but he got the message loud and clear that he would cooperate with the FBI and the Justice Department only at great risk. "The message was as follows: If you keep your mouth shut, you and your family will be safe," the one-time Democratic fund-raiser said At one point, the FBI believed the threat was serious enough to hide Chung and his family in a California hotel for three weeks.....Chung, who admitted last year as part of a plea agreement to making illegal donations to the Democratic Party, told the committee the threat and the hush money offer for attorneys' fees came from Robert Luu, a Chinese-American he first met in Beijing and whom he later met in Los Angeles -- while the FBI listened on a body microphone he wore and watched on a hidden camera. He said Mr. Luu represented himself as being in touch with a Chinese general who had earlier given Chung $300,000 for President Clinton's re-election campaign. The threat, he said, was veiled. "The Chinese are more polite and indirect, so the words do not precisely translate. . . . Nevertheless, this was how I interpreted the meaning of the words. Essentially, the message that I believe I was given was that me and my family would be safe if I didn't talk, and if I did talk, I could not be *certain what would happen," Chung said. In describing the threat, Chung said Mr. Luu told him he was in contact with "some people from Beijing," that he had received money from Chinese officials "to take care of my legal expenses, and that the lawyer, David Brockway, "was connected and knew the No. 3 person" at the Justice Department. Chung said Mr. Luu also told him that he might be able to get himself a presidential pardon. Chung testified that Mr. Luu said he was connected to Liu Chao-ying, a Chinese aerospace executive and lieutenant colonel in the People's Liberation Army.... "

Reuters 5/31/99 "...House Republican Leader Dick Armey of Texas blasted filmmaker Spike Lee again Sunday for his ``totally outrageous'' comment that the president of the National Rifle Association Charlton Heston should be shot. ``Charlton Heston does not deserve that kind of a cheap shot from this second-rate movie producer,'' Armey told Fox News Sunday. Lee, asked what he would do to combat violence in the United States, was quoted in Saturday's New York Post as saying the NRA should be disbanded and Heston should be shot ``with a .44-caliber Bulldog'' magnum pistol...."

Judicial Watch 6/1/99 "...Last week, at the height of the Chinagate scandal, the infamous Craig Livingstone returned to testify in Judicial Watch's $90 million dollar Filegate class action lawsuit. While the deposition is not complete, in six hours of testimony he broke new ground. First, it is now even clearer than ever that he was hired by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Based on his testimony, one can only conclude he was not fit for the job of head of the Office of White House Personnel Security. Second, Livingstone confirmed that the FBI files which he and others improperly procured are still at the White House, as they have been archived. This buttresses Judicial Watch's conviction that they were used to smear political and other adversaries as late at the Lewinsky scandal. Third, the former bar bouncer now claims a religious conversion, regretting aspects of his past life, including his threats to bash in the face of his next door neighbor, a feat which earned him a police report. Livingstone took umbrage at this, and testified that his neighbor was on a terror campaign to harass him, and that he really threatened to bash in the face of her dog. Fourth, Livingstone implicated James Carville in likely false testimony. When Carville was deposed, he stated that he could not remember meeting Livingstone, except for one time at the Palm Restaurant in Washington. At that encounter, Carville recounted that Livingstone came up to him and Carville asked, "Do I know you?" Livingstone says that, in fact, the two had contact during prior Clinton campaigns, and has an entirely different account of the story at the Palm. Given Carville's smear operation during the Lewinsky scandal, his contact with the White House over the Lewinsky scandal, his complicity with the President in releasing the Willey letters in violation of the Privacy Act, and statements by the daughter of Larry Flynt that her father may have had access to FBI files through Carville, the prior contact with Livingstone is significant. Incredibly, at the Palm, Livingstone told Carville, "...you're really doing a good job out there."...."

Investor's Business Daily 6/3/99 Editorial "...Energy Secretary Bill Richardson promised last weekend that heads would roll over the Chinese spying scandal. Earlier in May, Attorney General Janet Reno said the same thing. Is the White House finally taking responsibility? Don't bet on it. Richardson and Reno are engaging in typical Clinton-style accountability: Blame someone else. Richardson is in a tough spot. He took over a department that seemed to have scant interest in guarding U.S. nuclear technology. But Richardson has been a part of the Clinton administration long enough to learn the playbook. And blaming underlings is this White House's favorite pastime - one begun as early as 1993 over the Whitewater land deal When the White House-China fund-raising scandal blew up, the administration finally gave up a trio of stooges: John Huang, Johnny Chung and Charlie Trie. Even though they were charged with crimes ranging from obstructing investigations to illegal fund-raising, it appears that none will go to prison. Is that their reward for protecting the president? When the White House was found to have more than 1,100 FBI personnel files, administration officials pointed fingers at the Secret Service. The Clintons, they implied, were above digging for dirt on political opponents. The Secret Service immediately proved it hadn't been involved. The president once called Webster Hubbell his best friend....James McDougal, an ex-business partner of the president who died in prison, was convicted for his role in Whitewater. He protected the Clintons in court. Yet he implicated them while in prison. Susan McDougal, his wife, spent months in jail because she refused to testify before a grand jury. Her refusal proved to many that she had information on the guilt of the president. In April she was found not guilty of obstructing justice. The Clintons are like Mafia dons. They run the show but insulate themselves from the dirty work. When the heat's turned up, they expect their subordinates and associates to take the bullets intended for them...."

NewsMax.com 6/4/99 "...Reacting to Spike Lee's suggestion two weeks ago that NRA President Charlton Heston should be shot, Georgia Congressman Bob Barr has made a formal request that the movie maker be held officially accountable. Inside Cover has exclusively obtained a copy of a letter written by Barr regarding Lee's comment, which was sent to Navy Secretary Richard Danzig on Thursday. In it, the congressman asks the U.S. Navy to deep-six a seven figure deal it cut with the shoot-from-the-lip filmmaker earlier this year. Barr told Danzig: "According to press reports, the United States Navy has chosen to contract with filmmaker Spike Lee to direct the filming of a series of recruiting commercials. "It is bad enough that Spike Lee has a history of promoting racial division at every opportunity. However, his recent public comment that Charlton Heston should be shot for defending the Second Amendment is beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. "I request the Navy immediately cancel any contract with Spike Lee. Surely, in a nation with such a diverse array of talented directors and producers, the United States Navy can do better than choosing a divisive hate monger such as Spike Lee to direct its recruiting commercials." ... But Lee's "Shoot Heston" remark, along with his lucrative Navy deal, has drawn little media outrage to date. But for the efforts of New York talk radio host Steve Malzberg, who focused on Lee's remarks after the New York Post covered them deep inside their May 22 edition, the story would have likely disappeared. Malzberg's news judgement was vindicated when House Majority Leader Dick Armey took notice last week and sent out a press release denouncing Spike Lee's comments. Thus far Rep. Barr, a longtime defender of the Second Amendment and frequent ally of the National Rifle Association, is the only member of Congress to call on the Navy to remove the incendiary film maker from the taxpayers' payroll...."

UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE Garry Wills "...On the day when Bill Clinton testified to the Starr grand jury about Monica Lewinsky, Lanny Davis, his ally and one-time aide, appeared on the MSNBC network. When a criticism of the president by Gov. George W. Bush of Texas was quoted to him, Davis shot back in an ill-considered way: "I was in college with George Bush Jr., and if we start seeing smug, sanctimonious comments from political officials, especially Governor Bush, throwing stones in glass houses, I think everyone is going to be at risk." After a break in the show, Davis admitted he had no basis for this comment. "I admitted I just lashed out because I was under stress." But he still finds that people believed his first comment and not his second one. In the immediate aftermath of the show, he received approximately 200 phone calls from reporters and others wanting to get the dirt on Bush. The fact that people are still scrounging for gossip from Davis shows that they have not been able to turn up any other source of scandal. He regrets that the very thing he was criticizing in Clinton's foes is what Democrats now want him to indulge in with Bush...."

6/7/99 Judicial Watch "....Last Friday, Judicial Watch took the long awaited deposition of Bernard Nussbaum, the White House Counsel who presided over Travelgate and Filegate. In six hours of testimony in its Filegate class action lawsuit, where Hillary Clinton is a defendant, Nussbaum at times gave candid testimony.... Among the matters Nussbaum revealed or confirmed were: 1. Virtually the entire upper echelon of the White House Counsel's Office was hired at the recommendation of Hillary Clinton, including Vince Foster and Bill Kennedy, who oversaw Craig Livingstone and Anthony Marceca of Filegate fame. This supports Linda Tripp's and others' testimony and/or statements that Livingstone bragged about being hired by Mrs. Clinton. It also supports statements by Dick Morris and others that Hillary is the mastermind of Filegate. Nussbaum added that Mrs. Clinton had close contact with Foster, and was seen in the office on a number of occasions. Deborah Gorham, Foster's secretary, testified the day before that Mrs. Clinton had Foster water her plants. 2. Linda Tripp, who worked for Nussbaum, is an honest person. This confirms the truthfulness of her testimony that FBI files were misused in the White House Counsel's Office. 3. While not admitting that Filegate occurred, Nussbaum's testimony buttresses Tripp's, by confirming that certain key events took place.... 4. The '92 Clinton campaign tried to have Gennifer Flowers prosecuted for alleged false statements, and it clearly had an investigative element -- supporting the exact "mentality" of Filegate. 5. Nussbaum saw files of the same color and in the same place as Tripp saw in Kennedy's office and other key places. These files were identified by Tripp as FBI files, and many were of Republicans....."

Capitol Hill Blue 6/7/99 "....Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Shelby Sunday disputed an accusation by an energy department official that he had missed important nuclear security briefings. Energy Department Director of Counter-Intelligence Edward Curran said last Sunday that Congress had failed to allocate money to plug security holes, that Shelby never bothered to attend classified briefings about the problem and that Shelby's staff would not attend a CIA briefing on ``sensitive cases.'' Shelby acknowledged on NBC's ``Meet the Press'' program he had not met Curran on every occasion but said top Republican and Democratic committee staffers had attended the briefings. The Alabama Republican said Energy Secretary Bill Richardson called him last week and, while not directly apologizing for Curran's comments, ``indicated that it shouldn't have happened and it would never happen again.'' Calling Curran's comments ``off base,'' Shelby said Curran and Richardson were both expected to testify this week before his committee, which is examining lapses in U.S. nuclear security at the energy department that a congressional report says allowed China to obtain important secrets. ``But the main thing is we wish Mr. Curran well in his job,'' said Shelby. ``He's got a lot of experience and qualifications. I hope the pressure will not overwhelm him.'' ......Shelby disputed Richardson's assertion last week that the department's nuclear laboratories were now safe from unauthorized infiltration....."

Manchester Union-Leader 6/8/99 Joseph W. McQuail "...Just what is up with the Democratic Party and its obsession with tape-recording private conversations? A couple of years ago, it was then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich whose confidential telephone chat with fellow Republicans was illegally taped (and broadcast). Last week, right here in New Hampshire, Republican Presidential hopeful John Kasich got a taste of the tape..... Gingrich was at least talking with fellow politicians, about political matters. But Kasich's private meeting (it was purposely not put on his public schedule) was with women recovering from drug addiction. The meeting at the Odyssey Family Center was secretly taped by a woman who spies on Republican Presidential candidates for the Democrats - a fact the Democrats do not dispute. Infringing on the privacy of others, Kasich said, is "the worst kind of opposition research." ...."

WALL STREET JOURNAL, Michael Ledeen, 6/10/99 "...Shortly before Chinese President Jiang Zemin's arrival in Washington in the fall of 1997, the White House was pushing the State, Defense and Energy departments to support a presidential certification of China as a nuclear nonproliferator and to sign off on the creation of an "information exchange and technical cooperative reciprocal arrangement" on ostensibly civilian nuclear technology. This arrangement would give the Chinese easy access to American civil reactor sites, provide them with detailed information on how the U.S. handles fissionable materials, and give them access to operational data on U.S. nuclear sites. Jonathan Fox, an attorney on the arms-control staff of the Defense Special Weapons Agency, wrote a memo stating with certainty that China was a nuclear proliferator and that the proposed arrangement was "a technology transfer agreement swaddled in the comforting yet misleading terminology of a confidence-building measure. On Oct. 24, 1997, Mr. Fox was called out of an interagency meeting to receive an urgent telephone call. According to three people to whom he gave a contemporaneous account of the phone conversation, he was given an ultimatum from superiors in the Office of Non-Proliferation Policy in the Department of Defense: either revise the memo and recommend in favor of the agreement, or look elsewhere for employment. (Mr. Fox himself declined to comment on the matter.) Within an hour, all the critical language had been deleted, and the memo now simply concluded that the agreement "is not inimical to the common defense or the security of the United States." Worried that his earlier draft might fall into unfriendly hands, Mr. Fox's superiors insisted that somebody else sign the new memo. ...."

WALL STREET JOURNAL, Michael Ledeen, 6/10/99 "...Mr. Fox is not the only weapons expert in the government to have been instructed to lie or remain silent about the true consequences of sending military technology to China. Notra Trulock and his colleagues were told by their superiors at the Department of Energy hat they should stop annoying people with accounts of Chinese espionage at Los Alamos. Similarly, professionals in the Pentagon such as Michael Maloof and Peter Leitner were told to keep quiet about the approval of high-tech licenses that would strengthen Chinese military power. Both of them spoke out; others remain silent. But even when the professionals stick by their principles, their superiors have chosen to substitute facts with politically expedient disinformation. On at least two occasions, military experts who argued against high-tech exports to China later discovered that their recommendations had been altered in the Pentagon's computerized data base...."

Washington Times 6/11/99 Donald Lambro "...The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has begun a sweeping search of government correspondence by 10 Republican senators who are up for re-election. GOP officials call it an attempt to dig up political dirt, a charge the DSCC denies. The targeted GOP senators complain that the unusual governmentwide Freedom of Information Act request risks disclosing personal information contained in constituent casework letters. They also fear it will have a "chilling" effect on the right of people with personal problems to privately write their lawmakers seeking assistance with the government..... "This is tantamount to the taxpayers paying for opposition research and to engage in a dirty tricks campaign," said a Senate GOP leadership official..... Another DSCC target, Sen. Conrad Burns, Montana Republican, took to the Senate floor Tuesday to denounce the practice and to demand that President Clinton "put an immediate stop to this and any similar action." "What we are witnessing is an unprecedented attempt to corrupt the nonpolitical casework system of Senate offices for political gain," Mr. Burns said. "I find these efforts repugnant, and if there are any Americans alive who think politics can't sink any lower, they need look no further than the DSCC." Other targeted GOP senators were equally outraged. "This is the politics of personal destruction. This is FBI Filegate II," said Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania....."

Portland Press Herald (Maine) 6/13/99 Steve Campbell "... Sen. Olympia Snowe is crying foul over a tactic used by the Democratic Party to investigate her record in advance of next year's election. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has mailed a letter to the major departments in the Clinton administration, asking for information on Snowe and nine other Senate Republicans who are up for re-election in 2000. The Democratic letter requests that federal agencies turn over "all direct correspondence between the senators or members of their staff . . . including letters, written material, reports, constituent requests and other relevant information." "I also request that you state the specific legal and factual grounds for withholding any documents or portions of documents," wrote Alexis L. Schuler, research director for the Democratic group. Schuler said she is "gathering information for research purposes only," under the Freedom of Information Act. But like other Republicans on the list, Snowe said the letter was improper. This marks "a disappointing new low in political tactics that could jeopardize the privacy of constituents who are seeking help in dealing with the federal government," Snowe said. "I hope that Democratic officials will put an end to this practice, and reassure the American people that politics will not bear on these private casework issues." ...."

NewsMax.com 6/15/99 "...What happened to Georgia Rep. Bob Barr's complaint to the U.S. Navy over film director Spike Lee's outrageous advice that NRA chief Charlton Heston should be shot? Lee has a $2.5 million contract with the Navy to do six recruiting commercials, which Barr would like to see terminated in light of Lee's outburst about Heston. The pro-Second Amendment congressman was so offended that he fired off a letter to Navy Secretary Richard Danzig almost two weeks ago, which Inside Cover reported exclusively.... But on Monday, three days after Lt. Staggs said that Danzig would respond personally to the congressman, Barr's press office was unaware of any such reply...."

Wall St. Journal 6/16/99 Editorial "…At this juncture, the news that Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr is sticking to his mandate and will issue a final report on the Clintons would appear to be no news at all. But to some commentators Mr. Starr remains a clear and present danger to the Republic, and so the campaign to delegitimize the Independent Counsel continues unabated among the co-dependents. In point of fact--facts still mattering in most legal and press circles--Mr. Starr is bound by law to issue a final report….While a normal prosecutor is indeed supposed to shut up if he decides not to indict, the whole thrust of the Independent Counsel law has been that when an allegation concerns high officials, there may be some things that the public should know, even if you don't have a criminal violation that you think can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt…."

Washington Weekly 6/28/99 Marvin Lee "...Congressman Bob Barr (R-GA) on Friday filed suit in federal district court in Washington, DC against the Clinton White House for illegally requesting from the FBI and illegally transferring to publisher Larry Flynt, spinmeister James Carville, and reporter Dan Moldea, his FBI file. Flynt, Carville, and Moldea subsequently used information, which Barr contends must have been obtained from his FBI file, in an attempt to discredit him in his capacity as a critic of the White House. Also named in the lawsuit is the Clinton Justice Department for acceding to the illegal White House request for Barr's confidential FBI file. Barr contends that both the White House and the Justice Department violated the Privacy Act and asks for compensatory and punitive damages as well as attorney's fees. Barr is represented by Judicial Watch, which is already litigating a "Filegate" lawsuit on behalf of others whose FBI files were misused by the White House....."

The Miami Herald 6/25/99 Steve Bousquet "...FBI agents have questioned current and former employees and are scrutinizing the books of MWI Corp., a politically active Deerfield Beach company that sold water pumps to Nigeria with millions of dollars in loans backed by American taxpayers. The federal investigation revives interest in the company's past ties to Jeb Bush, who, long before becoming governor, was a partner with MWI President David Eller in a water pump marketing company, Bush-El Trading Corp., that did business worldwide, including in Africa. The Bush-Eller connection was an issue in the governor's race last year..... The FBI probe takes on political implications at a time when Bush's older brother, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, is seeking the Republican presidential nomination. Eller, a leading GOP fund-raiser in Florida, has contributed $1,000 to the elder Bush's campaign....."

WorldNetDaily.com 7/13/99 Stephan Archer "…A tip-off by an anonymous informer to Judicial Watch has led the legal watchdog to believe that both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice have been keeping a computer database on pro-life leaders. Concerned about the existence of such a database, Larry Klayman, the chairman and general counsel of Judicial Watch, filed a Freedom of Information Act request at the end of March with both the FBI and Justice Department. The FOIA request had asked for all documents and records relating to VA-AP-CON, the database in question that is maintained by the FBI. Because no documents have been turned over to Judicial Watch, the group filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Justice Department and the FBI last Friday….. In the initial FOIA request back in March, Judicial Watch specifically asked for any databases containing biographical or other information on pro-life leaders and organizations including, but not limited to, Dr. Wanda Franz, Randall Terry, Judith Brown, the American Life League and the National Right to Life Committee…. The Freedom of Information Act only allows for a maximum 10-day extension to the 20-day deadline for producing requested documents. It is because of this clear violation of time in responding to Judicial Watch's FOIA request that the organization has filed suit against the FBI and Justice Department. Regarding this most recent case against the FBI and Justice Department, Klayman said, "The Clinton administration has used and continues to use the FBI as a political weapon against its perceived adversaries. We've seen this in spades in our $90 million Filegate lawsuit. Now, we understand that the Clinton Administration is keeping a FBI database on prominent Americans and other citizens who happen to be active in the pro-life movement and who believe it is wrong to kill unborn children." …"

WorldNetDaily 7/9/99 Larry Klayman "…The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce, a 331-page manifesto and brainchild of Associate White House Counsel Jane Sherburne and the DNC, was circulated to select reporters in a tortured effort to describe how the "right wing" conveyed "fringe" stories into mainstream American media. In essence, this document was an effort to "alert" friendly journalists that such a "conspiracy" was being promulgated by certain groups dissatisfied with the moral lapses of the Clinton White House. In short, it was an enemies list. …In December 1994, Associate White House Counsel Sherburne prepared a memorandum that outlined strategies to use against individuals and organizations perceived to be adversaries of the Clinton Administration. The memo also assigned staff members to carry out these strategies -- and specifically identified the Western Journalism Center for having investigated Foster's death. WJC was the only news organization targeted for action. ….Over the course of the investigation of WJC, nearly 20 conservative organizations -- including the Heritage Foundation, NRA and Citizens Against Government Waste -- felt the close, touch of the Clinton audit machine. Even more oddly, the media who knew of the Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce never saw any pattern developing that would signify an orchestrated White House effort -- much less actually troubled themselves to report it. Meanwhile, the WJC's offices were being broken into, with, mysteriously, nothing stolen. Their phone messages were apparently being monitored, and some of these developments happened to coincide with WJC breakthroughs in Clinton investigations. The scrutiny of the WJC by the IRS lasted nine months. WJC employees lost their jobs and livelihoods. Finally, in October 1996, Farah exposed these corrupt practices in a piece in The Wall Street Journal, and the tide began to turn. Margaret Milner-Richardson, IRS commissioner and close friend of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, abruptly resigned. The New York Post attributed her departure to political audits of conservative organizations. Some began to probe these rampant abuses, and the audit of the Western Journalism Center was "concluded" -- a verdict of "no wrongdoing" rendered in May 1997. Under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights enacted by Congress, Farah requested his case file from the IRS so he could review its contents. In keeping with the Clinton Administration standard practice, these rights were trampled in a terse refusal to turn over the documents -- the IRS frivolously citing "government privilege" as a means of keeping Mr. Farah from seeing justification for what had nearly bankrupted his organization…."

Washington Post 7/16/99 Juliet Eilperin "…House GOP sources said the committee has acquired documents showing that North, while working at his office computer, contacted the DCCC and offered to provide negative information about Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), Majority Leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.) and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). Each of these lawmakers has resisted Democratic efforts to more tightly regulate the islands' [Marianas] economy. The Hatch Act prohibits government employees from participating in political activity on the job or using their office for partisan purposes; penalties range from a 30-day suspension to removal from office…."

Roll Call 7/26/99 John Bresnahan "...House Resources Chairman Don Young (R-Alaska) is threatening to seek a contempt citation against a top Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee official over the DCCC's failure to comply with a subpoena. The subpoena, issued two weeks ago, stems from a probe of alleged illegal partisan political activities by an Interior Department employee who was trying to dig up dirt on several top Congressional Republicans. "This a very serious matter," Young wrote in a letter sent late Friday to DCCC Executive Director David Plouffe. "Unless you and the DCCC provide the subpoenaed materials, I intend to issue notice that the full Committee will consider a motion to hold you in contempt of Congress." .... Young is seeking evidence of contacts between North and the DCCC. North sent a former senior DCCC official a memo in October 1997 suggesting they cooperate in finding incriminating information on DeLay, Armey and Rohrabacher and their ties to the Mariana Islands, as well as the American corporations that do business there. ..."

World Net Daily 7/23/99 "...The former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate impeachment hearings says President Clinton's targeting of the Western Journalism Center by the Internal Revenue Service as exposed in WorldNetDaily is worse than similar offenses by President Nixon and clearly warrants impeachment.....Asked if Clinton is getting away with misdeeds for which Nixon was charged, Zeifman responded, "Of course!" He said Nixon did not have a team of people routinely forwarding investigation suggestions to the IRS. "There was no systematic plan" under Nixon, he said. "In my opinion, the misconduct of President Clinton and his White House is more egregious by far than the misconduct of the Nixon White House with respect to the misuse of the IRS. We found that in fact there was some misuse of the IRS [by Nixon], but it was not part of an overall systematic plan, as has been the case with the Clinton White House." Zeifman added that Watergate investigators also found misuse of FBI records. Charles Colson, for instance, went to jail for misuse of one FBI file. "Whereas in the Clinton administration there has been regular and systematic abuse," he said. "It's been documented, with Bernie Nussbaum's name, on regular and systematic requests for FBI files. I was a strong proponent of Nixon's impeachment and played a role in drafting the Articles of Impeachment. In my view, everything we said in Article II, Paragraph 1, clearly applies to Clinton on the basis of information already in the public record prior to WorldNetDaily's story." ..."

The Washinton TIMES 7/21/99 George Archibald "...Bruce E. Lindsey, President Clinton's chief advisor, prepared to discredit Kathleen E. Willey a year before the former White House employee publicly accused the president of sexually groping her in the Oval Office. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was also involved in Mr. Lindsey's planned use of 15 friendly letters from Mrs. Willey to Mr. Clinton to counteract her expected claims about Mr. Clinton's sexual advances, Justice Department lawyers stated in a civil lawsuit over Privacy Act violations. The disclosures came last week in lawsuit filings by Judicial Watch for former White House employees who accused the administration of misusing their FBI files in the so-called Filegate case. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered White House officials to answer Judicial Watch's questions about release of Mrs. Willey's letters in March 1998, saying "misuse" of materials from her White House file "could prove to be circumstantial evidence of file misuse aimed at the [Filegate] plaintiffs." ...."

Worldnet Daily 7/19/99 Jane Chastain "...Ask filmmaker Pat Matrisciana, who, until just recently, has been one of Clinton's most successful enemies. Matrisciana's videos, the Clinton Chronicles, Obstruction of Justice, Mena Cover-up, 60 Minutes Deception, The Death of Vince Foster and Bill Clinton's Rise to Power, have made him a household word, although they have been only a sideline....However, these last two years Jeremiah Films[Matrisciana] has managed just to stay afloat because of a $16 million "defamation" lawsuit filed by two Pulaski County sheriff's officers. Jay Campbell and Kirk Lane were briefly identified in Obstruction of Justice as suspects implicated in the 1987 murders of two Arkansas teenagers, Kevin Ives and Don Henry. In order to win their lawsuit the plaintiffs must prove that Matrisciana falsely singled them out with reckless disregard for the facts. However, Obstruction of Justice was assembled painstakingly based on years of documentation compiled by Linda Ives, the mother of one of the victims, and Jean Duffey, who headed a drug task force in Arkansas' Seventh Judicial District, whose investigation led straight to the murdered boys. The reference to the two officers in Matrisciana's video was taken from police files and news reports. When Western Journalism Center's Joseph Farah, who often is called as an expert witness in defamation cases, heard about this lawsuit, he volunteered his services saying, "If Matrisciana is found guilty you can throw the First Amendment out the window." Nevertheless, the lawsuit has been so expensive that just six weeks before the trial is set to begin Matrisciana has exhausted his resources, which may have been the point. The big question is how are these two lowly police officers paying their lawyers who cannot be working on a contingency. ..."

The New Australian No 128 8/2-8/99 Larry Boeske "...Congressman Bob Barr* said 90 percent of the serious scandals being revealed about the Clinton administration are due to the efforts of Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch. And he announced that he is putting all of his hopes in Judicial Watch as the only hope for bringing the Clintons' to justice and revealing the truth. Larry Klayman is now his attorney over the possible misuse of Barr's FBI file. And Bob Barr believes that the recent embarassments of the House Managers and other members of Congress who pushed for impeachment were a result of the illegal use of the FBI files. ..."

The Washington Weekly 4/6/98 Editorial "…In today's issue of National Review, Michael Ledeen makes a compelling case that the Clinton administration has modeled itself after the larger Mob families of organized crime. Indeed, the modus operandi of the Clinton administration is indistinguishable from that of organized crime: KEEPING THE CODE OF SILENCE (1) When Webster Hubbell started telling friends that he didn't believe that Vince Foster had committed suicide and word leaked out through Esquire magazine, his own law firm dug up incriminating material on him and turned it over to Kenneth Starr. Four months later, Hubbell resigned as Associate Attorney General….(2) When Nolanda Hill started saying that she believed that her former business partner and lover Ron Brown was murdered, and that there was a cover-up of the crimes in which he was involved, she told Judge Royce Lamberth that she was afraid "the Clinton administration and more particularly its Justice Department will try to retaliate against me." She was right. The Clinton Justice Department recently indicted Nolanda Hill on charges of filing a false tax return…..

The Washington Weekly 4/6/98 Editorial "…THREATENING OPPONENTS (1) In his recent Filegate deposition by Judicial Watch, Clinton private eye Terry Lenzner admitted to having investigated an untold number of Clinton opponents going back to 1992: judges, lawyers, prosecutors, reporters and women. There is little question about the intended purpose: to collect a "White House file" of negative information on every opponent and potential opponent to have it ready when it is needed in the cases cited above and below…."

Judicial Watch 8/17/99 Larry Klayman "…Yesterday, Johnny Chung, a key figure in the Chinagate scandal appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor," and provided information linking the Clintons and their Administration with illegal bribery during the Chinagate scandal. Weeks earlier, Judicial Watch had supplied Fox News and others -- consistent with its public interest function -- with video of sworn testimony of Johnny Chung. This sworn testimony, which is evidence, obviously formed the road map of the questions posed by Bill O'Reilly yesterday evening. More importantly, the sworn testimony substantiates what Chung confirmed to O'Reilly during the interview. Following the airing of Chung's interview yesterday, Clinton apologists went to the airwaves to try to discredit him. "However, sworn testimony, as provided to Judicial Watch, backs up his off the cuff account, as told to Bill O'Reilly. Since providing false testimony to Judicial Watch and the Court would place Chung at additional legal risk for perjury, it is extremely unlikely that he would have lied. Moreover, what would Chung have to gain? His life and those of his loved ones have already been threatened, and he is now at odds with his one time benefactors in the Clinton Administration. Ironically, it is Johnny Chung, not Democrats or Republicans, who now take Chinagate seriously enough to speak openly about the wholesale espionage and treason that was committed against this country. While he did wrong, Chung wants to make amends by now coming forward bravely to tell the truth. Others who have done so -- Nolanda Hill and Linda Tripp -- have been retaliated against, with no help from the 'opposition party,' the Republicans. Judicial Watch will stand by these witnesses, however, and react strongly to any further attempt to coerce them to be silent," stated Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman and President Tom Fitton…."

WorldNetDaily 8/17/99 Charles Smith "…Federal Judge Robert Payne issued a court order against this reporter to remove a secret DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) report from the Internet. I was ordered to remove the unredacted version of a DIA report by 5:30 p.m. eastern time that same day. Apparently, Department of Justice lawyer Joan Evans released the unredacted version by mistake. The DIA document sent to me contained the names of DIA agents who wrote the 1995 report on the Chinese Army Unit COSTIND. The DIA requested that the names of the agents be withheld under "Title 10, United States Code" to protect their identity. I replaced the secret version with the redacted (blacked out) version as per Judge Payne's orders, prior to the 5:30 p.m. deadline. As part of the process, I had to contact Assistant U.S. Attorney Evans, in an attempt to comply with Judge Payne's order to return the DIA document. Instead of resolving the situation, Evans swore vengeance and threatened to "get" me. I took her threats to be officially sanctioned by the U.S. Justice Department and the Clinton White House. Of course, this is typical of the Clinton administration. Its mistake compromised the identity of DIA agents. Instead of working to minimize the damage to U.S. national security, it has engaged in threats. Discover the truth, and come under attack…."

WorldNetDaily 8/17/99 Charles Smith "…The truth is that Ron Brown and the Commerce Department dealt with the Chinese army. My original Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) was for "all information on COSTIND" or the Chinese "Commission on Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense." In 1994, this PLA unit was led by General Ding Henggao with his two vice "minister" sub-commanders, General Huai Guomo and General Shen Rougjun. In my 1998 appeal to the Commerce Department, I submitted a document showing that "COSTIND Vice Minister Shen Rougjun" met with Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and LORAL CEO Bernard Schwartz in August 1994. The Commerce Department has correctly released a mountain of information on "COSTIND," including data on COSTIND "Minister" General Ding and "Vice Minister" General Huai. COSTIND Vice Minister Shen was a general in the Chinese army. COSTIND is a Chinese army unit. Gen. Shen traveled to the U.S. in May 1994 and arranged for COSTIND to purchase a Hughes Corporation satellite, called Apstar 2, that was later destroyed in a crash. The PLA blamed the satellite for the crash and tried to pin the higher insurance rates on Hughes. Afterwards, Gen. Shen investigated the crash. Commerce Department officials participated in and authorized the Hughes crash analysis to be passed back to the Chinese under Vice Minister Shen. In the process, Hughes passed significant nose cone technology directly to COSTIND under the direction of Shen. In 1994, Gen. Shen also actively sought help from the Commerce Department in obtaining employment for his son, Shen Jun, at LORAL. Gen. Shen succeeded in obtaining a sensitive position for his son at Hughes. Gen. Shen, his son, and Hughes officials met to discuss the satellite crash…."

WorldNetDaily 8/17/99 Charles Smith "…Another key report found at the Commerce Department is a 1997 Rand Report on the Chinese army. The Rand Corp. found that PLA bribes paid for "lavish parties, luxury foreign automobiles and Swiss bank accounts". The Rand report, "Chinese Military Commerce and U.S. National Security" also details the CITIC bank-owned Poly Technologies and the smuggling of 2,000 fully automatic AK-47s from Chinese army inventories. According to the Rand report, U.S. Custom agents, posing as U.S. drug gangsters, arranged to purchase the machine guns in a sting operation that led directly to the Chinese army in Beijing. However, the Customs PLA machine-gun sting crossed with Poly Tech President Wang Jun and his visits to the White House. The Rand report ignored the donations made by the PLA through operatives to Mr. Clinton. The Rand Corp. missed the Chinese atomic espionage altogether. ….. The answer to the big miss in Rand analysis becomes all too clear upon closer inspection. The 1997 Rand report was sponsored and, in part, authored by Asia-Pacific "policy" expert Gareth C.C. Chang. Chang is a familiar player in the Chinagate affair. Even in the 1997 Rand report Chang is listed as "Senior Vice President" of Hughes Corporation. In fact, Chang is also in the 1999 Cox report. On April 4, 1995, Hughes Electronics Senior Vice President Gareth Chang wrote a memorandum to Hughes CEO Steven Dorfman regarding the Apstar 2 failure. Chang wrote, "We need to personally share our findings with the Chinese leadership. A senior Hughes executive, armed with detailed scientific and technical evidence, should meet with General Shen of COSTIND and Chairman Liu of CASC before anything is said to the media." Hughes' Chang and COSTIND PLA General Shen traveled in the same small circle of international arms dealing as Poly Tech Wang Jun and Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz. All of the above elected to connect their weapons business through Commerce Secretary Ron Brown…."

NEWSWEEK 8/4/97 Michael Isikoff "…The proposal, marked "privileged and confidential," was a model of bluntness. Entitled "Background Research: Senator Don Nickles," the May 16, 1997, document, obtained by NEWSWEEK, outlined an extensive plan to scour the Oklahoma Republican's life for embarrassing or incriminating details: searching courthouses for "civil, criminal, divorce and bankruptcy litigation"; hunting for "fictitious name filings"; reviewing his and his wife's "personal business activities." The goal was to show that Nickles was "linked to the oil industry." The memo's author: Terry Lenzner, a former Watergate counsel who now runs a private investigative firm with close ties to the White House. The Democratic National Committee is one of his top clients. ….."

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 9/5/99 "…The message came out loud and clear: Don't do anything to offend Katharine Graham, the dowager dragon of The Washington Post, or her friends and their causes during August. August is a notoriously slow month for news, and the dowager Graham can devote rivers of printer ink into a campaign of calumny against an individual. This year, the vilification campaign was intense. It began Aug. 6 and continued throughout the month. The single target was Notra Trulock, the counterintelligence officer in the Department of Energy who initiated investigations into nuclear weapons espionage in the national laboratories by The People's Republic of China…… Pincus, doubtless motivated by an urge to make the powerful dowager happy, said that the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs was not sure whether any secrets had been stolen, to which he added the fiction that Wen Ho Lee was singled out because he and his wife were Chinese-Americans. It took the Post some three weeks to publish a letter correcting these lies from Sens. Fred Thompson and Joseph Lieberman, respectively chairman and ranking minority member of the Governmental Affairs Committee. Obviously, Trulock has struck many nerves in the Clinton administration to warrant such an attack. The Washington Post, rarely an organization to shirk publicity, does not say anything about its or his special interests….."

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 9/5/99 "…This panel, selected by Warren Rudman to do some heavy whitewashing, brings some thoughts to mind. Would PFIAB ever issue a report that would embarrass the president? Is it not unfortunate that panel members Rudman and Friedman have major personal business contacts that depend on the good will of China's government? Isn't it just as unfortunate that no one on the panel, indeed on PFIAB, has any experience in spy catching or in operations in Asia? Did Walter Pincus know these facts? Of course he did. He is a capable, experienced reporter. Concealing the facts is what he wanted to do. Last week, the rape of the Bank of New York by the Russian Mafia was discussed in this column. Headlines have followed throughout the week, with each one bringing more and more revelations, not so much of this respectable old bank being raped, but of enjoying a profitable spree. But, strangely, our newspapers were reticent about publishing the involvement of a Russian friend of Bill Clinton's, President Boris Yeltsin, and his family…."

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 9/5/99 "…The message came out loud and clear: don't do anything to offend Katharine Graham, the dowager dragon of the Washington Post, or her friends and their causes during August. August is a notoriously slow month for news, and the dowager Graham can devote rivers of printer ink into a campaign of calumny against an individual. This year, the vilification campaign was intense. It began Aug. 6 and continued throughout the month. The single target was Notra Trulock, the counterintelligence officer in the Department of Energy who initiated investigations into nuclear weapons espionage in the national laboratories by the People's Republic of China. The Post's campaign against Trulock began with a front-page story under the headline, "China Spy Probe Bungled, Panel Finds." The article, written by one of Katie's most prominent hatchet men, Walter Pincus, contained two major lies and was a deliberate attempt to change evidence about China's spying in America. Pincus, doubtless motivated by an urge to make the powerful dowager happy, said that the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs was not sure whether any secrets had been stolen to which he added the fiction that Wen Ho Lee was singled out because he and his wife were Chinese-Americans. It took the Post some three weeks to publish a letter correcting these lies from Sens. Fred Thompson and Joseph Lieberman, respectively chairman and ranking minority member of the Governmental Affairs Committee….."

Washington Times 9/16/99 George Archibald "...In a sworn affidavit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court, Sheryl L. Hall said Craig L. Livingstone, the former White House personnel security chief who improperly obtained hundreds of FBI files of former Reagan and Bush administration appointees, was among "the small group of White House staffers who acted as Mrs. Clinton's agents." Mrs. Hall, 50, now a GS-15 computer manager at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, has filed a lawsuit against Mrs. Clinton in the U.S. District Court of Alexandria accusing the first lady and nine White House political appointees of job harassment and reprisals. The 15-year government computer supervisor claims the retribution against her over the past five years followed her refusal to load political campaign contribution information in files of individuals listed on the White House Office Database (WHODB)....Mrs. Hall also said Mrs. Clinton actually ran the White House during Mrs. Hall's tenure there from October 1992 intil her transfer Friday. "Based on my personal observations and experience, as well as my interaction with numerous White House staffers, it was clear to me that Mrs. Clinton has operational control of the White House, including but not limited to the hiring and firing of personnel," the affidavit states....."

Washington post 9/15/99 "....Whatever comes of the Bakaly matter, it is worth noting that the underlying charge of a grand jury leak has, like so many allegations against Mr. Starr and his people, evaporated on neutral inspection. A unanimous panel of the D.C. Circuit ruled recently that "internal deliberations of prosecutors that do not directly reveal grand jury proceedings are not" covered by grand jury secrecy. The ruling does not clear Mr. Starr on all allegations of grand jury leaks, as a much larger group of 24 instances of alleged leaks remains before the courts. But the current ruling does suggest that at least some of these instances may be found not to have involved grand jury material after all. It is another example of an ethical allegation that many assumed self-evident melting on closer examination. Mr. Starr was attacked throughout the Lewinsky episode in a coordinated smear campaign that accused him publicly of a variety of types of misconduct. These accusations seriously undermined his investigation and distracted people from sober discussion either of the president's conduct or of Mr. Starr's probe The allegations took a great deal of time to investigate and sort out. Now, one by one, they are proving meritless, but only long after they have done their job of eroding confidence in his investigation. ...."

CBN News 9/9/99 Dale Hurd "...Galster: This that is the parking lot now, was about 4000 sq. ft. of our laboratory space, our offices and exams rooms, and computers. It was all completely engulfed in flames when I got here on the evening of the 19th, or the early morning of the 20th. The fire trucks were pumping water into it, and by early the next morning we only had a brick shell of what had originally been our business for 22 years. Hurd: Then, in July a laptop computer was stolen. It belonged to the lawyer who was investigating Bill Clinton's role in the tainted blood scandal. Linda Tripp said there were encrypted blood files on the computer of Vince Foster's secretary. In July of 1993, Foster's body was found in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia, just outside of Washington, in what was officially ruled a suicide. During the time that Foster died (sic), a commons committee in the Canadian Parliament had called for a major public inquiry into how Canada's blood supply became so contaminated. And Foster was reported to be very upset about the issue. Galster says that when Foster worked in Arkansas, he approached Galster in the legal role of defending Health Management Associates, the company that ran the prison blood program. Foster asked Galster to help bail HMA out of a malpractice suit. Galster thinks Foster was still cleaning up HMA's messes after he went to the White House. When the scandal exploded in Canada, Galster believes the blood trail caught up with Foster. Tainted blood scandals have rocked several nations. Some have forced official to apologize. Others have sent officials to jail. Now it could be America's turn. The surviving Canadian hemophiliacs are preparing a $5 billion lawsuit against those responsible in the United States. That would most certainly include the states of Arkansas and Louisiana, which had a similar blood program. The FDA may also be sued. And the lead counsel for the hemophiliacs, Steven Harvey, will seek a deposition from Bill Clinton on his role in the program. Steven Harvey: We want to know from Bill Clinton on down, who was involved in these decisions, how decisions were made, what information they had, and why it is that Cummins was allowed to continue as a blood source, even after all the dangers became obvious...."

Washington Times 9/15/99 George Archibald "...A White House computer supervisor who battled Hillary Rodham Clinton's interference with a major presidential computer database has sued the first lady for job reprisal after being forced to transfer to another agency Sheryl L. Hall, who now runs computer support operations for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, filed her lawsuit in U.S. District Court Friday - her last day of work at the White House , where she had managed computer operations since President Clinton took office.... In the lawsuit, Mrs. Hall, an Arlington resident, accused Mrs. Clinton of overseeing political misuse of the White House Office Database (WHODB), being built under the direction of senior presidential advisor Marsha Scott. "Development of the WHODB was overseen by Scott upon the direction and with the approval of [Mrs.] Clinton who, because of her marriage to the president, had usurped far reaching authority and influence over a variety of matters relating to the president's administration, including but not limited to matters relating to personnel," the lawsuit states. ...... She says in her lawsuit that she was harassed and abused by top Clinton political appointees for five years, at Mrs. Clinton's behest, after she first voiced objections to using career White House employees and the WHODB for political activities that violated federal law...... "

Judicial Watch 9/10/99 Joe Giganti "...Hillary Clinton, Marsha Scott and others in the Clinton White House have been sued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia by Sheryl Hall, a White House employee who expressed reservations about the legality of a scheme to use The White House computer system, known as WhoDB, for political and other improper purposes. When Mrs. Hall balked, she was harassed and retaliated against, causing her great emotional distress and other harm. Ironically, Mrs. Hall first contacted Judicial Watch during the deposition of Harold Ickes in the Filegate class action lawsuit. She visited Judicial Watch's offices, unannounced, while the deposition was in session.....Mrs. Hall is the first "John Dean" type whistleblower to come forward from the current Clinton White House. She and her husband Don are American heros. It is noteworthy that she would put her trust in Judicial Watch, the public interest, non-partisan government watchdog, and not the Clinton Justice Department or Congress, who have either covered up wrongdoing or have done little to combat it during the Clinton Administration. The WhoDB computer system was the "brainchild" of Hillary Clinton and in addition to being used for illegal political purposes, to track and solicit campaign contributions with the Democratic National Committee, Judicial Watch believes that it also was used to input the FBI files of Republicans and others in the Filegate scandal. "Thank God for true Americans like Sheryl and Don Hall, patriots who put their country first and are not afraid of the evil lurking in this White House," stated Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman...."

Washington Weekly 9/14/99 Marvin Lee "....White House employee Sheryl Hall has filed suit against Hillary Clinton, Marsha Scott and others in the Clinton White House in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. She is represented by Judicial Watch. In a pattern that is by now all too familiar to those who have followed this White House, Sheryl Hall claims she expressed reservations about the legality of a scheme to use The White House computer system, known as WhoDB, for political and other improper purposes. As a result, she was harassed and retaliated against. ....."

Newsmax - Inside Cover 9/13/99 Carl Limbacher "....In the rough and tumble world of daytime TV talk -- where lesbian nuns routinely compete with one-armed alligator wrestlers to deliver top shock value to the audience -- one would think that a relatively straightforward account of an extra-marital affair laced with some routine drug use might passed unnoticed. Not so, says Richard Bey -- who up until Oct. 8, 1996 hosted one of the most popular nationally syndicated daytime chat-fests on the air. What happened on that particular day? Bey decided to do a pre-election show featuring two guests in possession of some rather inconvenient information regarding the above topics and the President of the United States. "I kept reading in the trade papers about Gennifer Flowers being booked on one show or another -- and then when she shows up they tell her they don't need her.......On the broadcast Flowers' claimed that then-Governor Clinton had once put her in a family-way back in 1979, then paid her $200 in cash with the understanding she would abort his child. She also recounted how her home had been broken into three times. She suspected Clinton was responsible for the break-ins, Flowers told a national TV audience. Fearing for her physical safety, the former Clinton paramour revealed she now traveled with bodyguards. For his part, Tyrrell offered an update on the saga of Clinton's never-released medical records, in which he linked their secrecy to an alleged drug over-dose which some say culminated in a trip to a Little Rock emergency room. Bey also quizzed the American Spectator publisher about six witnesses who claimed to have knowledge of Clinton's cocaine use. Most of the explosive information had been available in books (both Flowers and Tyrrell had authored their own that year) and on the internet for some time. But, as with so many otherwise credible reports about Bill Clinton, most reporters, especially on television, had taken a pass. The next day, Richard Bey found out why. "The show got the highest ratings of the book and I had just started a new contract for alot of money," Bey told Inside Cover. "But the day after it airs, I'm called into the office and told that we're going out of production." ......As the TV host tells it, he asked directly, "Is this because of the Gennifer Flowers show?" Unable to reply, the unnamed network executive simply stared at his shoes. Then Bey protested, "But I have a contract." "You'll be paid off," came the response. ....."

New York Post 9/17/99 Steve Dunleavy "....Now, when Clinton was governor of Arkansas, I recall just about the most horrific miscarriage of justice I have come across. Wayne Dumont was falsely accused of rape. He was sentenced to 50 years in jail. The judge who had to sentence him under guidelines actually became Dumont's lawyer - and proved, under exhaustive sperm testing, that it was impossible for Dumont to have had anything to do with the rape. The so-called victim failed to identify Dumont in a lineup. Even failed to prove that a rape actually happened. But Dumont is still doing time. But not before he was mysteriously castrated by two animals who were sent by a crooked sheriff, who later was sentenced to 50 years for racketeering. Oh, I forgot to tell you: The so-called victim of the rape was directly related to Clinton, and her father was his biggest contributor in Forest City, Ark...."

Washington Times 9/17/99 ".... It is just like Ken Starr's kind of luck. After being the subject of relentless and highly-publicized attacks from White House minions and even the president himself on his integrity, credibility, motives, political affiliation, religious beliefs and anything else short of his taste in neckties, the good name of the independent counsel has finally been cleared by an investigative report produced for the U.S. District Court by Senior Appeals Court Judge John W. Kern. The accusation was that Mr. Starr's office had leaked grand jury material to the press. No evidence was found that it ever happened. Unfortunately for Mr. Starr, however, Chief U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson decided inexplicably to keep the report under seal. Surely, Mr. Starr and his staff deserve public exoneration after all the abuse that was heaped upon them. The charge on independent counsel leaks was first leveled by presidential lawyer David E. Kendall in February, 1998. It found a new lease on life with the first issue of "Brill's Content," a stunningly pompous publication put out by Steven Brill. Mr. Brill, who calls himself a friend of Mr. Starr, had learned during a conversation that Mr. Starr had -- goodness -- talked to reporters on background. There was, of course, nothing unusual about this; it had indeed been a common practice among independent counsels all along to brief reporters on background. But in the supercharged political atmosphere of last summer, the White House attack team seized upon this unremarkable admission like a dog on a particularly promising bone. ....."

AP 9/20/99 "....The state parole board has voted unanimously to grant convicted rapist Wayne Dumond his release, the board announced today. In a closed meeting last week, the Post Prison Transfer Board voted 5-0 to allow Dumond to move in with his mother in DeWitt. Dumond must first complete a pre-release program in prison but could be released in one month, board specialist Tamara Salaam said...."

New York Post 9/21/99 Steve Dunleavy "... It has to do with a man called Wayne Dumond, over whose case I have agonized for long more than a decade. Dumond, now 52, was given conditional parole yesterday in Arkansas after having being sentenced to 50 years in jail for the rape of Clinton's cousin. That rape never happened. Is that just me saying so? No way. Some others who say so are: *The judge who sentenced Dumond under court guidelines to 50 years. In fact, the judge later quit the bench to become Dumond's lawyer to prove his innocence. *Dr. Moses Schanfield, who headed the Genetic Testing Center in Denver and did sperm tests on the so-called victim's jeans. "No way, zip, nada. No way Dumond was the donor of that sperm. It couldn't have happened in a million years." Schanfield was one of the experts sent to Bosnia to identify mystery graves. *Fred Odam, a retired Arkansas state police captain. He immersed himself in the case. He told me: "In all my time, this is the one case when I know a man is not guilty." *Veteran journalist Gene Wirges, 72, who now publishes the "Common Sense American" and has battled this travesty from Day One: "Very few people thought Wayne was guilty, but a lot thought the Clinton kin and clan had to have revenge ... against anyone - and Bill went along with the program." Despite the fact the Clinton cousin - whom I will not name, although The Associated Press has - failed to identify Dumond in two lineups, he was convicted. Despite the fact that she identified two other suspects, one an ex-boyfriend, Dumond was convicted Dumond will finally get out after nearly 14 years. ..."

New York Post 9/21/99 Steve Dunleavy "... Before Dumond turned himself in for his 50-year sentence, while awaiting surrender, something terrible happened. Two masked men burst into his house with a scalpel and surgical gloves and castrated him. You heard it right. The former Vietnam veteran and father of six was found hog-tied from a rafter by two of his schoolboy sons. Miraculously, he survived. A Clinton crony, Sheriff Coolidge Conlee, who also was a friend of the father of the Clinton cousin, had let the two animals out of jail to rob Dumond of his manhood. Sheriff Coolidge Conlee would die in jail after the feds nailed him for 60 years on a RICO charge. As Dumond was clinging to life in jail, the sheriff displayed his severed testicles in a jar on his desk. "I saw him pick them up and I saw the display," state police Capt. Odam has told me. As Dumond's testicles were on display on the sheriff's desk, something else happened. Dumond's house was torched to the ground. The father of the so-called rape victim was one of Clinton's biggest donors in his race for the Arkansas Governor's Mansion. When Dumond finally gets released next month, his wife, Dusty, will not be able to greet him. She died two years ago - after years of pleading with Clinton to review the case while he was governor. The man who, as president, would later grant clemency to FALN terrorists turned a deaf ear to her pleas...... "

NewsMax.com 9/23/99 "….It's hard not to raise an eyebrow over the prosecution of Little Rock community activist Robert "Say" McIntosh, who just happens to be Bill Clinton's most outspoken black critic anywhere in the America. He was sentenced on Tuesday by Municipal Judge Vic Fleming to one year in jail for hitting his 39-year old wife. Why the jail time, Inside Cover wonders -- especially since McIntosh's wife Denise Armstead withdrew all charges five months ago and left the courtroom after the sentence arm-in-arm with her husband? After the political prosecutions of key Clinton scandal witnesses like Linda Tripp and David Hale, the IRS investigations launched against Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers and Billy Dale -- not to mention the countless others who have alleged all manner of threats and intimidation after telling what they know about President Clinton, McIntosh's current predicament should be viewed in context. What McIntosh claimed to know as early as 1988 was that Bill Clinton was the father of Danny "Danno" Williams, born in 1985 to Bobbie Ann Williams, an African-American prostitute, after what she said were 13 paid sexual encounters with the then-Governor. According to most journalists, her paternity claim was disproved this past January when Star Magazine compared a sample of Danny's DNA with the brief presidential genetic profile made public as part of Ken Starr's impeachment report to Congress….."

NewsMax.com 9/23/99 "….But several reputable laboratories consulted by NewsMax.com in the months since, contend that the Starr Report information on Clinton's DNA was too scant to be conclusive. Clinton biographer Christopher Andersen concurs, reporting in his recent best selling book "Bill and Hillary: The Marriage", that DNA experts told him, "it would have been 'impossible' to make any definitive comparison based solely on the information provided in the Starr report." Also, shortly after Star Magazine announced the results, NewsMax.com asked the FBI Lab if Clinton's DNA information might have been altered in public documents for national security and/or privacy reasons. A Lab spokesman responded curtly, "We're not going to answer a question like that." ……It was one of those photos of Danny that "Say" McIntosh had plastered all over Arkansas, after a local black minister brought the case to his attention. The Little Rock provocatuer told NewsMax.com last year, "Rev. Knotts came to me with the little boy's picture and said that Clinton wouldn't take care of the baby. So I just enlarged the picture and printed up fliers and put them all over town." He became a nagging thorn-in-the-side for Governor Clinton, especially after Little Rock's black community began to echo McIntosh's concerns. Suddenly Clinton was dogged at local appearances with signs demanding, "Just One Drop." The phrase was a reference to the blood test that could establish Danny's paternity once and for all. It was after one such confrontation that Trooper Patterson heard Clinton refer to McIntosh as a "n - - - - r." …."

NewsMax.com 9/23/99 "…. These days the Arkansas activist is amazed by the support Clinton wins from African-Americans. The outspoken black leader told NewsMax.com last year, "That's why Clinton puts black people in key positions with him. They won't tell him when he's doing wrong, like Betty Currie." Currie was the Oval Office secretary who looked the other way as Clinton risked his presidency to have sex with Monica Lewinsky. "That's one of the reasons for his downfall, " added McIntosh. "When it comes to Clinton fooling around, black people just say, 'don't judge, don't judge.'" …… Clinton's campaign staff desperately tried to chase reporters away from the story McIntosh had dredged up. The 1993 documentary "The War Room" shows George Stephanopoulos threatening an operative from the Perot campaign with political oblivion if he went public with records purportedly showing that Clinton was Williams' father. After Clinton won the election, McIntosh had another enounter with the law, this one far more pleasant than what he's been through lately. It's perhaps the most telling bit of evidence showing how worried the Clinton camp truly was about the story Robert "Say" McIntosh was spreading. In 1991 the activist publicly claimed that Clinton had promised to grant his then-imprisoned son a pardon. Nobody took him seriously at the time. Young Tommy McIntosh was doing 50 years behind bars on a state drug rap and wasn't expected to get out anytime soon. But that changed on inauguration day 1993. Clinton's Arkansas successor Jim Guy Tucker traveled to D.C. to watch his former boss take the presidential oath, leaving president pro tempore of the Arkansas State Senate, Dr. Jerry Jewell in charge. Suddenly, young McIntosh was issued a surprise parole. Was this part of a deal to buy "Say" McIntosh's silence? He certainly thinks so. The Clinton critic told the Washington Times shortly after his son was sprung, "Those who question my credibility should ask themselves: If there was no deal, how did this happen? How did my son get out of prison 18 years before he was eligible for parole?" …."

Judicial Watch 10/4/99 Joe Giganti "......Judicial Watch, a not-for-profit, public interest law firm that exposes and prosecutes government corruption, will file a civil rights lawsuit today in federal court on behalf of two citizens who were beaten by Philadelphia Teamsters supporting President Clinton. Defendants in the lawsuit include Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, District Attorney Lynne Abraham and Teamsters official John Morris. A copy of the complaint will be available on the Internet at www.judicialwatch.org. On October 2, 1998, Don and Teri Adams, brother and sister, were viciously beaten by Teamsters acting under the direction of powerful Pennsylvania Teamsters boss John Morris. At the time, the Adams' were exercising their First Amendment rights by advocating the impeachment of Bill Clinton during the President's fundraising visit to Philadelphia. The beating was caught by news and other cameras on videotape and was broadcast nationwide. Despite exculpatory videotape and police evidence, Lynne Abraham prosecuted the victim of the crime, Don Adams, and refused to bring any charges against John Morris, whose local union has a history of violence. The lawsuit alleges, on information and belief, that Philly Mayor Ed Rendell arranged for the Teamsters' presence and reasonably foreseeable beating to curry favor with the President, Vice President, the Clinton-Gore Administration, Democratic Party, and its 2000 convention. Is it a coincidence that Rendell is now Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, reportedly for his closeness to Bill Clinton and Al Gore, and his fundraising prowess?......"

Jewish World Review 10/4/99 David Limbaugh ".....NOW, THIS SHOULD BE interesting. It seems that Bill Clinton has decided to turn his politics of personal destruction on his own executive branch. Where are Woodward and Bernstein when you really need them? The president is a little peeved that the FBI is beginning to make headway in its investigation into his campaign finance shenanigans. Or maybe he's angry because in the process they are blowing the whistle on his institutional guardian, the Justice Department. ...."

MSNBC 10/14/99 Jeanette Walls "..... Flynt apparently wants to wait until closer to the election to release any alleged dirt he's collected because he doesn't want to give the Republicans time to regroup. In the same speech, Flynt also claimed that Clinton was so happy with his anti-GOP tactics that he conveyed his thanks through an intermediary - someone Flynt referred to obliquely as "my very dear friend in the White House." Flynt declined to name the White House insider, but said, "All I can say is that he is very wired in. And it's not Clinton, although the president is a man after my own heart. He knows what that desk in the Oval office is for."...."

NewsMax 10/19/99 Carl Limbacher "....The news sizzled across the internet Monday afternoon. A soon-to-be-released biography of George W. Bush will level the first specific cocaine charge against the GOP frontrunner, who told reporters in August he's been coke-free for at least 25 years. The book, "Fortunate Son: The Rise of George W. Bush and the Next Generation of American Politics," alleges that 27 years ago, the Texas Governor was arrested for cocaine possession, then had his arrest record expunged by a Texas judge who owed his father a favor. ..... But are the charges true? Hatfield's decision not to identify his sources for the Bush coke story renders them unavailable for cross examination. Journalistically, reporting such an explosive charge when no one is willing to attach his or her name to it is highly questionable. Inside Cover is aware of other equally ill-sourced accounts about Bush's alleged involvement with drugs. But because those sources are either anonymous or long dead, we haven't printed a word. The rules are even stricter when it comes to similar charges against President Clinton....."

The Drudge Report 10/29/99 Charles Kelly Kris Mayes "....George W. Bush did work at a Houston inner-city youth program in the early 1970s, but three people familiar with the program said they never heard that Bush performed the work to erase a cocaine-possession infraction from his record...... The Texas governor called the account "ridiculous" during a campaign stop in Phoenix on Monday. On Tuesday, his father also called the accusation groundless. The story was also discounted by three P.U.L.L. observers. Ernie Ladd, a former Houston Oilers football player who co-founded P.U.L.L. with fellow Oiler John White, said White never mentioned that the younger Bush's service was in any way linked to drugs. "If this would have been true, John White would have told me, and John White has gone to his grave and he never told me about it," Ladd said. White died in 1988, and the P.U.L.L. program ended that year. White's widow, Otho Raye White, also said she never heard that Bush was forced to work at P.U.L.L. in connection with a drug arrest. She said she recalled no adverse rumors about Bush, but does remember that he was "very attached to some of the kids." Linda McCarthy, an art instructor for the program, said she did wonder why a young man from a wealthy, prominent family was working there. She thought it might have been for personal fulfillment. "It seems like he was an open person with a genuine concern for the children," she said....."

Chattanooga Free Press 10/20/99 "....It was President Bill Clinton who was under investigation about questionable pre-presidency financial deals that involved taxpayers' money and savings and loan improprieties. It was President Bill Clinton who engaged in disgusting immorality in the White House. It was President Bill Clinton who lied repeatedly under oath. It was President Bill Clinton who obstructed justice. It was President Bill Clinton who was impeached by the House of Representatives, and escaped conviction by the Senate. But it was Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, a former federal judge and a man of impeccable character, who was smeared so effectively by the Clinton White House gang that his reputation -- in some circles, at least -- seems to have suffered more than has that of Mr. Clinton......Judge Starr deserves the thanks and commendation of the American people for doing a job that would have been difficult under any circumstances and proved to be particularly onerous because he had to endure the attack-dog smear attempts by Mr. Clinton & Co. ....."

Dallas Morning News 10/21/99 Pete Slover "....The author of a book alleging that Gov. George W. Bush covered up a 1972 cocaine arrest is himself a felon on parole, convicted in Dallas of hiring a hit man for a failed attempt to kill his employer with a car bomb in 1987, records show. James Howard Hatfield, 41, was convicted of solicitation of capital murder, served five years of a 15-year sentence in a Texas prison and was paroled in 1993, records show. Author J.H. Hatfield flatly denied in an interview that he is that man. But a parole officer in Arkansas confirmed Wednesday that Mr. Hatfield the author is Mr. Hatfield the ex-convict, who is serving parole from Texas through April 2003.......Reached this week in New York during a book tour, Mr. Hatfield insisted that any link to the convicted man was a case of mistaken identity and that his middle name is Hathaway, not Howard.....When questioned further, Mr. Hatfield refused to give his birthday, Social Security number or any other information to distinguish him from the convicted man...... "If it's true, we're going to be shocked," said David Kaye, general counsel for St. Martin's Press, after the conviction was confirmed late Wednesday. He declined to comment further.......By 1994, he was paroled to Benton County, Ark., where state officials oversaw his Texas parole under an interstate pact that requires them to annually report Mr. Hatfield's status to Texas. The most recent report in his file confirms he is an author but does not specifically link him to the Bush book or any other works by J.H. Hatfield. But, Eddie Cobb, the official overseeing the parole confirmed Wednesday that records show his parolee is the author of Patrick Stewart, a biography of the Star Trek actor written by Mr. Hatfield and touted in the promotional materials for his Bush biography......"

WorldNetDaily 10/21/99 Joseph Farah "....Have you ever thought about using your website to campaign for your favorite candidate? Or, perhaps, to urge the defeat of that congressional representative who has been ignoring your letters? Better think again. Leo Smith of Connecticut decided he would use his business website to do just that -- urge the defeat of his congressional representative, Republican Nancy L. Johnson. He decided to add a new section to an already existing Internet site to advance the cause of her challenger, Charlotte Koskoff. Just a few days later, Smith was contacted by Koskoff's campaign manager. No, it wasn't a call to thank him for his efforts. It was a warning of legal problems he might encounter because of campaign finance regulations. Smith was told by the Federal Elections Commission that he was in violation of federal law because he had spent more than $250 in expressing his political views without disclosing his identity and filing the required reports. .....Do you believe this? For those who argue that campaign finance restrictions do not abrogate free-speech rights, I hope this is an eye-opener....."

Houston Chronicle 10/21/99 Cal Thomas ".....During his five difficult years as independent counsel, Kenneth Starr regrets not speaking out more when he was under attack by members of the Clinton administration and its hired guns. Interviewed on CNN's "Larry King Live," Starr said, "I should have done much more to educate the public, provide information about what it is that we were doing. And statements like that (speaking of James Carville's frequent attacks on Starr as being a "cigarette lawyer") went unanswered." That was about the only mistake Starr made in the professional and completely legal way he and his staff of career prosecutors conducted themselves while under constant attack by Clinton defenders who sought to smear an honorable man. The Clinton bunch even made fun of Starr's practice of singing hymns while walking alone.......Ken Starr eloquently summed up his philosophy when he offered these thoughts to Larry King about the duty of law officers and prosecutors: " ... their duty is to see that justice is done. And that may mean no indictment should be brought. It may mean that the evidence at the end of the day wasn't there to support a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt. It's not winning and losing, it's doing it right, playing by the rules, which is exactly what the men and women of this investigation did." The definition of honor pretty well sums up Ken Starr: "A person of superior standing." And honor's opposite, disgrace, accurately describes President Clinton: "To be a source of shame; to cause to lose favor or standing." ....."

New York Times 10/22/99 Frank Bruni "....Reporters for The New York Times, which received an advance copy of Hatfield's book last week, spent several days looking for evidence that might corroborate his account. But they did not find any, and the newspaper did not publish anything about the claim..... "Fortunate Son" was initially scheduled for publication early next year but was rushed into print to compete with "First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty," a book by Bill Minutaglio, a reporter for The Dallas Morning News, that the Times Books division of Random House published this month. Minutaglio said in a telephone interview today that there had long been a rumor of Bush's being arrested in 1972 and that he had done reporting to try to confirm it, but that it appeared to be untrue....."

The Dallas Morning News 10/22/99 Pete Slover Wayne Slater, Sam Attlesey, Cheryl Chapman "..."We can't trust this guy anymore," said David Kaye, general counsel for St. Martin's, which had earlier been aggressively marketing the book. Industry experts said they can't recall a similar action by a publisher. The real effect of the stoppage may be difficult to gauge, since bookstores are free to sell or return the copies they have..... In addition to the car bombing conviction, Mr. Hatfield was separately convicted of embezzlement. Federal court records reveal that Mr. Hatfield pleaded guilty in 1992 to embezzling thousands of dollars in federal housing money - a case in which his intended bombing victim was a witness. Mr. Kaye, the publisher's lawyer, said the company had dispatched investigators to Texas and Mr. Hatfield's home state of Arkansas...... "That's him. He used to wear a beard, so I recognized him," said Dallas lawyer Norman L. "Happy" Nelson Jr. Mr. Nelson said that when his client's car was blown up, she was a witness in the federal investigation of Mr. Hatfield. In that matter, he was charged in Dallas federal court with forging signatures to cash government checks worth $34,887. While in prison, he pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement in federal paperwork and had five additional years tacked on to his state sentence. Authorities had investigated missing funds earmarked for a low-income housing project managed by the company where Mr. Hatfield worked....."

The Dallas Morning News 10/22/99 Pete Slover "... Mr. Nelson said that Mr. Hatfield's ambitions as an author were evident even when he was working at the property management firm before his arrest. Mr. Hatfield told fellow employees that he had won a contest to write the next James Bond book, to continue the series started by deceased author Ian Fleming. After Mr. Hatfield showed up with his book, printed and bound, co-workers called the publisher. They learned Mr. Hatfield had paid to have the work published himself, Mr. Nelson said....."

The Dallas Morning News 10/22/99 Pete Slover "..."The promotional material for Mr. Hatfield's Bush biography include a statement that he won the Isaac Asimov Foundation Literary Award for his biography of Mr. Stewart, the Star Trek star. St. Martin's publicists could not say who presents the award. The Asimov award is not among the hundreds of contests in the 49-page contest reference guide contained in Literary Marketplace, an authoritative publishing reference book....."

National Review 10/22/99 Jonah Goldberg "....In the last weeks, the Democratic strategy going into the 2000 elections has become clear. It is one of slanders, smears, fear-mongering, and rank partisanship. President Clinton has hurled accusations against the Republicans, calling them racists, traitors, opportunists, and money-grubbers. His administration has made it a plank of their foreign policy to say they are hobbled by isolationist Republicans. This is doubly pernicious, because it politicizes statecraft and it slanders - deliberately - the opponents who disagree on popular issues....."

The New York Times 10/22/99 Doreen Carvajal "....St. Martin's Press, the publisher of a controversial biography of George W. Bush, took the unusual step of killing the disputed book Friday, issuing an alert to booksellers around the country to return thousands of copies for shredding or burning because company executives no longer trusted the author. ....."They're heat, furnace fodder," Sally Richardson, the president and publisher of St. Martin's trade division, said of the books. The publishing house this month had shipped more than 70,000 copies of Hatfield's "Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President." ..... Such recalls are rare, but this one comes in a season when other companies have been forced to pull books because of shattered trust -- from an author accused of making up a Holocaust identity to a biographer who simply plagiarized the words of other books. The incidents have raised questions about the industry's ability to screen authors. ...."

WORLD Magazine 10/30/99 ".....The flashbulbs had barely stopped popping before Mr. Ray's own reputation was sacrificed on the altar of President Clinton's public-relations machine. White House aides immediately began phoning reporters to suggest a conflict of interest because New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Hillary Clinton's likely Senate opponent next year, had appointed Mr. Ray to his first prosecuting job back in 1988. "This whole thing is just a political deal to try to help Giuliani," charged presidential pit bull James Carville. "This thing stinks, and I'm going to start a fumigation program." The New York Times attributed to unnamed White House aides this description of Mr. Ray: "an ideologue unfit to conduct an impartial inquiry"-never mind the fact that until January of last year, Mr. Ray was a registered Democrat in New York City. (He is now registered as an independent in New Jersey.) ...."

CHAD HAYWORTH ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE 10/24/99 ".....As questions about his background continue to swirl through the national press, James Howard Hatfield spent Friday afternoon closeted in his home while a landscaper worked on the lawn of his Bentonville house....... Hatfield and his wife, Nancy, live in a 2,000-square-foot, ranch-style home in southwest Bentonville with their newborn daughter....... "James Hatfield is under supervision in Arkansas on a Texas conviction," Cobb said. "I know him to be the author of several books, including the Bush biography." Cobb said he has supervised Hatfield since 1994, when he moved to Arkansas. Hatfield receives a minimal amount of supervision because of his behavior and the length of time he has been on parole........ Hatfield, who moved to Arkansas with the approval of Texas authorities, remains on parole through April 15, 2003, Castlebury said........The Bush campaign has its legal staff reviewing the matter for possible libel implications, representative Karen Hughes said......"

The Benton County Daily Record 10/22/99 Kirk Bayer ".....Years later, when he returned to his home in Arkansas, he asked Jensen for a contact at a publisher. "He has always been a very nice man, and I just can't believe all this," Jensen said. "I knew they'd get back at him." The "all this" Jensen referred to is the accusation that Hatfield the author is also Hatfield the convicted felon. "He's very kind, he's an animal rights activist, and he dearly loves his wife and child," she said. His child was born approximately two months ago. His publishing company, according to what Jensen recalls from her conversations with Hatfield, hired someone to look into Bush's past and the accusations, and it was their idea for him to add this to the book. "He called me and voiced his concern over the book," she remembers. "He had it all done and it was already in galleys when the publisher told him to add the last chapter - he was very concerned." ......"

Excite News - Reuters 10/14/99 Paul Kirby "..... Former President George Bush Sunday assailed as "a vicious lie" a withdrawn biography about his son George W. Bush that said he was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972.....The former president hinted of possible legal action. "I was so outraged, I did something I seldom do and I asked our attorney to talk to the man and they just brushed us off," Bush said. "We may not be finished with this yet, even though I'm a public figure. It's outrageous." ..... When asked Friday if the younger Bush was contemplating legal action against the publisher, a campaign spokesman replied: "Attorneys are looking into it." ...... The former president said the news media was using a standard that treats someone as if they are guilty until they are proven innocent. "We've been very close and I don't understand where all these rumors are coming from about his 'abnormal behavior,"' the elder Bush said of his son...... "

Drudge Report 10/24/99 "..... Author J.H. Hatfield's Response to the Controversy Surrounding the Publication and Recall of Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President My recently published biography Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President is "scrupulously corroborated and sourced," as described by my publisher, St. Martin's Press, in their own press release on October 18........ On Monday October 18, I was in New York City promoting Fortunate Son. Although John Murphy, the head of the publisher's publicity department, had previously promised they could arrange an appearance by me on the Today show, Good Morning America, and interviews with most major news outlets in the country (I even taped a segment for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather), we quickly found ourselves running into a virtual news blackout and lack of media coverage of the release of my new biography of the leading presidential candidate George W. Bush. ......in my defense I must quote my former editor at Kensington Publishing Company, Tracy Bernstein, who edited my first six books and stated in the October 21 edition of the on-line magazine Salon.com: "I found Jim Hatfield to be a tireless worker who I could count on to always deliver, and in every way an easy author to work with," she said. "Most of the books we worked on concerned pop-culture trivia, but even those books had a certain amount of 'backstage' info about the stars, creators or what have you. So those books, as well the Patrick Stewart bio, were vetted by our lawyers and anything that was questioned he had reputable sources for. I thus never had cause to doubt his professionalism or honesty." ........ I will not appear on 60 Minutes or a host of other national television shows or grant interviews to Newsweek or the Wall Street Journal-all who offered me an opportunity to "tell my side of the story." Simply stated, I don't have a story to tell. ...."

AP 10/21/99 "....St. Martin's Press said Thursday that it has suspended publication of a new book about Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. George W. Bush after questions were raised about the author's background. The Dallas Morning News reported this week that J.H. Hatfield, author of "Fortunate Son,'' was paroled from a Texas prison in 1993 after serving time for a felony conviction....."

Washington Post 10/22/99 Howard Kurtz "....The revelation [Hatfield] is the latest bizarre twist in the media's handling of a charge, based on three anonymous sources, that lacks any independent corroboration...... Salon and the Drudge Report were the first to publicize Hatfield's allegations. In fact, Salon helped put the story in play. Hatfield writes that he began investigating after an August gossip column in Salon reported a widely circulated e-mail claiming that a Texas judge had ordered Bush to perform community service "in exchange for expunging his record showing illicit drug use.".... Asked about its story this week on the Hatfield book, David Weir, Salon's senior vice president, said: "Salon, and the Internet generally, aren't really interested in the corporate-gatekeeper mode of deciding about stories.....Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution, criticized the handling of the story. "The problem is that mainstream, distinguished publishers aren't checking these things," he said. "They aren't in the business of fact-checking." As for newspapers, "you wind up publishing a story because someone denies it, which strikes me as a pretty shabby ethic." ...."

NewsMax.com 10/26/99 Linda Bowles "….When Democratic leaders begin to rail about the evils of "the politics of personal destruction," and cluck about how harmful such tactics are, it may be viewed as an announcement that they are about to launch campaigns to assassinate the character of those who do not agree with them…… For example, to thwart criticisms of flagrant violations of campaign-finance laws -- from renting out the Lincoln bedroom in the White House to soliciting illegal contributions from the Chinese -- Democrats are conducting a valiant crusade for campaign-finance reform…… With the election more than a year away, President Bill Clinton and Senate minority leader Tom Daschle are already on the stump clearly saying that Republicans are racists, and in the same sentence, saying they are not saying any such thing. Apparently, it is the operative attitude of a number of key Democratic leaders that if you do not automatically vote to confirm black judges and ambassadors based on their skin color, without regard to their attributes and qualifications, you are obviously a racist. It should be obvious, and is to the unobstructed mind, that the opposite is true……"

Washington Post 10/27/99 Linton Weeks "…..In the wake of the controversy over J.H. Hatfield's "Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President," Robert B. Wallace, editor in chief of St. Martin's Press, resigned suddenly yesterday…… "I didn't want to be associated with a book I have no control over," Wallace said from his home. "I haven't even read the book."….. Many of the top-level publishing houses, including St. Martin's Press, routinely conduct legal reviews of books. But the standard contract between writer and publisher places the burden of proof squarely on the writer--for libel, for plagiarism, for factual errors. ….. Just before the book was published, Hatfield delivered an "Afterword" that contained the allegations about Bush's cocaine use. At St. Martin's, a warren of ancient offices in the Flatiron Building in Manhattan, the document was considered top secret and referred to only by the cryptic letters "MJ." It was also run under the legal microscope, Murphy said…… In his resignation announcement, Robert Wallace said, "I do not in any way wish to have my name associated with 'Fortunate Son' or future books published by Thomas Dunne Books . . ." ….."

AP 10/31/99 "..... A few days after Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr left his post, FBI Director Louis Freeh sent him a letter praising his work and his personal integrity, according to a published report. ``You have always respected the truth and have never engaged in any misleading or evasive conduct or practice,'' Freeh wrote, Newsweek magazine reports in its Nov. 8. ``Your objective has always been the promotion of justice and the safeguarding of the judicial process.'' ...."

NewsMax.com 10/30/99 Carl Limbacher "…. A Taiwanese businessman who visited the White House 57 times says that the Democratic National Committee urged a federal judge to "throw the book" at him after he exposed the Clinton administration's connection to the Chinese campaign cash scandal. The explosive allegation was leveled by key Chinagate witness Johnny Chung, who spoke last Saturday at a Pasadena, California awards dinner held in his honor by Judicial Watch, a Washington based public interest lawfirm….But Mr. Chung's most compelling account was about the donation he made to former Energy Department Secretary Hazel O'Leary. Chung says that after he requested a meeting with the then-Energy Secretary for representives of China's national oil company, he was solicited inside the Energy Department by an O'Leary aide -- who indicated that such a meeting could be arranged after Chung made a $25,000 donation to Africare, O'Leary's favorite charity. ……"I made my $25,000 donation to Africare and I got my access," Chung told the Judicial Watch audience. Then why was no independent counsel appointed to investigate the Chung-O'Leary transaction? "Janet Reno, attorney general, said to me, 'Thank you' is not evidence," Chung said. .."

NewsMax.com 10/30/99 Carl Limbacher "…. Chung repeatedly stressed his intent was to "tell the truth" but says now that his honesty nearly landed him in jail. Party officials, Chung claims, pushed for him to get the maximum sentence for the crimes to which he pleaded guilty, which could have put Chinagate's most significant cooperating witness behind bars for 37 years and cost him $1.45 million in fines. "When (the court) got ready to sentence me, the DNC wrote a letter to my sentencing judge (Manuel) Real portraying themselves as a victim. They were 'victimized' by Johnny Chung. So they asked the judge to throw the book at my face." Chung described Judge Real as "tough judge", a Lyndon Johnson appointee, but one who wouldn't bend to the DNC's heavy handed tactics. "He throw the book out." Because of his cooperation with investigators, Judge Real sentenced the former DNC donor to just five years probation…..As for the recepients of Chung's campaign cash, such as O'Leary and the First Lady, Judge Real said, "It's very strange that the giver pleads guilty and the givee gets off free." ….."

SunSpot/AP 10/28/99 "….Congress might delve into the details of the difficult relationship between independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr and the Justice Department, Sen. Arlen Specter said yesterday. Specter's statement followed an Associated Press article that said Attorney General Janet Reno had informed Starr four days before his impeachment testimony that the department would review allegations against his office's conduct of the Monica Lewinsky investigation. Unknown to Starr, word of Reno's plans had leaked to the news media before the Sunday afternoon meeting between the prosecutor and the attorney general……"

NewsMax 11/2/99 Carl Limbacher "….After pleading guilty to a felony in the 1996 Democratic fund-raising scandal, Clinton money-man Charlie Yah Lin Trie was sentenced