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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: How the rule of law was subverted by the Clinton Plan
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>
> HOW THE RULE OF LAW WAS SUBVERTED
> The Implementation of a Clinton Administration Plan
>
> It all started with the "D.A. Massacre" at the U.S. Justice
>Department. The Clinton administration in 1993 fired all U.S.
>Attorneys and replaced them with loyal cronies.
>
> That almost ended accountability for the Clinton
>administration, because indictment for crimes would have to be
>brought by U.S. Attorneys. An example is U.S. Attorney Eric
>Holder, conveniently placed at the District of Columbia--the
>actual crime scene for most of the misdeeds of the Clinton
>Administration. He has repeatedly refused prosecution of Clinton
>administration employees despite referrals with clear evidence of
>wrongdoing.
>
> But it now seems that the "D.A. Massacre" was part of a
>larger plan to end accountability and destroy enemies of the
>state:
>
>
>INSPECTOR GENERALS REPLACED
>
> The Inspectors General of the different government agencies
>are the ethics and crime watchdogs. During the Clinton
>administration, they, as well as the respective general counsels,
>were replaced with loyal cronies answering no longer to the
>people of the United States but to the White House Counsel's
>office, the central intelligence office of the operation as we
>shall see later. Consider the following examples:
>
>(1) Treasury Inspector Valerie Lau started a criminal probe of
>Secret Service agents John Libonati and Jeffrey Undercoffer after
>they had testified that the Secret Service was not the source of
>the list used to compile FBI files in the Filegate scandal, thus
>blowing the White House cover story. Senator Orrin Hatch
>suspected the criminal probe was a political vendetta
>orchestrated from the White House. Treasury IG Valerie Lau also
>provided confidential depositions of White House staffers to
>White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler ahead of Whitewater hearings in
>1994. Cutler used the testimony to coach staffers to get
>their stories straight and consistent before appearing before
>Congress. The depositions had been taken as part of a Treasury
>IG probe into allegations that the Treasury Dept. had tipped
>off the White House about the RTC criminal
>investigation into Whitewater. The Treasury IG probe,
>predictably, found no improper contacts.
>
>(2) FBI General Counsel Howard Shapiro hand delivered the
>manuscript of dissident Gary Aldrich to the White House Counsel's
>office. He also leaked information to the White House Counsel's
>office that FBI agent Dennis Sculimbrene had revealed in a
>confidential FBI interview that it was Hillary Clinton who hired
>Filegate perpetrator Craig Livingstone. Both contacts were
>followed by White House efforts to neutralize Aldrich and
>Sculimbrene.
>
>(3) State Department Inspector General Josephine William-Bridgers
>cleared Toby Gati, the State Department's intelligence chief, of
>improper contacts with Hungarian intelligence and illegal access
>to classified NSA documents. Josephine William-Bridgers is "the
>model of 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,'" says former
>State Department employee Timothy N. Hunter. William-Bridgers
>replaced Sherman Funk after he had found several instances of
>clear criminal violations at the State Department.
>
>(4) United States Information Agency Inspector General Mariann
>Benett covered up credit card fraud by USIA Inspector General
>staff and launched a politically motivated investigation of Radio
>Marti, a staunchly anti-Communist radio station run by the
>government. She came under heavy fire from her deputy Inspector
>General for her violation of procedure.
>
>
>
>POLITICAL BLACKMAIL
>
> Political intelligence gathered by Inspector Generals and
>other covert operatives of the White House Counsel's office has
>limited value if it cannot be turned into action. This is where
>political blackmail enters the picture. A truly corrupt
>administration can only survive if it can control public opinion,
>the judicial system, and the political system. Public opinion is
>controlled by the Clinton-friendly media. The judicial system has
>been taken care of as described above. That leaves the political
>system, which can still hold hearings and vote to impeach. The
>only effective way to deal with politicians is by blackmail. To
>blackmail a politician, you need dirt. To collect dirt, you need
>a private investigator or FBI agents. The White House has and
>uses both.
>
> The White House Counsel's office employed Anthony Marceca and
>Craig Livingstone to study FBI files on thousands of government
>employees and politicians. The names include both Republicans and
>Democrats, and this is an important point. As can be seen from
>the current Senate campaign finance hearings, it is of great
>value to the White House to have a few Democrats on the Committee
>who will do everything to obstruct, impede and obfuscate the
>hearings. Here again, the White House Counsel is key. Current
>White House Counsel Charles Ruff was the lawyer who got Senator
>John Glenn (D-OH) off on a charge of accepting a $234,000 bribe
>from S&L operator Charles Keating during the "Keating Five"
>scandal. Charles Ruff knows what legal or illegal means were used
>to save Glenn's career. Ruff also knows what legal or illegal
>means were used to retire Glenn's $3 million campaign debt from a
>failed 1984 presidential bid in violation of FEC rules.
>
> The current obfuscation attempts by Senators Glenn, Levin and
>Torricelli are so blatant and clumsy, however, that even
>Clinton-friendly media operatives find them difficult to defend.
>As a reference point, we can use the behavior of a Democrat who
>does not appear to have been either bought by the Chinese or
>fallen victim to political blackmail: Senator Lieberman, who
>still appears to keep an open, inquiring mind.
>
> The White House has also made heavy use of one certain
>private investigator from California, Jack Palladino.
>
> Palladino was first used by the Clinton campaign in 1992 to
>threaten "bimbos" and others who were considered coming forward
>with information damaging to Clinton. In 1993, Jack Palladino
>apparently was hired by Harry Thomasson to look for dirt on the
>fired White House Travel Office staff. Justice Department phone
>logs from June 23, 1993 also show that Betsy Wright called Deputy
>Attorney General Webster Hubbell to give him the phone number of
>Jack Palladino at the request of Hillary Clinton. What Jack
>Palladino did for Webster Hubbell on that occasion remains a
>mystery to this date. But we do know that a $150,000 payment to
>Palladino's detective firm was made in 1993 by a lawyer for the
>Teamster's union. That lawyer was none other than the current
>White House Counsel, Charles Ruff.
>
>
>THE FBI AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
>
> The replacement of the FBI director and the appointment of an
>Attorney General, both of whom are loyal cronies of the Clinton
>administration is an important part of the plan. Take as an
>example the current campaign financing scandal. The FBI has known
>at least since last year about the Chinese plan to illegally
>infiltrate U.S. politics, yet has done nothing. It was the
>private watchdog group Judicial Watch that exposed the apparent
>spy John Huang. The FBI has yet to track down and question most
>of the players in the fundraising and espionage scandal.
>
> But the FBI and the Justice Department have not hesitated to
>pursue the frivolous allegations by DNC operative Mark Siegel
>against House Government Oversight Committee Chairman Dan Burton.
>Last week, the Justice Department delivered what Burton
>considered a clear message: you continue your aggressive
>government corruption investigations, and you will get "framed"
>for a campaign finance scandal of your own. This is political
>blackmail--not by the White House Counsel's office but by the
>Justice Department, the top law enforcement agency in the land.
>
> Also last week, Dwight Linkous, a former consultant for
>Charlie Trie said that he has been prevented, presumably by
>Justice Department officials, from telling a federal grand jury
>investigating campaign finance all he knows.
>
> And The American Spectator reveals in the August 1997 issue
>that the DNC is far from coming clean on its illegal
>contributions. "Using publicly available FEC records and
>documents released by the DNC... we have identified an
>additional $562,437 in dubious contributions that were undeclared
>by the DNC," Kenneth R. Timmerman tells the Washington Weekly.
>"This clearly suggests that there is much more to the campaign
>finance scandal than the DNC wants us to believe, and that much
>more illegal money is probably out there, undisclosed, and
>unreturned."
>
> The important question is why has the FEC or the Justice
>Department not taken this look at the DNC? Why is it that every
>new revelation has to come from conservative reporters,
>conservative organizations, and investigators for Republican
>Senators? The Justice Department clearly is not interested in
>uncovering the truth.
>
>
> So those who have asked repeatedly how the White House has
>been able to get away with so many crimes reported by the
>alternative and conservative media now have an answer: they had
>an advance plan.
>
>
>
>
> Published in the Jul. 21, 1997 issue of The Washington Weekly
> Copyright 1997 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
> Reposting permitted with this message intact
>
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