Time: Sun Nov 03 06:10:47 1996
To: roc@xmission.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Hillary in Chains
Cc: 
Bcc: liberty lists

Hillary in handcuffs ... 
... has a nice ring to it.
Hillary in chains ...
... has an even better ring to it.
This marriage does not bode well.
Pity.

/s/ Paul Mitchell



At 05:17 AM 11/3/96 -0600, you wrote:
>>From the London Sunday Times
>
>Whitewater heads the
>spectre of
>corruption haunting
>the Democrats,
>writes James Adams
>
>                                 [Image] ©
>
>                         Clinton with Loutchansky
>
>                 Smell of scandal that could leave Hillary
>                               in handcuffs
>
>                In the latest twist to a corruption scandal
>                swirling around Bill Clinton, a photograph
>                has emerged that shows him at a Democratic
>                fundraising event with a businessman who
>                has been the target of an undercover
>                operation by MI6.
>
>                The president was photographed with Grigori
>                Loutchansky, who runs an international
>                conglomerate, Nordex, described by John
>                Deutch, head of the CIA, as "an
>                organisation associated with Russian
>                criminal activity". Loutchansky and Nordex
>                have consistently denied any involvement in
>                criminal activity.
>
>                Clinton used their meeting in October 1993
>                to discuss problems involved in making
>                Ukraine a nuclear-free state. He asked
>                Loutchansky, a Latvian, to act as an
>                intermediary in discussions between America
>                and Ukraine.
>
>                Nearly two years later, Loutchansky was
>                again invited to a fundraising dinner with
>                Clinton in Washington. The invitation was
>                withdrawn after the CIA gave a warning
>                about his connections with Nordex.
>
>                "Loutchansky did come to an event, a dinner
>                with the president," said Amy Weiss Tobe, a
>                spokeswoman. "We did send him a letter
>                inviting him to the July 1995 dinner, but
>                after the letter was sent we learnt he had
>                problems."
>
>                Clinton is already under fire for raising
>                millions of dollars from overseas
>                supporters alleged by Republicans to have
>                received lucrative contracts. The latest
>                revelation is further ammunition for
>                critics who are calling for an independent
>                investigation of the Democrats' election
>                fundraising.
>
>                Donations from Indonesia are being linked
>                to a softening of Clinton's policy on human
>                rights abuses in the country, and a
>                lucrative power contract in China was
>                awarded to a company that had also provided
>                generous support.
>
>                At the heart of the scandal is Ron Brown,
>                the late commerce secretary, who died in a
>                plane crash earlier this year. Evidence is
>                emerging that Brown extracted money for the
>                party in return for trade deals and soft
>                loans.
>
>                "We are headed for a second Watergate with
>                all this stuff going on," said Ross Perot,
>                the maverick billionaire election
>                candidate. "A constitutional crisis in
>                1997. And for two years nothing's going to
>                happen while we fool around with this."
>
>                Janet Reno, the attorney-general, is
>                expected to order an inquiry. If its remit
>                extends to every dollar raised by the
>                Democratic party and every aspect of
>                government policy in the past four years,
>                the new Clinton administration could be
>                largely paralysed. Even as Clinton is sworn
>                in for his second term in January, his
>                lawyers will be in the Supreme Court
>                arguing that he should not have to respond
>                to a sexual harassment suit brought by
>                Paula Jones until he leaves office in four
>                years' time.
>
>                Jones claims that Clinton asked her up to
>                his room at a Little Rock hotel in 1991,
>                exposed himself and asked her to perform a
>                sexual act. Given Clinton's record of such
>                behaviour, many believe the charges are
>                true. But for the past three years the
>                president has successfully used the courts
>                to delay a trial.
>
>                If the Supreme Court finds against him,
>                then the administration will face the
>                prospect of having Clinton's sexual his
>                tory and intimate personal details publicly
>                paraded.
>
>                While that may be the most embarrassing of
>                the next administration's legal woes, it is
>                certainly not the most serious. Kenneth
>                Starr, the independent counsel who has been
>                investigating the Whitewater scandal for
>                the past two years, is ready to file new
>                charges against a number of people,
>                including White House officials.
>
>                He has not issued any indictments in the
>                past three months as he did not want to be
>                accused of playing party politics. But with
>                the election over, the writs will be
>                served.
>
>                Exactly who will be charged is not known
>                but there is a long list of potential
>                suspects, given that Starr's investigations
>                have steadily broadened to include the
>                firing of the workers in the White House
>                travel office, the suicide of Vince Foster,
>                the deputy White House counsel, and the use
>                of secret FBI files by White House
>                officials.
>
>                Top of Starr's target list is Hillary
>                Clinton, who has been investigated on
>                charges of obstructing justice and perjury.
>                If the Democrats won control of Congress,
>                she would almost certainly not be indicted.
>                However if, as expected, the Republicans
>                retain control, the possibility of Hillary
>                in handcuffs will arise.
>
>                Even if Starr does not attack her directly,
>                several members of her personal staff and
>                other White House officials are in his
>                sights.
>
>
      


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