Time: Sun Nov 03 06:10:47 1996
To: roc@xmission.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Hillary in Chains
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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 withdrawn after the CIA gave a warning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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