***MORE UNREPORTED TRUTH ON THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION***
By J. Adams
November 30th, 1996
"Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!"
('King John'; Act II, sc.1)
Below is some more profound stories I collected from the internet
that received little or no attention from the mainstream media. They
deal with how the Clinton Administration continues to get away with
unprecedented criminality thanks in part to the blind eye of the mass
media and the blissful "ignor"ance of the American people.
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***JANET RENO: A TEAM PLAYER***
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After Clinton's reelection, there was talk that Janet Reno might
resign because she's been under pressure from the White House for not
being a "team player". Well, it looks like she's fully on the team
now, just in time to spare the Clintons from the most threatening
scandal to-date involving foreign campaign financing and the potential
sale of U.S. trade policy and trade secrets to foreign governments.
Fortunately for the Clintons, she made sure to announce her decision
during the Thanksgiving break so it will receive minimum attention.
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"Justice Rejects Request For
DNC Independent Counsel"
By Terry Frieden/CNN
WASHINGTON (Nov. 29) -- The Justice Department today rejected a
request by five Republican lawmakers to seek appointment of an
independent counsel to investigate allegations of illegal
campaign fund-raising by the Democratic National Committee.
The Justice Department said the independent counsel law does not
cover allegations involving employees of the Democratic National
Committee and that the one allegation involving the president
and vice president lacked specificity.
But, as it did with two other recent requests, the Justice
Department said it takes the allegations seriously and has
formed a task force within the agency's criminal division to
investigate campaign finance irregularities.
Attorney General Janet Reno personally approved the letter,
which was signed by a career Justice Department lawyer. It was
sent to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and four House GOP chairmen:
Bill Clinger, Bill Thomas, Ben Gilman and Gerald Solomon.
McCain called the decision "further proof that congressional
hearings may need to be held to investigate these serious
allegations. It is my strong belief that the facts before us
meet the test when other independent counsel have been called
for in the past."
White House spokesman Mike McCurry said, "The Justice Department
has made its decision for the reasons indicated. The White House
will continue to answer questions related to financial
contributions forthrightly, as the president has directed."
The Republicans had requested on Oct. 29 that Reno seek the
appointment of an independent counsel "to investigate the
serious allegations that federal criminal laws may have been
violated by a number of high-ranking officials in the Clinton
Administration and at the Democratic National Committee."
The independent counsel statute calls for the Justice Department
to respond within 30 days to explain whether there is a basis to
launch a "preliminary inquiry," the first step toward seeking an
independent counsel.
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***A TIME TO KILL?***
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Looks like somebody might have stopped by the Commerce Department
at a bad time- during the Thanksgiving holiday when the building was
supposed to be closed and empty. She might have confronted some
mysterious visitors to the building who were looking for some
incriminating documents the Clintons wanted "lost". It looks like
poor Bill and Hillary had to interrupt their Thanksgiving break at
Camp David and rush back to the White House to tend to the newest
murder. Fortunately, the City Police have been placed on the case
instead of the FBI, so another coverup should be no problem.
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Friday November 29 4:46 PM EST
"Commerce Dept Employee Found Dead in Building"
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - A U.S. Commerce Department employee was found
dead in her office Friday, and city police said they were
investigating the circumstances surrounding her death.
The woman was discovered by a colleague early Friday in her office on
the fourth floor, where the International Trade Administration's
offices are located. Police said the dead woman's name was being
withheld pending notification of her family.
Police said the city's medical examiner would perform an autopsy to
determine the cause and the manner of death. The case is being
investigated by the police department's homicide unit.
The woman was last seen alive at the Commerce Department on Wednesday
afternoon at about 4 p.m., police said. The building was closed
Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Friday November 29 11:26 PM EST
"Clinton Returns to White House Briefly"
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - President Clinton briefly interrupted his
Thanksgiving weekend to return to the White House to work on his
inauguration, picking up poetry books to take back to Camp David, the
White House says.
Clinton returned to Washington by helicopter with his wife, Hillary,
and daughter, Chelsea, spending less than two hours at the White House
before returning alone to the presidential retreat in western
Maryland.
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***MORE ON THE CLINTONS & ESPIONAGE AGAINST THE U.S.***
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Date: Sun, 10 Nov 96 20:40:31 EST
From: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
"LIPPO SCANDAL RUNS DEEPER THAN REVEALED BY U.S. MEDIA"
Chinese Intelligence Infiltration of the Clinton Administration
The London Times is reporting that the Clinton Administration may have
been penetrated by foreign intelligence. Behind the complex web of the
Lippo Scandal lies Chinese Intelligence interests. The Chinese-born
John Huang, before moving to Arkansas, worked for the Hong Kong
Chinese Bank, a bank jointly owned by Lippo Group and by Chinese
intelligence interests.
After Clinton became president, John Huang joined the Commerce
Department and received a top secret clearance without the required
background checks by the FBI or the State Department's Office of
Security. He has since had access to vital U.S. intelligence secrets
and helped Commerce Secretary Ron Brown broker trade deals of enormous
proportions with China.
The CIA and House Republicans are investigating. The CIA two weeks ago
seized 25 of 40 files kept in a safe for John Huang by Small Business
Administration official Ira Sockowitz. A dossier labeled "People's
Republic of China Intelligence Penetration" of the Clinton
Administration has been prepared for the House Oversight Committee
that is expected to start hearings on the topic. Its new chairman will
be Dan Burton.
So the scandal that the U.S. media is trying to portray as a campaign
finance scandal and use as an argument for campaign finance reform,
seems to be a classical intelligence operation in which corrupt
politicians and lax security have been exploited to the financial gain
of China. The investment China has made in the Clinton administration
is nothing compared to the windfall it has received from Most Favored
Nation trading status and numerous trade deals.
White House officials have already started pointing the finger at a
dead man, former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. But as usual, this
obfuscation appears designed to distract attention from the first lady
Hillary Clinton, who has had a role in the hiring of John Huang. The
Washington Times is citing a report that says that John Huang was
hired by Hillary Clinton. And John Huang himself said during his
recent deposition that while he was in hiding from the U.S. Marshall
recently, Hillary Clinton reached out to him.
Published in the Nov. 11, 1996 Issue of The Washington Weekly
Copyright (c) 1996 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:04:58 -0600
Subject: piml] THE LONDON TIMES: Clinton appointee faces spy scandal
THE LONDON TIMES
November 15 1996
"Clinton appointee faces spy scandal"
FROM TOM RHODES
IN WASHINGTON
THE STATE Department's intelligence chief was under investigation in
Washington yesterday over several breaches of security, including an
improper demand for top secret documents linking her husband and a
family friend to the Hungarian spy service.
Tobi Gati, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence, a close
friend of Hillary Clinton and a political appointee, was also facing
inquiries by the department's inspector-general over questionable
contact with foreign officials including Andrei Kozyrev, the former
Russian Foreign Minister.
Mrs Gati, 50, is a former vice-president of the United Nations
Association who joined the National Security Council as a Russian
expert in early 1993. At a time when she had no security clearance, it
appears Mrs Gati obtained two highly classified documents from the
National Security Agency, the surveillance monitoring service for the
Washington secret service.
One of the papers linked a family friend to the Hungarian intelligence
service while the second suggested that Charles Gati, her husband who
was then a policy planning official at the State Department, was a
counter-intelligence risk because of his close ties to the Hungarian
Embassy in Washington. Mrs Gati yesterday denied seeking the secret
documents.
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***SOME OTHER INTERESTING ARTICLES***
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"Did Lindsey Try To Mislead On Riady Contacts?"
By Bob Franken/CNN
WASHINGTON (Nov. 19) -- Investigators are poring over Commerce
Department telephone logs that list outgoing calls from John
Huang, the principal figure in the Democratic overseas fund-
raising flap. But there is also new attention focused on another
man, Clinton aide Bruce Lindsey, who has once again placed
himself in the middle of a White House trouble spot.
Lindsey, President Bill Clinton's longtime aide and confidante,
is traveling with the president on his journey to Australia and
the Far East. But he left behind many questions about his role
in the possibly misleading handling of an important development
in the Democratic National Committee money controversy before
the election.
It was Lindsey, White House insiders confirm, who insisted on
depicting meetings between Clinton and Indonesian billionaire
James Riady as purely social calls. Huang once worked for Riady
at the Lippo bank, and is under scrutiny for his ongoing
connections to Lippo while employed at the Commerce Department.
Mark Fabiani, who had long been the point man on various ethics
matters in the White House, argued against Lindsey's
characterization of the Riady meetings. Fabiani recently left
his job at the White House, a departure long planned. He had no
comment.
It was only after the election that press secretary Mike McCurry
and others acknowledged the meetings were much more substantive
than mere social calls, and included discussions of
administration policy toward Asia.
Lindsey himself has made no comment. But his handling of the
Riady meetings story is just one part of White House efforts to
stem the DNC money controversy.
For instance, on Oct. 25, eleven days before the election, the
Commerce Department collected information on outgoing telephone
calls placed by Huang while he was employed there.
Investigators will use the phone logs to determine whether Huang
broke the law by raising party funds while working for the
government.
But the logs were not released until last week, after President
Clinton was safely re-elected.
The logs list numerous calls Huang made to Stephens Inc., a huge
Little Rock investment firm which had extensive business
dealings the Lippo Group, and several to the Little Rock law
firm of Wright, Lindsey and Jennings, Lindsey's former law firm.
The Commerce Department press secretary told CNN the delay in
producing the logs happened because the document request was so
massive. Republicans responded by saying the delays are merely
standard operating procedure for the Clinton Administration.
This story originally appeared on CNN's "Inside Politics."
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"Commerce official phoned Lippo,
Democratic donor on government card"
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- A former CommerceDepartment official made numerous calls
on her government credit card to theDemocratic Party, a donor's
company and the homes and offices of topexecutives of the Lippo
conglomerate, her telephone records show.
The calls from Melinda Yee, whose relationship with Democratic donor
Nora Lum has been under federal investigation, included one to Lum's
Oklahoma company just two days before the company approved a $12,500
payment to Yee's mother, records obtained by The Associated Press
show.
Federal regulations and laws prohibit workers from making personal or
political calls using government telephones or credit cards, or using
their government positions to financially benefit themselves or
immediate family.
Yee's attorney defended her conduct Wednesday, saying she believed
many of the calls Yee charged on her card were to return messages left
for her at her government office.
"While it is difficult to recall with any specificity phone calls that
were made several years ago, what she does know beyond a doubt is that
calls made using her Commerce Department credit card concerned
Commerce Department business," attorney Nancy Luque said.
Yee joined the Commerce Department after working at the Democratic
National Committee during the 1992 election. She helped the department
arrange several trade missions.
Her records show she made at least three calls in 1994 and 1995 to
associates at Indonesian-based Lippo Group, which has emerged as a
central player in the controversy over Asian political donations to
the Democratic Party and President Clinton's policy toward Indonesia.
In one exchange on July 15, 1994, while she was traveling in Hong
Kong, Yee called then-head of Lippo U.S. operations, John Huang, at
his home in California, followed by a call to a Lippo bank in
Indonesia, and then another call to Huang.
Those calls came just three days before Huang left Lippo to officially
begin a job at the Commerce Department and less than two months before
a high-profile U.S. trade mission to China, where Lippo has vast
business interests.
Yee was in Hong Kong to make preparation for the China trade mission,
and was in contact with Lippo along with several companies to make
arrangements for the upcoming trip, Luque said.
Meanwhile, the DNC said Wednesday it was returning $253,500 in
donations -- including $135,000 that Huang solicited this year -- made
since 1993 in the name of a lobbyist for Asian business interests that
in fact came from her mother-in-law. The move raised to about $1
million the amount the party has given back this fall.
Republican congressional investigators have questioned whether Huang
used his government contacts to help his former company, which also
directed hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to the
Democratic Party. Huang has denied wrongdoing.
Around the time the China trade mission ended, Yee charged another
call on Sept. 4, 1994, from a home in San Jose, Calif., to Lippo's
headquarters in Hong Kong. Luque said the call was most likely to
issue a thank you for Lippo's assistance.
And in March 1995, Yee charged a telephone call from the Commerce
Department in Washington to the Indonesian home of Jose Roberto Hana,
a director of Lippo Bank.
Yee also was one of several top Commerce officials to attend a lunch
in February 1994 at the Indonesian home of Mochtar Riady, the
patriarch of the Lippo empire, the AP reported Tuesday.
Critics cite the contacts as evidence of the extraordinary access that
officials of the Lippo banking and real estate conglomerate have been
granted to the administration, including private audiences with
Clinton.
At least a half-dozen times, Yee used her government credit card to
call various numbers at the Democratic National Committee headquarters
in Washington, where she had worked in 1992 overseeing the party's
outreach to Asian Americans.
In one such call, on April 12, 1994, Yee spent 12 minutes talking to
an extension at the Democratic Party's fund-raising office during the
midday of a workday. The Hatch Act forbids government employees from
conducting political business on government time.
A month earlier, Yee made four short calls to the DNC on March 17-18,
1994 -- three of them to the party's fund-raising division. Just two
days earlier, Huang and his wife donated $20,000 to the DNC.
Luque said her client "had nothing to with fund-raising" and the calls
were likely made to return messages left for her at her office while
on travel.
Yee also made numerous long-distance calls to the Oklahoma home or
office of Mrs. Lum, a Democratic donor and fund-raiser who emerged
earlier this year as a key figure in a special prosecutor's
investigation into former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's financial
dealings.
Mrs. Lum purchased an Oklahoma gas company shortly after Clinton took
office and then placed both Yee's mother and Brown's son, Michael, on
her corporate board, showering them with tens of thousands of dollars
in shareholder payments.
In one such call, Yee phoned Mrs. Lum's company, Dynamic Energy
Resources Inc. of Tulsa, Okla., on April 13, 1994. Just two days
later, the company approved a $12,500 check to Yee's mother as a
shareholder payment, according to internal company records obtained by
the AP.
Luque said Yee could not recall the specific reason for the call but
was "absolutely certain the call ... had nothing to do with payments
to her mother."
In October 1994, Yee made a call from China to the law offices of
Michael Brown, who at the time was acting head of Dynamic. Yee also
made several calls to White House adviser Bruce Lindsey's former
Arkansas law firm, which was representing Dynamic and the Lums.
Yee's relationship with Mrs. Lum has been under investigation since
earlier this year when the AP reported that Yee had accepted plane
rides from Mrs. Lum, including a trip to Oklahoma to accept stock in
the company on behalf of her mother.
At the time, Yee had not disclosed the trips on her ethics statement.
She has since amended those reports to the government to reflect the
trips.
Former Dynamic president Stuart Price has testified in a lawsuit
against the Lums that Yee's mother and Brown's son were added to the
company's board as part of an effort "to gain influence" with the
Commerce Department,
Price, a Democrat who had a falling out with the Lums, also testified
that he was interviewed by Commerce internal investigators in the
summer of 1995 and told them about concerns he had about Yee and the
company.
"There's been some potential illegal -- you know -- communications or
what I think -- you know --breached that level between Melinda Yee and
Dynamic," according to court testimony.
The Commerce inspector general referred the allegations about Yee to
the special prosecutor overseeing the Ron Brown probe. Shortly before
Brown died in a plane crash in Croatia in April, those prosecutors had
issued grand jury subpoenas seeking records about the company, Brown,
Brown's son and Yee.
After Brown died, the special prosecutor turned back the case to the
Justice Department to complete.
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"Investigators eye Huang's contacts"
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
John Huang began aggressively arguing for a new U.S. trade
policy toward Vietnam only one day after his July 1994
appointment as a top Commerce Department official -- and pushed
the idea for the next 17 months while his former employer, the
Lippo Group, sought to expand its investment empire into Vietnam.
Republican legislators believe Mr. Huang's efforts to open
Vietnamese markets after his former company paid him a $780,000
bonus is a conflict of interest, and they have called for
congressional hearings and the appointment of an independent
counsel to investigate the matter.
"Mr. Huang's prior involvement with Lippo and his activities
at Commerce with regard to Vietnam is an absolute conflict of
interest," says Rep. Gerald B.H. Solomon, New York Republican and
chairman of the House Rules Committee.
"If this was Wall Street or the New York Stock Exchange, this
kind of insider information would result in people going to
jail."
The Justice Department is now reviewing a request by Mr.
Solomon and the chairmen of three other House committees, along
with Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, for the appointment of
an independent counsel. Assistant Attorney General Andrew Fois
says the case is being examined by the department's Public
Integrity Section.
Mr. Huang's attorney, John C. Keeney Jr., says he and his
client "were not in a position to respond" to questions
concerning the Vietnam accusations.
Now at the center of a growing controversy over foreign-
linked campaign donations to President Clinton and the Democratic
National Committee, Mr. Huang met several times with White House
officials, key friends and associates of Mr. Clinton,
international bankers, and corporate executives to discuss an
expansion of trade ties with Vietnam, according to his personal
appointment calendars.
In fact, his first involvement in the topic as a deputy
assistant secretary for international trade came during his first
full day on the job, July 19, 1994, when he scheduled a 9 a.m.
meeting on "U.S.-Vietnam policy." Several other meetings are
listed in his personal calendars as Vietnam-related.
Mr. Clinton, discarding a 1992 campaign pledge for a "full
accounting" of Americans missing in action during the Vietnam
War, ended a 30-year trade embargo against Vietnam in February
1994. Several companies, including the Lippo Group and its U.S.
affiliates, were scrambling to take advantage of new market
potential.
Five months after the embargo was lifted, while talks
continued on formulating new trade policies with Vietnam, Mr.
Huang moved to Commerce with his $780,000 Lippo bonus and
immediately began a vigorous campaign to open up that country to
U.S. trade.
Three House committees probing suspected illegal foreign
contributions to Mr. Clinton and the DNC are looking into Mr.
Huang's ties to Vietnam trade agreements and have begun to
examine his appointment calendars to determine with whom he met,
what was said and what agreements were reached -- particularly
those that might have benefited the Lippo Group directly.
Investigators also have focused on assertions by James Riady,
deputy chairman at Lippo and son of Lippo's owner, Mochtar Riady,
that Mr. Huang was "my man in the American government."
Mr. Solomon says preliminary inquiries have shown that
"extremely large contributions" were made during the 1996
presidential campaign but it is not clear what concerns the Lippo
Group had in giving the money or what the company received in
return.
The request for an independent counsel is backed by Reps.
Bill Thomas of California, chairman of the House Oversight
Committee, William F. Clinger of Pennsylvania, chairman of the
House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, and Benjamin A.
Gilman of New York, chairman of the House International Relations
Committee.
An earlier request for outside counsel by Mr. McCain was
rejected, but the new request remains under review.
According to Mr. Huang's calendars, copies of which have been
obtained by the committees, he scheduled several Vietnam-related
meetings with government and corporate officials between his 1994
appointment and his December 1995 resignation to join the DNC as
a fund-raiser.
At the time, the Jakarta-based Lippo Group, where Mr. Huang
was a banking executive and vice chairman, was seeking White
House and Commerce Department help in expanding its $6.9 billion
real estate and investment holdings into Vietnam, where the firm
had huge financial interests.
Mochtar Riady had led a trade mission of Asian bankers to
Vietnam in September 1993 to appraise business opportunities
there -- five months before Mr. Clinton's decision to lift the
embargo. By early 1995, the firm had put together a joint
marketing venture with First Union Corp. of North Carolina to
finance trade efforts in Southeast Asia. Lippo established trade
offices in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) and Hanoi after Mr.
Riady's visit.
James Riady and Mr. Huang are longtime friends of Mr. Clinton
and were officers at Worthen National Bank in Little Rock (which
has become Boatmen's Bank of Little Rock, a subsidiary of
Boatmen's Bank of St. Louis) when Mr. Clinton was the governor of
Arkansas. In 1992, they approved a $3.5 million loan to the
Clinton presidential campaign just before the New York primary.
Mr. Huang also raised $250,000 in contributions for the 1992
race and was responsible for raising $4 million to $5 million in
donations for Democrats in 1996.
Most actively involved in the Vietnam venture was Lippo Ltd.,
a privately held finance and real estate subsidiary of the Lippo
Group. The firm reported $3.6 billion in assets, with 143
subsidiaries in 11 countries. The Riady family controls 54
percent of Lippo Ltd. stock and oversees its subsidiaries, one of
which was Worthen.
Also involved was Lippo Bank, publicly held and based in
Jakarta. With assets of $3.3 billion, it has more than 260
branches in 90 cities in Indonesia, as well as offices in Vietnam
and California.
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