This one is disturbing. Now there is a connection between Filegate and Chinagate. The work being done by Judicial Watch takes on a much more significant meaning.
CONNECTING THE DOTS OF CHINAGATE II
Editorial
Washington weekly
By Marvin Lee
Monday, June 7, 1999
Last week saw the answer to the most important question in
Chinagate: how could Chinese military penetrate the White House
and the Clinton administration without fear of exposure and
retaliation by the Republican opposition in Congress and by the
presumably patriotic U.S. media?
As for the Republican opposition, a clue to their silent
acquiescence was given by David Schippers, counsel to the
Republican majority during the Impeachment inquiry of President
Clinton. In an interview for the May 28 issue of Human Events, he
said that Chinagate and Filegate are interrelated:
SCHIPPERS: If you're talking in terms of obstruction of
justice and things like that, that's one thing. But if you're
talking about national security, I think there's two keys.
I'll let you put them together. One's Chinagate, the other is
Filegate. I think they are interrelated and I think they are
very important.
QUESTION: Getting the FBI files of former Republican
officials, in your view, is related to President Clinton's,
the Democratic National Committee's, reception of money from
China?
SCHIPPERS: I think getting the files on the Republicans, the
raw FBI files, was at the foundation. That was necessary for
the big move.
David Schippers is the only person outside the Democratic Party
to have read both the Charles LaBella and the Louis Freeh memos
on Chinagate recommending an independent counsel to investigate
Chinagate because of the hopelessly conflicted Department of
Justice. He is not at liberty to disclose any of their contents,
which the DOJ has fought strenuously to keep secret. But the
Filegate connection is one aspect that was not known to the
public.
So if we put the two together, as Schippers suggest we do, we can
see that obtaining the FBI files on Republicans was part of an
elaborate campaign to blackmail them into not vigorously pursuing
the treason aspects of Chinagate. Treason is an impeachable
offense, yet Schippers was prevented from including it in the
impeachment inquiry by queasy Republicans.
The only entity pursuing Filegate at this point is the private
organization Judicial Watch. It has demonstrated in court how FBI
files and other illegally obtained personal information was used
by the White House to smear and discredit witnesses in the
sexgate scandal. Judicial Watch also holds that James Carville
worked with Larry Flynt to blackmail Republican members of
Congress with the contents of their FBI files during the
impeachment inquiry and trial of the President. Some of the
information from FBI files was released publicly by Larry Flynt.
It is well known that the purpose was to dissuade Republicans
from pursuing sexgate but perhaps, as Schippers suggests, the
more important purpose was to dissuade Republicans from including
Chinagate in the impeachment inquiry.
With the Republican opposition neutralized by blackmail, the only
entity left to expose the treasonous aspects of Chinagate is the
U.S. media. But large sections thereof have been engaged in an
active campaign of cover-up, ever since the matter of a Chinese
bribe paid by John Huang to Whitewater witness Webster Hubbell
first surfaced during the Senate Whitewater hearings in 1996.
Newsweek's Evan Thomas did not find the stunning revelation of
hush money paid by a foreign government to a witness against the
president interesting. He characterized the revelation, elicited
by a question from Majority Counsel Michael Chertoff, as
Chertoff's "first major gaffe."
Through its cover-up efforts, parts of the mainstream media is
complicit in the Chinese espionage that has taken place between
1996 and now.
Things have not changed in the intervening three years. The Media
Research Center last week exposed how Time, Newsweek and U.S.
News attempted to blunt the impact of the Cox Committee report by
disinformation stories all based on the same spin themes.
Coincidence? You decide.
Published in the Jun. 7, 1999 issue of The Washington Weekly
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