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Clinton & Craig Have More To "Get Done"
John LeBoutillier
Monday April 24, 2000
In a column last week, "Desperate People Will Do Desperate Things," I
mentioned how last Wednesday?s Atlanta Federal Court decision was a
massive blow to Clinton and Reno.
In fact, Clinton was infuriated to have a Reagan-appointed Judge, a
Bush-appointed Judge and - yes - even a Clinton-appointed judge slap him in
the face for violating Elian?s rights.
Can?t you just picture Clinton as he read their opinion aboard Air Force One?
That petulant, punk mouth getting small and angry and his arrogance being
unleashed on Janet Reno with a terse, "Get it done!"
It was at that moment that the raid was put in motion; any further negotiations
were similar to those the Japanese conducted in Washington D.C. in the first
week of December 1941. Those talks, as were Reno?s with the Miami lawyers,
were simply to lull the opposition into a state of "unreadiness" for the surprise
attack to come.
Indeed Clinton was angry at the Atlanta court. So he set out to regain control of
the boy. Undoubtedly he and the lawyer he shares with Fidel Castro, Greg
Craig, deduced that if they could gain control of Elian, then they could set the
agenda for what is to follow:
1. They will now try to cancel the appeal for an asylum hearing by trotting a
"re-educated" Elian out in a few days claiming he "can?t wait to get back home
to Cuba". If the Atlanta court falls for that, it?s all over. They?ll drop the appeal
and the poor boy will be Lear-jetting back to his Havana hellhole that day.
2. If the Atlanta court decides - and I predict they will - to continue with the
May 11 appeal, then Clinton/Craig have a fallback plan. They?ll cut out the
Miami relatives? lawyers and no one will argue in behalf of Elian?s asylum! Greg
Craig will suddenly be Elian?s lawyer, too! What a disgrace!
3. Please understand one thing: When those Atlanta Federal Judges saw the
seizure of Elian on TV, they were extrememly angry with Clinton and Reno.
All federal judges, except those appointed by Clinton himself, must be furious
over the way Clinton has brazenly broken the law during his seven years in the
White House. And please note that in virtually each and every instance when
Clinton is in court he loses. This is because those judges recognize Clinton for
what he is - a scofflaw president who has single-handedly undercut the rule of
law in our country. Federal judges - who deal every day with interpretations of
the law - repeatedly face the consequences of Clinton?s actions.
I believe those Atlanta judges are dying to rebuke Clinton and Reno for the
Saturday raid and for the outright lies spoken all weekend on national
television by Clinton, Janet Reno, Eric Holder, Doris Meissner and Greg
Craig.
4. The Atlanta court will order the INS to grant Elian an asylum hearing.
5. This is where things get tricky, and where I worry. The INS has a 3-step
asylum process. Normally all Cubans who flee Castro almost automatically get
asylum, if they get an asylum hearing. In fact, the other two survivors of Elian?s
escape have already been granted asylum. But Elian?s case is now so
important to Clinton I worry that he will "rig" it so the INS denies asylum to Elian.
Let us remember: The Clinton-appointed INS Director, Doris Meissner, took
some "personal" days in January to go to Iowa to walk door-to-door for Al Gore
in the Iowa caucus. In other words, she is a Clinton loyalist and a political hack.
This is not the type of person we want deciding Elian?s future!
Asylum is given if the person can show that they will be the victim of "political
persecution" if returned to the country they fled.
Well, Castro has already shown that Elian is entirely a political case. He has
said he?ll stick him in a hospital "for three months to cleanse him". He has also
created a special Re-education Camp for him in Havana.
Does this not show that Elian is being singled out?
But facts may not matter if the INS asylum process is rigged by Clinton with
the word going to Meissner to "get it done".
6. This is where the pathetic, craven, spineless, cowardly Republicans up on
Capitol Hill come into play. The Congress has enormous influence on all
departments simply by flexing its budgetary muscle. The Republican leaders
should haul the INS up to the Hill - long before Elian?s asylum hearing
begins - and make it crystal clear that if this boy is the victim of a rigged
process, the INS will find itself broke on October 1 when the new fiscal year
begins. (Yes, this is how things can work in the district.) The problem has been
the GOP reads polls and is afraid to go against an ill-informed public. But this
is not a question of reuniting father and son; this is a question of asylum -
something John Q. Public knows nothing about. And in pressuring the INS the
GOP doesn?t even have to vote. The committee chairmen can do it in private.
My prediction: the Atlanta Court is going to save Elian from a crooked Clinton
and a crooked Executive Branch.
Thank God for an independent judiciary created by our Founding Fathers.
Those same men would urge yet another American Revolution if they saw that
illegal raid on Elian?s home.
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