"All of the above is my opinion. But this is fact: ya'
gotta get past Journalism 101 before ya' get credence."
Really?
Well then, here's another chapter in their journey towards
the promised land. Also, I believe the story has also
been picked up by The Washington Times and Fox News (I know,
your opinion of those two companies is not too good, either)
and as soon as one or two of the majors figures out how to
gracefully start reporting it, finally, they'll follow
along.
LOL.
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With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Wednesday May 3, 2000; 12:07 PM EDT
Greg Craig Snubs Elian Drug Reports
Greg Craig, the one-time Clinton impeachment
attorney who now represents Juan Miguel
Gonzalez, has declined to respond to reports
earlier this week that a Cuban doctor was caught
carrying tranquilizers to Maryland's Wye River
Plantation, the temporary home of 6-year-old
Elian Gonzalez.
Craig has restricted access to Gonzalez, making
him available only to Cuban officials and
Clinton administration representatives - while
releasing select photos that he says prove the
boy is happy and healthy.
In messages left Tuesday and Wednesday on
Craig's answering machine at his D.C. law firm
Williams & Connolly, NewsMax.com asked for a
response to reports that U.S. Customs officials
at Dulles International Airport found the
tranquilizers Miltown, diazepam and
phenobarbitol in the luggage of Elian's personal
pediatrician, Dr. Caridad Ponce de Leon, on
Thursday.
Craig was also asked whether he would permit an
independent doctor to examine the 6-year-old to
determine whether or not the boy has been forced
to take the tranquilizers.
On Friday Cuban officials themselves seemed to
suggest that the drugs were intended for Elian,
complaining after the drug bust, "It appears
that Customs officials know what kinds of
medicine Elian, his cousin and the rest of the
children and adults may need."
The tranquilizer incident raises a number of
other serious questions:
If the drugs were not intended for Elian, then
what was his personal pediatrician doing with
them? According to U.S. medical experts, the
tranquilizer Miltown should not even be given to
children under 6 years of age. Why does a
children's doctor have such powerful adult
medicine in her medical bag?
Medical texts report that Miltown can induce "a
false sense of well-being" and even a look of
"euphoria" on adults who take the drug.
Has Craig bothered to ask Dr. Ponce de Leon - or
even Castro himself - to explain the "happy
pills"?
Have the Cubans smuggled drugs to Elian before?
Last Tuesday, 10 Cuban officials visited the
6-year-old at his Wye River home. Here's how the
Washington Times covered the Tuesday meeting
the day before news of the drug seizure became
public:
"The names of the Cubans who visited Wye
Plantation on Tuesday were not released,
although the State Department list said the
group - remarkable for the care of a small group
of children - included two first secretaries,
one second secretary, two counselors, four
support officers and the 'spouse of a second
secretary.' The reason for the visits was
described as delivering supplies."
Supplies? What possible supplies could be
lacking at the luxurious Wye River Plantation?
And if the "supplies" weren't tranquilizers,
what exactly were Castro's helpers bringing to
Elian?
In an interesting sidebar, one of Tuesday's
visitors was reportedly Armando Collazo, one of
the Cuban diplomats D.C. police suspect was
involved in the beating of several
Cuban-American demonstrators outside the Cuban
Interests Section on April 14th.
Collazo's presence on the guest list would
hardly reassure those who suspect Elian isn't
quite as happy as he looks.
It's time for Greg Craig to come clean.
Americans believe that Janet Reno was right to
snatch Elian from his Miami relatives largely
because of the handful of photos he produced
showing a smiling boy hugging his father. But
Craig won't allow the media to see, let alone
videotape, the boy - or even permit independent
parties to observe Elian at close range.
A simple saliva test administsered by a doctor
with no ties to the Clinton administration could
reveal whether Elian's smile is genuine - or the
product of drug-induced euphoria.
If Castro's agents are using Soviet-style
psycho-pharmacology to make Elian look happy for
Craig's snapshots, it's tatamount to the torture
of the child on U.S. soil - conducted, no less,
right under the nose of the Clinton
administration.
The fact that Greg Craig has done nothing to
address the now four-day-old drug reports
suggests that he - and the White House - have
more to fear from the truth than they do from
any lingering suspicion that something monstrous
has happened to Elian Gonzalez.
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