WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration is facing the most massive leak of
classified foreign policy documents since the publication of the Pentagon
papers more than two decades ago during the Vietnam war, the DRUDGE REPORT
has learned.
"The impeachment proceedings are going to have seemed like a picnic, before
we get though with this," said one White House official.
The papers, totaling more than 20,000 pages, according to sources who have
read them, include a history of the secret negotiations between the U.S. and
North Korea, describing the failed policy of trying to buy off North Korea
to forego its nuclear weapons policy. They describe in great detail the
intelligence and policy failures that led to the detonations of nuclear
weapons by India and Pakistan this year.
Most embarrassing, the papers appear to corroborate, according to sources
who have read them, allegations by a former U.N. arms inspector that the
Clinton administration concealed from Congress and the public details
regarding Saddam Hussein's ambitious program to develop nuclear, chemical,
and biological weapons.
The papers also reveal new details on the Clinton policy towards China in
which the White House allowed ballistic missile technology exports to China
at the behest of wealthy Democratic campaign contributors.
News of the massive leak of classified foreign policy documents caught
senior White House officials by surprise on the eve of the Thanksgiving
holiday weekend... MORE
Two Washington newspaper editors have reviewed the papers, which have been
obtained by left-wing reporter Murray Waas.
Waas has been holding the documents close, according to one media insider.
Some in Washington speculate that Waas does not want to write a major expose
about the Clinton administration in the midst of the impeachment hearings,
fueling the flames for conservatives.
The new leaks appear to be indicative of deep dissatisfaction within the
foreign policy establishment regarding Clinton policies.
There have been other unprecedented leaks as well: most notably, a James
Risen story in the NEW YORK TIMES earlier this week about the disregarding
of a CIA assessment of Russian corruption by Vice President Al Gore. Some
see an organized attempt by dissidents to discredit the Clinton foreign policy.
Ironically, the Clinton White House might have a hard time attacking one of
their favorite reporters: During the 1992 presidential campaign, both
Clinton and Gore often praised Waas exclusives exposing the Bush
administration's Iraq policy, which involved the leaks of thousands of pages
of classified papers regarding the Gulf war.
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