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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PiMac who wrote (12861)	6/24/1999 8:31:00 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

That what I thought. Total vacancy.

To: PiMac who wrote (12861)	6/24/1999 9:30:00 AM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Mrs. Clinton May Be Hubbell Witness By Pete Yost Associated Press Writer Wednesday, June 23, 1999; 6:40 p.m. EDT For discussion and educational purposes only. Not for commercial use. WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a move that could complicate the first lady's political aspirations, prosecutor Kenneth Starr has named Hillary Rodham Clinton as a potential witness for the trial of former law partner Webster Hubbell, legal sources said today. The independent counsel's office submitted Mrs. Clinton's name April 21 as one of 63 potential witnesses in the Hubbell case, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Hubbell's lawyers countered with a list of 17 possible defense witnesses May 25. The defense filed both lists under seal in federal court. At a hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Robertson estimated the trial -- scheduled to begin Aug. 9 -- would last five weeks at most. Mrs. Clinton is pondering a race for the Senate seat from New York. If Starr calls her to the witness stand, it would be her second appearance to testify at the federal courthouse in Washington. Her first was before a grand jury in January 1996, amid a furor over the discovery of her law firm billing records that revealed the work she and Hubbell had done on a fraudulent Arkansas real estate development called Castle Grande. The billing records turned up in the White House family residence under still-unexplained circumstances in early January 1996, two years after prosecutors subpoenaed them. The fingerprints of Mrs. Clinton, Hubbell and former Rose partner Vincent Foster were on them. The 15-count felony indictment against Hubbell stemming from the emergence of the billing records mentions Mrs. Clinton three dozen times. Hubbell, a former associate attorney general in the Clinton administration, is charged with concealing his and Mrs. Clinton's legal work on Castle Grande. The 1,050-acre project -- which federal banking regulators concluded was riddled with ''insider dealing, fictitious sales and land flips'' -- was owned by Hubbell's father-in-law, Seth Ward, and Mrs. Clinton's Whitewater business partner, Jim McDougal. Federal regulators concluded that Castle Grande transactions cost McDougal's savings and loan nearly $4 million, contributing to the institution's failure. Mrs. Clinton ''will be like most of the witnesses prosecutors have to call in public corruption cases, trying to prove their case with testimony from colleagues and confidants and friends who aren't happy to be government witnesses,'' said former Iran-Contra prosecutor John Barrett, who now teaches at St. John's University. Starr spokeswoman Elizabeth Ray declined to comment. Clinton lawyer David Kendall wasn't immediately available for comment. ''Unless there's a smoking gun in her testimony, I don't think it's going to have much impact at all'' on a Senate race, said Democratic strategist Gary Nordlinger. Any testimony she gives at Hubbell's trial ''won't be televised so she won't have that video image in people's minds; it's far enough ahead of the election; and both Clintons are the most investigated people in the world. The American public has already formed an opinion on Bill and Hillary,'' said Nordlinger. The billing records revealed that Mrs. Clinton drafted a real estate option that pegged the price of a 22-acre slice of Castle Grande at $400,000. The government, which ended up owning the property when the S&L collapsed, got $38,000 for the parcel. The inspector general at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. concluded that McDougal's S&L used the option prepared by Mrs. Clinton to deceive federal bank examiners about the payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars in real estate commissions to Ward. Mrs. Clinton told federal regulators 55 times in a 1996 interview that she didn't recall various aspects of the work she and her law firm did on Castle Grande -- including authorizing the destruction of her warehoused law firm files on the project. Nonetheless, her testimony may be valuable to Starr. ''Prosecutors may need her to authenticate some of the Rose Law Firm records, things she actually authored, and she's the witness and they need to put it in evidence,'' said Barrett. ''She knows how the firm worked, how Hubbell worked, what his day-to-day lawyering was like and she certainly does have some recollection.'' search.washingtonpost.com

To: PiMac who wrote (12861)	6/24/1999 9:37:00 AM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 13994

Nato dropped thousands of bombs on dummy roads, bridges and soldiers ... and hit only 13 real Serb tanks FROM MICHAEL EVANS, DEFENCE EDITOR, IN PRISTINA For discussion and educational purposes only. Not for commercial use. NATO'S 79-day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, which involved thousands of sorties and some of the most sophisticated precision weapons, succeeded in damaging only 13 of the Serbs' 300 battle tanks in Kosovo, despite alliance claims of large-scale destruction of Belgrade's heavy armour. With Nato's Kosovo Force (Kfor) now spread out into every area of the province, troops from all the different nationalities taking part in the peacekeeping operation have been searching for destroyed or damaged tanks and artillery. They have, so far, come across only three crippled tanks. During the air campaign, elaborate claims were made by Nato officials that hundreds of Serb tanks, artillery pieces, mortars and armoured personnel carriers had been struck. It was also suggested this was one of the main reasons why President Milosevic decided to cave in and agree to a ceasefire and the deployment of a large international peace-keeping force in Kosovo. Now some Nato officials are baffled about why he did surrender. It was claimed that up to 60 per cent of Serb artillery and mortar pieces had been hit and about 40 per cent of the Yugoslav Army's main battle tanks had been damaged or destroyed. There were even reports of an attack by B52 bombers on a Serb brigade which was drawn out into the open by Kosovo Liberation Army fighters, leading to the death of up to 700 Serb soldiers. However, before the Serbs finally withdrew three days ago, they informed Kfor that Nato had managed to hit 13 of the 300 or so tanks that they had deployed in Kosovo - most of which have been removed from the province on low-loaders. Kfor troops have found just three damaged T55 tanks left behind in Kosovo. "What we have found is a huge number of dummy tanks and artillery," one Kfor source said. The Yugoslav Army used well-practised Russian camouflage techniques which involved placing dummies around the countryside, some of them next to dummy bridges with strips of black plastic sheeting across fields as fake roads to delude Nato bombers into thinking they had a prime target to hit. "When you're travelling at 500mph at 15,000ft, it is easy to be fooled," another Kfor source said. When the Serbs finally withdrew from the province, at least 250 tanks were counted out, as well as 450 armoured personnel carriers and 600 artillery and mortar pieces. Travelling around Kosovo, one sees many destroyed army barracks, state police buildings and oil terminals, firm evidence that the Nato bombers were successful in hitting these prime targets. However, apart from the wrecks of a few trucks left behind by the Serbs, it is virtually impossible to spot a destroyed tank. the-times.co.uk