Earlie/all, text and link to "Criminals in the White House":
(BTW, I can click through the original link fine)
insightmag.com
Criminals in the White House?
By Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch
A U.S. District Court judge will decide the
fate of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and
their underlings in what may be the worst
case of obstruction of justice in U.S.
history.
The future is now!? Those words of former Washington
Redskins football coach George Allen perfectly fit the
current state of the ever-burgeoning Clinton-Gore
scandals. After seven years of investigations and 57
Judicial Watch lawsuits, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Vice
President Al Gore and their minions and spinners have
led the elite media to believe that they have escaped
responsibility for their crimes. In fact, recent events
have underscored their legal vulnerabilities.
Whatever might be said about a dormant and
apparently compromised independent counsel or a
politically impotent Congress, it now has been left to the
courts to take charge and commence proceedings to
uncover and prosecute what, including Watergate, may
be the largest incidence of obstruction of justice in U.S.
history.
Insight and its sister daily, the Washington Times,
broke the details of this obstruction of justice. First,
there were the revelations by a former White House
computer specialist, Sheryl Hall, and then by another
White House whistle-blower, Betty Lambuth. Both
came forward to Judicial Watch and testified that
hundreds of thousands ? and, perhaps more than 1
million ? e-mails and 457 hard-drive cartridges have
been suppressed by the White House in the face of
subpoenas and document requests served by Judicial
Watch, the independent counsel and Congress. Hall and
Lambuth confirm that these e-mails contain incriminating
evidence against the Clintons, Gore and their
coconspirators in the Filegate, Chinagate and Monica
Lewinsky scandals.
According to employees of the Northrop Grumman
Corp., the contractor that ran the White House e-mail
and telephone databases, had these documents been
provided sooner they likely would have resulted in
impeachment of the president of the United States and
forced criminal prosecutions even by the Reno Justice
Department. Rather than turn over these smoking-gun
communications, the Clinton-Gore White House
threatened to prosecute and illegally use the Justice
Department (as in Travelgate) to jail White House
employees and contractors who refused to remain silent
about the cover-up. The whistle-blowers say that first
lady Hillary Clinton most likely was behind this.
After the story broke, Judicial Watch made Hall
available to Chairman Dan Burton of Indiana and his
staff on the House Committee on Government Reform.
Simultaneously, Judicial Watch filed a motion in its $90
million Filegate class-action lawsuit asking that Judge
Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in
Washington take immediate action to hold an evidentiary
hearing that would place on the record the underlying
facts concerning this mammoth and blatant obstruction.
Having received information that the White House
already had destroyed smoking-gun records, Judicial
Watch asked Lamberth to charge U.S. marshals
immediately to enter the White House and seize the
e-mails to preserve them.
Thus far, only congressional investigators have met
with employees of Northrop Grumman who oversaw
e-mail and telephone records. These witnesses have
confirmed the accounts of Hall and other White House
whistle-blowers that the e-mails contain information on
Filegate, campaign-finance abuses, Chinagate and
Lewinsky, and that the documents never were reviewed
for subpoenaed materials as required by law. A hearing
last week before the House Government Reform
Committee appears to have revealed further obstruction.
As Insight went to press, the country was awaiting
Lamberth?s decision on whether to hold the evidentiary
hearing. Typically, the Reno Justice Department filed a
last-minute brief arguing that, because its
campaign-finance task force now had decided to
?investigate? the missing e-mails, Judge Lamberth
should delay the hearing. It was a ruse.
Unlike Congress, which for arcane political reasons
has been unwilling to hold accountable the perpetrators
of the Clinton-Gore obstructions, Lamberth has both
the authority and power to do so. Previous decisions by
Lamberth concerning the Hillary Clinton health-care task
force, Chinagate, the looting of an American Indian trust
fund and other litigation are to be admired. But the
nature of Lamberth?s prior rulings has not allowed him
to hold any high-level Clinton-Gore official individually
accountable. To his credit, the judge has expressed
frustration at this. But White House aide Ira Magaziner
was not made to pay for lying to the court in the
health-care task-force case; neither were Interior
Secretary Bruce Babbitt nor Treasury Secretary Robert
Rubin required to cough up monies for their
contempt-of-court citations in the Indian trust-fund
case.
Now, however, Lamberth has an opportunity to
hold individuals accountable for what everyone
concerned with these cases knows has been a massive
criminal cover-up. Like Judge John Sirica during
Watergate, Lamberth has the power to change the
course of history and to restore the rule of law. He has
said that he knows who the responsible White House
parties are and that if records are destroyed or hidden
he will hang the perpetrators. No one doubts that he
means it.
But all of this comes amid leaks concerning the
whitewashed report on Filegate submitted by the Office
of the Independent Counsel, or OIC, believed by some
knowledgeable observers to be part of a deal with the
Reno Justice Department to avoid an ethics investigation
of certain OIC prosecutors. So if our criminal-justice
system has been corrupted and no longer represents the
interests of the American people, it must be put to right
by Lamberth and men and women like him to whom
justice is no abstract vapor. Meanwhile, Judicial Watch
has been facing down yet another instance of
obstruction of justice ? one, not surprisingly, related to
the smearing of whistle-blower Linda Tripp.
As readers may recall, Tripp is a material witness
not only in the Lewinsky investigation, but in Judicial
Watch?s Filegate lawsuit. Her privacy rights were
violated, her reputation was smeared and she was
viciously intimidated when the Clinton-Gore Defense
Department, with the now-proven assistance of the
White House, set out to destroy her by illegally and
selectively releasing information from her Privacy
Act-protected Pentagon personnel file. Now an
anonymous source has provided a Pentagon letter
admitting that officials at the Clinton-Gore Defense
Department were instructed not to record events
concerning this illegal release because: ?This is a very
serious issue which could involve the impeachment of
the President.?
That document falls well within the scope of a
Judicial Watch subpoena served on the Defense
Department, but it was suppressed and never produced
to the court. Now, Lamberth has ruled: ?Simply put [the
Clinton-Gore Defense Department?s] assertion that the
... letter is not responsive to [Judicial Watch?s] request
is incredulous.? Lamberth added: ?Moreover, [the
Clinton-Gore Department of Defense?s] excessive
parsing of the request in order to avoid production of a
responsive document calls into question both the
adequacy of DOD?s search for responsive documents
and its good-faith efforts to comply with the subpoena.?
The judge then put into motion a procedure, requiring
full production of all responsive documents. This could
lead to yet another proceeding involving obstruction of
justice by the Clinton-Gore administration.
In short, Lamberth and his court have the
Clinton-Gore administration in their sights if not on the
scaffold. And this is not mere theater. Like some bizarre
troupe of Houdinis monopolizing the stage of media
attention, the president, the first lady, the vice president
and their spinners and shakers think they have wowed
the hicks and replaced the judicial system with media
vaudeville. Standing between them and a graceful exit is
Judge Lamberth. |
