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

To: mike thomas who wrote (13854)	4/28/2000 10:16:00 AM
From: jimpit	Respond to of 13994

Speaking of indicting a female... For years she has been telling us that she is "...guided only by the evidence and the law...", not by opinion or political pressure, etc. Yeah, Riiight! _______________________________________________________ NewsMax.com newsmax.com For the story behind the story... Thursday April 27, 2000; 11:38 PM EDT Napolitano: 'Indict Reno for Kidnapping' Florida Governor Jeb Bush should convene a grand jury and attempt to indict Attorney General Janet Reno for Saturday's gunpoint abduction of 6-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez. That's the opinion of former New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew Napolitano, who made the shocking assertion Thursday night on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes. Arguing that the Justice Department had gone far beyond what the law allowed in the Gonzalez case, Napolitano told Fox: "The search warrant was unlawful. The seizure of the boy was in direct violation of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. And Jeb Bush should go before a grand jury in Florida and ask that Janet Reno be indicted for kidnapping." Since last Saturday's pre-dawn raid, Napolitano has become one of Reno's more outspoken legal critics. On Wednesday he penned a forceful op-ed piece for The Wall Street Journal entitled "Reno's Raid Was Based on Tissue of Lies." But Napolitano reserves his strongest rhetoric for the talk show circuit, where his arguments often defy conventional legal wisdom. Nationally syndicated radio host Lowell Ponte cited one of Napolitano's more remarkable Elian case insights in his Monday column for Front Page Magazine Online (See: Search and Seizure) Noting that the INS appointed Elian's great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez to be the boy's legal guardian and that Lazaro has already applied for Elian's asylum, Ponte wrote: "As veteran Judge Andrew Napolitano has observed, under federal law and INS regulations, once such an asylum claim is filed, the INS and Justice Department lose all power to remove the original guardian. If they could do this, the government could deny any asylum application a fair hearing merely by assigning a new and unfriendly guardian to his case." If the judge's argument turns out to be legally sound, it could have devastating implications for the Clinton administration. For instance, it would make the Justice Department's gunpoint abduction of Elian a gross violation of the law and perhaps provide the foundation for the kidnapping indictment Napolitano envisions. The former Superior Court judge, who now teaches constitutional law at Seton Hall Law School, made the same case Wednesday on Sean Hannity's New York radio show: "The federal court had already ruled that [Elian] was lawfully in the house. Why? Because the INS chose Lazaro as the guardian. And the INS designated the place for the boy to live - in Lazaro's house. Now the INS attempted to change that. But they made the mistake of attempting to change the idenitity of the guardian and the place of the boy's residence after the application for asylum was made." Napolitano continued: "If they had made that change before Lazaro and Elian filed an application for asylum, they could do it. But once the application for political asylum has been made, the INS loses its power to change the identity of the guardian and the place of residence for the boy." Obviously, the Clinton gang doesn't see it that way. But if the courts concur with Napolitano, the Elian Gonzalez case could turn out to be the most prosecutable of all Clinton administration scandals. All Rights Reserved ¸ NewsMax.com ______________________________________________________________ newsmax.com

To: mike thomas who wrote (13854)	4/30/2000 9:26:00 AM
From: jimpit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Medical Association Sends Janet a Love Note... ________________________________________________________________ NewsMax.com newsmax.com Medical Association Demands Disclosure in Elian Case NewsMax.com April 30, 2000 WASHINGTON - Concern about the possible bias and conflict-of-interest of government-appointed physicians in the Elian Gonzalez case has prompted the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) to ask the Department of Justice and the INS to disclose the names and backgrounds of all government- appointed medical personnel involved in the treatment or evaluation of the boy, including psychiatrists and psychologists. In a letter today to Attorney General, Janet Reno, and INS Commission, Doris Meissner, AAPS Executive Director Jane M. Orient, M.D., writes: "We are extremely concerned about Elian's physical and emotional well-being. Based on the experience of the past two weeks, we're not confident that the glowing reports from anonymous government doctors of the boy's easy adjustment following a traumatic seizure at gunpoint are indeed, unbiased, or for that matter, first-hand." AAPS is concerned that physicians are being used as propaganda pawns in a political game. Dr. Orient points to the recent INS appointment of Dr. Irwin Redlener -- a well-known pediatrician with longstanding political ties to President Clinton and the First Lady. "We are appalled that the Department of Justice and the INS may have relied on the armchair diagnosis of an Administration operative in making their decision to go ahead with a frightening raid in the dark." Government documents obtained by AAPS from the 1993 lawsuit, AAPS v. Hillary Clinton show that Dr. Redlener was not only chair of one of the workgroups of the President's Health Care Task Force, but also an outspoken political supporter of the First Lady's policies for socialized national health care. "We cannot tolerate the specter of any more physicians putting their political or professional interests ahead of the safety of this child. If there is any more conflict-of-interest apparent on the medical and psychological team, we need to know. The government should make immediate, full disclosure." "This important case demands to be attended by unbiased experts, and Elian deserves hands-on treatment, not more armchair diagnosis for propaganda purposes," concludes the letter. All Rights Reserved ¸ NewsMax.com __________________________________________________________________ newsmax.com Read the full letter from the AAPS to Janet Reno Click Here: newsmax.com __________________________________________________________________