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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (67573)	2/28/2001 7:39:14 PM
From: oldirtybastard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

we're obviously coming from such different directions on this that it's pointless to continue this discussion. Risk instruments are a necessity or everyone would have to build their own grain silo...either that or you can live somewhere where the government doles out your grain and your job

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (67573)	2/28/2001 7:39:23 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 122087

Clinton Library Donor List Revealed By DEB RIECHMANN .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional investigators hunting for evidence of a pardons-for-dollars scheme at the Clinton White House got their first look on Wednesday at a list of 150 top donors to his presidential library project. They looked at the list for about 45 minutes, but lawyers for the House Government Reform Committee would not disclose information about the contributors, or say how many of the names would prompt further investigation. All 150 people and organizations on the list contributed more than $5,000. The William J. Clinton Foundation, which is raising money for the library to be built in Little Rock, Ark., initially resisted giving the donor list to the committee. The commission chairman, Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., then threatened to find foundation director Skip Rutherford in contempt of Congress. But after several days of negotiations, the foundation and committee agreed on a way for top members of the committee to review the donor list, while protecting the privacy of donors not relevant to the probe. ``We have worked out an agreement, and Mr. Rutherford will not be required to testify'' on Thursday, Burton said. ``We think we'll have all the information we want by Friday, specific contributors, the amount and the dates. We've excused some of them because we don't think the information is necessary at this time.'' Among other things, the committee wants to know whether Clinton's decision to pardon fugitive Marc Rich was influenced by contributions to the library. Rich, a billionaire, has lived in Switzerland since just before he was indicted in 1983 on charges of tax evasion, fraud and making illegal oil deals with Iran. His ex-wife, songwriter Denise Rich, contributed $450,000 to the foundation, $1.1 million to the Democratic Party and at least $109,000 to Hillary Rodham Clinton's bid for the Senate. Denise Rich and her friend, Beth Dozoretz, a former finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee who pledged to raise $1 million for the library project, have both refused to testify before the committee. The committee was forcing Dozoretz to attend Thursday's hearing to publicly refuse to testify. While Rutherford is no longer required to testify, the committee expected to hear from other witnesses, including John Podesta, Clinton's former chief of staff; Beth Nolan, former White House counsel; Bruce Lindsey, former aide and longtime Clinton confidant; and Lewis Libby, a lawyer who is chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney and once represented Rich. On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the pardon powers of the president and whether the clemency process needs to be improved. Margaret Colgate Love, who served as pardon attorney at the Justice Department from 1990 to 1997, told the committee that from the beginning of his presidency, Clinton moved to take away the agency's traditional role of being the first to review pardon requests. ``The final Clinton pardons were an accident waiting to happen,'' she said. Traditionally, presidents let the Justice Department take the first look at clemency requests, but Clinton's White House answered pardon inquiries, and made it known that Justice officials would be among many people who would advise Clinton on the requests, she said. ``The Clinton administration's shortsighted and ill-advised decision to abandon the long-standing regular system of Justice Department review led directly to the reported free-for-all at the end of his term and the resultant appearance of cronyism and influence-peddling,'' Love asserted. AP-NY-02-28-01 1901EST