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To: Norrin Radd who wrote (100709)	6/16/2007 4:39:04 PM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

The Democrats were real "champions" of civil liberties and due process during WW1 and WW2... examples, 1) FDR's imprisonment of Japanese-Americans, 2) Wilson's "Sedition Act of 1918".

To: Norrin Radd who wrote (100709)	6/16/2007 6:10:18 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

" our civil liberties and due process of law" then we can get more democrats like NiFong

To: Norrin Radd who wrote (100709)	6/16/2007 6:11:54 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

wasn't it great when the Clinton's sicced the IRS on all of their enemies and any other citizen they didn't like. Yeah can't wait for a return of those days.

To: Norrin Radd who wrote (100709)	6/16/2007 6:20:07 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

Clinton's IRS Gestapo Posted: March 19, 1999 1:00 a.m. Eastern There is no federal agency more feared by the American people than the IRS. And with good reason. The power to tax is the power to destroy. More than any other administration in history, the Clinton regime has harnessed all the terror of that agency and directed it against its political enemies. In a very real way, the IRS has been Clinton's secret police agency -- the go-to guys when no other punishment will do. Billy Dale, the long-time White House Travel Office director, knows that terror. After being summarily fired by Hillary Clinton in favor of friends and relations from Arkansas, Dale was investigated by the FBI and subjected to an audit by the IRS. Both came up empty. Paula Jones knows it. Just days after she rejected a settlement offer of her sexual harassment case from Clinton's attorneys, Jones was targeted for an IRS audit. Elizabeth Ward Gracen, the actress who had a fatal attraction to Bill Clinton before he became president, got an audit notice after she went public with the story of her affair and following threats warning her not to talk. Former presidential aide Dick Morris, after meeting with House Judiciary Committee staff, revealed on television that impeachment investigators fully expected to be audited because of their work on the case. A veritable who's who of Clinton administration adversaries have been targeted for audit during his six years in power. They include: the Heritage Foundation, the National Rifle Association, Concerned Women of America, Citizens Against Government Waste, National Review, American Spectator and, of course, my own organization, the Western Journalism Center, the parent company of WorldNetDaily. Will all this just amount to another footnote in the scandalous untold history of the Clinton presidency? Or is there a chance for justice? On Monday, March 29, Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch and I will be in a federal courthouse in Sacramento, Calif., making the case that this pattern of audits and other compelling evidence developed during our IRS examinations warrant a jury trial in a $10 million civil suit we are pressing against current and former IRS and White House officials. As is the habit of the Clinton administration, the Justice Department attorneys defending the government have stalled this case for more than a year -- even requesting that a previous judge, the Hon. Milton Schwartz, a Democrat and Carter appointee, recuse himself for his personal prejudices against the IRS. Will all that wasting of time pay off for an administration desperately trying to play out the clock? Maybe. Maybe not. Ask yourself if the average American is more or less likely to believe the worst about Bill Clinton today as opposed to two years ago. I say more likely. So the big stall may not pay off as a tactic after all. Let's face it. When we filed this lawsuit, America did not necessarily believe its president was a perjurer, a rapist, an obstructer of justice and a traitor who would sell out his country's national security for campaign contributions. Today, you could sell all those ideas and people would be willing to believe worse. So, is it so hard to believe that the Clinton administration actually used the IRS to intimidate the Western Journalism Center, which was investigating corruption and cover-up in the White House? When the facts are in, I am certain a jury will accept our charges -- that the audit of my non-profit group was part of a campaign of systematic harassment of the center by various federal government agencies. Our exposes on the IRS' political audits have already paid off -- with resignations by IRS Commissioner Margaret Milner Richardson and Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary, who had personally threatened one of our top donors, as well as several sets of hearings in the House and Senate on abusive practices by the tax agency. Yet, most Americans still don't know the ugly truth about the way the White House uses the IRS as a political billy club against its enemies. Congress dropped the ball in its investigations, as it has so often. Now, our last chance to extract justice is in the courthouse. It's me and Larry Klayman facing off with Janet Reno's top legal hatchet-men and damage-control artists. Wish us Godspeed.

To: Norrin Radd who wrote (100709)	6/16/2007 6:23:21 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Rape accuser fights IRS audit Juanita Broaddrick new victim of Clinton political targeting? Posted: May 31, 2000 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Julie Foster © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com Juanita Broaddrick, who publicly accused Bill Clinton of raping her when he was Arkansas attorney general in 1978, is now protesting an Internal Revenue Service audit of her nursing home for tax returns that were filed covering 1998. Broaddrick sued the White House and Justice Department in December for conducting a campaign to "smear and destroy her reputation" and is demanding the administration turn over any information collected about her. Judicial Watch, the non-profit legal foundation representing Broaddrick in the suit, filed a complaint before the Inspector General of the Treasury Department over the recent audit notice. The Arkansas nursing home executive, known as "Jane Doe Number 5" prior to her public accusation of Clinton in a Wall Street Journal interview and a nationally-televised NBC follow-up interview, is the latest in a long line of Clinton critics who have been audited under suspicious circumstances. Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, former White House Travel Office Director Billy Dale and Elizabeth Ward Gracen have all accused the president of assault or harassment and were audited following their complaints. Dozens of Clinton's political "enemies" also were audited during the 1990s, including the National Rifle Association, Citizens Against Government Waste, the Heritage Foundation, American Spectator, National Review and the Western Journalism Center, founded by WorldNetDaily Editor and CEO Joseph Farah. "To those who doubt that there is a campaign of terror by the Clinton-Gore White House and its allies through IRS audits, FBI files, and other means, I suggest they consult with the 'law of averages' to determine whether these matters are simply coincidental," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. Congress' Joint Tax Committee conducted an investigation into complaints of politically motivated audits. The three-year-long inquiry resulted in a report in which committee members cleared the agency of any wrongdoing. But White House officials were noted to have improperly requested confidential taxpayer information. "Ms. Broaddrick is rightly upset about this audit," said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, adding, "Broaddrick's audit is part of an effort by the Clinton-Gore White House to keep all the so-called Clinton women quiet during the campaigns of Mr. Gore and Mrs. Clinton." Broaddrick's case received little media coverage after her televised interview, even though, according to a poll taken March 4-7, 1999, by Zogby International, most Americans believed her charges against the president. In the poll, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percent, Zogby questioned 908 likely voters and found that those who had made a decision about the alleged assault believed Broaddrick's allegations by a margin of 2-1. A Clinton campaign volunteer back in Arkansas, Broaddrick first met the gubernatorial candidate when he visited a nursing home she owned and operated. During the visit, Clinton invited her to come to his campaign headquarters whenever she was next in Little Rock. Broaddrick was in Little Rock for a nursing home seminar the following week, and called the campaign headquarters to set up a meeting with Clinton. They arranged to meet for coffee in the cafe of the Camelot hotel where she was staying. Clinton pointed out that the environs were a bit noisy, according to Broaddrick, and recommended they adjourn to her room and have coffee there. It was in the hotel room, after Broaddrick had rebuffed an advance by Clinton, that he held her down forcibly on a bed and bit her lips while engaging in sexual intercourse, she told the Wall Street Journal in a detailed account. Though she was interviewed by NBC correspondent Lisa Myers before the Journal, the network held the story back for nearly a month. Anchor Tom Brokaw threatened to resign if the interview was aired. The network interview was finally aired one week after the Journal published its story. One month after the televised interview, NATO began its bombing of Serbians in Yugoslavia, which was followed weeks later by the school shooting in Columbine, Colo. Both events overshadowed the Arkansas woman's claims in the media.