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To: Janice Shell who wrote (12419)	3/26/1998 10:50:00 PM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 20981

Clinton's Police State Investor's Business Daily 03/26/98 Not for commercial use Clinton's Police State Date: 3/26/98 As an attorney, President Clinton knows something about the law. As a lifelong politician, he knows even more about the levers of power. And he's not above using both to punish his foes. The latest evidence of Clinton's abuse of the government's police power comes in a little-watched influence-peddling case. The conservative legal group Judicial Watch has sued the government to turn over documents regarding former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's trade missions. The group and its president, Larry Klayman, believe Brown sold seats on these trips to businessmen for campaign contributions. And in the first sworn testimony backing Klayman's view, former Brown associate Nolanda Hill said Brown told her he did sell those seats for campaign cash. She also said Brown informed her that White House officials told Brown to delay producing the papers for Judicial Watch and to disobey court orders. What did Hill get for swearing to these matters, first in an affadavit, and then in open court? An indictment for diverting federal funds to personal use. The Justice Department issued the indictment on March 13, just a week before she was scheduled to testify. Klayman calls the indictment retaliation. We're inclined to agree. The Justice Department sat on the information used to charge Hill for three years. She never received formal notice that she was a target of an investigation. Klayman contends that her affadavit, which was under seal by court order, found its way to Justice headquarters from the U.S. attorney's office handling the documents case. Given the White House's record, it's not surprising that the Justice Department went after Hill. After all, the department put the head of the White House Travel Office, Billy Dale, on trial for embezzlement charges. The White House wanted its own people running the office and fired the entire staff. To give cover, the White House persuaded the department to charge Dale with embezzlement. It took a jury less than two hours to acquit him. And Justice also marshaled its forces to go after Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., whose committee is probing Democratic fund-raising abuses. A longtime Democratic operative who lobbies for Pakistani interests alleged that Burton shook him down for a campaign contribution. Justice immediately dispatched FBI agents around the country and to Pakistan to get the goods on Burton. The department has yet to file any charges, but it made sure Burton knew it was looking. Then there are the audits that Clinton's Internal Revenue Service conducted of conservative groups. For opposing Clinton's incremental moves to bigger government, these groups found themselves under the IRS microscope. For a while, these intimidation tactics kept the lid on Clinton's scandals. But the public is learning: Clinton and this White House will use any means -including police powers - to squash their enemies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (C) Copyright 1998 Investors Business Daily, Inc. investors.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To: Janice Shell who wrote (12419)	3/27/1998 8:37:00 AM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

The mafia has always preferred corruption to conflict, because warfare is bad for business, and so it has been with the Clinton family. Even before coming to Washington, the Clintons established financially profitable ties to Asian families like the Riadys, and this provided the model for American foreign policy toward China under the cover of ''free trade.'' Why risk conflict with the People's Republic when there is so much money to be made by doing business with it? And why worry about such trivial matters as national security when, by selling dozens of supercomputers to the Chinese, family friends in the electronics business can make millions of dollars? nationalreview.com