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

To: pezz who wrote (618)	8/5/1998 7:21:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

What exactly do you credit him with? JLA

To: pezz who wrote (618)	8/5/1998 7:48:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 13994

Actually, Clinton is quite incompetent. After the fiascos of 1993-1995, he required Dick Gergen, a conservative, come in there to save his neck. In 1996, he required Dick Morris come in to rescue him and help him prepare for the re-election. Clinton just happened to get into office at the right time when a recession had just ended. He should thank the S&L Bailout which extended the recession into 1992 and also for ballooning the government deficit. He was also saved from his biggest fiasco, the Health Care Scheme, by the Republican Congress. It would surely have caused a recession or worse. Now, he rants and rages against the very medical service model, the HMOS, that he tried to impose on everyone.

To: pezz who wrote (618)	8/5/1998 10:41:00 PM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 13994

Unlimited Access ---An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House BOOK REVIEW 1998 Gary Aldrich Here at last in paperback-with several all-new chapters and dramatic new revelations-...is the number one New York Times bestseller that warned America that the Clinton White House was for sale, its security system a disaster, and its staff irredeemably corrupt. As one of only two FBI agents posted at the White House, Gary Aldrich's job was to protect the President from danger and scandal by performing security checks on White House appointees. But when Bill Clinton came into office, the new administration deliberately dismantled that security system -for one simple scandalous reason: Too many people hired by the Clintons could not meet the required ethical standards... One driving force: First Lady-Hillary Rodham Clinton, who usurped control of domestic policy and hiring decisions. As Aldrich shows, Mrs. Clinton and her aides destroyed the careers and reputations of longtime non-political WH employees to open "slots" for their Arkansas friends, no matter how unqualified or corrupt. New appointees ran roughshod over WH tradition, common decency, and even federal law. Aldrich and members of the permanent WH staff were repeatedly shocked to discover drug use, rampant theft, open gay/lesbian sex, and - perhaps most alarming - widespread access to classified materials by personnel without security clearances.. When Agent Adrich, unable to enforce the law from within, decided to blow the whistle, he was viciously denounced by the Clintons and their allies in the media. But the months that followed saw the WH being opened up -for a price- to convicted felons, foreign agents trying to buy changes in US foreign policy, and even foreign governments illegally funding the Clintons' reelection campaign.. Now Gary Aldrich completes his story, with shocking new revelations, including the Clintons' sadly successful attempt to turn parts of the FBI into their own personal police force. Aldrich takes on his critics and shows how even his most controversial allegations - from the First Lady's pornographic Christmas tree, to President Clinton eluding the Secret Service to make alleged secret liaisons-could have been verified had the media been as interested in ferreting out the truth as they are in defending the Clintons. Unlimited Access sheds new light on such WH scandals as "nannygate", "travelgate", "filegate", and the mysterious death of Vince Foster - whose true motice for committing suicide was revealed to Aldrich by the now disgraced Graig Livingstone, then WH Security Director and a key-player in the "filegate" scandal. Throughout "Unlimited Access", Aldrich relies on eyewitness testimony: his own and that of other WH insiders. He concludes with a mock FBI "background report" on the President and First Lady - a report that will surely be deeply disturbing to every loyal, law-abiding American. freerepublic.com

To: pezz who wrote (618)	8/5/1998 10:50:00 PM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 13994

ABC and CNN ignore FBI Director Freeh's Startling Disclosure Media Research Center Today Media Research Center Wednesday August 5, 1998 (Vol. Three; No. 126) Freeh Named Clinton & Gore, But ABC & CNN Ignored; #### Distributed to over 3,600 recipients by the Media Research Center, bringing political balance to the media. Visit the MRC on the Web: mediaresearch.org. Past CyberAlerts are at: mediaresearch.org Subscribe/unsubscribe information at end of this message. #### 1) FBI Director Freeh specifically identified Clinton and Gore as subjects of the campaign finance probe, but ABC and CNN ignored that, focusing instead on the Burton/Reno dispute over memos. 2) FNC offered the most House hearing coverage Tuesday. When Freeh appeared MSNBC was discussing the "switched at birth" story, but when Janet Reno denounced Dan Burton MSNBC went live. 3) Rather insisted that "Rehnquist cleared the way" for Starr to further probe "the President's personal life." CNN highlighted the latest ridicule of Starr by William Ginsburg. 4) Letterman's "Top Ten Clinton Nicknames or Ben and Jerry Flavors." 1) At a House Government Reform and Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday Chairman Dan Burton asked FBI Director Louis Freeh, regarding his contention that an independent counsel should be appointed for campaign finance because credible charges have been raised about covered persons, "Does that include the President and the Vice President?" Freeh replied: "Yes sir." Big news, the FBI Director saying Clinton and Gore are personally being investigated for law-breaking? Not to ABC or CNN which ignored the exchange Tuesday night. NBC played it deep in their story. Only CBS and FNC made it the lead of their reports. Instead, ABC and CNN focused on the dispute between Burton and Attorney General Reno over his subpoena of the memos written by Freeh and Charles LaBella, the man until recently in charge of the campaign finance probe, recommending the appointment of an independent counsel. (But at least now their analysis got some coverage. When at a hearing with Reno Senator Fred Thompson read part of Freeh's memo, the networks ignored it. See the July 21 CyberAlert. The next week the New York Times revealed how LaBella had urged Reno to name an IC. That generated a few seconds on Today and stories on CBS and CNN in the evening, but zilch on ABC or NBC in the evening. (This poster has sniped the remainder of the article which can be viewed at mediaresearch.org.) freerepublic.com