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

To: DD™ who wrote (10126)	1/6/1999 9:29:00 PM
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Judicial Watch report to Senate Includes evidence far beyond sex, perjury scandals WEDNESDAY JANUARY 06 1999 By Stephan Archer © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com A new report in the Senate suggests the House of Representatives may have been hasty to impeach Clinton on charges limited to the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal and raises accusations of political abuse of the Internal Revenue Service, misuse of FBI files, illegal fund-raising activities and more. The 4,000-page interim report was delivered to all members of the U.S. Senate last week by Judicial Watch, Inc., a non-partisan public interest government watchdog group. In the report, Judicial Watch presents evidence that President Clinton may have been involved in bribery, treason, and other high crimes and misdemeanors in what has become known as Chinagate and Filegate. Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said the report could bring the harder issues of Clinton's presidency to the forefront. "They (senators) won't have an excuse to say there's nothing else out there. We've put it right in front of them," he said. Because the House Judiciary Committee focused entirely on matters surrounding the Lewinsky sex scandal and ignored evidence that links Clinton with the Chinagate and Filegate scandals, Judicial Watch believes that those who have been pushing for a Senate trial may be losing footing. "In effect, by rushing the impeachment proceedings and keeping it limited to try to placate Democrats, Hyde sowed the seeds of defeat into obtaining justice for the high crimes and misdemeanors committed by the president," said Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman. In a letter that accompanied the interim report, Judicial Watch stated that it had uncovered new evidence that suggests that the president was involved in the Filegate scandal. In sworn testimony on Dec. 14, 1998, key witness Linda Tripp indicated that former members of Congress, high-level Bush administration officials, and other so-called "enemies" of President Clinton had their FBI files illegally obtained and misused. Tripp had testified that the data from what she was told to be FBI files was to be uploaded on to White House computers so that the information could be shared with the Democratic National Committee. Judicial Watch said the person who requested this to be done was Hillary Clinton. Also included with the interim report was a list of dead persons associated with the Clinton administration, prepared by WorldNetdaily contributing editor David Bresnahan for his book, "Cover Up." The list was left on Tripp's chair by Monica Lewinsky, according to Tripp's Filegate testimony. Tripp considered the list to be a threat. More evidence pointing toward the president's involvement in Chinagate came last week when Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Clinton administration had likely destroyed and suppressed documents and potential evidence of wrongdoing. The initial lawsuit that led to the ruling was filed by Judicial Watch after it met obstacles in obtaining documents from the Department of Commerce through the Freedom of Information Act. Among the destroyed or "lost" documents include those that were shredded in former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown's office following his death April 6, 1996. The court documents say that several Commerce employees said in depositions that the documents were never even searched following Judicial Watch's FOIA requests before being destroyed. Court documents also said that John Huang, former Democratic National Committee fund-raiser and former deputy assistant secretary for international economic policy at Commerce, may have -- upon leaving the agency -- removed important documents in an effort to hide them from Judicial Watch. However, Huang claimed he was little more than a "budget clerk." Because the court ruled in favor of Judicial Watch in this matter, Commerce has been ordered to perform a rigorously monitored new search of all documents that may be links to Chinagate. Fitton said that the court's decision has far-reaching implications for the president. "What this shows is that the issues of perjury and obstruction of justice are not limited to the Lewinsky affair," Fitton said. worldnetdaily.com