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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 (11789)	2/20/1999 12:39:00 PM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Columnist wins suit for Chinagate files Commerce Department ordered to turn over all documents FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19 1999 By Stephan Archer © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com The Clinton administration suffered a blow yesterday as a federal district court judge ordered the U.S. Commerce Department to turn over documents that could incriminate members of the White House in the Chinagate scandal. Charles Smith, a WorldNetDaily columnist well known for investigative work in the area of military technology, along with his company, Softwar, filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the Commerce Department for materials on COSTIND -- the Chinese Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense -- in an effort to uncover the illegal trading of military secrets between the United States and China. The Commerce Department initially turned down his request stating the documents didn't exist and that even if they did, they would be labeled as "top secret" due to national security reasons. Smith, however, had already received some of the documents from the Commerce Department and knew they existed. Thus, he appealed his turned down request. When the Commerce Department again turned him down, he filed a lawsuit. At the pre-trial hearings yesterday, Judge Robert Payne immediately ruled against the Commerce Department saying that Assistant United States Attorney Joan Evans failed to show a reasonable cause to withhold Commerce's documents. "He (the judge) immediately wagged his finger at Commerce's lawyer for even trying to withhold the documents for 'national security' reasons," Smith said. "I want you to open this up all the way," Payne ordered Evans. "I want it full bore, double barrel, 12-gauge, shotgun open. I want everything." Payne ordered the Commerce Department to comply with his orders within 60 days if they wanted to avoid trouble from him. "I will come down on you like a ton of bricks," Payne warned if Commerce doesn't comply with his orders. "I don't want any fooling around." Smith originally filed an FOIA request with the Commerce Department for materials on COSTIND because he had received information from Commerce that former Commerce secretary Ron Brown, along with Bernard Schwartz, CEO of Loral Space and Communications, met with General Shen Rongjun of COSTIND. Bernard Schwartz, in June 1994, made a $100,000 contribution to the Democratic National Committee and then joined Ron Brown on a trip to China that ultimately led to a deal worth $250 million for Loral whose telecommunication satellites were launched by Chinese rockets. "The bottom line is that I've identified the Chinese unit that penetrated the White House," said Smith, who referred to COSTIND as an espionage unit. Once Smith obtains the documents from the Commerce Department, he says that his goal is to identify, in detail, the specific technologies and the meetings between Clinton administration officials and members of the Chinese military to arrange illegal military equipment transfers under the guise of commercial transfers. Referring to the Commerce Department's attempt to hide the evidence of White House dealings with China by implying that the documents don't exist, Smith said, "These people may be dressed in green, but they're no leprechauns. Their business is killing people." Smith said that Payne agreed with his assessment of the situation and believed that it was for events such as this that FOIA requests were created -- to enable people like Smith to keep the nation's government in check. worldnetdaily.com.

To: DD™ who wrote (11789)	2/21/1999 12:24:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

"Any allegation that the president assaulted Ms. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false," Clinton's personal attorney, David E. Kendall, said in a statement released by the White House yesterday. Yeah, and btw, "I did not have a sexual relationship, or any improper relationship with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky. These allegations are FALSE".---William Jefferson Clinton, live on national TV, Jan. 1998. "My husband is innocent of these charges. If any of you cared to look into this, I think you'll find that this is all a vast right wing conspiracy. When the truth comes out, and it will, there are going to be a lot of people who will have a lot to answer for."----his willing accomplice, Hillary Rodman Clinton, who lied her silly little ass off in a live TV interview. Truly a twit.

To: DD™ who wrote (11789)	2/25/1999 10:56:00 PM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 13994

China, phone taps, dirty money, Clinton THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1999 Joseph Farah is editor of WorldNetDaily.com and executive director of the Western Journalism Center, an independent group of investigative reporters. One of the secrets of the Clinton administration's success at staying in power has been to plot such dastardly deeds that few Americans could even grasp their evil intent. Right at the top of the list of such conspiracies -- now well documented, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of WorldNetDaily columnist Charles Smith -- is the Clipper Chip project. It involves all of the following: a treasonous relationship with China, a plan to tap every phone in America, drug money and, of course, the usual intrigue of administration figures such as Webster Hubbell, Al Gore, Ron Brown, Janet Reno and Clinton himself. Earlier this month, Smith, through the Freedom of Information Act. forced the release of Department of Justice documents which begin to give us a picture of the plot. Even more is expected with Smith's stunning court victory last week for more files from the Commerce Department. The story starts in 1992 when AT&T developed secure telephones untappable by the federal government. The company planned to make them available to the American public. Instead, the Clinton administration interceded and bought up all the phones with a secret slush fund. The plan also involved refitting the phones with a new chip called "Clipper," which would permit the government to tap the phones easily once they found their way back into the hands of American consumers. The documents obtained by Smith verifying all of this were so secret, even their classification was redacted. The plot also demonstrates the way Clinton administration insiders were allowed to benefit personally and financially from the secret plans. By 1994, White House aide John Podesta had been called into the inner circle of the Clipper project. Meanwhile, Podesta's brother, Tony, a lobbyist and fund-raiser was representing AT&T. His donors and clients, including AT&T, were invited to participate in trade trips to China and obtain valuable export deals with Beijing. Only a year earlier, John Podesta had signed a legal statement promising not to engage in any conflicts of interest involving his brother. Hubbell was, as usual, a key figure in the plot. By April 1994, he was forced to resign as associate attorney general, the number three man at Justice, over allegations of fraud that would eventually land him in the pokey. Two months later Hubbell was receiving what looks remarkably like hush money from the Chinese-connected Lippo Group. The next thing you know, Hubbell was pleading his Fifth Amendment rights in avoiding testifying to Senate investigators. About this same time, Lippo agent John Huang was given a top Commerce Department job -- one that permitted him to get briefings on encryption technology. That same year, AT&T sold military-grade secure communications to the totalitarians in China -- a move approved by the Clinton administration. In other words, such technology was safe for the jail-keepers in Beijing, but not for the average American citizen. As Smith writes: "Bill Clinton and Janet Reno have given the Communists the ability to track every Chinese citizen using advanced chip technology and back-door-like recovery systems. The digital chains of a modern police state to enslave millions of Chinese citizens -- made in the USA. American technology, shipped with the personal OK of both President Clinton and Janet Reno." Meanwhile, Smith reports, the Clinton administration is trying to duplicate those totalitarian powers here in America. By 1996, Reno was urging the all-out federal takeover of the computer industry and the banning of any encryption technology that doesn't let the government in the back door. Interestingly, the first target of the government's wiretap plan was its own Drug Enforcement Administration. Hmmm. The Chinese sought information obtained from such taps -- which may explain why Chinese drug lord Ng Lapseng gave as much money to the Democratic National Committee as he did. It's no wonder Reno didn't want to investigate the penetration of the DEA by the Chinese. After all, Ng was photographed with her bosses, Bill and Hillary Clinton at a DNC fund-raiser. Ahh, what a small and corrupt world. ... Three cheers for Smith's heroic exposes. Shame on the rest of the press for ignoring it all. worldnetdaily.com Posted for educational and discussion purposes only