Posted on 07/04/2008 8:23:17 AM PDT by zeestephen
Alex Dobuzinskis, a reporter for London-based news service Reuters, used a story about paparazzi in Malibu to revise basic facts about Ken Starr and the impeachment of former President Clinton.
According to Dobuzinskis, "Malibu officials are getting advice from Kenneth Starr, the attorney whose investigation of former President Bill Clinton led to the uncovering of his sexual liaison with Monica Lewinsky and caused his impeachment."
Actually, Starr was a special prosecutor investigating Bill and Hillary Clinton in the Whitewater land scandal.
Monica Lewinsky was "uncovered" by lawyers for Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state employee who was suing Bill Clinton for sexual harassment.
Jones' lawyers were attempting to establish a pattern of harassment of government workers by Clinton.
Jones' lawyers questioned Clinton about Lewinsky in that specific regard, and Clinton denied under oath that he had a sexual relationship with Lewinsky.
When possible perjury charges against Clinton arose, the three judge special panel that originally assigned Starr to the Whitewater case expanded Starr's mandate and assigned the perjury investigation to Starr as well.
The "cause" of Clinton's impeachment was not his "sexual liason" with Lewinsky.
Clinton was impeached because a majority of US Congressmen believed he deliberately lied in the Paula Jones civil lawsuit to avoid serious financial and political consequences.
It appears that Reuters correspondent Dobuzinskis gets his Clinton impeachment information from Wikipedia.
I urge my fellow Freepers to browse through some of the Wikipedia articles on Starr, Lewinsky, and impeachment.
The underlying theme - relentless and false - is that Bill Clinton was impeached because he had a sexual relationship with a 22 year old intern.
Dobuzinskis original article can be found at this link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080704/media_nm/paparazzi_dc
Clinton, while Governor of Arkansas, summoned an Arkansas state employee to his his hotel room.
He exposed his private parts and requested her to “kiss it”.
Not surprisingly the victim sued. Clinton perjured himself during his deposition in that litigation.
Sounds like our Bastions of Higher Education have reached their conclusion.
The charges for which Clinton was impeached were a "Red Herring". The truth is that he committed treasonous acts by providing Red China with missile technology and missile guidance technology in exchange for campaign contributions. These technologies helped improve China's ICBM fleet, which now poses a grave threat to the United States.
The press is stilllying about the Clinton debacle. No big surprise there.
Don’t forget that history books were rewritten in the Soviet Union. Not much different from what is happening to schoolbooks that are used to indoctrinate children today in US schools.
Yep , quite a historical record . B.J. Clinton is a tragic hero and the poster child for the proposition to repeal the XXII Amendment and Kenneth Starr is some sex-obsessed persecutor .
The entire sordid Clinton experience of corruption and malfeasance went back to his time in Arkansas state government. To this very day the Democrat party not only ignores it but does all it can to bury the very memory of it.
It is a sad betrayal of America solely for the purpose of power.
Everybody knows that the Federalist Society is the cornerstone of the VRWC and Kenneth Starr is a Feddie.
The reason that Ken Starr investigated the Lewinsky affair was because the clinton crime cabal was using the the EXACT SAME METHODOLOGY to cover up the incident and keep Lewinsky from telling the truth that they used to shut up WEBSTER HUBBELL after he had agreed to turn state’s evidence against the clintons over Whitewater.
The same enabler, Vernon Jordan, was involved in getting Lewinski out of town and bribed with a high paying job that she was unqualified for just as Hubbell was granted high paying “contracts” for doing essentially nothing while in jail.
While the Paula Jones lawyers were looking to establish a pattern of sexual behavior to support her case, Ken Starr was looking to establish a pattern of suborning perjury and witness tampering in an ENTIRELY different case.
50 years from now, our History Books will have the Slickster as the Best President of the 20th Century. I won’t be here to see it.
For the younger and the increasingly forgetful FReeper, here is some additional background on the incredibly overlooked Bill Clinton Chinagate Scandal... "...a statement [Bill] Clinton made in February 2002, in which he told an audience in Australia, 'This is a unique moment in U.S. history, a brief moment in history, when the U.S. has preeminent military, economic and political power. It won't last forever. This is just a period, a few decades this will last.'
Clinton continued...
'In all probability, we won't be the premier political and economic power we are now' in a few decades, he said, pointing to the growth of China's economy and the growing economic strength of the European Union.
Whether the United States maintains its military supremacy, he said, depends in part on how much those other entities invest in their militaries, and Clinton said working cooperatively is essential to U.S. interests.
But he said he did not want to be misunderstood. 'I never advocated that we not have the strongest military in the world...I don't think a single soul has thought I was advocating scaling back our military.'
Source: Washington Post article from May 2003:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62253-2003Apr30¬Found=true
or find his remarks here (Talon News):
Clinton Predicts America's Decline:
http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/newswire/nw03/talonnews/0503/newswire-tn-050503d.htm
"'We like your president. We want to see him reelected', former Chinese intelligence chief General Ji Shengde told Chinagate bagman Johnny Chung. Indeed, Chinese intelligence organized a massive covert operation aimed at tilting the 1996 election Clinton’s way."
The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate
By Richard Poe
May 26, 2003
CHINA WILL LIKELY replace the USA as world leader, said Bill Clinton in a recent Washington Post interview. It is just a matter of time. Clinton should know. He has personally done more to build China’s military strength than any man on earth.
Most Americans have heard of the so-called "Chinagate " scandal. Few understand its deadly import, however. Web sites such as "Chinagate for Dummies" and its companion "More Chinagate for Dummies" offer some assistance. Unfortunately, with a combined total of nearly 8,000 words, these two sites – like so many others of the genre – offer more detail than most of us "dummies" can absorb.
For that reason, in the 600 words left in this column, I will try to craft my own "Idiot’s Guide to Chinagate," dedicated to all those busy folks like you and me whose attention span tends to peter out after about 750 words. Here goes.
When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, China presented little threat to the United States. Chinese missiles "couldn’t hit the side of a barn," notes Timothy W. Maier of Insight magazine. Few could reach North America and those that made it would likely miss their targets.
Thanks to Bill Clinton, China can now hit any city in the USA, using state-of-the-art, solid-fueled missiles with dead-accurate, computerized guidance systems and multiple warheads.
China probably has suitcase nukes as well. These enable China to strike by proxy – equipping nuclear-armed terrorists to do their dirty work, while the Chinese play innocent. Some intelligence sources claim that China maintains secret stockpiles of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons on U.S. soil, for just such contingencies.
In 1997, Clinton allowed China to take over the Panama Canal. The Chinese company Hutchison Whampoa leased the ports of Cristobal and Balboa, on the east and west openings of the canal respectively, thus controlling access both ways. A public outcry stopped Clinton in 1998 from leasing California’s Long Beach Naval Yard to the Chinese firm COSCO. Even so, China can now strike U.S. targets easily from their bases in Panama, Vancouver and the Bahamas.
How did China catch up so fast? Easy. We sold them all the technology they needed – or handed it over for free. Neither neglect nor carelessness are to blame. Bill Clinton did it on purpose.
As a globalist, Clinton promotes "multipolarity"– the doctrine that no country (such as the USA) should be allowed to gain decisive advantage over others.
To this end, Clinton appointed anti-nuclear activist Hazel O’Leary to head the Department of Energy. O’Leary set to work "leveling the playing field," as she put it, by giving away our nuclear secrets. She declassified 11 million pages of data on U.S. nuclear weapons and loosened up security at weapons labs.
Federal investigators later concluded that China made off with the "crown jewels" of our nuclear weapons research under Clinton’s open-door policy – probably including design specifications for suitcase nukes. Meanwhile, Clinton and his corporate cronies raked in millions.
In his book The China Threat, Washington Times correspondent Bill Gertz describes how the system worked. Defense contractors eager to sell technology to China poured millions of dollars into Clinton’s campaign. In return, Clinton called off the dogs. Janet Reno and other counterintelligence officials stood down while Lockheed Martin, Hughes Electronics, Loral Space & Communications and other U.S. companies helped China modernize its nuclear strike force.
"We like your president. We want to see him reelected," former Chinese intelligence chief General Ji Shengde told Chinagate bagman Johnny Chung. Indeed, Chinese intelligence organized a massive covert operation aimed at tilting the 1996 election Clinton’s way.
Clinton’s top campaign contributors for 1992 were Chinese agents; his top donors in 1996 were U.S. defense contractors selling missile technology to China.
Clinton received funding directly from known or suspected Chinese intelligence agents, among them James and Mochtar Riady who own the Indonesian Lippo Group; John Huang; Charlie Trie; Ted Sioeng; Maria Hsia; Wang Jun and others.
Commerce Secretary Ron Brown served as Clinton’s front man in many Chinagate deals. When investigators began probing Brown’s Lippo Group and Chinagate connections, Brown died suddenly in a suspicious April 1996 plane crash.
Needless to say, China does not share Clinton’s enthusiasm for globalism or multipolarity. The Chinese look out for Number One.
"War [with the United States] is inevitable; we cannot avoid it," said Chinese Defense Minister General Chi Haotian in 2000. "The issue is that the Chinese armed forces must control the initiative in this war." Bill Clinton has given them a good start.
The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate:
http://www.richardpoe.com/column.cgi?story=125
or,
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/26/214938.shtml
Sadly yes. All that remains to be done is a movie about Starr directed by Oliver Stone. That will establish the "historical record" for most Americans who prefer not to read and do their own research.
BTTT
Bookmarked.
Don’t forget Bill Richardson’s role in trying to get Monica a fat job at the UN while he was the ambassador.
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Which became the Paula Jones case.
When Clinton went before the Starr committee .. he deliberately LIED IN A COURT OF LAW.
And .. if he didn’t lie .. then why was his LICENSE TO PRACTICE LAW REVOKED FOR 5 YEARS - AND HE’S PROHIBITED FROM BRINGING A CASE BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT - FOREVER!!
Revoking a license to practice law does not happen for cheating on your wife.
And .. the other dirty little secret .. IT WAS HILLARY WHO WOULD NOT SETTLE WITH PAULA JONES BUT INSISTED ON HAVING A TRIAL - MAKING HILLARY AS MUCH TO BLAME FOR THE IMPEACHMENT AS HER LYING HUSBAND.
WHERE’S THE HOOK!!
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