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Democrat Fund-Raiser Case Criticized By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Focusing on a Buddhist temple that illegally bankrolled fund-raising events attended by Vice President Al Gore and other politicians, prosecutors are portraying an ex-Democratic fund-raiser as the overseer of a scheme to hide the true sources of more than $100,000 in campaign donations. But a lawyer for the defendant, Maria Hsia, says the Justice Department's case is so flawed that it suggests the prosecutors' motive in bringing the charges was simply to raise Gore's name once again in the 1996 fund-raising scandal. ``Why is Maria Hsia ...

Why was a nice girl like you working in a place like that?" Former Lockheed-NSA employee and member of the team that developed Echelon, Margaret Newsham, had quite an answer. Her life history is similar to that of other nice women who came to adulthood in the fifties and early sixties. Marriage, kids, divorce, finding a good job and remarriage. However, in Newsham's case a series of life's twists found her sucked into the gothic “black world” of intelligence. For Margaret "Peg" Newsham the twist of fate, which led her to Building 19 in Ford Aero's Sunnyvale, California plant, was ...

With all the talk about "special interests," we'd be interested to hear what the candidates think about a narrow group blocking progress on legislation indisputably beneficial to the commonweal. We're talking about the trial lawyer campaign to torpedo legislation on compensating those injured by asbestos. Twice, the Supreme Court has all but endorsed the bill, saying "the elephantine mass of asbestos cases . . . calls for national legislation." The system we now have serves most effectively to enrich the lawyers. Some 200,000 cases are jamming the courts, including individuals who are dying and need to know their families will ...

George W. Bush has taken a lot of heat, and deservedly so, for tolerating intolerance. On Sunday, stung by criticism of his visit to South Carolina's Bob Jones University, Mr. Bush sent a letter to New York's Cardinal John O'Connor in which the Texas governor apologized for having failed to distance himself from the university's racially discriminatory and anti-Catholic policies. Monday John McCain denounced two Bush backers, the Rev. Pat Robertson and the Rev. Jerry Falwell, as "agents of intolerance." And Mr. McCain himself has come under fire for referring to his Vietnamese captors as "gooks" and for refusing to ...

Inside the dark underworld of international crime, Ng Lapseng earned a reputation of being tough, smart and connected. Connected? In 1994, the Macau millionaire and brothel owner visited the White House -- a visit captured in a personal photograph with President Clinton and Hillary Clinton. Ng Lapseng is also very well connected to Beijing. Reportedly a close friend of Wang Jun, international arms dealer and the chairman of China state weapons maker Polytechnologies, Inc., Ng also is reportedly a part of a deadly Chinese organized crime gang that specializes in the kidnapping of women for prostitution. In an exclusive interview ...

Student Shot And Killed at Mich. Elementary School FLINT, Mich. (Reuters) - A young girl was shot and killed by another student on Tuesday at an elementary school north of Flint, Mich., a State Police dispatcher said. The girl, who was apparently shot with a handgun inside Buell Elementary School, was believed to be 6 years old, police said. Police had the suspected shooter in custody. No other injuries were reported.

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to rule on the constitutionality of mandatory tests of pregnant women for drug use, then notifying police if abuse is detected. The case will take the court for the first time into the emotional controversy over using criminal law to monitor women's conduct during pregnancy. At issue is a contentious alliance among a public hospital, police and prosecutors in Charleston, S.C., that led to in-hospital arrests of pregnant women who tested positive for drugs. Some aspects of that program have been extended statewide, with hospitals and clinics required to report women who fail ...

NORFOLK -- A California couple who shipped military supplies to China from a warehouse near Old Dominion University have been indicted on 47 counts of money laundering and illegally exporting arms. They are accused of exporting missile, aircraft, radar and tank parts in 1998 and 1999 that they legally bought at surplus from United States military agencies. They made shipments through Norfolk International Terminals off Hampton Boulevard. By law, arms cannot be exported from the United States without a license from the State Department. It is impossible to get such a license for export to China because the United ...

The Davidian Massacre Disturbing Questions about Waco which Must Be Answered © 1995 Carol Moore http://www.kreative.net/carolmoore/davidian-massacre.html You need to call the President of the United States and explain to him what you have done. You've ruined this country. You've ruined the nation. This is a democracy, supposedly, a republic. David Koresh on February 28, 1993 9-1-1 tape When David Koresh spoke these words the evening of February 28, 1993, he understood the true meaning of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' attack on the Branch Davidians' home and church, Mount Carmel Center. It is a truth that millions of ...

Eight hours of terror ANDREA HARTER ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE The boy's voice in her ear was soft, Roberta Thompson remembers. It sounded almost kind. At 3 a.m. on April 13, 1997, she had been his prisoner for eight hours. Now, he was dragging her out of a car trunk into the night. He wrapped his arm around her neck from behind and whispered, "Did you wet yourself?" Thompson told him she had. "He said 'I'm so sorry.' And then he cut my throat." Thompson was standing near a small roadway in Chickasha Heritage Park in Memphis. She had been abducted from ...

Drug courier claims racial profiling was used By Erin Emery Denver Post Southern Colorado Bureau Feb. 29 - AIR FORCE ACADEMY - A drug courier who carried $600,000 worth of cocaine to Colorado asked the Colorado Supreme Court for a new trial Monday because a trial court judge mistakenly allowed a police officer to testify that the man fit a profile of people who transport drugs. Jose Salcedo, who worked odd jobs in San Jose, Calif., before he was arrested in Denver with 3 kilograms of cocaine in his suitcase, is serving 24 years for intent to distribute cocaine, ...

Make no mistake. hillary clinton calling the four cops "murderers" was a standard issue, premeditated, preprogrammed, reckless clinton scheme to balkanize, to foment racial hatred, to jack up the black vote for clinton's pathetic candidacy and, assuming hillary clinton possesses no less than half a brain (a BIG assumption, I concede), did not even represent her true analysis of the tragedy. "Shame on You": Letter to hillary clinton from daughter of Sean Carroll    REPUGNANT, RECKLESS CLINTON-CLINTON-GORE SCHEME   

e-mail-gate (an annotated version) part 1 by Mia T   3 investigations begin into White House e-mails     By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES        The independent counsel's office and two congressional committees yesterday opened investigations into accusations by a former White House aide that the administration hid thousands of e-mail messages concerning "Filegate," Monica Lewinsky, and Chinese and other campaign finance abuses.      President Clinton, responding to a report in The Washington Times on the accusations of Sheryl L. Hall, former White House manager of computer operations, denied any wrongdoing, saying he believed the administration had "complied with ...

Missing Emails and TELEPHONE RECORDS     Can you spell RICO ?   O'REILLY: All right. So now what we have here is almost a RICO situation where every kind of investigation, whether it's the Buddhist Temple, the Chinese money from the Red Army, the immigration that you are -- wanted to look into -- Janet Reno stops everything dead.   SCHIPPERS: Well, this started back in -- remember in Little Rock, Arkansas -- or the Arkansas situation where the Arkansas United States attorney refused to investigate the Whitewater thing. This has just been a classic continuing effort to ...

Seven years ago yesterday --Feb.28,1993-- the Federal Government under Bill Clinton and Janet Reno invaded the Church and campus and living quarters of a religious group known as the Branch Davidians. Four ATF-agents ---former Clinton body guards--- were soon dead. A stand off would last until April 19, 1993 when the government would launch another attack. Most of the Davidians were dead by the end of that day dead.... Was it murder?

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two officials of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians were fined and sentenced to probation Monday for illegally routing thousands of dollars in tribal money to the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign. Mark Nichols and Greg Cervantes, both non-Indians, pleaded guilty in October to misdemeanor federal charges of using tribal money to make illegal "conduit" campaign donations - contributions made in the name of someone who is then reimbursed. Such a scheme hides the true source of the money and allows donors to get around campaign contribution limits. In this case, the true and unwitting donor ...

Tijuana police chief gunned down More than 100 rounds fired in ambush as he drove to work By Sandra Dibble and Anna Cearley UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS February 28, 2000 TIJUANA -- Gunmen firing more than 100 rounds killed this city's police chief yesterday morning as he headed to work down a heavily traveled thoroughfare. Alfredo de la Torre Márquez, a streetwise, veteran cop, died alone shortly after 9:30 a.m. at the wheel of his black Chevrolet Suburban, the most recent victim in a wave of violence gripping this city of some 1.3 million people. The killing bore all the marks ...

Page14                                                    Victoria, BC                                                      Friday, June 25,1971  Daily Colonist All blood distributed by the Red Cross transfusion service in BC is being tested for an elusive form of hepatitis, the origins of which have been discovered only during the past two years. A spokesman for the Red Cross blood service said Thursday from Vancouver that blood collected in the province now is screened for a biochemical particle called the Australia antigen which induces serum hepatitis.   Serum hepatitis, long linked with contaminated blood transfusions and inadequately sterilized needles and syringes is as damaging as ...

February 29, 2000 China's cashing in on Clinton Frank Gaffney Jr.      Once upon a time, a mother fatuously watching her uncoordinated son in a parade with his military unit was heard to declare: "Look, everybody's out of step but Johnnie." Increasingly, a similar myopia seems to be afflicting the Clinton-Gore administration with respect to China.     President Clinton is evidently oblivious to an ominous new reality: Beijing appears to have concluded that there is a window of opportunity for bringing Taiwan to heel.     For the next 10 months, the White House will be occupied by a man who has accepted campaign contributions from ...

THE VANCOUVER SUN WED., FEB 4,1976 Blood sent to Toronto ‘comes back to B.C.’ The medical director of the Red Cross blood transfusion service for British Columbia said Tuesday any blood taken from B.C. donors for processing at Toronto’s Crown owned Connaught Laboratories is returned to B.C. for use in hospitals here. Dr. T.D. Stout, of Vancouver, said he knows nothing of the claims by the CBC television program The Fifth Estate, that blood from Canadian donors was being sold to overseas buyers. The president of Connaught Laboratories denied in Toronto that the company sold blood products overseas. The ...