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Tuesday 17 June 2003 Updated: 16 Jun, 11:17 (GMT+1) AFTENPOSTEN (English frontpage) Hagen wants Clinton to head NATOOne of Norway's most highly profiled and right-wing politicians, Carl I Hagen, is urging the nomination of former US President Bill Clinton as new NATO boss. Norwegian officials have given up hopes that their own defense minister, Kristin Krohn Devold, will get the job. Progress Party boss Carl I Hagen thinks Bill Clinton should take over as NATO boss. PHOTO: KNUT FALCH/SCANPIX Hagen, who heads Norway's Progress Party, told newspaper Aftenposten Monday that NATO's new leader should have international authority, respect and experience....

Bill Clinton as NATO Chief? "One of Norway’s most highly profiled and right-wing politicians, Carl I. Hagen, is urging the nomination of former U.S. President Bill Clinton as new NATO boss," reported Norway’s Aftenposten on June 17th. Hagen, head of Norway’s Progress Party, insists that "NATO’s new leader should have international authority," continued the report. "He thinks Clinton, therefore, is the perfect choice." "There are plenty of people who can be leader of a secretariat in Brussels, but that’s not what NATO needs right now," Hagen told the newspaper. He maintains that Clinton is exactly the kind of "political heavyweight"...

Did Bill Clinton inflict some extra lashes on himself in Hillary Rodham Clinton's best-selling memoir? The former President may have taken a more active role than anyone suspected in the writing of "Living History," insiders tell us. Sen. Clinton invited her husband's comments on her manuscript. Most of his suggestions "had to do with policy and the legacy of his administration," says one person familiar with his blue-penciling. But it's said that he went so far as to suggest Hillary turn up the sturm und drang in the much-discussed passage where she confronts him about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.While...

<p>June 14, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton raked in more than $9 million in speaking fees last year - topping wife Hillary's $8 million book deal for her best-selling autobiography.</p> <p>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's financial disclosure forms, filed yesterday, show her husband gave 61 paid speeches around the world last year, getting up to $400,000 apiece although a more typical fee was $125,000.</p>

In an interview to be broadcast Sunday, New York Senator Hillary Clinton makes the bizarre claim to ABC's Barbara Walters that her husband had never lied to her before Aug. 15, 1998, when he supposedly came clean about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. "She went through all of the investigations in the White House, all of which turned out to be either a false alarm or that they had done nothing wrong," Walters told syndicated radio host Sean Hannity. "So when [Lewinsky] happened, [Hillary] said, and I'm almost quoting, 'Oh my gosh, one more thing,'" the ABC News star...

From the political Grapevine, halfway through tonight's Special Report with Brit Hume: Bill Clinton is considering to run for Governor of New York! According to Democrat Party "insiders", TheBentOne may run next election cycle.Some Spitzer guy and Chuckles Schumer are apparently pissed off...they're the current frontrunners.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton said on Wednesday Congress should change the rule that barred him from seeking a third term in the White House, but stopped short of saying he wants to return as commander-in-chief. Speaking at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum here, Clinton questioned certain aspects of the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prevents a person from being elected president more than twice. Clinton said the amendment, passed after Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to a record fourth term, should be changed simply to keep a person from being elected to more...

An editor working on ex-President Bill Clinton's memoirs has raised questions about the veracity of his account after reading the book's first draft. "Did you make half of that stuff up?" the editor asked, according to Clinton's own admission during a ceremony at his Little Rock presidential library on Friday. In little-noticed comments covered by the Associated Press, the ex-president revealed the unnamed editor's skepticism, saying, "When I first showed my editor the drafts of my memoirs, he said, 'Boy you've got a lot in here about Arkansas.' "And I said, 'Well read it before you cut it out.'" Then...

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<p>THE New York Times has launched an internal investigation of some its most stylish scribes in the wake of the Jayson Blair catastrophe.</p> <p>A source at the embattled paper says at least four of the Times' flashiest writers are being probed in the wake of the tidal wave of tips that have flooded e-mail boxes after the Times' Blair mea culpa last week.</p>

"There's something really odd about all of this," top conservative talker Rush Limbaugh told his audience on Tuesday, after reporting that Boston's John F. Kennedy Library would be hosting intern-lusting ex-President Bill Clinton a week after an appearance by Kennedy intern scoopster, author Robert Dallek. "Don't for a minute think that all this isn't being done to make Clinton look good," talk radio's number one opinionmaker contended. "The Kennedy family is helping to revive and resuscitate the legacy of Bill Clinton at the expense of JFK." As reported last week by the Boston Herald, the JFK Library was scheduled...

I received the strangest letter the other day from James Carville, Bill Clinton's old attack dog and political strategist. Here's what it said: "Dear Friend, [t]hroughout the eight years of his presidency, you've been one of President Clinton's most loyal supporters. And I had the honor of helping to elect the man twice. So we have much to be proud of." The letter goes on to ask me to affirm the following statement: "I'm proud to have supported Bill Clinton during the eight years of his presidency and deeply appreciate what he accomplished for America and the world. Now, I...

Ex-President Bill Clinton's attacks on his successor reached a new low last week when he told a University of Florida audience that President Bush was planning to invade North Korea. Though Clinton's address was widely covered in the mainstream press, only the university's campus publication "The Oracle" noted that he "criticized the Bush administration for looking for multinational support in a possible North Korean invasion." The prediction by the former U.S. president, however erroneous, that the current commander in chief is preparing for a military strike against North Korea is likely to further exacerbate tensions between Pyongyang and Washington, D.C....

AP World - General News Blasts go off at Kosovo police station in simultaneous attacks Sat Mar 22, 5:26 AM ET PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro - Explosive devices damaged two police stations in Kosovo in simultaneous attacks, a U.N. police spokesman said Saturday. No one was injured. The attacks late Friday targeted Pristina police stations manned by both U.N. and local police, spokesman Al Garcia said. No motive was known, and police had no suspects, he added. The blasts broke windows at both stations and damaged at least one U.N. police car. Kosovo's police stations were put on alert because of the...

Normally, FReepers are forced to sit on the sidelines as the idiocies of liberals, government employees and foreign affairs unfold. All too often we are frustrated when the mainstream media ignores major anti-Clinton stories. This time, we can be in the thick of things and get the truth out from the very beginning. We can force the media to pay attention to a scandal that will make Monica look miniscule. Why? Because this story is tied directly to current events and war in SWA. We know from reliable sources that (new book from former Clinton military aide) that during the...

"We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block."--bill clinton Bill blasts 'political mess' by WNew York Daily News | March 14, 2003 | JOEL SIEGEL       NOTE: It was, in fact, bill clinton's POLICY to MAKE CERTAIN that America was not "the biggest power on the block."     North Korea doesn't stop doing anything. Then comes 1993. Abruptly, with inspectors hot on their trail, the Kims pull out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The reactor at Yongbyon is up and running....

When President Bush gives the order for U.S. forces to attack Iraq, ex-president Bill Clinton will be among a select handful of Americans who will be notified in advance, reports Fox News Channel's Monica Crowley. "I'm sure many of you won't be too happy to learn that Clinton will know before the rest of us," Crowley said Sunday, while filling in for vacationing WABC Radio host Steve Malzberg. Crowley explained that the White House practice of early notification of impending military action is a courtesy that extends to all ex-presidents "I remember when I worked for Richard Nixon, the...

Bill Clinton wants to succeed Kofi Annan as secretary-general of the United Nations, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says. "While it is still early, there is a major international move under way to make Bill Clinton the chief executive of the United Nations. Unbelievable? You had only to watch Clinton's performance on a recent 'Larry King Live' program. There, Bill, with his new haircut and coiffure blued to a snowy-white perfection, made repeated adulatory references to the United Nations," says the newspaper's brash Dateline DC column. "If Bill had planned this career move years ago, some actions during his presidency ?...

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