[Calpernia]

This would be an excellent football for him to run with. Jellybean has a link to Fred’s overview on this ChinaGate investigation.

JellyBean, do you have that link from the FAS?

[Calpernia]

I found the link I was looking for:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_rpt/sgo-sir/3-34.htm

INVESTIGATION OF ILLEGAL OR IMPROPER ACTIVITIES
IN CONNECTION WITH 1996 FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS
FINAL REPORT of the COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
SENATE Rept. 105-167 - 105th Congress 2d Session - March 10, 1998

Excerpt:

Additional Views of Chairman Fred Thompson The Committee Report documents the facts surrounding what may be considered, at least from a campaign money standpoint, the most corrupt political campaign in modern history. Little needs to be added to the ugly picture that has already been painted. It is important for us now to reflect upon the other implications of the investigation.

[jellybean]

JellyBean, do you have that link from the FAS?

Absolutely! Additional Views of Chairman Fred Thompson

Rich Galen issued a statement for Fred's campaign concerning Hsu:

Rival charges Hillary Clinton turned blind eye to Hsu's past

Sep 11, 2007 5:15 PM (2 days ago)
by Bill Sammon, The Examiner

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Hillary Clinton's links to illegal fundraising by Asian-Americans in 1996 should have made her wary of accepting $850,000 from a fugitive Asian-American this year, a rival presidential campaign said Tuesday.

The criticism came from an adviser to former Republican Sen. Fred Thompson, who chaired a Senate investigation into illegal contributions by Asian-Americans to Bill Clinton's re-election campaign and the couple's legal defense fund in the 1996 election cycle.

Thompson adviser Rich Galen said Clinton's 2008 campaign has become "the sequel" to her husband's scandal-plagued 1996 campaign.

Late Monday, Clinton announced she was returning $850,000 raised by fugitive Norman Hsu, who jumped bail in 1992 after being convicted of defrauding investors of $1 million. Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said the campaign was "unaware" of a warrant for Hsu's arrest.

Galen was unconvinced.

"You have to look at this with a great deal of skepticism that - having been through this sort of thing in '96 - that nobody thought to say, 'Hey, you know, we better take another look at this before we take all this money,' " he said.

"And the fact that nobody did - or if they did, they decided to just put their finger in front of their lips and say shhh and try to sneak off into the distance - tells you a great deal about the fact that the Hillary Clinton campaign is the Bill Clinton campaign redux."

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