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Sept. 27, 2000

Al Gore was the Administration's point man in charge of the plan developed in early 1996 to put a million aliens on the fast track to citizenship even if they didn't qualify and even if they had criminal records. Gore was responsible for keeping the pressure on INS to make sure the aliens were naturalized by September 1, the last day to register for the presidential election.

INS Administrator Doris Meissner was at first reluctant to go along with these shenanigans. But she finally acquiesced in Gore's plan to remove alleged "bureaucratic roadblocks" to speedy naturalization.

The "smoking gun" documentation came to light sort of as an aside in the new book "Sellout" by David P. Schippers, his own story as chief investigative counsel for the House impeachment of Bill Clinton. Before Schippers was ordered to limit his investigations to the Monica case, he had focused on the politicization of the INS.

Schippers uncovered a memo written early in 1996 from Doug Farbrother of the National Performance Review (NPR) to Bill Clinton reminding the President that he had "asked us to expedite the naturalization of nearly a million legal aliens." Farbrother set forth the plan "to force some serious `reinvention' on INS" by "appointing one of our proven NPR reinventors as Deputy INS Commissioner" and moving the existing Deputy elsewhere.

The National Performance Review is now called Vice President Al Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government, according to its website www.npr.gov. This confirms Gore's peculiar obsession with reinventing things.

Dr. Elaine Kamarck in Gore's office responded to Farbrother on March 21, 1996 in a solid-cap memo: "THE PRESIDENT IS SICK OF THIS AND WANTS ACTION. IF NOTHING MOVES TODAY WE'LL HAVE TO TAKE SOME PRETTY DRASTIC MEASURES."

A March 22 memo to Al Gore from Doug Farbrother then reported that he told INS "to waive stupid rules, move money from one account to another as needed, and recruit and hire people locally instead of through the slow centralized process." Farbrother added that each city manager in the major cities was to be given "a project budget to spend as needed."

Farbrother's memo spelled out other details of the plan to circumvent customary procedure: "delegate hiring authority, waive extensive background investigations on new employees, allow the cities `overhire authority.'" This carried out the suggestion originally made in a February 15 memo from HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros to Clinton and Gore suggesting the use of "volunteers" from Hispanic action groups to "process" naturalization applications.

In a subsequent fax, Farbrother wrote that he had instructed INS Commissioner Doris Meissner to "get the results the Vice President wants."

In a memo addressed to Al Gore on March 28, Farbrother restated the goal to "produce a million new citizens before election day." The game plan was to "blast INS headquarters loose from their grip on the frontline managers" and to "make Doris Meissner delegate broad authority to her field managers" in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Miami.

A March 29 memo from Farbrother to Elaine Kamarck revealed his concern lest this plan be exposed as "a citizenship/Clinton voter mill."

This ingenious 1996 "voter mill" paid off big time. An audit by the accounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick uncovered some of the results.

The newly naturalized citizens who were qualified to vote by this Gore project included more than 75,000 who had arrest records when they applied, an additional 115,000 citizens whose fingerprints were unclassifiable for various technical reasons and were never rechecked, and another 61,000 people who were given citizenship without submitting any fingerprints at all.

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"she overlooked glaring red flags in the paperwork"

Well .. who told her to overlook such glaring red flags ..?? If no one told her to overlook these people, then she was not doing her job.

March 17, 1997

U.S. News & World Report : How Al Gore's efforts to fix the INS may have backfired and made matters worse :

Joshua Wolf Shenk

"One of these days," an Immigration and Naturalization Service staffer wrote in a July 1996 internal memo, "probably in the near future ... the I&NS is going to naturalize an ax murderer, child rapist , or a person with an outstanding federal warrant , etc." That may have happened. At the very least , the Justice Department said last week , 168 newly naturalized citizens have serious criminal histories , and an additional 180 , 000 never had their backgrounds checked. Republicans in Congress--relishing the prospect of another scandal- -charged the White House with relaxing safeguards to naturalize a million new (mostly Democratic) voters in time for the 1996 election. The principal cause of the mess , though , wasn't political machinations but the ineptitude of a government agency combined with a botched effort to improve it by Vice President Al Gore's staff. Help wanted. The INS , never particularly quick or efficient , faced a gargantuan challenge in 1995.

Let's keep the central focus of the thread on crazed Saudi nationals entering our country at will to cause us harm due to incompetence by our government.

Al Gore's smuggling of Hispanic voters into the US might be somewhere in the same food group, but let's "stay on subject."

I wonder when we will learn.

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IMO A must read! If this book doesn't get your dander up nothing will.