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1999: Reno says China campaign funds probe 'was not impaired'( By the Wall )
CNN ^ | July 15, 1999 | staff

Posted on 04/16/2004 7:37:34 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:04:13 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An internal Justice Department investigation released Wednesday revealed "no improper intent to conceal information" relating to the probe of possible Chinese efforts to influence U.S. politics, but questioned the judgment of top FBI and Justice officials.

Inspector General Michael Bromwich found that senior officials abandoned Justice Department standards and inappropriately provided too much uncorroborated raw data to the Republican-controlled Congress.


(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: campaignfinance; china; democratscheat; gorelick; thewall
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To: Buckhead
Thanks for your efforts!
21 posted on 04/16/2004 10:01:39 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Should Jamie Gorelick resign from the 9/11 commission?

2626 responses

Yes
47%

No
53%

Go here to vote ---> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/
22 posted on 04/16/2004 10:19:48 PM PDT by ThermoNuclearWarrior (Mow Down Fallujah!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Another Gorelick Conflict (note the title of the thread)

Check this out.
23 posted on 04/16/2004 10:24:45 PM PDT by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Alamo-Girl; Mia T; Carl/NewsMax; miss print; kristinn; Joy Angela; ...
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It was during this same 1996 to 1998 time period that the CLINTON White House pushed Friend of HILLARY Long Beach Mayor BEVERLY O'NEILL and City Council to turn over the U.S. Long Beach Navy Base to Communist China. A flattening of the Navy Base would ensue and then a Steamship Container Terminal would be built for the China Overseas Shipping Company (COSCO), run by the Communist China Army.

President CLINTON came out twice to Long Beach to pressure this deal thru. When Citizen-Activists started to fight the deal he sent a letter that was published in the Long Beach Press-Telegram trying to bully it thru saying that it was best for Long Beach .."Because I said it was"..!!!

We delayed the Process with Citizen Lawsuits against Long Beach and court enforced Base Re-Use hearings before the Port of Long Beach, the City Council, the Port of Long Beach Harbor Commissioners and the U.S. Navy.

We Citizen Activists finally STOPPED the deal in Congress in 1998 thru a letter writing campaign that Senator INHOFE took by the Horn, cancelling the infamous CLINTON "Waiver" that would have allowed CLINTON to declare a Communist Chinese takeover of the U.S. Long Beach Navy Base not a risk to National Security. Not long afterward Senator INHOFE had his propeller come off his single engine plane he was piloting ..during take off. Only his seeing another close by airport for him to land on ..saved him. He was on his way to meet BILL CLINTON to inspect Tornado damage in his home state Oklahoma that morning.

The CLINTON White House and Long Beach Officials had wanted COSCO operating on the U.S. Long Beach Navy Base by 1998.

Two days after our Victory in Congress, Friend of HILLARY Long Beach Mayor BEVERLY O'NEILL announced that she was flattening our U.S. Long Beach Navy Base anyway without her even having a Steamship Company Tenant to put on it. This took years.

In 2002 South Korea's Hanjin Steamship Company was placed on our former U.S. Long Beach Navy Base, just 2 blocks from where it previous sat on an also brand new Terminal.

COSCO ended up leaving the Port of Long Beach altogether and moved to the Port of Los Angeles.

ALOHA Long Beach.


Signed:

"ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-Battle for the U.S. Long Beach Navy Base


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24 posted on 04/16/2004 10:31:52 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
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To: M Kehoe

THE DEMOCRAT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE MEMO

"We have carefully reviewed our options under the rules and believe we have identified the best approach. Our plan is as follows:

"1) Pull the majority along as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures regarding improper or questionable conduct by administration officials. We are having some success in that regard.

"For example, in addition to the President's State of the Union speech, the chairman [Sen. Pat Roberts] has agreed to look at the activities of the office of the Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, as well as Secretary Bolton's office at the State Department.

"The fact that the chairman supports our investigations into these offices and cosigns our requests for information is helpful and potentially crucial. We don't know what we will find but our prospects for getting the access we seek is far greater when we have the backing of the majority. [We can verbally mention some of the intriguing leads we are pursuing.]

"2) Assiduously prepare Democratic 'additional views' to attach to any interim or final reports the committee may release. Committee rules provide this opportunity and we intend to take full advantage of it.

"In that regard we may have already compiled all the public statements on Iraq made by senior administration officials. We will identify the most exaggerated claims. We will contrast them with the intelligence estimates that have since been declassified. Our additional views will also, among other things, castigate the majority for seeking to limit the scope of the inquiry.

"The Democrats will then be in a strong position to reopen the question of establishing an Independent Commission [i.e., the Corzine Amendment.]

"3) Prepare to launch an independent investigation when it becomes clear we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority. We can pull the trigger on an independent investigation of the administration's use of intelligence at any time. But we can only do so once.

"The best time to do so will probably be next year, either:

"A) After we have already released our additional views on an interim report, thereby providing as many as three opportunities to make our case to the public. Additional views on the interim report (1). The announcement of our independent investigation (2). And (3) additional views on the final investigation. Or:

"B) Once we identify solid leads the majority does not want to pursue, we would attract more coverage and have greater credibility in that context than one in which we simply launch an independent investigation based on principled but vague notions regarding the use of intelligence.

"In the meantime, even without a specifically authorized independent investigation, we continue to act independently when we encounter footdragging on the part of the majority. For example, the FBI Niger investigation was done solely at the request of the vice chairman. We have independently submitted written requests to the DOD and we are preparing further independent requests for information.

"SUMMARY: Intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public's concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq. Yet we have an important role to play in revealing the misleading, if not flagrantly dishonest, methods and motives of senior administration officials who made the case for unilateral preemptive war.

"The approach outlined above seems to offer the best prospect for exposing the administration's dubious motives."

25 posted on 04/16/2004 10:38:34 PM PDT by I got the rope
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To: ALOHA RONNIE
Truth Bump!
26 posted on 04/17/2004 4:05:48 AM PDT by Joy Angela ( Hitlery *is* The Bad Seed)
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To: M Kehoe
Indeed. Thanks for the ping!
27 posted on 04/17/2004 9:14:06 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: M Kehoe
It's a good feeling!
28 posted on 04/17/2004 9:24:07 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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