Farbrother began raising hell with Meissner, firing off hotheaded memos demanding action, and complaining to his superiors about her resistance. In one missive, Farbrother suggested ways the INS could keep the program from looking like "a Clinton voter mill."
Gore's man was so obnoxious that then-Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick threw him out of a meeting - but later advocated his ideas with Meissner.
Yea .. I remember reading that last night
http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/01/gore.immigration.ap/
The article below states, "The voluminous documents contain a variety of communications between White House personnel, Vice Presidential personnel and officials at the Immigration and Naturalization Service." I decipher that to mean the actual memo(s) from Gorelick was not released publicly at the October 9 Senate Subcommittee meeting. Instead, Gorelick's memo or directives are mentioned in other documents that were released -- the communication between the WH staff, Gore's staff, and INS.
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PR Newswire
October 11, 1996, Friday
Washington Dateline
Is 'Citizenship USA' Really Vote-Buying?" Asks FAIR
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11
Materials made available to the public Wednesday during congressional testimony by Rosemary Jenks of the Center for Immigration Studies, reveal that the INS program to decrease naturalization backlogs was targeted by White House political officials in mid-1995 as a vote-getting initiative to be executed as fast as possible, without regard to integrity or competence in the process.
Jenks released a variety of internal administration documents subpoenaed earlier by congressional investigators looking into allegations that " Citizenship USA" had become a politicized form of political graft, used by Clinton Administration officials as a way to obtain votes. Citizenship now brings with it the promise of access to welfare benefits and additional visas for relatives.
According to Dan Stein, executive director of FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the materials in their totality "reflect a blatant attempt by the White House and the Office of the Vice President to try to use the program to dilute the process and influence the outcome of the 1996 election."
The voluminous documents contain a variety of communications between White House personnel, Vice Presidential personnel and officials at the Immigration and Naturalization Service. These materials demonstrate the following:
* The Vice President's "re-inventing government" project was knee-deep in trying to force the INS to naturalize "a million new citizens before election day."
* Vice Presidential personnel and several working on the White House staff pushed to expand the President's visibility and profile among newly- naturalized citizens, even pushing to ensure the President's welcome letter was given to each new citizen, and trying to find a way to obtain names and addresses for follow-up mailings.
* Memoranda were issued to District Directors by Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, Commissioner Doris Meissner and Deputy Commissioner Chris Sale, "delegating full authority to waive, suspend or deviate from non- statutory policies, regulations and procedures to enhance the speed and convenience of the process for those who do. We hold you responsible for your judgment and results." This sort of memo creates an atmosphere of strategic non-performance of duties and of political intimidation of the type that has lead to fraud and misrepresentation to Congress in the INS scandal known as Kromegate.(snip)