Gorelick Memo Allegedly Impeded Probe of Clinton Fundraising Scandal

CNSNews | April 26, 2004 | Scott Wheeler

[spycatcher]

Re: Travelgate

"The New York Post has raised an interesting question: who is paying the legal fees of Craig Livingstone, the White House's former personnel security chief? Livingstone is using lawyers from a firm that normally charges between $350-600 an hour. The firm -- Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin -- is where Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick used to work."

[ovrtaxt]

Rings all too true, but the public at large will never hear this one.

You can thank the 'new tone' stupidity for that.

[cyncooper]

So you think Ashcroft was acting on his own by revealing the existance of the memo and its authoress, Gorelick?

I think not.

[cyncooper]

Back in '96 Fred Thompson, then U.S. Senator, chaired hearings into the Chinese money. These hearings were televised, and as I often say--I could see right then and there that that is precisely what was going on here--spying being condoned by the Clinton administration in exchange for Chinese money.

The co-chair of this committee was John Glenn. He forever disgraced himself, he and his democrat colleagues, by overtly preventing information from coming out and protecting witnesses who did not want to testify.

It was obvious and yes, it was not the most prominent talk of every news program.

The "smoking gun" in my mind is the activity surrounding John Huang. He was placed at Commerce and given top secret clearance, then Clinton personally--at the behest of James Riady--placed Huang at the DNC where he conducted fund-raising while retaining top-secret clearance. He would still attend meetings and then go to an office run by the Stephens Group to place calls to China.

I'll give you some links to old stories shortly. It is stunning and fascinating. And there is enough public that should have raised huge alarm bells, but I don't think some wanted to believe what was becoming apparent.

BTW, you may recall Glenn got to go up into outer space one last time. Many of us believe that was his payoff for protecting Clinton.

[Mo1]

PICKARD: No. There was a policy that I was not to go to the White House unless the attorney general or the deputy attorney general or someone from the Department of Justice, either I had informed them or they went with me, and that was as a result of the Travelgate scandal where the FBI asked for information...

That's it ... Thanks for finding it

[Mo1]

"The New York Post has raised an interesting question: who is paying the legal fees of Craig Livingstone, the White House's former personnel security chief?

Small world huh?

[cyncooper]

To start, here's a sample of how the media covered (or didn't) the hearings:

Trie's Treat; NBC on Riady in '92; Forbes "An Ugly Thing" Tuesday, July 22, 1997 (Vol. Two; No. 112)

[FourtySeven]

You know, it's reports like this that just make me want to don a tin foil hat, dig a bunker, and just give up, as I wait for the coming anti-christ.

i.e.: DEPRESSING AS HELL.......with people like Gorelicker working "FOR" us, who the heck needs ENEMIES?!?

[cyncooper]

Here's an article published as Thompson's hearings got underway and gave some background and context:

Tangled-tale of fund-raising begins

Excerpt:

Few of the main characters are on stage this week. Key Democratic fund-raiser John Huang won't talk without immunity from prosecution. Fund-raiser Charlie Trie and Indonesian businessman James Riady, a donor with links to Huang and to China, are in Asia.

[Eva]

Lindsey Grahm has called for release of all Justice dept. papers regarding Gorelicks tenure in the Clinton administration.

[cyncooper]

And more:

Clinton's greatest peril isn't Monica

Excerpt:

Riady enjoyed not only access to Clinton, but Riady's chief stooge, John Huang, got top-secret security clearance and continued to see classified information even after he became a big fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee. The authors build a strong case that Huang was a conduit for information that did not remain within the confines of the United States but found its way by fax and other means into the hands of those who do not wish America well, notably the Beijing government. Exactly what the Riadys and their Chinese Communist friends got for their money was not fully discovered by the Thompson committee.

[VadeRetro]

The idea (i.e., protecting Clinton from investigations of his Chinese financing schemes created the barriers that hamstrung the prevention of 9-11) is so toxic to the Dems they won't give it publicity by trying to refute it. They'll ignore it away if they possibly can. The issue does not exist and cannot be brought to their attention.

[Eva]

Yeah, but FOX is keeping it in the news. It was mentioned repeatedly yesterday.

[texasbluebell]

Now you know why some of us in this country are going gray before our time!

[MileHi]

You still updating the Downside Legacy?

[texasbluebell]

Have you found Alamo Girl's excellent compilation of the clinton crimes? If you haven't, take a look at some of this. Try the one labeled High Treason, the Events section. Just for a start.

link

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for linking the DSL, texasbluebell!

MileHi, I'm not updating the online DSL though I am keeping information on local hard disks. The DSL is already so large (10,000 pages) it would be too expensive to let it grow any further.

[CyberAnt]

OMG I didn't hear that!

[texasbluebell]

It's such a valuable asset that you've put together!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so very much for the kudos! Hugs!