[AFPhys]

This is a very well done synthesis in a couple page article - I read it carefully and it is great. But I've got this nagging thought that there is something pretty critical that missing from this - something regarding an action taken by the 'Toon right near the start of his administration that seems to play into this stuff... but I can't get my mind around it right now...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the ping! For anyone interested in the detail of the timelines during the Clinton Administration, from the Downside legacy:

TO 1993
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[piasa]

... I've got this nagging thought that there is something pretty critical that missing from this - something regarding an action taken by the 'Toon right near the start of his administration that seems to play into this stuff... but I can't get my mind around it right now...

1993 : (GORE : CLIPPER CHIP PROJECT FOR BUGGING TELECOMMUNICATIONS) Al Gore once assured the American public that an Orwellian government would not monitor us. Even today, Al Gore will not claim that he planned to enable the government to tap every phone in the United States if it so desired. Al Gore wanted to be Big Brother. Vice President Al Gore spearheaded a project called "Clipper" which was designed to monitor America. Gore's leadership in this scheme to allow the Feds to have easy access to bug American telephones is all too well documented for him to deny. - "Secret Documents: Hubbell Wanted Federal Access to Phones, " by Charles R. Smith, NewsMax , 8/29/02

Oh, look.. something Kerry would like, too:

1993 : (CLINTON RECEIVES LETTER FROM MOCHTAR RIADY URGING HIM TO NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH VIETNAM)

MARCH 1993 : (GORE : CLIPPER CHIP PROJECT : AT&T TELEPHONE SECURITY DEVICE MEETING WITH BROWN, GORE, HUBBELL, RENO, PANETTA) One document released by the Justice Dept. is a March 1993 Justice Dept. memo from Stephen Colgate, Assistant Attorney General for Administration, to Webster Hubbell. In 1993, Webster Hubbell, the now convicted Rose office law partner of Hillary Clinton, served as the number two at the Justice Department. Both Gore and Janet Reno personally tasked Hubbell to run the Clipper project. Colgate's 1993 memo to Hubbell provides the details of the Gore plan. According to the Colgate memo, Vice President Al Gore chaired a meeting with Hubbell, Reno, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, and Leon Panetta in March 1993. The meeting was on the "AT&T Telephone Security Device".- "Secret Documents: Hubbell Wanted Federal Access to Phones, " by Charles R. Smith, NewsMax , 8/29/02

[philman_36]

But I've got this nagging thought that there is something pretty critical that missing from this - something regarding an action taken by the 'Toon right near the start of his administration that seems to play into this stuff... but I can't get my mind around it right now...
Your nagging thought is contagious. There was quite a bit the 'Toon did at the start. Possibly an Executive Order? His first one was January 20, 1993, his first day in office I do believe... Executive Order 12834 "ETHICS COMMITMENTS BY EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES"
There is much that I can't get my mind around at the moment either.

No politician is stupid enough to hide something when he has nothing to hide. William Safire