Once again, the media and law enforcement contrasts between their dealings with the GOP leadership and the DNC/Clinton leadership, is extremely puzzling. The serial criminal violations by the Clinton DNC leadership that I personally know of, and that I detailed to the Justice Department in six separate proffers in 2001-2002, as well as to various media outlets, remain entirely unaddressed. (The sole exception being the half hearted trial of a Clinton underling, David Rosen, intended to provide a convenient Fall Guy to insulate the Hillary/Bill DNC leadership). There seems to be a law enforcement crack down on the GOP leadership with a complimentary media feeding frenzy on the GOP "culture of corruption in Washington", as reported by the Associated Press today, while there is an absence of any announced investigations or prosecutions of Democrats for similar or more egregious ethical improprieties:
Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and tax charges and tearfully resigned from office today... Cunningham was chairman of the House Intelligence subcommittee on terrorism and human intelligence...Cunningham's pleas came amid a series of GOP scandals. Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas had to step down as majority leader after he was indicted in a campaign finance case; a stock sale by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is being looked at by regulators; and Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff was indicted in the CIA leak case.
Ironically, each of the allegations and charges reported against the various leaders of the GOP can be found mirrored in the case I have detailed in Paul v Clinton et al., against Hillary and Bill Clinton and DNC Chair Ed Rendell, in connection with the more than $2 million in contributions they cajoled from me.
Starting with Tax Fraud violations, not dissimilar to Randy Cunningham's, Hillary and her Senate campaign filed the below imaged false IRS tax return which omitted more than $1 million in income derived by her campaign, just from me::
Securities Fraud. Hillary's infoamous trading of commodities contracts resulted in SEC investigations and indictments of her trader, but not for her, because no one "in the know" revealed the truth. She managed to turn a $1,000 " investment" in a commodities pool into a $98,000 profit when all other pool members lost money. The almost $100,000 she netted through her later indicted broker- who was connected with Tyson Foods- has been suggested to have been a possible payoff of her husband, then the Governor of Arkansas. Since no one came forward to confirm the nefarious basis for this transaction, Hillary slid by unscathed.
Now the case has been made that Bill and Hillary Clinton's actions relating to their fraudulent interfering with the business relationships of my public company (Stan Lee Media), which contributed to its collapse, could easily be the subject of an SEC investigation a la Bill Frist. However, when the SEC and the Justice Department had a perfect chance to include those issues in their investigation of the collapse of Stan Lee Media's stock in December 2000, they did everything possible to avoid any inquiry into those thorny issues. As Paul Rodriguez reported in Insight Magazine's October, 2003, feature story on the subject, his government contacts told him that the SEC and criminal investigation of the management of Stan Lee Media were curtailed because of a fear it would lead to the Clintons. Clearly they seem to have more " juice" than Bill Frist does.
Campaign Finance Violations. In an earlier blog I discussed the contrasts between the De Lay indictment and prosecution for campaign finance violations and the Clinton "protection" from a more serious FEC iinvestigation and indictment. That analysis showed an acutely different and unequal application of the law and prosecutorial discretion between Republcan and Democrat leadership.
Obstruction, Perjury and False Statements. The indictment of Scooter Libbey for misleading federal investigators on an issue that was determined not to be a crime, has significant analogies to the uninvestigated "cooperation" of the Clinton team with the federal investigation into election fraud that erroneously (according to his jury) targeted Hillary finance director David Rosen exclusively of his superiors.
Overall, all the ills that have been attributed to Cunningham, DeLay, Frist and Cheney's Chief of Staff, Libby, can be found in more serious counterpart in the Clinton/DNC campaign finance scandal I have complained of. Abuses of governing federal laws by a Democrat Senator, President and DNC Chairman, acting in concert, are immune from prosecution. Maybe after investigations of President Bush, Vice President Cheney and GOP Chair Mehlman are eventually concluded, they might finally get around to enforcing the laws that should apply to Hillary, Bill and DNC former Chair Ed Rendell. That's if the statute of limitations doesn't finally elapse and immunize them forever for the only instance in their history when an intimate has blown the whistle on their personal involvement in serious criminal misconduct.