Clinton's Spying [what the antique media won't tell you]

Liberals are whipping themselves into a frenzy over "Bush's domestic spying." But the left's outrage is new. During the Clinton era, they found government surveillance just peachy. In 1999, in fact, The New York Times itself had no problem with the Clinton NSA's Echelon project, which - without warrants - monitored millions of phone calls between U.S. citizens: "Few dispute the necessity of a system like Echelon," assured The Times, "to apprehend foreign spies, drug traffickers, and terrorists."

That was then. Now the antique press is too busy getting its panties in a wad about Bush Administration security measures to mention Bill Clinton's spying.

The Clinton Administration listened to every domestic conversation.
* On Feb . 27, 2000, "60 Minutes" aired a story on Clinton's massive spying program. Steve Kroft reported: "If you made a phone call today or sent an e-mail to a friend, there's a good chance what you said or wrote was captured and screened by the country's largest intelligence agency. The top-secret Global Surveillance Network is called 'Echelon' ... The mission is to eavesdrop on enemies of the state: foreign countries, terrorist groups, and drug cartels. But in the process, Echelon's computers capture virtually every electronic conversation around the world." Unlike Bush's NSA program -- which targets international calls from those with known al Qaeda ties -- Echelon's net caught everybody.
* Echelon was frequently used for economic espionage. Former CIA Director James Woolsey told France's Le Figaro that "spying on Europe is justified" in order to meet U.S. economic objectives -- such as "track[ing] corruption in international business." Mike Frost, a former member of Canadian intelligence, was quoted in The New York Times in May 1999 claiming that "[Echelon's] focus now is towards economic intelligence."
* According to Insight magazine, the Clinton Administration bugged Asian businessmen and allegedly sold the information to Democratic National Committee (DNC) donors. In mid-1997, anonymous sources told Insight that 1993's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation [APEC] conference, held in Seattle, was thoroughly bugged in a "top-secret operation run by the FBI in conjunction with intelligence personnel from the ... NSA, and the Office of Navel Intelligence, among other things.

The Clinton Administration had an online wiretapping system.
* In July 2000 The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Clinton FBI required Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to install a government "black box" on their servers which could read all of their customers' electronic communications -- chat sessions, instant messages, website visits, etc. This blanket wiretap was dubbed "Carnivore" by the FBI itself, a name that contradicted the Agency's claims that the program was equipped "with a 'surgical' ability to intercept and collect the communications which are the subject of the lawful order while ignoring those communications which they are not authorized to intercept."

The Clinton Administration argued for warrantless spying before Congress.
* In 1994, Clinton flack Jamie Gorelick made the case for "warrantless physical searches" -- obviously more intrusive than wiretapping -- before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Gorelick, was the architect of the infamous "wall" barring communication between the FBI and the CIA that thwarted pre-9/11 counter-terrorism efforts. Here's Gorelick's now-conveniently-forgotten testimony: "[T]he President has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches ... in carrying out his foreign intelligence responsibilities."
* As Byron York of National Review reports, Gorelick also "made clear that ... President [Clinton] believed he had the power to order warrantless searches for the purpose of gathering intelligence, even if there was no reason to believe that the search might uncover evidence of a crime."
* Gorelick further asserted that the Clinton Administration would reject Congress's oversight of its warrantless searches if demands "restrict[ed] the President's ability to collect foreign intelligence necessary for the national security."

The Clinton Administration used satellites for domestic spying.
* The McCurtain Daily Gazette, a small Oklahoman newspaper, recently obtained and reported on a Secret Service log detailing how a government satellite was used during the Clinton era to spy on a "white separatist compound" the feds believed may have been involved in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. "Satellite assets have been tasked to provide intelligence concerning the compound," the log says, in what even the Associated Press considered an "unusual" use of foreign surveillance equipment.
* The Gazette notes that the "domestic use of a military satellite for domestic spying is a violation of DOD [Department of Defense] and CIA regulations regarding proper use of top-secret national security satellites." And yet Sen. Robert "Sheets" Byrd (D, WV) didn't decry such spying as akin to "the thuggish practices of our enemies," as he did with the Bush wiretapping story. You'd think he would have been upset about the government spying on a "white separatist compound," but no.

Clinton's sleazy P.I.
* Currently in jail for illegal possession of dangerous materials, disgraced Hollywood detective Anthony Pellicano is also the focus of a federal wiretapping investigation. As The Los Angeles Times reports, when police raided his office in 2002, they "hauled away computers containing ... wiretapping software and encrypted files of phone conversation transcripts." Media coverage has virgutally ignored Pellicano's Clinton connection.
* In 1992, when tapes of Clinton speaking to Gennifer Flowers were made public, Pellicano claimed to be a "forensic audio expert" and dismissed them as frauds. Clinton flacks denied rumors that Clinton hired Pellicano to intimidate those who would endanger his candidacy.
* Mary Matalin told a radio audience in 1997 that she received appeals from women who knew Clinton and were "threatened into silence by Mr. Pellicano," during the '92 campaign, reports NewsMax.com. Said Matalin: "I got the letters from Pellicano to these women intimidating them ... I had tapes of conversations from Pellicano to the women."

On Feb. 3, 2006, Bill Clinton bragged to New York's WCBS News Radio: "I actually liked it [the FISA law] because none of us are immune from error. And if, for example, we wiretapped a conversation of a totally innocent person, you would not want that conversation to be used in some other way, for some other reason. So I never had a problem with it."

Clinton's sleazy P.I.
* Currently in jail for illegal possession of dangerous materials, disgraced Hollywood detective Anthony Pellicano is also the focus of a federal wiretapping investigation. As The Los Angeles Times reports, when police raided his office in 2002, they "hauled away computers containing ... wiretapping software and encrypted files of phone conversation transcripts." Media coverage has virgutally ignored Pellicano's Clinton connection.

* In 1992, when tapes of Clinton speaking to Gennifer Flowers were made public, Pellicano claimed to be a "forensic audio expert" and dismissed them as frauds. Clinton flacks denied rumors that Clinton hired Pellicano to intimidate those who would endanger his candidacy.
* Mary Matalin told a radio audience in 1997 that she received appeals from women who knew Clinton and were "threatened into silence by Mr. Pellicano," during the '92 campaign, reports NewsMax.com. Said Matalin: "I got the letters from Pellicano to these women intimidating them ... I had tapes of conversations from Pellicano to the women."
On Feb. 3, 2006, Bill Clinton bragged to New York's WCBS News Radio: "I actually liked it [the FISA law] because none of us are immune from error. And if, for example, we wiretapped a conversation of a totally innocent person, you would not want that conversation to be used in some other way, for some other reason. So I never had a problem with it."

No comment from Juanita Broaddrick.

"Crucial to this protective wall was the secret police, a group of private detectives hired to protect hillary and 'Saturday night bill.' Their tactics included digging up dirt on women who might be linked to bill in order to cow them into silence. There is even some evidence of possible physical intimidation."

HEAR DICK MORRIS

"I got the letters from Pellicano to these women intimidating them. I had tapes of conversations from Pellicano to the women. I got handwritten letters from the women."
[Pellicano played a critical role in Mr. Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign by "suppressing" "inconvenient" accounts from several women, by concocting fraudulent "proof" (later discredited) that Gennifer Flowers doctored the damning tape of clinton, and again inside the clinton operation in January 1998, four days after the Monica Lewinsky story broke, to falsely paint Monica as simply a lying stalker, a claim later discredited by clinton's own DNA.]
MARY MATALIN
1997, CBS

There is reason to believe that he is a rapist ("You better get some ice on that," Juanita Broaddrick says he told her concerning her bit lip), and that he bombed a country to distract attention from legal difficulties arising from his glandular life, and that... [f]urthermore, the bargain that he and his wife call a marriage refutes the axiom that opposites attract. Rather, she, as much as he, perhaps even more so, incarnates Clintonism

GEORGE WILL
SLEAZE, THE SEQUEL

Connecticut Rep. Chris Shays said on a talk radio show Wednesday that, based on secret evidence he reviewed during the impeachment controversy, he believes President Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick, not once, but twice.

Talk-show host Tom Scott of Clear Channel Broadcasting, New Haven (WELI 960) asked Shays about the mysterious impeachment "evidence room," prompting the GOP moderate to say that Broaddrick "disclosed that she had been raped, not once, but twice" to Judiciary Committee investigators.
Shays, who is often hailed by the New York Times for his independent judgment and good sense, found the evidence compelling:
"I believed that he had done it. I believed her that she had been raped 20 years ago. And it was vicious rapes, it was twice at the same event." Asked point blank if the president is a rapist, Shays said, "I would like not to say that it way. But the bottom line is that I believe that he did rape Broaddrick."
HEAR CHRISTOPHER SHAYS
'Shays Shocker Clinton Raped Broaddrick Twice'
National Review Online
By NR staff
8/02/2000

The rape took place while Bill was running for governor. Hillary came bursting into the room to talk to two people, one of whom I personally know.
She said "You won't believe what this [expletive] did now. He tried to rape some b*tch."

It was the job of these two to squelch the story.

doug from upland to Sean Hannity,
WABC, 10/16/00

"Who is Juanita Broaddrick? I've never heard of her!" cried Betty Friedan, the founder of modern feminism. Friedan's outburst came at last Friday's conference, entitled "The Legacy and Future of Hillary Rodham Clinton." Held at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. D.C., the event offered a chilling microcosm of an angry, divided America.

For nearly an hour, a five-woman panel had been debating whether Hillary qualified as a "feminist heroine." I thought Broaddrick's claim of having been raped by Hillary's husband had some bearing on this point, so I broached the subject during the question-and-answer period. Friedan's dyspeptic denial followed.
Was Friedan telling the truth? Maybe. And maybe all those millions of Germans who professed ignorance of the death camps were telling the truth too. The problem is, having admitted her ignorance, Friedan showed no interest in exploring the matter further. And that was the problem with the Germans too.
Totalitarian impulses flourished at the conference. Taking a page from Soviet psychiatry, some Clintonites suggested that Hillary hating might be a mental illness.
Richard Poe
The Hillary Conspiracy

Given the silence from the West Wing, Mrs. Broaddrick this week sought answers from Hillary Clinton, whose telescopic feminism apparently sees injustice to women everywhere except the kind which occurs closer to home.
In a letter to Mrs. Clinton recalling their meeting shortly after the reported assault occurred, she wondered about the significance of Mrs. Clinton's words to her at that time. Thank you, Mrs. Broaddrick says Mrs. Clinton told her, for "everything you do for Bill."
"What did you mean, Hillary?" her letter continued. "Were you referring to my keeping quiet about the assault I had suffered at the hands of your husband only two weeks before? Were you warning me to keep quiet?"
The not-so-subtle implication of the letter is that Mrs. Clinton is, in fact, her husband's enabler. Dealing with her husband's promiscuity and worse might keep her from dealing with the important issues facing the people of New York, namely her candidacy. One might call it a Faustian bargain except that even Mephistopheles might not lower himself to sign such a deal....

COMPLETE ARTICLE

Did he rape that woman, Juanita Broaddrick?
The Wall Street Journal
EDITORIAL
October 18, 2000

I remember it as though it was yesterday. I only wish that it were yesterday and maybe there would still be time to do something about what your husband, Bill Clinton, did to me. There was a political rally for Mr. Clinton's bid for governor of Arkansas. I had obligated myself to be at this rally prior to my being assaulted by your husband in April, 1978. I had made up my mind to make an appearance and then leave as soon as the two of you arrived. This was a big mistake, but I was still in a state of shock and denial. You had questioned the gentleman who drove you and Mr. Clinton from the airport. You asked him about me and if I would be at the gathering. Do you remember? You told the driver, "Bill has talked so much about Juanita", and that you were so anxious to meet me. Well, you wasted no time. As soon as you entered the room, you came directly to me and grabbed my hand. Do you remember how you thanked me, saying "we want to thank you for everything that you do for Bill". At that point, I was pretty shaken and started to walk off. Remember how you kept a tight grip on my hand and drew closer to me? You repeated your statement, but this time with a coldness and look that I have seen many times on television in the last eight years. You said, "Everything you do for Bill". You then released your grip and I said nothing and left the gathering.

What did you mean, Hillary? Were you referring to my keeping quiet about the assault I had suffered at the hands of your husband only two weeks before? Were you warning me to continue to keep quiet? We both know the answer to that question.
Yes, I can answer Brit Hume's question. You are the same Hillary that you were twenty years ago. You are cold, calculating and self-serving. You cannot tolerate the thought that you will soon be without the power you have wielded for the last eight years. Your effort to stay in power will be at the expense of the state of New York. I only hope the voters of New York will wake up in time and realize that Hillary Clinton is not an honorable or an honest person.

I will end by asking if you believe the statements I made on NBC Dateline when Lisa Myers asked if I had been assaulted and raped by your husband?

Or perhaps, you are like Vice-President Gore and did not see the interview.

DO YOU REMEMBER?
AN OPEN LETTER TO HILLARY CLINTON
BY JUANITA BROADDRICK
SUNDAY OCT 15, 2000

"If you look at white women, and I think that was the key to this election, Kerry won 45% based on the exit polls--but they're generally in agreement--Kerry won 45%, Bush won 55% of white women. By contrast, Bush won only 45% of white women in 2000, so he upped is percentages by 10 points. In 1996, bill clinton won 48% of white women compared to Bob Dole's 43%. That is a huge, huge difference. I don't think you can lay all that at the doorstep of moral values. I think that this president unabashedly and abjectly took the issue of terror and used it to terrorize... white women."

HEAR HAROLD ICKES
Washington Journal
Nov. 8, 2004
C-SPAN

"It's no longer acceptable to say that the abuse and mistreatment of women is cultural. It should be called what it is: criminal."

Hillary Clinton
addressing the UN, 3.4.99

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