Posted on 05/13/2002 10:02:33 AM PDT by Lucky2
Monday, May 13, 2002 10:48 a.m.EDT Bush White House Angered by Secret Clinton-Abdullah Meeting
The Bush White House was surprised and angered when it discovered two weeks ago that ex-president Bill Clinton held a secret meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah only hours after members of the royal family met with President Bush and his father in Houston.
"To the dismay of White House planners, [Abdullah] saw an unscheduled and unexpected visitor: Bill Clinton," reported USA Today on Monday - more than two weeks after NewsMax.com became the first news organization to reveal the secret sit-down in print. (See: Clinton in 3-Hour Mystery Meeting with Saudi Prince Abdullah)
The paper notes that the surprise meeting had taken place at "a sensitive moment for the Middle East," during a visit where the Bush administration had taken great pains to "plot every detail of [Abdullah's] weekend trip to Texas."
"The former president, in Houston for a fundraiser and staying at the same posh hotel as the Saudi leader, headed upstairs after midnight for a private chat that had been arranged only a few hours earlier. Their 90-minute meeting didn't end until 2 a.m.," USA Today said.
Actually, according to former top Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos, the Saudi-Clinton get-together lasted much longer - till 4 a.m., according to his little-noticed remarks on ABC's "This Week" the next day.
And just hours before the Stephanopoulos comments, Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told Fox News that Abdullah's meeting with the ex-president featured three hours of "serious talks."
White House officials were apparently so embarrassed by Clinton's efforts to upstage President Bush that they refused to respond to NewsMax.com's inquiries about the meeting.
The silence left many concerned that Bush himself had signed off on Clinton's foreign policy meddling at a moment of crisis in the Mideast.
But according to USA Today, the ex-president didn't even have the decency to notify the White House about the high-stakes get-together.
"[Bush] aides express exasperation about Clinton's impromptu session with Abdullah two weeks ago, at a time of delicate negotiations and evolving policy," the paper revealed. "No administration official sat in on the meeting."
Indeed, NewsMax.com confirmed that officials at the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, where Abdullah met with Bush senior on Friday, April 26, had no idea that Clinton was scheduled to meet the Saudi prince just hours later.
"I can assure you Clinton was not here on Friday," said Tom Hughes of Texas A & M University, where the Bush library is housed. "We would have covered that if he was."
Even members of the local Houston press queried by NewsMax were unaware of the Clinton-Abdullah mystery meeting.
He has absolutely no right to be formulating policy with another head of state.
He has no right to be informing a head of state about anything of interest in the United States.
He should be investigated for espionage, as would any other American citizen who had an unscheduled, unpublicized, undocumented, meeting with the head of a state which sponsors terrorism, that took place in the dead of night.
I guess the charge would be espionage.
Yep, if the Bush WH would have proceeded with investigations of the clintoon WH, and not covered the clintoons' behinds, Americans would not have to put up with these criminals. The Bush WH is getting what they deserve. Why would hillbilly change since leaving office, they got away with everything, and since they are running the streets they will continue to get away with illegal whatever.
Makes me wonder if its just the good ole' boys club in operation out of DC, or that the bush family has so much dirt in their own past, they can't afford to expose the clintoons' criminal activity. What a crying shame for America and law-abiding Americans.
The payoff for the Saudi's would be a sellout of Israel and shutting down energy development in the US (sort of like the deal to get US low sulpher coal, in Utah, off the market to help Lippo).
Perhaps the White House attitude is for public consumption ... one more link in the chain that one day, prayerfully, will bind.
Thanks, ken5050 ... inquiring minds want to know.
Pegita
Yeah, one gets the uneasy feeling that if an assassin shot at a clinton the bullet would do a u-turn and take out the shooter.
very scary people
How much damage and ill will could #42 do in several hours?PLENTY!He's a Living (and self-damned) Satan.He bypassed the protocol too,which tells you he doesn't give a damn about the rules again.
INDICT. CONVICT. IMPRISON. DISCARD KEY.
The Clintons ain't going away until we put 'em away...MUD
Fear has nothing to do with it.
Clinton, a basic lowlife, met with this Prince to satisfy his own pitiful ego.
I'm surprised it took this long to get an administration reaction.
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