IN CASE YOU FORGOT WHAT IMPEACHMENT WAS ABOUT

the Net | 12-8-02 | dfu

[doug from upland]

The Sinkmaster tried to fix a federal civil rights lawsuit. He committed perjury. He suborned perjury. An attorney and our chief law enforcement officer tried to deny a woman he abused her day in court. He used the office for his personal benefit. That is what impeachment was about. Does anyone see "BJ in the Oval Office" anywhere in the articles? That is still what RAT supporters are claiming. We will not lay off Clinton until the truth --- including the rape of Juanita Broaddrick --- is known by everyone. He should have also been impeached for the perjury in the criminal trial of Herbie Branscum and Robert Hill as well as for taking a 900K bribe to let traitor Bernie Schwartz off the hook.

[canuck_conservative]

I always thought III and IV were vague and difficult to prove legally, but BJ should have been NAILED on I and II, because there was no disputing of the facts.

Then again, if he had been removed, Gore would be Pres now, with the country rallying around him post-9/11 - scary! So maybe it was better just to hold our noses for 2 years and clear the whole bunch out in 2000.

[RJCogburn]

Thanks for hanging in there, doug. Yes, we can never forget or lay off him until justice is served, regardless of what Bush/Ashcroft don't do.

[doug from upland]

Funny you should mention that. On many occasions I sent e-mail, faxes, and postcards, and made calls to Gore's office suggesting that he invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment and declare Clinton unable to carry out his duties. He would have been a sitting president who acted for the good of his country and would have easily won election. Instead, he stood behind The Rapist, he denied knowledge of the rape of Juanita Broaddrick, and he now makes appearances looking like the court jester.

25TH AMENDMENT - for reference

[Tailgunner Joe]

He was disbarred for committing perjury. It doesn't hurt to remind everone that he's also a sexual predator, though.

[mrsmith]

Only 11 days to Impeachment Anniversary bump!

Unanimous Supreme Court: "Like every other citizen who properly invokes that jurisdiction, respondent has a right to an orderly disposition of her claims. "

[snopercod]

The worst thing he did was not even included in those Articles: Selling American military secrets and technology to our enemies in exchange for mere campaign contributions.

That whole sorry episode was a farce of Shakespearean proportions. Trent Lott played the part of Lady MacBeth.

[doug from upland]

DEFENDING AMERICA
David H. Hackworth
17 March 98

LOOSE LIPS, SINK SHIPS..

While at the Pentagon, Monica Lewinsky traveled with Defense Secretary William Cohen, sat in on briefings where the highest secrets were discussed and routinely handled highly classified documents ­ top-secret documents, which, if they fell in the wrong hands, could put America at high risk and cost the lives of our warriors.

But no sweat. Lewinsky had all the appropriate clearances, right?

No doubt her background had been thoroughly checked out by investigators. Or perhaps she'd been given a top-secret clearance in a hurry on order of a high White House official, thus expediting her transfer from the White House firing line to safer turf in the five sided puzzle palace.

Bet on the second scenario and you've got a winner.

A Pentagon source says that Lewinsky was given an instant top-secret clearance, that "they rushed her clearances through and she didn't get the normal fine-toothed security combing."

Another Pentagon security source reports the White House is "spy heaven."

He says "Bill Clinton delegates clearance approval to White House flunkies who waive all sorts of criteria. A standard background investigation would have picked up Monica's promiscuity and devious nature in a heartbeat."

Normally, a security background investigation takes months. Investigators dig into every corner of your life. Did you cheat at marbles when you were 10? Were you a straight arrow in high school? Did you drink too much beer while at college? Were your mother and father stable and all-the-way-with-the-U.S.A.?

Yet, Lewinsky received her top-secret clearance in days. All her dirty laundry was left in the basket. Nothing came out about her college affair with a married teacher who says she "stalked" him using "emotional blackmail" to trap him into continuing their romance or her mailing him White House documents that could have national security implications or her being accused of being a "scheming truth-mangler."

Lewinsky was awarded one of the Pentagon's highest security clearances even though she was considered by White House insiders to be a flake with poor work habits.

And now the same White House gang that got her a quickie top-secret clearance is whispering she's an "unstable air head."

Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., providing the overworked White House Spin team with fire support, said "The poor child has serious emotional problems." He went on to say that she lives in fantasyland. "And I haven't heard she plays with a full deck."

Those in power should have checked out her background and where her head was at rather than where her body had been prior to hiding her in the Pentagon to shuffle through secrets of state like they were pages in her date book.

A former CIA agent says "The Clinton administration has played fast and loose with the rules. Given their politicized approach to intelligence and security matters, it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people at the White House besides Monica Lewinsky had not been properly vetted for security clearances."

CIA Director George Tenet recently said "The executive branch leaks like a sieve." He told a Senate committee that "there are people all over this executive branch who have violated a trust."

According to former CIA and FBI agents, there are hundreds of security political appointee timebombs inside the Beltway. Take John Huang, formerly of the Commerce Department and now inches away from the slammer. He also had a top secret clearance. During an 18 month period, Huang received 37 personal briefings from the CIA and eyeballed thousands of secret documents. Frequently after a briefing, he was quickly on the phone to Indonesian, the land of his birth. When he was reassigned to the Democratic National Committee to raise money, he set a new record: the only Commerce Department employee ever to retain his top secret clearance after departing.

With such a loose security program, it's no wonder that an Iraqi spy recently passed information from the Pentagon to a senior intelligence official in Baghdad about the planned February U.S. air attack on Iraq or that a well dressed dude popped into an office near Madeline Albright and carted off a briefcase full of secret documents.

Congress should give Sexgate a miss. The real issue should be Securitygate. Right now it's wide open and our secrets are taking a walk.

THE END

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Doug, as I recall, article II was not approved... Even stalwarts like Lindsey Graham didn't vote for that perjury charge because at the time, the charge had been dismissed BECAUSE of Clinton's perjury (which was confirmed in his admissions under oath to Ken Starr's lawyers). Judge Susan Webber Wright decided to hold her decision on Clinton's perjury until after the Impreachment process -- as a result, according to the "strict interpretation" that Lindsey Graham applied, you couldn't hold Clinton accountable for that perjury before Judge Wright's court.

Clinton would later agree to an $850,000 settlement -- but Begala-Carville would say "he admitted no wrong" -- and this would lead to Judge Wright fining him for perjury and he would be disbarred.

As someone said: he may not have been the worst president ever, but he was the worst person ever to be president.

Thanks for reminding everyone about this historic anniversary.

[doug from upland]

George Will made the comment to which you refer. I disagree with Will. He is the worst president as well as the worst person to be president.

[Wolverine]

Don't forget the after the fact summary of the cowardly Senate sellout!

Schippers Speech About Impeachment Of Clinton
http://www.ashbrook.org/sounds/ram/schippers_99-12-08_speech.ram

[Jackie]

To: All

Heroes:

Paula Jones
Linda Tripp
Larry Nichols

[OldFriend]

Shhh......don't remind the media, they continue to think of him as their saint and saviour.

[ErnBatavia]

Heroes:

Please don't forget Kenneth Starr - who went into this mess fully aware that the likes of Carville were going to muddy him over and over and over and over again.

[Eagle Eye]

Good post.

Of course the Senate prevented anything related to money and the corruption from the Chicoms.

Any idea why Mitch McConnell didn't want to push for investiagtions and charges in that direction?

[Jackie]

I thought Starr was weak. No one else can come CLOSE to the three heroes I named. However, Gary Aldrich was a major star.

[doug from upland]

Note: here is a blast from the past. Several witnesses were prepared to testify that Clinton lied under oath during the criminal trial of bankers Herbie Branscum and Robert Hill. Good job, Robert Ray.

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ROBERT RAY: How About Perjury in a Criminal Trial?

Crime/Corruption News Keywords: PERJURY IN CRIMINAL TRIAL
Source: Dr. Paul Fick; transcript of Clinton testimony
Published: 12-28-99 Author: Doug from Upland
Posted on 12/28/1999 23:15:49 PST by doug from upland

In July of 1996, Bill Clinton testified on video in the criminal trial of Little Rock bankers Herbie Branscum and Robert Hill.

Here is a portion of the transcript:

Q: Did you know that Mr. Hill told him, "We're taking money down to Governor Clinton because we want to make Herby look good for the highway commissioner's job?"

A: Did I know that the mayor said that Rob said that to him? Is that --

Q: Correct. Correct.

A: No, I didn't know that.

Q: Have you -- in making appointments, have you ever authorized anyone to go out and say to anybody, if you raise such and such amount of money, I'll appoint that person?

A: Absolutely not. But that's not the question you asked me. The previous question didn't imply that anyone said that.

During the impeachment investigation, I had the opportunity to talk to the chief investigator for the House of Representatives. He was astounded at some of the information I was giving him and I was astounded that he had never heard some of it before. He was particularly interested in Clinton's testimony in the Branscum/Hill trial.

Dr. Paul Fick, author of THE DYSFUNCTIONAL PRESIDENT, has done several interviews with me for FreeRepublic. In doing research for his book, he discovered a witness and friend of Bill Clinton named Bert Dickey. Dickey really opened up to Fick and told him that he and seven other people had either purchased state commissions from Gov. Clinton for cash or helped launder the money.

I helped arrange a meeting and Fick flew to Washington D.C. to meet with the investigators. In addition, I e-mailed them a link to the complete transcript of Clinton's testimony. The investigators were shocked. They recognized that Clinton had committed perjury in a criminal trial. Fick is convinced that his information was what was referenced by David Schippers in his closing arguments before the House. Schippers talked about new evidence and the fact that there was no time to now investigate it.

In his video testimony, Clinton denied selling state commissions for cash. I know that Bert Dickey was interviewed by the FBI and that he named the other players. Why Starr would not follow up on the information remains a mystery.

In front of former trooper L.D. Brown, Clinton accepted $5,000 in cash to name someone to the police commission whom Brown deemed unqualified. Clinton's comment to Brown was, "Well, L.D., sometimes you've got to do bad things in order to do good things." Although I've not talked to Brown in several months, I am certain he would be prepared to meet with Ray and tell his story under oath.

Robert Ray is said to be an aggressive prosecutor. He has already shown some backbone by immediately answering the White House spin machine which falsely claimed he was leaking information. Now, Mr. Ray, why don't you actually do something about perjury in a criminal trial?

[ChadGore]

A year of his party defending the indefensible is the thing that really leaves damage in so many American lives. It remains a defining characteristic for the clinton cronies that still loose elections for the DNC today.

[exit82]

Thanks, Doug, for this reminder. Let's us hope that history doesn't forget either.

X-42,Hillary!, Gorebatross, and Sasquatch Reno need to be in the Federal pen in orange jumpsuits.

The real crime was the Chinese military campaign cash in '96 for the military/tech secrets through Schwartz. Ken Starr, who I have no respect for, allowed this whole thing to become about X-42's sex life. When he said Vince Foster's death was a suicide, I knew justice would not be done. There was, in my opinion, a huge bi-party containment operation to make this thing blow over. And thanks to Trent "Gutless Wonder" Lott, this succeeded, much to the detriment of this country.

Maybe someday, the truth about the Rapist in Chief will resonate with Americans. Until then, we must never forget the criminal this man was, and is. Thasks for the reminder.