What Will Steven Spielberg Leave out of THE HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT?

dfu source | 4-2003 | Doug from Upland

[denydenydeny]

Doug, where did you see this? As far as I knew, the Lyons/Conason book was being developed by Linda and Harry Thomason and Spielberg was not involved.

[Howlin]

[rvoitier]

I've always wished someone would make a movie of clinton's heinous administration based on legal documents and known facts.

One can only pray.

[onyx]

I'll bet clinton wants the role of clinton! And Speilberg will give it to him.

[Petronski]

Spielberg just LOVES Clinton. Steve's putting on his kneepads right now.

Too bad he hasn't made a good movie in five years.

[Howlin]

I won't bet against that!

[oceanperch]

Who is going to play Freeper Devil who Hillary claims was stalking her?

[rvoitier]

"I hate nothing more than a star-f'er thinking they're a patriot."~~Dennis Miller

[Howlin]

My man!

[joesnuffy]

How about my brothers got a nose like a Hoover and I dont mean Herbert

[joesnuffy]

Or the Barry Seal - Mena Connections......................and all the players.....

[GunRunner]

You are correct, Spielberg is not involved. And this project was only floated as an idea. It is not currently in production and probably never will be.

[doug from upland]

This is an exclusive report to FreeRepublic. Let's just say over the years I have developed some sources.

[doug from upland]

I can't say whether it is currently in production, but I know deals have been made. Yes, Spielberg is involved but probably does not what this out yet. Well, Steven, I know what you are up to.

[Southack]

Heck, forget about all of the really off-the-wall crimes that Clinton committed (simply because they are too unbelievable for mainstream America to ever accept), here's a nice, easy, Black and White "ethical lapse" by Clinton.

One of President Clinton's first items of business upon becoming sworn in as our 42nd President was his signing of Executive Order #12834.

 To much fanfare and great fawning, the American press trumpeted this Executive Order as proof that Bill Clinton would run the "Most Ethical Administration In History."

 That Executive Order (12834) required all Senior Level appointees to sign legally binding pledges that they would not lobby governmental contacts for five years after they left the Clinton Administration.

 But on December 28, 2000, President Clinton revoked not only that Executive Order, but he also revoked all of those pledges that had been signed by his appointees.

 And so the most "ethical administration in history" officially came to an end about three weeks early by their own admission.

Basically, any and all restrictions against "revolving door" jobs on the outside for senior administration officials were rescinded.  

Just as those rules would have started applying (actually, in the case of at least two Clinton Administration officials who left the White House to go lobby for *ENRON*, were already breached) the Clinton Administration decided that they didn't want to apply those rules after all.

 

Clinton's December 20, 2000 Executive Order says that we'll just forget the ethical promises that the employees made.  Their written pledges are no longer valid. This line tells it best: "Employees and former employees subject to the commitments in Executive Order 12834 will not be subject to those commitments after the effective date of this order."

 

President Clinton could have revoked the EO without removing the commitment of the employees to the oath they took. He did not. Instead, he reversed the EO and former and current employees' signed commitments to it, thereby allowing those employees to be free of repercussions from any perceived ethical breeches due to lobbying those they were formerly employed with (or even employed over).

 

Further, the notion that clause 3 of 12834 has been revoked should be of grave concern for those loyal Democrats who are fearful of the appearance of impropriety, especially after President Clinton and Vice President Gore's ChinaGate fundraising scandals of the mid 1990's.

 Clause "3. I will not, at any time after the termination of my employment in the United States Government, engage in any activity on behalf of any foreign government or foreign political party which, if undertaken on January 20, 1993, would require me to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended.

 

Thus the lifetime ban on Presidential appointees lobbying on behalf of Communist China was revoked by President Clinton.

 In fact, every one of the so-called "ethical commitments" (that had to be sworn to by Clinton's appointees) were revoked with the stroke of a pen.

 But this was one order which was intended (we were led to believe) to operate after the Clinton administration ended. For five years after the administration ended, to be precise.

 

Poof! Gone. Probably not even to be seen in this new movie, either...

[DD938]

Makes for great comments though.

[doug from upland]

DR, call up Spielberg and tell him you want to do the chant for the movie in your devil costume.

[doug from upland]

This movie is a defense of Clinton to show that the vast right wing conspiracy hounded him for 10 years. Lyons and Conason are major league Clymers.

[Southack]

Such a movie would sell fewer tickets than AI or the re-release of ET, and be even less entertaining.