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Vernon Jordan on his memoirs: clinton friendship omitted because goal was to restore my reputation
BOOKNOTES (C-SPAN) | 12-24-01 | Mia T

Posted on 12/24/2001 3:41:59 AM PST by Mia T

Juxtapose this:

2-23-01
 
 
Vernon Jordan admits to Brian Lamb: clinton friendship not included in my memoirs because the purpose of the book was to restore my reputation

with this:

2-21-01
 
CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme Fails in its 1st Effort
 
Bill O'Reilly Laughs Lanny Davis Off Stage
 
Calls "It's the economy, stupid" an Utter Absurdity Post-9/11

NEW YORK, Dec 21--Diehard clinton lackey, Lanny Davis tested the CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme in what the clintons likely regard their most difficult venue, "The O'Reilly Factor." The top-rated Fox News show demonstrated once again that its motto, "the no spin zone," is no spin.

The eponymous host swiftly stopped the spin (and the spin). O'Reilly debunked all the shameless clinton-directed revisionism spewed by Davis, exposing the absurdity of the CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme even as he underscored clinton's immutable legacy of depravity and failure.

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To: StarFan

Sorry. Fixed the spin links (altho they take you to the clinton spinners, not the transcripts).

The eponymous host swiftly stopped the spin (and the spin)

But fret not. clinton spinners are programmed to repeat the spin ad nauseam. You'll get another chance to hear Lanny...


21 posted on 12/24/2001 6:45:10 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
Do I have to?
22 posted on 12/24/2001 6:51:04 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Mia T
You'll get another chance to hear Lanny...

Just who is paying this walking, talking sack of sh!t to make this "tour"?
23 posted on 12/24/2001 6:53:55 AM PST by balrog666
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To: Mia T
I noticed that Jordan was a guest on Booknotes with Brian Lamb the other night, a show I usually watch every week. But when I saw who the guest was, I decided to skip it.

I'm glad you could bring yourself to watch it, though, Mia. Otherwise I wouldn't have learned of Jordan's noteworthy observation, which now becomes another brick in the wall of the Clinton mausoleum.

24 posted on 12/24/2001 7:04:09 AM PST by beckett
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To: YaYa123
"Lanny Davis Davis has sported that conflicted, weepy look" No wonder Mia!!!
He's in booksales hell, along with Joe Conason, Gene Lyons, and Jeffrey Toobin.

Did anyone even know Lanny wrote a book? It's laughingly titled:

Truth to Tell : Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself : Notes from My White House Education

(Amazon.com Sales Rank: 70,624)

Pardon me while I LMAO!

Merry Christmas, Mia

20 posted on 12/24/01 7:18 AM Pacific by YaYa123

 
 
 
LOL & Merry Christmas.
 
This, as opposed to Barbara Olson's book--the real truth about the clintons-- with an amazon.com rank of 13 and a NYT rank of 2 or 3.

Olson Book's Chilling Warning: Clinton's Terrorist Pardons Sent Signal

Crime/Corruption
Source:
News Max
Published: Oct. 14, 2001 Author: Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 10/14/01 8:23 PM Pacific by
concerned about politics

In a bone chilling chapter of her new book "The Final Days," late heroine-author Barbara Olson warned that ex-president Bill Clinton's pardons of terrorists who had repeatedly bombed buildings in New York City "send a signal" that the U.S. isn't serious about fighting terrorism.

In words that now seem like a harbinger of her own Sept. 11 death at the hands of the Middle Eastern terrorists, Olson cited example after example of how U.S. officials strenuously warned Clinton that pardoning FALN Puerto Rican separatists who had waged their own bombing jihad on America posed a threat to national security.

In August 1999 Clinton pardoned 16 FALN terrorists without even being asked, in a move that was widely seen as a cynical ploy to win Hispanic votes for his wife's New York senate bid.

The group had planned and executed 130 bombing attacks on New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. from 1974 to 1983. Miraculously, the FALN managed to kill just six Americans. But hundreds more were seriously wounded.

Law enforcement officials were stunned when Clinton decided to pardon the FALN bombers.

"The FBI's assistant director of national security, Neil Gallagher, said that the people turned loose by Clinton 'are criminals, and they are terrorists, and they represent a threat to the United States,'" Olson wrote.

In a subchapter eerily headlined "Pardons for Terrorists Send a Signal," she reported:

"President Clinton had not bothered to consult with relatives of victims of FALN terrorism. In fact, the survivors of those murdered and those whose lives had otherwise been destroyed by the terrorists were not even informed that their attackers were being released."

Olson continued:

"Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder.... conceded that the nation owed much greater consideration to the victims. And Holder's boss, Janet Reno, explicitly acknowledged that groups aligned with the FALN still posed a threat to national security."

In comments turned gut-wrenching in light of last month's attacks, former Justice Department pardon attorney Margaret Love told the late author that Clinton's terrorist pardons should have set off alarm bells.

"We should have seen a big flashing red light because of the FALN cases.... That was a foreshoadowing of what happened later."

Love was referring to Clinton's January 2001 pardons of drug dealers and international fugitives, not the attacks on the U.S., which no one foresaw. But it's nearly impossible now to read those words as anything but prophesy of the terrorist acts that murdered Olson and nearly 6,000 others last month.

In a moment of now legendary heroism, the late author telephoned her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, from American Flight 175 to warn that terrorists had hijacked her plane. Mr. Olson had the terrible task of telling his wife that two planes had slammed into New York's World Trade Center minutes before.

Barbara Olson's phone call was the first warning the government had that Washington, D.C. had come under similar attack.

In comments sure to irk those who argued for eight years that Bill Clinton's private life was nobody else's business, the late author contends that the terrorist pardons were payback for Mrs. Clinton indulging her husband's decades of rampant philandering.

"Hillary had done a lot of heavy lifting for her husband, much of it, such as the various bimbo eruptions, that required her to hold her nose. She had to cover for her husband and lie."

Olson called the FALN pardons Bill Clinton's "first return on her investment."

Though a lively debate has raged ever since Sept. 11 over whether the ex-president did as much as he could to stop Osama bin Laden, the one-time congressional Clinton investigator is the first to raise the FALN pardon question at any length.

Perhaps now Sen. Clinton, who has made herself newly available on the TV talk show circuit since the World Trade Center attacks, will be asked whether she agrees with Olson that her husband's terrorist pardons "sent a signal."

 

 

 

"My client had nothing to do with the low-rent, trailer-park trash politicians who infested our country for the past eight years."

--Michael Rosen, lawyer for Thomas Gambino, son of late Mafia boss Carlo Gambino

New York Post via The Wall Street Journal

(Michael Rosen was understandably eager to distance his client, a convicted loan shark, from the clintons. Another Thomas Gambino reportedly paid $50,000 to roger clinton in an unsuccessful effort to get a pardon for his father, Rosario Gambino.),

It's not easy to play fair against Mr. and Mrs. Clinton, who, in the words of the authors, "operated like a crime family, expecting friends and aides to protect them even against their own best interests." What's amazing, of course, is that's exactly what Clinton friends and aides have always done, from Susan McDougal to Webster Hubbell to flocks of nameless White House special assistants. Even Jim McDougal died just in time to deprive the independent counsel of a key witness against Mrs. Clinton, thus derailing what the authors report to have been her likely indictment for perjury and obstruction related to the Whitewater investigation....     

Reading the tumultuous events of the Lewinsky probe in a comprehensive narrative is unlike attempting to make sense of it in daily doses. Something different comes through the heavy accumulation of detail of, for example, the duplicity of the Justice Department, or the sharklike behavior of the White House. One begins to get a choking sense of the atmosphere of corruption and ruthlessness the Clintons inhabit -- and, worse, have forced the rest of us to inhabit. Taken in one piece, the habitual, even casual abuse of power on display begins to resemble conditions one normally associates with a state of totalitarianism, where such concepts as truth and justice are only paid lip service. In the end, then, it makes you wonder when there will be fresh air again.

-----Crime-family values

"I did not have any involvement in the pardons that were granted or not granted," insisted Sen. KnowNothing, seeming to forget her presence at the New-Square/Oval-Office schmooze that secured pardons for the four Hasidic felons who set up a phony school in Brooklyn to swindle the government out of millions intended for the poor.

Mia T, Sen. KnowNothing Victim Clinton Effectively Pleads 5TH in Press Conference by Invoking Spousal Privilege

HEY, HEY MARY JO!
by Mia T
 
So many pardons 4 sale.
 
So many rodhams & clintons to nail.
 
Hey, hey Mary Jo!
 
Can you spell R-I-C-O?

Sen. KnowNothing Victim Clinton Holds News Conference
EFFECTIVELY PLEADS 5TH BY INVOKING SPOUSAL PRIVILEGE

by Mia T

 

WASHINGTON- February 22. Sen. KnowNothing Victim Clinton held her premiere press conference today on Capitol Hill, ostensibly to answer questions about the peddling of White House pardons by her brother and her campaign treasurer. Notably absent among the press queries were any about her own involvement not only in those pardons, but in the larger universe of sold pardons--the incipient clinton scandal du jour--Pardongate.

KnowNothing's brother, Hugh Rodham, secured two of the 141 clinton midnight pardons, one for a cocaine kingpin and the other for a snake-oil swindler. Rodham netted a quick $400,000 for his "work" according to various rodhams and clintons and their assorted lawyers. KnowNothing's campaign treasurer, William Cunningham III, himself a law partner of longtime KnowNothing adviser Harold Ickes, helped obtain last-minute pardons for two convicted felons.

LA FAMIGLIA

Displaying a willingness to throw her brother (along with her husband) to the wolves, Sen. Victim Clinton was quick to make a distinction between her big, bad brother's pardon "work" and that of her campaign treasurer, "a fine lawyer and a fine man." The "family" connection of brother Rodham to Clinton made brother Rodham's "work" bad, bad, bad, whereas the campaign treasurer Cunningham's connection to the senator and her campaign coffers made his securing of two pardons in record time a sterling example of highminded, effective public service.

KnowNothing is apparently not the best of thinkers. If the "family" connection makes lobbying for cocaine-kingpin and snake-oil-swindler pardons bad, bad, bad for brother Rodham, then the "family" connection makes lobbying for the Hasidim 4 (see Keating 5) pardons bad, badder, baddest for the wife, First Lady and senator-elect. Moreover, pardons for votes is arguably worse than pardons for dough.

EFFECTIVELY PLEADS 5TH BY INVOKING SPOUSAL PRIVILEGE

KnowNothing specifically declined to answer when asked whether she discussed the pardons with her husband, effectively pleading the 5th. Turning aside questions about the pardon decisions her husband had made, she told reporters they should address those issues with him and his staff. She refused to say whether he should agree to appear voluntarily before congressional committees investigating the pardons. Interestingly, no one asked her whether she would agree to appear voluntarily before those same congressional committees.

I DIDN'T HAVE SEX WITH THAT PARDON

"I did not have any involvement in the pardons that were granted or not granted," insisted Sen. KnowNothing, seeming to forget her presence at the New-Square/Oval-Office schmooze that secured pardons for the four Hasidic felons who set up a phony school in Brooklyn to swindle the government out of millions intended for the poor.

RESURRECTING RUFF

KnowNothing noted that her"best memory" was that she never spoke to her brother or to Mr. Cunningham about the pardons. With variations of "I don't have a memory" and "my best memory, and avoiding the more obvious "I don't recall" and "my best recollection," KnowNothing reprised the Ruffian standard used during the clinton years to commit perjury without penalty.

I GET LETTERS

...or more precisely, envelopes. During her denials of involvement in any of the pardons, KnowNothing made the curious claim: "People handed me envelopes, I passed them on [and never opened a single one. Honest.]"

I AM VICTIM

Reprising the role of victim that enabled her to win a senate seat in spite of record-high personal negatives and public failures, the senator peppered her answers about big, bad Hugh (understanding that the subtext was big, bad Bill) with "saddened" and "disappointed" and "heartbroken" and "shocked."

UTTER CONTEMPT FOR THE PEOPLE

This session today was cut short by a staffer when reporters appeared dissatisfied by Senator KnowNothing's lack of candor.

In the end, this press conference full of poses, poll-tested phrases and prevarication was just another display of the clintons' utter contempt for the people. Bill Clinton committed the same error last Sunday in his shameless, lie-filled New York Times Pardongate Apologia.

The clintons' fundamental error: They are too arrogant and dim-witted to understand that the demagogic process in this fiberoptic age isn't about counting spun heads; it's about not discounting circumambient brains.

 
 

 
Don't lose
Your head
To gain a minute
You need your head
Your brains are in it.
--an old roadside ad, Pushme-Pullyou
 
 
 
 

25 posted on 12/24/2001 7:10:41 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
The NY Times article on Clinton's Harlem meeting last Wednesday didn't mention that Lanny Davis was attending. But nevertheless he was spouting the spin a night or two later on TV. Was he on the conference call?
26 posted on 12/24/2001 7:11:19 AM PST by aristeides
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To: Mia T
Bump for another awesome post!
27 posted on 12/24/2001 7:19:44 AM PST by aculeus
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To: aculeus
Vernon Jordan is a despicable liar and belongs behind bars along with every other perjurer and obstructor of justice from the Clinton White House.
28 posted on 12/24/2001 7:25:16 AM PST by mwl1
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To: beckett

Brian Lamb downed Jordan with the expected uptown refinement and politesse. Lamb first had Jordon confirm (read 'boast') that the clinton-Jordon friendship was longstanding, deep and ongoing. Then he asked Jordon why this friendship was omitted from his memoirs.


29 posted on 12/24/2001 8:16:54 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
The way Vernon is acting, you'd think he's hiding a stained blue suit.
30 posted on 12/24/2001 8:34:08 AM PST by Doctor Raoul
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To: mwl1
Amen
Semper Fi
31 posted on 12/24/2001 8:47:12 AM PST by river rat
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To: Mia T
Atta Girl, Mia!
Semper Fi
32 posted on 12/24/2001 8:48:43 AM PST by river rat
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To: Texbob
Vernon Jordan has been identified as the attorney for Holy Land Foundation......New York Post stated that he was the reason this organization was allowed to skate for so long after it was clear they were funding terrorists.
33 posted on 12/24/2001 9:02:13 AM PST by OldFriend
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To: Mia T
Merry Christmas Mia T...

Please consider using less graphics?

I will qualify that request with the following statement...

If I am in the minority, in that me and my Pentium One with a telephone modem are in the vast minority, please ignore my request. I'll deal with it.

No offense intended, just an honest comment...When I see one of your posts, I commonly don't read it, simply because of all the graphics. Again...Just an FYI...Please don't take it for anythng more than that.

34 posted on 12/24/2001 9:30:37 AM PST by Johnny Shear
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To: Mia T
Thanks MIA! Excellent! Like Bill and Hillary, Vernon Jordan is pure scum. If you mix scum with scum, you still get scum. Sometimes scum rises to the surface, and if scum is allowed to remain, it can kill thousands of people because of their deeds behind the scenes. Yet they still get to play golf.

Saudi money Aiding Terrorist Osama bin Laden

USA TODAY
By Jack Kelley
10/28/99- Updated 11:12 PM ET

WASHINGTON - More than a year after the U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa, prominent businessmen in Saudi Arabia continue to transfer tens of millions of dollars to bank accounts linked to indicted terrorist Osama bin Laden, senior U.S. intelligence officials told USA TODAY.

The money transfers, which began more than five years ago, have been used to finance several terrorist acts by bin Laden, including the attempted assassination in 1995 of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Ethiopia, the officials said.

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is expected to raise the issue with Prince Sultan, the Saudi defense minister, during his visit to Washington next week. Saudi Arabia, the main U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf, has pledged to fight terrorism.

According to a Saudi government audit acquired by U.S. intelligence, five of Saudi Arabia's top businessmen ordered the National Commercial Bank (NCB), the kingdom's largest, to transfer personal funds, along with $3 million diverted from a Saudi pension fund, to New York and London banks.

The money was deposited into the accounts of Islamic charities, including Islamic Relief and Blessed Relief, that serve as fronts for bin Laden.

The businessmen, who are worth more than $5 billion, are paying bin Laden "protection money" to stave off attacks on their businesses in Saudi Arabia, intelligence officials said. Bin Laden, whose family runs the largest Saudi construction firm, has called for the overthrow of the Saudi government.

The money transfers were discovered in April after the royal family ordered an audit of NCB and its founder and former chairman, Khalid bin Mahfouz, U.S. officials say. Mahfouz is now under "house arrest" at a military hospital in the Saudi city of Taif, intelligence officials said.

His successor, Mohammad Hussein Al-Amoudi, also heads the Capital Trust Bank in New York and London, which U.S. and British officials are investigating for allegedly transferring money to bin Laden. Amoudi's Washington lawyer, Vernon Jordan, could not be reached for comment.

Mahfouz's son, Abdul Rahman Mahfouz, is on the board of Blessed Relief in Sudan. Suspects in the Mubarak attack are linked to the charity.

Bin Laden faces U.S. criminal charges for allegedly masterminding the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people. Bin Laden, who is in Afghanistan, denies the charges.

Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan declined to comment on the reports.

36 posted on 12/24/2001 11:50:26 AM PST by Uncle Bill
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To: Mia T
BTTT
37 posted on 12/24/2001 2:22:53 PM PST by ChaseR
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To: Mr. Bungle
artfuL analogy BUMP!
38 posted on 12/24/2001 2:24:35 PM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
If I'm going to read a pimp's autobiography, I'll pick one with more experience.
39 posted on 12/24/2001 2:40:01 PM PST by Oschisms
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To: Mia T
Outstanding as Usual, Mia T!!!! Merry Christmas!!!!
40 posted on 12/24/2001 8:21:57 PM PST by Defender2
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