as i KNEW "the blonde witch project" & her husband in college days and HATED HER GUTS then, anything against "the witch that ate Arkansas" is OK by me!
Posted on 02/09/2002 6:59:22 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
In an astonishing reversal of President Bush's nonchalant attitude towards an array of corruption charges against Bill and Hillary Clinton, the president and his aides are now said to be "quietly pushing" a probe into allegations that Clinton staffers trashed the White House in Jan. 2001.
What's more, they've asked that the newly revved up investigation focus on the East Wing, where former first lady Hillary Clinton had her offices.
The shift could mean the GAO probe will also examine evidence that Mrs. Clinton absconded with furniture and other White House artifacts to decorate her private mansions in New York and Washington.
"White House folks suggested we cast as wide a net as possible," GAO director Bernard Ungar told the New York Daily News Saturday, adding that the Bushies wanted to redirect the probe's previous focus from the Eisenhower office building to Mrs. Clinton official digs.
The request for action on the Clinton vandalism charges prompted complaints from GAO chief David Walker, who told the News, "they want us to do more work than is even reasonable."
The Clinton probe could prove distracting to Walker's focus in recent weeks: prying loose White House records on meetings between Vice President Dick Cheney and Enron officials.
Immediately after reports of White House vandalism, Bush seemed to take no interest in the episode and urged the media to look that other way.
"There might have been a prank or two, maybe somebody put a cartoon on the wall, but that's OK." he told reporters. "It's time now to move forward."
But after Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner complained last June that Clinton workers had been unfairly smeared and demanded the Bushies apologize, White House press spokesman Ari Fleischer said the destruction was more extensive then the president had let on.
A list of damages he released included:
75 phones that had been "tampered with," including 10 where the lines had been cut.
Twenty percent of the desks in the Eisenhower Office complex had been overturned.
Obscene graffiti was discovered by Bush staffers in six offices.
A 20-inch-wide presidential seal had been ripped off a wall.
One hundred computer keyboards had been rendered inoperable by the Clinton vandals.
Pornography was left behind in White House photocopiers.
Trash was spilled throughout the White House counsel's office, along with other assorted random damage.
One estimate put the cost of the destruction as high as $250,000.
Bush administration spokeswoman Claire Buchan said the White House counsel's office had photographs of the vandalism, but did not explain why they were not offered to the GAO when the agency first requested proof in April.
In releasing the list of damages, Fleischer explained, "We tried to be gracious, but the last administration would not take graciousness." Claims that Bush staffers had lied about the destruction had forced him to respond, he said.
After Fleischer's comments, the GAO's Ungar began backtracking on his April report that there was no unusual damage to the White House after Clinton staffers departed.
"Ungar said the GAO found accounts of damage that included telephones disconnected from wall jacks, phones with extension numbers defaced and tables and desks that were overturned," reported Newsday, in a follow up story on Fleischer's list.
It's not clear whether the White House's newly aggressive attitude will translate into action in the office of the U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District, which has been accused of footdragging in its probe into the Clinton Pardongate scandal.
as i KNEW "the blonde witch project" & her husband in college days and HATED HER GUTS then, anything against "the witch that ate Arkansas" is OK by me!
for dixie,sw
For Rep. Brad Carson (D-Okla.), contributions from colleagues' political action committees have been a key part of his fundraising efforts, providing almost 10 percent of the $431,081 he received last year. But there's one Member of Congress whose political money the freshman lawmaker believes just won't go over well in his rural and conservative district:Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).
Clinton's HILLPAC cut two $1,000 checks to Carson's campaign committee on June 26, part of dozens of checks sent out that day just before the crucial midyear fundraising deadline.
But in mid-December, Carson returned the checks to HILLPAC without ever having deposited them, according to Federal Election Commission records.
The Congressman acknowledged that Clinton is still enough of a lightning rod in some parts of Oklahoma that he thought it would be better to not accept her money.
"We want to avoid things that just get us into needless controversy," Carson said in an interview last week...
Acid rain?
Urine is very acid, that will be some acid rain on those graves!
Is this a politically correct way of saying Her Heinous's stench has reached to Oklahoma in such proportions that even normal folk there will threaten to fumigate Carson and anyone else who accepts anything from Hildebeast?
FReeper Pee.
It was later identified as Bill Clinton's curriculum vitae.
as i KNEW "the blonde witch project" & her husband in college days and HATED HER GUTS then, anything against "the witch that ate Arkansas" is OK by me!
Perhaps because theft can be proved in court. She can't put our national treasures through a paper shredder.
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