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Bushies Target Hillary in Expanded Scandal Probe
Newsmax ^ | 2/9/02 | Limbacher

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.


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To: Howlin
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED JAN 24, 2001 18:51 ET XXXXX

WHITE HOUSE OFFICES LEFT 'TRASHED': PORN BOMBS, LEWD MESSAGES; LEGAL PROBE CONSIDERED

**Exclusive**

The Bush Administration has quietly launched an investigation into apparent acts of vandalism and destruction of federal property -- after incoming Bush staffers discover widespread sabotage of White House office equipment and lewd messages left behind by previous tenants!

Harriet Miers, 55, Assistant to President Bush and staff secretary will be investigating possible legal ramifications of the White House trashing and possible theft, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

41 posted on 02/09/2002 7:30:00 AM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: KantianBurke
Will the media report it? Bush is going after the Clintons... but it also makes the Clintons look bad. If federal agents come with search and seizure warrants to Hitlery's houses and Bill's libraryk, and they yell about it without the press having said a word about what was coming, won't they look like nuts?

Then maybe the press will talk about it for a few days, before the truth comes out that they're common thieves, and they'll cover it up again.

42 posted on 02/09/2002 7:30:18 AM PST by Styria
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To: Enterprise
I think it is probably a "subtle" warning to the RATS that if they really WANT investigations, then they'll GET them - in SPADES

Yep! Maybe Hitlery will finally shut up (but this is doubtful) and stop blaming Bush for all that's wrong with our country, i.e., his tax rebates causing great harm to the 9/11 recovery, etc. She will start feeling the finger-pointings now on real, rather than imagined, wrong-doings. I hope she's squirming and loses lots of sleep.

43 posted on 02/09/2002 7:30:50 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: nina0113
ping and a smirk. The demand for an apology is coming back to bite them in the rear.
44 posted on 02/09/2002 7:31:33 AM PST by Steve0113
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To: Republic
Excuse me for ranting yet again, but I want to know, I really WANT TO KNOW, damn it, WHO HAS PAID FOR THE $250,000 dollars worth of trashing, so far that is the estimate, anyway, that went on when those slugs left???? I don't want to PAY FOR THIS. I mean it. We know WHO had access to the offices and I DEMAND THAT THEY BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. Also---I want to know WHO paid for the $275,000 fine leveled on Ira Magaziner and Hillary Rodham Clinton, BOTH NAMED ON THE OPINION of Judge Royce C Lamberth, Columbia District Ct.#1, regarding the payment of the costs of the medical assc who sued ira and hitlery, successfully, over their illegal health care sessions. DID THEY PAY? Yes or no. If they used the government resources to pay this fine.....I want to know.

Look out hillary....you have no idea what we know and are willing to do to bring the truth to light.

45 posted on 02/09/2002 7:32:02 AM PST by Republic
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To: KantianBurke
Apparently the investigation has been ongoing from the beginning, despite claims to the contrary, including lengthy interviews that predate the Enron fiasco. Ungar and Walker picked today to whine to their media buddies about it.
46 posted on 02/09/2002 7:32:11 AM PST by willieroe
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To: MeeknMing
Thanks. I just want to see these criminals in federal prision. I do think vertical stripes would suit hillary better, don't you?
47 posted on 02/09/2002 7:32:15 AM PST by WIMom
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To: BOBTHENAILER
McAuliffe is caught in the net as a inside trader with crossing stock deal.
48 posted on 02/09/2002 7:32:34 AM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: saynomore
BS.
49 posted on 02/09/2002 7:32:48 AM PST by Howlin
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To: TLBSHOW
Is that old?
50 posted on 02/09/2002 7:33:36 AM PST by Howlin
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To: TLBSHOW
But, but, but....."Cokie" said that was a big lie.
51 posted on 02/09/2002 7:34:07 AM PST by WIMom
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To: TLBSHOW
You know I think the plan is to get both Hillary and Bill as Bush knows they are a threat to AMERICA and himself. He may of been willing to let it go before the rats tried to pull the smear of Bush and Cheney.

You make a good point. Quietly, maybe they are working on THIS as well?. . .

Breaking: US Congress Subpoena Orders Ashcroft To Release
Clinton Evidence on Sept. 11, 2001

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b99d9b10b76.htm

Breaking: US Congress Subpoena Orders Ashcroft To Release
Clinton Evidence – Thread 2

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b9a84661c0d.htm

52 posted on 02/09/2002 7:34:09 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
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To: Teacher317
This seems still like a different angle. The attack is just as effective, but indirect. America at this point is at war, coming out of a recession on it's (forced to suffer further by decision of the Rats), people are realizing they themselves are capable of more, want more, like the tax cut, and appreciate the truth.

By focusing on the harm and disregard to the White House, the items stolen from America, people relate to what lack of appreciation the Clintons had for our country, and relate that to all of the facts we slowly learn about them. The Clinton cause carries over into the Rat cause and not only do we have "crossovers" supporting, but Rats converting.

The White House was definitely the wrong place to rape.

53 posted on 02/09/2002 7:34:12 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Geezerette
I didn't like it when Bush "excused" the actions against the Clintons. You are right, they didn't respect him for that.

"Do not misinterpret my acts of kindness, for weakness"..

Go for it, GW!

sw

54 posted on 02/09/2002 7:34:59 AM PST by spectre
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To: nicmarlo
Tonight I will say a little prayer -

Now I lay me down to sleep

I pray the Lord to protect the FREEP

And upon the dawn, after I yawn

May I learn Hillery is shackled and gone.

55 posted on 02/09/2002 7:36:12 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: Howlin
I think this is a lie by the GAO that serves two purposes. The left will think that Bush has become partisan. Tomorrow when the White House denies the story, the right will think Bush has backed down again.
56 posted on 02/09/2002 7:38:29 AM PST by ao98
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To: Howlin
The Secret Service ought to have at least a clue about what sort of furniture is in Hillary Clinton's "two mansions", correct?
57 posted on 02/09/2002 7:39:00 AM PST by Amelia
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To: WIMom
Can you get a marble toilet seat in prison?
58 posted on 02/09/2002 7:41:55 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: KantianBurke
dumb move if true. It looks petty and an attempt to shift the focus from Enron. Besides, they had their chance MONTHS ago.

Disagree.

This is a relatively gentle reminder to the Democrats that they live in glass houses, and should think twice about throwing stones.

Because he felt it would be too distracting, Bush made the strategic decision at the start of his administration to try to put the innumerable Clinton scandals to rest. He has been repaid by an unfounded and obvious Democrat witch hunt aimed at Vice President Cheney. Since the Democrats have proven they are willing to use any smear, no matter how untrue, to bring his administration down, he has nothing to lose by adding to the distraction.

If the message from this relatively small potatoes investigation does not get through, look for something more important to come up next. The Marc Rich pardon? Loral campaign contributions in exchange for sale of national secrets to China?

These are but two of the more obvious ones. It is, as we said in my old Air Force days, a target rich environment...

59 posted on 02/09/2002 7:41:57 AM PST by EternalHope
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
An outhouse would be more appropriate.
60 posted on 02/09/2002 7:43:40 AM PST by WIMom
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