Bill O'Reilly blasts Ashcroft and Reno for Corruption

There is something very wrong inside the Justice Department of the United States and there has been for some time.

Various newspapers are now reporting that under President Clinton, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was ordered to stand down on various terrorist investigations.

One of the most egregious examples is the failure of the bureau to investigate fundraising organizations like "The Holy Land Fund," based in Arizona, which allegedly funneled millions of dollars in donations to Middle Eastern terrorists.

Although the Bush administration has now frozen the assets of the fund, it was apparently allowed to operate for 8 years despite the FBI intelligence that was presented to Mr. Clinton and then-Attorney General Janet Reno. One bureau source told the press that Ms. Reno felt any investigation of "The Holy Land Fund" would lead to anti-Arab sentiment and therefore was opposed to such an investigation.

As always, Ms. Reno will not comment on any aspect of her tenure as attorney general that is at all controversial.

There is no question now that under Ms. Reno and then-FBI Director Louis Freeh, Americans were put at great risk. The Wen Ho Lee-Chinese espionage case still has not been explained, and the fact that the 19 Sept. 11 terrorists weren't even on the FBI's radar screen is about as frightening as Janet Reno's passion for political correctness.

The current attorney general, John Ashcroft, has made no attempt to examine Ms. Reno's bizarre behavior or update the public about the Marc Rich investigation or anything else. Mr. Ashcroft specializes in looking dour and stonewalling. While Congress is attempting to get documents about President Clinton's dubious foreign fundraising and FBI abuses in Boston, Ashcroft is refusing to cooperate at all.

And this isn't a political issue. Conservative Congressman Dan Burton and liberal Congressman Barney Frank have actually joined forces to try and pry this information from Ashcroft's hands. If that's not amazing, then nothing is.

The truth is that for nearly 8 years, the Justice Department has been corrupt and inefficient. Janet Reno botched nearly every important decision she had to make including Waco and Elian Gonzalez. Time after time, Ms. Reno refused to approve investigative initiatives sought by the FBI. And time after time, Mr. Freeh sat in his plush government office refusing to let the American people know what was happening.

Now Mr. Ashcroft is doing the same thing. There is no reason on this earth why the public should not know the status of the Rich pardon probe. Or the anthrax investigation. And what about Enron, Mr. Attorney General – are you going to look into that? Millions of Americans were hosed while some Enron executives made millions.

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To: editor-surveyor
I believed the Bush administration would be about restoring our Rule of Law
I believed every serious allegation of clinton corruption
would be brought to Law for full investigation
to see if there were evidence
and if there was a proveable case, there would be Indictment and Jury Trial
I knew slick willy was a master career criminal --
and it's possible the only evidence is the blue dress
but I thought a full and fair investigation
would at least reveal all that has gone on
Love, Palo
# 165 by palo verde
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To: palo verde
"That's what YOU thought;
did you ever hear George Bush say that?"
# 182 by Howlin
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Of course not, Howlin.
That's why I didn't vote for him.

I knew Bush wasn't the man for the job.

But don't give me this crap about his unwillingness to investigate Bill Clinton, Janet Reno, or Buddy the Dog. Anyone with half a brain knows about the unethical and immoral activities that the jackasses and scumbags who populated the last administration were involved in.

What matters is that MOST people do NOT know about the CRIMINAL activities of the last administration (to merely call them "unethical" and "immoral" is DISINFORMATION). Ask the average person on the street (especially democRATS) what they know about Filegate, Chinagate, Emailgate, the death of Ron Brown, the death of Vince Foster, the Riady non-refund, TempleGate, etc. etc. etc. and they will be clueless. That's because they've been deliberately kept in the dark by the media ... or do you want to disagree with THAT?

Thats old stuff which has been debated time and again right here on FR.

So you think that just because something is debated here on FR the average knows about it? Don't be ridiculous.

Clinton was impeached and found not guilty by the US Senate.

Not of ANY of the CRIMES I listed above. They used Starr to keep the ball focused on SEX SEX SEX and in so doing kept the TREASON, MURDER, BLACKMAIL, ELECTION TAMPERING, PRIVACY VIOLATIONS, ETC. ETC. ETC. off the front page and away from the public eye. ANYONE who claims that the US Senate found Clinton not guilty of the above is spreading DISINFORMATION and their motives are therefore suspect.

But this is politics and sometimes those on the right side of the political spectrum don't have the strength to win all the battles.

Strength has nothing to do with it. The GOP is now in charge of the instruments of law enforcement. Their apparent unwillingness to use those instruments to investigate the SERIOUS crimes the DNC and Clinton administration committed says a lot about them. They are either corrupt or so afraid of their own shadow as to be ineffectial.

Ashcroft is going after any and all individuals who want to harm America and the American way of life.

If that were true he'd be investigating what happened the last 8 years and not just drop it like you've suggested in the past. Face it, terrorists can kill a few Americans but they can't do a tenth as much damage to the American way of life, our judicial system AND our freedom as a Attorney General and President who decide to ignore crimes as serious as treason and murder my members of the opposing party because it is viewed as politically expedient. That is only one step from committing and covering up crimes themselves in order to stay in power

theres absolutely no evidence that Ashcroft is covering for Clinton either.

Then you should have no problem indicating actions that suggest on-going investigations into the matters I listed above. For example, what is happening with regards to the Riady non-refund? The fact that you can't list ANY indications is in fact evidence that Ashcroft is covering for Clinton.

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