Posted on 06/25/2002 8:43:27 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Monday, June 24, 2002 11:15 p.m. EDT FBI Raids Hillary's Warehouse in Whitewater Déjà Vu Ten years ago, L. Jean Lewis, an investigator with the government's Resolution Trust Corporation, was able to piece together a complicated Arkansas bank fraud conspiracy from a treasure trove documents she unearthed in an out-of-the-way Kansas City warehouse. The result was the Whitewater scandal, which, after six years worth of twists and turns, ended in the first impeachment of an elected president in U.S. history. New York Sen. Hillary Clinton surely hopes that history isn't repeating itself with the raid conducted by the FBI last month on another warehouse; this one chock full of documents from her 2000 Senatorial campaign. "The documents were seized in a May 30 raid of a California storage facility containing documents of Peter Paul, the entrepreneur who funded Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign with over $2 million dollars in direct, in-kind contributions which were never reported by Hillary Clinton or her Senate campaign, as required by law," revealed the public interest law firm Judicial Watch in a press release late last week. The raid is important for two reasons. First, it may yield yet another treasure trove of evidence against the Clintons. But the second reason may be even more significant. The Justice Department's continuing investigative interest in the Clintons comes despite news last week that the U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District, James Comey, decided to shut down a key part of the Pardongate probe. Peter Paul and his Judicial Watch lawyers have been trying to persuade the Justice Department for the better part of two years to take his allegations seriously. But instead they seemed more intent on prosecuting him for stock fraud. That is, until now. Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman suggested the raid may represent something of a turnabout in thinking among Attorney General John Ashcroft and his colleagues. "Mr. Paul could have turned the documents about the Clintons over to the FBI months ago under a cooperation agreement," Klayman noted. "Instead, he waits in a Brazilian dungeon for the Ashcroft Justice Department to get serious about this corruption case. So it is a welcome sign that the Justice Department is turning up the heat on this new crime scandal concerning the Clintons."
The FBI raid may also be a sign that the reported no prosecution deal for the Clintons, demanded by Democrat leaders as the price for President Bush getting some of his legislative agenda implemented, is beginning to unravel - since Democrats seem to have kept little if any of their part of the bargain. (See: Bush Insider Claims Clinton Deal Torpedoed Pardongate) "The search warrant authorizing the FBI raid of the storage facility specifically references the Clintons and the New York Senate campaign," says Judicial Watch. "The search warrant authorizes the seizure of: Records relating to New York Senate 2000, the Hollywood Gala Salute to President William Jefferson Clinton, the Federal Election Commission, David Rosen and Aaron Tonken... (David Rosen was the Director of Finance for Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign, and Aaron Tonken is a Democrat fundraiser who raised money for the Clintons. Both men have knowledge of Mr. Paul's contributions.)" Meanwhile, Peter Paul awaits a Justice Department offer of legal leniency in exchange for his further cooperation in the Clinton case. If he returns to the U.S. anytime soon, it could be a sign that for Hillary Clinton, it's deja vu all over again.
Betting that something would come of it would be throwing money away. The soccer moms don't care how crooked these people are.
Hillary 14, America 0. And it’s only half time folks.
"And no one in Clinton's administration was convicted of a felony, either." ;-)
You forgot to include that bit of apologia, Ms. Rosen.
**snicker**
Did you forget who is in the WH? Bush just loves to play hardball...
There is NO excuse for the immoral Clintons.....you fell for their lies....Get smart, start thinking for yourself.
Until you can look at yourself in the mirror and say, "I should be ashamed that I support a guy who, as President of the United States, committed the felony of perjury to cover up the crime of sexual harrassment" you will be part of the problem.
Our society is the better for the heroes like the firemen who rushed into the buring Towers on 9/11 to save others. We are better for those who crashed a plane in a Pennsylvania field to spare their fellows on the ground.
Your guy sacrifices others to protect himself. We are the poorer for it. You divide us by lauding such a contemptible man.
So, you define harrassment as a pecadillo, do you? Perhaps if your mother, or wife, or sister, or daughter had endured what happened to Paula Jones at the hands of her superior, you'd feel different. Perhaps not. Do you think the laws on sexual harrassment unnecessary? Do you think they should be obeyed and those who break them punished. Like Clinton himself, you have no shame in your support of that coward who hides behind the skirt of his wife and calls upon his Cabinet, Executives of this country, to cover up his crimes.
For the record, Ken Starr was Independent Counsel investigating Whitewater when allegations surfaced that Clinton was soliciting perjury in the Paula Jones case. Janet Reno asked Starr to investigate those charges as well. That's how they are connected. She could have appointed another IC, but didn't. The Impeachment charges of perjury where those Starr felt were most obvious and provable. Little did he realize how truly sleazy Congressional Democrats were. And you want to line up with them?
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