Daschle Calls for Release of Bush 'Scandal' File; Blocked Clinton Probe

NewsMax ^ | 07/07/2002 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[Pokey78]

In a marked shift from his efforts three years ago to bottle up Clinton impeachment evidence, top Senate Democrat Tom Daschle called on Sunday for President Bush to release twelve-year-old records of his dealings with the Texas oil firm Harken Energy, files that several anti-Bush media outlets have suggested will reveal an insider trading scandal.

"I think the president would do well to ask the SEC to release the file - release it all," Daschle told CBS's "Face the Nation." "Let everybody see just what is there."

"There have been some real questions, I think, about what happened," the leading Democrat continued. "We've had different explanations as to what actually occurred. I think the best way to resolve all those issues is just allow the SEC release the file."

"Questions still linger over a 1990 sale by Mr. Bush of $848,560 worth of stock on a company whose board he sat," the New York Times editorialized on Sunday, echoing the paper's reports by columnist Paul Krugman, who began recycling the 2000 campaign story as if it were news last week.

Daschle's call for the release of all files related to the Harken imbroglio stands in stark contrast to his efforts to short-circuit the 1999 Senate impeachment investigation, just as reports surfaced that possible smoking gun tapes had been uncovered of phone sex conversations between then-President Clinton and White House fellatrix Monica Lewinsky.

"There are different agencies in the government that make it their business to tape certain things for certain reasons, and it was one of those agencies (that taped Clinton and Lewinsky)," Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Az, told the Arizona Republic just two days before the Senate voted on the Clinton case.

"(There) are people who claim to have information about those tapes, who by virtue of who they are have some credibility with respect to the information they have come forward about," Kyl added.

Sen. Robert C. Smith, R-NH, reportedly told his colleagues that "he had it 'on good authority' that such a (taping) system did exist and he was 'not happy' about having the vote in the impeachment trial without knowing if further evidence might be available," according to the Washington Times.

It was believed that the Clinton-Lewisnky phone sex tapes included a Dec. 17, 1997 conversation where the president asked the White House intern to lie to investigators about their relationship, much has he did with Gennifer Flowers during a taped telephone conversation in 1991.

Others on Capitol Hill were also looking into the possibility that cellular calls made in the White House had been intercepted and recorded on unsecured lines by U.S. defense agencies, Newsday reported at the time.

Though Senate Republican leader Trent Lott wanted the Senate to investigate the sex tape tips before voting on Clinton's guilt or innocense, then-Senate Minority Leader Daschle vetoed the idea as part of a power sharing arrangement the two had hammered out earlier.

"He didn't have to give me veto power," Daschle said after he succeeded in blocking further investigation, "and for that I greatly respect and appreciate him."

Daschle and his colleagues also continue to block the release of other still secret impeachment evidence against Clinton, held in the Ford Building during his Senate trial.

The material, which Sexgate private investigators described for NewsMax.com in 1999, covers several rape allegations and other sexual assaults. It is so graphic and traumatizing that it reportedly "nauseated" one House member who viewed it and reduced another to tears.

Sen. Daschle is believed to have privately urged his Senate colleagues not to view the Ford Building evidence before casting their impeachment votes.

Unless Congress intervenes, the Clinton impeachment evidence will remain sealed until 2049.

[CyberAnt]

Yeah, lets pick up all the CLINTON SCANDALS again and throw them in Daschle's face!! And ... as for being cozy, how about making note of Daschle's vote to NOT CONVICT the rapist and chief.

[F16Fighter]

Quite frankly, I have no problem airing ALL our slimey pol's laundry out for everyone to see, including W's. But let's begin a real bonafide investigation with Bubba -- that oughta keep investigators busy for the next half-century.

[Timesink]

Hey Tommy!

"You must be at least this tall to ride on Air Force One!"

[mombonn]

tiny time needs to be defeated SOONER RATHER THAT LATER.

He is moldy pond scum.

[swampfox98]

Now I know why that Cico babe, who writes for the Washington Post, was telling Tony Snow all about Bush's own Enron. I guess the Dems got together with the toadys of the Post and told them what lies to bring up today. These people are a wonder to behold. How many time can one write the word hypocrite? There are no other words to describe the Dems and their followers.

[Wondervixen]

What you just said is very profound. "The Oil Drilling Business In TEXAS". Just like "The Coal Mining Industry In West Virginia", the "Steel Industry In Pennsylvania", or the "Auto Industry In Michigan".

If you live in a state that has such an industry it is your goal in life to gain a foothold in it when you come of age to go to work. It is "the living" of your native territory. Should we condemn Bush because he was involved in what PC liberals attack as such a greedy, capitalist, evil industry as "big oil" when he's FROM TEXAS??? I suppose to be virtuous he should be a 56 year old former vegi bar salad maker?

GET A LIFE YOU GRANOLA EATING, SOAP SHUNNING FREAKS!!! YOU DON'T CALL THE SHOTS IT THE USA and that goes for your little dog Daschle too!

[bray]

Dasshole knows that ABDNC will not look into any DNC accounts and will carry the Rats water. Dasshole is no more slimey than any of the other Dem opperatives in the press. Most reporters are every bit as involved with politics as we are only they vote 90% Rat....agenda??? Remember how they covered for Dame CLINTON on the cattle futures, not guilty unless proven in a court of law and then turns to old news.

Pray for GW and the Truth

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[NeoCaveman]

In squeaky Tommy Dasshole voice "What did the president know and when did he know it"

[Ole Okie]

To: Little Bitty Twinkletoes Dasshole:

Let's go back over the FAA influence case your wife was embroiled in, Twinkletoes.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

 

I remember being told - no lectured - that the drive to hold Bill Clinton accountable for his appalling behavior was misguided and dangerous. I also remember the president of the United States, looking into the camera and demanding that the American people listen to him and then telling us all a premeditated, bald-faced lie. I remember watching him lie to a federal grand jury, and being told that it was not an impeachable offense.

It turns out, the conduct, behavior, and moral tone of our leaders really does matter. The stock market is ruthlessly efficient in driving home that point - as the accounting scandals have resulted in a dramatic loss of investor confidence, which has resulted in lost jobs for the unsuspecting employees of these and other companies.

Now the liberals want to pile-on and attempt to gain political advantage from the largest corporate accounting scandal and tragedy in our nation's history. Shame on them. And shame on them for several reasons. First, if you are truly disgusted by the ethical lapses of individuals in positions of responsibility, where were you on presidential perjury? What about Travelgate, Whitewater, filegate, White House coffees, the Lincoln bedroom? Weren't we told all this was ok, because the economy was booming?

The sad fact is the president of the United States set an "anything goes" ethical tone in the 1990s that said if you were making money, you were, by definition, succeeding. Tragically, some greedy, overly ambitious, unscrupulous, and slick corporate CEOs followed Clinton's lead and deliberately and brazenly committed fraud. In essense, they and their auditors looked into the camera and wagged their finger at us, and lied. And, just as Bill Clinton should have been impeached, these people should go to jail.

But the liberal's shame goes beyond their silence on the Clinton scandals. They remain worse than silent on a massive government accounting sham - the future of Social Security. They are actually planning on using the shaky finances as a political weapon against President Bush and his allies in the Congress that support Social Security reform.

From: A tragic failure of (Dem.) leadership, Citizens for a Sound Economy.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Sorry Tom; these things that are happening now began under the watchful eye of the Whitewater folks. If you want to look for the leaders in corruption, start there.

[Brytani]

Let Daschle keep pushing this issue, Bush has been investigated for this particular business dealing by the FCC not once but two times - both investigations showed no evidence of any wrong doing.

Keep showing your bi-partinship Daschle, the public will love it.

[Braak]

Ya know, this sounds famillar, when we tried to get to the truth about Clinton, they said "It didn't rise to the level of impeachment." Dems used to repeat that as a freaking mantra.

Well libidiots...right back at ya!

[Brian Allen]

YASSER DASCHLE and his "DemocRATs" are TREASONOUS, AMERICA-HATING, TERRORIST SYMPATHIZERs!
[And he and his every-bit-as-loathesome and fearsome "spouse" are Rodman-Cli'ton-Kennedy-esquely corrupt!]

[harpo11]

Senator Daschle is in charge of one mismanaging our social security to the tune of billions. And what about the overall loss of $17.5 billion last year. He obviously is of doubtful quality and his motives are so predictably questionable as he blithers about nothing but spitting venomous rancor. What a dull smal man he is.

Oh, BTW, let's call for opening up his own books as well as his wife's too. And while we are add it, why not the entire senates investment portfolios, particularly if he is so consumed with getting to the bottom of the insider trading truth. What a joke.

[harpo11]

I think you are absolutely right. I've had it up to my ears with Daschle's BS. The small man surely has nothing more important to do than to fling outrageous accusations and nasty innuendos at President Bush, while sitting quite fat, content, deaf, mute and blind to Clinton's infamously notorious scandals.

Daschle and his comrades are the poster cons for dishonor and arrogant political ambition.

[F16Fighter]

I'm sure somehow the GOP is able to dig up a few dozen skeletons out of Daschle's lingerie closet if they wanted. Thus far, his petty BS has fallen on deaf ears.

It may be that the Pubs may be choosing their spot when it might do the maximum damage in the event they really need to bury the little maggot.

[F16Fighter]

Not only are the 'Rats treasonous and un-American, they're proud of the fact. Furthermore, if it were left to them, the red, white and blue of the Stars and Stripes is just as interchangable as rainbow stripes and pink stars.