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.

[Brian Allen]

True.

Ever more Evil since set on its modern path by the gangster/traitor FD "Frankie-Baby" Roosefelt, The modern "DemocRAT" party comprises vast criminal enterprises; is a RICO-racketeering terrorist gang and is; along with such siblings as the NEA, AARP, ACLU, ABA et al; a bastard offspring and direct descendant of the Communist Party "of" America!

The psychopathological Yasser Dashles and Rodman-KKKli'tons and their ilk, were never its "leaders."

Only its inevitable products.

[hchutch]

That's the real key in this whole field known as politics.

Attack too soon, and nobody cares when it counts. Attack too late, and it does little good. Attack on the wrong terrain, get your head handed to you.

[Brytani]

It's already been proven twice that Bush did not break the law nor act in a suspicious manner. Like I said, let Daschle keep running off at the mouth.

I'm still waiting for Daschle to release his tax returns AND for an investigation into his wifes lobbying for the airline industry and campaign contributions to Daschles election campaigns.

[ladyinred]

President Bush, tell the t*rd that you will release those files when he and the rest of the RATs in the Senate release the entire impeachment files on Bubba, the one's that are sealed ya know.

[justshe]

Talk about a case of "be careful what you wish for."

Terry McCauliffe comes to mind (she says with an evil grin while rubbing her hands together).

[woofie]

I cant wait until 2049...

[F16Fighter]

As Pat Buchanan in his book 'Death of the West' points out, those gangsters and cultural shake-down artists you allude to, the ACLU, NEA, ABA, etal absolute number #1 priority since has been to first boot God out of America, thus making it that much easier to subvert and destroy the Republic from within...

As it is, the fourth wheel of the hijacked bus of our future 'Late, Great Republic' is hanging on by a mere thread and the Democrats are fighting over the crow bar.

[F16Fighter]

Ever get the feeling Daschle's being set up? Somewhere someone's got pics of he, Barney Franks and Zimbu the Monkey...Although in Democratic circles all that means is he's good to go for another four terms.

[timestax]

Dasshole won't release his tax records since it would show the inordinate amount of lobbying that his wife performs. "Say Tiny Tom. What are YOU hiding? Does Valuejet ring a bell? How about those airport scanners your wife chose? Any good? You worthless piece of buffalo dung!" 13 posted on 7/7/02 1:36 PM Pacific by Young Werther [ Post Reply

DITTO !!

[hchutch]

Except this is more a case of creating the political equivalent of a fatal funnel.

Bush is going to keep drawing Daschle onto terrain of Bush's choosing, and then he will nail Daschle so hard, he won't know which end is up.

[harpo11]

I hear you and agree. Sure would like to see the old priggish Daschle's comeuppance turn his cantankerous yipping into incoherent sputters.

[timestax]

bump

[timestax]

bump

[timestax]

bump !!

[Brian Allen]

<< bump !! >>

Good idea!!

[timestax]

bump

[timestax]

bump

[timestax]

bump

[timestax]

bump

[Spook86]

To me, the "real" news here is the existence of the Clinton-Lewinsky cell phone calls. I thought they had long since been erased. Echelon is clearly alive and well. The "defense agencies" cited in the report is a code word for GCHQ (Britain's equivalent of NSA), or another foreign intelligence agency. There were also credible reports that Israeli intelligence taped the calls. Their emergence at this point may represent something of an "insurance policy" for the Israelis against a future Democratic President, or Congressional majority. Turn against Israel, the logic goes, and the Bill-Monica calls become public. NSA might be using the same tactic, to avoid too much damage in the 9-11 post-mortem.