FR Current Events Project: Keeping Tabs on the Media's Attacks on Bush and the Republican Party

All Media Sources | July 10, 2002

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FROM A 1995 ISSUE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON DAILY: The UW is one of 10 universities in the nation chosen by the Institute of International Mediation and Conflict Resolution (IIMCR) to send students to a month-long summer program in The Hague, Netherlands, in July 1996. 'The University of Washington was selected because of its free-spirited and independent-minded student body as well as its fine academic standing,' said IIMCR President Cody Shearer.

FROM A 1996 ISSUE OF THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY DAILY: "The symposium is scheduled to take place from July to August at the Institute of Higher European Studies in The Hague, Netherlands, one of Europe's leading schools of international affairs. 'Stanford University was selected because of its free-spirited and independent-minded student body, as well as its fine academic standing,' Cody Shearer, the architect of the program and president of the Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution, said in a press release.

ASSOCIATED PRESS: In contacts under federal investigation, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott's brother-in-law received thousands of dollars from an associate of accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic around the time he tried to arrange the Bosnian fugitive's surrender, according to lawyers and government officials. Talbott's brother-in-la

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Those who jumped from IGI to the administration include:

Raymond Kelly, who became Clinton's Secret Service chief.

Ricki Seidman, who joined the Justice Department.

Brooke Shearer, who joined Hillary's staff and ran a White House intern program before moving to a job at the Interior Department.

Even Lenzner's daughter. She became an intern to former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos.

Meantime, those who left the administration for IGI include:

Former FBI General Counsel Howard Shapiro, who has signed on as Lenzner's lawyer. Shapiro was supposed to get to the bottom of the Filegate scandal. Instead, he did damage control for the White House, sneaking officials a peek at FBI agent Gary Aldrich's manuscript to ''Unlimited Access.''

Former FBI official Larry Potts (of Ruby Ridge fame), who's now an IGI executive.

Milton, who started writing Hillary's biography as an admirer, suggests the first lady is behind the hiring of private eyes.

Before Clinton's first run at the White House, Hillary hired detective Ivan Duda to track down all his mistresses. That way, Duda told Milton, Hillary would be prepared for any charges that might come up in the campaign.

In 1992, Hillary's law partner, Vince Foster, was tasked with hiring private detective Jerry Parks to further probe Clinton's affairs, says British reporter Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in ''The Secret Life of Bill Clinton.'' (Parks was killed in 1993.)

What's more, Hillary in 1992 helped enlist a private security agency to snuff a rumor that Clinton had sex with a black prostitute, Milton says.

They weren't the only private dicks hired. The Clinton-Gore campaign had two more on retainer to smash ''bimbo eruptions.'' One was Anthony Pellicano of Los Angeles and the other was Jack Palladino of San Francisco.

More than likely, bringing Lenzner into the White House fold was also Hillary's idea.

She and Lenzner go way back. They worked on the Watergate hearings. They also served on the board of Legal Services Corp. and have a mutual friend in Mickey Kantor, another Legal Services veteran.

Asked if Hillary was a client, Lenzner refused to answer in a May 1998 deposition by Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group suing the Clinton administration on several fronts, including campaign finance irregularities and FBI files on Republicans. He cited attorney-client privilege.

But Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton points out that Lenzner had no problem naming other clients.

What's more, Hillary's friend Brooke Shearer left IGI, where she worked as one of Lenzner's operatives, to join Hillary's staff. Shearer is married to Strobe Talbott, Clinton's old Oxford roommate, an ex-Time magazine writer and now the State Department's top official dealing with Russia.

There's yet another connection. And here's where it gets spooky.

Willey claims that, on the eve of her January 1998 deposition in the Jones sexual harassment case, a strange jogger approached her near her home and asked her about her punctured car tires and her kids and lost cat - by name. ''Get the message?'' he said. She's since picked the man out of a photo with Clinton.

Despite the threat, Willey went on to testify - though without much candor - that Clinton forced himself on her in the Oval Office. Starr later gave her a lie detector test, which she passed. Clinton denied her charges before a grand jury.

Appearing last week on CNBC's ''Hardball,'' Willey would not name the jogger, saying Starr is still investigating the case. But the next night, host Chris Matthews identified him as Brooke Shearer's twin brother.

Cody Shearer worked as a subcontractor for IGI on at least one case, Milton says. In 1992, he was charged with digging up dirt on President Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. (Shearer is reportedly close to Vice President Al Gore's fund-raiser pal, Peter Knight.)

On CNBC's ''Rivera Live'' last week, Lenzner denied Shearer ever worked for him.

But under oath during his May 1998 Judicial Watch deposition, Lenzner admitted Shearer ''was a subcontractor on one job for us.''

Through his lawyer, Shearer has vehemently denied threatening Willey, and says he can prove it.

But someone did. It's hard to believe she'd fabricate such a detailed story. And someone put clusters of nails in the middle treads of three of her tires; the mechanic said it was no accident. Someone also likely stole her cat, which is a common act of revenge in the South.

Would a president sign off on such an attack against a citizen? Not likely. Now ask yourself: Would this president?

from TPDL 1999-May-14, from NewsMax:

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This might explain why all the clintonites are running for office including Bowles in NC.

Any Freeper that says they are not voting for Liddy Dole needs to read this thread. We need to defeat all of the clintonites to keep them out of the Congress!

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Based on what Willey had told him off-camera, Matthews named Cody Shearer, a longtime friend of Bill with ties to the White House's favorite secret policeman, Terry Lenzner.

Willey also charged that former Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor had pressured a key corroborating witness to her story, Julie Hiatt Steele, to change her account -- which kept independent counsel Ken Starr from including Willey's charge in his impeachment referral.


Derek, Cody and Brooke Shearer are longtime friends of the Clintons who have been linked in published reports to IGI, the White House's regular private detective agency run by Terry Lenzner. Brooke Shearer is married to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott.



But Chung and Willey aren't the only Clinton scandal witnesses to complain about threats of physical violence. Others have gone on the record with similar stories, much to the chagrin of an American press corps that pretends not to notice:

"I was told that if I didn't cooperate, that they knew I went jogging and they couldn't guarantee the safety of my pretty little legs," revealed Sally Perdue in 1994, when a British reporter questioned her about attempts to hush up a 1983 Clinton affair. Perdue identifed the person delivering the threat as Democratic operative Ron Tucker.


Mr. Moldea said he regrets speculation that Mr. Flynt's quest for dirt on pro-impeachment Republicans was orchestrated by the White House or Investigative Group International (IGI), a firm headed by Terry Lenzner that has close ties to the Clinton administration. He said Mr. Flynt remained publicly ambivalent about the possibility of a White House connection in order "to give me some cover."


Mr. Flynt, while unveiling details about the personal life of Mr. Barr, Georgia Republican, Monday night, initially gave the impression he might have been indirectly in contact with the White House, but later stated there was no contact of any kind.


Mr. Clinton, who has declined to call for Mr. Flynt to cease and desist, does not feel he is being helped by the publisher of Hustler magazine, according to White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart.

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Former Arkansas state auditor [1981 to 1995], Julia Hughes Jones, was scheduled to appear on CNBC's HARDBALL with Chris Matthews on Tuesday. Jones, according to an insider, was going to use the HARDBALL appearance to tell stories that have not yet publicly been told about Gov. Bill Clinton and his Arkansas associates -- stories that Julie Hughes Jones is preparing to detail in an explosive tell-all book.

But sometime over the weekend, two files from Julia Hughes Jones' computer were mysteriously corrupted.

Files that contained information she was going to fax to HARDBALL producers!

"Someone over the weekend broke into her computer and destroyed a memo of talking points that she had typed up to Chris Matthews and his producers, ahead of her appearance," a source close to Jones revealed late Monday night.

Jones, who now lives in Florida, had just returned from Little Rock where she attend her father's funeral when she noticed the corrupted files that had contained notes of names and events she wanted to bring up on HARDBALL.

There may also be evidence that her computer was used to print out documents while she was out of town.

Ms. Jones is said to be the ultimate Arkansas insider. "Clinton doesn't know what she knows, but he knows that she knows a great deal," claims an associate who has seen an early manuscript of her book.

"She was friends with Charlie Trie for 12 years. She even went to China with him once. She knows many untold stories about Hillary Clinton."

But on Monday, HARDBALL mysteriously called-off her appearance. She has apparently been rescheduled for early 1999, a show source confirmed.

from TPDL 1998-Dec-21, from NewsMax, by Carl Limbacher (see also http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1998/12/21/45217):

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I have been sitting here stunned and I think know why -- this is the first time all of this has been together in one place that I know of. All those dots are connecting and you can see that the plan was for Gore to continue on this absolute corruptness of the clintons and the people they surround themselves with.

Now I firmly believe that the people attempting to discredit Bush/Cheney are doing so to get ms. clinton in the White House. For months I have been saying she has no intention of running in 2004! I am not so sure now.

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All of this is MAKING MY HEAD HURT!!!

Would someone PLEASE get me back on "Bush's Corporate Corruption"!!! We wouldn't want to get off track, now would we?

It's amazing what the "reporters" didn't report on the "evening news".

The Clintons need to be arrested on RICO charges.

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This might explain why all the clintonites are running for office including Bowles in NC.

And I guess my gut was right .. Hilda is one dangerous women

Speaking of her .. I haven't heard much of her lately

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Why should we hear from Hillary Clinton when all of her servants are doing her dirty work...EVERYTHING connects to HILLARY CLINTON!!! From the Watergate days until this very day she has been behind the smear, investigation of her enemies and whatever else needs to be taken care of. The witch is EVIL!

Didn't anyone notice that Chelsea was in the "news" today. Hillary needed a little "warm and fuzzy" to remind people that she is a "mother"? Just like when she was "helping her husband" run for whatever. She even had Chelsea when she needed to be warm and fuzzy in Arkansas. Don't even try to tell me that she wouldn't do that! HA!!!

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There is so much information here that I don't think my brain is computing all of it. My brain is spinning in overdrive right about now!

Going to digest all of this in the morning when I am fresh!

I am stunned to see all of this!

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Another person who might be a good one to send this info to is Paul Sperry [do I have his name right?].

He had a run-in with x42 and was actually barred from White House events because he had the audacity to ask x42 a hardball question at a WH press party (if I'm remembering the details correctly) ..... and I think he's a pretty fair investigative reporter ..... if such a creature even exists any more.

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Senator Hillary Rodham in 2001: The First Step Back to the Oval Office

It's a distressing but completely possible scenario, given Hillary's inexplicable popularity in the state. (As a journalist friend of mine says, "I think Hillary is just as demented as Bill, which is why she might run.") But it's just her first step, I think. With her husband's presidency destined to be recorded by historians (even the most liberal ones) as one that ranks just above Warren G. Harding's, Hillary is hell-bent on making sure she doesn't share the same fate. So, with a successful run in New York, aided by Chuck Schumer (who owes her for his defeat of Al D'Amato last fall) and New Jersey Sen. Robert Torricelli, the man who's been floating-with her nod of approval, undoubtedly-a possible candidacy, Hillary returns to DC as her own woman. On Jan. 5, The New York Times gave its tacit approval to a Hillary run in an editorial: "[W]e are strongly on the side of large fields, intense competition and the general theory of the more the merrier, including those who move to New York to find work."

Then-and yes, it gets much worse-she plots to take back the White House in 2008. It's possible she'll stick with Bill: In that case, President Rodham would have two missions: rehabilitate his image while foisting her own agenda on the country. Or, if she dumps the lug, which any sane woman would, she'll make a go of it on her own, unencumbered by the baggage of a discredited president. Women and Michael Moore (an honorary woman) on the Upper West Side of Manhattan will rejoice. Intermission.

The first step in Hillary's Senate campaign is probably already under way: It's unusual for a magazine to order a second printing, but I wouldn't be surprised if the February issue of Vanity Fair has another million copies on the loading dock right now, ready to be delivered to the White House. Gail Sheehy, who writes a fawning profile of the First Lady called "The Clintons: Why Hillary Won't Dump Bill," has never been more smarmy in her prose. As an old pro in the business told me Sunday, Sheehy is Sidney Blumenthal. Without the facelift. But why get catty? Anyway, the entire piece is littered with nauseating paeans to Hillary, but the following is surely a classic:

After describing the Clintons' stormy summer, including when Hillary allegedly discovered the truth about Monica Lewinsky shortly before her husband's Aug. 17 non-apology to the nation, and her subsequent cold-shoulder treatment of him, even when Clinton invited "more black brothers than ever" to a White House prayer breakfast, Sheehy exults in the First Lady's stump performance in the '98 elections. She writes: "The Clinton who found redemption in the fall of '98 was not Bill, who continued to infuriate Republicans with his unrepentant answers to questions sent to him by the Judiciary Committee. It was Hillary, who erased the memory of the '94 Democratic congressional defeat by emerging as the biggest draw of the fall '98 elections." (Interestingly, Sheehy reveals that Alan Dershowitz, the obnoxious lawyer who defends Clinton at every opportunity on cable talk shows, was a guest last summer at a Martha's Vineyard dinner at financier Steven Rattner's home. Dershowitz and Clinton, the latter shunned by most guests, "discussed the Bible.")

Sheehy's not quite accurate, as the Republicans held control of both the House and Senate, but who am I to interrupt the all-knowing hagiographer? "She was a woman whose public world was now an oyster full of pearls. Hillary's valiant year may turn out to be comparable to Jacqueline Kennedy's example of dignified grief after the assassination of her husband."

Second place? Here's my nomination: "She is also a protector. Her life strategy, decided long ago, was to take the raw material of a brilliant, emotionally battered child with a good heart and a desperate ambition and shape him into a political star to which she could hitch her wagon full dreams for changing the world. It took a Hillary to raise a president." Finally, the Jesse Jackson factor. How Jackson, who's self-righteous about racial inequality to the point of threatening a primary challenge to Al Gore next year, got mixed up with the Clintons is anybody's guess. Just another attention whore. But there he was at the White House, the night before Clinton's grand jury testimony, "ministering" to a "distraught" Chelsea. Jackson told her stories from the Bible, likened her father to King David of Israel, "a talented musician, just as Bill is. And yet he became weak when he saw Bathsheba." Jackson added, for good measure, "What's different here is that Ken Starr is able to play God with government funding."

You get the gist. It's said in the gossip columns that Sheehy and Carl Bernstein are competing for whose bio of Hillary comes out first. My money's on Sheehy, since Bernstein's seemed to have writer's block since the wild 80s, but I can only hope her tome will be remaindered as fast as Dan Quayle gets in and out of the GOP presidential race. Then again, as a Red Sox fan, I don't hold out for miracles, especially when an author so well-connected in the publishing racket is involved.

Shame on Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter for publishing, and paying for, such utter garbage.

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IMO she has used her daughter since the day she was born

Have you heard of this

Port of Long Beach
In yet another bizarre twist of this story, news is just emerging that the Long Beach Naval Station, closed in 1993 as part of the downsizing of U.S. bases, is about to be leased to a Communist China-owned shipping company under an agreement that was only made possible by the intervention of the White House

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My brain is spinning in overdrive right about now!

LOL .. mine too

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Thanks! Will track him down in the morning!

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IGI, headed by Watergate icon Terry Lenzner, is famous for its prominent clients, aggressive tactics and close ties to President Clinton and his wife, Hillary. Lenzner and the First Lady have known each other since the 1970s, when Lenzner was a lawyer on the staff of the Senate Watergate committee.


Clinton lawyers David Kendall and Bob Bennett admitted in a February 1998 statement to having employed IGI since 1994.

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I remembered when that happened with Long Beach and couldn't believe there was no uproar. Guess Monica came in handy afterall -- she sure diverted attention away from the agenda of the clintons.

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OK .. what is this

Ex-Im Bank is a government- held corporation, managed by a Board of Directors whose members serve at the discretion of the President of the United States. A key player in the China transactions is Board member Maria Haley, who served under Governor Clinton in Arkansas, and who moved from the White House in 1995 to become Ex-Im’s Asia-Pacific Director

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This is all so shocking! I am stunned and at a loss for words which doesn't happen very often.

This is one of those two two aspirin and go to sleep nights. Wake up in the morning and digest all of this!

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Hillary Rodham Clinton; Clinton aides Sidney Blumenthal and Betsey Wright; private investigators Terry Lenzner and Jack Palladino; and the Pentagon press office

Oh, and add the butt kisser royal, Gene Lyons, to the DIRT DIGGING...

Hillary Clinton has, basically, contempt for the press, and also great fear, because of all sorts of things done to them in Arkansas by GENE LYONS...so-called Columnist, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette