Hillary's Private Eye Arrested in Reporter Intimidation Case

NewsMax ^ | 11/23/02 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

A California private detective who worked to discredit Clinton Sexgate accusers Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers has been arrested in connection with attempts to intimidate a reporter for the Los Angeles Times after the FBI caught him with an arsenal of explosives.

Anthony J. Pellicano was arrested Thursday after a search of his office by a dozen FBI agents turned up an "array of explosives," reported New York's Daily News on Saturday.

"Agents seized plastic explosives, detonating cord, blasting caps and two handguns," the paper said.

Pellicano's stash of explosives "could be used to bring down a plane or blow up a car," an FBI agent said.

In addition, the safe in Pellicano's Sunset Boulevard Office contained 15 to 20 bundles of cash, "the majority of which bore $10,000 wrappers," according to the Los Angeles Times.

In February, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton was alleged to have hired Pellicano in 1992 in an attempt to discredit Gennifer Flowers' claims of a twelve year affair with Mr. Clinton.

Pellicano's office was searched Thursday after ex-con Alexander Proctor told police that the Clinton-connected detective had paid him $10,000 to intimidate Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch into stopping an investigation into a Mafia extortion plot against actor Steven Seagal.

According to Proctor, Seagal hired Pellicano, who in-turn subcontracted the job to him.

Federal prosecutors allege that Proctor broke the windshield of Busch's car and left a dead fish on the front seat. The fish had a single long-stemmed red rose in its mouth, with a sign placed nearby that read simply, "Stop."

The episode bears an eerie resemblance to the account of Clinton sex-accuser Sally Perdue, who told the London Telegraph in 1994 that after she was threatened with physical violence, her car windshield was broken and spent shotgun shell was left on the seat. Perdue abruptly relocated to China a few months after talking to the Telegraph, shortly after Paula Jones sued Mr. Clinton for sexual harassment.

Though Pellicano's name never surfaced in connection with Perdue's allegations, he reportedly played a key role in attempts to discredit both Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers.

Four days after the Lewinsky story broke in Jan. 1998, ex-Lewinsky boyfriend Andy Bleiler came forward with the claim that she had stalked him. The Washington state school teacher also contended that Lewinsky wanted to become a White House intern so she could perform oral sex on then-President Clinton.

"I'm going to Washington to get my presidential knee pads," Bleiler's lawyer, Terry Giles, quoted Lewinsky as saying.

"Anthony Pellicano, the L.A.-based private investigator and O.J. defense team veteran [was] responsible for digging up Andy Bleiler," the New York Post's Andrea Peyser reported days later. Sexgate provocatuer Lucianne Goldberg told Peyser that Pellicano's services were bought and paid for by the Clinton White House.

When Peyser confronted the Los Angeles private detective with Goldberg's claim, he didn't deny it. "You're a smart girl. No comment," Pellicano told the Post reporter.

Digging up Bleiler's "presidential kneepads" story wasn't the first time Pellicano had gone to bat for the Clintons.

According to Ron Kessler's 1995 best-seller, "Inside the White House," Clinton's first presidential campaign relied on Pellicano's expertise in the field of audio analysis to discredit Gennifer Flowers' smoking gun tapes.

"The Clinton camp made much of the fact that Anthony J. Pellicano, an expert on audio recording analysis, had told the press that a twelve-minute portion of the tape of conversations between Flowers and Clinton had been 'selectively edited' at two points," Kessler reported.

To counter Pellicano's claims, Flowers submitted her recordings to Truth Verification Labs, which found them to be 100 percent authentic.

In 1999 Flowers filed a defamation suit against Clinton campaign officials James Carville and George Stephanopoulos - along with then-first lady Hillary Clinton - based on their attempts to use Pellicano's analysis to discredit her.

During a February court appearance, the head of Flowers' legal team, Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman, told the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, "Anthony Pellicano was a private investigator hired by Mrs. Clinton herself. And he's the one who did the analysis of the tapes."

Of the more than two dozen media reports on Pellicano's Thursday arrest so far, none have mentioned his ties to the Clinton attack machine.

[Welsh Rabbit]

Maybe this is the guy who offed Vince Foster....

[Mind-numbed Robot]

In 1999 Flowers filed a defamation suit against Clinton campaign officials James Carville and George Stephanopoulos - along with then-first lady Hillary Clinton - based on their attempts to use Pellicano's analysis to discredit her.

Does anyone remember how this case turned out? Klayman is involved in some high-profile stuff but most of it just disappears from the radar screen after an initial buildup.

[DCPatriot]

Poor Pellicano is going to be sleeping with the fishes.

He will sing like a bird..especially if they question him down in Cuba.

[catpuppy]

Mistakes were made. Old news. Nothing to see here. Let's just move on.

[Jack Black]

Al Gore, John Edwards and John Kerry are the leading Dem presidential hopefuls. Tommy, I don't think he's got a shot even in his dreams. He just lost the Senate and he comes from a state with a few hundred thousand supporters. Hillary is too smart to run in '04. W is too strong and will beat which ever sacrificial lamb the Rats put up.

[wardaddy]

You guys see this?

Unbelievable!

[bmwcyle]

Jerry Parks is dead. Hillary has to pick this skum to do her dirty work. He won't live long if he says too much about Witch Hillary during his years leaning on women for her days of keeping low flying zipper boy out of trouble.

[wardaddy]

BTW, I think illegal possesion of explosives carries a 10 spot min/man in the Feds. If it can be proved that it was part of a larger Fed conspiracy with intent then it goes up to 20 years of which one must do 87% minimum.

This Rat is in deep doo-doo.

[Travis McGee]

Maybe he will get a loose tongue to make a deal?

[edwin hubble]

BUT...

Does he have links to the Arkansas Mafia?

and BTW:
He may be angry, male and white,
but this doesn't make him and angry, white male in the mainstream press. He has the wrong political credentials.

[edwin hubble]

typo in post above

an angry white male,

[mr.pink]

Boy-oh-boy...this guy sounds more dangerous than Rush and Hannity combined.

But I guess for Dems it works like this...

Rush/hannity throw rhetorical bombs...let's burn them at the stake.

This guy throws real bombs...let's hire him.

[Tacis]

Hillary's PI? Hillary stopped employing retired Arkie stat troopers for dirty work? What happened to Livingstone, he's in California, isn't he?

While I doubt any one on this list watches Begala/Carvil on CNN, my bet is that they will spin this and claim that this is just a story planted by middle-of-the-road talk radio Clinton haters to give them something else to use to attack the ultra-left wing, extremist liberals. I'm sure that, whatever the dispute these fine fellows might have had, at its core, it was just about sex.

Are there any dots between Pellicano and Pelosi? Could there be a family relationship? After all, Hillary hired him and Pelosi stood on the steps of the Capital with all those other criminal backers and lied for him about the same kind of issue. Can some one check contribution, service to nonprofits, memberships to see how close Pellicano and Pelosi are?

[Paul Atreides]

Rot at the core spreads outward.

[yoswif]

IMO, Paul Wellstone would have been the biggest Dem threat to Hillary's '08' presidential aspirations. But he's dead now.

[kcvl]

But in the aftermath of Bleiler's press conference, only the New York Post's Andrea Peyser was eagle-eyed enough to notice that Bleiler had not just appeared out of thin air. In an interview with Lucianne Goldberg, Peyser learned that, "Anthony Pellicano, the L.A.-based private investigator and O.J. defense team veteran [was] responsible for digging up Andy Bleiler." Pellicano's services, Goldberg claimed, were bought and paid for by the White House.

Peyser didn't just rely on Goldberg's word. She checked with Pellicano himself. His response: "No comment. You're a smart girl. No comment." No wonder. Pellicano has a lot not to comment about.

His name has surfaced before in the Clinton scandal wars, going back all the way to 1992. It was Monica's chief predecessor, Gennifer Flowers, who prompted his involvement back then.

In the snows of New Hampshire, Clinton's presidential candidacy lay dying, mortally wounded by Flowers' revelation of a 12-year Clinton affair. And when he and his wife went on "60 Minutes" to deny the charge, Flowers delivered the coup de grace. She had tapes. Hours of them. And they were not so much smoking-gun as they were steaming.

There was Gov. Clinton chuckling as his longtime lover complimented him on his own ability to administer oral sex. She called him "Bill." He called her "honey." And they both agreed that then-presidential contender Mario Cuomo "acted like a Mafioso."

Enter Pellicano. According to Ron Kessler's 1995 best-seller, "Inside the White House," Anthony Pellicano provided a scientific basis for the excuse Clintonites would offer for years: The tapes were doctored.

"The Clinton camp made much of the fact that Anthony J. Pellicano, an expert on audio recording analysis, had told the press that a twelve-minute portion of the tape of conversations between Flowers and Clinton had been 'selectively edited' at two points." ("Inside the White House," page 161)

It made little difference that Flowers' tapes had been authenticated by the world-renowned Truth Verification Laboratories. Pellicano offered team Clinton -- and the press -- a way out. And most of the media took it. For years to come, journalists who knew better would refer to Flowers' "alleged tapes."

Even after the Lewinsky story hit, weeks after Clinton had admitted to a sexual relationship with Flowers in his sworn Paula Jones deposition, "journalist" George Stephanopoulos, interviewed for a WABC Radio Network special report on Monicagate, still claimed that Gennifer's steaming-gun tapes were doctored.

Is it a coincidence that Anthony Pellicano, the man who created the myth of the doctored tapes, should just happen to stumble upon Andy Bleiler, who in turn proceeded to dump a wheelbarrowful of mud on Monica for Clinton's 1998 State of the Union warm-up act?

Or is Pellicano, as Dick Morris might tell you, a card-carrying member of Bill Clinton's "Secret Police"?

When and if trial managers get a chance to question Sidney Blumenthal, they ought to ask him about that.

[kcvl]

Blumenthal was also asked about any contacts he may have had with three private investigators: Terry F. Lenzner, who heads the Investigative Group Inc. (IGI) and who has been hired by the law firm of Williams & Connolly, Clinton's private attorneys in the broad Whitewater investigation; Jack Palladino, who is based in San Francisco; and Anthony J. Pellicano, who is based in Los Angeles.

In an interview this week, Pellicano denied he has been doing background investigations on Starr or his staff. He refused to say whether he is doing other work on the Lewinsky investigation. Palladino looked into Clinton's relationships with other women for the 1992 Clinton campaign.

[kcvl]

Aug. 24 From Thailand, Michael Jackson denies the allegations. Michael Jackson's security consultant, Anthony Pellicano, says that the boy's father attempted to extort million from Michael Jackson to set up a production company, and that Michael Jackson receives 25 to 30 such extortion attempts a year. PepsiCo says that it will continue to sponsor the Dangerous tour and to air a commercial starring Michael Jackson.

[backhoe]

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[kcvl]

MICHAEL CARDOZO owns an estate in eastern Maryland. Cardozo
heads BILL CLINTON'S legal defense team. Cardozo is the
son-in-law of NATHAN LANDOW. Landow raises big bucks for the
Democrats. On the weekend of July 17-18, 1993, Cardozo/Landow
are visited by VINCE FOSTER, WEBSTER HUBBELL, and (reportedly)
GEORGE STEPHANOPOLOUS. [1] A few days later, Vince Foster is
found dead under mysterious circumstances.

Working for the Clinton team is a private detective, ANTHONY
PELLICANO. He is part of what former Clinton team player DICK
MORRIS has called "The White House Secret Police." Pellicano
once worked for the O.J. SIMPSON defense team. [2] In the past,
Simpson has gone golfing with Bill Clinton.

LUCIANNE GOLDBERG revealed to Andrea Peyser, a reporter with the
New York Post, that one "Anthony Pellicano" was "responsible for
digging up Andy Bleiler." [3] Bleiler was the former teacher of
MONICA LEWINSKY who suggested that Lewinsky might be a "stalker."