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To: Stand Watch Listen
The Washington Post has reported that the two major political parties have signed off on a deal under which neither will pursue public corruption cases against the other.

Signed off? I don't believe you will find this issue documented by either party, it was more of a "gentleman's agreement" that has now gone bad.

A Bush administration insider has privately leaked word that a deal was struck between Democratic congressional leaders and the Bush White House not to prosecute Bill and/or Hillary Clinton on an array of charges related to the Pardongate scandal, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly claimed Friday on his nationally syndicated "Radio Factor" show.

"A very highly placed source - and I mean this guy knows what's going on in the Bush administration - told me about a month ago that when President Bush took office he had meetings with all of the Democratic leadership ... one-on-one meetings in the Oval Office," O'Reilly said.

"The Democratic leadership made it quite clear to Mr. Bush that he would not get any cooperation - zero - on the part of the Democrats in the Senate and in the House if he pursued any kind of a criminal investigation against Bill Clinton."

O'Reilly said that according to his source, "Basically, they said look, if you embarrass us - by us we mean the Democratic Party - if you, Bush-Ashcroft, indict Clinton on bribery or go after Hillary or any of this - we're gonna shut you down. We're not gonna do anything. You're not going to get any [legislation] passed in four years."

The talk host's highly placed administration source said Democrat leaders then explained to Bush, "If you put this thing on the back track and just play the game the way we've always played it here in the Justice Department since Watergate, where the powerful protect each other - then we'll keep an open mind on your legislation."

Newsmax


8 posted on 02/04/2003 10:00:44 AM PST by ravingnutter
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To: ravingnutter
I watched the SOS on CSPAN and one of the things that I noticed and have not seen any discussion of was when Bush said "WE WILL NOT BE BLACKMAILED". Funny thing, the camera was on the republicans as he said this and I noticed many of them looking in the direction of the wide butted SINator and they were wearing a sh*t eating grin. I thought that I was just seeing what I wanted to see. Now, I wonder.


I became interested in politics because I was so incensed at the Clintoon Crime Family. They disgust me. I pray everyday that this government has the courage to take down this corruption.

20 posted on 02/04/2003 1:50:21 PM PST by Diva Duck (Reading List: Sellout, Savage Nation, Slander, Breakdown, Black Mass, Final Days, Hell to Pay, etc.)
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