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Buying access © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com With the release of a two-year-old confidential report to Attorney General Janet Reno exposing the agency's protective cover of President and Mrs. Clinton in the 1996 campaign finance scandal, I believe it is high time the report's author, Chuck LaBella, be given public praise. You see, I met with LaBella during my involvement in the scandal and gave him information critical to his report. On March 9, 1998, I pled guilty to violations of campaign finance laws before Federal Judge Manuel Real. A few days after the proceeding, I was approached at a private club in downtown...

WASHINGTON – Organizers and those attending Thursday night's Africare Awards dinner honoring entertainer/activist Harry Belafonte made a concerted effort to suppress protests and questions regarding Belafonte's racially charged comments. Belafonte abruptly turned his back and ended an interview, thundering "Good night," when asked about the recent controversy. Harassment A small group of Belafonte protesters were harassed by Africare's staff as part of an effort to stifle any mention of the entertainer's recent comparison of Secretary of State Colin Powell to a "house slave" and Belafonte's successful effort to remove National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as the keynote speaker for the...

Washed-up calypso singer Harry Belafonte has succeeded in getting Bush National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice yanked as the keynote speaker from Africare's annual fund-raising dinner this week. Last week Belafonte, who is scheduled to be honored with by the group for his "humanitarian efforts," boasted to MSNBC's Phil Donahue, "If Condoleezza Rice became the keynote speaker at the event.... I would not be able to be there. I told them I would not come." While Africare officials dispute that they took their marching orders from the militant former star, they acknowledge that Rice was invitied to deliver to keynote address...