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Daddy, what is a vet? Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking. What is a vet? He is the cop on the beat who ...

Ex-President Clinton said Friday that the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation would pay half the $650,000 annual rent on his tony Manhattan post-presidential office space. But what he didn't tell reporters was that one of the high-rolling donors who has apparently pledged at least $1 milllion to the cause is none other than Denise Rich, the New York City songwriter-socialite whose $1 million in Democratic party campaign contributions is believed to have influenced Clinton's decision to pardon her ex-husband, fugitive billionaire Marc Rich. The Clintons refuse to release a full list of the donors who have agreed to underwrite the ...

January 2, 2001 Copyright (c) 2001 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Rumsfeld's Challenge: To Recover From a Lost Decade By Andrew J. Bacevich. Mr. Bacevich, a retired Army officer, is professor of international relations at Boston University. The defense establishment over which Donald Rumsfeld will preside as the next secretary of defense is unquestionably the world's most formidable -- the only existing military force capable of projecting power globally. It is also a military that verges on a nervous breakdown, partly self-induced, partly the result of the neglect and abuse to which it has been subjected during ...

WASHINGTON - The CIA is investigating 160 employees and contractors for exchanging "inappropriate" e-mail and off-color jokes in a secret chat room created within the agency's classified computer network and hidden from management. CIA spokesman Bill Harlow said the willful misuse of computers did not "involve the compromise of any classified information." But the probe, nearing completion, involves employees at all levels of the agency, including some senior managers, and most likely will result in at least a few firings, agency officials said. "The serious thing for us is people willfully misusing the computer system and trying to hide ...

Daddy, what is a vet? Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking. What is a vet? He is the cop on the beat who ...

A Democratic state senator had voters in Palm Beach County, Fla., instructed on how to cast their ballots for Vice President Al Gore, a poll worker has revealed to NBC News. On Wednesday, Palm Beach County poll worker Bernice Epstein told the network's Greg Jarrett that Senator Ron Klein had her steer votes to Gore. "Ron Klein, our state senator, came to me and told me that when we give out these palm cards, give them out to people, I should tell people that they must be very careful to punch Number 5 [for Gore] because the arrows were ...

Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore’s new campaign ad is running in your state and says he is “fighting for us.” But the true story of his Gulf War vote says he is usually fighting for Al. Here is the inside story of what happened. The Gulf War vote was pretty serious business. I can’t think of anyone who didn’t have a lump in his or her throat as they weighed the situation — 500,000 American troops already deployed; Iraq’s Saddam Hussein promising the “mother of all battles”; most “experts” predicting heavy American losses. The choice was not easy. Senators with ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A committee of the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted late on Wednesday to recommend that the chief justice of the state's highest court be impeached. Saying that he lied under oath, breached judicial ethics rules and encouraged misconduct by other judges, the House Judiciary Committee sent three articles of impeachment against state Supreme Court Chief Justice David Brock to the full house for a vote on July 12. Brock has denied any wrongdoing. The vote sets the stage for an impeachment trial in the state Senate that would start in August if the full House follows ...

Despite his sworn denial that he knew little about the Buddhist temple he visited on April 29, 1996, or that he was aware that his visit was a fund raiser for the Clinton-Gore campaign, Al Gore had ties to the temple’s leadership stretching back seven long years, according to Kenneth Timmerman in a forthcoming article in the American Spectator. During his four-hour interview with Justice Department official Robert J. Conrad Jr., Gore said that although he had heard about the temple he had never visited it before. He vehemently denied that he was aware of the fact that the ...

The first lady's biggest Afro-American backer in New York has warned her she hasn't done enough for his people lately. A Tuesday story in the Washington Times reports in its interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton that: He charged Hillary Clinton risks losing her Democratic race for the Senate against Republican Rep. Rick Lazio if she doesn't do more to appeal to the large number of black voters in New York City. Sharpton criticized her for not calling for President Clinton's Justice Department to take over the New York Police Department after a federal report, which accused the NYPD of ...

Author John Connolly for months had been labeling members of the Office of the Independent Counsel as "fags", "faggots" and "queers" during conversations with media figures and Washington insiders. Private investigators had been hired more than a year ago to dig deep into the private sex lives and business dealings of major and minor Clinton critics. But it wasn't until earlier this week, when the Internet exposed details of the secret project, that TALK editor Tina Brown, MIRAMAX chief Harvey Weinstein and others became highly concerned INSANE CLOWN POSSE might be too hot to produce! On Friday, Brown & ...

Monday May 29 5:49 PM ET Gore Tells Memorial Day Crowd of Vietnam Misgivings By Thomas Ferraro ELIZABETH, Pa. (Reuters) - Al Gore (news - web sites) recalled the misgivings he had before volunteering to serve in the Vietnam War as he helped lead a Memorial Day salute on Monday in a small town in Pennsylvania, a key state in his White House bid. ``May God bless those who we remember today and may God bless the America that never forgets them,'' the vice president said in honor of those who sacrificed their lives in service to the nation. Standing ...

Monday May 29 5:49 PM ET Gore Tells Memorial Day Crowd of Vietnam Misgivings By Thomas Ferraro ELIZABETH, Pa. (Reuters) - Al Gore (news - web sites) recalled the misgivings he had before volunteering to serve in the Vietnam War as he helped lead a Memorial Day salute on Monday in a small town in Pennsylvania, a key state in his White House bid. ``May God bless those who we remember today and may God bless the America that never forgets them,'' the vice president said in honor of those who sacrificed their lives in service to the nation. Standing ...

NEW YORK- Al Gore was hoping to get George W. Bush, but he got Alan Keyes instead. Keyes, the undisputed champion of Republican debaters, agreed to BSNN's request to debate Al Gore. The 30 minute debate took place in the Edwin Newman auditorium at BSNN's New York headquarters, in front of 250 invited guests and BSNN employees. The candidates agreed to the debate format, which called for questions only from members of the audience. Each candidate would be allowed to answer each question, with Mr. Gore always answering first. There would be no follow up questions from the audience, ...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CNN, ABC spike reports after taping interviews with e-mail whistle-blower WASHINGTON -- CNN and ABC News have canceled plans to air interviews with a veteran White House computer manager who says that first lady Hillary Clinton's office was behind a scheme to hide more than a million e-mail messages from investigators, a source says. Sheryl Hall, a career federal worker who ran the White House's computer and phone systems from 1992 to 1999, taped interviews with both networks after making the explosive charges in court documents filed last month. After taping the segments about three weeks ago, "she ...

RAY'S FILEGATE REPORT VALIDATES JUDICIAL WATCH CRITICISM STARR AND RAY HAVE FAILED TO DO THEIR JOB Neither Talked to Crucial Witnesses (Washington, D.C.) Inexplicable and perhaps improper leaks of the upcoming Independent Counsel's report on Filegate confirm Judicial Watch's criticism of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, and new, but not seen, Independent Counsel Bob Ray. Judicial Watch, in the course of its investigations on behalf of those whose FBI files were misused, discovered that neither Ken Starr nor Bob Ray have interviewed or called before the grand jury key witnesses in the burgeoning Filegate scandal, including but not limited to Linda ...

Reno: refused to order independent inquiry A CONFIDENTIAL report into fundraising abuses in the last presidential election has cast shadows over Al Gore's current bid for the White House and Hillary Clinton's campaign for elected office. An inquiry by the Justice Department's former campaign finance investigator found a "pattern of conduct" by President Clinton, his wife and the Vice-President, that warranted a full investigation by an independent prosecutor. The report called for an outside investigation into the "entire landscape" of campaign finance allegations and suggested that schemes may have been "conjured up by sophisticated political operatives to circumvent" election ...

New records and documents show that Vice President Al Gore would have had reason to believe the luncheon at a tax-exempt Buddhist temple, which was attended by some of the Democratic Party's top fund-raisers, was for the purpose of raising political money, it will be reported on Sunday, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Chris Mondics writing in Los Angeles for the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER is planning to report that one e-mail written by the vice president himself shows that he knew he would be attending a fund-raiser in Southern California on April 29, 1996 though he does not mention the temple ...

(Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch, Inc. filed a motion in federal court last week to hold Clinton fundraiser and suspected spy John Huang in criminal contempt of court. Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that uncovers and prosecutes government corruption, first deposed Huang in October, 1996, uncovering the biggest scandal in American history -- Chinagate. Recently, Huang invoked the Fifth Amendment 1,927 times, in part in response to questions about whether he lied in his October, 1996 deposition. Huang was deposed as part of Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit concerning the sale of Clinton Commerce Department trade ...

Looks like Hanoi Jane may be honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century". JANE FONDA remembered? Unfortunately many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our "country" but the men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam. There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Jane Fonda's participation in what I believe to be blatant treason, is one of them. Part of my conviction comes from exposure to those who suffered her attentions. The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot.The pilot's ...