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Whatever Happened to Iraqgate? Candidate Clinton vowed to get to the bottom of the Iraqgate scandal. Was it swept under the rug because of the CIA - - or Hillary? Kenneth R. Timmerman The American Spectator November, 1996 Kenneth R. Timmerman is the author of The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq (Houghton Mifflin) and publisher of Iran Brief, a monthly newsletter. As the 1992 presidential race reached its final days, Bill Clinton promised that, if elected, he would appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate allegations by congressional Democrats that the U.S. government had secretly been aiding the...

HELSINKI, March 19 (Reuters) - A Helsinki court on Friday acquitted Finland's first woman prime minister of charges related to the leaking of secret documents on Iraq, a scandal that forced her to step down a year ago. The court cleared Anneli Jaatteenmaki of a charge of inciting or assisting the breach of official secrets, a scandal dubbed "Iraq-gate" by Finnish media that shocked a nation known abroad for its lack of corruption and straight-laced politics. But it said Martti Manninen, a former presidential aide who fed hundreds of pages of information to Jaatteenmaki by fax, should pay 3,600 euros...

Candidate Bill Clinton vowed to get to the bottom of the Iraqgate scandal. By Kenneth R. Timmerman Author of The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq (Hooughton Miffin) and publisher of Iran Brief, a monthly newsletter. The American Spectator November 1996 Whatever Happened to IRAQGATE As the 1992 presidential race reached its final days, Bill Clinton promised that, if elected, he would appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate allegations by congressional Democrats that the U.S. government had secretly been aiding the Iraqi weapons buildup-and perhaps even its nuclear weapons effort-and then engaging in a cover-up to hide its ...