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Jan. 19 - Former vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp has been questioned by the FBI about his dealings with an Iraqi-American businessman who this week became the target of the first Justice Department criminal indictment in the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal ...Over several years continuing until 2003, Vincent talked to Kemp roughly once a month about his proposal to improve U.S.-Iraqi relations, according to Kemp and Lanny Davis, a Washington lawyer and friend of Kemp’s who discussed the matter with him and offered to speak for him to NEWSWEEK on this matter. ...Davis confirmed that in 2001, Kemp personally approached...

WASHINGTON — An Iraqi-born American citizen pleaded guilty Tuesday to several charges as part of the federal investigation into the U.N. Oil-for-Food program, becoming the first person to be convicted in the growing scandal. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the agreement with Samir Vincent, accused of being an unregistered Iraqi agent between the first and second Persian Gulf wars. [SNIP] The case is being handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York. The criminal indictment and plea deal were filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York. [SNIP] The Justice Department said that from 1992 to...

UNITED NATIONS — An Iraqi-born American citizen will strike a plea deal with the Justice Department as part of the federal investigation into the U.N. Oil-for-Food (search) scandal, officials at Justice told FOX News.

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Steven Vincent, the author of the new book, In the Red Zone: A Journey Into The Soul Of Iraq. You can visit his blog at www.redzoneblog.com. FP: Steven Vincent, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Vincent:  Thanks for the opportunity to be here, Jamie. FP: You went to Iraq in the fall of 2003, and the winter and spring of 2004, traveling on your own, with no bodyguards or security of any kind.  Are you courageous, noble or crazy? Or a bit of all three? Vincent:  I’ll defer notions of courage and nobility to our soldiers in Iraq—as for being crazy,...

America involved in Oil for Food Scandal?

Supreme Court to Decide on Foster Photos LOS ANGELES - Five government investigations concluded that White House attorney Vincent Foster's death in 1993 was a suicide. But Allan Favish, a Clinton antagonist from Southern California, suspects murder and is demanding to see 10 of the police photos. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) will hear arguments on whether to release those photographs, in a potentially precedent-setting case pitting the public's right to know against the Foster family's privacy. The family does not want the pictures of the body released. The case is more than a battle...

MILWAUKEE -- How close was President George W. Bush to becoming baseball commissioner? If a new book by former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent is to be believed, very close. "Fay, what do you think about me becoming commissioner?" Bush asked Vincent several months after Vincent was forced out as commissioner in September 1992. Bush owned the Texas Rangers at the time. "I think it's a great idea," Vincent said. "Do you think I'd make a good commissioner?" Bush asked Vincent. "Absolutely," Vincent answered. "You're smart. You love baseball. Is it something you want?" Replied Bush: "Well, I've been thinking about...

My petition for certiorari (Adobe Acrobat PDF 159 KB) to the United States Supreme Court was delivered today. (Filing will occur in about a week after the package goes through biological screening.) This is my formal request to the USSC to hear this case and rule that the six withheld photos of the ten being disputed be released. The main portion of this document is in the first 17 pages. The rest is an appendix consisting of prior court decisions in the case. The margins of the document are unusually wide because the hard copy is printed on paper smaller...

Thanks to Billy Beck for finding the following excerpt from Ann’s new book: "Even if Christopher Ruddy's 'The Strange Death of Vincent Foster' was considered a conservative hoax book, it was also conservatives that discredited it. The New York Post fired hm over the Vince Foster business. The American Spectator's Byron York took apart Ruddy's book in a series of articles and TV appearances. Regnery Publishing paid a liberal journalist, Dan Modea [sic], an atypically large advance of $100,000 to write a book discrediting the conspiracy theories surrounding the Foster's death, resulting in 'A Washington Tragedy: How the Death of...