The Truth About Clinton Cost Me a Powerful Pal

The New York Observer ^ | Sept. 14, 2004 | Phillip Weis

[planekT]

In fall 1996, The New York Times Magazine asked me to look into the Clinton haters, and I called Chris, who overnighted me another copy of the report, bigger than ever. Then I went down to Washington to talk to him and his boss, Mark Fabiani. Mark was the opposite of Chris. He’d worked in California politics and wore designer suits, he had a handsome angular face and struck me as a lady’s man. He sat at a big desk next to the window overlooking the White House and spun a "Duke" on his fingertips, the official N.F.L. ball, then we tossed it back and forth a couple of times. Mr. Fabiani was the picture of slick and spin. (In fact, today there is a conservative club in New York called the Fabiani Society, in mock deference to Mr. Fabiani’s arts of guile.) Mr. Fabiani laughed, talking about what a whiz Chris was on the Internet and the photocopier. The two of them were dark and light.

[planekT]

"Mr. Fabiani laughed, talking about what a whiz Chris (Lehane) was on the Internet and the photocopier".

Is this a little hint?

[Cableguy]

Excellent article. Highly recommended to everyone.

[HP8753]

That's one large chicken....and it looks like it wants a place to land for the night!!

[dirtboy]

Bookmark for later read.

[soozla]

OK......here is what I have thought since this story broke. Lehane is from Maine, right?????? Then THIS must be the Robert Strong, mystery man, who Rather claimed was an "associate" of Killian's back in the TANG days. BUT, Killian's son says he never heard of a "Robert Strong"........

IS THIS ROBERT STRONG??????

[NavySEAL F-16]

Well, Kerry's web site has that page with all the documents and questions that they needed to discredit Bush. These documents are like the fulfillment of the menu they listed.

IIRC, it's dated February of this year.

[Hank All-American]

a "Duke" is not an official NFL football. It is a cheaper version, authorized by the NFL. I had several in my youth, couldn't afford a real NFL one.

[suzyq5558]

OH MY...

[NavySEAL F-16]

At once formal and nice, he let me save journalistic face by listening as I said again that I didn’t understand it to be off the record. Of course, any fool should have known it was off the record. And yet the report should have become public knowledge—it was wrong that taxpayers should have been paying for the White House counsel’s office to put out such crap. I wonder how much of that I’d unconsciously figured out.

This guy is still apologizing for the report.

I am going to do a google, it would be interesting for someone to interview him and see what he thinks of Chris Lehane now.

[ShugahPop]

my goodness....I remember these deaths, but I had no idea, that it was ANYTHING like this, NOR connected to Clinton.. I saw it as a feature on Unsolved Mysteries years ago.. funny how you can remember things like this...
why in the WORLD doesnt Clinton get hit on this kind of disgusting crime??

[backhoe]

He proudly showed me a report he’d done. It was a thick blue looseleaf binder of news clippings interspersed with some analysis he’d written. It was titled, bizarrely, "The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce,"

The New Republic: MEDIA REX
... I had read articles about an administration report on the "media food
chain," and asked the White House counsel's office for a copy. ...

Press Briefing Transcript: McCurry on "Media Food Chain" Report
... it? Why would the White House waste its timeputting together this
"media food chain" theory? MCCURRY: It's not a waste of time. ...

	Excerpt:'Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce'
	Topic: White Water Excerpt:'Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce' The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories October 1997 by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The Secret Life of Bill Clinton
	Return of the Clinton enemies list
	Topic: White Water Return of the Clinton enemies list September 22, 1998 Joseph Farah Thanks to the work of London Telegraph investigative reporter Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the Communication Stream of

[backhoe]

my goodness....I remember these deaths, but I had no idea,

The Boys on the Tracks-

[planekT]

The author of this piece was apparently still carrying some feelings of guilt at the time he wrote it for the ending of his association with Lehane, but how would he have felt if he'd done anything differently?

Lehane and Fabiani's association with practically every major snake in the democratic party from the Clintons, Al Gore, Gray Davis, and now John Kerry reads like a resume of rot and evil. Getting kicked out of that den of vipers was the best thing that could have happended to him.

Maybe that's how he feels about it now. Your right. Someone should ask him in light of current events.

[reformedliberal]

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