Ashcroft Faces Quandary Over Clinton Scandal Secrets

NewsMax ^ | January 22, 2002 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[TLBSHOW]

If Bush does nothing but cover up the Clintons crimes then he will not be re-elected in 2004 and might even be impeached. Choice is his.

[RJCogburn]

Also have to comment on the rise in Bush-bashing on FR.

What is "Bush-bashing"? It must be more than disagreeing with a program or policy, must it not?

[ChaseR]

"Truth can never harm a nation, only make it stronger."

Yes indeed, Ashcroft has his quandary and we here at FR - now have one of our own...

[ChaseR]

opps, Luis, as you know, that typo is supposed to be:
"very sad/revealing/disappointing/and perhaps -tainted with slime"

Luis, seeing that this thread also pertains to Chinagate - I knew it would be acceptable to you to post a small reference here - anyway....thank you for the invite to be on the FR radio show to discuss Chinagate and Loral!!

[Earn Your Vote]

Despite the story, is there any indication from Ashcroft that he even gives a damn? (Ergo, the problem)

[Wil H]

After watching Bush now since 20 January, I have to conclude Bush is unnaturally frightened of the Clintons. He is scared out of his wits about something or several things.

You need to read "Compromised" by Terry Reed and John Cummings and then you would understand that the Bushes and clintons are joined at the hip in corruption and have a mutually assured destruction deterent in place to keep all this covered up.It's a good read and explains a lot of things.

[expose]

We will see how much integrity Attorney General John Ashcroft has,

most of the stuff has been destroyed

[expose]

"Compromised" Excellent book

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[SusanUSA]

Thanks.

ChaseR, interesting episode you're dealing with... I have prior knowledge to some posters' styles of attack on FR. I may not say much, but I see much. LOL

I think you would make an excellent and very FR worthy guest!

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

And I am supposed to have a public trust in people who lie to me. The way to public trust is to tell the truth.
Get a clue!

[batter]

"White House whistle-blowers who have talked to people who have seen this e-mail believe it contains incriminating evidence..."
A recent Bush executive order shielding materials of past administrations from discovery could be invoked in this case, he warned.

Will the Slickster manage to slip out of this one?...Probably.

[CaptRon]

I also don't understand these conspiracy theories. For Bush to be afraid of what the Clinton's supposedly have on him, he would have to know what they had and be fool enought to run for President and thus make himself a target. What man in his right mind would put himself in that position, and go through what he had to go through to do it?

[William Tell]

From the article: 'Nearly half the 189 tapes, 71, were blank."

The eighteen minute gap on a key Watergate tape was found by technical analysis to be the result of dozens of individual erasure cycles.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the same thing has happened to these tapes.

Despite the erasure on the Watergate tape, there was eventually a tape which contained Nixon being informed that there was a connection between the White House and the Watergate burglary and Nixon is heard to state that a million dollars could be raised to help those responsible. Nixon was finally forced to resign.

The number of emails is so enormous that I expect that there will be plenty of smoking guns found among them. Gore's statements regarding the fund raising at the Buhddist monastery were in conflict with appointment notations which later came to light.

As for Ashcroft making a decision regarding the emails, he will have little to say regarding emails which were previously subpeonaed and withheld. I believe that the Judicial Watch subpeonas would have to be challenged directly in order to withhold relevant emails.

Judge Lamberth has allowed plenty of lattitude to those who are supposed to turn over these emails. Despite the Judge's willingness to let the process run its course, he has supported the discovery process so far and I would be surprised if he doesn't continue to support it.

The end-game for this particular line of enquiry is nearing. Although some of us won't get everything that we might imagine out of this process, the vigor with which Clinton's people withheld these emails indicates to me that there was much to hide.

I also expect that there will be much finger-pointing at the late Charles Ruff. That is the way it works, isn't it?

[monkeywrench]

"I hope Ashcroft will let the information out. Maybe then the American people will realize the depths of Clinton Corruption! Somehow, I doubt it though. Joe six pack is one stupid S.O.B.!!" Many are even dumb enough to vote for hillary, should ashcroft not let this info out. Won't be able to blame people voting third party if she gets elected.

[bjs1779]

"From the article: 'Nearly half the 189 tapes, 71, were blank."

I notice that 71 blanks out of 189 is 37%. If they deleted 3 years worth out of 8, that comes to exactly 37%. From and earlier article 2/27/00:

Earlier this month, Sheryl Hall, former chief of White House computer operations who has since moved to a similar position at the Treasury Department, said Clinton administration officials covered up the fact that electronic messages from August 1996 to November 1998 had not been surrendered to various investigators, as required by law, deciding instead to label them as "classified" documents.

Zazame! 3years worth.

If this turns out to be the case, Judge Lamberth is going to be pissed!

[ChaseR]

"I think you would make an excellent and very FR worthy guest!"

Thank you very much. (blush) "I may not say much, but I see much."

As do ALL FR posters and ALL FR lurkers/bttt

[ChaseR]

"...slip out of this one."

I don't know, perhaps not! We'll see soon, very soon.

[ChaseR]

Up pops that name Raidy again Ron!

"One odd coincidence: Attorney Earl Silbert, who now represents Enron CEO Ken Lay,
also represented Clinton Chinagate kingpin James Riady
as well as Northrop-Grumman, one of the independent contractors hired
by the Clinton White House to help with e-mail retrieval."

[bayourod]

Chase, did you ever find a copy of the new lawsuit that was filed last month?

Do you know what it alleges Hillery did wrong other than being the Fisrt Lady?