The reasons I am posting all this Clinton stuff, even if it doesn’t relate to what the thread is, I don’t want anyone to forget how bad it was when the First Clinton was in there for 8 years, and we DON’T need another one in there!!!
DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
SECTION: THE STORY OF A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
SUBSECTION: JUDICIAL WATCH
Revised 1/8/01
JUDICIAL WATCH LAWSUITS
“Smoking gun” documents:
•Memos from the Clinton White House files of Harold Ickes and Alexis Herman showing that the $100,000 DNC Managing Trustee Program included the sale of the Clinton Commerce Department trade mission seats (among other government-financed perks) and was designed to net President Clinton’s political operation $40 million;
•A brochure by the Democratic National Committee showing that “foreign trade mission” seats were available for $100,000 contributions to the DNC;
•A list of DNC minority donors found in the files of a key Clinton Commerce Department official;
•A Clinton Commerce Department memo indicating that the DNC donors were input into Commerce Department government database; and
•A DNC memo showing that the DNC provided the names of donors to the Clinton Commerce Department for trade missions to Russia and Belgium.
Additional evidence was provided by Nolanda Hill, close confidante and business partner of late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. In a sworn affidavit to Judical Watch and in court testimony, Ms. Hill has testified to the following:
•The first lady conceived of the idea to sell the trade mission seats in exchange for political contributions; The president knew of and approved this scheme;
•The vice president participated in this scheme;
•Brown helped implement the illegal fund-raising operation out of the Commerce Department;
•Presidential White House aides Harold Ickes and (now Labor Secretary) Alexis Herman helped orchestrate the sale of the Commerce trade mission seats;
•The president’s top fund-raisers at the DNC and his re-election campaign officials, Marvin Rosen and Terrence McAuliffe, helped coordinate the selling of these taxpayer resources in exchange for political contributions;
•Presidential Chief of Staff Leon Panetta and Deputy Chief of Staff John Podesta ordered the cover-up of these activities; and
•The President’s appointees at the Commerce Department have committed perjury, destroyed and suppressed evidence, and likely breached our nation’s security.
Klayman claims that “with Ms. Hill’s uncontroverted testimony providing the capstone to its investigation, Judicial Watch has proven beyond all reasonable doubt that, not only was the Clinton administration engaged in an unlawful scheme to sell seats on Commerce Department trade missions in exchange for campaign contributions, but that a criminal cover-up was ordered by President Clinton’s top aides to thwart Judicial Watch’s court-ordered investigation and to hide the culpability of the President, Mrs. Clinton, the Clinton Administration and the DNC, for their use of Commerce Department trade missions as a political fundraising vehicle.” The China connection and China’s plan to “influence the electoral process and spy on American interests must begin with an examination of the operations of President Clinton’s Commerce Department,” the report says. Many of the key figures associated with the “Chinagate” scandal and its breaches of national security all had direct connections to the department:
•John Huang, alleged Chinese agent, worked for the Clinton Commerce Department, before moving to the DNC. John Huang is said to be Clinton’s close friend.
•Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, now deceased, organized the Clinton Commerce Department trade missions to China.
•Johnny Chung informally participated in the Clinton Commerce Department trade mission to China in 1994. Chung later admitted to funneling $100,000 from the Chinese military to the DNC.
•Bernard Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer of Loral, participated in the Clinton Commerce Department trade mission to China in 1994.
•Charlie Trie, who was indicted earlier this year on charges that he illegally funneled foreign money to the Democrats, also participated in the 1994 Clinton Commerce Department China trade mission.
Wang Jun, the powerful Chinese Communist “princeling” and friend of Clinton fund-raiser Charlie Trie, met with Brown shortly after attending a fund-raising coffee with President Clinton. The same day as Wang Jun’s meeting with Secretary Brown, President Clinton signed a controversial waiver allowing Schwartz’s Loral to work with the Chinese on launching a satellite into space.
James and Mochtar Riady’s Lippo Group, in addition to benefiting from ex-employee John Huang’s placement at Commerce, benefited directly from deals negotiated by him on Commerce Department trade missions. Huang was the “top priority for placement” in the new Clinton administration by the Lippo Group, the Jakarta-based business conglomerate that has substantial dealings and joint operations with the Chinese Government, and is headed by the Riady family. James and Mochtar Riady have been longtime friends and strong financial supporters of the Clintons dating back to when President Clinton was the attorney general of Arkansas. The Riadys are believed by U.S. authorities to “have had a long-term relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency.” Before being placed at Commerce, Huang was the top U.S. executive for Lippo, and “the political power that advise[d] the Riady family on issues and where to make contributions”
The DNC, the recipient of most of the foreign money, coordinated with the Commerce Department and White House to sell seats on the taxpayer-financed trade missions.
“Judicial Watch also uncovered the removal by Ira Sockowitz, an official at the Clinton Commerce Department and confidante of alleged Chinese agent John Huang, of top secret documents (from the Commerce Department) relating to satellite encryption and intelligence reports on China, Russia and India,” the report says. “These documents have since been impounded by court order.”
Klayman adds: “The sensitivity of this information is immeasurable — encryption data are used by U.S. intelligence to keep instructions sent to communication satellites, including instructions for nuclear missiles, secret. Undoubtedly, the documents Sockowitz took with him contained information extremely vital to U.S. national security — and likewise invaluable to rival nations. Despite this alarming security breach, the Clinton Justice Department decided in a matter of only weeks without any real investigation, that there was no case against Sockowitz. It came to this astonishing conclusion without even questioning (Commerce Department General Counsel Ginger) Lew or his replacement at OGC, Jeffrey May.” To date, according to Klayman, Judicial Watch lawyers have been the only investigators to question John Huang under oath. Furthermore, Klayman states that since the deposition of John Huang under oath in October 1996, “it has been learned, largely contrary to his sworn testimony, that Huang:
Raised money for the DNC while at the Commerce Department;
•Received over 100 top secret intelligence briefings at Commerce;
•Continued his contacts while at the Commerce Department with his former employers at the Lippo Group;
•While still working at the Commerce Department, he had access to the office of Stephens, Inc., a firm with close ties to the Lippo Group; and
•Maintained contact with the Chinese Government.”
Alamo Girl...
Bump, thanks.