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WASHINGTON, June 15, 2006 – Covered in blood and only able to stagger a few feet before collapsing in a heap, Army Sgt. Nicholas Beintema was one of the lucky ones. Many of his fellow soldiers did not survive the blast that ripped through his convoy near Tal Afar, Iraq, last year. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England examines a pocketknife that was part of an Armed Forces Foundation auction at its 2nd Annual Congressional Gala in Washington, June 14. At the gala, England received the foundation's Patriot Award, which he said that America's servicemembers truly deserve such accolades. Photo...

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2006 – The United Service Organizations of Metropolitan Washington honored several individuals and the Miss America Organization here last night during its 23rd annual awards dinner. Navy Adm. Edmund Giambastiani, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (left), Marine Corps Sgt. Michael Donnelly (center), and Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Justin Ledsome talk at the USO of Metropolitan Washington Annual Awards Dinner, March 22. Giambastiani presented Donnelly with the Bronze Star Medal and Ledsome with a USO award. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Sean P. Houlihan, USAF  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The Miss America...

RODHAM WATCH-FEC Fines Hillary Fund-Raising Group ... But Civil Suit Under Way January 5, 2006 5:00 p.m. Eastern Peter Paul and Sen. Hillary Clinton (photo: hillcap.org) A committee that helped fund Sen. Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign has been fined for filing three false reports to the Federal Elections Commission regarding a Hollywood gala that feted her husband, former President Bill Clinton. In a "Conciliation Agreement" with the FEC, New York 2000 and its treasurer Andrew Grossman agreed to pay a civil fine of $35,000 and amend false reports to reflect failure to report a $721,000 donation by Los Angeles...

Yesterday evening the President and his wife along with the Vice President and his wife attended a Gala at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts prior to the gala a reception for those honoured at this gala was held at the White House. The annual children's holiday reception and performance was held in the East Room of the White House today, the President and the first lady attended the performance. Today the President visited John Deere-Hitachi factory in NC and gave a speech on the economy and Tax Relief he also talked about pensions and social security...

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's chief accuser Peter Paul said Saturday that yesterday's acquittal of her former campaign finance chairman, David Rosen, doesn't mean she's in the clear. "This is by no means an exoneration of Hillary's campaign," Paul told NewsMax. "In fact. it's an indictment of her campaign." Calling Rosen a sacrificial lamb who was set up to take the fall for higher-ups, Paul said, "The jurors clearly didn't believe that he filed these false FEC reports on his own." Paul's allegations about expenses he covered for an August 2000 gala fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton spurred a four-year investigation...

www.HillCAP.org INTRO and EPISODES 1-10 11- $2,000 Returned, We Keep the 2 Mil, Meet Bill on AF One with More 12 – Hillary’s Laundromat at 88 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY NOTE: This is the 13th episode in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Hollywood fundraiser, and the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, the impeached William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, perpetrator of the largest campaign finance fraud in the history of Western civilization. In 1985, Sally Field won her second Academy Award in five years for her work on Places in the...

Listen While You Freep! All programs are replayed for 23 hours and again on weekends so tune in when it’s convenient for YOU! Call In Number - 866-884-TALK (8255) Heating the EDGE of a New Media! 1pm EST - Hillary Clinton's campaign pals and fundraisers are being indicted and going to jail in record numbers; yet you would not know it by the mainstream media coverage. Well you'll hear about them here. Newsweek has once again reinforced what many already knew -- fair and accurate reporting is an oxy-moron when it comes to them. Joining me today for a forthright,...

SHREDDED REVIEWSThe CBS News panel that performed the independent review of the "60 Minutes Wednesday" report on President George Bush's National Guard record destroyed almost all of the working drafts of the report that former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and former Associated Press President Louis Boccardi worked on and reviewed over the past six weeks. Those drafts would be interesting to review, if only to see the evolution of positions the pair took on the forged documents, as well as the varying stories presented by the four CBS employees identified by Thornburgh and Boccardi as the key individuals in the...

'His way,' exposed Sunday, January 16, 2005 WASHINGTON -- The adage about these being "the best of times and the worst of times" could not be truer as we await the second inauguration on Thursday of President George W. Bush. We read in the papers about the destruction of wonderful coastal villages and towns in Asia together with a mind-shattering loss of lives by a series of tsunamis. Then we read moronic nonsense of how the Democrats in Congress attempted to derail the electoral results in Ohio and deny Bush the presidency using a 1877 ruling. On the positive side,...

LOS ANGELES - As the trial of a top fund-raising official on Senator Clinton's 2000 campaign got under way in federal court here yesterday, the judge hearing the case vowed not to allow the proceedings to become a referendum on Mrs. Clinton, her politics, or her personal life. "This isn't a trial about Senator Clinton," Judge A. Howard Matz said, as lawyers discussed written questionnaires filled out by potential jurors in the case. "Senator Clinton has no stake in this trial as a party or a principal. ... She's not going to be a witness," the judge said. David Rosen,...

RUSH: You know, there is a trial that started yesterday. I don't know if you people have heard about this, because the media would much rather talk about what's going on with Tom DeLay, but the criminal trial of David Rosen, a former staffer of Senator Clinton began yesterday, but who would know? "Certainly," as the Investor's Business Daily editorial today says, "not a public that's been swamped with news of representative Tom DeLay's troubles. But what laws has DeLay broken and what laws has he been accused of breaking? While it's not possible to answer the former with any...

LOS ANGELES, May 11 - Before Hillary Rodham Clinton's former chief fund-raiser went on trial here for underreporting donations to her Senate campaign, political speculation has revolved around what if anything Mrs. Clinton knew about his alleged transgressions, as well as what if anything the trial would do to her presidential aspirations (assuming she has them). A federal prosecutor tried to answer at least one of those questions in his opening statement on Wednesday in Federal District Court, when he told the jury, "You will hear no evidence that Hillary Clinton was involved in any way, shape or form." Indeed,...

LOS ANGELES - As the trial of the top fund-raiser on Senator Clinton's 2000 campaign, David Rosen, opened in federal court here yesterday, a prosecutor accused Mr. Rosen of "deliberately lying" about fund-raising costs to maximize the campaign's financial flexibility in the final weeks before the election. Mr. Rosen, 40, is facing three felony counts of causing the filing of false campaign finance reports in connection with a celebrity-laden gala fund-raising concert held in Los Angeles on August 12, 2000. He has pleaded not guilty. In his opening statement, prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg said the $1,000-a-ticket concert came at a critical...

Hillary Rodham Clinton's former chief fund-raiser flew into a panic as costs for a star-studded Hollywood gala spiraled out of control — with coddled celebs making outrageous demands...... Former Clinton finance chief David Rosen was authorizing checks so quickly that he feared he'd be fired over the Aug. 12, 2000, extravaganza...... ......Cher, Melissa Etheridge, Toni Braxton, Diana Ross and Michael Bolton agreed to perform for free, but that didn't come cheap...... Several wanted private jets — including Cher, who specified the exact model. Others were content with first-class plane tickets, but wanted their entourages, including hairdressers and makeup artists. It...

Ex-president Bill Clinton might be called to testify at the trial of his wife's one-time finance director, David Rosen, Rosen's lawyer said Wednesday. Judge A. Howard Matz announced on Tuesday that Sen. Hillary Clinton would not be called to testify in the case, despite allegations by two key witnesses that she was complicit in Rosen's crimes. But Rosen's lawyer, Paul Mark Sandler, asked Judge Matz not to announce that Mr. Clinton wouldn't be called. In a brief exchange Wednesday morning, Sandler asked the judge not to tell the jury that Bill Clinton would not testify, the New York Times said....

A former strip club owner and close personal friend of ex-President Clinton has flipped on Hillary Clinton's finance chairman, David Rosen, testifying for the prosecution against Rosen on Thursday in a surprise move sure to cause consternation in the Clinton camp. Levin spent the night at the White House at least twice in 2000. Now a fence company executive, the government witness contributed $1 million to Clinton's presidential library. "He wasn't particularly political before I became president," Mr. Clinton said in 2000, speaking of Levin to a New Jersey fundraiser. "[But] we got to be very close," he added. The...

In a stunning development in the criminal trial of David Rosen in Los Angeles, whistleblower Peter Paul has said that he believes Andrew Grossman committed perjury in his testimony. It was Grossman's job to take the campaign info and make the official filings to the FEC. On the stand, Grossman claimed that he never before heard of an event costing a million dollars. Paul says that such is not true. On June 18, 2001, Grossman was served with a civil suit by Paul. Paul gave him details and copies of checks to advise him on the cost of the event....

HILL AIDE'S FUND TRIAL DEBUGGED By KENNETH LOVETT May 18, 2005 -- LOS ANGELES — In a courthouse shocker, Sen. Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law won't be asked about a conversation he secretly recorded for the FBI when he testifies today against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's former chief fund-raiser, a prosecutor revealed yesterday. "The government does not intend to introduce the tape or elicit any testimony about that conversation," federal prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg told a judge before the trial of ex-Clinton fund-raiser David Rosen resumed yesterday after a four-day break. While Zeidenberg did not mention Kennedy's brother-in-law, Ray Reggie, by name, he...

In a surprise move that shocked even the judge at the trial of Hillary's Clinton's former finance director, David Rosen - prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg announced yesterday that he would not introduce the government's strongest evidence that Rosen was guilty - the Hillary aide's own tape recorded admission implicating him in election fraud. "The government does not intend to introduce the tape or elicit any testimony from the witness about that conversation," Zeidenberg told Judge A. Howard Matz. Judge Matz was stunned by Zeidenberg's announcement, and hinted that the Bush prosecutor was throwing away his case. "You couldn't keep [the tape]...

Planner says ex-Hillary Clinton aide hid costs of fundraiser LOS ANGELES The trial of Hillary Clinton's former national finance director continued today in Los Angeles with an event planner testifying she was ordered by David Rosen to obtain a fake invoice connected to a Hollywood fundraising gala. Bretta Nock told jurors that Rosen told her to get a 200-thousand dollar invoice for the concert portion of the celebrity bash, when the actual costs were much higher. Rosen has pleaded not guilty to three charges of filing false financial statements connected with Clinton's 2000 Senate run. He's accused of under-reporting donations...