Time: Thu Jul 03 11:17:38 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA08955; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 11:19:06 -0700 (MST) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA13358; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 11:18:23 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 11:16:36 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: NOW Is It Treason Yet? (fwd) <snip> > > NY Post > July 3 > > 'They'll never find me' > > Each new development in the Democratic fund-raising story makes it > seem more likely that America has been betrayed at the highest levels > of government. Intercepted messages suggest that John Huang, while a > top official at the Commerce Department, passed state secrets to his > former employer, the Lippo Group, a powerful Asian conglomerate. > > And now it turns out that some of his alleged espionage may have > jeopardized the lives of CIA informants, according to Rep. Gerald > Solomon (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Rules Committee. > > It was President Clinton who appointed Huang to Commerce; the > President's friend, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, made sure Huang > was never subjected to routine security checks; and after leaving > Commerce, Huang went to work raising millions of dollars for Clinton's > re-election -- much of it from the aforementioned Lippo Group. > > Huang did not work alone. He was often helped by another Clinton > fund-raiser, Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie -- a friend of Clinton's going back > to Little Rock. (Both Trie and Huang also met with Clinton on > innumerable occasions in the White House.) On Clinton's 50th > birthday, Trie helped out Huang's money quest by handing officials of > the Democratic National Committee an envelope stuffed with > $100,000 in contributions, according to the New York Times -- but > now investigators can't find some of the contributors, many of whom, > it seems, simply don't exist. > > There is good reason to believe Trie served as a front man for foreign > entities. Now congressional investigators say that Trie and Huang have > closer links than anyone previously suspected. But don't look to Trie > for an explanation -- he's fled to Shanghai to avoid the Senate > inquiry. > > "They'll never find me," Trie told NBC from his China hideout. > > Such are Bill Clinton's friends and financiers: alleged spies and > foreigners hiding beyond the reach of American justice. If Clinton > really has nothing to hide about his dealings with them, he'd be doing > more to get to the bottom of their activities. > > Whenever the myriad scandals around Clinton worsen, congressional > Democrats try to deflect criticism by pointing to some minor misdeeds > by their Republican colleagues. When all that was known about > Clinton's wrongdoing concerned sexual and financial improprieties in > Arkansas, this partisan reaction was understandable. > > But now the stakes are higher: Clinton's oldest cronies may have > seriously damaged national security in order to raise money for his > re-election -- and perhaps put lives at risk. > > Yet Democrats continue to stall the investigation into Clinton's > alleged > illegalities. Senate Democrats, for example, have hamstrung efforts to > grant immunity to witnesses in the fund-raising scandals -- a crucial > element in building a case against the mystery-money masterminds. > > It may be unrealistic to expect honesty on this matter from President > Clinton. But at this point, it is lamentable that there are so few > congressional Democrats ready to value the law above partisan > politics. Certainly in this investigation there are no Democratic > Lowell > Weickers or Howard Bakers -- the GOP stalwarts of the Senate's > Watergate investigation in 1973. When the truth eventually catches up > with this administration, it will tarnish all of Clinton's defenders as > well. ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.2 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. ======================================================================== [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.]
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