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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: VANGUARD: Alice in Reno-Land (fwd)
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> ALICE IN RENO-LAND
> 8 December 1997
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> Copyright 1997, Rod D. Martin
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> "Vanguard of the Revolution"
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> http://members.aol.com/RodDMartin/vanguard.htm
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>Last week, what everyone expected finally came to pass: Janet Reno
>refused to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Clinton Gore
>fundraising scandal. This was shocking only in that it violated Reno's
>trust with the American people and even her own stated principles
>concerning the independent counsel law; hardly anyone believed she would
>act properly.
>
>But what happened next rocked Washington like a terrorist bomb, and
>induced more fear and trembling that a Hezbollah death squad. FBI
>Director Louis Freeh, a Clinton appointee widely considered "the butcher
>of Ruby Ridge," publicly rebelled, calling on Reno to reverse her flawed,
>politicized decision. In the words of the New York Times, "Washington
>has not seen an F.B.I. Director publicly tell an Attorney General that
>she is wrong on the evidence and wrong on the law." Until now.
>
>It took no time at all for Clinton to turn on his man. A stream of
>attacks began almost instantly to spew out of the White House, laying
>blame at Freeh's feet for the FBI Crime Lab scandal, the botched Atlanta
>bombing investigation, and a slew of other deeds and misdeeds. Yet this
>completely missed the point: Louis Freeh is a Clinton creation, and
>Clinton backed him against all comers through every one of these
>travesties. For Freeh to come forward now is not less but in fact more
>dramatic for these very reasons. That irony was completely lost on the
>man from Hope.
>
>Freeh's point is fourfold. He believes that the Attorney General is so
>mired in conflict of interest that she must let others investigate her
>boss if there is to be any credibility to the probe at all. He points
>out to Reno in his Thanksgiving memo that the evidence calls for a far
>broader inquiry than simply whether Clinton and Gore violated a
>century-old statute when they made fundraising phone calls from the White
>House. He lays out his complete lack of confidence in the specific
>individuals at the Department of Justice with whom Reno has entrusted the
>investigation. Perhaps most important of all, he worries about mounting
>evidence of a Communist Chinese conspiracy to influence US elections,
>dating back all the way to the first Clinton presidential campaign.
>
>What Freeh does not do is point a finger at the President, and this
>should tell us something about the White House's response. Freeh simply
>believes that if the air is to be cleared, an independent counsel must
>take over from the impossibly politicized hacks at Justice. In yet
>another irony, this conforms precisely to Janet Reno's position prior to
>this scandal. In her confirmation hearings, Reno stated, "The reason
>that I support the concept of an independent counsel with statutory
>independence is that there is an inherent conflict whenever senior
>Executive Branch officials are to be investigated by the Department and
>its appointed head, the Attorney General. The Attorney General serves at
>the pleasure of the President." This is Freeh's point exactly.
>
>The Administration now wants Louis Freeh's resignation on a platter, much
>too late and for the wrong issue, but Freeh is hardly alone. The only
>living Democratic ex-President, Jimmy Carter, called for an independent
>counsel in September, and Bob Woodward, the man who broke the Watergate
>story, told NBC's Meet The Press in July that, "I mean, you never thought
>that would happen, that I would give the Nixon White House credit for
>having a comparatively clean operation." Everyone but Janet Reno can see
>the meaning of a relentless barrage of fundraising violations, revealed
>almost every single day for more than a year.
>
>What is certain is that Freeh's action changes everything. No longer
>able to hide behind the fig-leaf of Gore's "controlling legal authority,"
>the administration is now shown to be wearing the emperor's new clothes.
>If Clinton has any sense, he'll call for an independent counsel himself,
>before the scandal swirls out of control. Anyone who thinks this is
>going away is just kidding himself.
>
>
>Copyright: Rod D. Martin, 8 December 1997
>
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