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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: NOW Is It Treason Yet? (fwd)
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>
> 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.
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