More questions about Gore's role
deepen the
campaign fundraising scandal
for the most
corrupt administration
ever.
By David Horowitz
June 26, 2000 | As we enter the final
six months of the Clinton-Gore era, it
has become obvious to all but the willfully stupefied that this will
go down as the most criminal, most corrupt, most cynical
administration in American history. This observation, of course,
will be called "Clinton-hating" by the vast conspiracy of Clinton
excusers, Clinton defenders and plain old Clinton lackeys, who
have become a feature as familiar to our political landscape as
the Clinton ellipses, the Clinton evasions and the Clinton lies have
become to our political vocabulary.
Because of them, "Clinton hater," "they all do it," "it's old news"
and "it depends on what the meaning of 'is' is" -- are all terms or
phrases to be forever preserved in the glossary of political
deceptions, which will accompany the criminal rap sheet of this
disgraceful episode in our presidential annals. (My personal
favorite among these exculpations, "they all do it," was the one
used by fully half of my fellow speeders in 'traffic school,' who
claimed they should not have been singled out for punishment
because their actions were no different from anyone else's.)
To measure what is being witnessed in these
historic days, consider that Richard Nixon
was removed from the presidency because of
18 minutes of erased tape that allegedly
recorded his obstructions of justice. Al Gore
has misplaced, or rather mis-erased, 18
months of "tape" in the form of White House
e-mails, which allegedly contain discussions of
various obstructions of justice. The Nixon
secretary who erased his tapes, Rosemary
Woods, was an overly loyal but otherwise
un-noteworthy civil servant. The suspected
culprit in the Gore caper had already earned
fame among White House colleagues as "the mad deleter," for
his zeal in eliminating hard-disk trails.
But unlike the unlucky Nixon, Gore's apparent attempt to destroy
incriminating evidence has so far not even been deemed worthy
of an investigation by a Justice Department, which -- because it
is a Clinton department -- seems to specialize in the obstruction
of justice. Like all the other good fortunes of the White House
mob (for example, the disappearance of White House billing
records and congressional witnesses) this one is hardly an
accident. The Clinton administration began with the
unprecedented firing of all 93 U.S. attorneys in the Department
of Justice, who were then replaced with Clinton appointees.
Now, what's most remarkable about this department, and this
administration, is that Justice has produced a tiny few among all
its minions unwilling to shred their public integrity and
self-respect to the criminal in chief.
All three of them -- FBI Director Louis Freeh, exiled fundraising
task force chief Charles LaBella, and now his replacement,
Robert Conrad -- have registered their conviction that a special
prosecutor should be assigned to look into Gore's testimony,
mostly that which relates to his role in soliciting alleged illegal
campaign contributions through known agents of a foreign
power, specifically China. (Chinese agent and long-time Gore
fundraiser Maria Hsia, who made the collections at the Buddhist
temple, was seated at the head table at the event, flanking Gore
and the head monk on one side while Indonesian billionaire and
Chinese intelligence asset, Ted Sieong, flanked him on the other.
Intercepted communications by Sieong to the dictatorship in
China indicate that he was a key operative in their plan to
influence American politics by directing illegal contributions to
the Clinton-Gore machine.)
Salon columnist Joe Conason, well-known for his unflagging
loyalty to every Clinton claim, argues that the failure to make the
case against Clinton in matters like Travelgate and the missing
FBI files is sufficient to presume that no charge against him or
any member of his administration is credible. O.J. Simpson
would tell us otherwise. And he only had the "dream team" to
hide behind.
Dismissing the demand for a special counsel to investigate Gore,
Conason says that "everything on the public record so far
indicates that Gore thought he was attending 'a community
outreach event.'" Well, not exactly, Joe. The transcripts of
Gore's testimony to Justice Department lawyers that Gore
himself has now released reveal that he understood that "finance
people were going to be present at the Buddhist temple
outreach." Finance people? What were they there to discuss, the
federal budget? Everyone who has been in a court of law (or
who has watched the tape of Clinton's Grand Jury testimony)
knows that a determined liar can make hash out of the system
and successfully obstruct the pursuit of justice. Everything on the
public record so far indicates that Clinton and Gore are
determined liars. The American people deserve the truth. One
day perhaps they will get it.