Covering up

How much more can Reno’s Department of Justice (DOJ) get away with
until the American people scream, “Stop, we’ve had enough lies,
half-truths, and cover-ups?” Yesterday’s news about the “recusing” of
Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Johnston of Waco should trouble anyone who
believes in a government of laws. After all, Johnston wrote the letter
to Reno exposing the DOJ cover-up of the use of pyrotechnics during the
final siege on April 19, 1993. According to the Dallas Morning
News, “Mr.
Johnston’s boss, U.S. Attorney Bill Blagg of San Antonio, said in a
prepared written statement Tuesday that he had asked for the removal of
his entire office from the Branch Davidian case because so many of its
prosecutors may be interviewed as part of new investigations into the
incident.”

What frightens me is that the American public, instead of being angry
with government officials who lie, cheat, and are responsible for
killing innocent people, has become “fatigued” by Clinton. We appear to
be saying that after six years of his leadership we have had enough.
Have we become so tired of the ever-increasing lack of morality, decency
and ability to obey the law among the Clinton gang that we are ready to
treat them like an old shoe or last year’s dress that you pitch when the
styles change, rather than admit the seriousness of this
administration’s crimes?

The stalwart defenders of Clinton and Reno such as Congressman Henry
Waxman, the ranking minority member on the House Government reform
committee, are ready once again to sabotage any new congressional
investigations into DOJ lies and cover-ups regarding the Waco siege.
They will attempt to insert extreme partisanship into the proceedings as
they did in the 1995 congressional hearings. When Chairman Burton
announced that his hearings into the Waco siege would be expanded as a
result of a missing page in the FBI lab report sent to Congress in 1995,
Waxman attempted to shift the blame. His diversionary tactic was to
publish a letter to former Senator Danforth, which included copies of
original FBI documents from the 1995 hearings, suggesting that
Republicans and Burton failed to properly read or comprehend those
documents.

The point of these investigations — the DOJ-Danforth investigation
and the congressional hearings — is to enlighten the American people as
to why the U.S. government assaulted innocent men, women, and children
in their home, and then spent years along with millions of taxpayer
dollars to cover up what really happened. In last week’s WorldNetDaily
commentary, ‘Buried
Truth’,
I suggested several questions needing to be asked and answered
concerning the original raid on the Mount Carmel Center by the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF). It is heartening to see those
questions being echoed by editorials in the Christian Science
Monitor
and the Kansas City
Star.

At the same time former Senator Danforth announces that his inquiry
will be limited to just the latest FBI cover-up rather than
investigating the entire assault against the Davidians, “Waco: Rules of
Engagement” wins an Emmy. Maybe if the U.S. Congress conducts a proper
and thorough investigation and doesn’t allow Waxman and the other
Clinton supporters to divert the focus of the inquiry, they too will get
an award: re-election.

But the over-arching reason to seek the truth should be to tell the
American people what really happened and why. We have endured six long
years of a president who made many promises about honesty and good
government, but failed to keep any. Mark Levin, President of the
Washington Legal Foundation, wrote an op-ed in the Sept. 8, 1999,
edition of the Washington Times entitled, “The rot begins in the White
House.” He covered some of the illegal or shady activities under the
leadership of Clinton appointees, focusing on Janet Reno. Yet in the
article he chronicled only a few illegalities: the entire record of the
Clinton administration’s criminal activities, when written, will span
volumes.

Just this week former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Henry Cisneros, a man who was heralded as a Hispanic role model and
called by The Dallas Morning News “one of Texas’ most promising figures”
pled guilty to lying to FBI investigators six years ago. Mr. Cisneros, a
married man, who never covered up the fact that he kept a mistress,
tried to cover up the financial arrangements between them. He told the
FBI that he had never paid her more than $2,500 a month, when in reality
the total amount paid between 1989 and 1994 totaled some $250,000.
Additionally he was accused of asking, not only Ms. Jones, but also two
assistants to help him lie and cover-up. Four years after he was charged
and on the opening day of his trial, Cisneros finally admitted he had
lied to the FBI. He plea-bargained for a fine and a misdemeanor
conviction, a much lower sentence than if he had been tried and
convicted of the 18 felony counts. Let’s hope that most young Hispanic
males choose another role model.

The day after Cisneros’ conviction another independent prosecutor was
again deposing President Clinton. This time it was allegations of
illegal activity concerning his Secretary of Labor, Alexis Hermann, who
had also served as head of the White House Public Liaison Office.
Cameroon businessman and former business associate of Hermann, Laurent
Yene, is accusing Hermann of soliciting campaign contributions and a
kickback to help a friend obtain a license from the Federal
Communications Commission for a satellite phone system. Yene alleges
that he delivered a contribution in cash to Hermann’s home, but did not
know it was illegal. The kicker is that Attorney General Reno originally
opposed the appointment of special prosecutors to prosecute both
Cisneros and Hermann.

The stench of corruption and malfeasance is strongest at the
Department of Justice, where Attorney General Reno has served Bill
Clinton splendidly for over six years. Unfortunately the rest of the
American people have been ill served. She has worked diligently to bend
the law to keep President Clinton and his crooked associates from being
investigated and prosecuted.

Janet Reno’s six years of twisting the American legal system includes
justifying the murder of innocent women and children in order to spare
them from abuse at Waco; delaying the appointment of an independent
counsel in the case of the Whitewater scandal; impeding the
investigation of the Paula Jones litigation by having Justice Department
lawyers defend Clinton’s plea of immunity that was rejected unanimously
by the Supreme Court; and turning a blind eye and deaf ear to the
outrageous violations of the campaign laws. The list is endless when it
comes to Clinton, the Department of Justice and Janet Reno. She has made
it her solemn duty to uphold and protect not the laws of the United
States, but the man in the Oval Office.

It’s about time the call for her resignation started echoing across
the nation. But the well-oiled Clinton spin machine hasn’t lost its
touch. In order to defuse the clamor, the Clinton loyalists in Congress
and in the media are desperately trying to change the subject.

Their first effort is to focus media attention away from Reno and on
FBI Director Louis Freeh. Excuse me! Mr. Freeh became FBI Director after
the Waco massacre. It was Louis Freeh who recommended an independent
counsel to investigate the campaign finance scandals, while Janet Reno
said NO! It was Louis Freeh who called for an independent investigation
into the allegations of the use of military gas by the FBI well before
she pulled her midnight raid at the FBI offices. Don’t misunderstand, I
am not an apologist for the FBI Director and possibly he should resign
as well, but his culpability pales in comparison to Reno’s acceptance of
full responsibility from the initial assault to the final fire.

The Clinton-Reno apologists’ next tactic is to blame Congressman Dan
Burton and any other Republican who appears to be getting too close to
the truth. You can rest assured that Waxman’s public attack is only the
beginning. I predict that Senator Schumer will again attempt to stymie
any investigation that the Senate Judiciary Committee initiates just
like he did in the House of Representatives four years ago.

The latest move by Reno — dismissing the team of lawyers, who were
prepared to go to trial in the case of the Davidians’ wrongful death
suit against the government — is one more ploy to delay this suit until
public attention focuses elsewhere. She never ceases to amaze us with
the many ways she goes about protecting herself and Bill Clinton from
being held accountable.

Before we are subjected to more lies, more dissembling, and more
obfuscation we should demand that all the remaining imprisoned Davidians
be freed. There is infinitely more justice in freeing the Davidians than
freeing FALN terrorists who immediately broke their promise to renounce
terrorism. After all, there is a difference between planning and
committing terrorist acts and defending oneself from government agents
in black Ninja suits.