Now, this should be interesting. It seems that Bill Clinton has
decided to turn his politics of personal destruction on his own
executive branch.
Where are Woodward and Bernstein when you really need them?
The president is a little peeved that the FBI is beginning to make
headway in its investigation into his campaign finance shenanigans. Or
maybe he’s angry because in the process they are blowing the whistle on
his institutional guardian, the Justice Department.
On Sept. 22, FBI agents assigned to the campaign-finance task force
told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee that Justice Department
officials had blocked their efforts to pursue crucial investigative
leads — including information that Charles Yah Lin Trie was bringing in
duffel bags full of cash to the Democratic Party.
According to the Washington Times, the FBI agents described Justice
Department lawyers overseeing the (campaign finance) probe as
“nonaggressive prosecutors who sought to impede or delay the
investigation with ludicrous restrictions.” Ivian Smith, the special
agent in charge of the FBI’s Little Rock field office, wrote to Bureau
Director, Louis Freeh, to complain about the Justice Department’s
interference with the investigation.
Though Freeh didn’t personally reply to Smith’s letter, we now know
that within three months of receiving it, he sent a memo to Bill
Clinton’s consiglieri Janet Reno, recommending that she seek the
appointment of an independent counsel to investigate the campaign
finance scandal.
Oh, in case you forgot, Reno declined to follow Freeh’s suggestion,
and to this date, has never released his incriminating memo to her.
If you think this is outrageous, you ought to hear the particulars.
Smith and three fellow agents testified to the committee that their
Justice Department supervisor, Laura Ingersoll, prevented them from
getting a search warrant to conduct a search of Trie’s office where they
believed Trie’s assistant was destroying evidence that had been
previously subpoenaed.
Ingersoll said she didn’t believe the agents had established probable
cause that a crime had been committed. We need to find out where she
went to law school! How much is it going to take before the liberal
press starts to do its job? Remember how this same Justice Department
refused to authorize an FBI wiretap on suspected Los Alamos spy Wen Ho
Lee? The ordinarily unflappable Clinton is more than a little defensive
about this inquiry — as well he should be, considering he knows all the
sordid facts related to this scandal.
Clinton went so far as to ban from the White House a reporter from
Investors Business Daily simply because he asked him when he was going
to have a press conference about the illegal money from China and the
campaign-finance scandal.
But even more bizarre than Clinton’s banishment of the reporter was
his response to the reporter’s question. Obviously still fuming from the
FBI’s testimony to the Senate Committee last week, Clinton turned his
sights on that pesky agency. “The FBI wants you to write about that
rather than write about Waco,” he snapped.
With that response, Clinton revealed that anyone, even his own FBI,
is expendable if they come close to implicating him in the course of
their duties. With Clinton, it is always someone else’s fault.
His impertinent remark is designed to make us believe that these four
FBI agents are lying about the Clinton Justice Department’s obstruction
of justice to divert attention from their own misdeeds at Waco. To quote
rock-and-roll philosopher Chubby Checkers, “How low can you go?” The
Clinton retort is interesting for another reason. We all know about his
reputed gift for compartmentalization, but this takes the cake. Does he
still fail to grasp that as president, he is accountable for all these
agencies? Whether it’s the Justice Department’s malfeasance with
Chinagate or the FBI’s with Waco, he is the chief executive.
We should have known that Clinton’s visceral contempt for law
enforcement would surface eventually. When they are no longer of any
political use to him he drops them like hot potatoes.
Alas, we’ve come to expect this behavior from Bill Clinton. But a
scandal of equal magnitude is the mainstream media’s astounding apathy
and conspiratorial silence in the face of such overwhelming corruption
by their ideological soulmate.
