“Clinton administration scandals.” The very phrase is almost a
redundancy.
Back in 1994, White House Associate Counsel Jane Sherburne compiled a
task memo on nearly 50 separate scandals plaguing the administration —
from Travelgate to Vincent Foster to Filegate. And that was 1994, less
than two years into President Clinton’s first term.
As Clinton finishes his last year in office, it would be a daunting
task simply to list scandals that have consumed the White House since
1993. What’s your guess? 200? 300? 500?
It was for, perhaps, the least of these high crimes and misdemeanors
that Clinton was impeached. Perjury is a serious crime. Don’t get me
wrong. But, after all, it was a sex scandal. He deserved to be thrown
out of office for it. But he deserved to be thrown out even more for
some far more serious crimes.
Two recent developments bring all these scandals back — from Monica
Lewinsky to the selling of our political system to the Chinese
Communists — for renewed attention:
- Independent Counsel Robert Ray tells the Washington Post
the Lewinsky matter is still an open investigation and Clinton may be
indicted on a number of related charges after he leaves office. - Some of the Clinton administration’s biggest scandals are coming
back to haunt the White House because of its inability or unwillingness
to produce as many as 1 million e-mails subpoenaed by federal
investigators.
As for Robert Ray, don’t take this development too seriously.
Ray’s job is to pacify Clinton administration critics frustrated by
phony and failed investigation after phony and failed investigation.
His predecessor, Kenneth Starr, often leaked information to select
reporters about imminent indictments of high officials, even Hillary
Clinton, that were not to be. Don’t expect much more from his
hand-picked successor. This is nothing but a disinformation operation.
Robert Ray will not hold Clinton accountable for his crimes. I promise
you that.
However, there is potential in this e-mail story. It raises serious
questions about evidence tampering and leads inevitably to the
conclusion that the White House is still in full cover-up mode for a
reason. There’s stuff it is hiding that is much bigger, deeper, wider
than perjury charges. Much bigger.
WorldNetDaily’s Paul Sperry,
who, along with Insight’s Paul Rodriguez, has been out front in covering this important
story, found that many of the “missing” e-mails could shed light on the
inappropriate relations between the White House and the Democratic
National Committee, on Al Gore’s fund-raising controversies, on the way
political information is gathered at taxpayer expense in the Oval
Office, as well as on the whole Lewinsky mess.
If they don’t, why would the White House resort to threatening
employees, as it has, to cover up the problem? Why would the White House
meddle directly in the selection of a contractor to restore the e-mails?
Why would the White House continue to stall the investigation for six
months until after the next presidential election?
I believe when the truth is finally revealed, the content of some of
these e-mails and other documentary evidence hidden by the Clinton
administration will demonstrate the biggest scandal of all was the
selling of the White House to those representing a hostile foreign
power.
Already the record shows:
- That the president and the DNC solicited and received
millions of dollars in campaign contributions from sources linked
directly to the Chinese government and military-espionage establishment; - That the administration changed technology export regulations to
permit a major campaign contributor to transfer sensitive missile
guidance technology to China; - That the Clinton Commerce Department approved nearly every
single transfer request — a total of 6,539 of 6,565 — without
consulting other relevant government agencies including the FBI, Defense
Department and State, let alone Congress; - That more than 100 witnesses and suspects in the Chinese
money-laundering plot have taken the Fifth Amendment or fled the
country; - That Clinton’s Justice Department has systematically stonewalled
any serious investigation of Clinton-Gore fund-raising abuses, even to
the point of ignoring the advice of its own investigator, Charles
LaBella, and its own FBI director, Louis Freeh;
Congress should drop every other priority on its plate right now
to get to the bottom of this pattern of political racketeering and
treasonous behavior. There’s much more here than simple perjury. There’s
much more here than the matter of holding Bill Clinton personally
responsible for his behavior in office. Real damage has been done to our
nation — perhaps irreparable damage.
Clinton and his whole entourage of sycophantic, power-hungry liars
and evil-doers need to be held accountable — now. Nothing less than the
future and legacy of our free republic is at stake.