Why would two major reports to Attorney General Janet Reno, one by
the FBI’s director and one by Justice’s own chief scandal investigator
— both suggesting criminal behavior on the part of President Clinton
and Vice President Gore — be suppressed and kept from public view for
years?
WND readers now have the chance to find out for themselves, and to
examine the complete “Freeh and LaBella memos.” FBI Director Louis
Freeh, long at odds with Reno, delivered his 27-page report to the
attorney general on Nov. 24, 1997, urging Reno to appoint an independent
counsel to investigate alleged illegal fundraising activities by both
Clinton and Gore. Charles LaBella, then supervising attorney for the
Justice Department’s own Campaign Financing Task Force, in a blistering
94-page document, pressed his superior, Reno, to do the same.
Although Reno ignored the advice of her chief investigator and the
FBI director, until now the public has not been allowed to know why.
On June 6, the memos, given to Congress only in late March, were
finally released by the House Committee on Government Reform, probing a
possible Justice Department cover-up of the Chinagate scandal.
WorldNetDaily’s Washington Bureau Chief Paul Sperry was at the
committee hearing that day and obtained a copy of the two memos there.
The two memos paint a disturbing picture of a president and vice
president who have not only spent an overwhelming amount of time over
the past seven years raising money for their own and other Democrats’
reelection, but have allegedly engaged in a great deal of illegal
activity in the effort to “bring the money in.”
“The intentional conduct and the ‘willful ignorance’ uncovered by our
investigations, when combined with the line blurring, resulted in a
situation where abuse was rampant, and indeed the norm. At some point
the campaign was so corrupted by bloated fundraising and questionable
‘contributions’ that the system became a caricature of itself … a
system designed to raise money by whatever means, and from whomever
would give it, without meaningful attention to the lawfulness of the
contributions or the manner in which the money was spent.” — Charles
LaBella, pages 5 and 6 of his July 16, 1998 memo to Janet Reno.
“The Attorney General should seek the appointment of an Independent
Counsel with respect to the Vice President’s telephone solicitations.
… Like those of Vice President Gore, the President’s fundraising calls
were part of the alleged scheme to circumvent the campaign financing
laws. … An Independent Counsel should be appointed to investigate this
scheme, and the President’s solicitations should be part of that
investigation.” — FBI Director Louis Freeh, page 17 of his Nov. 24,
1997 memo to Reno.
Please note that the Justice Department failed to release page 22
of Freeh’s memo to the House Committee on Government Reform, so
WorldNetDaily’s copy of the document is also missing that page.
Sperry, one of the nation’s top investigative news reporters, is most
widely known for his high-profile encounter with President Clinton on
the White House’s South Lawn last fall, when, during a lavish picnic
thrown for the Washington press corps, he verbally sparred with the
president for 10 minutes about the mother of all Clinton scandals:
Chinagate. (Sperry wrote an engaging first-person account of his
nose-to-nose encounter with an agitated President Clinton, in
“My
picnic with Bill.” )
Sperry’s willingness to ask tough questions of the president of the United States resulted in his being banished from the White House.
A reporter who has followed the various Clinton-Gore scandals closely throughout the administration, Sperry has written a road map to the Freeh and LaBella memos for WorldNetDaily’s readers.
Read Paul Sperry’s “WND readers’ guide to the Freeh and LaBella
memos.”
Go directly to the
Freeh memo.
Go directly to the
LaBella memo.
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