-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: The Progressive Review <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 5:48 PM Subject: UNDERNEWS Feb 2 UNDERNEWS >From the Progressive Review February 1, 1999 The Progressive Review 1739 Conn. Ave. NW Washington DC 20009 202-232-5544 Editor: Sam Smith Fax: 202- 234-6222 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://prorev.com. For a free trial subscription to our hard copy edition and e-mail updates send your postal address with zip code (Sorry, foreign addresses will receive e-mail edition only). To unsubscribe, send message with the word 'unsubscribe.' Copyright 1999, The Progressive Review. Matter not independently copyrighted may be reprinted provided you pay TPR your normal reprint fees, if any, and give proper credit. SEARCH TOOL: Our new search tool permits you to find quickly what you've looking for in our 600,000 word news archives: http://prorev.com TO POST MESSAGES & NEWS ON OUR FORUM: http://dejanews.com/~prorev ===================================================== MISSION CREEP The Pentagon is asking President Clinton to name a military commander for the continental United States. The unprecedented move is part of the terrorism panic being fostered at various levels of government and another troublesome step in the increasing militarization of American life. This trend is eviscerating a century-old ban on military interference with domestic affairs embodied in the posse comitatus act. The 1/28 New York Times reported that "the plan calls for the military leader to be ready, if necessary, to do such things as order thousands of doctors, stretchers and emergency personnel quickly sent to stricken areas, much as American commanders abroad are now prepared to do." The Times said that White House officials had reacted favorably. Says Gregory Nejeim, of the national ACLU: "The danger is in the inevitable expansion of that authority so the military gets involved in things like arresting people and investigating crimes." He added that soldiers are trained to kill, not to respect the nuances of law enforcement. "It's hard to believe that a soldier with a suspect in the sights of his M-1 tank is well positioned to protect that person's civil liberties." Among those pushing the plan is a former Reagan administration official, Fred C. Ikle, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a well-known bunker for militarists and intelligence operatives not presently in the government. The move comes at a time of increasing concern over preparations for martial law in the Y2K crisis by some National Guard units. For example, at a recent meeting designed to calm the fears of DC residents over Y2K, a number of black residents asked whether the government would be sending National Guard troops into their neighborhoods. A Senate staffer tried to reassure them that there were no plans for martial law, but a number in the audience hissed and booed. The Constitution does not directly address the question of what should happen in the midst of a major national catastrophe. But neither does it give the slightest support to giving non-elected civilian or military officials plenary powers. The best guide is to be found in the Tenth Amendment which says that the powers of the federal government are those delegated to it by the states and the people. The states and the people have not delegated the power of martial law. Thus in a true crisis (such as a nuclear attack) the answer seems quite plain: the country should be run as a loose confederation of fifty states until a legitimate federal government could be re-established. In the interim, the highest officials in the land would be the governors. While this seems to the conventional Washington mind a form of anarchy, centralization of power and assets is actually the enemy of a good defense. Ask any guerilla leader. We are in a Y2K and terrorism scare in no small part because generations of officials and establishment commentators who thought that centralizing everything from electric to politic power was a form of progress. [TPR has been one of the few publications reporting regularly on the military's domestic mission creep. Our archives are list below] MISSION CREEP http://prorev.com/mil.htm http://prorev.com/mil2.htm ABOUT THAT TERRORISM . . . Before we destroy our democracy and live out the rest of our lives wearing anti-CBW protective clothing, couldn't we just try treating the Arabs decently for a change? MORE THAN SEX. . . As NBC continues to block broadcast of an interview with a woman who is alleged to have been assaulted by President Clinton in the 1970s, there are reports that the women is thinking of taking her story to another network. NewsMax reports that a source who was present the entire eight hours that NBC grilled Juanita Broaddrick and those close to her says the Myers' team put the Clinton accuser and her family through the wringer. "Their verdict: She's 'squeaky clean.' ~~~ "Dateline" also interviewed nurse Norma Rogers, a key corroborative witness who treated Broaddrick's bruises after her alleged attack by then-Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton." According to NewsMax, Myers called Broaddrick to tell of NBC's cold feet saying, "The good news is, you're credible. The bad news is, you're very, very credible." And the Southwest Times Record reports that "Broaddrick, owner of the Brownwood Manor Nursing Facility, has been questioned by representatives of the House Judiciary Committee at the Greenwood office of Republican state Sen. Bill Walters, who is her attorney. Several committee members, including U.S. Rep. Asa Hutchinson, R-Fort Smith, are serving as House managers and prosecuting the impeachment case against Clinton before the U.S. Senate." Broaddrick last January signed an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying that Clinton had made unwelcome advances on her. But in an April deposition for Kenneth Star, Broaddrick recanted. Her testimony is sealed. NEWSMAX http://newsmax.com SOUTHWEST TIMES RECORD http://www.swtimes.com/1999/January/29/news/clinton.h tml JANE DOES, WE HARDLY KNEW YE Broaddrick is not the only woman alleged to have been assaulted by Clinton. There is, of course, Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey (more on her below), but there are at least five other instances ranging from alleged sexual assault with physical harm to groping. One of these instances is described in Roger Morris' 'Partners in Power:' "A young woman lawyer in Little Rock claimed that she was accosted by Clinton while he was attorney general and that when she recoiled he forced himself on her, biting and bruising her. Deeply affected by the assault, the woman decided to keep it all quiet for the sake of her own hard won career and that of her husband. When the husband later saw Clinton at the 1980 Democratic Convention, he delivered a warning. �If you ever approach her,' he told the governor, 'I'll kill you.' Not even seeing fit to deny the incident, Bill Clinton sheepishly apologized and duly promised never to bother her again." Then there is the case of a former Miss America, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, who had a short encounter with Clinton in 1983. She initially told friends that then-Governor Clinton had forced himself upon her but later said the incident was consensual. She refused to talk about it for a number of years but recently admitted the encounter to a Toronto newspaper and also told of alleged intimidation of her family and friends. Following the story's publication, according to Gracen lawyer Vincent Vento, a caller contacted her and said, "You should really keep your mouth shut about Bill Clinton and go on with your life. You could be discredited. You could have an IRS investigation." Since then, she has. THE WILLEY CASE In another indication that the real Clinton scandal story is taking place far from the US Senate, Jackie Judd & Chris Vlasto of ABC News have reported that a "private investigator has become a key witness in the investigation of whether someone tried to scare Kathleen Willey into remaining silent about allegations President Clinton made an unwanted sexual advance." Sources familiar with PI Jarrett Stern's work say he was hired by Saul Schwartzbach, a lawyer for Nathan Landow, a developer and a shadowy figure in the Clinton scandals. Says ABC: "Willey has testified that Landow ~~~ pressured her to deny that Clinton made a sexual advance toward her at the White House. The same sources say Landow had Willey investigated at a time when she was a witness in both the Paula Jones sexual harassment case and the Starr criminal investigation." Landow's involvement in the story could prove a huge embarrassment to Al Gore and may help to explain why Bill Bradley is being warmed up in the establishment bull pen. Landow was a big operative in Gore's 1988 presidential campaign. The Baltimore Sun reported that "Mr. Gore said that a group of major Democratic fund-raisers led by Maryland developer Nathan Landow had 'played a significant role in getting me change my mind about running.' It wasn't so much the strength of the arguments though. Landow and company promised to raise $4 million and Gore said he'd make a run for it. Landow raised over a half million dollars in the 1992 and 1996 Clinton/Gore campaigns and his name has come up in questionable land deals in DC and on an Indian reservation. Landow has denied stories that he tried to help Webb Hubbell in the alleged hush money case now reinstated against the former Justice Department official. Al Hunt of the Wall Street Journal who wrote the Hubbell-Landow story, responded earlier this year that "I reported that the same Mr. Landow secretly had tried to help Clinton confidant Webb Hubbell when he was in legal and financial straits. Mr. Landow adamantly insisted that wasn�t true, either. I know he lied then, which makes his credibility [in the Willey matter] suspect now." The same year that Clinton had his alleged encounter with Juanita Broaddrick, Landow was trying to break into the hotel and gambling industries. According to a Washington Post story at the time, "Two prominent Washington investors with connections to the Carter administration were involved in a proposal to build a hotel and gambling casino in Atlantic City, with Washington gambling king pin Joe Nesline as a consultant. The investors are multimillionaire builder Nathan Landow and Smith Bagley, a Reynolds tobacco heir. Landow is under consideration for appointment as U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands. Landow acknowledge[d] a casual acquaintanceship with Nesline of many years� standing, and an involvement in one other hotel-casino venture in which Nesline also played a role." "Nesline, who lives in the luxurious Promenade high- rise apartment building owned by Landow at 5225 Pooks Hill Rd. in Bethesda, has been an internationally known gambling figure for 40 years. He had long been identified in local police files as the suspected �godfather� of bookmaking and other gaming action [in] and around Washington. "With an arrest record spanning four decades. Nesline has been charged with bribery and bootlegging as well as gambling. He was convicted of carrying a deadly weapon in the fatal shooting of a man at point-blank range in an after-hours club in 1951." The Post's Maxine Cheshire wrote that "Landow's lawyer. Saul Schwartzbach, blamed himself for involving Nesline. 'I may have destroyed my client.' Schwartzbach said, because he had consulted Nesline for half an hour for expertise that would enable Landow and Bagley to negotiate knowledgeably in what was to be a joint venture with Resorts International Inc., a conglomerate with gambling in the Bahamas and elsewhere. The deal fell through. Landow was also involved with Anthony Plate, an associate of the Gambino Mafia family. Plate owned a 25 percent stake in Quaker Masonry, a firm in which Landow served as vice president and director. Reported the Post, "They [officers of the Montgomery County�s organized crime section] learned from Florida police that [Landow] had a financial interest in a now defunct corporation whose concealed owners allegedly included an identified member of the Carlo Gambino Mafia �family.�" Landow was a beneficiary of Marion Barry's urban renewal fire sales to prominent Democratic officials in the 1980sw. A 1991 National Review article reported that "In the late 1970s an estimated $100 million in federal property was transferred to the D.C. government. The [Redevelopment Land Agency] was put in charge of selling the transferred property, as well as other tracts already owned by the city. The General Accounting Office was openly critical of the RLA in 1982, charging that city property (much of it a gift from the federal government) was being sold for bargain-basement prices, often to political friends of the mayor [Marion Barry]. ~~~ Nathan Landow, for example, a prominent Democratic Party fundraiser, paid less than one-third the market price for a piece of downtown real estate he purchased from the RLA in early 1982." Remember what the late Senator Phil Hart had to say about his former occupation: "The Senate is a place that does things 20 years after they should have been done." There is no February 12 deadline on the Willey-Landow story. MORE THAN SEX (Cont'd) [Richard Morris on Matt Drudge's TV program] MORRIS: When I was called by the House Judiciary Committee just last weekend to testify or to meet with them I met with 3 investigators of the committee. They asked me not to use their names and I won't but they were each 50 years of age or over, they weren't kids. They had decades of experience working for the IRS, the FBI, and all kinds of other investigative organizations; they told me that they were physically afraid of retaliation. They asked me if I would testify . . . DRUDGE: The ones questioning you were afraid?! MORRIS: Exactly, they asked me if I would testify and I said yeah. And they said aren't you afraid of retaliation? And I said what are they going to expose, my sex life? You know we have done all that. I've taken the trouble to not sin since then. And they said no, no. I mean don't you know the list of the 25 people who have died in mysterious circumstances in connection with this investigation? And I said are you guys out of your minds? And they said no, no. And one of them said I guarantee you that each of us will have an IRS audit when this is over, he said I'm saving my receipts I know that I am going to have an audit. And I said, how does that work? And he said well the head of the IRS and Hillary are very good friends. DRUDGE: Let me get this straight, those even questioning people at this point are afraid. MORRIS: Yes. And we are not talking here about some right wing nuts, or some people who are really paranoid. We are talking about guys who have spent 20 or 30 years as top level investigators for the IRS and the FBI who have retired and are now on leave and brought back by the Judiciary Committee and they specifically asked me not to mention their names on the air. HEY, JOHN, YOU SHOULD BE HERE; THIS CANYON IS LIKE AWESOME. . . CellularONE wants to use Hopi Point, just a mile or so west of Grand Canyon's El Tovar Lodge, as a site for a 43-foot-high cellular phone tower. The original proposal was for an 80-foot tower, but now it's been scaled back to tree-top level. The purpose is to provide cell-phone coverage for drivers at the South Rim area in Grand Canyon National Park. Says Rob Smith, Sierra Club Southwest representative. "Get in touch with the Grand Canyon, not the office." The Park Service has extended its comment period on the CellularONE tower proposal until Friday, Feb. 5. WRITE Superintendent, attn: Barbara Nelson, Telecommunication Specialist 520-638-7710. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FEEDBACK Your editor tends to sign his correspondence with the phrase "Keep the faith." The other day, reader Joseph Wanzala replied, ending his note with the word "Paulendo." We asked him to explain and he told us that 'Paulendo' means 'let's go' or 'forward' in the Chewa language of Malawi and Mozambique. I am actually from Uganda but I lived in Malawi for several years. 'Paulendo' was a favorite chant of football (soccer) fans at matches, especially when it appeared that their team was winning which meant that they were on to the next stage in the championship competition. It was also meant to demoralize the opposing team and fans by making them feel 'left behind.' 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