-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: The Progressive Review <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, December 21, 1998 1:21 PM Subject: UNDERNEWS Dec 21 UNDERNEWS The Progressive Review On-Line Report >From Washington's Most Unofficial Source Dec 21, 1998 The Progressive Review 1739 Conn. Ave. NW Washington DC 20009 202-232-5544 Editor: Sam Smith Fax: 202-234-6222 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Progressive Review On-Line can be found at: 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 1998, The Progressive Review. Matter not independently copyrighted may be reprinted provided you pay TPR your normal reprint fees, if any, and give proper credit. ========================================================= NOTE Although the large volume of mail makes it difficult for us to respond to all correspondence, we post some of the more interesting comments at our Water Cooler site. Please note that we only identify readers who clearly indicate their message is intended for publication. If you register at the Water Cooler, you can also post your comments directly. THE WATER COOLER http://dejanews.com/~prorev MORE SEX AND VIOLENCE One of the factors that led some moderate Republicans to vote for impeachment was a review of certain censored material sent to Congress by independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Although this material was not made public, it was available to any member of Congress who wished to review it. Among the censored material was information concerning one of the most explosive stories from Clinton's past -- an alleged 1978 rape during a time when Clinton was attorney general of Arkansas. Although the story has been long known by Clinton investigators, many (including TPR) have shied away from it because, among other things, the alleged victim initially signed an affidavit denying the rape had occurred. Such affidavits are a peculiarity of the Clinton saga. Clinton has more affidavits denying affairs than most men have had affairs. Further, it has never been clear just how Clinton decides from which of the approximately 75 million women in America who are not his wife he should obtain these affidavits. There has been statements and other indications, however, that some of these documents have been obtained by financial inducement or threat. For example, Dick Morris has said that the Clinton campaign spent $100,000 in 1992 going after Clinton's women. Gennifer Flowers, Sally Perdue, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Dolly Kyle Browning, Kathleen Willey has all reported some kind of threatening conduct (including in some cases death threates) aimed at keeping them quiet. Monica Lewinsky indicated fear for her life and Linda Tripp was put in a safe house by the FBI. Further, men with damaging information about Clinton's affairs have been threatened, beaten and murdered. Larry Nichols, one of the first to pass on information about Clinton's sex life, has received death threats. Gary Johnson, a neighbor of Gennifer Flowers whose security camera filmed Clinton going in and out of Flowers apartment was beaten, left for dead, and had his tapes stolen. Jerry Parks, the chief of security for Clinton's Little Rock headquarters who had gathered a large dossier on Clinton, was shot dead in a mob-type slaying. In the alleged rape case, the woman -- long known as Jane Doe #5 because of her legal status in the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit -- has recanted her sworn affidavit. According a story last October by Carl Limbacher of the on-line NewsMax, "On Friday, January 2, 1998, ~ Jane Doe #5 signed an affidavit in which she denied that the President made 'unwelcome sexual advances toward me in the late seventies.' (On April 8, 1998, however, Jane Doe #5 stated to OIC investigators that this affidavit was false.)" More from Limbacher: "The story that Jane Doe #5, a.k.a. Juanita Broaddrick, no longer denies is the story she told her Arkansas friends years ago: that Bill Clinton, while state attorney general, brutally raped her in a Little Rock hotel room after she had enlisted to work in his first gubernatorial campaign. ~ There were four witnesses who told NBC that Broaddrick had revealed to them years ago that Clinton had brutally raped her in 1978. One was a nurse who told NBC that she tended to Broaddrick after the assault, applying ice to the victim� s bruised face and badly swollen lips. It was right after the attack that Broaddrick first revealed the rape, telling the nurse that Clinton had sex with her "against her will." "On Monday, March 30, the London Telegraph reported that investigators working for Paula Jones had tape-recorded an interview with Broaddrick, where the alleged rape victim revealed that she had suffered "a traumatic encounter" with Bill Clinton that "turned her life upside down" -- causing her to flee from Arkansas to California for a lengthy period. Broaddrick would not go into more detail, said the Telegraph, because she did not want to "relive her ordeal." Besides the Telegraph, both ABC and NBC had reported pieces of the story but for the most part Jane Doe #5 disappeared from sight. Last fall, however, there was this remarkable exchange from the Hannity & Colmes show last fall. Alan Colmes is speaking to Dick Morris: Colmes: Dick, tell me about this allegation about another woman coming forward. Could that be the end of Bill Clinton? Morris: Rape trials are very problematic. It was date rape if it was anything. He didn't jump out of the bushes with a knife. Look at Willie Kennedy Smith. The difficulty in proving that stuff is enormous --especially after 10 years." Chris Matthews is one of the few journalists who has raised the rape allegations in recent days, although clearly other journalists are aware of the story. It was, for example, discussed in the 12/17 issue of the White House Bulletin, a newsletter for Washington insiders. There are also allegations that Bill Clinton fathered the child of a black prostitute. This story first surfaced during the 1992 primaries but was quickly suppressed by the media. Again, the tale has refused to go away and may gain new life as a result of the pending Senate trial of Clinton. NEWSMAX ARTICLE ON JANE DOE #5 http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1998/12/19/94017 PRIMARY SOURCES >From an affidavit from Dolly Kyle Browning I have known William Jefferson Clinton since I was eleven years old. I call him "Billy." We attended high school together. During the period from the mid-1970's until January 1992, we had a relationship that included sexual relations. The frequency of our contact with each other, and the frequency of our sexual encounters, varied over that time period, but we did have sexual relations many times during that time period. Our relationship ended abruptly in January of 1992 when Billy would not return my telephone call. I told his secretary, Linda, that a tabloid had the story about me and Billy. I asked her to have him call me and he refused. Instead he had my brother, who was, at that time, working in the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign, call me from Billy's New Hampshire apartment or office. My brother said that Billy was afraid to talk to me because everyone thought that I might record the conversation as Gennifer Flowers had done. He said "we" think you should deny the story. He finally said: "if you cooperate with the media we will destroy you." The next time I spoke with Billy was at our high school reunion in 1994. At that reunion he and I had a conversation that lasted approximately 45 minutes. At the reunion, but prior to our conversation, I had avoided contact with Billy. He approached me sometime around midnight. He greeted me, saying "how are you?" I responded: "You are such an ass-hole, I can't believe you'd even bother to ask!" When I said "ass-hole" a Secret Service Agent reached to grab me. Billy physically blocked the agent's arm and said "it's alright" or words to that effect. He said "we have to talk." During this conversation, we sat in two chairs in front of a large column in the ballroom where our reunion dance was being held. There were several hundred other people in the ballroom. Dance music was playing almost continuously during our conversation. During our conversation our faces were close together. We were speaking in a volume that was only just loud enough to hear each other over the background noise. The only people within at least six feet of us during our conversation were two male Secret Service agents. Our conversation began with my confronting him for not returning my call in early 1992. This lead to a discussion of many things, including his affair with Gennifer Flowers. I reminded him that he had threatened to destroy me and he said he was sorry. We discussed many other things. At the end of the conversation he asked me to come to Washington. He said "You can live on the Hill. I can help you find a job." WHITEWATER RIPPLES A pro-impeachment member of Congress from Michigan had his district office hit by arson. Commenting on the fire at Rep. Joe Knollenberg's headquarters, the local police chief said that "If it is determined that this was retaliation of some sort because of Knollenberg's position yesterday, there could be a domestic terrorism charge." Matt Drudge reports that actor Alec Baldwin is under investigation by the Capital Police for suggesting that Henry Hyde be stoned. * Normal three-day White House order of pizza from Domino's: $560 * Three-day White House order of pizza from Domino's when Monica Lewinsky story broke last January: $2600 * Three-day White House order of pizza from Domino's during impeachment vote: $3100 [London Times] Polling depends on how questions are asked. For example the Rasmussen survey found that when reminded that our last military action was on the day Monica testified, only 36% said the timing of both attacks was merely a coincidence. Most (54%) said that politics played a role. By a 69% to 20% margin, people said the President should be impeached if he ordered attacks to help himself politically. PORTRAIT OF AMERICA http://www.Portraitofamerica.com The Clinton Administration fired more missiles at Iraq in three days than during the whole Gulf War. Tom Hayden says that Bill Clinton passed through the 1960s. But he didn't inhale. WE ARE NOT MAKING THIS UP The Nation recently took some of its big backers on a Caribbean cruise aboard the SS Veendam. Helping the liberal train of thought run on time were the likes of Molly Ivins, Jim Hightower, Christopher Hitchens, Alexander Cockburn, Eric Alterman and Daniel Ellsberg. According to Ivins, the group sailed "upon the briny deep from Fort Lauderdale to Half-Moon Cay to St. Maarten and St. Thomas, from one lovely isle set in clear, aquamarine waters to the next. All the while furiously debating economic globalization, issues of race, gender and class, the future of labor, the evils of privatization, why Bill Clinton should really be impeached and other burning issues of the day." Inspired by this, the Review is offering anyone who gives us as much as the several thousand dollars the Nation cruise cost a free trip around Casco Bay, Maine, aboard the M/V Maverick, flagship of the TPR fleet, including a complimentary lobster roll at the Dolphin Marina, Potts Harbor. The Maverick only carries life jackets for eight so make your reservations early. JUST FOR STARTERS Clinton�s actions are "foolish," "reprehensible," and "maddeningly reckless." He has been "lying" and he is a "bum." Clinton "violated the trust of the American people, lessened their esteem for the office of President, and dishonored the office which they have entrusted to him." Clinton "made false statements concerning his reprehensible conduct with a subordinate" and "wrongly took steps to delay discovery of the truth." Clinton�s testimony under oath was "evasive, incomplete, misleading [and] maddening." Clinton "violated his sacred obligations to his wife and daughter . . . misled his family, his friends, his colleagues and the public, and in doing so, he betrayed the trust place in him not only by his loved ones but by the American people." [These are just a few of the comments made by President Clinton's supporters from a recent Web post] WORD My gripe against Kenneth Starr is that he is not inquisitorial enough. He has failed to pursue the Clintons for their worst sins, namely the misuse of the FBI and the corruption of the US Justice Department. Perhaps this is because he is himself a creature of the Justice Department, where he served as chief of staff. Instinctively, he has avoided confronting the institutional power of the FBI. In the death investigation of Vincent Foster, he refused to proceed when his own prosecutor, Miguel Rodriguez, told him that he had uncovered evidence of an FBI cover-up. Rodriguez resigned in protest, suspecting strongly that Foster was murdered. The case was shut down. Mr. Starr also botched the investigation into the White House's illicit use of confidential FBI files on 900 Republican opponents. He used FBI agents to probe misconduct involving the FBI itself. Needless to say, they came up empty handed. A civil suit on behalf of the victims has since uncovered evidence that the purloined files were part of a campaign of political espionage ordered by Hillary Clinton herself. The dirt in the files, including raw data on congressional leaders, was fed into computers. Presumably it was later used for blackmail, or fed to media surrogates for the systematic smearing of Republicans. -- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, London Telegraph FIELD NOTES ORDER DESK: http://prorev.com/order.htm. 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