-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.weberman.com/ <A HREF="http://www.weberman.com/">COUP D'ETAT IN AMERICA: THE CIA AND THE ASSASSI </A> --[1]-- THE BLOODLESS COUP THE ATTEMPTED OVERTHROW OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES LAST MODIFIED "I do believe that this is a battle," the first lady said. "Look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president. A few journalists have kind of caught on to it and explained it, but it has not yet been fully revealed to the American public. And actually, you know, in a bizarre sort of way, this may do it." -- Hillary Clinton on NBC's Today, Jan 27, 1998 The Christian Far right is behind this move for impeachment. The Christian Far Right has captured control of the Republican Party. The so-called Republican "moderates" who say Clinton hasn't confessed enough for them are full of shit. The 81 questions that philanderer Henry Hyde sent the president are 81 variations of "When did you stop beating your wife?" Like Kenneth Starr (Inspector Shithound), these mean-spirited idiots are out to get the President as an act of vengeance at any cost to the nation. What the neo fascist Christian Far Right is really trying to do is impose its puritanical morality on the rest of the nation. --Al Aronowitz REMOVAL SWING VOTES Sen. Ted Stevens R-AK (202) 224-3004 (907) 271-5915 Sen. John McCain R-AZ (202) 224-2235 (602) 952-2410 Sen. Joseph Lieberman D-CT (202) 224-4041 (860) 549-8463 Sen. Olympia J. Snowe R-ME (202) 224-5344 (207) 874-0883 Sen. Susan M. Collins R-ME (202) 224-2523 (207) 945-0417 Sen. Spencer Abraham R-MI (202) 224-4822 (616) 975-1112 Sen. Bob Kerrey D-NE (202) 224-6551 (402) 391-3411 Sen. Richard H. Bryan D-NV (202) 224-6244 (702) 686-5770 Sen. Ron Wyden D-OR (202) 224-5244 (503) 326-7525 Sen. Arlen Specter R-PA (202) 224-4254 (215) 597-7200 Sen. John H. Chafee R-RI (202) 224-2921 (401) 453-5294 Sen. John W. Warner R-VA (202) 224-2023 (804) 771-2579 Sen. Charles S. Robb D-VA (202) 224-4024 (804) 771-2221 Sen. James M. Jeffords R-VT (202) 224-5141 (802) 223-5273 Sen. Slade Gorton R-WA (202) 224-3441 (425) 451-0103 Sen. Russell Feingold D-WI (202) 224-5323 (414) 276-7282 CALL 1-877-TO-MOVEON (1-877-866-6836)to be connected to your own Senators for FREE I have not been able to unearth evidence of a conspiracy in the impeachment of President Clinton. I have neither the resources or the power to do so. However, if there was a conspiracy, all of the players in Zippergate had a background in the intelligence community and were capable of carrying out a bloodless coup. The impeachment of the President of the United States was caused by a group of intelligence community professionals who worked together under the auspices of billionaire DICK SCAIFE. LINDA TRIPP must have been aware of the Scaife organization when she was White House, Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President for Media Affairs from 1991 to 1992. In this position she was able to examine and interact with the media outlets in Washington. Having had a background in counter-insurgency, she, naturally, gravitated toward those financed by SCAIFE, since Scaife was behind much of the far right's operations. SCAIFE was connected to LUCIANNE GOLDBERG. LINDA TRIPP claims conservative commentator Tony Snow turned her on to GOLDBERG. Snow, who once worked for the Moonies, verified this. The Moonies were financed by Japanese war criminals. It was no accident that LUCIANNE GOLDBERG worked with ALFRED REGNERY, a man with isolationist and pro-Nazi forebearers. Regnery was friends with KEN STARR, and RICHARD SCAIFE, who had worked in the CIA for decades and runs his own version of the Agency whose purpose is to bring down President Clinton. This researcher detects the hand of a rightwing invisible government attempting to overthrow a democratically elected President, in a bloodless coup. MY METHODOLOGY In the mid-1970's I worked with Congressman Henry Gonzalez, of San Antonio, Texas, in an investigation of the Kennedy assassination. I compiled a data base on Coup D'Etats and political assassinations. I compared the names of individuals involved in the Clinton-Lewinsky affair against this data base and against a master index of intelligence books indexes known as Public Information Research, and I detected a correlation. TONY SNOW According to the Washington Post: Tripp's discussions with agent Goldberg about a book began in the summer of 1996 after a furor over publication of Gary W. Aldrich's "Unlimited Access: an FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House." Full of assertions about drug use, rampant theft, open gay/lesbian sex and late night disappearances by the president, it was assailed harshly and repeatedly by the White House, but rose to the best-seller lists nonetheless. In her grand jury testimony, Tripp said she was upset to see Aldrich "smeared in the media" when she considered most of what he had written "based on my observations" to have been truthful. Having been urged by a friend, Fox-TV commentator and former Bush speechwriter Tony Snow to write a book, Tripp contacted him and he put her in touch with Goldberg. "[T]he last words Lucianne Goldberg said to me is, 'Who do you think you are, the queen of England?'�" Tripp recalled. "And she slammed the phone down and I didn't talk to her again until the end of September of '97." Goldberg told the FBI that Snow passed word that Tripp wanted to see her again and when they spoke, "Tripp provided just enough information for Goldberg to be interested in the story." At their meeting, Goldberg said, Tripp told her she had "explosive" information about a young woman, also working at the Pentagon, who was having an affair with Clinton. In 1991, Snow took a sabbatical from journalism to work in the White House for George Bush, first as chief speechwriter (deputy assistant to the president for communications and director of speechwriting), and later as deputy assistant to the president for media affairs (1992-93). Snow began his journalism career in 1979 as an editorial writer for the Greensboro Record in North Carolina. He later served as an editorial writer at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, VA. (1981-82), editorial page editor of the Daily Press in Newport News (1982-84), deputy editorial page editor of The Detroit News (1984-87), and editorial page editor of The Washington Times (1987-91). Snow received his bachelor�s degree in philosophy from Davidson College, North Carolina, in 1977, and studied philosophy and economics at the University of Chicago during the 1978-79 academic year. He taught school in Kenya and in Cincinnati, and worked as an advocate for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled in North Carolina. Born in Berea, KY, in 1955 and raised in Cincinnati, Snow is married to the former Jill Ellen Walker. They live in Virginia with their three children, a son and two daughters, and their three dogs and two cats. "The notion that she was a Republican mole in the Clinton White House doesn't make any sense," said conservative columnist Tony Snow, who introduced Tripp to Goldberg. But "it's reasonable to ask what her motives are," he added. SNOW'S TENUOUS CONNECTIONS TO THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY New Dangers, Old Enemies: Security Challenges in the 21st Century Tony Snow, Detroit News Correspondent, USA Today Sandy Berger, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Sen. Daniel Inouye, Ranking Member of Defense Subcommittee, Democrat of Hawaii Richard Perle Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute Ze'ev Schiff , Senior Military Correspondent, Ha'aretz. THE WASHINGTON TIMES AND THE MOONIES News World Communicatons, which owns the Washington Times, consists of, among others, Arnaud de Borchgrave, and Bo Hi Pak. Borchgrave was a Director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Bo Hi Pak, the president of NWC, served as liaison to the U.S. intelligence community while posted in Washington as South Korean military attache in the 1960s and early '70s, according to the Koreagate inquiry. Pak is also president of CAUSA (Confederation of the Associations for Unity of the Societies of the Americas), the political arm of the Unification Church. CAUSA was instrumental in providing aid to the Nicaraguan contras. Since its inception in 1982, the Washington Times has gained a circulation of about 100,000 and received the endorsement of President Ronald Reagan, who reads it every day. Founding editor and publisher James Whelan resigned in July 1984, charging that top Unification Church (UC) officials had taken over the paper in violation of UC guarantees of independence. In 1987, Times editorial page editor William Cheshire and several staff members also resigned over UC interference. Reverend Sun Yung Moon's organization, the Unification Church, funds The Washington Times. Most of Moon's money comes from Japan. For almost 20 years there have been consistent reports that one of Moon's most important financial supporters and advisors is Ryoichi Sasakawa. In 1969, Moon and Sasakawa, together, formed the Freedom Leadership Foundation (FLF), which lobbied the U.S. for a hawkish position in Vietnam. One of Sasakawa's favorite projects for the Moon organization was Win Over Communism (WOC), which was a fund raiser for the Unification Church. Sasakawa. was the WOC's chairman. Sasakawa. is clearly one of the richest men in Japan. Much of his money comes from the Japanese motorboat racing industry. Since it was legalized in Japan, it has become a $14 billion sport. Sasakawa. describes himself as "the world's richest Fascist". In addition to his riches, according to author Walter Pat Choate, "for more than half a century Sasakawa. has been one of the primary political brokers inside Japan". Choate claims that Sasakawa is part of Japan's attempts to influence America's politics and policies. "Many of Sasakawa's and Moon's operations parallel each other. They operate in the same way, giving away money, a great deal of attention to media and media organizations which operate across national borders, and the maintenance of a very right wing conservative focus," states Choate. According to Choate, Sasakawa's political activities go back 50 years, when he formed one of the most radical and Fascist parties inside Japan. "He was one of those individual business leaders who was calling for war with the United States in the months preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor," claims Choate. In 1931, Sasakawa. formed the Kokusui Taishuto, a militarist political movement, and according to a U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps report after World War Two, Sasakawa. was "one of the most active Fascist organizers prior to the war." He was later imprisoned for plotting the assassination of a former Premier. In 1939, Sasakawa. even flew to Rome in one of his own aircraft to meet personally with Benito Mussolini to help arrange the Axis alliance between Italy, Germany and Japan. Sasakawa organized Japan's black shirts patterned after Mussolini's. Ten months before the outbreak of World War Two, Sasakawa. toured the South Pacific in a flying boat. There still exist letters which he wrote to his close friend Admiral Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, and it was Sasakawa. who was virtually Yamamoto's only political contact to the far right wing in Japan. Another prominent Japanese war criminal who became an important member and supporter of the Moon organization was Yoshio Kodama. Having become an ultra-nationalist, terrorist leader in Japan at the age of 15, Kodama joined scores of secret societies with names like Blood Brotherhood, Holy War Execution League, Federation of Radical Patriotic Workers, and Capital Rise Asia Academy. He made his living working for those murderous groups. These yakuza armies were bankrolled by and served the interests of wealthy industrials, the police and the Army. They broke up labor unions, "protected" factories and offices, and assassinated opposition leaders. Having participated in a failed plot to assassinate, in one stroke, all the most powerful men in Japan, Kodama ended up in prison for attempted assassination and other terrorist acts. By 1940, Kodama had set up a strong working relationship with Japan's military intelligence apparatus, and served on many secret missions into Manchuria. The work landed him the lucrative position of supplying the Japanese Navy during World War Two. By one account, it was Sasakawa. who asked Kodama to do this work. He established the Kodama Agency, which according to U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps records, consisted of "systematically looting China of its raw materials". In order to accomplish this supply network, Kodama dealt in heroin, guns, tungsten, gold, salt, iron, owned farms, fisheries, an orphanage, and molybdenum mine, a munitions factory in China, industrial diamonds and radium, which he stole from the hospitals in Shanghai. Eventually he became known as "the man behind the Kempei Tai (secret police). When World War Two ended, Kodama was 34, a brigadier general, Cabinet advisor, and possessed millions of dollars worth of platinum, industrial diamonds, over $175 million in foreign currency, plus liquid assets. At the end of World War Two, both Sasakawa. and Kodama were classified as Class A war criminals by the American Occupation Forces in Japan. According to American Intelligence, "Sasakawa. appears to be a man potentially dangerous to Japan's political future...He has been squarely behind Japanese military aggression and anti-foreignism for more than 20 years. He is a man of wealth and not too scrupulous about its use...He is not above wearing any new cloak that opportunism may offer." In 1946, an American Army officer attached to the International Military Tribunal in Japan, said of Kodama, "He committed numerous acts of violence in China in acquisition by foul means or fair of commodities and goods belonging to the Chinese," and that "ten years from today, Kodama is going to be a great leader in Japan." The officer's assessment of Kodama was bleak. "His long and fanatic involvement in ultra-nationalistic activities, violence included, and his skill in appealing to youth, make him a man who, if released from internment, would surely be a grave security risk...Persistent rumors as to his black market profits in his Shanghai period, plus his known opportunism, are forceful arguments that he would be as unscrupulous in trade as he was in ultra-nationalism." But when the Cold War began, U.S. officials in Japan began to fear the Communists more than the Fascists, a pattern too familiar in Europe. Sasakawa., Kodama and other prominent Japanese war criminals were quietly released from prison in 1948, and many went on to play a dominant role in the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party, the most important political party in Asia, which has controlled the political destiny of Japan ever since. It has been reported that Kodama's release from Sugamo Prison was the work of the CIA. As a result, many of the very same men in Japan who had worked closely with Nazi Germany a decade before, again assumed the leadership role in Japan. By 1958, Kodama was one of the most powerful men in the Orient. That same year, he signed a contract with the Lockheed Corporation to help influence the Japanese government to reverse its intention to purchase the Grumman F-111 for the Japanese Air Force. To do this, Kodama used an American agent who had lost his U.S. citizenship by working with the Japanese during World War Two in Manchuria, another intelligence agent who had worked in China, and other associated politicians, including war crimes suspects whom he had met in Sugamo Prison. Among the people who helped him to secure the contract for Lockheed were General Minoru Genda, the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor, who had recently been appointed commander-in-chief of the new Japanese Air Force. Kodama had helped him in this new appointment. Lockheed received the Japanese contract and General Genda, who was a primary party in the bombing of Pearl Harbor 17 years earlier, received the U.S. Legion of Merit award from the U.S. Air Force. Moon, Sasakawa. and Kodama first got together in the 1960s to form the Asian People's Anti-Communist League. Created with the help of South Korean intelligence agents and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the League dedicated itself to uniting Fascists throughout Asia and combatting Communism. The League set up and funded Moon's Freedom Center in the United States in 1964. Kodama was chief advisor for the Moon subsidiary, Win Over Communism, an organization which helped to protect his investments in South Korea. In 1966, the League merged with the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, another Fascist organization, to form the World Anti-Communist League. Dedicated to fighting Communism and promoting Fascism, and spreading to nearly 100 nations on six continents, the World Anti-Communist League was headed by John Singlaub, one of the key players in the Iran-Contra scandal. According to Sara Diamond, the League was a "multinational network of Nazi war criminals, Latin American death squad leaders, North American racists and anti-Semites, and Fascist politicians from every continent." The headquarters for the League is in the United States, in the offices of Moon's Freedom Center. WHAT DID THE CIA KNOW ABOUT CLINTON'S SEXUAL PERVERSION? I know that the CIA has an interest in Zippergate from the presence of Plato Cacheris, who is always on the scene when the Agency needs him. The problem here is that it is hard to tell where RICHARD SCAIFE ends and the CIA starts. I suspect that the CIA came into possession of intelligence information on President Clinton's sexual practices long before SCAIFE did. What they did with this information I cannot say for certain. Perhaps the Agency decided to accelerate Clinton's demise by leaking info to SCAIFE who siced LINDA TRIPP on Lewinsky through GOLDBERG. The Starr report indicated that Clinton believed the intelligence community was interested in him: "He told her (Lewinsky) that he suspected that a foreign embassy (he did not specify which one) was tapping his telephones and he proposed cover stories. If ever questioned she should say the two of them were just friends. If anyone ever asked about their phone sex, she should say she knew their calls were being monitored all along, and the phone sex was just a put on." There are very few foreign embassies with the capability of tapping the secure White House telephone line - and why would they blow an invaluable source of information by questioning Monica about phone sex? Who does the qu estioning in this country? The FBI. By law, the CIA has access to all FBI documents. President Clinton believed that the FBI or CIA was tapping his phone, but was afraid to relay this fear to Monica, who might have freaked out, so he said it was a foreign embassy. SCAIFE AND THE CIA RICHARD SCAIFE's father was in the OSS. SCAIFE himself went back to the early days of the Cold War when the CIA was involved in countering the Soviet Union's government financed pro-communist propaganda campaign. The Agency set up numerous proprietaries to do this, and needed foundations to launder the CIA funds which financed these proprietaries. These foundations intermingled CIA money with their own, making it more difficult to trace the money back to the CIA. In some cases these Foundations became an informal part of the CIA. Key people in these organizations were given Operational Approval and became agents of the CIA. RICHARD SCAIFE was one of them. For all we know the CIA may still be funding the SCAIFE Foundations and taxpayers money might be being used to unseat the President of the United States. Did CIA funding of various Foundations end when the Cold War ended or is it still going on? Since Communism is no longer the threat it once was, my guess is that CIA funds are going to pro-free enterprise publishers and foundations. THE THEORY LINDA TRIPP: THE GOLDBERG/TRIPP SPY RING LUCIANNE GOLDBERG was running LINDA TRIPP while LINDA TRIPP was in the Pentagon. Why not the White House? GOLDBERG had ties to Richard Nixon, who tampered with American democracy by running operations against his political opponents. GOLDBERG also has strong ties to the CIA. A few well financed, determined conservatives, spied on the President, exposed him, and now impeachment proceedings in the Judiciary Committee are underway, headed by another individual who receives money indirectly from SCAIFE, Representative HENRY HYDE. LINDA TRIPP was a key player, get it through your heads, she was a fucking mole. Remember: Monica told her story to 11 people, but only one ratted her out, and this person could be traced back to Clinton hater RICHARD SCAIFE. LINDA TRIPP CHRONOLOGY LINDA TRIPP grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in Whippany, N.J. A New Yorker article was published in March, stated that LINDA TRIPP was arrested in 1969, at the age of 19, for grand larceny and later plead guilty to loitering. LINDA TRIPP said that she understood the charges to have been expunged, and that she had answered her military questionnaire truthfully to the best of her knowledge. She married at 21, had two children. She followed her military husband to Europe, where she took her first government post in 1984 in the Department of the Army, HQ Allied Forces Europe, as Personal Assistant to the United States Representative, Brunssum, Belgium 1984 to 1987. She was in the Department of the Army, Army Intelligence Command, Classified unit (administrative assistant), Fort Meade, Maryland in 1987. She was in the Department of the Army, on a Classified Assignment (Operations Assistant), Fort Bragg, North Carolina from 1988 to 1989. >From the New York Times, January 26, 1998, by Tim Weiner and Judith Miller: WASHINGTON -- "White House officials wondering how a trusted aide came to create such a potentially deadly political weapon may look to LINDA TRIPP's experience working for highly classified Army intelligence and commando units in the 1980s. As an aide to the Delta Force, she knew that keeping and maintaining secret records is crucial in a crisis, she said in sworn testimony four years ago.... "I've worked on the covert side of the Department of Defense," she testified before a House committee investigating the [Vince Foster] suicide...." ORIGINS OF THE DELTA FORCE Colonel C.A. Beckwith of the United States Army was assigned to the Special Air Service unit of the British Army (S.A.S.) from 1962 to 1963. The S.A.S. is a specialized force used for much of the British army's undercover work, which would range from operating behind enemy lines to the surveillance and infiltration of terrorists groups. In recent times the S.A.S. have been involved with operations in Bosnia, where they have been used as forward air control representation for NATO aircraft involved in air strikes on Serb positions. They also helped American forces involved in the invasion of Haiti in the Caribbean. After returning to the US Army, C.A. Beckwith started the planning of a new Special Forces unit for the US Army. On November 19, 1977 the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta was created with the SAS as a model. The SFOD-Delta unit were created in secrecy. The Delta was intended as a overseas counter-terrorist unit specialized in hostages rescue, barricade operations and specialized reconnaissance. The composition and strength of Delta Force are closely guarded secrets. The US still refuses to admit it's existence, even when it's commonly know that they took part in the failed attempt to rescue 66 American hostages from the US Embassy in Tehran in November 1979. Delta force's main function is as a hostages rescue unit. The recruits for Delta Force are volunteers mainly from the 82nd Airborne, Special Force Green Berets and the Rangers. They are trained in all ascepts of Counter-terrorism, and they are said to be the world's best specialists in CQB (Close Quarters Battle). The Deltas are know to have seen action in Panama and in the Gulf War, where they along with the Green Berets located Scud launchers. She was Department of the Army, Office of Deputy Under Secretary for Operations Research, Secretary/Stenographer 1990. Divorced in the early '90s. Linda became White House, Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President for Media Affairs 1991 to 1992. This was the Bush Administration. She was promoted to White House, Executive Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff 1992. LINDA TRIPP was alleged to be a source of never-proven allegations about President George Bush's personal life. July 20, 1993 Vince Foster commits suicide. Vince Foster's death was investigated by Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who wanted to subpeona Foster's attorney's records claiming that attorney-client priviledge ended after the client died. Starr took the same party line as the rest of the SCAIFE propaganda machine, such as AIM and Western Journalism Center, who alleged that Clinton had Foster murdered. This was essentially floating a false new story. LINDA TRIPP was the last person to speak with Vincent Foster before he committed suicide. What was she trying to find out? Did she know he was mentally disraught and was she using this opportunity to pump him for derrogatory information on President Clinton? Note LINDA TRIPP's interest in Foster coincides with SCAIFE's. Criticized the White House treatment of Foster's death as suspicious in a 1994 book proposal reported in the New York Times. Mid 1994 LINDA TRIPP was forced out of her job at the White House counsel's office and began work at the Pentagon. In testimony to Congress in 1995, LINDA TRIPP defended White House conduct under the Clinton Administration in the aftermath of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster's 1993 suicide. June 21, 1996 Lewinsky begins internship. April 1996 Lewinsky tranferred to Pentagon. At the Pentagon, Lewinsky meets LINDA TRIPP, a career government worker. Summer 1996: Lewinsky begins to tell fellow Pentagon employee Linda LINDA TRIPP of her relationship with Clinton. How did Linda and Monica hook up at the Pentagon, which is a really big place. Did GOLDBERG contact someone in the Agency who was also working for SCAIFE, or contact someone who had once worked for the Agency, and was she told that Monica Lewinsky was another target of our horney President? Knowing this, did LINDA TRIPP befriend (target) Lewinsky. What were the mechanics of the LINDA TRIPP transfer? What is the chronology? The Starr report did not focus at all on this aspect of the scandal. What attracted LINDA TRIPP to Lewinsky? Coincidence? Gossip? Or intelligence information? KATHLEEN WILLEY August 1997: LINDA TRIPP saw Kathleen Willey looking "disheveled" after leaving Clinton's office. Cathrine Willey was a former flight attendant married to Edward Willey Jr., a Richmond, Virginia, attorney 13 years her senior, since 1971. They were in debt, and Edward Willey faced prosecution for embezzling $275,000 from clients. On the day his wife was groped by the President, Edward Willey drove into a woods near Richmond and killed himself. When Willey was ordered by a judge to give sworn testimony in the case, sources say her affidavit confirmed LINDA TRIPP's account of unwanted advances. August 11 1997: Newsweek story is published in which LINDA TRIPP says Willey told her Clinton made a pass at her. Robert Bennett calls LINDA TRIPP a liar. October 1 1997: Paula Jones, whose sexual harassment suit against Clinton is scheduled to be heard in May, announces she has switched lawyers and accepted financial support from the Rutherford Institute. The Rutherford Institute receives three anonymous phone calls in a female voice that Lewinsky may have had sex with Clinton, according to sources. LINDA TRIPP said this was her. In the White House LINDA TRIPP existed in the milieu of the intelligence community. According to Monica's Grand Jury testimony: "LINDA TRIPP called me at work on October 6, 1997 and told me that her friend Kate from the NSC...had heard rumors about me and that I would never work in the White House again.." Kate Friedrich Special Assistant, National Security Advisor? Click HERE to learn more about the National Security Council. LINDA TRIPP knew Clinton's sex life could bring down Clinton's presidency and was reporting to "literary agent" Lucianne S. GOLDBERG who was once an asset of the CIA, and may still be today. October 1997 LUCIANNE GOLDBERG, son Jonah, Isikoff and LINDA TRIPP meet to discuss tapes on which Lewinsky alleges to LINDA TRIPP that she had a sexual relationship with Clinton and that he and Jordan advised her to deny it. Isikoff had left the Washington Post over their refusal to run his piece on Paula Jones. Isikoff had authored a Post piece knocking Senator Kerry for exposing drug links to Iran Contra. The cover story was that the taped conversations were intended for a book she was planning to write with the assistance of GOLDBERG, which LINDA TRIPP had pitched as "Behind Closed Doors -- What I Saw at the Clinton White House." LINDA TRIPP backed out of the deal, however, citing editorial differences and worries about her job. LINDA TRIPP's desk remains wa iting for her undisturbed in the basement of the Pentagon. For now, she is on flex-time and claims that she has been demoted to mere menial work, though her salary remains $88,000 a year. LINDA TRIPP associates say her anger at being labeled a liar by Robert Bennett was one reason she decided to record her conversations with Lewinsky. She wished to clear her name, and was advised by her literary agent LUCIANNE GOLDBERG that the best way to do that would be to tape her conversations with Lewinsky. January 7, 1998: Lewinsky signs an affidavit in the Jones case declaring she "never had a sexual relationship with the president." Her lawyer does not, however, submit the affidavit yet. January 9, 1998: LINDA TRIPP delivers the tapes to her lawyer, Jim Moody. At least a week before LINDA TRIPP called the Office of the Independent Counsel, the OIC had received info on the Lewinsky/ Clinton connection from Jerome M. Marcus, of Berger & Montague, an attorney with connections to the Federalist Society and to the Paula Jones lawsuit. The New York Times reported that besides Mr. Marcus, the group of lawyers that helped Mrs. LINDA TRIPP included Richard W. Porter, a law partner of Mr. STARR'S at the Chicago firm of Kirkland & Ellis, and George T. Conway 3d, a partner at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York. The three lawyers, who were all members of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization whose events have been attended by Mr. STARR, helped Mrs. LINDA TRIPP find a new lawyer, James A. Moody, who was also a member of the Federalist Society. They then worked together, in secret deliberations with LUCIANNE GOLDBERG to bring Mrs. LINDA TRIPP's tapes and story to Mr. STARR. Ms. GOLDBERG said that she had told these lawyers and several other friends who are politically conservative about Ms. LINDA TRIPP's accusations in late December and early January. "Who else would I go to to get involved in something like this?" Ms. GOLDBERG asked. "The people who have the most axes to grind." The three lawyers who formed a secret bridge between Mrs. LINDA TRIPP and Mr. STARR share involvement in the Paula Jones case, membership in conservative groups and friendships, some of which extended into Mr. STARR'S office. Long before the Lewinsky matter, Mr. Marcus had signed a friend of the court brief filed with the Supreme Court in support of the Jones case and had been a critic of the President. In an Op-Ed article published on Sept. 23 in The Washington Times, Mr. Marcus wrote: "Mr. Clinton's lies didn't just cover up an adulterous act. His lies covered up his selfishness. His lies covered up his total lack of respect for the American people, and his lack of respect for the house of ours in which we have invited him to live for a time." Mr. Conway and Mr. Porter have also done legal work in support of the Jones case. Indeed, Mr. STARR himself was briefly involved in the Jones case: before becoming the Whitewater in dependent counsel in August 1994, he helped the Independent Women's Forum, a conservative organization, file a friend of the court brief in the Jones case. Mr. STARR was not paid for his services. On July 31 of this year, Mr. STARR announced that he was taking an unpaid, indefinite leave of absence from Kirkland & Ellis. The three lawyers went to great lengths to hide their communications with Ms. GOLDBERG and Mr. STARR'S office. In early January, Ms. GOLDBERG had conversations with Mr. Marcus and Mr. Porter to discuss how Mrs. LINDA TRIPP might contact Mr. Starr. In her interview, Ms. GOLDBERG today described Mr. Marcus as "a cutout," who was brought into the matter to keep Mr. Porter's role obscured because of his close ties to Mr. STARR. On Jan. 12, several days after Mr. Marcus's call, Mrs. LINDA TRIPP contacted Mr. Bennett, Mr. STARR'S deputy, from her home in Columbia, Md. Ms. GOLDBERG said Mr. Porter had passed on Mr. Bennett's office phone number, which she gave to Mrs. LINDA TRIPP. LINDA TRIPP spoke with Mr. Bennett for 90 minutes. At 10:30 P.M., three I prosecutors and an F.B.I. agent climbed into a van and rushed to LINDA TRIPP's house. It was Ms. GOLDBERG who had steered Mrs. LINDA TRIPP to Bennett. Ms. GOLDBERG added that she telephoned Mr. Bennett some time in January to discuss Mrs. LINDA TRIPP's accusations, but she refused to say when. Ms. GOLDBERG, who in 1972 was a Nixon campaign informer on George McGovern's Presidential campaign plane, acknowledged that she relished her role as an instigator and source to Mr. Isikoff. "It was cloak and dagger," she said with a laugh, "like the old Nixon days." January 12 1998: LINDA TRIPP brings Kenneth Starr the tapes of her conversations with Lewinsky. January 13 1998: FBI agents equip LINDA TRIPP with a hidden microphone and record her conversation with Lewinsky at the Pentagon City Ritz-Carlton Hotel. January 14 1998: Lewinsky allegedly gives LINDA TRIPP a document to coach her on what to tell Jones's lawyers about the Willey incident. January 16 1998: STARR'S deputies have LINDA TRIPP meet Lewinsky again at the Ritz-Carlton. They intercept Lewinsky. March 16, 1998: Clinton says "nothing improper" happened when he was alone with Kathleen Willey, responding to her accusations aired in an interview on "60 Minutes" the previous night. --[cont]-- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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