-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Today's Lesson From Partners in Power by Roger Morris Clinton would later claim that he learned of the Lasater probe only at the last moment in the fall of 1986. But not only had Goodwin received earlier briefings in the governor's office, the inquiry itself had been what investigators called "a spinoff of the Roger Clinton investigation," the files and testimony of which the governor and Roger's lawyers had followed closely. In any event, even with the Lasater inquiry at its height, Clinton lobbied heavily and successfully for a bond issue for a new state police communications system, an issue for which Lasater and Company would receive $750,000 in underwriting fees while its owner was under active investigation for multiple federal and state felonies. "Because they backed the right individual in Clinton," Butch Locke would tell the FBI, "Lasater and Company received the contract." ===== Pathological Liars Clinton Says He Never Used Cocaine In other news, Clinton says he never heard of the Cali cartel President Clinton entered the cocaine fray yesterday -- albeit by proxy -- saying he has never used the drug. Gennifer Flowers, who had an affair with the president, told Fox News Channel on Aug. 18 that Mr. Clinton once told her he had used cocaine. "The president has never done cocaine," said Jim Kennedy, a spokesman for the White House counsel's office. "That applies to his entire life." As Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush tries to fend off questions about past drug use, Mr. Clinton addressed a rumor that has swirled about him for years. In Roger Morris' 1996 book "Partners in Power," a dual biography of the president and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Morris quotes the president's younger half-brother on a 1983-84 surveillance film stating, "Got to get some [cocaine] for my brother. He's got a nose like a vacuum cleaner." Roger Clinton pleaded guilty in 1984 to federal charges of cocaine distribution and conspiracy. He served half of a two-year sentence. Questions about cocaine have taken on a new currency in politics this campaign season, even as questions about marital fidelity and marijuana recede. Lincoln Chafee, a Republican who is seeking a U.S. Senate seat in Rhode Island, told an interviewer over the weekend that he tried cocaine in the 1970s. Mr. Bush, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, has spent the last week battling drug inquiries that posed the first threat to his campaign juggernaut. No one has produced any evidence that the Texas governor used cocaine, but his initial refusal to answer the question definitively only brought more queries. The questions do not appear to have hurt Mr. Bush's campaign. He led Vice President Al Gore 54 percent to 37 percent in a CNN-Time poll released Friday. Perhaps most significant, 84 percent of respondents said that if Mr. Bush did use cocaine when he was in his 20s, it should not disqualify him for the presidency. A Boston Herald poll conducted Thursday and Friday found that the cocaine questions did not hurt Mr. Bush among likely GOP primary voters in New Hampshire. Mr. Bush led the GOP primary field with 45 percent of the vote, far outdistancing his closest challenger, Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, with 11 percent. "The cocaine issue is just not cutting," pollster R. Kelly Myers told the Boston Herald. Mr. Bush is getting ample advice from candidates and campaign operatives in both parties. James Carville, Mr. Clinton's former campaign adviser, is urging Mr. Bush to clam up. "The next time you get a drug question, the only appropriate answer is 'What part of no don't you understand,' " Mr. Carville writes in an article titled "Just Say No" in this week's Time magazine. "What you did 25 years ago doesn't matter; what you did during the past 25 days should matter." But two of Mr. Bush's GOP rivals say he should open up. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah says Mr. Bush should answer the cocaine question and put the issue behind him. Gary Bauer, former head of the Family Research Council, chides Mr. Bush for his "Clintonian approach" of partial denials and partial explanations. Through Wednesday, Mr. Bush offered his familiar response, that he "made some mistakes" in his past, but had learned from his mistakes and he would not answer whether he had ever used illegal drugs. In Thursday's edition of the Dallas Morning News, Mr. Bush answered a specific question. He said he could pass an FBI security clearance, meaning he had not used illegal drugs in the past seven years. In Roanoke the same day, Mr. Bush went back 15 more years, indicating he had not used illegal drugs since 1974. Mr. Bush said he could have passed such a background check "when my dad was president of the United States, a 15-year period." As for Mr. Clinton, Miss Flowers said in an interview on the Fox program "Hannity & Colmes" that Mr. Clinton had smoked marijuana in her presence as attorney general and as governor. "He made it very clear that if I ever wanted to do cocaine, that he could provide that," she said. Miss Flowers said Mr. Clinton "also told me that there were times he did so much cocaine at parties that his head would itch." But in March 1992, Betsey Wright, a Clinton campaign aide, told the Los Angeles Times that Mr. Clinton, then the governor of Arkansas, had never used cocaine or knowingly been in its presence. "I asked him the following questions" she told the newspaper. " 'Bill, have you ever used cocaine?' He replied, 'No.' "I said, 'Bill, have you ever been in a room where you were aware there was cocaine?' " "He replied, 'No.' " During his 1992 presidential campaign Mr. Clinton denied that he had a 12-year affair with Miss Flowers. But he later testified under oath in the Monica Lewinsky affair that he had a sexual encounter with the former television reporter and cabaret singer. In November 1990, Mr. Clinton, then governor of Arkansas, pardoned Dan Lasater, a Little Rock bond trader and convicted cocaine distributor who had contributed to his campaign. Mr. Lasater once loaned $8,000 to Roger Clinton to pay a drug debt. Mr. Clinton said in 1994 that he barely knew Mr. Lasater, and that the bond trader had contributed to the campaigns of other Arkansas Democrats as well, including Sens. Dale Bumpers and David Pryor. The Washington Times, August 24, 1999 Assassination Politics Clinton's Head is Worth �72 However, the content of his nose is worth $2000 an ounce A REWARD of 5 million afghanis (�72) to anybody who kills President Clinton is being made by an Afghan religious scholar who supports the Taliban. Maulana Abdur Rahim Muslimdost said in Peshawar, Pakistan: "It is little, but in my view his head is not worth more." He said his offer was in retaliation for the $5 million (�3 million) America is offering for the arrest of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi terrorist, who is in Afghanistan under Taliban protection. Last weekend, the Taliban again accused the Clinton administration of double standards by supporting terrorism worldwide while demanding the extradition of bin Laden. The growing threat posed by Pakistani fundamentalists and pressure from America has forced Islamabad, which backs the Taliban, to try to mediate an end to the heavy fighting between Taliban forces and the opposition Northern Alliance. Yesterday, a Pakistani delegation left for Dushanbe, the capital of the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan, for a second round of talks with the Northern Alliance to try to persuade it to negotiate with the Taliban. The London Telegraph, August 24, 1999 Japanese Banking Japanese Bank Shares Surge Gain of 23 Percent Since Thursday Japanese bank shares surged 11.6 per cent yesterday, bringing the gain in the sector to 23 per cent since Thursday, as investors forecast further consolidation. Friday's announcement by Industrial Bank of Japan, Dai-Ichi Kangyo and Fuji that they planned an alliance to create the world's biggest banking group with assets of $1,270bn sparked forecasts of similar deals. Brian Waterhouse, analyst at HSBC Securities, said: "It looks certain that other banks will be forced into mergers - and soon." Shares in IBJ, DKB and Fuji rose by their maximum permitted daily amount of �200 ($1.80) yesterday. Fuji closed at �1,243 , DKB closed at �1,209 and IBJ closed at �1,284, all 19 per cent higher. "Almost all the financial institutions are in play . . . we are raising our sector recommendations [for large banks] to overweight for the first time since 1992," added Mr Waterhouse. Sanwa Bank yesterday accelerated its plans to strengthen its alliance, announced earlier this year, with Toyo Trust, its wholly owned subsidiary. The company said it would merge its trust bank operations with Toyo Trust in six weeks. The markets are now watching to see if Sanwa will be pushed into other deals. James Fiorillo, analyst at ING Barings, suspects that commercial banks such as Sumitomo and Sakura, or trust banks such as Mitsubishi Trust, may also now be merger candidates. "This [Fuji-DKB-IBJ deal] would appear to consist of the first shot in a series of like moves," he said. Observers also suggested that consolidation might soon stretch to the life assurance companies, potentially creating Japan's first "bancassurance" groups - or financial companies which include both banking and life assurance. Dai-Ichi Mutual, for example, which already has a broad business alliance with IBJ, and close ties to Fuji and Dai-Ichi Kangyo, said that it "welcomed" the banks' alliance. It would consider joining the holding company formed by the three banks, possibly after listing itself on the stock exchange. Dai-Ichi Mutual also has close links to Yasuda Mutual, the leading life assurance company in the group led by Fuji Bank. Dai-Ichi Mutual yesterday denied that it had plans to move closer to Yasuda Mutual, or Fukoku Mutual and Asahi Mutual, two other life assurance companies with close ties to Dai-Ichi Kangyo. The number of big banks in Japan has fallen from 21 to 16 over the past two years as consolidation has gathered pace. The Financial Times, August 24, 1999 ----- 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. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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