-Caveat Lector- from; http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37dc3d4e3854.htm <A HREF="http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37dc3d4e3854.htm">Presidential Treason 105 [Free Republic]</A> ----- FreeRepublic.com "A Conservative News Forum" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ Refresh | Top | Last | Latest Posts | Latest Articles | Post | Abuse | Help! ] Presidential Treason 105 Crime/Corruption Opinion Keywords: CHINA,CLINTON,TREASON,MCLARTY,PANETTA, BOWLES, PODESTA Published: 9/12/99 Author: Gretchen Glass Posted on 09/12/1999 16:54:54 PDT by Bink Presidential Treason 105 Part 3 of the Clinton/China Connection - The White House Chiefs of Staff. Guaranteeing the Fulfillment of the President's 'Agenda'. A Sequel to Presidential Treason 101, 102, 103 and 104. Connecting more dots... A President need not directly perform the treasonous acts himself to sell out our country. He need only to open the doors, put the 'right' people in charge and let the Communists and their sympathizers have full run of the labs and the key departments of our government - and the White House - effectively creating an enabling environment. In order to allow the smooth flow of the President's 'agenda' all bases must be covered. The White House is the hub of activity for the executive branch and an important symbol of power in our government. The Chief of Staff, the #1 staff job at the White House, wields an inordinate amount of power and is therefore a key position for a corrupt and treasonous president to fill with the 'right' person. While 'Chief of Staff' does not sound like an interesting subject for the series, with a President so preoccupied with fundraising and photo-ops, it might be useful to see who's 'minding the store'. A look at the people who were chosen for this important job is quite revealing and it just may help us to connect a few more dots. The focus of this report was intended to be on the former White House Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta, who was briefed on the Chinese espionage in July 1995, and who 'claims' that he never informed the President - and on his integral role in the 1995-1996 election cycle. As introductory material, we further intended to present a brief summary on the other three Chiefs of Staff during the Clinton administration - McLarty, Bowles and Podesta. However, after getting into the research, a story began to emerge that should prove interesting... The story which began in "a town called Hope" Arkansas is one with which many of you are all too familiar - a story of crime, corruption and Communist sympathizers. Arkansas Governor Huckabee, in his December 10, 1997 Radio Address said it all: "Many wonder how a small town like Hope could produce a president of the United States, a governor and a former White House chief of staff, Mack McLarty." Indeed! How did this happen? Clinton came from, what many would consider, a less than stellar family, afflicted by alcoholism, drug addition, an abusive parent and deprivation. How did this morally corrupt young man get a free ride to Oxford, Communist Russia, Yale, the Governor's mansion and the White House? While little is known about who financed the 'grooming' phase of his 'career', Clinton's financial support since the mid-to-late seventies is pretty well documented. That is the time the Communists and their sympathizers began to migrate to Little Rock. First came Charlie "Yah Lin" Trie in February 1976 [Burton Report], a Chinese fry cook and money launderer for illegal campaign contributions. Later that same year, Clinton was elected Attorney General of Arkansas [White House bio]. Coincidence? And, if you're in doubt, check this out from the Burton Report: "...on May 13, 1996, the President, sitting at a table with two foreign nationals praised Charlie Trie: 'Soon it will be twenty years that I had my first meal with Charlie Trie. Almost twenty years, huh? Twenty years in just a few months.'" Aha! That would be July or August of 1976 - well before Clinton's 1976 win. Is it not a bit unusual for a candidate for Attorney General, during his hectic political campaign, to have dinner with a Chinese immigrant, with no vote, working as a fry cook who spoke little, if any, English? The next year, in 1977, Chinese agent Mochtar Riady, an Indonesian billionaire, came to Arkansas to set up some banking deals with Little Rock billionaire Jackson T. Stephens whose investment banking firm is the largest in the country outside New York [Washington Post 10/20/96]. These 'deals' would become highly lucrative to Clinton's political career. The very next year Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas [White House bio]. Another coincidence? To keep things in the proper perspective here, it should be noted that Hillary Rodham Clinton was hired by the Rose Law Firm in 1977 whose lead partner C. Joseph Giroir, Jr. was involved in Asian deals with the Riadys and Lippo involving Arkansas firms like Entergy. (Clinton's first White House Chief of Staff, McLarty, was with Entergy. Clinton would, as governor, push through a step-rated plan for electric rates which led to the highest rates in the U.S. to the benefit of Entergy and the detriment of the citizens of Arkansas. Sound familiar?). So, all systems were 'go' for Clinton's 1978 Gubernatorial campaign! And from the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee's report of 3/5/98: "The Committee has further learned from recently-acquired information that James and Mochtar Riady have had a long-term relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency." In 1983 Riady formed the Lippo Group [now a partner with Beijing's communist regime] and hired Vernon Weaver [Venessa's father from PT104] to head the firm. James Riady became president and John Huang [one of the Democrat National Committee's (DNC) illegal campaign fund-raisers, and an 'alleged' spy] became Vice-President of Hong Kong Lippo. Clinton began his formal 'engagement' with China while still in Arkansas - promoting numerous 'deals'. In 1985 Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Vince Foster, James Riady, Jackson Stephens, Webb Hubbell, Mack McLarty [to be Clinton's first White House Chief of Staff] met at Worthen bank in Arkansas. Riady and Stephens owned the Worthen Bank. While the content of the meeting is not known, the existence of such a meeting links these key players to Riady, Stephens and Worthen. (The Rose Law Firm - Hillary, Foster and Hubbell - represented the Riadys.) Raidy and Stephens bailed out Clinton on numerous occasions, providing financial support for his political campaigns in Arkansas and buying off the 'mistakes' he made as governor. The financial support expanded during his presidential campaigns. (Stephens' DC office was where, almost 10 years later, 'alleged' spy John Huang would make secret contacts with the Communist Lippo Group right after receiving classified briefings at the Commerce Department.) In 1991 China Resources bought into the Lippo Bank of Hong Kong and Indonesia and placed its officers, John Huang and James Riady, in Arkansas. Clinton became inseparable friends with Riady and Charlie Trie and good friends with John Huang. During the 1992 Presidential elections, Bill Clinton became cash strapped. Riady and Stephens came to Clinton's rescue with a three million dollar 'loan' at a crucial juncture, compliments of the Worthen Bank. In addition, campaign travel was supplied ($1 million in deferred billing) compliments of World Wide Travel whose principal backer was Lippo Group's Worthen Bank. James Riady and his wife Aileen, while citizens of Indonesia, personally contributed $450,000 to the DNC and various state Democratic parties in the weeks and months leading up to the November 1992 election, including a $200,000 contribution to the 1992 Presidential Inaugural Committee ("PIC") - that same committee included Sandy Berger's Hogan & Hartson law firm. As for Charlie Trie, although the true beginning of his illegal campaign contributions is not documented, records show that he began 'formally' making illegal campaign contributions to Clinton in 1982 and continued in grand style through the 1996 presidential campaign. While there are many participants in this tangled web, the 'players' mentioned above are those who seem to pop up most frequently in the scandals throughout the Clinton administration and are, therefore, adequate to account for in this writing. The communist funding of the Clinton/Gore campaigns continued through the 1996 elections and is a subject to be covered in future reports. For now it will suffice to say that the Communist Chinese appeared to play one of the key roles in the grooming, financing and election of the President of the United States. Somewhere in this picture is another mystery on the road to the White House - just how did all the scandals, created by their morally bankrupt choice for the President of the United States, manage to be covered up - the threats, assaults, deaths, diversions, et al... >From all this, it appears obvious that by the time of his election in 1992, Clinton had established a finely tuned network of associates with a single-mindedness of purpose - to promote Clinton and the pro-Communist agenda. It was a modus operandi that was comfortable and necessary for the success of their 'mission'. And how would he make the transition from a corrupt Governor to a corrupt President? The task was simple. Bring in those good ol' Arkansas cronies to set up the executive branch, Arkansas style. And so he did. The White House Chiefs of Staff is a tale of this transition - to guarantee the Chinese and other Communist sympathizers the continuation of their illegally financed presidential 'creation' and the pursuit of strength by securing US secrets and expanding exports. The method? Select a corrupt White House Chief of Staff to set the tone for the demise of national security and to open the doors of the White House to the unsavory characters who so easily found their way into the governor's office. Enter Mr. McLarty... Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty White House Chief of Staff (January 1993 - July 1994) Counselor to the President (July 1994 - July 1998) With prior experience as the treasurer of Clinton's gubernatorial campaigns, his experience with the corrupt Arkansas Clinton administration and his personal relationship with the 'players', McLarty knew the rules - a natural pick for the White House Chief of Staff, who would lay the groundwork for the corruption that has engulfed the executive branch. The first hurdle - the old security clearance problem, so necessary to screen people with access to classified information and guard our national security. With all the corruption that Clinton was dragging along with him in the form of 'appointees/nominees' - there was definitely a problem. Aha - not with Mr. McLarty in place... According to the Washington Times, 3/23/94: McLarty was "the author of guidelines for presidential personnel." As could be expected, there was a large problem, as the law frowns on questionable activity such as the hard drug use. So it was the old foot-dragging in play - something at which this administration has become a master when confronted with a roadblock. And it worked. More than 100 staffers stayed in their positions, without the proper clearances for 14 months - in fact, the final copy of the 'report' authored by McLarty did not reach his own desk until 14 months later, on March 5, 1994. Aiding and abetting, on this deal was the original Clinton crony, second in charge of the totally failed transition team for national security, and now-National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, a man of highly questionable allegiances who was covered in Presidential Treason 103. These two Clinton cronies did a fine job of setting the tone for national security. The next task was to set the stage for illegal campaign fundraising, by abandoning the rules that were in place for the vetting process [normally done by the National Security Council] to weed out Communists, arms dealers and the likes of Charlie Trie, the Riadys, Huang, and a whole array of 'questionable' characters who were the Arkansas/Chinese connection. McLarty created the revolving door policy at the White House, which would go unchallenged through the 1996 elections. As CNN/AllPolitics/Time reported: National Security Council chief Lake told the Senate panel that "the White House had no formal process for vetting foreign nationals invited to the White House. It probably didn't help matters that White House chief of staff Mack McLarty knew in Little Rock, Arkansas, many of the people who kept insisting in letters and memos on their friendship with Clinton as they planned trips to the Orient and demanded talking points, letters of credential and other favors." " By the time McLarty was eased out in 1994 and replaced by Leon Panetta, the die was cast. Panetta never stepped back in to fix the process", says a Lake intimate. [Emphasis added.] At this point the stage was set - Arkansas style. The new Clinton administration would not be bogged down by the 'trivia' put in place to protect the office and the national security. Clinton's Arkansas cronies, and their cronies, now had free run of the White House, without the need for security checks. The rest is history... And exactly who is Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty? Well, for starters, McLarty was, and is currently, on the Board of Directors of Entergy Corp, a major contributor to the Democrat National Committee and Clinton. According to the Associated Press, 1/14/97: "Lippo, whose U.S.-based executives have been major contributors to President Clinton and the Democrats, has close business ties to the Chinese government. Lippo and a U.S. energy company, Entergy, are involved in a $1 billion joint venture to build a power plant in China. (Hillary's former law partner at the Rose Law Firm, C. Joseph Giroir, Jr., handled the 'deal' which later fell through.) According to Judicial Watch, this transaction was heavily promoted on the infamous 1994 trade mission trip to China (while McLarty was at the White House) that included almost all of the key actors in the Chinagate scandal, along with the Lippo Group, John Huang ['alleged' spy who made frequent calls to Entergy Corp.], Johnny Chung, Charlie Trie, Loral's Bernie Schwartz and, of course, Entergy Corp. Mr. McLarty was also chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Arkla, Inc. before going to the White House. Washington Weekly reports McLarty's probable involvement in the bribing scandal at Arkla, the Arkansas company that he headed prior to joining the White House. When indictments were handed down in June 1993, McLarty was already at work in the Clinton administration - and no executives were named. This scandal apparently involved Ron Brown and John Huang. And what else? McLarty himself was involved in the Whitewater scandal and was also part of the strategy team in the White House, meeting sometimes twice daily in an attempt to stave off the investigation. McLarty was in on the planning and implementation of a $1.7 million taxpayer financed White House computer database that contained names and information about more than 355,000 friends and supporters of the president. An illegal operation for which McLarty asked for the "full support" of the senior White House staff. McLarty was also in charge when the FBI files were illegally obtained. McLarty's revolving door policy at the White House gave him the 'opportunity' to meet Roger Tamaraz and to recommend that the Clinton have a private meeting with him regarding a 'pipeline' deal. Tamaraz attended four presidential events in 1996. He and McLarty also met and discussed the pipeline at one of the infamous White House coffees. Tamaraz had outstanding judgments against him in Lebanese, Jordanian and French courts, as well as an Interpol warrant for his arrest. The predictable outcome? "Tamraz contributed $300,000 to the Democratic National Committee and other party organizations for the 1996 election." McLarty worked with Brown and Panetta on getting waivers that enabled the transfer of sensitive technology to Communist China. McLarty continued to set up meetings for the President with the 'key players' such as Riady and acted as a go-between for Lippo and the White House. McLarty authorized the Travel Office firings and was then put in charge of the White House Management Review established to investigate [whitewash] the matter. According to Softwar, Wide World Travel, the Arkansas booking agency was brought in to replace the fired Travel Office employees. And by coincidence, of course, Clinton's 1992 campaign travel was supplied ($1 million in deferred billing) compliments of World Wide Travel whose principal backer was Lippo Group's Worthen Bank. McLarty helped 'search' for Hillary's missing Rose law firm billing records. McLarty was involved in concealing Vincent Foster's 'suicide note'. (The brother-in-law of McLarty's long time friend, the late Vincent Foster, is the chief Washington lobbyist for Entergy. Small world?) McLarty, who found himself under Congressional and Department of Justice investigation, had a 'memory lapse' before the committee depositions over 200 times. The apparent downfall of McLarty was his participation, with the future Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, in the 'job' hunt for his long time friend and soon-to-be convicted felon, the former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell. They were able to drum up more than $500,000 in payments for Hubbell, including $100,000 from the Lippo Group. The New York Times on 4/10/97 reported: "In the spring of 1995, a few months after his fraud conviction, former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell and his wife asked a recently retired White House aide whether the Riady family of Indonesia, which had already paid Hubbell $100,000, would be keeping him on its payroll even as he faced prison. The interviews also show that a job hunt on Hubbell's behalf by Middleton's boss, Thomas McLarty III, led to at least four jobs, one more than has been previously known. And they show that one of the Riady family's companies speeded up its payments to Hubbell. On Monday, June 27, the first day of the new workweek after Riady had visited Clinton, a Riady company, Hong Kong China Ltd., sent Hubbell $100,000." This, coupled with the fact that no one could determine Hubbell's 'job' description, led to investigations and the obvious suspicion that McLarty had purchased Hubbell's silence in the other criminal investigations regarding the Clintons and their associates. The charges were of enough concern to prompt the President to assert Executive Privilege for McLarty (which he later withdrew). So with McLarty under fire, he had to choose a successor to carry the agenda forward. No problem! As reported in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - 1/25/98: "McLarty is Clinton's former chief of staff, a long-time ally who is considered the man closest to the president. After choosing his own successor, Leon Panetta, in 1994, McLarty remained at the White House, where he serves as Clinton's personal adviser as well as special envoy to the Americas." [Emphasis added.] It should be noted, however, that while McLarty stepped down from the position of Chief of Staff, he did not give up his access to the President. McLarty remained a major 'player' right up until his exit from the White House in July 1998. As the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 1/25/98, reported: "McLarty and Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles know where the president is at all times. Black boxes in their offices digitally display his whereabouts, but they don't always know whom he's with." Leon Panetta Director of the Office of Management and Budget (January 1993 - July 1994) White House Chief of Staff (July 1994 - January 1997) This 'gentleman', a former United States Representative from California's 16th (now the 17th) congressional district for over 16 years, should be in a world of hurt for his participation in the illegal campaign fundraising and the cover-up of the Chinese espionage - but so far he has managed to bamboozle his friends in Congress. As first reported in the New York Times 6/28/99, Mr. Panetta was told of the Chinese espionage in July 1995. Panetta claims that he did not tell the President - in fact, if you believe the White House spin, since Mr. Panetta left office before the White House claims the President was informed in July 1997, you must assume that Panetta never so much as mentioned it to the President. It was Mr. Panetta's job to inform the President. As a lawyer, Mr. Panetta should have been well aware of the implications of the illegal fundraising and the cover-up of the espionage. Let's see what the facts are and let's see if you believe Panetta kept the 'secret', or if you think he and Clinton decided to cover it up. Let's see how deep Panetta was into the on-going Clinton scandals when he learned of the espionage in July 1995 and see if it is likely he would cover it up! First it is important to determine just how close Panetta was to the President to prove that he was an integral part of the illegal campaign run out of the White House, in full knowledge of the communists and criminals who had a full run of the White House, and, most egregious of all, the cover-up of the Chinese espionage. >From the Boston Globe in 1998: "The Oval Office door was slammed shut. No one, not Stephanopoulos, not even friends from Hope or Hollywood, could enter without Panetta's permission. Aides were told to refine their briefings for the president and were often ordered to practice them before Panetta first. It was a shock for most people in the White House, the president most likely included, and it was a success. The flow of the president's day changed dramatically." "Panetta had the doors tightly closed to anyone who fails to get his permission to enter." (Freely translated, the 'revolving door' to the Oval Office was controlled by Panetta - he personally approved of every lowlife who entered the Oval Office with illegal propositions and illegal campaign dollars.) And also from the Boston Globe: "Panetta often met him[Clinton] in his private residence shortly before 9 a.m., to brief him, as the president pulled on his pants, and from there they were off at a rapid clip." (During one of those intimate moments - Panetta surely could have called a time-out to say - "By the way, Mr. President, the Chinese are robbing us blind at the nuclear labs.") And the Washington Times on 7/5/99 described the Clinton/Panetta relationship: "Mr. Panetta, the government official who probably spent more time with Mr. Clinton than anybody else at the time..." There should be no argument that Panetta and Clinton were in constant close contact! Let's see how involved Panetta was in the illegal White House influence buying through illegal campaign dollars. Let's zero in on that July 1995 briefing and see what Panetta and the President had at stake! To set the stage for the corruption that Panetta so freely participated in, it must be clearly understood that Clinton completely panicked when the results of the 1994 Republican victory came in. The campaign for the 1996 Presidential election began in November 1994, with a 'no-holds-barred' fundraising scheme to raise unprecedented amounts of cash to pay for a massive TV campaign. Former White House insider, David Gergen, said, "No one can doubt Leon Panetta's loyalty" and "he played a crucial role in creating a balanced federal budget and engineering the 1996 election drive. From long experience, he knows the best ways to advance the interests of both the president and the country." [Emphasis added.] Part of the now infamous 1996 campaign were the regular weekly strategy meetings. Mr. Panetta was a regular participant - in fact, according to the exhibits from House Hearings, Panetta was third on the list (after the President and Vice President) to receive the critical campaign financial schedule. Panetta was, to say the least, a key player in the illegal fundraising. House Report 3/5/98: "In the frenzied drive to raise such large amounts of campaign money, the Democratic Party dismantled its own internal vetting procedures, no longer caring, in effect, where its money came from and who was supplying it. Worse, their campaign eviscerated federal fundraising laws and reduced the White House, key Administration offices, and the Presidency itself, to fundraising tools. Deputy White House Chief of Staff Harold Ickes, for example, ran the DNC on a day-to-day basis and presided over weekly "money meetings" at the White House where he reviewed the DNC's fundraising and expenditures before passing this information along to the President and the Vice-President." House Report 3/5/98: "Ultimately, in fact, the President himself exercised total control over the DNC advertising. Having reduced the DNC into an arm of the White House, President Clinton and Vice President Gore are responsible for the actions it undertook in their names and at their direction. Between January 11, 1995 and August 23, 1996, the White House hosted 103 coffees. Most lasted at least an hour, and the President attended the vast majority of them. Approximately 60 of these were DNC-sponsored coffees, 92 percent of the guests at which were major Democratic Party contributors. These guests made contributions during the 1996 election cycle of $26.4 million, an average contribution of over $54,000 per person, with one-third of their total donations, some $7.7 million, given within a month of the donor's attendance at a White House coffee. For example, the five persons attending a coffee on May 1, 1996, in the Oval Office itself each contributed $100,000 to the DNC one week later." Coordinator for the illegal White House fundraising with the DNC, Harold Ickes, was a Deputy that Panetta inherited from McLarty. Ickes orchestrated all the campaign activities at the White House and kept in close contact with the illegal activities at the DNC. The first note of record is the December 2, 1994 memo from Ickes to Panetta regarding the DNC financial situation, spelling out the litany of problems and shortfalls - "In short, there are very serious money problems to deal with." The memos from Ickes to Panetta, including plans for the infamous White House fundraising coffees, continued through the 1996 election. Panetta attended the regular Wednesday night strategy meetings on fund-raising which included DNC officials. Panetta even attended the infamous White House Coffees hosted by the President - the earliest of record was May 3, 1995. So, throughout the 1995-1996 period, Panetta was deeply involved with the Communist and criminal traffic going through that 'revolving door' which he controlled. He was well aware of the necessity to keep that door moving. So now we have Panetta in constant, close contact with the President and hip-deep in the fundraising. What else was Panetta juggling in July 1995 when he was hit with the espionage briefing? >From Judicial Watch, Panetta and, Clinton's fourth White House Chief of Staff, John Podesta were involved in the planning and implementation of the illegal taxpayer financed foreign trade missions used for DNC fundraising. There is also strong evidence that in the spring of 1995, Panetta and then-Deputy White House Chief of Staff, John Podesta were involved in the obstruction of justice in regard to an investigation into then-Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's 'allegedly' illegal taxpayer financed trade missions. The Panetta/Podesta team's involvement with Brown in this matter would put them in close contact with Brown's lawyer, Reid Weingarten. Curiously, Mr. Weingarten is/was also the lawyer for the illegal fundraisers Charlie Trie and Pauline Kanchanalak - and other Clinton embarrassments. After six months of intense fund-raising activity, hosting and coaxing big money from the criminal/communist faction in "the People's House", the first test-run advertisement, portraying the president as tough on crime[no less], ran in June 1995. So the fruits of their 'labor' were being realized - the corrupt presidential campaign had been kicked off! Documents obtained by Softwar from the U.S. Commerce Department and from the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP, a consortium of U.S. computer companies) shows that on June 6, 1995 the CSPP had a secret meeting in the White House on super-computer and encryption export policy to Communist China and Russia. Investor's Business Daily, 6/9/99: "In June 1995, Clinton lifted the ban on exports of 'cryptographic items' to China. Such items could help China break U.S. military codes if they're used with high-speed computers." And that same month China transferred missile parts to Pakistan. To add to the 'confusion', in July 1995, Monica Lewinsky began working for Mr. Panetta. Clinton frequently visited Panetta's office where Lewinsky characterized these encounters as "continued flirtation." (Again, we ask: During one of those perverted exhibitions, Panetta surely could have called a time-out to say - "By the way, Mr. President, the Chinese are robbing us blind at the nuclear labs.") Then there are all the other things on the Communist Chinese agenda in which Panetta was involved. There was the takeover of the Long Beach Naval Station, the MFN (then Most Favored Nation) and Commerce Department waivers. And last, but not least, the release in July 1995 of the GAO report [covering January 1994-January 1995] spelling out that China was still behind with their military plans, because they lacked some of the technology that Panetta would soon find out they had stolen! Okay, now the stage is set - Panetta is in over his head with the illegal fundraising, efficiently operating that 'revolving door' and shuffling 'alleged' spy and illegal fundraiser John Huang and others in and out of the Oval Office, helping Ron Brown cover his criminal activity, juggling Monica and the Prez and the rest of the balancing act mentioned above. You must admit, this was one busy person. The stakes were high - any adverse news regarding China would topple Clinton's house of cards, cut off the illegal Chinese fundraising and spell political suicide for the 1996 Clinton/Gore campaign. Enter then-Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary with the bad news - Chinese nuclear espionage had been discovered - the Chinese had stolen America's most advanced nuclear warhead. What to do, what to do? Panetta then called then-CIA Director John Deutch to get confirmation, which he did. This 'happy threesome' had control of the biggest spy story since the Rosenbergs. Let's review who they are. We have the infamous Hazel O'Leary who informed Panetta. She had already proven her flagrant disregard for national security. She was in the process of haphazardly declassifying secret documents without review and had banned personnel badges that clearly indicated whether the bearer had a security clearance and, if so, how high. Her reasoning: Such badges were discriminatory. O'Leary also ended the practice of requiring reports to DOE headquarters about foreign nationals from "sensitive countries" who visited the unclassified areas of the Nation's nuclear weapons laboratories, and reportedly had leaked (or was in the process of leaking) the design of the W-87 warhead to U.S. News & World Report, which published a diagram of the weapon in their July 31, 1995 issue. This communist sympathizer, herself, is a lengthy sordid story. So it's a given - O'Leary would go along with any type of cover-up if the secrets she worked so hard to make public and get into the hands of our enemies, were finally being disseminated to the communists. OK, Hazel is in the bag. Now, who else? Well, we have the highly questionable then-CIA director John Deutch, who had his own view of national security, most recently proven by the removal of his security clearance for the same crime of which the 'alleged' Los Alamos spy Wen Ho Lee is accused - downloading secret data to his personal computer. So there can be no argument what he thinks of national security. This 'gentleman' should be tried and convicted for his crime. So there you have it - the ball is in Mr. Panetta's court! It was indeed a time of great risk to the corrupt election process and the furtherance of the President's communist driven "engagement" with China. We are to believe that Panetta never saw fit to inform the President of the espionage? Is any human capable of keeping a secret, the most important to be encountered in a hundred lifetimes, from the person with whom you are in closest contact, when you are duty bound to convey such a secret? What about the weekly intelligence briefing with the President? Did no one see fit to inform him about the Chinese espionage? Or were these briefings replaced by fundraising activities involving individuals with ties to the communist country jeopardizing our national security? Investor's Business Daily, 6/10/99: "In a recent Atlantic Monthly article, Yale University professor Paul Bracken reported China's jaw- dropping reversal in two missile-targeting tests. The first round of six missiles fired in July 1995 yielded just a 50% hit rate. The second round - in March 1996 - saw 100% success. If, on the other hand, the president was warned in July of 1995, as he surely should have been, then the administration ignored the Chinese nuclear espionage for more than two years -- even as it was pursuing its strategic partnership with China's leaders, who, simultaneously, were engaged in a massive operation to finance Mr. Clinton's reelection." Thank you Mr. President and Mr. Panetta for your betrayal of America! So from here on it was business as usual - the election campaign began to pick up pace, with Panetta playing a major role - the schedule for fundraising coffees and campaign strategy meetings expanded amidst a growing concern that the DNC was practically broke. But the show went on, with Panetta's 'revolving door' spinning, as the questionable activity of the President/Panneta team continued through the election. Another major opportunity for Panetta to at least mention the espionage to the President came in September 1995. Clinton, who had been the primary lobbyist for the transfer of the Long Beach Navy base to the Communist China's state-owned shipping company, COSCO, met with Panetta to instruct him to push the transfer forward. Might it not occur to a person with an IQ above 30 that it just might be important, at this point, to mention something about the espionage? Why did Panetta participate in the illegal presidential campaign and cover up the espionage? A good bet would be to hang on to the 'prestigious' title - "White House Chief of Staff". It would certainly guarantee his highly lucrative future. Now, let's see how Mr. Panetta struck it rich in the private sector after his stellar performance as an illegal fundraiser, doorman to the communist and criminal element, facilitator of ongoing Chinese espionage at the labs, and various and sundry other 'accomplishments' during his tenure in our government. >From the AP 3/13/97 - Less than 2 months after leaving the White House, "former presidential chief of staff Leon Panetta has a new job in Monterey - a $900-a-day consulting position as a consultant to California State University Chancellor Barry Munitz and as a Distinguished Scholar to conduct seminars at California State University at Monterey Bay. Panetta's wife, Sylvia, also has been hired to work for the chancellor. She will receive $500 per day to serve on an America Reads Higher Education Task Force. As a consultant, Leon Panetta will advise the university chancellor on national policy on higher education and ways to work with Washington, she said. He will not be a lobbyist." Oh, sure... Now let's see, that's around $350,000 per year for the Panetta family. Not bad, unless you have some off-the-wall objection to having your tax dollars misappropriated - or, heaven forbid, you're trying to figure out how to pay for your kids college education. Panetta's salary is only about $20,000 less a year than the Chancellor's - both appear outrageous. A quick search of the 'frugal' Barry Munitz revealed the following from the ed.gov website: "U.S. Education Secretary today announced his appointment of Barry Munitz, chancellor of the California State University System to the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education. The commission will examine concerns about increases in college costs and efforts to keep them under control. Created by an act of Congress, the commission will submit a report to the president and Congress within four months." Why is this not surprising! [Emphasis added.] Then there's the Panetta Institute Resource Center featuring the highly lucrative Leon Panetta Lecture Series where he moderates each lecture. An interesting selection for a speaker is his choice of Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary for Communications Information at the U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunication and Information Administration. Who owes whom here? Irving, a partner in Berger's firm of Hogan & Hartson, was covered in PT103, and was involved at the Commerce Department when Panetta was promoting and covering up their illegal foreign trade missions. And the continuing Communist Chinese connection? "Washington, D.C. - Former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who also served in the Clinton administration as director of the office of management and budget, has joined the international advisory board of Fleishman-Hillard. He will work to identify and win new business for the firm and will provide counsel on a host of issues, according to chairman John Graham." And from the St Louis Business Journal: "Fleishman-Hillard buys stake in Hong Kong PR firm." And from the website of Fleishman-Hillard, they of course have offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Another reason why Panetta didn't want to rock the boat with China... >From the Associated Press 3/9/97 "Panetta and his successor, Erskine Bowles, also mounted a defense of the Clinton administration's aggressive fund-raising activities before the 1996 election, saying they were forced to collect a lot of money to stop the Republican agenda from winning." Now that's a sound reason to sell out the country! And what was his excuse for covering up the espionage? White House spokesman Jim Kennedy said that O'Leary's espionage briefing in 1995 to Panetta, was "simply an informal heads-up to the White House." That's the same Kennedy who recently announced with a straight face that Clinton had never used cocaine - never in his lifetime... Regarding the espionage cover-up, the Washington Times on 7/5/99 said it all: "...Either these three senior White House officials [Berger, Lake and Panetta] are among the most incompetent aides ever to serve a U.S. president, a prospect that, admittedly, is difficult to believe in Mr. Panetta's case. Or they are lying..." Panetta wrote a very interesting article, which he published on 4/23/98 just 15 months after putting himself a country's width away from the White House, entitled "The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth But Big Money is Inheriting the Political Process". The piece is worth reading. It speaks of political consultants, pollsters and focus groups playing an increasingly larger role in fashioning campaigns, slick 30-second ads, polls being used to dictate policy and manipulating information technology. "All of this - technology, consultants, polls, etc. - results in an obscene race for money." "Most candidates, if not independently wealthy, spend 80% of their time raising funds and having little control over the huge soft-money wars fought in their campaigns over so-called "issue advocacy" - campaign ads that masquerade as issue discussions." "Most ominously, none of this money comes without a price, and the price is to influence policy. Roger Tamraz gave $300,000 to the Democratic National Committee and testified he was willing to give more to get his pipeline built in Eastern Europe." "But political fund raising has escalated to a whole new level of spending -- the more money raised, the larger the soft money contributions, the greater the likelihood that policy will be influenced not by citizens but by those special interests." "We cannot allow the current corrupting process of money and politics to continue." "But, at the very least, the reform to ban all soft money should be passed now for the sake of reestablishing some degree of trust between the people and their government." It appears obvious that Mr. Panetta knows exactly what he did wrong and is trying to write and talk up the justifications in his defense. Panetta had hundreds of opportunities to inform the President of the espionage at the regularly scheduled intelligence briefings - and hundreds, if not thousands, of other opportunities. Do you believe he didn't? Panetta should be a prime candidate for some serious grilling by Congress and Judicial Watch. --[cont]-- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. 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