-Caveat Lector- "Mrs Parks accused her husband of running drugs. Parks said that Vince Foster — Bill Clinton’s lawyer — paid him $1,000 in cash for each trip. Parks also told her to forget what she had seen. In 1993 Parks was murdered by two unknown gunmen. He lived in a dangerous world, as, indeed, did Vince Foster, who was found dead in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia." http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,248-87092,00.html Times of London Monday, February 19, 2001 When Uncle Sam was a drugs runner By WILLIAM REES-MOGG It does not strike me as odd that Bill Clinton should have given a presidential pardon to Marc Rich, whom the US prosecutors regard as the biggest tax fraudster in American history, or that Mrs Rich should have given large donations to Hillary’s Senate campaign, to the Clinton Library project, and to the Democratic Party. That is exactly the sort of behaviour I would have expected. The interesting question is not whether Clinton has had criminal contacts or taken tainted campaign funds. It is whether he can continue with his cover-ups and comebacks, now that he is out of the White House. Even The New York Times and The Washington Post have begun to criticise him. This may be a very important question for American politics. If the whole Clinton story becomes fully known, that could change public attitudes and even the balance of power between the American parties, perhaps for years to come. It even casts some doubt on Tony Blair’s judgment; surely British Intelligence must have told the Prime Minister about Clinton’s record, so well established over the past 20 years or more. The Prime Minister had reasons of state to seek a good working relationship with the President, but his emotional buddyism was regrettable. How much more must those Democrats who defended, praised and sucked up to Clinton be regretting it now. If the full Clinton story is ever told, I am not sure that it will either be the Republicans or the mainstream US press that will tell it. In 1994, I remember making inquiries in Washington about the Mena airport scandal. Even now, most Americans have never heard what happened at Mena, Arkansas. Yet it is the biggest scandal of modern American history, as the black caucus in Congress well knows. Mena was the wholesale route of cocaine importation into the US in the 1980s; the cocaine was turned into crack; the crack epidemic ravaged the Black districts of the big American cities as badly as Aids ravaged the homosexual community in the same period. To explained what happened at Mena, I will quote from a contemporary letter I have in front of me. “Congress of the United States. January 26, 1989. To Governor Bill Clinton, State Capitol, Little Rock, Arkansas. Dear Bill: The investigation into alleged guns and drug smuggling at Mena Airport can be cleared up by a local Grand Jury that will require state funds. Deputy Prosecutor Charles Black of Mt Ida, the state police and congressional investigators are interested in convening such a grand jury . . . Black knows of witnesses who will testify that planes loaded with guns went to South America and returned loaded with drugs. “Certain DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) agents have stated that the late convicted smuggler Barry Seal was flying weapons to Central America in violation of US foreign policy and, in return, the federal government secretly allowed Seal to smuggle drugs back into the United States. Congressman Bill Hughes’s Sub-Committee on Crime had learnt independently that at the time Seal was working on the famous Nicaraguan ‘Sting’ operation for the DEA and the CIA in 1984, he was still running drugs. Sources in Mena indicate that smuggling activities at Meana continued after Seal’s murder in 1986 and are still continuing . . .” Seal was murdered by Colombian gunmen while in federal custody. The signature on this letter has been blacked out, as has the congressman’s room number. However, internal evidence makes it certain that the letter was written by Congressman Bill Alexander. Was he a member of the “conservative conspiracy” which Hillary Clinton has alleged is behind the allegations against her husband? Not at all; Alexander was an Arkansas congressman; he was at that time the Democratic whip in the House of Representatives, and the senior Democrat of the House Appropriations Committee. If he had a political motive, it would have been to embarrass the Republican Administration, not the Democrats. His inquiry was sidetracked both in Arkansas and in Washington. Barry Seal, like Marc Rich, was a billionaire. He had numerous bank accounts, of which a single one, in the Fuji Bank in the Cayman Islands contained $1.64 billion (£1.09 billion). One of his associates, quoted by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in The Sunday Telegraph of October 9, 1994, claimed that between 1980 and his murder in 1986, Seal imported 36 metric tonnes of cocaine, three tonnes of heroin and 104 tonnes of marijuana. A Little Rock private detective, Jerry Parks, was a friend who went to Seal’s funeral; in the 1992 presidential campaign, Parks became Clinton’s security chief in Little Rock. Some time in 1991, Mrs Parks borrowed her husband’s car, a Lincoln, to go to the grocery store; she discovered, to her surprise, that the boot was full of $100 bills. Mrs Parks accused her husband of running drugs. Parks said that Vince Foster — Bill Clinton’s lawyer — paid him $1,000 in cash for each trip. Parks also told her to forget what she had seen. In 1993 Parks was murdered by two unknown gunmen. He lived in a dangerous world, as, indeed, did Vince Foster, who was found dead in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia. There were then, and there are now, good grounds for a full inquiry into Mena, an inquiry such as Congressman Alexander was asking for. The huge importation of drugs through Arkansas in the 1980s undoubtedly occurred; crack cocaine did untold social damage; the Seal operation was related to the Republican policy of arming the Contras; there is some evidence that the Arkansas State Police protected the smugglers; there were several suspicious deaths connected to Mena; money from Mena can be traced through Parks as far as Vince Foster; though both Parks and Foster are long since dead, there is evidence of money laundering. There is no evidence which takes the money trail beyond Foster to Clinton himself or to his campaign funds. The criticism of Clinton is not that he was directly involved, but that he did not respond to the concerns that were expressed to him, by Congressman Alexander and others. Some of his friends and financial supporters, such as Dan Lasater, the Arkansas bond salesman, were involved in the drugs business; he has just pardoned his brother, Roger, for his part in it. There is not sufficient evidence to support a charge of knowing complicity; there is ample evidence to support the charge that he neglected his duties as Governor to enforce the law. He allowed a catastrophic event to happen. The Republicans will not press for any further inquiry; so far as I know, they have never pressed for an inquiry into Mena. Tens of thousands of young blacks died of crack cocaine; Monica Lewinski had her dress stained. Yet Clinton was impeached for Lewinski and not even interrogated about Mena. The Republican silence is explained by the fact that Mena was connected to the Iran-Contra affair; indeed, Congressman Alexander’s letter sees Mena as a Republican scandal. It is the US press which should most blame itself. The Mena story began to be reported well before Clinton won the presidential nomination in 1992. The first story I can trace came in the Vanguard Press: “When Uncle Sam Deals Dope” as early as April 7, 1988. The first story about Clinton’s own involvement was a defensive one: “Clinton: State did all it could in Mena case”, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, September 11, 1991. The first criticisms of Clinton came in: “More Shoes are Dropping on Clinton” by Alexander Cockburn, a British journalist, and in: “Clinton and the Smugglers’ Airport”, by Frank Snapp in the Village Voice, April 14, 1992. Where were The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, or the main television news networks of that period? Virtually silent. In 1994, I remember reading a thorough Mena investigation by two American journalists prepared for The Washington Post; that was never published. There have been many Clinton scandals but his failure as the Governor of Arkansas to shut down the Mena drug smuggling is surely the one which did most harm. In the years when Clinton was still a candidate, Mena was not included by The New York Times among “All the News That’s Fit to Print”. Perhaps, after the Marc Rich pardon, the US Establishment press will revisit Meana. Copyright 2001 Times Newspapers Ltd. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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