-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Clinton Library to Submit Names of Major Donors Tuesday, February 27, 2001 While confusion persists over the roles played by Beth Dozoretz and Denise Rich in the pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, Chairman Dan Burton of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee scored a small victory Tuesday in his investigation of the controversial Clinton pardons. Former President Clinton's Presidential Library Fund has sent a letter to Burton's Committee saying the Fund will allow Congressmen Burton, R-Ind., and Henry Waxman, D-Calif., to review a list of donors who have contributed $5,000 or more. Last week, the committee was rebuffed in its request to review the foundation's donor list. The committee wants to see if any money came in that could have been promised in exchange for pardons. Joe Marquette/AP 1997: Democratic fund-raiser Beth Dozoretz testifying before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in 1997. Meanwhile, it was revealed late Monday night that Secret Service records show Denise Rich and former Democratic Party Finance Chairwoman Dozoretz visited the White House on President Clinton's last night in office, when he was deciding on the pardon of Marc Rich and others, a Congressional source tells FOX News. The records show Dozoretz logging in at the White House at 5:29 p.m. and Rich logging in at 5:30 p.m. on January 19. But Dozoretz's husband, Ronald Dozoretz, told Fox News that although his wife was cleared to enter the White House, she was on a plane in California with him at 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 19, one minute after Secret Service logs show she entered the White House complex. Dozoritz said he, his wife and his boss were all on a flight together at that time to Los Angeles for a business meeting and later a party. And a source close to Denise Rich also claims Rich was not at the White House that night. The source told the Washington Post that Denise Rich said she was invited to the White House but did not go. Congressional sources told Fox News they cannot explain why White House logs indicate Rich and Dozeretz were at the White House Jan. 19 when family, friends and other witnesses maintain the two women were elsewhere. The sources said the discrepancy may be due to record-keeping errors made by the Secret Service. The Secret Service logs obtained by the House Government Reform Committee show that between 1994 and Inauguration Day — Jan. 20 — Denise Rich was scheduled to arrive at the White House 19 times, but only actually logged in 13 times. Between 1999 and Inauguration Day, Dozoretz visited the White House 43 times. Taking the Fifth Earlier Monday, Dozoretz invoked her Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination and refused to testify before the House committee probe into Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich. Committee Chairman Dan Burton, R-Ind., has scheduled a hearing for Thursday to investigate the Clinton pardons, and Dozoretz is on the witness list. Bebeto Matthews/AP 1999:Songwriter Denise Rich poses for pictures before speaking at a luncheon for the G&P Charitable Foundation for Cancer Research in New York. Dozoretz, who stepped down in 1999 as finance director of the Democratic National Committee and is a friend of Denise Rich, told the House Government Reform Committee through her attorney she would not comply with the panel's request to appear before it Thursday. "Because of the pendency of other investigations, Ms. Dozoretz, upon advice of counsel, has elected to invoke her constitutional privilege not to testify," said her lawyer, Thomas Green. Denise Rich also declined to testify before the committee earlier this month, but that was before U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White confirmed her office was conducting a criminal investigation into Clinton's pardons of Rich and his partner, Pincus Green. The committee sent a subpoena for Dozoretz on Monday and was immediately contacted by her lawyer with her refusal. "It is beginning to seem that the reason people aren't answering questions is because they are hiding something," contended Burton. "This is unacceptable." Luis M. Alvarez/AP Legal sources say Hugh Rodham, brother-in-law of former Pres. Clinton, has not yet repaid all of the nearly $400,000 he collected for lobbying for two pardons. In a statement Monday, Chairman Burton expressed his disappointment with Dozoretz' decision. "It is my hope that when she comes before the Committee on Thursday, she will change her mind and answer the Committee's questions," he said. "It is very troubling that Beth Dozoretz and Denise Rich [ex-wife of fugitive financier Marc Rich], both close friends of former President Clinton who discussed the Rich pardon with him, would refuse to testify." Burton also issued a rebuke to the former president, claiming that "ever since former President Clinton issued a number of questionable pardons on January 20, 2001, he has said that the American people will understand that, when the facts come out, what he did was right. Unfortunately, the facts are not coming out. It is beginning to seem that the reason people aren't answering questions is because they are hiding something." Dozoretz was among many people who made personal gifts to Clinton and his wife during the president's last year in office. She gave them a dining table, server and golf clubs, all valued at $7,000. She also pledged to raise considerable sums of money for former president Clinton's library. The investigations began with officials searching to see if Rich or his family promised donations in return for his pardon. Federal prosecutors in New York now are investigating whether the former president commuted the sentences of four convicted swindlers in exchange for Hasidic Jewish votes for his wife during her run for the Senate, a source has said. Also under scrutiny are a pardon and a commutation for which Mrs. Clinton's brother Hugh Rodham received nearly $400,000; two pardons on which her campaign treasurer performed legal work; and the possible role of the former president's half brother, Roger Clinton, in some other cases. Advisers Scheduled for Thursday Three of Clinton's closest White House advisers are scheduled to appear Thursday: former chief of staff John Podesta, former White House counsel Beth Nolan and former White House adviser Bruce Lindsey. 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