-Caveat Lector- <http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/03/05/News/News.22407.html> Monday, March 5 2001 11:58 10 Adar 5761 Rich associate had close ties to Baraks By Buzzy Gordon JERUSALEM (March 5) - Beth Dozoretz, who repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment when called to testify last week before a congressional committee investigating the pardon of financier Marc Rich by former president Bill Clinton, apparently had close ties with Ehud and Nava Barak. Dozoretz, who has many links to Israel, served on the board of the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva. Nava Barak has been the head of the Israeli Friends of the Rabin Medical Center for five years. Television footage screened on Channel 1's Saturday night news magazine showed a former Clinton aide testifying that, in his last phone conversation with Clinton before the president left office, Barak took time out from discussions on the Middle East to press Clinton to pardon Rich. Barak has denied making unusual efforts on Rich's behalf. The same footage showed Dozoretz telling the committee that she would not answer any questions, based on her constitutional right not to incriminate herself. A list of Dozoretz's links to Israel is included in her biography, which appeared in the announcement last year of her appointment to the board of directors of US Technologies Inc., which recently acquired the foundering Jerusalem-based seed-stage venture-capital firm Yazam. US Technologies has a number of prominent directors besides Dozoretz, including former US senator George Mitchell, currently heading the commission of inquiry into the origins of the "Aksa intifada," and former CIA chief William Webster. At the time of her appointment to US Technologies' board last summer, Dozoretz, 49, who lives in Washington with her husband and two children, was also serving on the board of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, as well as on the executive committee of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the wealthiest and most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group in the US. In an interview in The New York Times on February 17, Dozoretz was quoted as saying she was "close to" Ehud Barak, and that before Barak was prime minister a mutual friend sent Barak and his brother to her home. "We talked for two hours," she told the paper, "and I was mesmerized. He was a lot like Clinton." Dozoretz, the former finance chair of the Democratic National Committee after the Clinton impeachment, is said to have solicited $450,000 in donations to the Clinton presidential library from Denise Rich, Marc Rich's ex-wife. The last $100,000 of the sum was pledged in 2000, at the height of the lobbying campaign on behalf of a pardon for Rich. Denise Rich has also declined to answer questions before the congressional committee. ================================================================= 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. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions 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, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
