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 '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 telling 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 tom 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 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.

Erskine Bowles
Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) (March 1993-October 1994)
White House Deputy Chief of Staff (October 1994-December 1995)
White House Chief of Staff (January 1997-November 1998)

Well, let's see if we can find the Bowles/China connection...

Bowles was the founder, chairman and CEO of Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co. from 1975-1993. Bowles is defined as an investment banker and his firm deals in mergers and acquisitions for mid-size companies. This could be a conflict of interest with his 1 1/2 year stint as head of the U.S. Small Business Administration dealing with small to mid-size companies. But with the Clinton associate's documented abuse of the SBA this is not unusual. The SBA is a whole other subject for a future report. On to the China connection...

We will show through various quotes that Erskine Bowles knew the Lippo-controlling Riady family and was integrally entwined with NationsBank which loaned the DNC the bail out money for the corrupt 1996 campaign, the same bank that bought out the infamous Lippo-connected Worthen Bank of Little Rock. He was also entwined with the Lippo-connected First Union, where he is currently on the board of directors, through the dealings with his company Bowles Hollowell Conner. You will see Bowles' further connection to these two banks by their investment in his new company, Carousel. From this, it should become clear why and how Bowles and McLarty obtained the work-free pay for Hubbell in the amount of $100,000 from Lippo. (Bowles, his two companies and the two banks are all based in Charlotte, North Carolina.) Let's examine the evidence...

From the Washington Post 4/2/97: "Bowles got to know Hubbell in late 1992, during a post-election economic summit in Little Rock attended by Kantor, members of the Lippo-controlling Riady family and others who later were involved in arranging payments to Hubbell."

From the First Union Corporation's webside: "And in 1998, the firm[First Union] purchased M&A advisory boutique Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co. (which was co-founded by former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles)." "When North Carolina-based M&A boutique Bowles Hollowell Connor announced it would be acquired by commercial bank First Union in the spring of 1998, much interest focused on one of the firm's name founders, former White House Chief of Staff Erskine
Bowles. Was the firm's acquisition only interesting because of the White House connection? Far from it." "...And while BHC was indeed co-founded by Erskine Bowles in 1975, Bowles has sold his stake and is no longer affiliated with the company." Well, that certainly puts it all above board. Oops - what's this? The old reappearing act...

Also from their webside - "Charlotte, N.C., March 12 [1999]/PRNewswire/ -- First Union Corporation (NYSE: FTU) today announced the nominations of Erskine B. Bowles and James E. S. Hynes to its board of directors. First Union shareholders will vote on the nominations at the annual shareholders meeting in April." Now that's more like it!

From the Reuters Business Report February 15, 1995, "First Union Corp, a North Carolina-based banking company, and Hong Kong's Lippo Ltd. said Wednesday they will combine marketing efforts in a trade finance network in Southeast Asia and the Pacific rim. The two banking companies also plan to expand joint operations in Los Angeles at Lippo Bank, Calif., to process letter of credit and related services as of April. The deal builds on an agreement in December between Lippo's Hong Kong Chinese Bank and First Union to form a joint deposit-taking company. That venture, First Union
HKCB Asia Ltd., provides trade financing services in Hong Kong, China and the United States. First Union and Lippo Group also are launching a trade initiative that will provide international products and services through Lippo Group offices in Jakarta, Indonesia; Manila, Philippines; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bangkok, Thailand; and Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi in Vietnam. 'By linking this Asian network to our international products and services through Lippo Group offices in Charlotte and Miami, we are gaining a competitive advantage that will enable First Union and the Lippo Group to substantially increase the flow of trade transactions' First Union said in a statement."

The New York Times 4/24/97: "In the United States, Lippo has a banking alliance with First Union Corp., a banking giant based in North Carolina."

So, with First Union's connection with Lippo, the question is did Bowles Hollowell Connor have dealings with First Union before its acquisition? In a telephone conversation with BHC's Marketing Department they confirmed the following statement: "Bowles Hollowell Connor has been dealing with First Union over the past 25 years." And further added that they were right down the block from them. This just might explain how two Lippo connected appointees, McLarty and Bowles, managed to get a $100,000 'consulting fee' from Lippo to Hubbell.

Currently First Union does not advertise the Lippo connection - for obvious reasons. However, The Lippo Group website proudly lists this anomaly as "Lippo + First Union Bank, USA - First Union HKCB Asia Ltd."

American Spectator in March 1997 stated: "As one congressional staffer who has been tracking China Resources points out, Lippo boss Mochtar Riady "has a symbiotic relationship with the Chinese government. They sit on the same boards together through the Hong Kong Chinese Bank. The Chinese could easily have gained access to Lippo bank computers, and through them to the entire U.S. banking system" because of Lippo's relationship to the Worthen Bank in Arkansas and to First Union, one of the largest banks in the American Southeast."

The Worthen Bank, co-owned by Lippo Group and Stephens, Inc. of Little Rock Arkansas was bought out by NationsBank (now Bank of America).

Another direct link with Bowles and the Lippo-connected banks, First Union and NationsBank, is Bowles' company Carousel Capital Company, LLC, in Charlotte. And from the Carousel website: "[Carousel has] close working relationships with Bank of America [was NationsBank in Charlotte] and First Union [of Charlotte] and an affiliation with Forstmann Little & Co." [Emphasis added.]

In January 1996, just a few weeks after leaving his second Clinton administration job as White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Mr. Bowles founded Carousel Capital, a merchant banking firm that is focused on acquiring middle market companies in the southeastern United States. Hmm, that was certainly quick - and "middle market" sounds an awful lot like some of the SBA work he was doing...

From the Carousel website: "Charlotte, N.C., January 6, 1999 -- Carousel Capital today announced the return of firm co-founder and former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles as a general partner." " Carousel Capital is one of the largest merchant banks in the Southeast, with over $160 million in equity commitments. The firm focuses on acquiring Southeast-based middle market companies." "Carousel investors include Bank of America [was NationsBank] and First Union...". [Emphasis added.]

Regarding the campaign finance controversy, the New York Times on 04/14/97 reports: "Morris [Clinton/Gore strategist], in an interview, said that he was told at the time that 'we will have to go into debt to do this.' Another participant, describing the Democratic committee as 'chronically' short of money, said that it had to borrow about $8 million in the fall of 1995 to pay for the ads. The loans from NationsBank [now Bank of America], based in Charlotte, N.C., are reflected in the committee's financial statements." It appears that Bowles also had some direct influence on the illegal presidential campaign. Was anyone in this corrupt administration tending to the business for which they were being paid? [Emphasis added.]

So there you have Bowles, integrally entwined with NationsBank which loaned the DNC the bail out money for the corrupt campaign, the same bank that bought out the infamous Lippo-connected Worthen Bank of Little Rock. You have Bowles becoming acquainted with the Lippo-controlling Riady family in 1992. You also have him entwined with the Lippo-connected First Union through the dealings with his company Bowles Hollowell Conner. You now have him on the board of directors of First Union. You have both NationsBank [Bank of America] and First Union investing in Bowles' new
company, Carousel. And, last but not least, you know that Bowles and McLarty obtained the work-free pay for Hubbell in the amount of $100,000 from Lippo. Convoluted? A bit - but a few more dots connected, nonetheless...

John Podesta
Executive Secretary and Assistant to the President (January 1993-July 1995)
White House Deputy Chief of Staff (December 1996-November 1998)
White House Chief of Staff (November 1998-Present)

John Podesta is not a prominent figure in the mainstream media - a fact that demands questioning on its own. In fact, after digging through thousands of newspaper articles, it is quite obvious that there are only a handful of real reporters in this country. Most others have simply mastered the art of cut-and-paste, and little else.

Thanks to the relentless pursuit of the truth through the Freedom of Information Act by Charles Smith of Softwar and Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch, the public is finally beginning to get a glimpse of the true corruption in the Clinton administration. Much of the information in this section is taken from Mr. Smith's work. The American people owe them a debt of gratitude.

Podesta is another Clinton crony. He worked with Clinton on a Senate campaign in 1970 and with Berger and Clinton on the 1972 McGovern campaign.

Podesta is described as a traditionally liberal veteran Democratic operative with a tear-jerker past he drones on about like Clinton with his "town called Hope" - for Podesta it is his family's immigrant, working-class roots. In a recent statement he speaks of how proud his parents would have been of their highly successful son. Well, we'll just see about that...

The story of John Podesta gives new meaning to the phrase "conflict of interest". Before joining the Administration, he was President and General Counsel of Podesta Associates, Inc., a powerful Washington, D.C., lobbying firm. He is now a consultant to the firm, while his brother Tony runs it.

John Podesta was employed at the White House and charged with regulatory policy, including super-computer and encryption policy and export restrictions - the same policies for which his brother, Tony Podesta, was engaged in lobbying the White House and the rest of the Government.

As Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary until July 1995, Podesta managed the paper flow to and from the President, including coordination of White House Senior Staff advice on presidential decision memoranda and approval on all Presidential documents. (That would include the corrupt/illegal Presidential Decision Directives and Executive Orders.)

As mentioned in the Panetta section: From Judicial Watch, Podesta and Panetta 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.

Through July of 1995 Podesta participated with both McLarty and Panetta in their corrupt activities outlined earlier. In July 1995, the same month that Panetta learned of the espionage, Podesta 'retired' from the White House to rejoin his lobbying firm Podesta Associates. The law prohibits former employees from lobbying on matters they worked on while in government. and prohibits them from lobbying for a period of one year after they have left service. But, oh well, it's the Clinton administration...

As could be expected, Podesta left his White House job in good hands. His replacement, Todd Stern, was Vice President of Podesta's lobbying firm Podesta Associates. (Stern is/was also with the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, with offices in Beijing and Hong Kong, of course).

Although Podesta was 'absent' from official duties at the White House during most of the illegal election campaign, he did manage to have Podesta Associates present for some White House fundraising coffees.

In December 1996 Chief of Staff Bowles hired Podesta back as his deputy. And then in February 1997, Beverly Barnes, from Podesta Associates, was hired as senior advisor to then-White House Chief of Staff, Erskine Bowles. Podesta Associates later bought Ricchetti and Associates, owned by Podesta's new Deputy Steve Ricchetti. So now the brothers of White House officials, Ricchetti and Podesta, are working together at Podesta Associates to lobby the White House, Congress and federal regulators. Podesta, Ricchetti, Sterns and Barnes - a cozy little Podesta Associates lobbying group on the taxpayer dole at the White House - reduces the skill level required for lobbying to about nil.

Throughout his stint in the White House, Podesta was known as the 'top scandal troubleshooter' (the Associated Press referred to him as the 'point man' for the Clinton administration's scandals) and took on damage control responsibilities for such controversies as Whitewater, the White House travel office firings, the Democratic fund-raising controversy and Lewinsky - to name only a few. This 'job', as you will see, is harmless when compared to Podesta's other 'activities'. Podesta even outdid his boss, McLarty, when it came to memory lapses while testifying before Congress - over 250. Let's see why...

The website of the powerful D.C. lobbying firm, Podesta Associates, leaves no doubt why little brother John worked his way into White House, not to mention the other Podesta employees they have positioned there: "Our principals and associates come from careers in Congress, the White House, federal agencies, national presidential and other political campaigns, and private industry."

And, big brother, "Anthony T. Podesta, chairman, provides his clients with unparalleled legislative, public relations and campaign management expertise, as well as connections throughout Congress and the Administration and long-standing ties to the public interest community. Tony is the co-founder of the firm that National Journal calls 'the lobbying shop that companies from Silicon Valley to Cambridge, MA, hire when they need help in Washington.'"

In December 1998 they wrote: "Ten years ago the power matchmaker foresaw that Silicon Valley and Washington would need each other. Podesta appears to be the ideal matchmaker for any high tech company needing to do business on Capitol Hill, in the White House, or wherever regulation, trade, and government contracts are on the table. And these days that's just about everywhere."

"Since 1988, we have provided our clients with superior strategic advice and access, combined with a creativity that is unique in Washington. Our Administration and Capitol Hill connections make us one of the city's most effective government relations firms."

The slogan of Podesta Associates: "You have a future in Washington. We can help you seize it."

There can be no question about the relevance of Podesta Associates' employees now strategically placed in top White House 'jobs' - John Podesta (White House Chief of Staff), Todd Stern (Executive Secretary and Assistant to the President), Steve Ricchetti (Deputy White House Chief of Staff) and Karen Barnes (Senior Advisor to the White House Chief of Staff). Let's see how this influence peddling works...

Podesta and 'Computer-Gate':

Remember: "John Podesta was employed at the White House and charged with regulatory policy, including super-computer and encryption policy and export restrictions - the same policies for which his brother, Tony Podesta, was engaged in lobbying the White House and the rest of the Government." And "Podesta is working as a consultant for Podesta Associates." The laws state that White House advisors are prohibited from working on matters in which they have a direct financial interest. This law also prohibits them from lobbying on matters they worked on while in government and prohibits them from lobbying for a period of one year after they have left service.

Podesta served as a senior policy advisor on regulatory policy during the period 1994- July 1995 and since 1993 he had been charged with the Clinton administration oversight on super-computers and encryption policy (computer policy, such as export restrictions).

In 1994, Podesta Associates represented a consortium of U.S. computer companies, the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) that was interested in computer and encryption exports. 'Coincidentally', brother Tony worked miracles for CSPP.

From Softwar: "By April 1994, Ken Kay left the employ of Preston Gates and took a new position at Podesta Associates, the powerful lobby firm owned by Tony Podesta, brother of White House advisor John Podesta. Kay, of course, took his CSPP clients with him by retaining his executive directorship of the consortium. The shift to Podesta Associates was quickly felt by the CSPP members and the PLA. In August, 1994, CSPP members IBM, Cray and Tandem were invited [suddenly authorized] to participate on a Brown trade trip to China. [In 1994, John Podesta was also in charge of Clinton computer technology export policies such as high speed systems and encryption.] While on the trip, CSPP member Tandem sold over $100 million in computers to PLA-owned Great Wall Industries, manufacturer of the Chinese Army nuclear tipped missiles- okayed by the Clinton administration for the "strategic partner" Communist China."

Also from Softwar's Freedom of Information Act search: "More alarming for the White House is another 1994 computer security document found in the files of former Deputy Attorney General Webster Hubbell. The Hubbell document describes a secret 1994 White House meeting where 'Podesta legislation' was one of several computer industry topics. The Hubbell document clearly links the former Whitewater partner and John Podesta in secret computer export policy."

While at the White House, John Podesta openly met with Commerce officials. On June 6, 1995, Tony Podesta had a consortium of top U.S. computer CEOs attend secret meetings inside the White House with Commerce Department officials. It is illegal for the Commerce Department to have secret meetings with special interests, lobbyists and industry behind closed doors. The Commerce Dept. subsequently engaged in a cover-up of the secret meetings with the CSPP and Podesta Associates employees at the White House.

At that time CSPP Director and DNC donor Ken Kay was attending the secret meetings while working for registered foreign agents Tony Podesta and Podesta Associates - a clear conflict of interest. The 'guest list' included some of the most rich and powerful on the U.S. computer industry DNC donor lists. The meetings were on computer hardware and software exports to China and Russia. The meetings occurred just before Clinton changed super-computer policy. Within weeks, the Russian and Chinese weapons labs were buying computer power for nuclear weapons research that now surpasses the U.S. Defense Dept.

Softwar: "In 1996, two of the Podesta companies, IBM and Silicon Graphics, sold super-computers (under the guise of "commercial" sales) directly to Russian nuclear weapons labs Arzamas-16 and Chelyabinsk-70 under so-called "commercial" contracts. IBM has since settled for a fine of $8 million on the $7.5 million dollar sale to Arzamas-16. Silicon Graphics, however, has not been charged. In 1996, John Podesta was also working for his brother Tony as a lobbyist for Podesta Associates. Thus,
John certainly had a large paycheck tied to his brother's success for IBM and Silicon Graphics."

Criminal activity? The 'late' Secretary of Commerce Brown said that Clinton advisers John Podesta and Leon Panetta ordered him to cover-up the high tech China exports by destroying evidence.

And it never stops. Softwar also obtained documents that show "the Clinton administration approved the export of U.S.-built supercomputers to Communist China in late December 1997 even though Chinese officials were unwilling to allow on-site inspections of the delivery venue in order to satisfy a U.S. law. But Commerce officials weren't going to let this little detail stand in the way of a supercomputer deal worth millions to Digital Equipment Corp., a U.S. company whose lobbyist was Anthony Podesta."

Podesta and the Clipper Project:

The Clipper project involved special telephones developed by AT&T which became of great interest to the Clinton administration in their ongoing effort to invade the privacy of 'the American people'. Their plan involved refitting the phones with a new chip called "Clipper," which would permit the government to tap the phones easily once they found their way back into the hands of American consumers.

This project was one of the items of interest to 'alleged' spy John Huang of Lippo and the Commerce Department who requested classified documents and sat in on briefings about a subject that he could not have understood. A subject, no doubt, understood by those on the receiving end of his faxing to Lippo from the Stephens office.

Soon to be convicted criminal, Webster Hubbell, orchestrated this plot from the Justice Department, but with Podesta Associates lobbying for AT&T, you have one guess who was in the inner circle of the Clipper project! White House Executive Secretary, little brother John, of course.

Podesta and the 'Openness project' (freely translated The Demise of National Security):

According to the Associated Press 10/20/98: John Podesta "is currently a Member of the United States Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy."

From the Center for Security Policy 4/26/99: "On 17 April 1995, President Clinton lent his authority to an "openness" initiative championed by Mrs. O'Leary, the current White House Chief of Staff, John Podesta, and then-NSC staffer Morton Halperin with his signature of Executive Order 12958. This order called for the automatic declassification by 17 April 2000 of all documents containing historical information that are 25 years or older." "The practical effect of Executive Order 12958, however, has been greatly to abbreviate the time and necessarily to diminish the care with which classified
documents are scrutinized prior to their release to the public."

Senators became concerned about the wholesale declassification of secret documents, and felt that "officials were not being given the time or resources to declassify sensitive documents on a page-by-page basis. Instead, it had to be done by the box, if not by the shelf. Mr. Podesta, apparently infuriated at any interference with the declassification initiative, instructed Secretary Richardson to have Ms. Gottemoeller reprimand a senior DOE bureaucrat, Joseph Mahaley, for encouraging Congress to intervene."

Podesta was referred to in the Washington Times on 4/27/99 as a "declassification-devotee" and said "Under such pressure, the Administration wound up engaging in the wholesale declassification of papers, including some containing Restricted Data (RD) or Formerly Restricted Data (FRD). Mr. Podesta, apparently infuriated at any interference with the declassification initiative, fought intervention
by Congress to safeguard secret documents." (RD and FRD deal with nuclear information.)

And from Podesta's speech before the Intelligence Information and Classification Management Conference on November 3, 1998: I want "to talk to you about the Clinton Administration's commitment -- and my own personal commitment -- to openness in government." "In fiscal years 1996 and 1997, agencies declassified more than 400 million pages of historically valuable documents -- 50 percent more in the last two years than in the previous 16 years. The Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) estimates that these 400 million pages constitute about a quarter of the total universe of
classified pages subject to automatic declassification by April 2000. In other words, we are off to a good start." "Clinton Administration has pursued a policy of government openness -- but we know there is far more work to be done." Isn't that just swell!

The anti-nuclear activists like O'Leary and Podesta have left a legacy with their "denuclearization" and "openness" policies that will haunt this country for years to come. Their "openness" initiatives contributed to the circumstances under which the penetration of U.S. nuclear facilities by Communist China, among others, has occurred during the present administration.

Well there you have it - another Clinton appointee who, with an honest Justice Department, would be in a world of hurt. The son of "an immigrant working-class family" who is so vocal about how proud his parents would be of him. Guess that depends upon where they immigrated from and where there allegiances were...

Summary

This team of four highly questionable White House Chiefs of Staff, each one with a vested interest in not rocking the Communist boat, enabled the seamless transition of a corrupt governor to a corrupt president.

It is interesting to note the connection between these four men. In their varying capacities in the administration, they seemed to always team up in twos or threes on a variety of corrupt activities. Without the highly unusual coordination of their efforts, all the corrupt acts of the President and his appointees would not have been covered up, the espionage would have been reported in a timely fashion to prevent further damage, the illegal campaign contributions would not have elected this corrupt and treasonous president to a second term, the Communist military would not have been given/sold the technology to threaten us with nuclear disaster, the Chinese Communists would not have pushed us into a third-world negotiating position, and numerous other 'accomplishments' of the Clinton/Gore administration would have been exposed.

But it all did happen and America is in real trouble. The Judicial system has been turned into a subject of ridicule, with all criminal activity by the Clintons and their appointees going unpunished - crimes that would strip average individuals of all their worldly possessions and land them in jail. It's people like Klayman, Smith and a few exceptional members of Congress who, with their perseverance, may be able to repair some of the damage that has been done.

When Panetta left in January 1997, Sandy Berger, an equally questionable pro-Communist crony, became National Security Advisor, and the 'mantle' was gradually passed to him. The transition was smooth, as McLarty and Bowles continued to work together until July 1998. The fate of the executive branch and national security is now in the hands of communist sympathizers and lobbyists, Berger and Podesta. How lucky can we get! What a team to take us through the Y2K crisis, Communist threats and whatever else there is in store for us before they hose out the White House and send Clinton and his appointees/nominees packing.

Be sure and read the other four parts to this series:

PRESIDENTIAL TREASON 101

PRESIDENTIAL TREASON 102

PRESIDENTIAL TREASON 103

PRESIDENTIAL TREASON 104

Gretchen Glass is a free lance political writer and can be reached at Bink995210@aol.com

Published in theSeptemeber 14, 1999 issue of  Ether Zone Online!  Copyright © 1999 Ether Zone Online (http://etherzone.com). Reposting permitted with this message intact.

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