From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #70 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Tuesday, February 17 1998 Volume 02 : Number 070 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 21:03:22 -0800 From: wootan@dmi.net Subject: Re: unsubscribe - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 08:52:54 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: The Other Intern (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:44:29 -0500 From: Ian Goddard To: flight-800@home.ease.lsoft.com Subject: The Other Intern This report from The Washington Weekly indicates that Mary Mahoney, the ex-White House intern brutally executed at Starbucks, was close to White House intern Monica Lewinsky. It also seems that the Washington D.C. police define the case as an improper area of inquiry. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Forwarded Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< The Washington Weekly, Feb. 9, 1998 http://www.federal.com D.C. Police Silent on Murder of Former White House Intern On July 6, 1997, a brutal triple murder took place at a Starbucks restaurant in an upscale Georgetown neighborhood. The victims were Aaron Goodrich, 18; Emory Evans, 25; and Mary Caitrin Mahoney, 25. According to a July 13 Washington Post story, ballistics test indicated that 10 shots were fired from two different guns, sometime after 9:15 p.m. The Post story characterized the crime as an "execution-style" murder. The murders were strange for several reasons. First, the restaurant's doors were locked when the victims were found. Nothing appeared to have been stolen, although nearly $4,000 was in the store at the time. Police initially discounted robbery as a motive. Second, the restaurant was in a neighbor- hood that has a very strong neighborhood watch program. None of Washington D.C.'s 397 murders in the previous year had occurred in or near Georgetown, which is rated safer than many other American cities such as Palm Springs and Oceanside, California and Boulder, Colorado. Third, neighbors heard no gunfire, indicating that the assailants might have used silencers. Finally, multiple murders are rare even in violent areas of Washington D.C. Making the story particularly interesting is the fact that Mary Mahoney was shot as many as five times, according to some press reports. As the Washington Post reported: She was almost unrecognizable. Caity, the coffee shop assistant manager, was first shot in the chest, police said. She had raised her hands to her face, possibly to protect herself. A bullet pierced her hands and hit her face. Then she was shot in the back of the head. Ms. Mahoney had been heavily involved in presidential politics, working on Bill Clinton's campaign in 1992. She served as a White House intern for a while in the first Clinton Administration, arranging White House tours. After finishing a degree in Women's Studies at Towson State Uni- versity in Baltimore in 1995, she moved to Washington perman- ently, taking a job as an assistant manager at the Starbucks restaurant. There Ms. Mahoney's path seems to have crossed that of another White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. George Stephanopoulos said last week that Lewinsky used to hang out at the Starbucks where he lived. These connections to Lewinsky and the White House have raised eyebrows in many quarters. The January 23, 1998 Strategic Weekly Briefings contained the following account attributed to anonymous sources: When Monica Lewinsky first met with Vernon Jordan in November 1997 she told him she didn't want to end up like Caity Mahoney. Jordan professed not to know whom Lewinsky was referring to until she identified Mahoney as the former White House intern who was murdered last summer in a Starbucks. . . . Police are apparently no nearer to solving the crime than they were in July of 1997. In a December 6 story the Washington Post reported that a police informant in the case had been beaten to death outside a row house in Southwest Washington. Police sent the informant into a crack house to purchase cocaine, hoping to find grounds to search the house and question the occupants about the Starbucks case. Three men were arrested in the beating death, but police found no connection to the Starbucks murders. Efforts by the Washington Weekly to gain information from the D.C. police have been unsuccessful. The following exchange occurred on Thursday of last week with D.C. police detective Tony Patterson, who is in charge of the case: QUESTION: May I ask you some questions? PATTERSON: It depends. Which case? QUESTION: About the Starbucks murder. May I ask you some questions? PATTERSON: No, no. I can't discuss that case. QUESTION: You can't discuss that case? PATTERSON: Not right now. QUESTION: Can you discuss it off the record? PATTERSON: No. QUESTION: You can't discuss your informant who was beaten to death? PATTERSON: No, that's what I said. Too much hes been released to the press already. QUESTION: Can you discuss aspects of the case that would not affect your investigation? PATTERSON: No sir. QUESTION: You can't discuss anything? You can't describe the murder scene? PATTERSON: That's already known. QUESTION: It's known from press accounts, but what is not known so well is what you have to say. PATTERSON: I have nothing else to say about it. Efforts to contact Starbucks management were somewhat more fruitful. The Washington Weekly talked to Kenny Fried, a Starbucks spokesman on Friday. QUESTION: I would like to get a statement from you about where the Washington D.C. murder case is at this point. FRIED: We're working on getting the store reopened at this point. QUESTION: What is the status of the case with the police? FRIED: They're definitely working on it. They've not closed it. It's a high profile thing here. But, unfortunately, the people--we've never sent any statements out or anything like that. We're trying to open our store at this point, that's our concern. The store will reopen February 20th. In Washington this was the biggest story for two weeks. It was on the front page of every paper and on the newscasts morning till evening, so it was very heavily on the minds of the media here. QUESTION: Do you know at this point if the police have a suspect orsuspects in the case? FRIED: We don't know anything about that. QUESTION: I take it this was very unusual for the store. It was located in a very nice neighborhood in Georgetown, is that correct? FRIED: Yes, it's a nice area with a national retailer and Starbucks never had anything like this happen in their history. And so it's just unusual and three young people were killed and so these factors together created a lot of attention. QUESTION: The Washington Post characterized this as an execution-style murder. Do you have any comment on that? FRIED: I'm dealing mostly with the reopening of the store, so I won't comment on that. We have not talked to media because we just want to get the store reopened. I can tell you that our CEO has announced that all future net profits for the life span of the store will go to a designated anti- violence organization. The particular organization will be announced when the store opens. QUESTION: There is a lot of speculation going around on the internet about who could have had a motive for this killing. And this is being connected to the fact that this young lady was a former White House intern, and that rumors were circula- ting in Washington at this time that an intern was going to come forward with information about the President's activit- ies in the White House. Have you heard stories like that? FRIED: No, I haven't. QUESTION: Do you have any comment on that? FRIED: I'm not the right person to comment on that. I can see if there is anyone at headquarters who could comment on that. QUESTION: Do you know of any apparent motive in this slaying? FRIED: No, we don't, nothing. There was speculation that it was robbery. QUESTION: Was there any indication from the crime scene that it was an attempted robbery? FRIED: That's all a police matter. The Washington Weekly continues to investigate this case. Anyone with information on the case is encouraged to contact the Washington Weekly by email at: editor@dolphin.gulf.net . Confidentiality is assured. Published in the Feb. 9, 1998 issue of The Washington Weekly. Copyright (c) 1998 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com). Reposting permitted with this message intact. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> End Forwarded Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ************************************************************** VISIT Ian Williams Goddard ---> http://www.erols.com/igoddard ______________________________________________________________ IDENTITY MATRIX | I D E N T I T Y C O N S E R V A T I O N - -----------------| The basis of logic is identity (ID). The 1 2 3 | basis of ID is difference. Degrees of dif- _________ | ference can be quantified as ID units. The 1 | 0 1 2 | | ID Matrix shows the ID units of three num- | | | bers, and may do so unto infinity. The ID 2 |-1 0 1 | | units of each number are derived from the | | | others, and therefore ID is holistic not 3 |-2 -1 0 | | atomistic. As the sum of all ID units unto ----------- | infinity equals 0, identity is conserved. _________________|____________________________________________ GODDARD'S METAPHYSICS-> http://www.erols.com/igoddard/meta.htm ______________________________________________________________ - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:45:28 -0600 (CST) From: cyrano@ix.netcom.com Subject: Too damn funny (but off topic) This is too damn funny. On January 12, 1998, the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the local legal newspaper, ran an article entitled, "Coaches Are Not Required by Disabilities Act." The story stated: "Rejecting contentions by the federal government and a California disability rights group, a district judge in Michigan has dismissed a novel discrimination lawsuit brought on behalf of two mentally retarded men who lost their jobs at Hertz Corp. when their government-funded job coaches were caught "making out" in a rental car while the two retarded workers looked on from the back seat. The judge, ruling on a key issue often raised in disability cases, emphatically turned down the claim that Hertz had a duty to find other job coaches as a "reasonable accommodation" for the two handicapped men under federal law." The article went on to explain the coaches were paid to teach the two retarded men how to pick up trash at the Hertz Detroit Metropolitan Airport parking facility. During the "passionate lovemaking" incident, the two retarded gentlemen were "trapped in the back of the car and forced to witness the incident." The coaches' salaries were paid for with tax money from the EEOC. As a result of the kissing incident, the two coaches were fired. The two retarded men were then fired since they no longer had "job coaches." The two retarded ex-employees sued to get their jobs back, and for an order directing Hertz to obtain new coaches through the EEOC. Fortunately, the Court dismissed their lawsuit. My questions: (1) what the heck's a job coach? (2) does this mean there were four people doing the job of one or two? (3) I wonder if federally funded "job coaches" will one day help retarded people become doctors, lawyers or accountants? (4) why is our federal tax money being spent on this? (5) What were those two coaches thinking? Steve Silver Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy and Vice President The Lawyer's Second Amendment Society, Inc. 18034 Ventura Blvd., No. 329 Encino, CA 91316 (818) 734-3066 (The LSAS is a 501(c)(4) Non-Profit Corporation) Visit the LSAS's new and updated Web page at: http://www.mcs.net/~lpyleprn/lsas Send an e-mail request, including your snail mail address, to: LSAS3@aol.com for a complimentary copy of the LSAS's newsletter, The Liberty Pole. Firearms: They save lives. *** Self-defense is not a crime. - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:58:49 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: most disturbing film I have ever seen (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:14:35 -0800 From: Jack Perrine To: Jack@minerva.com Subject: most disturbing film I have ever seen [ My for the main news paper in Orange county this piece certainly says some very nasty things about Republicans.......what a pleasant thought to have major media begin to sound like the grassroots Jack ] The truth about Waco and government lies Diane Fallon OCR This past weekend I watched the most disturbing film I have ever seen. While my husband and I sat frozen on the couch, our 24-year-old son, who has seen every horror film ever made, had to leave the room. He could not bear to watch. You will never see this on television. It is too powerful. "Waco: The Rules of Engagement," an incredible documentary by Mike McNulty, is an indictment of everyone involved in the federal government's assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in April of 1993. It has been nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary. The film is brilliant in how it cuts back and forth from what agents testified to before Congress to what the video and audio transcripts revealed. In every instance, they lied. Even the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm's own undercover agent told Congress his colleagues lied when they testified he did not call off the raid. In their "Two thumbs up" review, Siskel & Ebert said, "It is pretty clear, on the basis of this film, that the original raid was staged as a publicity stunt and the final raid was a government riot, a tragedy caused by uniformed boys with toys." Coincidentally, the FBI and BATF "lost" all crucial pieces of evidence that would indict them, including the front doors of the house which would have shown that they, and not the Davidians, fired the first shots. The biggest indictment is the infra-red aerial film, which clearly shows gunfire going into the house at critical flash points of the standoff. The man who patented this process expertly explains to the viewer what is being seen on the film, as opposed to what the agents said they did. Gunfire comes from both the tanks that are pouring gas into the house and agents outside the house, before and during the burning. Then there is the cutback to Congress, where the same men who were incommand of the 1992 assault on the Weavers' compound at Ruby Ridge, testify that at no time did the FBI fire a single shot. The film also shows the Davidians themselves, mostly the women and children, in a home video a few weeks before their deaths, as well as some footage taken during the attack that killed them. The government has tried very hard to demonize these people, but they could be anyone's loved ones. And they did not sound like kooks; they were articulate and thoughtful. They were human beings, living their lives the way they wanted, not hurting anyone. And as they were gassed and burned to death, the FBI refused to let fire trucks in to save them. As I watched this film, I remembered thinking a similar thought as I watched the Oklahoma City bombing. "What kind of person could commit such a horrible act." Unlike Tim McVeigh, who now awaits execution for his deed, these federal officers are decorated heroes. The end of the film is perhaps the most chilling. In a show of pure arrogance, BATF officers hoist their own banner up the flagpole, next to what was once a home, as if they were the victors in some foreign country. This is the mindset of these people. To them, this was a military operation and the Davidians were the enemy. They would not quit until their mission had been accomplished. Their mission was to destroy, and destroy they did. Just like Ruby Ridge, the government charged the citizens they attacked with murdering federal agents. And just like Ruby Ridge, the jurors found the citizens innocent. Just like Ruby Ridge, Congress held hearings, and in the end, nothing changed. Congress is so confident in the gullibility of its constituents, members feel all they have to do is give the appearance that they care, so they hold public hearings to show there is no cover-up. They are the truth seekers, so they tell us. Amazingly, Congress concluded that there was no misconduct on the part of government agents and that the Davidians committed suicide. The story, they say, is over. Well, it isn't. Not by a long shot. Just as the real story of what happened at Ruby Ridge eventually surfaced, the same will happen with Waco as this remarkable film finds its way into the living rooms across America, in spite of the apparent skittishness of TV executives. If Congress had held these agencies accountable for what they did at Ruby Ridge, Waco would not have happened. Citizens, including local and state law officers from states across the nation, are now taking action against various federal agencies. For the first time in our history, a federal law officer has been held accountable for his actions (at Ruby Ridge) and faces trial for involuntary manslaughter. It is not too late for the State of Texas to do likewise. Stay tuned. "Waco: The Rules of Engagement" can be ordered over the Internet at Waco93.com or by calling 800-326-0996. Jack Perrine | Athena Programming | 626-798-6574 -----------------| 1175 N Altadena Dr | -------------- Jack@Minerva.Com | Pasadena CA 91107 | FAX-309-8620 - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:02:50 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: CAS: Klayman, Ron Brown probe, John Conyers, Clinton payoff? (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 00:53:50 -0800 From: Palmer Hinsdale To: cas Subject: CAS: Klayman, Ron Brown probe, John Conyers, Clinton payoff? Today, Fri, 2/13, I caught the latter couple of minutes of Chris Ruddy on Ken Hamblin about 12:50 (SF) on KSFO560. In case some CASers are unaware, Ken Hamblin is a black conservative syndicated talk show host based in Denver. He styles himself the Black Avenger who stands for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Adding to his interest in the Ron Brown matter is the fact that Hamblin is a private pilot. Unfortunately I caught only a minute of the interview between Hamblin and Ruddy. Apropos of the fact that Klayman has petitioned the court to renew the investigation of the matters relating to Ron Brown, Hamblin asked Ruddy the attitude of John Conyers, the Dem representative from Michigan. Conyers, Maxine Watters (sp), the Black Caucus, and the NAACP have IN THE RECENT PAST all been supportive of further inquiry re Ron Brown. But, even more recently Conyers has also been prominent in attacking Ken Starr. Ruddy responded by relating the following: Even after the Monica matter had broken, Conyers had scheduled a news conference to support further inquiry in the Ron Brown matter. However, shortly before the scheduled time for that conference, Conyers canceled it. Hamblin asked why, and Ruddy responded to the effect that Clinton allocated $400 million to be spent in the districts of members of the Black Caucus. Hamblin asked a second time so that Ruddy repeated the statement, and then Hamblin, who is strongly anti-affirmative-action, went ballistic. Sadly, I had to get out of the car so I missed the remainder. If I understood, the clear implication was that Clinton gave the Black Caucus the $400 million to get Conyers off the Ron Brown case and to get the all aboard in defending the President in the Monica matter. Wondering if anyone else heard this exchange, or has any related info. Palmer ========================================================================== This mailing list is for discussion of Clinton Administration Scandals. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send electronic mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com. In the message body put: unsubscribe cas - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:05:54 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: Re: CAS: OCR: most disturbing film I have ever seen (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 09:58:23 EST From: Expert53@aol.com To: pwatson@utdallas.edu, owner-cas@majordomo.pobox.com, cas@majordomo.pobox.com Subject: Re: CAS: OCR: most disturbing film I have ever seen (fwd) EXPERT WITNESS RADIO SHOW (99.5 FM, WBAI, New York City) Tuesdays 7-8pm.. I have had the producers of WACO--Dan and Amy--now nominated for an Academy Award--on my show several months ago...My show by the way is in Congressman Charles Schumer country--the man prominent in the cover-up of the Waco events..In any case, they are agains scheduled to do my show on Tuesday February 24th, at which time I again will call--as a court qualified expert in the use of deadly force--for an investigation of Schumer and all those other congressman taking part in the hearings, for Obstruction of Justice...that to protect the Clinton Administration from the scandal they so justly deserved, they used the hearings to obuscate and hide the true facts., Of course, being congressmen, they are immune from prosecution for what they did on camera, but I think it important for the American people to understand the gravity of their actions.. Mike Levine Author of TRIANGLE OF DEATH (Dell) - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:06:25 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: Iraq hid deadly weapons abroad Reuters New Media Monday February 16 7:05 AM EST Iraq Hid Deadly Weapons Abroad - Congress Report By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq has smuggled deadly weapons programs to sympathetic Arab states for safekeeping along with up to 400 Scud missiles that could deliver germ or chemical agents, the director of a U.S. congressional task force said Sunday. Yossef Bodansky, director of the House of Representatives Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, said Iraq also retained production capabilities for weapons of mass destruction through joint programs in Sudan and Libya. About 400 surviving Iraqi Scud missiles of a type that could be used to deliver such weapons were shipped to Sudan and Yemen after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, Bodansky said. In a telephone interview, he said his information, first published in a Feb. 10 task force report, came from Arab opposition movements as well as from British, German and Israeli intelligence sources. Defense Secretary William Cohen said "whether the report is accurate or not, it does in fact, I think, just by surfacing, give some validity to what we have been trying to accomplish" -- getting full access to suspected weapons sites in Iraq. Richard Butler, the Australian diplomat who heads the United Nations weapons inspection effort, said the "logic" of the alleged Iraqi weapons shifting was clear. "That could only have been the case under circumstances where we weren't there first," he said on the CNN program "Late Edition," adding: "That's why access is crucial." At issue is Iraq's defiance of U.N. Security Council disarmament resolutions that ended the 1991 Gulf War, including those meant to give inspectors' unrestricted access to suspected weapons sites. Iraq denies having any hidden weapons of mass destruction. It has sought to limit U.N. inspections of "presidential sites," including Saddam's palaces and what it calls other symbols of national sovereignty. In Baghdad, General Amir Al Sa-adi, an adviser to President Saddam Hussein, denied the report and heaped scorn on Butler. "This is absolute nonsense. None of this has happened," he told reporters in a news conference carried live by CNN. U.S. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger said Sunday that the United States would strike Iraq militarily time and again if necessary to deny Saddam his deadliest weapons. "We will do what we can at this point as far as diminishing his capacity" to build weapons of mass destruction, he said of a looming round of possible U.S. and British military strikes. "But we would make it clear that if we have evidence he is rebuilding (after the possible next U.S.-led strike), we would act again," Berger added on the NBC program "Meet the Press." Berger, President Bill Clinton's top national security aide, suggested that the threatened U.S.-led military action may still be at least one week away in the absence of full Iraqi cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors. "I would say it's not measured in days but it's also not measured in months," he said. He accused Saddam of having used chemical weapons 10 times since 1983. Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican on the Armed Services Committee, urged Clinton to set a deadline for full Iraqi compliance with Security Council resolutions that ended the 1991 Gulf War. "... We just can't keep up this kind of ... back and forth," he said on Fox News Sunday. "It continues to erode our capability." If Iraq fails to cooperate fully with the weapons dismantling teams, Berger said the United States would do "as much as we can" to curb its ability to develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons as well to limit its capacity to threaten its neighbors. Cohen, preparing the public for military action, displayed a picture of the broken bodies of a mother and her infant child he identified as Iraqi Kurdish victims of a nerve agent. "Madonna and child, Saddam Hussein-style," Cohen intoned, holding up the picture on the the ABC program "This Week." ^REUTERS@ _________________________________________________________________ - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:04:44 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: Margolis outlines US incompetence in the Mideast....VERY GOOD (fwd) Foreign Correspondent Inside Track On World News By International Syndicated Columnist & Broadcaster Eric Margolis ,,ggddY"""Ybbgg,, ,agd888b,_ "Y8, ___`""Ybga, ,gdP""88888888baa,.""8b "888g, ,dP" ]888888888P' "Y `888Yb, ,dP" ,88888888P" db, "8P""Yb, ,8" ,888888888b, d8888a "8, ,8' d88888888888,88P"' a, `8, ,8' 88888888888888PP" "" `8, d' I88888888888P" `b 8 `8"88P""Y8P' 8 8 Y 8[ _ " 8 8 "Y8d8b "Y a 8 8 `""8d, __ 8 Y, `"8bd888b, ,P `8, ,d8888888baaa ,8' `8, 888888888888' ,8' `8a "8888888888I a8' `Yba `Y8888888P' adP' "Yba `888888P' adY" `"Yba, d8888P" ,adP"' `"Y8baa, ,d888P,ad8P"' ``""YYba8888P""'' NOT SO FAST, SEN. LOTT by Eric Margolis 16 Feb 1998 NEW YORK - Senate majority leader Trent Lott and other senior Republicans are demanding the US adopt a long-term strategy of covert action and subversion to overthrow Saddam Hussein and other Mideast troublemakers who disturb the Pax Americana. Bombing Iraq is simply not enough, warned war-fevered Republicans. Saddam must be driven from power once and for all. Many pro-Israel Conservatives demand the US Army march on Baghdad. If Senator Lott knew Mideast history better, he might not be so eager for covert action, or hopeful Iraq's government could be overthrown to America's profit. He might even learn the United States is not the solution to the Mideast's chronic instability and tensions, but a major source. A few examples: *1947. Washington is displeased by Syria's government.A CIA-Army `political action team' mounts a coup, employing a `CIA asset,' Gen. Husni Za'im. As senior CIA Mideast agent Miles Copeland delightfully recalls, the Americans kept calling Za'im `our boy,' or `Husni,' and ordering him about. The day after Za'im's coup, Copeland and the American agents went to inform the new dictator whom he would appoint as ambassadors and cabinet ministers. When the Americans called him, `Husni,' Za'im ordered them to `stand at attention,' and address him as `Excellency.' US-Syrian relations have been terrible ever since. Two subsequent, US-backed coups backfired. *1952. The US helps engineer a coup against British puppet ruler of Egypt, King Farouk. CIA backs a young colonel, Gammal Abdel Nasser. But when the US later tries to pressure Nasser into joining Washington's `new order' for the Mideast, the Baghdad Pact, Nasser rebels and becomes America's enemy number one. CIA tries first to overthrow, than assassinate Nasser. All attempts fail. *1953. Iran's popular, elected leader, Mohammed Mossadegh, attempts to assert Iranian control of his nation's oil industry, whose profits go to the US and Britain. A CIA coup overthrows Mossadegh, and puts `our boy' Reza Shah on the throne. Iran's US-trained secret police keep the Shah in power through a reign of terror. Islamic-nationalist revolution sweeps Iran in 1979, ending US domination. *1957/58. US and Britain thwart popular uprisings against King Hussein of Jordan. *1958. Washington installs a client regime in Lebanon, which then dutifully calls for US troops. Beginning of Lebanon's 35 years of instability and civil war. *1958. Britain's Iraqi puppets, King Faisal and Nuri as- Said, overthrown by the bloodthirsty Col.Kassim. US uses Kassim to attack Nasser. Kassim murdered by Col. Aref in CIA-mounted coup. Aref's helicopter blown up. A few more murders later, CIA helps engineer into power a promising, young, Baath Party enforcer, Saddam Hussein, *1960. Anwar Sadat goes on CIA payroll. After Nasser's death, CIA puts Sadat into power in Egypt. Corrupt and hated, Sadat is assassinated to great popular joy.. *1969. The US elbows Britain out of Libya to gain control of its high-grade oil. CIA overthrows British puppet, King Idris, and - in one of its most brilliant moves - helps into power a young, reformist colonel, Muammar Khadaffi. When Khadaffi subsequently trumpets the Arabs are being robbed of their oil by the west, and raises prices, he goes unto America's hit list. . *1976. US, Iran and Israel secretly arm Iraq's Kurds and promote their rebellion to destabilize Iraq. Kurdish revolt plays major role in igniting Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 in which one million died. US abandons Kurds, gets chummy with Baghdad. *1980. Saddam Hussein becomes America's most important Mideast ally in trying to crush Iran's Islamic revolution. Urged on, armed and financed by the US, Saddam invades Iran in 1980. CIA and Pentagon supply military advice and intelligence on Iran. US and British intelligence help Iraq obtain its chemical and biological warfare capabilities. *1983. US attempts to install a client, Christian/fascist regime in Lebanon, drive out Syrian influence. US Marines sent to Beirut, under cover of `peace-keepers.' They are bombed out of Lebanon by Shia militants: 309 Americans die, including CIA's top Mideast staff. *1985. CIA's revenge backfires. Lebanese CIA agents detonate truck bomb in Beirut in a failed attempt to assassinate Shia leader, Sheik Fadlallah. Eighty-three civilians killed, 240 wounded. *1986. US tries to assassinate Khadaffi by bombing his residence in Tripoli. One baby daughter killed, one injured.He escapes. Downing of Pan Am and French UTA flights may be revenge for this failed hit. Three other attempt to assassinate Khadaffi, using CIA-organized Libyan exiles, fail. *1996. The Bay of Camels - CIA's biggest flop since Cuba. , Urged on by President Clinton, CIA mounts an elaborate coup against Saddam Hussein. Iraqi exiles, armed and trained by CIA, to march on Baghdad from US/British ruled Kurdistan. CIA organizes a cabal of generals to assassinate Saddam. Public places in Baghdad are bombed, many civilians killed, in order to `destabilize' Iraq (this while the US is busy denouncing terrorism). But Saddam's spies have infiltrated the plot. The whole operation collapses. CIA's agent network in Iraq is rolled up. Many Kurds back Saddam, turn on pro-US Kurds. CIA agents in Kurdistan run for their lives, abandoning allies and tons of documents. Saddam is strengthened. CIA's inept Director, John Deutch, fired for this Mother of All Fiascos. . Republicans now urge more of the above to keep the Mideast calm. You certainly can't argue with success. copyright eric margolis 1998 ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** - --------------------------------------------------------------- To receive Foreign Correspondent via email send a note to majordomo@foreigncorrespondent.com with the message in the body: subscribe foreignc To get off the list, send to the same address but write: unsubscribe foreignc WWW: www.bigeye.com/foreignc.htm For Syndication Information please contact: Email: margolis@foreigncorrespondent.com FAX: (416) 960-4803 Smail: Eric Margolis c/o Editorial Department The Toronto Sun 333 King St. East Toronto Ontario Canada M5A 3X5 - --------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Perrine | Athena Programming | 626-798-6574 -----------------| 1175 N Altadena Dr | -------------- Jack@Minerva.Com | Pasadena CA 91107 | FAX-309-8620 - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:03:37 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: CAS: The Democratic Party Ship (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:44:32 -0500 From: sangell@bellatlantic.net To: cas@majordomo.pobox.com Subject: CAS: The Democratic Party Ship As the scandals accumulate throughout the Democrat Party one is forced to note the similiarity between this organization and the pirates who sailed the Spanish Main in centuries past. Like a pirate ship of yesteryear the modern Democratic Party also seeks to plunder the wealth of others and divide the booty amongst its "crew",and like a gang of cutthroats and thieves no moral judgement is placed upon those who wish to join- only that they be loyal. Take your sexual pleasure in toilet stalls along an interstate? No need to worry that your squalid depravity will be censured by the leadership of the Democrat Pirate Ship.Who are they to talk? This ship is commanded by Bill Clinton with First Mate Roy Romer and Cabin Boy Dick Morris.They welcome all aboard! Got a little larceny or fraud in your past business dealings? So much the better.The gun deck crew of Dick Gephardt,Tom Daschle and Barney Frank don't mind.They need fresh talent to replace the casualties from past battles.Mel Reynolds,Dan Rostenkowski,Walter Tucker, KIA and with Bonior,McDermott and others lying wounded in sick bay your blemished past will only show your eminent fitness to join this band of brigands! Sail to the exotic ports of the Orient and load up on cash,guns and drugs which will not only pay for your libertine liberty but can be traded in for defense attorneys,Spin Doctors and TV time in the rich cities along the Eastern Seaboard of the US.Then its down to Spanish Main with Bob Torricelli and Joe Kennedy to bask in the Puerto Rican sun soaking up rays and laundered donations. Yes being a Democratic Buccaneer is the life.No need to worry about how to pay for things,no need to take responsibility for the children you leave in every port.Your victims will do that for you.Just sail on and plunder but bury your treasure well for it may come in handy for the day when you look out on the horizon and see a fleet of honest sailors heading your way ========================================================================== This mailing list is for discussion of Clinton Administration Scandals. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send electronic mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com. In the message body put: unsubscribe cas - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:27:02 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: CAS: WP: A Woman's Pleasure, the President's Pain (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 21:54:31 -0600 From: Ann Khan To: cas@majordomo.pobox.com Subject: CAS: WP: A Woman's Pleasure, the President's Pain A Woman's Pleasure, the President's Pain Lucianne Goldberg Revels in Frenzy She Helped Start=20 By Rene Sanchez Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 17, 1998; Page A04=20 NEW YORK =96 Her phone rings every few minutes. Someone else is always knocking. Every day, more desperate suitors arrive on Lucianne Goldberg's doorstep, enticing her with all manner of deals, bribes and sweet talk.=20 She is a pivotal but still somewhat mysterious figure in the web of accusations engulfing President Clinton, and she loves playing hard to get.=20 For nearly a month, the brash, smoky-voiced book agent who coaxed her friend Linda Tripp into taping Monica Lewinsky's claims of a sexual affair with Clinton has shunned every plea to release copies of those tapes and has mostly ducked the media's blinding glare.=20 Instead, Goldberg remains burrowed in her elegant apartment building here on Manhattan's Upper West Side, revealing what she knows a few crumbs at a time, as nonchalantly as if she were feeding pigeons in nearby Central Park, and clearly reveling in the Washington scandal frenzy that she helped ignite.=20 "You have to be brain-dead not to be interested in this," she bellowed the other day. "And there's so much more to come!" Goldberg, 62, seems to be one of the few characters in the unfolding Washington drama who is having a good time. Unlike many others, she is not emerging shaken or stone-faced from grand jury questioning. She is not exchanging harsh words about investigation leaks or alleged political conspiracies.=20 Rather, she is marveling at all the attention =96 she logged 110 phone messages in just one day last week =96 watching with glee as a president she disdains battles extraordinary charges of misconduct and toying with lawyers and the press.=20 "Lucianne is one of those people who takes great delight in this sort of thing," said Tony Snow, the conservative political commentator who several years ago introduced Goldberg to Tripp. "She has an almost Dickensian interest in human foibles. And she just can't take it all too seriously."=20 Goldberg contends that she has been offered as much as $2 million, from the National Enquirer, for her copies of Tripp's sensational tapes. So far, anyway, she's not selling.=20 A network news program, which Goldberg declined to name, has been sending her a weekly bouquet of flowers in the hope that she'll swoon for them, then talk. "I love when they get all warm and mushy like that," she says. "But it won't work."=20 One of the president's lawyers, David E. Kendall, also called not long ago to ask her if there was any chance she wouldn't mind letting him listen, just a bit, to some of the tapes. "He was quite the grand gentleman," Goldberg says. "But I hooted in his face."=20 She says that she received a subpoena recently from independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr, but that she has since been told by his office to ignore it.=20 "All I know is what's on the tapes, and they have those already," Goldberg said. "I had nothing to wear to a grand jury anyway."=20 Still, the precise role that Goldberg has played in bringing Lewinsky's allegations to public attention, and to Starr, remains murky, but potentially important.=20 She insists that all she did was advise Tripp to tape Lewinsky's incredible charges when the two women worked at the Pentagon, and claims that ever since then she has merely been a curious bystander. But others who know Goldberg's personal contempt for Clinton, along with her long-standing ties to political conservatives and her penchant for political mischief =96 she was a $1,000-a-week spy for Richard M. Nixon's campaign in the 1972 presidential election =96 are not so sure.=20 Once the secret taping of Lewinsky began, Goldberg arranged for Tripp to meet with Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff, who had been investigating other sexual allegations about Clinton. Some are also questioning whether Goldberg had a hand in helping the attorneys for Paula Jones with their sexual harassment suit against Clinton.=20 The group bankrolling Jones's case, the Rutherford Institute, began receiving anonymous tips about Lewinsky from a female caller last fall, soon after Tripp began taping her. And the suggestion repeatedly arises that Goldberg was the one who called. Not true, she maintains, adding that she believes the charge is being promoted by Clinton's "slime machine."=20 "I have no ties to them, and I never made any of those calls," Goldberg said. "But even if Linda did, or if I did, so what? What's the problem? I don't see where it goes. They didn't need Monica Lewinsky to try to set Clinton up for perjury. They already had a lot on him. People really shouldn't overlook the cleverness of Paula Jones's lawyers."=20 In conversation, Goldberg speaks quite bluntly and has a habit of weaving her own speculation and the gossip of others into what she portrays as factual accounts. What often emerges are vivid tales that at once appear rooted in both fact and rumor.=20 On the tapes she has listened to, Goldberg said that Tripp and Lewinsky refer to "other girls" that Lewinsky also told about her alleged sexual relationship with Clinton. "Maybe it was one of them who alerted the Paula Jones people," Goldberg said.=20 Goldberg, who once worked as a campaign aide for Lyndon B. Johnson and as a White House aide for President John F. Kennedy, said that she last spoke to Tripp after her friend wore a wire for Starr and met Lewinsky at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pentagon City.=20 She said that Tripp called her by cell phone after the successful sting operation, as she was being driven by federal agents back to her home in suburban Maryland.=20 "She called me on the way back from it saying, 'They're going to shut me down now, they're changing my phone number,' " Goldberg recalled. "She couldn't really talk."=20 "So I said, 'Did you get the Vernon Jordan stuff?' and she said 'Yes!' "=20 "Then I asked, 'As much as you had before?' And she said, 'Even more!' "=20 Goldberg, who was the book agent for former detective Mark Fuhrman's bestselling account of the O.J. Simpson murder trial, first met Tripp several years ago to discuss a possible book that both of them were interested in doing about Vincent Foster, the White House deputy counsel who committed suicide. Tripp was working as an aide in the counsel's office at the time. Goldberg also has tried to develop several other book projects detailing Clinton's alleged womanizing, but none of them has materialized.=20 From her Manhattan hideout, working contacts inside the Beltway and beyond by phone, Goldberg is still immersed in the presidential controversy. She trades gossip regularly with controversial Internet columnist Matt Drudge =96 "I know him, I know everybody" =96 and she keeps talking even though she says she is convinced her phone line is now tapped. "Big deal =96 I have nothing to hide," she says.=20 For now, Goldberg is vowing to resist all overtures to appear on television, or to begin her own book project about the scandal. She also says she is keeping track of which reporters and media figures pester her the most so they can be snubbed later.=20 It is a game she relishes. As a reporter's conversation with her from a pay phone next to her apartment building was being cut short by a lack of coins last week, Goldberg couldn't resist one last taunt.=20 "Ha! Too bad you don't have any more nickels. Who knows what I'm about to say?"=20 =A9 Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company Back to the top =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D This mailing list is for discussion of Clinton Administration Scandals. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send electronic mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com. In the message body put: unsubscribe cas - - ------------------------------ End of roc-digest V2 #70 ************************