On the Prowl
New White House Plumbers Why is the Clinton re-election com- mittee planning to hire three former FBI agents to work for it? The three retired agents—including a former assistant director of the...
...House Speaker Newt Gingrich could only manage a distant second place with $884,897...
...Dole's record in the coming months...
...Paoletta added that they hadn't bothered to ask him about the serious charge before publishing it...
...Republicans and Democrats alike took to the floor to denounce his inept handling of the war on drugs, and Sen...
...Palladino was retained by the campaign to conduct background investigations of the various women in anticipation of their going public...
...Hubbell could not be reached in federal prison in Maryland...
...Indeed, in a sly, unnumbered endnote, Mayer and Abramson wrote that Paoletta's activities "may have been legal" after all...
...In August 1994, he asked for permission to shift $600,000 from funds intended to run the drug office to pay for travel expenses of the marshals who guard him instead...
...Clinton, all four believed she was more consistent than her husband—they thought she lied 100 percent of the time...
...CP The American Spectator October 1995 15...
...In keeping with the authors' cavalier attitude toward the factual accuracy of their reporting, Mayer has described the retraction as "a very minor issue...
...Also rumored to be in the book: charges that Clinton security advisers and State Department officials, aware that the Russians had sold their top-of-the-line ground-to-air missiles to the Serbs, failed to inform NATO and U.S...
...While ultimately approving the shift, he told Brown, "I believe the use of 18 to 22 Marshals for overseas travel is excessive and too costly for the government...
...Things looked bad...
...Shall They Jest Cocky Senate Republicans will attempt to cut off the Clinton administration's nomination pipeline on March 1, 1996...
...O'Grady is currently at work on a book that will place the spotlight squarely on the Marines he considers to be the true heroes of his rescue from Bosnia...
...Richard Shelby's plan to zero out the drug office sailed through subcommittee and full committee votes...
...Clinton under oath, four Whitewater investigators compared notes...
...As the Spectator review noted, the anti-lobbying act covers only activity connected to passing legislation, not to confirming nominees...
...And Republicans who pressed for securities regulation reform in the House and Senate now want to block Clinton's two belated nominees to long-vacant seats on the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...According to the agents, they will be doing background investigations of potential campaign workers for the committee...
...They also hope to get other work from the federal government checking out federal contractors...
...Wright is the Clinton aide who coined the term "bimbo eruptions" during the 1992 campaign to describe concerns among the Clinton high command about women coming forward to claim that they had illicit relations with the then-governor...
...It's now becoming clear just how expensive Brown's travels are...
...In a letter to Paoletta agreeing to remove the offending sentence from future printings of Strange Justice and apologizing for it, Houghton Mifflin assured him that the authors had "never intended to suggest" that he broke the law—though how the sentence could be construed otherwise is not apparent...
...The request angered Dennis DeConcini, at the time the Democratic senator with oversight responsibility for the drug office...
...And that Lowey had voted against it...
...Longtime Senate observers are calling it the earliest cut-off date in recent memory...
...In past presidential election years, the Senate has allowed confirmations for presidential appointments to go through as late as August (except for federal judges, who are usually put on hold much earlier...
...O'Grady also details what he believes to have been the appearance of the Virgin Mary of Medjugorje during his time on the ground in Bosnia...
...Already there have been discussions among Republicans and conservative Democrats to put it on hold...
...A test of Republican intentions may be the renomination of Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman John Shalikashvili...
...field office and a former drug squad supervisor—are telling associates that they are setting up a new firm in the Virginia suburbs and already have the re-election committee as a client...
...4Nita Lowey from spending the past year railing against Republican plans to stiff the poor and reward the rich...
...Golden Boy Reluctant Air Force hero Scott 1N-O'Grady is being lobbied heavily by Republican operatives from both Washington State and Virginia to step into the political ring after leaving the military later this year...
...pilots weren't able to adjust their radar systems and flight patterns in the no-fly zones over Bosnia...
...More surprising—to Lowey and her staff—was that the bill had passed the House last April...
...The Legal Times has reported that Mark Paoletta, an assistant legal counsel in the Bush White House, has won a "rare victory" from the publisher...
...And then he flew off to South America for a two-week stay...
...Look for more examination of Mrs...
...FEC rules allow a maximum individual donation of only $1,000, a regulation sometimes ignored by candidates desperate to bulk-up flagging coffers...
...As a result, U.S...
...The three retired agents—including a former assistant director of the D.C...
...That's a lot more than anybody suspected (see "Clinton's Phony Drug War," TAS, February 1994...
...Neither Wright nor Palladino responded to calls seeking comment on the Hubbell logs...
...King of the PACs rr he "mainstream" press has recently 1 devoted lots of stories to the surge in Republican fundraising now that the GOP controls Congress...
...While keeping the drug czar in business for at least one more year, Hatch's generosity includes one provision likely to cramp Brown's style: it requires an independent audit of drug office travel and security spending...
...14 The American Spectator October 1995 Jane and Jill's Strange Apology T ane Mayer and Jill Abramson, co-J authors of a book on the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination, have suffered yet another embarrassment over factual inaccuracies in their book, Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas...
...Recently released figures from the Federal Election Commission show Gephardt raised $1,218,922 in the period from January 1 to June 30 of this year...
...Conservatives with long memories are circulating stories about Elizabeth Dole's support for feminist-backed comparable-worth schemes when she served in the Reagan administration, and was blocked by conservative White House aides...
...In his demand for a retraction, Paoletta contended that the authors had been made aware of this fact by White House lawyers when they raised the question in preparing their book...
...Literally dozens of factual errors were uncovered in a review published earlier this year in The American Spectator under the title "Strange Lies...
...At issue was not which of the Clintons was more compelling, nicer, or had better mariners, but which had told the truth most frequently...
...Now the only victim of Mayer and Abramson's calumnies known to have mounted a legal challenge against the authors has won a retraction and an apology from the pair and their publisher, Houghton Mifflin...
...Democrats Joseph Kennedy of Massachusetts, Nita Lowey of New York, and Charles Schumer of New York also ranked in the top ten, easily outstripping such Republican bigwigs as Dick Armey, Bob Livingston, and Pat Roberts...
...Specter on the Wall rr he Federal Election Commission is 1 looking into reports that Sen...
...Wright left a message asking Hubbell to call private investigator Jack Palladino and left his San Francisco number...
...So it came as a surprise when she had her staff calling members of the Republican leadership asking if she could co-sponsor the Republican "Spousal IRA" legislation that allows a married couple an additional pretax $2,000 write-off...
...As for nice, well, one of the investigators returned from the two-hour interview with the First Lady somewhat shaken...
...military officials...
...The logs show that on June 23, former longtime Clinton aide Betsey Wright called Hubbell...
...More Hubbell Trouble ongressional investigators poring over the telephone logs of former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell are especially intrigued by one set of calls to Hubbell in June 1993...
...The FEC was put on to the Specter camp by a source familiar with the campaign's accountants, whose warnings to the campaign about accepting the checks were ignored...
...At issue was the authors' allegations that Paoletta directly violated the federal anti-lobbying act in soliciting public support for the Thomas nomination...
...Brown In When the Prowler last checked in on Lee Brown, the much-criticized Clinton Drug Czar was facing swift death in the Senate...
...Palladino then left messages for Hubbell on June 24 and 25...
...Who They...
...According to an earlier report in The American Spectator, Palladino's work included threatening and intimidating women into staying quiet...
...Why the duo was calling Hubbell, who has not been publicly linked to the bimbo patrol, is a mystery...
...Eighteen to twenty-two marshals...
...But since campaigns are not normally known to require such clearances, the suspicion in law enforcement circles is that the group will really be doing background investigations on Clinton's political opponents...
...As to Mrs...
...The latter initiative led to Senator Dole's sponsorship of the Women's Equal Opportunity Act of 1991, which established the federal glass-ceiling commission, much to the delight of organized women's groups...
...All agreed, however, that he was very nice...
...Nita Picking Aas A 11 that fundraising hasn't kept Rep...
...Three of the four believed that the Boy President told the truth half of the time, but the fourth believed Mr...
...Which Senate Republican committee chairman has been targeted by feminists for sexual harassment charges in the wake of their failure to finish off Bob Packwood...
...Dole's Other Woman H run a media blitzkrieg against powerful Dole aide Sheila Burke this summer, accusing her of being a liberal agent, conservative activists are beginning to realize that they have an even bigger problem on their hands: the candidate's wife, Elizabeth...
...But in the full Senate, Brown finally found his savior: Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, who joined with Democrat Joseph Biden in a last-minute maneuver to restore $8 million for Brown's operation...
...And which liberal Democratic senator goes off to imbibe in one of his many basement hideaways between floor votes, forcing staffers to rely on a map of the Capitol's bowels when it comes time to fetch him...
...Prowler hears that she glared at the investigators throughout the interview with "eyes like a rattlesnake...
...Clinton told the truth only 25 percent of the time...
...What most of the stories don't say is that the top money-monger in Congress continues to be Minority Leader Richard Gephardt...
...Brown's frequent and enormously expensive globe-trotting—always accompanied by a phalanx of U.S...
...Snake Gets in Your Eyes T he Prowler hears that, upon returning 1 from the White House after interviewing President and Mrs...
...Brown recently wrote to Shelby promising to cut his security expenses by more than half...
...Arlen Specter's presidential campaign has been accepting personal donations in excess of $10,000...
...This was part of a major theme in the book—that Bush appointees skirted or circumvented the law in "selling" Thomas's nomination...
...and about her more successful glass-ceiling initiative as secretary of labor in the Bush administration, where she met with little resistance from conservatives inside the administration...
...Marshals serving as bodyguards—has long irritated lawmakers...
Vol. 28 • October 1995 • No. 10
