Whatever Happened to Iraqgate?
Timmerman, Kenneth R
"Whatever Happened to Iraqgate?" Candidate Clinton vowed to get to the bottom of the Iraqgate scandal. Was it swept under the rug because of the CIA or Hillary? BY KENNETH R. TIMMERMAN the...
...highly publicized allegations by Gonzalez of a White House cover-up...
...Gasior claims that Senate investigator Jack Blum-who represented her when she testified on Kennametal before Hogan's task force in 1993 and 1994phoned then-White House Counsel Abner Mikva in August 1995, and then warned Gasior not to talk to Kenneth Starr or congressional Republicans, "or else I would get hurt...
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...Whatever the reason, Clinton's campaign staff seems to have been especially sensitive to the Iraq matter-in a way strikingly analogous to his Justice Department's tip-toe fashion of pursuing the BNL scandal...
...One British Customs document obtained by TAS shows that Kennametal shipped carbide tool bits to its Canadian subsidiary, and from there on to Iraq...
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...The CIA knew what the Iraqis were buying, and that it was helping their military machine, but turned a blind eye because it allowed them to gather intelligence...
...government export credit guarantees, the Atlanta bank lent the money to companies all over the world that were supplying Saddam Hussein with weapons manufacturing gear and other goods...
...Bill Clinton pays no attention to these things, and has done nothing to take control of the national security establishment...
...government munitions manufacturer called Allied, which operated a facility on the Lafarge property on Lake Erie...
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...But once again the Justice Department never brought the case to court...
...And in a classified addendum, subsequently rendered public, the intelligence community and the executive branch were exonerated of having "illegally armed Iraq," despite extensive evidence of intelligence community involvement unearthed by the Gonzalez investigation and the U.S...
...Translated, says Blum, that meant that Hogan "stepped into a hornets' nest, and still can't say whether the CIA was involved in the buildup of Saddam Hussein's war machine, or not...
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...He did note, however, that the investigator who had worked the Kennametal case for him was subsequently detailed to Starr's operation...
...Evidence of her ties to Lafarge appears on the billing records from the Rose Law Firm that mysteriously "reappeared" two years after congressional investigators had subpoenaed them...
...Much of the equipment for the plant was purchased by Matrix Churchill Ltd., House Banking Committee investigators found, financed by BNL-Atlanta...
...On the contrary, if you became aware of such information you would have every interest in exposing them...
...subsidiary of a French multinational chemicals concern, provided key services for the covert arms export network that supplied Saddam Hussein...
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...Asked about Gasior's allegations, Mikva told TAS, "I have no knowledge of any of this...
...That may well have been true during the Iran-Iraq war...
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...But Jack Blum believes the allegations regarding the first Virtually every source contacted for this story agreed that the desire to conceal the uneasy relationship between U.S...
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...a corporate whistleblower who claimed her life had been threatened...
...The Iraqis placed their orders through the Technology Development Group (TDG), a London company run by Sefa Habobi, a trusted associate of Saddam Hussein...
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...Customs reveal that Kennametal's British subsidiary continued to ship tungsten-carbide parts to an Iraqi front company after the United Nations embargo on Iraq, fully aware that the equipment was to be used in an Iraqi weapons plant "That," says Gasior, "is a clear violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act...
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...Carlos Cardoen, head of Chile's Industrias Cardoen, alleges that he was approached by the U.S...
...Or perhaps Stephanopoulos may have been worried that Hillary's involvement with Lafarge would come out...
...To prevent exposure of that secret supply line, and collateral damage to Hillary Clintonwho joined the Lafarge board in 1990, just as the arms pipeline was being shut down-Gasior alleges that the Justice Department was told to bury the investigation...
...They were then exported to Iraq...
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...Documents obtained by congressional investigators show that Kennametal exported large numbers of tungsten-carbide machine tool bits from its European subsidiaries to Iraq for use in weapons production...
...The Final Report, issued by attorney general Janet Reno on January 17, 1995, and written by Reno deputy John Hogan, amounts to little more than a whitewash of the entire affair...
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...As evidence he cites President Clinton's first two years in the White House: "During that entire time, Bill Clinton met with Jim Woolsey, his Director of Central Intelligence, exactly once...
...Nearly four years and several grand juries later, however, the Clinton administration has swept its "Iraqgate" investigation under the rug...
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...intelligence community and Saddam Hussein-a goal that transcends presidential politics-probably lies at the bottom of the justice Department's lack of investigatory zeal...
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...Repeatedly challenging President Bush for the Republican "tilt" toward Iraq in the 198o's, Clinton vowed that no political considerations would cloud the investigation...
...Starr's office wouldn't confirm or deny that it was investigating the First Lady's ties to Lafarge, and the White House has repeatedly refused to answer questions about this matter...
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...government agencies who worked on the case say they were "waved off" whenever they got too close to exposing the direct involvement of the intelligence community in the Iraq export scheme...
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...As the presidential campaign heated up, Gonzalez bombarded the White House, the State Department, and the intelligence agencies with subpoenas, obtaining reams of sensitive diplomatic cables and internal memos documenting the U.S "tilt" toward Iraq...
...Its most recent incarnation, according to corporate records reviewed by TAS, was as Illuminati Equipment Corporation, based in Cleveland, Ohio...
...But he claims he doubts that CIA involvement alone would have deterred an investigation by the Justice Department...
...tanks during World War II.1 From Marblehead the equipment was carried on cargo ships up the St...
...Lafarge owns 2,600 acres on Marblehead Peninsula, along Lake Erie in Ohio, that have been the subject of intense speculation by local residents for a number of years...
...It wasn't just a Republican scandal," says Marianne Gasior, a lawyer who worked for Kennametal Inc., a machine-tools manufacturer located in Latrobe, Pennsylvania...
...policy to aid Saddam Hussein...
...In his introduction to the classified addendum, Hogan complimented the CIA for its cooperation, yet seemed to backpedal almost immediately...
...Blum also maintains that the Clintons have had "absolutely no relationship to the intelligence community," either while in Arkansas or in Washington...
...One could easily attribute the reluctance to pursue the investigation vigorously as simply another case of Bill Clinton failing to keep his word...
...Jack Blum, a Washington attorney who served as an Iran-contra investigator for the Democrats, and who has been representing a key witness in one of the cases that Hogan reviewed, calls the addendum "the most incredible document I've seen in all my years doing intelligence and foreign policy issues in this town...
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...Asked about Kennametal and Lafarge, Mikva quipped: "I've heard of a Madame Lafarge, but that's about it...
...Cardoen also received highly sensitive raw materials from the United States, such as military-grade zirconium from a Teledyne subsidiary...
...I f Clinton was paying no attention to the intelligence community, however, his justice Department was demonstrating remarkable sensitivity to cases involving intelligence operations...
...Lawrence River to Canada and eventually to Britain, Gasior alleges, where Kennametal's U.K...
...Allied may in fact be one of the oldest national security "front" companies operated by the U.S...
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...government archives as the "Ordnance Center," had at one time functioned as a steel foundry making armor for U.S...
...Asked whether Marblehead and Allied were CIA fronts for clandestine weapons shipments overseas, former CIA Director Robert Gates says, "I hear a distant bell tinkling...
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...The memo, made available to Marianne Gasior and a reporter by a former campaign worker who accidentally received a copy, was dated October 14, 1992, and began by praising the Gore staff for making Iraqgate a "very strong campaign issue [which] has gained votes and a great deal of attention for the Democratic Party...
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...Such unsuspected connections to Bill Clinton could account for at least some of Janet Reno's reluctance to pursue the BNL scandal vigorously...
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...Munitions items such as these could not have been shipped to Iraq legally without a special presidential waiver...
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...could regulate the flow of weapons to Iraq, increasing Asked whether they were CIA fronts for clandestine weapons shipments overseas, former CIA director Robert Gates says, "I hear a distant bell tinkling...
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...embargo on Iraq went into effect on August 5, 1990...
...In the course of our work, we learned of `sensitive compartments' of information not normally retrievable and of specialized offices that previously were unknown to the CIA personnel who were assisting us...
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...Clinton's BNL bailout," Safire scolded, "makes him a $400 million participant in Iraqgate...
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...John Hogan hotly denies this...
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...Tuck, who is now with the New York law firm of Shearman & Sterling, declined to be more specific about that "active involvement...
...The manufacturing facility at the Lafarge property on Marblehead "was on the State Department's list of licensed munitions exporters...
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...Hillary Rodham Clinton was directly linked to the network that was involved in a clandestine CIA arms export ring...
...Asked why House Banking Committee Chairman Henry Gonzalez abandoned his BNL crusade, for example, a senior staff investigator remarked: "We had won the election, and there was a consensus to declare victory and move on to other things...
...In this day and age, fear of exposing an ongoing intelligence operation wouldn't stop the FBI or the Justice Department from an investigation...
...When the odd case did come to prosecution, the intelligence community resorted to other techniques...
...In 1991, when the head of International Signals Corp., James Guerin, first tried using the CIA connection as a defense, "former gov ernment officials" started talking to reporters in an effort to destroy Guerin's credibility...
...Hogan told TAS it would be "inappropriate for me to comment...
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