On the Prowl
"On the Prowl" Shredding Tears On April 3, news that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's military transport had disappeared in Dubrovnik began to reach his staff at the Commerce Department around io...
...Clinton laughed off the resignation, telling Reich that after the '96 election there will be more than enough funding for whatever program Reich dreams up...
...Covering Al Gore FBI agents on the scene are telling colleagues they were amused when, while tearing apart the shack of suspected Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, they came upon Al Gore's 1992 eco-tract, Earth in the Balance...
...Committee investigators don't give this story much credence, but this latest round of White House stonewalling has them wondering what's happened to the computer backup for the hard documents turned over to the committee in the last year...
...Pataki was told that the Dole campaign had first asked California Gov...
...It couldn't have gone better...
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...So he's fomented a split instead, to allow himself to step in late in the game as the grand compromiser...
...Cover for Dole was also the motive behind the appointment of staunch pro-life Republican Rep...
...We had funerals and memorial services running from Monday to Saturday after the crash, all attended by grieving Commerce staff and Cabinet members...
...It's apparently no longer standing by that claim...
...Subsequently, both Whitman and Wilson have gotten on board...
...Staged Politics In My Times, his New York Times memoir, John Corry recalls the day an aide to John Lindsay came by the newsroom to supervise the writing of a story favorable to the then–New York City mayor...
...ON THE PROWL Shredding Tears On April 3, news that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's military transport had disappeared in Dubrovnik began to reach his staff at the Commerce Department around io a.m...
...On March 25, London's Daily Telegraph reported that the Washington media was politely pressured not to go with a story on the vice president's teenage son, who was suspended from his private school after he and three other youths were caught drinking alcohol and smoking a "herbal substance, described by sources as either marijuana or oregano seeds...
...One widespread rumor has it that, in the wake of Vince Foster's suicide, White House cornputer technicians were called in to remove the email storage disks and wipe them clean...
...Whitman went so far as to endorse Clinton's veto of the partial-birth abortion ban, all but taking herself out of contention for veep, at least this year...
...In other words, not a single message related to any facet of the Whitewater scandal was ever sent by any staffer working at the White House...
...i9 Meanwhile, family mem...
...If he blesses the Dole compromise, the 14 June r 9 9 6 • The American Spectator thinking goes, the pro-lifers won't walk...
...Dole favors moderating the party's stance going into the general election, perhaps by ending the traditional platform call for a constitutional amendment banning abortion...
...To get the story right, the campaign offered camera placement "suggestions" and wrote the commentary that was read on the air during the video presentation...
...The White House was hoping that positive press accounts of a "successful" Bosnia policy and all the good works the administration was performing in the region would compensate for its recent disasters in the Middle East, Northern Ireland, and the Taiwan Straits...
...Why wasn't Gore's among the handful of titles listed in press references to the 8o or so books found in the cabin...
...Alfonse D'Amato—to go public with his reservations about the plank...
...This wasn't the first time this year Gore has been protected by the powers that be...
...Keep up the good work...
...Good Work At the New Yorker, Jane Mayer has replaced Sidney Blumenthal as that weekly's leading Clintonista...
...The media spin—that Dole is facing a politically dangerous insurrection by pro-choice forces—is exactly how Dole wants it played: to give himself cover when he tells the pro-life forces he's being pushed into compromise...
...The tradition of press subservience to a favored pol continues at CNN's "Inside Politics," a nightly show that's giving Larry King a run for his money in slavish proClintonism...
...Around noon, using a dolly, they removed two large, brown cardboard file boxes filled with documents...
...The visionary is rarely embraced by [the] status quo...
...Her most recent effort—a hit on Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr for alleged conflicts of interest caused by his legal work on behalf of such clients as the backers of a school voucher initiative in Wisconsin—led the New York Times to call for Starr's resignation...
...and, according to informed sources, shredded a number of personal documents kept in a safe...
...Ever mindful of their boss's long-standing problems with an independent counsel (not to mention a continuing audit by the General Accounting Office), two female secretaries detailed to Brown entered his office around 10:45 a.m...
...Christie Todd Whitman to lead the charge, but neither wanted to be the first to jump in the pool...
...It's not known if he would have proposed moving Bosnian Serbs into Muslim neighborhoods...
...I'm concerned that the traditional Democratic Party establishment has not given you more encouragement...
...The day after former Gore staffer Peter Knight was named to head the Clinton/Gore re-election campaign, the show filmed Knight in a clearly staged "first visit" to campaign headquarters...
...Otherwise, there's no reason why Whitman, just named co-chairman of the San Diego convention, or Wilson, heading Dole's effort in California, would have intentionally sought to undermine Dole...
...The whole strategy is predicated on legendary deal-maker Dole's ability to hold contending forces together...
...I am fascinated by that proposal and am having my staff analyze it...
...hers of some of the deceased were shocked when—even o before the arrival of the remains of the dead at Dover Air Force Base—White House and Commerce aides contacted them suggesting "suitable" dates for funeral and memorial services...
...Alfonse D'Amato's Whitewater committee...
...HUD chief Henry Cisneros was to have gone over in late April, ostensibly to examine how the U.S...
...Brown's death also put an abrupt end to a White House PR campaign that would have seen almost every Cabinet member traveling to Bosnia before the November elections...
...It's likely to be a fight he wishes he hadn't picked...
...might help improve the country's inadequate housing...
...Is this what led Gore and his wife to contact the Partnership for a Drug-Free America...
...Victory Aborted Just when President Clinton appeared to give Bob Dole a political opening on the abortion issue with his veto of a bill banning the partial-birth abortion procedure, Dole may have shot himself in the foot (again...
...The FBI and Justice Department haven't commented publicly, but some agents assume the title was clearly suppressed to avoid embarrassing Gore and the administration...
...Our Day Will Come In a phone conversation with his boss the day after President Clinton and congressional leaders reached a tentative budget agreement, Labor Secretary Robert Reich is said to have offered his resignation...
...Here's what then-Governor Clinton, in a letter dated October 18,1990, wrote to a leading proponent of the plan, Wisconsin Democratic state representative Polly Williams: "I read Don Lambro's recent column about your version of the school choice bill in Milwaukee...
...Given this turn of events, Whitewater investigators are acting on the premise that the permanent storage disks on which White House e-mail messages are supposed to be saved were tampered with or destroyed in 1993...
...EST, some ninety minutes before White House press secretary Michael McCurry officially announced the plane was missing...
...What hasn't been noticed is that these calls by moderates to change the abortion language in the party platform have actually been solicited by the Dole camp, according to well-placed sources...
...The boxes haven't been seen since, and the shredder was removed from o Brown's office later that day...
...He claimed that too many programs under his control faced cuts or elimination...
...Investigators are now considering a new set of subpoenas for White House staff...
...Mayer, alas, failed to report that Clinton himself was once enthralled by the Wisconsin school voucher plan...
...That's when Pataki received his marching orders...
...Henry Hyde to head the GOP platform committee...
...Many sections were underlined in pencil, and there were copious notes in the margins...
...Pete Wilson and then New Jersey Gov...
...In the wake of some feisty public statements by leading pro-choice Republican governors, the media is predicting disaster for Dole at the Republican National Convention this summer as these moderates slug it out with the pro-life forces in a fight over the party's official position on abortion...
...The advance notice came in handy...
...Sources close to New York Governor George Pataki, who was the first Republican governor to declare that hewould lead a convention challenge to the anti-abortion plank, say he was prevailed upon by the Dole forces—including Pataki godfather and Dole campaign co-chairman Sen...
...E-Mail Stonewall Several times now the White House has said it has turned over all pertinent executive branch and internal White House e-mail transmissions to Sen...
...The idea was to get a full week of positive sympathetic news for the administration," said one White House source...
...But he knows he can't get out front on the issue without causing a revolt in pro-life ranks...
...According to a White House source, they were put in touch with a drug and alcohol-abuse counselor, who is said to have visited the vice president's official residence for private educational and "rap" sessions on at least three occasions in late March and early April...
...According to committee sources, in late March the White House in a letter informed committee investigators that "the request for pertinent e-mail transmissions was not operative" because there never had been any such transmissions...
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