On the Prowl
ON THE PROWL What Burton Uncovered Investigators for Dan Burton's House Reform and Oversight Committee have traced more than $1 million wired to Clinton crony Charles Yah Lin Trie from Macao...
...Kissinger has held forth on Clinton's upcoming trip to China, on the India/ Pakistan nuclear test crisis, on the turmoil in Russia...
...Despite Kissinger's regular appearances at i600 Pennsylvania, he's not always recognized...
...had, were able to figure out how we got the material, and then were able to map out procedures so that future test preparations were better concealed," says this source...
...What is unusual is his participation in White House meetings to coordinate responses to Starr's investigation...
...Burton's team has uncovered other direct ties between Trie and China Everbright Holdings, which reports to Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rhongji...
...It's killing us...
...Merletti is perceived to be more political than past directors," says a veteran uniformed officer...
...It's another when these guys consistently vote Democratic...
...In all, Ng brought in $343,000 in cash between 1994-1996, and was admitted to the White House on some 15 occasions...
...They also say they have uncovered preliminary evidence indicating that China Everbright executives were seeking to meet with Clinton through the good offices of DNC donor Johnny Chung...
...Bill Paxon, who in February shocked Washington when he abruptly announced his retirement, is back at work full-time at the National Republican Congressional Committee...
...The guard didn't recognize him, and Berger himself had to come down to clear him through...
...More stunning, according to a former U.S...
...Trie's secretary Keshi Zhan maintained a joint bank account at the International Monetary Fund Credit Union in Washington with Shao Zhengkang, the secretary-general of China Everbright...
...On June 20, 1994, for instance, Ng entered the country carrying $175,000 in cash...
...and Nancy Johnson (Conn...
...Merletti was appointed director after a stint as head of Clinton's personal protection detail, which is not unusual...
...In the hours leading up to his Senate testimony, Tenet is said to have vented at colleagues and advisers, telling them his staff had warned the White House for a month in daily briefings that the Indians were preparing for nuclear tests...
...John Shadegg's comments—echoed by members of Gingrich's own GOPACexpressing concern that Republicans could lose the House...
...The Speaker has made it clear, Paxon is in charge...
...National Security Adviser Sandy Berger is now relying on former NSC chief and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a key adviser and consultant...
...India is not the first country that has been aided by the Clinton White House in this regard...
...That's the Mean Spirit Newt Gingrich is facing yet mother potential mutiny From Republicans who think he and majority leader Dick .rmey have gone soft on 30P moderates who vote Democratic at critical junctures...
...According to this former intelligence official, the White House has been making the CIA's job more difficult on many fronts...
...Shao is the "protégé" of Everbright chairman Zhu Xiaohua, who reports directly to Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rhongji...
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...According to a White House source, Kissinger has been meeting weekly with Berger at the White House, even on weekends if necessary...
...We want to do the right thing, but the message nowadays is clear: step out of line and your career may be over...
...On arriving for a recent weekend session, he was stopped at a White House security desk and couldn't find proper identification...
...We need that cash badly for races that we have to win...
...Noting that she held a power of attorney for Trie's accounts at Riggs Bank where Ng made his transfers, Burton's investigators believe she was instrumental in funneling money to Trie from the Chinese government to be donated to the DNC, in addition to serving as a straw donor herself...
...Two days later, he and Trie met with then-White House aide Mark Middleton at the White House, and that evening at a DNC fundraiser they sat at President 6,< Clinton's table...
...14 July 1998 The American Spectator Realpolitik How desperate is Clinton's foreign policy team...
...In a closed-door session with the Senate Intelligence committee, Tenet angrily defended the CIA, and blamed the White House for the PR debacle...
...Burton's investigators have found that Ng and Trie issued a special access pass to that apartment to Middleton and to Susan Lavine, a DNC liaison working at the White House, allowing them into the apartment z4 hours a day, seven days a week...
...The other signatory on Keshi Zhan's IMF account was Su Yongli, a former attaché at the Chinese embassy in Washington, considered to be a "protégé" of Everbright chairman Zhu Xiaohua...
...carrying $42,000 in cash...
...Paxon will...
...He's putting us in a tough position...
...John Linder will continue to hold the title, all decisions related to fundraising and campaign strategies will have to be cleared through Paxon, an NRCC source says...
...Previously, the White House has provided Russia and China with incriminating intelligence material that the foreign powers were able to use to their advantage in blunting further U.S...
...Honey, I'll Be Home Late, Don't Wait Up The wife and kid will have to wait...
...In May Gingrich began to express alarm at his party's failure to pull ahead of Democrats in congressional races, and sources within GOPAC say he now believes the GOP is likely to lose its majority if the NRCC's fundraising and money distribution aren't improved...
...The NSC staff in turn confronted the Indian government with the evidence—by showing it raw intelligence data...
...No one yet knows what Middleton might have been doing at Trie's Watergate apartment late at night when Ng arrived with his bags of money...
...Over the following two days, he met twice with Middleton at the White House, and attended a DNC birthday party for Clinton...
...House whip Tom DeLay is said to have encouraged the conservatives to confront Gingrich, telling them that he backs punitive punishment for caucus members who step out of line...
...We've got a number of Republicans running unopposed or against token opposition, but those House members are hoarding their war chests," said the NRCC operative...
...Mike Forbes (N.Y...
...So far they've been stingy...
...We don't serve a particular president, we serve the presidency...
...Jim Leach (Iowa), Chris Shays (Conn...
...Linder wasn't getting it out of them...
...Forbes, Johnson, and Shays helped Democrats kill the House's Paycheck Protection and Fairness for Small Business acts...
...Behind closed doors in mid-May, Gingrich met with group of eight conservative members led by George Nethercutt of Washington and George Radanovich of California, who demanded the speaker punish Reps...
...Paxon, who rose to prominence as head of the NRCC, was considered one of the best fundraisers in the House...
...Interestingly, Ng also paid for an apartment used by Trie at the Watergate complex...
...It's one thing if we're talking about backing out on a vote because it wouldn't play well at home," says a representative who attended the meeting with Gingrich...
...They Knew All Along CIA director George Tenet—according to a source close to the intelligence chief—was "enraged" by the White House's contention that the agency failed to pick up signs India was readying nuclear tests...
...We were simply ignored," Tenet reportedly told an acquaintance...
...intelligence gathering...
...Both bills were intended to appeal to the party's anti-labor base, yet neither man appears at risk of losing his committee assignments on Appropriations and Budget, respectively...
...Linder recently pulled back, saying the GOP could lose "two or three seats...
...Leach, who voted against Gingrich for speaker and backed a Democratic campaign-finance reform proposal, remained chairman of the House Banking committee with no recriminations...
...Ng is closely tied to China Ever-bright Holdings, the largest state-owned industrial conglomerate in Communist China, and to CITIC, the partially state-owned investment house controlled by Chinese arms dealer Wang Jun...
...In spring 1997, CIA operatives detected preparations for a nuclear test in India and presented the White House NSC staff with evidence...
...The White House basically handed them a blueprint of how to pull off a successful test...
...While current NRCC chairman Georgia Rep...
...According to Currency Transaction Reports that Burton's team obtained from U.S...
...At the request of Newt Gingrich, New York Rep...
...On July 31, 1994, Ng entered the U.S...
...Gingrich is said to have been angered by Linder's and Arizona Rep...
...If these people were dealing in cash," a top Burton investigator told TAS, "then these transfers are only the tip of the iceberg...
...His biggest challenge will be getting his colleagues to open their campaign coffers to help others win...
...Your Secret Is Safe With Me Veteran Secret Service agents and the members of the Service's uniformed division are upset with current Secret Service Director Lew Merletti, who has consistently backed Clinton administration attempts to block agents from testifying before Kenneth Starr's grand jury and from speaking with reporters, even if on background or off the record...
...ON THE PROWL What Burton Uncovered Investigators for Dan Burton's House Reform and Oversight Committee have traced more than $1 million wired to Clinton crony Charles Yah Lin Trie from Macao businessman Ng Lap Seng, and can show that about a third of the money was given to the Democratic National Committee...
...The Indians saw what the U.S...
...He thinks he works for the Clinton people and does their bidding...
...military and intelligence official, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the weeks leading up to the first test sent a letter to the White House outlining plans to conduct nuclear tests in the near future...
...Customs, Ng regularly brought in large amounts of cash when visiting the United States...
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