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Scrapbook Mr. Livingstone, We Presume A Clintonite hack who brags of having infiltrated Republican campaigns and passed material on to his fellow Democrats is the most interesting, and shadowy,...
...The coach, Michael Sandel, does not give prizes for individual heroics, a home run, say, or a double play...
...That, of course, sparked Bentsen's famous response-"Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy"-for which, if you believe Livingstone's account, his surreptitious intelligence was responsible...
...Hamilton, you may recall, was an outcast in his community, owing to his undue affection for young boys...
...Not really the kind of credentials one usually looks for in a personnel security chief, one of the more sensitive jobs in the White House...
...Remember...
...In the intervening years, Livingstone's self-described employment ranged from doing public relations for an Atlantic City casino and the controversial film The Last Temptation of Christ to teaching democratic politics to Angolan guerrilla soldiers...
...Livingstone claims to have told top Democrats that Quayle was planning to compare his record in the Senate to John Kennedy's during his debate with Lloyd Bentsen...
...We'll let the Times's equally earnest Sara Rimer take it from here: "There are no stars on the Phillies...
...Pedophilia Chic, Part II The mainstreaming of pedophilia advances so quickly that it's already time for an update on last week's cover story by Mary Eberstadt, "Pedophilia Chic...
...No Confucian kids...
...Hamilton was a man who committed a human act, and who did so as a consequence of events within his community, as well as of events within his head...
...More telling, he spent some time in 1988 working as a Democratic spy on the Bush/Quayle effort...
...The sixth paragraph mentioned that, while the FBI normally holds "raw files," "summaries sent to the White House could contain references to any issue discovered" during investigations...
...Always cheer your team on...
...Previously, magisters guided youths, often with desire and affection, but church and state combined to erase such roles, deeming them a wicked influence...
...The issue," he noted, "has been a painful one for President Clinton who has struggled to move beyond the reach of issues like Whitewater and the firing of White House travel office employees...
...This month Harcourt Brace & Company publishes Homosexuality in History, by Colin Spencer...
...Sandel rewards the entire team with Snickers bars...
...Now this is creative: pederasty as a crime-fighting strategy...
...Files Received by Clinton White House Summarized Background Inquiries...
...James A. Baker III's, for example, or Marlin Fitzwater's...
...That is simply the White House spin, reported as though it were truth, without qualification...
...And Speaking of Filegate...
...As a man chokes when forced to speak of something he'd rather avoid, the New York Times is having a deuce of a time reporting on the Clinton administration's misuse of the FBI...
...The editor even refers to "Hamilton's Peter Pan-like qualities...
...Or, at least, not in the kind of White House Bill Clinton promised-the most ethical in history, he said during the transition...
...Reporter David Johnston knows better than that...
...And from the Times Literary Supplement comes word of a new literary 'zine (as they don't say at TLS) called London Quarterly...
...Before the 1992 campaign, Livingstone worked on the campaigns of Geraldine Ferraro, Gary Hart, and Al Gore...
...We're Actually Sorry During an interview with The Weekly Standard on May 20, Joseph Trento, a reporter with the National Security News Service, stated that his organization had helped prepare news stories for the Wall Street Journal...
...Everyone plays at least two innings...
...And his background makes it difficult to believe that this was the "completely honest, bureaucratic snafu" President Clinton claims it was- not to mention making you wonder how he could have resisted the temptation to examine some of them...
...Hamilton's paranoia seems to have had some cause," writes London Quarterly's editor...
...But other than these two mentions, the piece had nothing to do with the question of whether the FBI files searched inside the Clinton White House contained summaries and summaries only...
...But if a player backs up a teammate in the field and makes an out, then Mr...
...First, its accuracy was questionable-the facts in the case are far from established...
...Subsequent inquiries have yielded no evidence that Mr...
...Never criticize the umpire...
...Given the current climate, London Quarterly may go far...
...Sandel-lot Baseball Nietzsche warned us about the Last Man, who settles for comfortable bourgeois morality because he lacks the thymotic urge for recognition and greatness, but we didn't expect that when he came he would coach Little League...
...I believe we reap the harvest of our hysterical fear and homophobia today in juvenile crime, drug use, and delinquency...
...This was a curious headline...
...Livingstone asked his friend Anthony Marceca, who was brought to the White House from the Pentagon, to begin retrieving the files from the FBI...
...The Weekly Standard regrets printing Mr...
...After detailing the ways in which pedophilia was ritualized in primitive (read: progressive) cultures, Spencer goes all moralistic on us: "Societies have failed to create an acknowledged method by which the biological extravagance of semen in the young male can be dissipated in an enjoyable and harmless way...
...No one sits on the bench...
...Trento or his organization at any time assisted the Wall Street Journal...
...And a good thing too, because we don't know what exactly was in the files...
...The premiere issue's lead article is a grudging defense of Thomas Hamilton, the murderer of 16 children and their teacher in Dunblane, Scotland...
...The New York Times, however, in its effort to discover America, made it all the way to Brookline, Mass., and there it found him...
...Livingstone, We Presume A Clintonite hack who brags of having infiltrated Republican campaigns and passed material on to his fellow Democrats is the most interesting, and shadowy, figure in the new FBI Filegate mess...
...There was also the following bald statement: "The files at issue were assembled for a different purpose [than criminal or national-security concerns], to help Presidential aides evaluate whether a person should be allowed regular access to the White House...
...Filegate is the name being given to the improper search of 340-odd FBI background reports on Reagan and Bush White House officials by aides in the Clinton White House, and it was begun on orders from White House personnel security director Craig Livingstone...
...Somehow, we find it harder than Johnston to feel the president's pain in this instance...
...The coach, who grew up in Minneapolis playing sandlot ball and is known to his players as Michael, has certain rules: Never criticize the opposing team...
...The nineteenth paragraph asserted that, "in cases of major appointments," "only summaries of the inquiries are provided to the White House...
...On June 13, it published a story headed "Most F.B.I...
...Trento's claim...
...In the 1992 campaign, Livingstone did advance work for Gore, and he worked with Clinton friend Harry Thomason during the inauguration...
...The Phillies are undefeated this year, but without individual achievement, competition, and pressure to excel, somehow winning just doesn't seem worth it...
...Michael Sandel-the Harvard communitarian who recently came out with a brow-furrowed book, Democracy's Discontents-is coaching the Phillies...
...In a May 1994 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette profile, Livingstone was described by a business acquaintance as "real businesslike and pleasant but I wouldn't want to be on his bad side...
...Michael, Henry, Adam, Ari, Siobahn, Paulo, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Joey, Jared, Diego and the two Roberts are a team [What...
...Second, it bore almost no relation to the article that followed...
...The files remained in Livingstone's control for at least a year, it appears...
Vol. 1 • June 1996 • No. 40
