SID, THE EARLY YEARS
Sid, the Early Years As Carl Cannon reported in these pages last month, White House staffers have taken to calling Clinton aide Sidney Blu-menthal "G.K."—short for "grassy knoll"—in honor of...
...The Scrapbook recently checked out of the Arlington, Va., public library (the Library of Congress's copy was inexplicably missing) a bizarre little paperback called Government by Gunplay: Assassination Conspiracy Theories from Dallas to Today...
...He has since been joined by two Baltimore lawyers, Anthony Zaccagnini and Joe Murtha, with backgrounds in criminal law...
...The administration will threaten, cajole, plead with, urge, and cheerlead the states into abiding by Kyoto...
...short for "grassy knoll"—in honor of Blumenthal's predilection for conspiracy theories...
...16 issue, "and she didn't like it a whole lot...
...Secretary-General Kofi Annan let loose a jaw-dropper in a Q&A with Newsweek, defending his diplomacy with Saddam Hussein: "In some cases we have to deal with people we may even consider evil to save lives...
...Reading between the lines of the Lott-Helms-Hagel letter, it's clear the senators fear they have been had...
...She continues in her Defense Department job, communicating by phone and fax from her "safe house...
...asks the chapter on Lee Harvey oswald...
...Is that how one dealt with Eichmann...
...What role did the FBI play in the killing of Kennedy...
...one dealt with Eichmann to save lives, to make sure that people would get away from the gas chamber...
...They're right...
...Contrasting this beaver-like activity with Eizenstat's statement, The Scrapbook is reminded anew that the key verb of the Clinton era is "to parse...
...They'll just never do anything "binding...
...An article on the shooting of George Wallace tries to link Wallace's assailant, Arthur Bremer, with the Nixon White House and presents the shooting as a kind of pre-emptive coup: "Bullets instead of ballots had once again dictated who would be president...
...No doubt his fans thought he could never top himself after that...
...If Kenneth Starr indicts Monica, Ginsburg said, "he's finished...
...It's like the O.J...
...trial...
...Her original lawyer, a sole practitioner and agriculture-regulation specialist named James Moody, was overwhelmed by the case of his suddenly famous client and its demands on his time...
...She saw the last one," said Zaccagnini, referring to Kent Lemon's illustration in our Feb...
...In one chapter, he illuminates "How the FBI Tried to Destroy the Black Panthers" (by bumping them off, mostly...
...Kevorkian and Kathie Lee Gifford, Ginsburg offered up a little legal analysis to Neal Travis of the New York Post...
...Tvo weeks ago, you may recall, he bragged to Time magazine about his personal closeness to his client: "I kissed that girl's inner thighs when she was six days old...
...Why criminal law...
...Eizenstat's...
...Copyright 1976, and edited by Sid Blumenthal...
...The possibilities are endless—and horrifying...
...Simpson's defense—that the entire criminal-justice apparatus of Los Angeles County conspired to plant evidence, fake lab tests, and otherwise frame o.J...
...Linda Tripp Then and Now There are two good reasons why you haven't seen Linda Tripp mentioned much recently...
...Does Ginsburg truly believe o.J...
...And they quoted his response to a question from Hagel: "We have no intention," Eizenstat said, "through the backdoor or anything else, without Senate confirmation, of trying to impose or take any steps to impose what would be binding restrictions on our companies, on our industry, on our business, or on our agriculture, or on our commerce, or on our country until and unless the Senate of the United States says so...
...The American public will put up with only so much prosecutorial conduct...
...Well put...
...An analysis of the Zapruder film proves, perhaps for the first time, that there were four (4) assassins in Dealey Plaza (and you thought there were only three...
...or, like Johnnie Cochran, does he just want us to believe that he believes it...
...Here are probing examinations of the crimes themselves, conclusive critiques of governmental whitewashings . . . and the danger they pose for our national integrity and our individual liberties...
...It's good to see that she's still able to be censorious...
...Tripp herself is living in what Zaccagnini calls a "secure location," arranged by her bosses at the Pentagon after threats were made against her...
...This shocking book puts all the conspiracy concepts together...
...But even the most diligent Blumen-thal fans may not know how deep-seated that passion is...
...Faking DNA results, maybe...
...First, Tripp is lying low, understandably...
...The Mouth That Roared, and Roared One of the few pure pleasures of the Monica Lewinsky spectacle has been to watch her goofy, self-promoting attorney, William Ginsburg, slowly disintegrate under the intense heat of his own celebrity...
...Tripp lives in Maryland, where such taping is illegal...
...Fanciful as it may seem, Tripp still faces the prospect of prosecution for taping those infamous Lewinsky phone calls...
...This is a pure expression of the paranoid style, and you could dismiss Government by Gunplay as the work of an overexuberant young man—except by all accounts Blu-menthal still thinks this way, and is doing his thinking from a taxpayer-funded perch in the White House...
...The law makes exceptions for persons who, like Tripp, tape without knowing that it's illegal to do so, or who are forced to do so by duress or "necessity" of circumstances...
...Count on it: If there were sleaze in Tripp's past, the Clintonites would have made sure you knew it by now...
...Speak for oneself, Kofi...
...Because, upon parsing Eizenstat's testimony, it's clear he didn't really promise anything...
...Et Tu, Kyoto_ Trent Lott, Jesse Helms, and Chuck Hagel sent a pointed letter to President Clinton on March 3 asking him to personally reassure them that they hadn't been misled by undersecretary of state Stuart Eizenstat...
...The layers of strangeness here run deep...
...The elimination of the Panthers as a political force," Sid writes, "was a preceding step to Watergate, flowing sequentially into it...
...As an author, Blumenthal also penned his own contributions to Government by Gunplay, and they are slightly less wacko—slightly...
...Second, and more significant, the Clinton muckraking machine has dug and dug and dug for dirt on Tripp and come up empty...
...Attending Time magazine's 75th anniversary bash in New York last week, where he mingled with such fellow-celebs as Dr...
...And does he want us to believe Kenneth Starr is framing Monica Lewinsky...
...Eizenstat, they wrote, had testified before the Foreign Relations Committee in February that the administration would not implement the Kyoto global-warming treaty without Senate approval...
...Many states have already received grants from the EPA to plan their onerous new regulatory regimes...
...Meanwhile Tripp has beefed up her legal team...
...And they will do it through front doors, back doors, side doors, and trap doors, whether the Senate approves or not...
...For now the Maryland state prosecutor's office has said it will do nothing until the Starr investigation is concluded...
...Meantime, however, the EPA's Web site is abuzz with "Climate Change Action Plans" for the states, suggestions to the states on how they will be able to comply with Kyoto-mandated emission levels (higher gas taxes, for instance), and all manner of "voluntary" programs for businesses and local governments who want to live up to the spirit of the (still-unratified) Kyoto treaty...
...She's also in frequent communication with Starr's office, preparing for her appearance before the grand jury, which she expects in the next few weeks...
...Conspiracy is an ugly word," screams the cover blurb, "but what has been happening in America for 15 years is ugly...
...But wait...
...They should in return parse the administration's budget requests for EPA, and for Mr...
...Through her lawyer, Tripp did have one specific request for The Weekly Standard: "Take it easy" on the caricatures...
...The articles that Blumenthal assembled for the book touch all the conspiracists' hot buttons...
...If we were Monica, we'd be starting to get just the slightest bit worried about our choice of attorney...
...Get This Man Some New Talking Points U.N...
...Blumenthal writes in the book: "The guardians of the established order see themselves as the only fit rulers...
Vol. 3 • March 1998 • No. 26
