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UPDATE: THE CLINTON FOUNDATION
NY TIMES - Over the last decade, former President Bill Clinton has
raised more than $500 million for his foundation, allowing him to build
a glass-and-steel presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., and burnish
his image as an impresario of global philanthropy. The foundation has
closely guarded the identities of its donors - including one who gave
$31.3 million last year. . .
An examination of the foundation demonstrates how its fund-raising has
at times fostered the potential for conflict.
The New York Times has compiled the first comprehensive list of 97
donors who gave or pledged a total of $69 million for the Clinton
presidential library in the final years of the Clinton administration.
The examination found that while some $1 million contributors were
longtime Clinton friends, others were seeking policy changes from the
administration. Two pledged $1 million each while they or their
companies were under investigation by the Justice Department. . .
In raising record sums for her campaign, Mrs. Clinton has tapped many of
the foundation's donors. At least two dozen have become "Hillraisers,"
each bundling $100,000 or more for her presidential bid. The early
library donors, combined with their families and political action
committees, have contributed at least $784,000 to Mrs. Clinton's Senate
and presidential coffers.
The foundation and Mrs. Clinton's political campaigns have been
intertwined in other ways. Terry McAuliffe, who led the foundation's
fund-raising and sits on its board, is now Mrs. Clinton's campaign
chairman and chief fund-raiser. Cheryl Mills plays a similar dual role,
sitting on the foundation board and serving as the general counsel to
Mrs. Clinton's campaign. And Jay Carson recently traded a communications
position at the foundation for a job as her campaign's press secretary.
. .
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us/politics/20clinton.html?fta=y
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UPDATE: THE PELLICANO TRIAL
WASH POST - "It's the star-studded list Hollywood's been waiting for,"
gushed the trade paper Variety as opening arguments began Thursday in
the criminal wiretapping and racketeering trial against Anthony
Pellicano, the fallen Gumshoe to the Stars. The list of 127 potential
witnesses includes stars Sylvester Stallone, Chris Rock and Garry
Shandling, Paramount head honcho Brad Grey, chief of Universal Studios
Ron Meyer, former super-agent Michael Ovitz and the celebrity lawyer
Bert Fields. . .
The government charges that Pellicano, 63, used his listening devices to
gain an edge for his rich clients as they faced ugly child-custody
battles, messy divorces and lawsuits. His fees began with a
non-refundable $25,000 retainer. According to court documents, hedge
fund manager Adam Sender paid Pellicano $500,000 during his legal
struggles with movie producer and Nevada gubernatorial candidate Aaron
Russo. "And what did he get for that?" the prosecutor asked.
"Wiretaps.". . .
Pellicano has long been described as the ultimate fixer, the shamus with
a whiff of wiseguy connections who did the dirty work of getting his
clients out of jams (and out of the press), who had the reputation of
getting what other dicks could not -- what prosecutors called "the gold
standard" for confidential, inside information that could only be gotten
with illegal wiretaps.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030603894.html
JOSEPH FARRAH, WORLDNET DAILY, JULY 2005 - A significant portion of the
[Clinton's] Shadow Team's operations were carried out by private
investigators, among them: Terry Lenzner, founder and chairman of the
powerful Washington, D.C., detective firm Investigative Group
International; high-ticket San Francisco private eye Jack Palladino and
his wife Sandra Sutherland; and Hollywood sleuth Anthony J. Pellicano. .
.
Hillary's secret police tend to be a tight-lipped bunch, professionally
skilled at keeping a low profile. However, we know more about Anthony
"The Pelican" Pellicano than about most Hillary operatives, thanks to
his boastfulness and taste for the limelight. Pellicano's violent career
as a private investigator reveals much about the sorts of qualifications
Hillary sought in her Shadow Team.
In the January 1992 issue of GQ magazine, Pellicano boasted of the dirty
work he had performed for his clients, including blackmail and physical
assault. He claimed to have beaten one of his client's enemies with a
baseball bat. "I'm an expert with a knife," said Pellicano. "I can shred
your face with a knife."
FBI agents raided Pellicano's West Hollywood office on Nov. 22, 2002,
and arrested him on federal weapons charges. In his office, they found
gold, jewelry, and about $200,000 in cash - most of it bundled in
$10,000 wrappers - thousands of pages of transcripts of illegal
wiretaps; two handguns; and various explosive devices stored in safes,
including two live hand grenades and a pile of C4 plastic explosive,
complete with blasting cap and detonation cord.
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DON'T CRY FOR ME, ARKANSAS
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BILL CLINTON AND ETERNAL SECURITY
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, 1998 - As the only journal to cover in depth the
theological implications of the Clinton scandals our text for today --
thanks to the ever alert left coast journalist Pat Mazza -- is eternal
security. "Eternal security" is a fundamentalist adaptation of the
Calvinist idea of predestination. In hyper fundamentalist Baptist sects,
once you have been saved, your salvation can not be undone by your
misdeeds.
This may help to explain why the president might have left Monica
Lewinsky twirling her knee pads in the Oval Office while he took his
Bible and his wife to church. For example, a Texas Baptist preacher has
written, "We take the position that a Christian's sins do not damn his
soul. The way a Christian lives, what he says, his character, his
conduct, or his attitude toward other people have nothing whatever to do
with the salvation of his souls. . . And all the sins he may commit from
murder to idolatry will not make his soul in any more danger."
One critic of the concept described it this way: "'Eternal security,'
[is] being free from the possibility of falling from a spiritually
'saved' condition into a spiritually 'lost' condition. . . Belief in it
is used by many as a license to sin. . . . Many who advocate eternal
security teach that once a man is saved no matter how wicked he becomes
he is still saved."
Eternal security has been described as "easy Christianity." Its
believers, on the other hand, attack what they call "works salvation,"
the idea that a Christian is required to engage in Christian acts.
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UPDATE: THE CLINTON FOUNDATION
NY TIMES - Over the last decade, former President Bill Clinton has
raised more than $500 million for his foundation, allowing him to build
a glass-and-steel presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., and burnish
his image as an impresario of global philanthropy. The foundation has
closely guarded the identities of its donors - including one who gave
$31.3 million last year. . .
An examination of the foundation demonstrates how its fund-raising has
at times fostered the potential for conflict.
The New York Times has compiled the first comprehensive list of 97
donors who gave or pledged a total of $69 million for the Clinton
presidential library in the final years of the Clinton administration.
The examination found that while some $1 million contributors were
longtime Clinton friends, others were seeking policy changes from the
administration. Two pledged $1 million each while they or their
companies were under investigation by the Justice Department. . .
In raising record sums for her campaign, Mrs. Clinton has tapped many of
the foundation's donors. At least two dozen have become "Hillraisers,"
each bundling $100,000 or more for her presidential bid. The early
library donors, combined with their families and political action
committees, have contributed at least $784,000 to Mrs. Clinton's Senate
and presidential coffers.
The foundation and Mrs. Clinton's political campaigns have been
intertwined in other ways. Terry McAuliffe, who led the foundation's
fund-raising and sits on its board, is now Mrs. Clinton's campaign
chairman and chief fund-raiser. Cheryl Mills plays a similar dual role,
sitting on the foundation board and serving as the general counsel to
Mrs. Clinton's campaign. And Jay Carson recently traded a communications
position at the foundation for a job as her campaign's press secretary.
. .
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us/politics/20clinton.html?fta=y
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UPDATE: THE PELLICANO TRIAL
WASH POST - "It's the star-studded list Hollywood's been waiting for,"
gushed the trade paper Variety as opening arguments began Thursday in
the criminal wiretapping and racketeering trial against Anthony
Pellicano, the fallen Gumshoe to the Stars. The list of 127 potential
witnesses includes stars Sylvester Stallone, Chris Rock and Garry
Shandling, Paramount head honcho Brad Grey, chief of Universal Studios
Ron Meyer, former super-agent Michael Ovitz and the celebrity lawyer
Bert Fields. . .
The government charges that Pellicano, 63, used his listening devices to
gain an edge for his rich clients as they faced ugly child-custody
battles, messy divorces and lawsuits. His fees began with a
non-refundable $25,000 retainer. According to court documents, hedge
fund manager Adam Sender paid Pellicano $500,000 during his legal
struggles with movie producer and Nevada gubernatorial candidate Aaron
Russo. "And what did he get for that?" the prosecutor asked.
"Wiretaps.". . .
Pellicano has long been described as the ultimate fixer, the shamus with
a whiff of wiseguy connections who did the dirty work of getting his
clients out of jams (and out of the press), who had the reputation of
getting what other dicks could not -- what prosecutors called "the gold
standard" for confidential, inside information that could only be gotten
with illegal wiretaps.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030603894.html
JOSEPH FARRAH, WORLDNET DAILY, JULY 2005 - A significant portion of the
[Clinton's] Shadow Team's operations were carried out by private
investigators, among them: Terry Lenzner, founder and chairman of the
powerful Washington, D.C., detective firm Investigative Group
International; high-ticket San Francisco private eye Jack Palladino and
his wife Sandra Sutherland; and Hollywood sleuth Anthony J. Pellicano. .
.
Hillary's secret police tend to be a tight-lipped bunch, professionally
skilled at keeping a low profile. However, we know more about Anthony
"The Pelican" Pellicano than about most Hillary operatives, thanks to
his boastfulness and taste for the limelight. Pellicano's violent career
as a private investigator reveals much about the sorts of qualifications
Hillary sought in her Shadow Team.
In the January 1992 issue of GQ magazine, Pellicano boasted of the dirty
work he had performed for his clients, including blackmail and physical
assault. He claimed to have beaten one of his client's enemies with a
baseball bat. "I'm an expert with a knife," said Pellicano. "I can shred
your face with a knife."
FBI agents raided Pellicano's West Hollywood office on Nov. 22, 2002,
and arrested him on federal weapons charges. In his office, they found
gold, jewelry, and about $200,000 in cash - most of it bundled in
$10,000 wrappers - thousands of pages of transcripts of illegal
wiretaps; two handguns; and various explosive devices stored in safes,
including two live hand grenades and a pile of C4 plastic explosive,
complete with blasting cap and detonation cord.
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DON'T CRY FOR ME, ARKANSAS
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BILL CLINTON AND ETERNAL SECURITY
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, 1998 - As the only journal to cover in depth the
theological implications of the Clinton scandals our text for today --
thanks to the ever alert left coast journalist Pat Mazza -- is eternal
security. "Eternal security" is a fundamentalist adaptation of the
Calvinist idea of predestination. In hyper fundamentalist Baptist sects,
once you have been saved, your salvation can not be undone by your
misdeeds.
This may help to explain why the president might have left Monica
Lewinsky twirling her knee pads in the Oval Office while he took his
Bible and his wife to church. For example, a Texas Baptist preacher has
written, "We take the position that a Christian's sins do not damn his
soul. The way a Christian lives, what he says, his character, his
conduct, or his attitude toward other people have nothing whatever to do
with the salvation of his souls. . . And all the sins he may commit from
murder to idolatry will not make his soul in any more danger."
One critic of the concept described it this way: "'Eternal security,'
[is] being free from the possibility of falling from a spiritually
'saved' condition into a spiritually 'lost' condition. . . Belief in it
is used by many as a license to sin. . . . Many who advocate eternal
security teach that once a man is saved no matter how wicked he becomes
he is still saved."
Eternal security has been described as "easy Christianity." Its
believers, on the other hand, attack what they call "works salvation,"
the idea that a Christian is required to engage in Christian acts.
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