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Mainstream media were mostly
ignoring the importance of this development: it meant the start of a
slippery slope of inquiry that would destroy what remained of the Clinton
reputation. And probably destroy the presidential aspirations of Hillary
Clinton to boot.Ashcroft had been subpoenaed to deliver the papers without fail, by the relentless Indiana Republican Dan Burton, chair of the Reform Committee of the House of Congress. Burton had battled not only Ashcroft, but noises from George W. Bush's office that asserted the President surprisingly intended to claim executive privilege to thwart Burton's inquiries. The handover of the memoranda was set for 5p.m. Tuesday 11th September, 2001. It never happened. The World Trade Center attack saw to that.
Now the hearing has been postponed indefinitely and the Reform Committee is instead focussed on 'investigating' our preparedness to fight 'terrorism'. Somehow, incredibly --by accident, surely not by design-- 'Slick Willie' had DONE IT AGAIN! That was not Bill Clinton's only
slice of luck that day. One unfortunate passenger on the airliner that
hit the Pentagon was Barbara Olsen. However, Olsen had finished a book
just days before her death.The book is entitled "The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House". It is Olson's inside-look at the late-night executive orders, eleventh-hour appointments, unseemly gifts, unsavory property deals, and other abuses of the Clinton presidency. It spotlights Clinton's pardons for terrorists, spies and even a smuggler. Now, Alfred S. Regnery,
President and Publisher of Regnery Publishing, has said the publication of
the book --originally planned for September 13th, will
still go ahead.Regnery said Olson's family didn't want to hand terrorists a victory. "Her family, friends and colleagues all thought she would be pleased to know that even terrorists could not keep her opinions from being known. In fact, she never would have countenanced the thought that terrorism could still her voice or cancel her work." Not so lucky for Slick Willie, after all. THE INSCRUTABLE DUO Of course, all this had nothing to do with Clinton's 9th May, 2001 meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Clinton went to Wan Chai's Harbor Plaza Hotel, where Jiang was staying at around 10.30am and left an hour and a quarter later. Clinton's spokesman PJ Crowley later declined to comment to UPI on what areas the meeting might have covered. The slickest Willie loves Hong Kong, And tea with Jiang Zemin, Inscrutable, they sound the gong, That tolls for Gunga Din.
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