------ Forwarded Message > From: Sardar <sar...@spiritone.com> > Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:25:49 -0700 > To: Sardar <recon1968br...@yahoo.com> > Subject: US Vice-President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley filmed snorting lines > of cocaine - Times Online > > US Vice-President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley filmed snorting lines of > cocaine > > James Bone, New York > Comment Central: Washington children who hit the headlines > > The White House was rocked yesterday by claims that the daughter of Joe > Biden, the Vice-President, was shown on video snorting cocaine. > > The video purports to show Ashley Biden, 27, snorting lines of white powder > at a house party in her home state of Delaware. > > It surfaced days after Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, declared > that the United States shared the blame for Mexico's violent drug wars. "Our > insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade," Mrs Clinton said > on a trip to Mexico. > > Related Links > a.. Was Biden also offered Secretary of State? > a.. Europe rivals US as largest market for cocaine > The video will embarrass Mr Biden, a teetotaller and an outspoken anti-drug > crusader who coined the term "drug czar" in 1982 while campaigning for > tougher action against illegal drugs. > > However, the video is unlikely to undermine his position with President > Obama. Mr Obama admitted in his own memoir that he had used marijuana and > cocaine - but not heroin - as a youth. "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a > little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though," he wrote in Dreams > from My Father. > > This month Mr Biden swore in a new US drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, whose > stepson has a history of marijuana arrests. > > The New York Post said that it had viewed about 90 seconds of a 43-minute > video being offered for sale by an anonymous male acquaintance of Ms Biden, > through a Washington lawyer. > > The video showed a woman resembling the Vice-President's daughter taking a > red straw from her mouth, bending over a desk, inserting the straw into her > nostril and snorting lines of white powder. > > The woman then stands up and starts talking with other people in the room as > a young man - identified as her boyfriend - watches from behind. > > The camera, which appears not to be concealed, follows her as she moves > around the room. At one point she shouts: "Shut the f*** up!" > > Although the dialogue is unclear, representatives of the seller insist that > that the woman speaks repeatedly about the drugs. > > "At one point she pretty much complains that the line isn't big enough," one > told the newspaper. "And she talks about her dad." > > Radaronline.com, an online gossip site, said that one of its freelance > reporters had also viewed the video. > > It described a man cutting up five lines of what is said to be cocaine, as > the woman claimed to be Ms Biden jokes that the lines are not big enough. > > The man hands her a rolled-up dollar bill and she pulls back her hair and > snorts a line. After she snorts the first line, she lifts her head to wipe > her nose and then snorts a second and third line. > > The New York Post said that the seller originally wanted to sell the video > to the media for $2 million (£1.3million), before reducing it to $400,000.. > Radaronline.com put the asking price at $250,000. The video was supposedly > taken this year. > > Thomas Dunlap, the lawyer named by both outlets, reportedly stepped aside > from representing the seller yesterday. > > He told The Times: "We do not represent anyone involved in that. I do not > have information." > > If the allegation is true, Ms Biden, a social worker in Delaware, would not > be the first relative to embarrass the White House with alcohol or drug > abuse. Gerald Ford's wife, Betty, struggled with alcoholism and addiction to > painkillers and, after a family intervention, opened the famed Betty Ford > Centre to addicts. > > President Lyndon Johnson's brother, Sam, admitted in his memoir to being a > problem drinker. Roger Clinton, dubbed Headache by his brother's Secret > Service guards, spent a year in prison after his 1984 conviction for cocaine > trafficking. > > George W. Bush's twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna, were charged with using > a fake ID to buy margaritas in a Texan bar even though they were under the > legal drinking age of 21. > > Last month Mr Obama's halfbrother, George, was arrested in his native Kenya > for alleged possession of marijuana. > > In a so-called internet town hall meeting last week, Mr Obama was inundated > with questions about whether he would legalise marijuana. > > His terse answer: "No, I don't think that is a good strategy to grow our > economy." > > a.. Have your say > Won't amount to a hill of beans...who cares what a democrat offspring > does..??? > > Sandra, Seminole, USA > > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5998685.ece
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