-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: The Progressive Review <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, December 31, 1998 4:47 PM Subject: UNDERNEWS Dec 31 UNDERNEWS The Progressive Review On-Line Report >From Washington's Most Unofficial Source Dec 31, 1998 The Progressive Review 1739 Conn. Ave. NW Washington DC 20009 202-232-5544 Editor: Sam Smith Fax: 202-234-6222 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Progressive Review On-Line can be found at: http://prorev.com with over 100 articles and archives. For a free trial subscription to our hard copy edition and e-mail updates send your postal address with zip code(Sorry, foreign addresses will receive e-mail edition only). To unsubscribe, send message with the word 'unsubscribe.' Copyright 1998, The Progressive Review. Matter not independently copyrighted may be reprinted provided you pay TPR your normal reprint fees, if any, and give proper credit. Because of its volume, we can't answer all the mail we get but post some of the most interesting comments at http://dejanews.com/~prorev. You can post comments directly here as well by signing up as a forum member. ========================================================= YEAR-END REPORT Our web site received more than 200,000 hits in 1998, nearly four times as many as during 1997. Our readership is extraordinarily eclectic -- ranging around the globe and including far-left, far-right, raving moderates, trans-ideologues and post-partisans of various stripes. We have readers in the military (and presumably civilian spooks as well) who check in daily. We have conservative and liberal talk show hosts, spinmeisters for Clinton, as well as some of his strongest opponents. We have white rural militia members and black urban activists. We have Greens and Libertarians. The Review has been cited by journals ranging from the London Telegraph (which links to our Whitewater Archives) to the Village Voice. We love you all and you are all great Americans (except, of course, for those readers who aren't Americans at all but who undoubtedly would be great Americans if you weren't already great Croatians, Indians, Nigerians and so forth). Our aim here is simply to follow (1) the principle laid down by Mark Twain when he said a good newspaper should not only print the news but make you mad enough to do something about it and (2) that of Hank Thoreau who said that the first rule of composition was to tell the truth. Happy New Year! CURIOUS READERS ASK <> Why are you harder on Clinton than on the Republicans? As Willy Sutton said explaining why he robbed banks, because that's where the money is. In post-constitutional America most political power is vested in the White House currently controlled by the Democrats. Besides, in journalistic terms, a congressmember is worth, at most, about 1/435th of a president. Still, if you want to trade Rep. Burton's resignation for that of Clinton you got yourself a deal. Anyway, ideology is a lousy clue to scandals. It helps understand how various parties react to a political scandal but not the scandal itself. In fact, one of the most frequent reasons we don't find out about corruption is because the two parties -- which function these days primarily as money laundering schemes -- have a joint interest in not revealing the information. Hence the concealment involved in the Cox investigation of trade with China, the refusal of the GOP to look into Arkansas drug smuggling and its ties to the CIA, the shoddy investigations of Vince Foster's death and so forth. History will probably also show that Kenneth Starr was, in fact, one of Clinton's best allies by failing to look into all the corners he should have. <> If this story isn't about sex why do the Republicans keep mentioning it? The trial of Clinton centers not on sex but Clinton's behavior following sex, including perjury and obstruction of justice. These felonies were committed in order to deny Paula Jones a fair day in court in her case against the President. Clinton ultimately paid Jones $850,000 in recompense. He has offered absolutely nothing in recompense to the public or Congress for his illegal acts. In the course of the Jones case, the question came up as to a pattern of behavior on Clinton's part. As a result a number of other incidents were investigated as part of that trial and of Starr's subsequent inquiry into Clinton's obstruction of the trial. This is how the alleged rape came up. Rape, according to feminist canon, is not about sex; it is about power. Further, the following acts are not a normal part of sex yet have been alleged to have occurred to those who had sexual relations with the president: death threats; vandalism; intimidation, bribery or other inducement to sign false affidavits; public trashing on national television; use of private detectives to spy upon, induce and/or threaten; as well as, in at least one case each, the beating or murder of a person with evidence of Clinton's sexual activities. No, this is not about sex. It is about crime. <> How can the Senate consider evidence that wasn't presented to the House? There is no constitutional prohibition against the Senate hearing new evidence. The evidence in contention, however, is not new. It was available to any House member who wanted to look at it. The Democrats are pretending that because they declined to read it, it can't be used. CHINA PROBE ENDS IN MUSH The select House committee looking into the transfer of secret technology to China has filed a secret report on how it happened, illustrating once again the first principle of intelligence: don't let the American people know what the other side already does. As a result of this bipartisan clamp on the scandal, we have no idea as to whether the egregious practices of the Clinton administration were matched by those of Reagan and Bush or not. The implication is, of course, that everybody does it, which means that everybody for the past 20 years has been helping American corporations build up the Chinese economy just as we allowed American industry to transform Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union into worthy adversaries. We do know that the Clinton Administration took large sums of barely laundered campaign contributions from the Chinese government and ignored its own national security and diplomatic advisors in loosening export restrictions. The two biggest beneficiaries: Hughes, primarily a Republican donor; and Loral, primarily a Democratic one. The biggest losers: Americans and the security of their country. The inquiry was not helped by being placed in the hands of experts in concealment and disinformation. In Chairman Chris Cox's own words: "The investigation was headed by professional investigators with significant national security experience. The staff included C. Dean McGrath, Jr., former Deputy Staff Director and Deputy Assistant to the President; Rick Cinquegrana, Deputy Inspector General of the CIA; Dan Silver, former General Counsel of the CIA and of NSA; Lewis Libby, former Deputy Under Secretary of Policy at the Department of Defense; Nicholas Rostow, former Legal Adviser to the National Security Council; Michael Sheehy, Minority Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; and Michael Davidson, former Counsel to the Senate." It looks as if, once again, we're going to have to rely on a Judicial Watch lawsuit to worm out more of the truth concerning the compromises and corruption involved in the Clinton China policy. JUDICIAL WATCH'S CHINA SUIT http://prorev.com/china.htm LYING AND MISLEADING The following interesting exchange appeared on the Clinton Administration Scandal bulletin board: Susan Dederich-Pejovich asked: Can anybody tell me the difference between 'lie' and 'mislead'? I think the distinction is nonsense. When a person misleads, they have to throw in a lie to throw pursuers off the track. If they didn't, the trail would lead to the truth. Social worker Leslie A. Mathewson replied: I have worked with teenagers and criminals for over 5 years. I can tell you that in fact there is a difference between "Lie" and "mislead." "Lie" is used when a person tells an untruth and is willing/able to take responsibility for what s/he did. "Mislead" is used when an individual tells an untruth and is unwilling/unable to take the responsibility for their actions. This is a very important distinction. In my experience, those who "Lie" have a much better prognosis then those who "mislead." MORE ON CENSORED STARR EVIDENCE How serious was the material that Starr presented to the House but was censored by that body? Long-time fence-sitter and moderate Christopher Shays thought it "very alarming and very unsettling," involving, "conduct by the President that is alleged to be pretty horrific." According to Carl Limbacher at NewsMax, "Shays revealed that the new evidence temporarily shocked him into the pro-impeachment column. He reversed himself only at the eleventh hour after consulting with an unnamed advisor who argued that the charges, however ugly and even if true, did not constitute obstruction of justice." Arizona Rep. Matt Salmon told the Arizona Republic, "I came away nauseated. There are things that go far beyond what we've heard." Known to be included in the evidence is material related to an alleged 1978 rape of a woman by then Arkansas attorney general Clinton. But Limbacher suggests there is more, citing this exchange between Rep. Tillie Fowler and Chris Matthews following Fowler's comment that the new evidence was "too salacious to release:" MATTHEWS: You mean the rape accusation? FOWLER: Those and others. NEWSMAX STORY http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1998/12/30/50132 MARINES TO INVADE SF As part of the military's growing show of domestic force, the Marines are planning a three day invasion of San Francisco, landing at the Presidio's Baker Beach complete with gunfire, hovercraft and various new war toys. "It's an exercise - don't call it war games," Lt. Col. Gary Schenkel, spokesman for the Marine Corps Fighting Laboratory at Quantico, Va., told the San Francisco Examiner. The "exercise" is called Operation Urban Warrior. Schenkel said an environmental assessment of the exercise would begin soon. "Compared to a rock concert or a Fourth of July fireworks display, we'll be relatively unobtrusive." "It's premature to say it's a go," said Greg Shine, chief of the Special Park Uses Group at the Presidio told the Examiner. Neighborhood groups have started to protest. In recent years, the military has become increasingly bold in its domestic activities, many of which seemed designed to acclimate Americans to the militarization of their country. THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICA http://prorev.com/mil.htm EL SALVADOR MURDERS This month marks the 18th anniversary of the day four American churchwomen were murdered in El Salvador. The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, which represents the families of the murdered women, contends that the U.S. purposely avoided the investigation of Salvadoran officials, who are now believed to have orchestrated the murders. In June, the State Department released to the Lawyers Committee previously secret documents that point to an official Salvadoran cover-up of the crimes. Last week, at President Clinton's direction, the FBI turned over an additional 4,000 pages of revealing documents. "The U.S. government investigated every lead except the ones that went up the chain of command," said Scott Greathead, a Lawyers Committee Board member. Five Salvadoran National Guardsmen were convicted for the murders, but four of them publicly admitted in interviews with Greathead and Robert Weiner, director of protection at the Lawyers Committee, that they acted on higher orders. LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [EMAIL PROTECTED] SATELLITES SINK LOGGING A major paper producer in Russia, the Svetogorsk pulp and paper mill, has announced that it will phase out the use of ancient forest wood in its production entirely. The announcement is the first of its kind in the world. New maps produced by Greenpeace and The Biodiversity Conservation Centre showing the decline in ancient forests based on satellite images encouraged the ban. "80 per cent of the large ancient forest areas are already gone and most of the remaining areas could be gone in our life time," said Greenpeace International Forest campaign coordinator Christopher Thies. "The information provided by our GIS mapping project is startling." At a glance anyone can see that ancient forests in western Russia are getting smaller and more fragmented every day." There are still more ancient forests left in Russia than in any other country in the world. GREENPEACE RUSSIA Alexey Yaroshenko, +7 095 257 4116/18/22/24 <> ORDER DESK: http://prorev.com/order.htm. 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