-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Today's Lesson from Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse We need not be surprised that even so intelligent and educated a man as Harry should take himself for a Steppenwolf and reduce the rich and complex organism of his life to a formula so simple, so rudimentary and primitive. Man is not capable of thought in any high degree, and even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world and himself through the lenses of delusive formulas and artless simplifications--and most of all himself. For it appears to be an inborn and imperative need of all men to regard the self as a unit. However often and however grievously this illusion is shattered, it always mends again. The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death. And if ever the suspicion of their manifold being dawns upon men of unusual powers and of unusually delicate perceptions, so that, as all genius must, they break through the illusion of the unity of the personality and perceive that the self is made up of a bundle of selves, they have only to say so and at once the majority puts them under lock and key, calls science to aid, establishes schizomania and protects humanity from the necessity of hearing the cry of truth from the lips of these unfortunate persons. ===== Organized Crime The FBI's Trie Notes Are Missing They meant to write a new, improved set. A Senate committee will investigate the disappearance of an FBI agent's notes describing Justice Department efforts to block an investigation into campaign finance abuses by Democratic fund-raiser Charles Yah Lin Trie. Sen. Fred Thompson, Tennessee Republican and chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee, said he was unhappy with ongoing Justice Department and FBI internal probes, and would call department and bureau officials for depositions by committee lawyers. "We had an entirely unsatisfactory meeting Thursday with officials from the Justice Department and FBI offices responsible for handling this internal investigation into the pages apparently removed from an FBI agent's notebooks," Mr. Thompson said. "They've known for a month the agent's notes have apparently been altered, but even when we met with these officials specifically to discuss their findings to date, they were wholly unprepared to talk about details," he said. "The committee now intends to find out the details on its own." Mr. Thompson said the notes were "apparently removed" after they had been suboenaed during a House inquiry. He said their disappearance caused him "very serious concern," adding that those responsible face potential criminal charges. Agent Roberta Parker, a 14-year FBI veteran, told the panel during nearly four hours of testimony last week that 27 pages from a spiral notebook describing the Trie probe -- including a recounting of her disagreements with Justice Department lawyers -- disappeared after she turned them over to her FBI superiors. The notebook, one of several she maintained, had been sought in response to questions by a House committee concerning Justice Department and FBI disagreements over the campaign finance probe. Mrs. Parker testified that the pages were torn out of the book, although she had no information on who was responsible. She was one of four FBI agents who told the panel that Justice Department lawyers blocked their efforts to pursue investigative targets, including Trie. They described department lawyers assigned to oversee the probe as unaggressive, saying they sought to impede or delay the investigation with "ludicrous" restrictions. One of the agents, Ivian C. Smith, who headed the FBI's Little Rock, Ark., field office even complained in a personal memo to FBI Director Louis J. Freeh the lawyers in charge of the probe were "at best, simply not up to the task." The agents testified that: * Justice Department lawyer Laura Ingersoll, who headed the campaign finance probe, blocked their bid for a search warrant to stop a destruction of evidence by Trie and his assistant. * Miss Ingersoll and her boss, Lee Radek, head of the department's public integrity section, refused for four months to allow agents to ask a magistrate for a search warrant after a "trash cover" investigation showed financial, business and travel records were being destroyed. * A search warrant affidavit written by Mrs. Parker, a lawyer herself, said Trie's assistant, Maria "Dia" Mapili, had "shredded or torn" documents into "small pieces by use of hand shears or some other manual cutting device." * The affidavit identified the documents as check records for Trie's company, Daihatsu International Trading Co.; a statement from the Bank of China in Macao; travel records for Chinese financier Ng Lap Seng, who had wired $1 million into Trie's bank account; bank deposit slips and wire-transfer documents; and an unexplained Federal Express package showing 2 pounds of documents had been sent by the White House to Trie on May 5, 1997. * Agents watching Trie's office saw a man drive up and load legal boxes into his car. Their request to Miss Ingersoll for permission to stop the car was refused. Later, another trash search found photocopies of canceled checks to the president's legal defense fund, each for $1,000 and dated in 1996. The search warrant was approved four months after the agents had first requested it. By then, Miss Ingersoll had been replaced by former federal prosecutor Charles G. LaBella. Trie, a leading contributor to Democrats in 1996 and to President Clinton's legal defense fund, pleaded guilty in May to making false statements and giving political donations in the names of others. Facing five years in prison, he was sentenced to probation. A longtime friend of Mr. Clinton's, Trie delivered $640,000 to the president's legal defense fund in 1996 -- which was returned when its source could not be determined. The donations included checks with signatures matching those on other checks and money orders numbered sequentially, but from different cities. Mrs. Mapili later said Trie told her to get rid of documents sought by the Senate committee. Mrs. Parker and Mr. Smith, along with agents Daniel Wehr and Kevin Sheridan, said they were blocked from serving the search warrants because Miss Ingersoll did not believe they had established probable cause to show that a crime had been committed. Mr. Wehr also testified that contrary to claims by Attorney General Janet Reno and other top Justice Department officials that the campaign finance probe would be vigorous and all-encompassing, Miss Ingersoll told the agents they should "not pursue any matter related to solicitation of funds for access to the president," adding that the reason given was: "That's the way the American political process works." He also said he was blocked from pursuing an informant who said he had seen Trie bring in "duffel bags full of cash" for delivery to the Democratic Party. Miss Ingersoll, a Justice Department lawyer since 1989, told the panel there was "no smoking gun" in documents submitted by the FBI for the warrant. She said "nothing we saw indicated to us" there was "anything incriminating." Mr. Thompson said he believed Miss Ingersoll had been set up as "a fall person. I don't think a lot of this necessarily has to do with her. I think she was doing what she was told by Mr. Radek." The Washington Times, September 29, 1999 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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