Used to be the Mafia, this group consists of contract killers for the
CIA, Drug Runners, etc. who are hardly the type one could call an
"intelligence" agent, for those sit at the top of the heap, the Family,
and I believe Bill Clinton since he held his first post in Arkansas
government, was part of this vicious "Family".
This is one story I hope will never be forgotten, until the truth is
revealed. CIA says it - The Truth Shall Make You Free....and we shall
know it.
Now more than legend has it, that this Mafia thing, this Family, that
they only kill each other. Used to be that way but when you consider
Mena, and a 100 bodies buried on the border of Mexico-Texas, and a few
unsolved murders in our area where one young kid in particular decided
to take on Meyer Lanskey's territory making own drug route - he ended up
dead in Independence Village - but Larry Flynt a short time earlier,
ended up dead for a minute or so, but was revived....for he too, took on
the Dragons.
Mena is something I hope will never be forgotten. Arkansas was chosen
for a purpose; looks like a little backward state full of intrigue? But
remember Little Rock too and George Wallace, gunned down when he too,
too on the Golden Dragons....
A Saba
The Mena Coverup
"...it does not require a majority to prevail, but
rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush
fires in people's minds..." -- Samuel Adams
http://www.idmedia.com/menacoverup.htm
The Wall Street Journal
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Editorial Feature
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OCTOBER 18, 1994
The Mena Coverup
By MICAH MORRISON
MENA, Ark. - What do Bill Clinton and Oliver North have in common, along
with the Arkansas State Police and the Central Intelligence Agency? All
probably wish they had never heard of Mena.
President Clinton was asked at his Oct. 7 press conference about Mena, a
small town and airport in the wilds of Western Arkansas. Sarah
McClendon, a longtime Washington curmudgeon renowned for her
off-the-wall questions, wove a query around the charge that a base in
Mena was "set up by Oliver North and the CIA" in the 1980s and used to
"bring in planeload after planeload of cocaine" for sale in the U.S.,
with the profits then used to buy weapons for the Contras. Was he told
as Arkansas governor? she asked.
"No," the president replied, "they didn't tell me anything about it."
The alleged events "were primarily a matter for federal jurisdiction.
The state really had next to nothing to do with it. The local prosecutor
did conduct an investigation based on what was in the jurisdiction of
state law. The rest of it was under the jurisdiction of the United
States Attorneys who were appointed successively by previous
administrations. We had nothing - zero - to do with it."
It was Mr. Clinton's lengthiest remark on the murky affair since it
surfaced nearly a decade ago, in the middle of his long tenure as
governor of Arkansas. And while the president may be correct to suggest
that Mena is an even bigger problem for previous Republican
administrations, he was wrong on just about every other count. The state
of Arkansas had plenty to do with Mena, and Mr. Clinton left many
unanswered questions behind when he to Washington.
Anyone who thinks that Mena is not serious should speak to William
Duncan, a former Internal Revenue Service investigator who, together
with Arkansas State Police Investigator Russell Welch, has fought a
bitter 10-year battle to bring the matter to light. They pinned their
hopes on nine separate state and federal probes. All failed.
"The Mena investigations were never supposed to see the light of day,"
says Mr. Duncan, now an investigator with the Medicaid Fraud Division of
the office of Arkansas Attorney General Winston Bryant "Investigations
were interfered with and covered up, and the justice system was
subverted."
The mysteries of Mena, detailed on this page on June 29, center on the
activities of a drug-smuggler-turned-informant named Adler Berriman
"Barry" Seal. Mr. Seal began operating at Mena Intermountain Regional
Airport in 1981. At the height of his career, according to Mr. Welch,
Mr. Seal was importing as much as 1,000 pounds of cocaine a month.
By 1984, Mr. Seal was an informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency and
flew at least one sting operation to Nicaragua for the CIA, a mission
known to have drawn the attention of Mr. North. By 1986, Mr. Seal was
dead, gunned down by Colombian hitmen in Baton Rouge, La.
Eight months after Mr. Seal's murder, his cargo plane, which had been
based at Mena, was shot down over Nicaragua with Eugene Hasenfus and a
load of Contra supplies aboard.
According to Mr. Duncan and others, Mr. Clinton's allies in state
government worked to suppress Mena investigations. In 1990, for example,
when Mr. Bryant made Mena an issue in the race for attorney general,
Clinton aide Betsey Wright warned the candidate "to stay away" from the
issue, according to a CBS Evening News investigative report. Ms. Wright
denies the report. Yet once in office, and after a few feints in the
direction of an investigation,
Mr. Bryant stopped looking into Mena.
Documents obtained by the Journal show that as Gov. Clinton's quest for
the presidency gathered steam in 1992, his Arkansas allies took
increasing interest in Mena. Marie Miller, then director of the Medicaid
Fraud Division, wrote in an April 1992 memo to her files that she told
Mr. Duncan of the attorney general's "wish to sever any ties to the Mena
matter because of the implication that the AG might be investigating the
governor's connection." The memo says the instructions were pursuant to
a conversation with Mr. Bryant's chief deputy, Royce Griffin. In an
interview, Mr. Duncan said Mr. Griffin put him under "intense pressure"
regarding Mena.
Another memo, from Mr. Duncan to several high-ranking members of the
attorney general's staff in March 1992, notes that Mr. Duncan was
instructed "to remove all files concerning the Mena investigation from
the attorney general's office." At the time, several Arkansas newspapers
were known to be preparing Freedom of Information Act requests aimed at
Gov. Clinton's administration.
A spokesman for Mr. Bryant, Lawrence Graves, said yesterday that he was
not aware of the missing files or of pressure exerted on Mr. Duncan. In
Arkansas, Mr. Graves said, the attorney general "does not have
authority" to pursue criminal cases.
>From February to May 1992, Mr. Duncan was involved in a series of
meetings aimed at deciding how to use a $25,000 federal grant obtained
by then-Rep. Bill Alexander for the Mena investigation. In a November
1991 letter to Arkansas State Police Commander Tommy Goodwin, Mr.
Alexander urged that, at the current "critical stage" in the Mena
investigation, the money be used to briefly assign Mr. Duncan to the
Arkansas State Police to pursue the case full time with State Police
Investigator Welch and to prepare "a steady flow of information" for
Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, who had received some Mena files
from Mr. Bryant.
According to Mr. Duncan's notes on the meetings, Mr. Clinton's aides
closely tracked the negotiations over what to do with the money.
Mr. Duncan says a May 7, 1992, meeting with Col. Goodwin was interrupted
by a phone call from the governor, though he does not know what was
discussed. The grant, however, was never used. Col. Goodwin told CBS
that the money was returned "because we didn't have anything to spend it
on."
In 1988, local authorities suffered a similar setback after Charles
Black, a Mena-area prosecutor, approached Gov. Clinton with a request
for funds for a Mena investigation. "He said he would get on it and
would get a man back to me," Mr. Black told CBS. "I never heard back."
In 1990, Mr. Duncan informed Col. Goodwin about Clinton supporter Dan
Lasater, who had been convicted of drug charges. "I told Tommy Goodwin
that I'd received allegations of a Lasater connection to Mena," Mr.
Duncan said.
The charge, that Barry Seal had used Mr. Lasater's bond business to
launder drug money, was raised by a man named Terry Reed. Mr. Reed and
journalist John Cummings recently published a bookł "Compromised
Clinton Bush and the CIA" - charging that Mr. Clinton, Mr. North and
others engaged in a massive conspiracy to smuggle cocaine, export
weapons and launder money. While much of the book rests on slim evidence
and already published sources, the Lasater-Seal connection is new.
(Thomas Mars, Mr. Lasater's attorney, said yesterday that his client
"has never had a connection" with Mr. Seal.) But when Mr. Duncan tried
to check out the allegations, his probe went nowhere, stalled from lack
of funds and bureaucratic hostility.
Not all of the hostility came from the state level. When Messrs. Duncan
and Welch built a money-laundering case in 1985 against Mr. Seal's
associates, the U.S. Attorneys in the case "directly interfered with the
process," Mr. Duncan said. "Subpoenas were not issued, witnesses were
discredited, interviews with witnesses were interrupted, and the wrong
charges were brought before the grand jury."
One grand jury member was so outraged by the prosecutors' actions that
she broke the grandjury secrecy covenant. Not only had the case been
blatantly mishandled, she later told a congressional investigator, but
many jurors felt "there was some type of government intervention,"
according to a transcript of the statement obtained by the Journal.
"Something is being covered up."
In 1987, Mr. Duncan was asked to testify before a House subcommittee on
crime. Two days before his testimony, he says, IRS attorneys working
with the U.S. Attorney for Western Arkansas reinterpreted Rule 6(e), the
grandjury secrecy law, forcing the exclusion of much of Mr. Duncan's
planned testimony and evidence.
Mr. Duncan also charges that a senior IRS attorney tried to force him to
commit perjury by directing him to say he had no knowledge of a claim by
Mr. Seal that a large bribe had been paid to Attorney General Edwin
Meese. Mr. Duncan says he didn't make much of the drug dealer's claim,
but did know about it; he refused to lie to Congress.
Mr. Duncan, distressed by the IRS's handling of Mena, resigned in 1989.
Meanwhile, the affair was sputtering through four federal forums,
including a General Accounting Office probe derailed by the National
Security Council. At one particularly low point, Mr. Duncan, then
briefly a Mena investigator for a House subcommittee, was arrested on
Capitol Hill on a bogus weapons charge that was held over his head for
nine months, then dismissed. His prized career in law enforcement in
ruins, he found his way back to Arkansas and began to pick up the
pieces.
Mr. Duncan does not consider President Clinton
a political enemy. Indeed, he feels close to the president ~ a fellow
Arkansan who shares the same birthday - and thinks Mena may turn out to
be far more troublesome for GOP figures such as Mr. North than any
Arkansas players.
These days, Mr. Duncan struggles to keep hope alive. "I'm just a simple
Arkansan who takes patriotism very seriously," he says. "We are losing
confidence in our system. But I still believe that somewhere, somehow,
there is some committee or institution that can issue subpoenas, get on
the money trail, find out what happened and restore a bit of faith in
the system."
Mr. Morrison is a Journal editorial page writer.
Copyright _ 1997 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights
Reserved. Reproduced with Permission
"If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he
should resign."
-- Bill Clinton, in 1974 while running for the U.S.
House
Clinton's Cocaine Use: What Does Jack Christy Know and How Does He Know
It?
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a160.htm
Here's the link to the George Putnam show RealAudio clip 7/21 show:
http://www.knfo.com/audio/jc980720.ram
http://www.frednet.com/bmccam/
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Eenie, Mena, Miney, Mo
My Note:
S, Eenie, Mena, Miney, and No Mo (from Daniel, thou are judged and found
wanting...lets get that bulldozer and get this garbage our of our White
House and out of our Congress and out of our lives.
So Ollie North is NBC star now.....and that slime wanted to wear his
uniform before the House - well, he was on the wrong side of the
fencefor that - he should have been shackled and dressed like
Unibomber.......equal protection stuff.
A. Saba
Dare To Call It Conspiracy
A. Saba
Dare To Call It Conspiracy
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