July 7, 2000
Inside the Ring
Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough
Notes from the Pentagon.
Hillary's Navy
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton made the most of the U.S.
Navy during July 4 celebrations in New York City. She boarded
two warships, including the carrier USS John F. Kennedy, posing
for lots of photographs that can't help but aid her run for a
U.S. Senate seat from New York.
It turns out there are strict Defense Department regulations that
prohibit political candidates from using military installations
as a campaign stop. The regulations rule out any statements,
press conferences or photographs. But Mrs. Clinton was able to
take advantage of the great photo-op, while apparently not
breaking the rules. The regulations have a loophole. If the
candidate is an invited guest at an official event, the person
may appear in news photographs as long as he or she remains
silent. In this case, we can't find any evidence that Mrs.
Clinton spoke publicly.
"I was there aboard the ship and the first lady uttered not one
peep in a public forum," said a Navy officer on the Kennedy. The
regulations require commanders to tell invited candidates to
remain silent. "In all cases, commanders will inform candidates
that while on a military installation, all political activities
and media events are prohibited," the policy states.
The guidance states that if the commander is challenged, he
should reply, "Department of Defense policy has for many years
prohibited the use of military installations for any activity
that could be construed as political in nature, including news
media coverage of any portion of a political candidate's
activities while on a military installation regardless of the
purpose of the visit." Mrs. Clinton has not always been as
hospitable to the Navy as it was to her Tuesday. She aligned
herself with Puerto Rican demonstrators who want the Navy off
Vieques Island. The Navy says the bombing range is critical to
preparing pilots, gunners and Marines for her husband's various
overseas deployments.
Stonewalling
The stone wall of silence erected around the House investigation
of John Millis, the late staff director of the House Intelligence
Committee, has claimed its first victim. She is Jennifer
Millerwise, press spokeswoman for Rep. Porter J. Goss, Florida
Republican and the committee chairman.
Miss Millerwise abruptly resigned a week ago and the committee
staff has been unable to reach her, according to staff aides to
Mr. Goss. She had been assigned the odious task of refusing to
answer repeated queries on the Millis investigation when
questioned by The Washington Times.
Miss Millerwise told us earlier that she, like one CIA spokesman,
did not want to know any details of the circumstances surrounding
the House Intelligence Committee probe of Mr. Millis.
Mr. Millis committed suicide in a Fairfax, Va., motel on June 4
after he had called a friend and said he was distraught over
being placed on administrative leave by Mr. Goss. Both Mr.
Millis and Mr. Goss are former CIA operations officers. Mr.
Millis, as the staff director, knew just about every secret there
is to keep in the U.S. intelligence community.
Rumors circulated widely in intelligence circles that Mr.
Millis' suicide was linked to unauthorized disclosures related to
former CIA Director John Deutch's mishandling of CIA secrets.
Mr. Millis was not a fan of Mr. Deutch and had expressed his
opinions in a speech earlier this year.
Senior U.S. intelligence officials, however, told us the death
was the result of a "personal tragedy" and not related in any way
to Mr. Deutch, the CIA, intelligence information or U.S.
national security.
The focus of the probe by the House Intelligence Committee has
not been disclosed by either Mr.
Goss or the House panel.
That's an order
A Marine Corps officer is challenging an order from his commander
to stay away from a civilian female friend. His friends say the
order is an example of political correctness gone amok in the
military's constant battle to regulate the sexes. Second Lt.
Kenneth Nichols, who is single and stationed at the Quantico
Marine base, was suspected of committing adultery. The woman in
question says they are just friends. Her husband, a Marine
officer from whom she is separated, agrees. Lt. Nichols'
attorney, noted courtroom tactician Charles Gittins, has filed a
petition asking the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to lift the order.
"The Marine Corps has no business — and no military
justification, whatsoever — for injecting itself into the
personal relations of persons who have made a considered choice
to be divorced. Nor does the Marine Corps have any business
injecting the Marine Corps into the private off-duty conduct of
adults where the conduct at issue does not violate any provision
of law.
"Simply stated, the order is an effort to act as 'thought police'
preventing small-minded persons from drawing wrong conclusions."
The appeals court has ordered the Marine Corps to reply to Mr.
Gittins' petition by July 10.
The stay-apart order was issued by Col. Mary L.
Culver, commander of the headquarters and service battalion at
Quantico. The woman in question, Lori Andrews Jones, sent a
letter to Col. Culver this week, denying that her friend
violated the military's ban on adultery.
Mrs. Jones' estranged husband, 2nd Lt. Paul W. Jones IV, filed
a written statement asking the Corps to end the investigation. "I
have no firsthand knowledge of any physical intimacy between Lt.
Nichols and Lori Jones," Lt.
Jones stated. "Lt. Nichols friendship with my spouse did not
contribute to the dissolution of our marriage as we had
long-standing problems. . . . In closing, I would appreciate
an end to this investigation that I did not want to take place to
begin with."
Asked why the Lt. Nichols and Mrs. Jones should not be kept
apart during the Corps' adultery investigation, Mr. Gittins
said, "They've both been interviewed. There's no issue of
collusion. There's no ending date for that order. It could go
on forever."
Xinhua's connections
How many directors of government-run news agencies hold
high-level security clearances and regularly read classified
intelligence reports?
According to well-placed Pentagon sources, the top editor in
Washington for China's official Xinhua News Agency periodically
visits the seventh floor of the Chinese Embassy on Connecticut
Avenue to do just that.
That's where the embassy has set up a secure room for top
officials to read secret intelligence reports sent by cable from
Beijing. The Xinhua director uses the reports to direct the
agency's news reports. They also help Xinhua in its covert
mission: providing secret reports to top Chinese leaders. Xinhua
is one of three major intelligence arms of the Chinese government
that provide classified reports on the United States. The others
are the Ministry of State Security (MSS), comparable to the
former Soviet Union's KGB, and the People's Liberation Army
Second Department, the military spy service.
Xinhua often beats its two rivals to the punch on intelligence
reports, we are told. The competition is likely to fuel suspicion
inside the Chinese government that the disclosure of Xinhua's
illegal purchase of the Pentagon Ridge apartment building was a
deliberate action by jealous MSS or Second Department agents.
The State Department forced Xinhua to put the building back on
the market, rather than use it as a Washington headquarters,
after reading of the purchase in The Washington Times.
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