The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee is interviewing Sen. Hillary Clinton for her appointment by President-elect Barack Obama as the next U.S. Secretary of State but apparently is making a determined effort to prevent any discussion of her "Chinagate" or "Filegate" scandals.
That's according to Larry Klayman, a top Washington watchdog who years ago founded the Judicial Watch organization to monitor government activities and pursue prosecution of illegal government behavior. Klayman battled the Clinton White House in numerous cases and to this day remains the attorney of record in at least one pending dispute that accuses Hillary Clinton of involvement in her husband's apparently illegal release of individuals' White House files protected by the Privacy Act. Klayman later left Judicial Watch to stage a U.S. Senate run and now leads FreedomWatchUSA.org. "The American people deserve to have full knowledge about Senator Clinton's role in these scandals before the committee votes to confirm her, and I am the most knowledgeable person to testify on these issues," Klayman wrote in a letter to committee leaders Sens. John Kerry and Richard Lugar. However, Klayman received no response to his offer to explain the accusations against Sen. Clinton. "We need to scream right now," Klayman told WND regarding her nomination for secretary of state. "She was the mastermind behind 'ChinaGate' and 'Filegate.'" In the Chinagate scandal, documented on the Judicial Watch website, technology companies allegedly made donations of millions of dollars to various Democratic Party entities, including President Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, in return for permission to sell high-tech secrets to China. Bernard Schwartz and his Loral Space & Communication Ltd. later allegedly "helped China to identify the cause of [a rocket failure], thereby advancing China's missile program and threatening U.S. national security." "Filegate" developed President Clinton and Hillary Clinton were accused of violating the privacy rights of their perceived political enemies by wrongly accessing and misusing the FBI files of Reagan and first Bush administration staffers, among others. "In an effort to discredit the women who charged President Clinton with sexual misconduct, personal files and papers were illegally obtained and released. The courts found, under the Privacy Act, that privacy of Linda Tripp and Kathleen Willey had been violated," a Judicial Watch report said, citing just a few of the more than 900 files involved. Judicial Watch said Mrs. Clinton had been linked "directly to the center" of the controversy. http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86041 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
