| Printed from JudicialWatch.org Nov 21, 1997 |
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Judicial Watch Previously Found Seats on Trade Missions Sold For Campaign Contributions, Along with Seats on Air Force One, Government Appointments and Other Taxpayer Financed Assets Paul Rodriguez, the managing editor of Insight Magazine, and the person who first exposed the "Big Brother" computer at the White House (which illegally tracked political donors at taxpayer expense), has now uncovered that plots at Arlington Cemetery were sold for large campaign contributions to Democrat/Clinton/Gore donors. This takes the scandal to new heights, by figuratively dancing on the graves of America's war heros. Ironically, Clinton himself never served in the military, as he evaded the draft during the Vietnam War. Many Vietnam war heros are buried at Arlington. Larry Klayman, Chairman and General Counsel of Judicial Watch, remarked: "However shocking, Mr. Rodriguez' fine investigative reporting and discovery comes as no surprise. In the case which uncovered John Huang and sparked the campaign finance scandal, Judicial Watch found that taxpayer financed seats on Commerce Department trade missions were sold under the late Cabinet Secretary Ron Brown. In addition, a Democratic National Committee brochure, which bears the names of Senator Chris Dodd and Don Fowler, both DNC Chairman, confirms, along with documents from the files of Harold Ickes, that virtually every government asset was being sold by the Clinton Administration in exchange for cash. This is a clearcut violation of the U.S. criminal code at 18 U.S.C. 600, punishable by 10 years imprisonment for each offense." Klayman added: "This clearcut criminal law violation by the Clinton Administration has conveniently not been investigated by Congressional Committees and Reno, because both political parties have violated the law. However, neither political party has ever before been caught with its 'hand in the cookie jar,' and no party has ever violated this law on the grand scale of the Clinton Administration. Now is the time to enforce the 'robbery' of the assets of all Americans, by throwing the violators in jail. Deterrence is the best form of campaign finance reform." | |