Peter Paul

Now that crack Chicago US Attorney Fitzgerald has distinguished himself in the Plame investigation by indicting Vice President Cheney’s Chief of Staff for false statements and obstruction of his investigation, why not demand a similar investigation of the Hillary/Bill Clinton/Ed Rendell cooperation with federal investigators in the Clinton Senate election fraud prosecution of Hillary finance director David Rosen?

I agree it is important to determine if arcane laws dealing with exposing CIA operatives are intentionally violated by government officials, and that those officials cooperate truthfully with any federal investigation into that issue.

However, I think it is at least as important to determine whether the leadership of one of America’s two major political parties played personal roles in inducing, covering up and then misleading the federal investigation into, a multi million dollar contribution to the 2000 campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Al Gore.

When my whistle blowing law suit against the Clintons, David Rosen, et al resulted in the indictment and trial of Rosen, as Hillary’s finance director, for three counts of filing false FEC reports hiding my $1.2 million plus contribution to Hillary’s campaign,Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray said that “The Clintons had cooperated fully with this investigation.”

Unlike US Attorney Fitzgerald, who readily confirmed at a press conference that he had questioned the President and Vice President about the CIA leak affair, Mr Wray was unwilling to confirm how the Clintons actually cooperated in his investigation. Citing “investigatorial confidentiality”, Wray refused to disclose whether the Clintons had been questioned by investigators or testified before the grand jury that indicted Rosen.

Americans should rightly ask, “Why are the Clintons covered by some confidentiality in disclosing how they cooperate with a federal investigation while the President and Vice President of the US have no such protection?”

Many questions were raised by the indictment, trial and acquittal of David Rosen, a low level functionary in the Clinton Senatorial campaign with no legal duty to make any reports to the FEC, who in fact made no reports to the FEC. Because he was charged, nonetheless, with being solely responsible for reports filed by his superiors, and his jurors commented that he could not have committed these crimes “all by himself”, an impartial prosecutor with the same zeal and sense of prosecutorial duty that garnered Fitzgerald so much respect, should now be appointed to review this incomplete criminal investigation.

The corroborated evidence presented by the Government in the Rosen trial confirms that three fraudulent FEC reports were made by Hillary Clinton’s campaign treasurer to hide the identity and amount of more than $1.2 million contributed by one contributor. The record shows that Hillary Clinton deceived the public, with the help of DNC Chair Ed Rendell and then President Bill Clinton, regarding that contribution before the election, in the Washington Post and in one false FEC report, and after the election, in two more false FEC reports. Hillary Clinton, her campaign treasurer, her lawyer David Kendall and Bill Clinton were all put on notice, in June and early July, 2001, by the donor himself, that two false FEC reports had been filed about his contributions, yet they all aided and abetted the filing of a third fraudulent report to the FEC on July 30, 2001.

This scandal, unlike the investigation into an old statute regarding disclosure of secret government operatives, deals with a fundamental attack, by our political leaders themselves, on the fairness of our federal elections. A Democrat President, Chairman of the DNC and leading Senator joined together in a scheme to violate the original intent of campaign laws to educate the voter on who supports a candidate and how much they contribute. The evidence clearly demonstrates that the Clinton hierarchy of the Democratic Party conspired together to induce, and then coerce, a multi million dollar contribution to their campaigns that they agreed to hide from the public and the government, and then they tried to lay the blame on a low level campaign functionary through misleading the federal investigators that caused an unsuccessful criminal trial of that “fall guy”.

Shouldn’t the American people demand that if the Justice Department will not fully investigate either the underlying crimes committed by a President, Senator and Chairman of the DNC, or their roles in misleading the investigation into those crimes, then a Special Prosecutor must be appointed to protect the integrity of our electoral system, the bedrock of our democratic government. This might prove to be even be more important to protecting the American people than the Plame Special Prosecution.