Bob Barr in The Meaning of IS, by Bob Barr
On Drugs:
The Clintons welcomed drug criminals into White House
The Clintons welcomed domestic criminals into the White House. One of the worst such cases was that of Jorge “Gordito” Cabrera of Miami. Cabrera was a top cocaine trafficker for Colombian drug cartels. In 1995, the Clintons invited him to attend the Whit
House Christmas party and get his picture taken with the president, following his large donation of campaign cash. This may give Clinton the distinction of being the first US president to fund part of his reelection campaign with illicit drug profits.
There is little doubt that the Clinton campaign and the president were aware of Cabrera’s illegal activities, since he had already been indicted for drug trafficking twice and was convicted of lesser charges under plea bargains in both cases.
A month after attending the fund-raiser, local detectives arrested Cabrera. He is now serving a long prison sentence in Florida on a conviction for bringing more than 6,000 pounds of cocaine into America.
Source: The Meaning of IS, by Bob Barr, Chapter One
Jul 2, 2004
On Drugs:
Illegal drug traffickers are murderers
The war on illegal, mind-altering drugs is our longest war. It has ravaged our communities, killed our youth, caused terrible violence in our neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces, and funded international terrorism.
It has also cost us greatly in blood and treasure. I know, because as a US attorney I faced the most hardened criminals who poisoned our country with narcotics. They, like the 9/11 terrorists, are murderers.In February 2002,
President George W. Bush told the American people that more than 20,000 of their fellow citizens had died the year before as a result of illegal drugs. When Bill Clinton took over as president in 1993, only 12,000
Americans had died of illegal drug use. Think about it: that is a massive and unacceptable escalation in the number of deaths. And it has been going on for decades.
Source: The Meaning of IS, by Bob Barr, Chapter One
Jul 2, 2004
On Government Reform:
Clinton & Reno covered up 1996 illegal campaign finance
Attorney General Janet Reno faced two problems inside the Justice Department in her scheme to cover up the illegal campaign finance activity that surrounded Bill Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign. FBI director Louis Freeh and Charles LaBella, the
chairman of the campaign finance investigation task force, both independently concluded that substantial criminal conduct had taken place in connection with the 1996 Clinton campaign.Furthermore, Reno herself hardly kept her distance from the
fund-raising scheme. In just one example, she received a personal memo updating her on the Democratic National Committee’s plans to raise $100 million prior to the 1996 elections. The memo included a hand-scrawled note to “Janet” from a top party
fund-raiser. Needless to say, this put Reno in an awkward position.
Reno kept documents [from this investigation] hidden from public view. If the Freeh and LaBella memos had become public in 1997, they would have galvanized our [impeachment] efforts.
Source: The Meaning of IS, by Bob Barr, Chapter One
Jul 2, 2004
On Homeland Security:
Should have impeached Clinton for national security failings
Preface to 9/11: Clinton and National Security:
When it comes to the Clinton presidency, one issue stands head and shoulders above the rest in terms of the damage his actions did to the nation he swore to protect.
That issue is national security, and it remains the foremost reason Bill Clinton should have been impeached and removed.
Source: The Meaning of IS, by Bob Barr, Chapter One
Jul 2, 2004
On Principles & Values:
Clinton echoed Nixon’s claim of being above the law
Like Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton was on his way to a one-sided victory [against Bob Dole in 1996], and like his similarly disgraced predecessor, he insisted on breaking the law anyway. The tip of what turned out to be a large iceberg emerged in the
closing days of the 1996 presidential campaign. To make a long story short, the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign incorporated the most vast and effective scheme to circumvent the law ever conceived and executed by an American presidential campaign.
It was becoming readily and disgustingly apparent that the campaign operated under the same principle Richard Nixon articulated in a 1977 interview with David Frost. Nixon said, “When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”
That was dead wrong in 1977, of course, and it was just as wrong in 1996. Like Nixon, Clinton believed that he was the law and was therefore not subject to its constraints.
Source: The Meaning of IS, by Bob Barr, Chapter One
Jul 2, 2004
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