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 For Immediate Release
Nov 17, 1998 Contact: Press Office
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Judiciary Committee reported push for Hubbell/Huang testimony may be designed only to easy conservative criticism

Huang Should Be Called to Testify on Chinagate -- Not Just On Narrow Hubbell Issue

Judicial Watch Interim Report Provides Roadmap to Huang Questioning

Recent reports that the Judiciary Committee may call John Huang as an impeachment witness only on the Hubbell hush money scandal is likely a superficial move to try to placate conservative critics such as Judicial Watch, which has been vocal in urging that the committee expand the scope of impeachment beyond Lewinsky into the more serious scandals such as Chinagate, Filegate, IRS-Gate, and Trustgate (the illegal Clinton legal defense funds). Judicial Watch uncovered Huang in 1996, thereby sparking the Chinagate scandal and its lawyers remain the only investigators to have questioned him under oath about what he was doing at the Commerce Department.

"To even think of bringing Huang before the committee without questioning him on Bill Clinton's China connection or Huang's reported involvement in the sale of Commerce Department trade mission seats in exchange for campaign contributions for the President is laughable," stated Larry Klayman, Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel. "Our Interim Report, which the committee has before it, provides a roadmap for the questioning of Huang - on everything from campaign contribution-greased missile technology transfers to China to the role of The Clinton White House in selling taxpayer-financed trade mission seats in exchange for campaign contributions (bribery)."

Klayman noted that, contrary to popular belief, Huang can not take the Fifth Amendment if he testifies, "By testifying in the Judicial Watch civil suit on Chinagate, Huang waived his Fifth Amendment rights and should have to answer fully questions put to him."

"Any impeachment of Bill Clinton that fails to include Huang as a central witness on all the issues on which he has knowledge, including Chingate, is an impeachment destined for failure," Klayman concluded.


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