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| Oct 26, 2000 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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Safire Claims Inside Information That ”WACO Cover-up Artist” Gore Predicted To Go With Scandal Figure Jack Quinn (Washington, DC) As the French often say, “The more things change the more they remain the same.” In today’s New York Times column “The Great Mentioning,” William Safire, claims, from usually reliable inside information, that Governor George W. Bush is slated to pick former Missouri Senator John Danforth as Attorney General, should he win the presidency. Vice President Al Gore is predicted to choose Clinton-Gore scandal figure Jack Quinn, former White House Counsel, and a defendant in a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch. Safire recently received Judicial Watch’s annual ethics award for print journalism at its annual conference. That Bush would choose an establishment politician, like Danforth, is predictable -- particularly since Danforth was also a top vice presidential pick. Indeed, Danforth is a friend of former President Bush. However, Danforth is more than just a “blueblood” Republican; he is so Establishment that, as reported by James Bovard in the October issue of The American Spectator, in a piece entitled “The Latest, Greatest Waco Whitewash,” he is the architect of the latest cover-up of federal law enforcement malfeasance in the massacre of over 80 women and children at Waco. His nomination would square with Judicial Watch’s prediction that the Justice Department will remain in the hands of the Establishment political elite that will continue to protect its own “Washingtonian interests,” and not those of the American people, like the dead women and children at Waco. As if matters couldn’t get much worse, Safire has information that Gore intends to pick Jack Quinn, who was a participant, in Judicial Watch’s opinion, in the attempted cover-up of many Clinton-Gore scandals during his tenure as White House Counsel. In addition, he has been sued by Judicial Watch client, former FBI Special Agent Dennis Sculimbrene, who alleged violations of the Ku Klux Klan Act. Sculimbrene was the supervisor of former FBI Special Agent Gary Aldrich, who was told by another White House Counsel, Bernard Nussbaum, that Hillary Clinton hired Craig Livingstone in the FBI scandal matter. When this news broke, Quinn and others, such as Lanny Davis, tried to smear Sculimbrene by allegedly publishing false information in the media. “If Safire is correct, Bush and Gore are birds of a feather when it comes to their ‘plans’ for the Justice Department. With the death of the independent counsel law and a Justice Department run by the elite Washington Establishment, politicians of both parties think they will get the next four years off from legal scrutiny. Judicial Watch will be the ‘fly in their ointment,’” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. “The plans of Bush and Gore for the Justice Department, which has participated in Clinton-Gore scandals in the last 8 years, squares with their refusal to discuss ethics during the current 2000 elections,” added Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. (Last week Judicial Watch held a presidential debate on this important issue. (click here).) |
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