Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department

by David Limbaugh

Waco in flames. Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez captured at gunpoint and returned to Communist tyranny. Chinese Communists funding the Democratic Party's campaign efforts. Whistle-blowers and investigators smeared, hounded, slandered, and politically destroyed. The use of lawsuits to hound enemies and advance political agendas.

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Packed with documentation that the liberal pundits dutifully swept under the rug for eight years, Absolute Power is stunning, haunting reading that no lover of freedom can afford to ignore. Limbaugh tells the truth about how Bill Clinton and Janet Reno tossed aside facts and evidence with impunity when they interfered with their political goals, and chronicles the Clinton administration's unprecedented abuse of power for personal and political gain. There will be more Bill Clintons and Janet Renos ? and more assaults on law and liberty -- unless Americans learn the lessons of Absolute Power, and dedicate themselves to reestablishing justice in the Justice Department and the Executive Branch.

The Clinton-Reno record -- rampant corruption and trampling of the rule of law:

• The early signal Janet Reno sent that her Justice Department would serve the political ends of Slick Willie rather than the ends of justice

• Why Reno's unprecedented firing of all 93 United States attorneys was so important to the Clinton agenda

• How Reno's moves against "big tobacco" paved the way for government lawsuits against the alcohol or fast food industries -- or any business it doesn't like

• The BATF: how looming Congressional budget hearings made them look for a way to play the hero -- and find their chance in Waco

• The flimsy foundation for ATF allegations that Waco's Branch Davidians were involved in drug dealing

• Hillary: the facts about her incompetence, political paranoia, allergy to the truth, arrogance, and abuse of power

• How even Al Gore's brother-in-law insisted that the Justice Department had no authority to bring a civil lawsuit against tobacco companies

• Travelgate: how Hillary pressured her lackeys over at Justice to trump up charges of corruption against the Travel Office employees -- to cover her own political tracks

• Why the Travel Office? How the Arkansas travel agency Clinton wanted to bring to Washington helped Slick Willie finance crucial primaries (by "creative billing procedures"!)

• Hillary's five-point strategy to discredit and destroy Kenneth Starr, and to cover up the truth about Monicagate at all costs

• Reno's desperate attempts to find any reason to fire or prosecute Ken Starr -- no matter how baseless

• Vindication: seven specific ways that Starr has been exonerated of all the charges brought against him by Clinton, Reno, and the liberal media

• Linda Tripp: guess which top Clinton official called her "a substantive, savvy, and experienced professional"? (Before the Monica storm broke!)

• How two Pentagon employees trampled on Tripp's right to privacy and left her reputation in tatters -- and were allowed to get away with it by Reno

• The abuse of executive privilege: why Clinton invoked this right ten times more often than Presidents Ford, Carter, and Bush

• When Clinton went too far even for the Gray Lady: the day the New York Times editorialized against his "alarming attempt to extend presidential power"

• Clinton at work for the American people: the breakneck pace of Democratic party fundraisers he attended during 1996

• "The most pernicious unindicted criminal in the world": how a man who gave nuclear materials to North Korea and Iran ended up on the Democratic party?s fundraising list

• The truth about Clinton's charge that Republicans "raise more money, they raise more foreign money, they raise more money in big contributions, and we take all the heat"

• Al Gore: Clinton's Solicitor-in-Chief. How he and Clinton micromanaged strategies to get money for the Democratic party -- and no deal was too shady

• The day Janet Reno danced: when she had to find an excuse to reject Republican requests that she investigate Democratic campaign finance improprieties

• Damning evidence that proves Al Gore lied to FBI investigators about whether or not he knew that he was attending fundraisers -- and how Reno rode to his rescue

• The man who funneled money from China's People's Liberation Army to the Democratic National Committee: "the White House is like a subway," he noted. "You have to put in coins to open gates"

• How the Justice Department was implicated in the destruction of evidence of the fundraising illegalities -- and ignored a subpoena about the incident

• "If you keep your mouth shut, you and your family will be safe": the chilling message received by one man who testified about illegal Democratic fundraising

• How Clinton, mad with greed for contributions, deliberately ignored national security concerns and gave valuable technology to the Chinese military

• Bill Lann Lee: how Clinton shredded the Constitution to get him into the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department -- and demonstrated his contempt for Congress

• How Clinton pardoned convicted Puerto Rican terrorists in New York to get political points for Hillary's Senate campaign -- and why it backfired

• Elian: how Clinton lied and reneged on promises that the boy would not be seized in a nighttime raid

• Why the Immigration and Naturalization Service completely ignored its own guidelines in considering Elian's case -- just to suit Clinton's political needs

• The overall Clinton-Reno record in the Elián case: more deceit, betrayal, brute force, and politicized justice

When congressional and independent counsel investigations struck close to the administration, Reno conveniently assumed jurisdiction over the investigation and became the president's surrogate stonewaller. While pretending to conduct investigations, she blocked Congress, denying it access to critical information and stalled long enough to stifle whatever momentum and progress investigators had achieved. Just as Clinton failed to maintain a wall of separation between his private and public lives, he misappropriated Justice to do his private dirty work and refused to keep his private attorneys separate from the Justice Department.

Even when matters as serious as national security and illegal foreign campaign contributions were involved, Reno, instead of performing her constitutional duty to enforce and uphold the law, used her office to insulate the Clinton-Gore administration from scrutiny and resulting accountability. When Charles LaBella, the Special Task Force attorney she appointed to investigate the campaign finance scandal, recommended the appointment of an independent counsel, she brazenly ignored the request and denied Congress access to LaBella's recommending memo.

The Clinton-Gore Justice Department, from Waco to Elian -- with Travelgate, Chinagate, Monicagate, and the illegal war on tobacco in between -- was one continuous, perfidious scandal factory. The nation cannot long endure such corruption and abuses of power.

How the media did their part for Clintonism:

Starr's enemies made their myriad allegations against him with a ferocious intensity. The press was awash with stories daily about Starr's alleged misconduct. In fact, in many instances, media outlets just dropped the "alleged." The media questioned Starr's every step in proving Clinton's culpability, but accepted every allegation against Starr. During the heat of this nearly unilateral PR battle -- Starr was admittedly inept at public relations -- it was difficult for the casual observer to tell who was telling the truth. The people who made the most noise and had the most media support won. Their victory saved Bill Clinton's presidency. Only after Clinton's fate was determined did the facts begin to come out about the illegitimacy of the charges against Starr. Even then, they were barely publicized.

Our last hope?

These offenses are so stark, so stunning, and, most of all, have gone so unpunished, that it leaves you dumbfounded. The lesson of the Clinton-Gore administration is that you can politicize justice, use the executive branch of government to punish political enemies, abuse executive power for personal, and political ends -- and get away with it. All it requires is brazenness, stubbornness, a loyal staff of yes-men, dagger-men, and smear artists, and an absent conscience. It's a recipe that other politicians are sure to follow. Unless, that is, the new administration -- and Congress, which has oversight authority -- takes drastic steps to restore the integrity of the Justice Department. There are, of course, many good and true lawyers in the department, and much reform will come almost automatically with the appointment of a new attorney general.

But these last eight years should serve as a warning. The Clinton-Gore administration's politicization of the Justice Department has no parallel in our nation's history, and this dangerous period, which made federal law enforcement a political calculation, must never be repeated. It is up to George W. Bush's administration to set a different course, the right course -- one where law trumps politics and justice is administered equally. That's what America deserves. As involved citizens, that's what we should expect.

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Not Rated  Todd Biagioli
Mr. Limbaugh's work shows the multitude of failures of, coverups by, and attacks by the Clinton-Reno Justice Department. I had not known of some of the transgressions committed by the Justice Department during the Clinton years. It both amazes and appalls me not only how much the DoJ was used by Clinton as a political hammer, but how he managed to get away with it all.