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...HALEY BARBOUR O.K., he came out swinging, but colleagues cast doubts on his earnest claims of ignorance...
...enough when Gaylord, eminence grise to NEWT GINGRICH, was blamed for isolating the House Speaker, antagonizing enough Republican brethren to threaten Newt's leadership post earlier this month. Now it turns out Gaylord took $7,500 a month from a Republican think tank so cash starved that HALEY BARBOUR had to obtain a $2.1 million loan guarantee from a Hong Kong businessman to make good on its debts. The National Policy Forum's payments of about $112,000 to Gaylord in 1995 and 1996 were disclosed in the Senate donorgate hearings last week. Barbour, who chaired both the forum...
...foreign origin," he told TIME. This week he will prod intelligence officials to make public more information about the mysterious Chinese plot to influence U.S. elections. And Democrats will get a chance to play prosecutor, describing the Republicans' own China connection: alleged money laundering by former G.O.P. chief Haley Barbour...
WASHINGTON: As beefy as Haley Barbour is, he's a hard man to pin down. In testimony Thursday before the Senate campaign fund-raising inquiry, the former RNC chairman dismissed charges that he used the National Policy Forum to funnel a $1.6 million 'loan repayment' into RNC coffers as "infuriatingly phony" and "outright false." Barbour even tried to turn the tables on Democrat John Glenn by coyly referring to the senator's own experience on the other side of the microphone during the 1989 "Keating Five" investigation. "I understand very well the resentment that boiled up in you during that...
...aware at the time that the money originated from a foreign company, making Young's donations illegal under US law. (The money was finally returned by the RNC this May, some five years late.) Former National Policy Forum President Michael Baroody then testified he had warned RNC head Haley Barbour repeatedly that the Forum should stay clear of foreign money. Barbour never listened, Baroody said, and Baroody eventually resigned in disgust. "I believe that subsequent events have borne out my judgments," said Baroody, "and shown his to be imprudent." Things may get even seamier when Barbour testifies later...