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...specific events were commonly notated "(Asian)" or "(Jewish)" along with specific amounts targeted. Events with Vice President Al Gore were to raise $10.8 million, and some documents suggested that Hillary Rodham Clinton should raise $5 million on her own. A Nov. 20, 1995, memo from then-DNC chairman Donald Fowler even called a Christmas dinner at the White House "an accountability event for prior projections and commitments." As Ickes himself wrote in one memo directed to Clinton and Gore: "The fund-raising needs for the DNC will require a very substantial commitment of time from the President, the Vice President...
...soft money" is easy to trace: the large unregulated contributions show up in FEC reports. So the Democratic National Committee buried the money trail, handing out lists of needy state parties so donors could funnel their money where it would be harder to find. In return, D.N.C. chairman Don Fowler and his staff made sure that assorted Chinese businessmen and now oil financiers got a hearing from the NSC, a photo with the First Lady, or a spot on the President's schedule...
Tamraz didn't give up, though. In August and October, at chairman Fowler's suggestion, he sent a total of $100,000 to the Virginia State Democratic Party. In return, says a campaign official, he wanted Fowler to help get him in to see the President. So in December, Fowler called Heslin and asked her to back down on her objections to letting Tamraz in the White House. According to the Journal, he offered to send her a CIA report that would demonstrate that Tamraz had provided the agency with helpful information in the past. And several weeks later...
...political operative like Fowler allegedly know how to reach into the CIA and order a secret report to pressure the NSC to change a security position? That's what the CIA would like to know. Agency communications records and documents state that Fowler telephoned a mid-level CIA officer who was Tamraz's contact in the clandestine Operations Directorate in December 1995, though Fowler denies making any calls. Meanwhile, intelligence officials told TIME that CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz is investigating whether the officer, at Tamraz's urging, telephoned Fowler in October to confirm that the businessman had helped...
Heslin alerted the NSC to the lobbying by Fowler, and council deputy director Nancy Soderberg called Fowler and told him, in essence, to lay off. She didn't mention the encounter to Lake, thinking the problem was taken care of. So how to account for the fact that in the months that followed, Tamraz visited the White House not once but four more times? It turns out that the fire wall Lake constructed to keep politics out of foreign policy seems to have surrounded only him. His apparent inability to monitor the doings of 151 security-council staff members...