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...HALEY BARBOUR O.K., he came out swinging, but colleagues cast doubts on his earnest claims of ignorance...
...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...
...well 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...
...system that has fed them so well. In fact, the Democrats made their strategy clear: unless we all play nice with one another, everyone is going to get hurt. When Thompson warned of Chinese influence peddling, his counterpart, ranking Democrat John Glenn, raked over former Republican Party chief Haley Barbour for funneling foreign money through his National Policy Forum. Majority whip Don Nickles hammered away about White House coffees as fund raisers; Dick Durbin, junior Democrat from Illinois, read a Nickles letter from 1990, inviting potential Republican donors who pledged $1,000 to a reception on the lawn at Vice...