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...provocative communications among Chinese officials. They included discussions of a covert operation aimed at influencing the 1996 elections. Other intercepts indicated that front companies for the Chinese government might try to funnel cash. A few months later the NSA took its information to the FBI, which began a probe. Of the six U.S. lawmakers who emerged as major targets, four were from California, where the business community began courting the Chinese soon after Richard Nixon renewed ties in 1972. Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer are longtime supporters of China's MFN status. (Feinstein's husband has extensive business...
...could obtain "information/resources" for those early supporters--a plan that sounds very much like trading official favors for contributions. Republicans found the documents highly provocative. "When it involves using government assets to aid in the political campaign," says Indiana Congressman David McIntosh, a leader of the House fund-raising probe, "that steps over the line and is, in fact, illegal...
TRENT LOTT Mr. Neat gets rolled by Dems, who manage to broaden Senate probe of campaign finance...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Turning up the heat on a new wave of al legations of campaign finance improprieties on both sides of the aisle, Senate Republicans reversed course by agreeing to allow Senator Fred Thompson's campaign finance investigation to look into "soft money" donations. Fearing that any probe woul d wind up biting them as well, the GOP leadership had previously rammed through a deal that would limit Thompson to investigating only "illegal activities" that took place during the 1996 race. The Republican turnaround was spurred by the growing re alization that, while the White House fundraising scandal certainly looks...
Starr admits he knew of Scaife's ties to Pepperdine and groups interested in the outcome of his Whitewater probe but insists nonetheless that there's no conflict. Starr's deputy John Bates says, "It's not political but legal judgment that matters, and Starr's remains impeccable." At the very least, as Joseph DiGenova, a former independent counsel and U.S. Attorney in the Reagan Administration, points out, "It's another unfortunate circumstance which is unnecessarily distracting." DiGenova faults Starr too for continuing his $1-million-a-year law practice, which includes tobacco clients, and for speaking at Clinton-basher...