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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Right-wing Republicans like California Rep. Bob Dornan have never shied from describing the Clinton White House as a den full of drug-using "hippies," and now they have more ammunition. House investigator probing "Filegate" on Wednesday released documents in which a former security official claims that some White House employees had used crack, cocaine and hallucinogens before starting their jobs in 1993. The Secret Service denied them passes, the official said, only to be promptly overruled by the Administration. According to an FBI transcript, Arnold Cole, a former supervisor of the Secret Service White House control operations...
...head that a person who was unlisted and without a file was a person who was not being taken seriously. Years later, he was greatly distressed at not being on the list that the Reagan Administration turned out to have been keeping of people considered too left-wing to be sent abroad by the usia on cultural-exchange visits...
What I didn't go into was that he was no longer too left-wing for anything. Although Hammer insisted that what had changed was the left, not him, his articles reflected steadily increasing hostility to, say, affirmative-action programs and identity politics and, eventually, the progressive income tax. Since then, he has moved resolutely toward the right. In recent months, someone reading only Hammer's commentary would have assumed that the major question facing Americans at this point in their history is whether Hillary Clinton is or is not the Antichrist...
...from the notice of Clinton's political opponents, not the irs, and that it was duly reported on campaign-finance documents after the election. "Any suggestion that my writing four checks was intended to mislead bank regulators is simply false," he said, after emerging suddenly from the West Wing and intercepting reporters on the White House driveway. He will take the witness stand sometime this summer; Clinton will testify by videotape...
...Broderick was a tough, respected administrator, and his supporters believe he is being sacrificed on the altar of public relations. But others claim that he could be unyielding and slow to acknowledge problems. For instance, it took two fatal crashes before he had the agency investigate wing-deicing difficulties on turboprop commuter ATR-42 planes--a trouble spot the NTSB flagged after the first crash...