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linton administration Tuesday of
trying to run out the clock on its cam
paign fund-raising investigation and
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o the plate” to force his supporters
o testify.
Facing a Dec. 31 deadline, the Re
publicans teed off against Clinton
and Attorney General Janet Reno for
Returning to a focus on fund-rais
ing abuses after several weeks of
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House point man for the 1996 cam
paign, Harold Ickes, waited to testify.
As Ickes sat in a back room out
side the large Senate hearing facility,
his written statement was provided
to reporters, and it demonstrated his
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He said the Senate Governmental
Affairs Committee’s “virtually exclu
sive focus on Democratic ... fund
raising in general, and fund raising by
the winning campaign of President
Clinton and Vice President Gore in
particular, serves a partisan — not a
public — agenda.”
Although Ickes was eased out of
his White House staff position earlier
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3r us ton Gore fund raising as legal and main
tained the hearings were designed
“to tarnish the Democratic Party in
general, and President Clinton, and
more pointedly, Vice President Gore.”
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ic Party donors. The Senate panel
and the House Government Reform
Committee had asked for such tapes
months ago.
Committee chair Fred Thomp
son, R-Tenn., showed the tapes on
television monitors, contending
they demonstrated illegal fund rais
ing on government property. One
coffee was in the Oval Office, while
others were in the White House res
idential area.
Thompson said the White House
had told the committee earlier the
Oval Office coffee, on May 1, 1996,
was in the residence. “As this clip
shows, however, these representa
tions simply were false,” Thompson
said. “Let’s roll that clip.”
Federal law prohibits political
solicitations on federal property,
but it is unclear whether the law
applies to the residential quarters
of the White House. Reno has con
tended the law does not apply to
the living quarters.
The GOP senators said the de
layed discovery was only the latest
example of White House dallying,
and came on top of witnesses ex
hibiting faulty memories, the asser
tion of the Fifth Amendment privi
leges and the flight by key witnesses
to foreign countries.
“There’s a clear pattern of delay,
foot-dragging, concealing,” Thomp
son said. “People leave the country,
documents are destroyed, defenses
are gotten together on and evidence
gets cold.”
“Everything about this guy is
scandal,” Sen. Bob Smith, R-N.H.,
said of Clinton. “How much more do
we have to take?”
Several Republicans saved their
major salvos for Attorney General
Reno, accusing her of conducting tire
most narrow investigation possible.
“The attorney general is so incon
sistent in her statements that... the
president of the United States ought
to relieve her of her responsibility in
the interest of seeing that the Ameri
can people at least can feel a tiny bit
like justice might be taking place in
the Justice Department,” Sen. Pete
Domenici, R-N.M, said.
Democrats rose to Reno’s defense.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said he
had “more confidence in her ability
to be objective and independent,
frankly, than I do in partisans of ei
ther party on Capitol Hill.”
Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., said the
attorney general was somewhat
trapped. “Tf the woman names an
independent counsel, it would ap
pear she was intimidated. If she
doesn’t, she’s defending the presi
dent,” he said.
Thompson, a former actor, spoke
with dramatic effect as if he were di
rectly addressing Clinton, who was
not in the Senate hearing room.
“And now I think the American
people expect you to step up to the
plate and take responsibility, because
surely nobody wants this to go down
looking like a successful cover-up of
much more serious activities,” he said.
Thompson said the administra
tion’s strategy was “‘to wait this com
mittee out, discredit the (House)
committee, and hope that the attor
ney general holds fast”against pros
ecutions.
Investigators question access to Pentagon
FBI security probe shows suspected spies obtained histories of subversive activities
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WASHINGTON (AP) —James Clark was turned
down as a security risk when he tried to get a job at
the CIA. Theresa Marie Squillacote was married to a
known communist sympathizer, Kurt Alan Stand. So
how did the three former campus radicals now ac
cused of spying gain Pentagon security clearances?
Although the information obtained by the
alleged spies appears less damaging than in
past espionage cases, the question of how the
government failed to detect documents sug
gesting a security risk in this case has emerged
as a key issue.
Warning signs abounded.
One of the suspects, Clark, was refused a job at
the CIA, his application stamped “security disap
proved,” meaning as early as 1980 the agency had
discerned what it regarded as a security risk. The
FBI had a 1975 report describing Clark’s participa
tion in the youth arm of the Communist Party. The
military also had anti-draft statements Clark sub
mitted to the Selective Service in the 1960s in which
he pledged to “fight to dhfeat U.S. imperialism” and
quoted Mao Zedong on revolution.
All this appears to have escaped the notice of
government security reviewers. In 1986, Clark re
ceived a “secret” clearance for his work for a private
firm, doing contract work for the government. That
gave Clark access to chemical weapons docu
ments, including a how-to manual on the manu
facturing of nerve gas. In 1992, a year after hiring
Clark as a civilian analyst, the Ar my affirmed his se
curity clearance.
Squillacote, another of the suspects, had
been married for more than a decade to Stand,
a communist sympathizer and the third sus
pect in the alleged spy ring, when she went to
work for the Pentagon in 1991. Stand allegedly
recruited the others in the 1970s to spy for East
Germany. In 1979, Squillacote had organized a
speaking appearance at the University of Wis
consin’s Milwaukee campus for a man convict
ed of spying for North Vietnam. Yet in 1992, the
Defense Department gave Squillacote the same
“secret” clearance.
Thomas J. Pickard, the FBI official who super
vised the probe, when asked how the wife of a
known communist could get a cleared post at the
Pentagon, said, “I’m not going to try to explain it.”
The Pentagon had few answers on Tuesday but
said it was investigating.
“Any time you have a breach like this, it caus
es you to go back and see how good your securi
ty measures are,” said Defense Secretary William
Cohen. But while he said strict controls are im
portant, “you also have to make sure that you
don’t employ tactics that you end up ‘Stalinizing’
your society.”
Navy Capt. Michael Doubleday said secret secu
rity clearances require no background check. But
they do require a review of government records,
which might have turned up the FBI report and CIA
job rejection on Clark and records of Stand’s com
munist involvement.
A Pentagon review of possible security breach
es has already begun, Doubleday said. It is exam-,
ining “whether there were unusual circumstances
that resulted in the individuals being granted se
curity clearances, and secondly, to see if there need
to be any changes in the process.”
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