Judicial Watch says Kerry once took laundered funds

[RamboLiberal]

Warning - from Scaife's rag.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/election/s_247030.html

A Washington, D.C., public interest group has released FBI documents it says indicates Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry accepted laundered contributions from the Chinese government during his 1996 Senate re-election campaign.
The organization Judicial Watch also contends that in exchange for the donations, Kerry might have arranged meetings between federal government officials and Chinese aerospace executives.

"These disturbing FBI documents raise further questions about Sen. Kerry's involvement in what looks like a quid pro quo -- cash for meetings -- with the communist Chinese," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.

The Kerry campaign had no immediate comment.

The Carthage Foundation, which is controlled by Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Publisher Richard M. Scaife, annually contributes money to Judicial Watch.

[blm]

1. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....what an old debunked charge.

They went after Kerry when they went after Clinton and there was no THERE there.

[slojim240]

13. "Laundered funds?" Must have been from Pat Robertson.

I bet.

[graywarrior]

2. Didn't he give it back? Fercrissakes.

[struggle4progress]

16. I think so:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-06-21-kerry-donation_x.htm

[FlaIndie]

3. man, just when I thought the Repube attacks could get no lower

Call Guiness, Bush is somehow starting to bash more than the 2000 primary.

[librechik]

4. Librechik sez Bush once engaged in insider trading

why no investigation?

[joefree1]

5. Judicial Watch is a Scaife front

Scaife's Money Aids Judicial Watch
By Brooks Jackson/CNN

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, June 10) -- Larry Klayman, leader of the group Judicial Watch, calls himself a conservative watchdog. He denies he is in it for the money and says he is just after the truth about the Clinton Administration.
Klayman

"I take it to heart when I see the government not telling the truth, not doing the right thing and covering up," Klayman says.

Klayman subpoenaed Clinton fund-raiser John Huang in 1996. This year he forced former Clinton aide Harold Ickes to testify and got Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon to admit under oath he leaked damaging information about Clinton accuser Linda Tripp.

Tax records show Klayman's tax-exempt group, Judicial Watch, was just a shoestring operation in 1996, with total revenues of less than $68,000.

But now it comes out that Judicial Watch received $550,000 in 1997 from the Carthage Foundation, funded by Pittsburgh billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.
More ...
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/06/11/klayman.jackson/


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[colonel odis]

6. wonder how far down on rove's list of "lies to spread about kerry"

this is. obviously, right below "get a bunch of slimeballs together to say they don't think kerry deserves his purple hearts." and several notches below "portray kerry's wife as a bitch."

i just wonder if this is #8 on rove's list, # 121, #52, or what. and i wonder how many other rovian tricks little karl has up his sleeve.

[Robb]

7. Good old Eric Heyl...

...ran the story on the people wanting to unseal estate records of the late Sen. H. John Heinz III.

Thank god for reporters with no agenda. :eyes:

[Feanorcurufinwe]

8. And they have so much credibility!

:eyes:

[Ms. Clio]

9. Go Cheney yourselves, Judicial Watch n/t

[TaleWgnDg]

10. well, you've got to hand it to these lowlifes . . .

the Richard Mellon Scaife crowd sure and hell does know how to make hay from the Information Age. Yup, merely plaster a "story" (no matter about its veracity) all over and it will run all by itself . . . whether it's the untruthful smears from disgrunted Nam vets or an overblown "job" in the Oval Office (excuse the pun). When repeated often enough it becomes an important "truth." Of course, as with any gossip, it works better if salacious and/or sensationalistic.

It's unfortunate that these accusations need to be countered and countered IMMEDIATELY, or suffer that it will stick as a "truth."

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/06/11/klayman.jacks ... /
("Judicial Watch received $550,000 in 1997 from the Carthage Foundation, funded by Pittsburgh billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.")

edited to add: HOLY CRAP, Larry's running for Senate in FLORIDA!!
http://www.klaymansenate.com/about.htm (read carefully his biased "bio" here too)

[lovuian]

11. Hey Judicial Watch ....Look at Cheney and Halliburton

:argh:

[cap]

12. and a bush brother is in cahoots with jiang zemin's son in a

venture in china.... gimme a break...

[peacetalksforall]

14. This might be good....

If they are burping dead stories, they might be dry.

Once again, it's up to the media. If they go with Larry of Judicial Watch and their bosses in the corporations - GE, Murdoch, Time-Warner in partnership with the wily right and Scaife, then it will be an all out effort just like the lies were repeated about Gore.

If this is a dry story, an empty well...it will be easier to fight and maybe some so-called journalist will speak out.

[struggle4progress]

15. This bilge seems so far to be only on the wingnut sites. eom

[Kierkegaard]

17. And we are supposed to believe that Kerry

is so destitute that he would need contributions from anyone, much less Chinese? I cannot get my head around the idea that people can be so blindly loyal to an administration that has no interest in 99% of them except as a source of tax revenue, that they will make up irrational and ignorant lies to help them. What's worse is the mountainous volume of awful truth about that same administration that they will willfully ignore. This has to be the result of some kind of gene pool erosion. These people are mentally ill!

[demgrrrll]

19. They are in trouble. Rubbing hands with glee.

If things were going their way they would have the necessary boost from this convention and would not need to drop pianos on Kerry right now. They only go to Scaife when they have no legitimate ammo. Good.

[LynneSin]

18. Larry Klayman is back to his old ways

you know he was the one that started the Cheney Energy Policy lawsuits, but he's best known for this thousands of nuisance lawsuits against Clinton. Wait, didn't Bush say he'll bring an end to nuisance lawsuits

:crazy: