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From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 01:15:10 +0200
Fwd Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 00:48:28 -0500
Subject: White House Spokesman Stonewalls Clinton's UFO

First found December 4 on the site of the New York Post. URL:

http://www.nypostonline.com:80/news/1479.htm


BILL'S UFO INTEREST IS SAUCER FULL OF SECRETS AT THE WHITE HOUSE

BY DEBORAH ORIN


WELCOME to the great White House UFO cover-up.

All the president's men seem quite embarrassed by the revelation - from
disgraced First Pal Webb Hubbell - that President Clinton asked him to
use his top Justice Department post to find out if UFOs exist.

After all, the president as UFO maven isn't exactly Clinton's dream
image. Some might even find it laughable - remember how Dems tittered
over Nancy Reagan's fascination with astrology?

And so, White House spokesman Mike McCurry is doing a full stonewall -
he refuses to say whether Hubbell is telling the truth. What is amazing
- and appalling - is that the White House press corps is letting him
get away with it.

As Hubbell tells it in his new book, Clinton sent him to Justice with
this mandate as a personal priority: "I want you to find the answers to
two questions for me. One, Who killed JFK? And two, Are there UFOs?"

Lest anyone think this was a jest, Hubbell adds: "He - Clinton - was
dead serious. I had looked into both, but wasn't satisfied with the
answers I was getting."

In fact, Hubbell conceded on CNN last weekend that he was serious
enough to ask about UFOs when he met with officials at NORAD, the North
American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado, which monitors
satellites and other objects in the skies.

"They said no," Hubbell reported. Presumably, this was one of the
answers that didn't satisfy him.

Hubbell ought to know if Clinton was serious. The disgraced
ex-associate attorney general is Hillary Clinton's former law partner
and was Bill Clinton's golfing buddy before Hubbell admitted bilking
law clients out of $482,000 and went to jail.

It's easy to see that Hubbell's revelation poses a big problem for the
Clinton team.

To confirm it would be to paint Clinton as a bit of a UFO nut (and JFK
conspiracy theorist) and invite ridicule from late-night comics.

But it would be dumb and dumber for Clinton aides to call Hubbell a
liar. That would hand Whitewater prober Ken Starr a weapon, as he seems
to be out to prove Hubbell is lying when he denies the fat fees Clinton
aides arranged for him were really hush money.

Besides, Hubbell is loyally insisting - despite a stint in jail and the
risk of another one - that the Clintons did nothing at all wrong
regarding Whitewater or anything else. That's not the kind of ally whom
you want to tick off by calling him a liar.

So McCurry did an all-out stonewall when he was asked if Hubbell is
right in saying Clinton has a UFO fascination: "I am not going to
respond to the specific things in books that are written."

Huh? "A lot of people are going to write books in the course of the
next several years ... I'm just not going to respond to each and every
thing that occurs in any of these books," McCurry insisted.

Oh, wonderful. Books are now off-limits - a kind of v-chip to screen
out messy questions. Just imagine if Mayor Giuliani insisted he
wouldn't answer any questions about, say, bus advertisements. The press
would skewer him.

Or imagine if Ronald Reagan's spokesmen had dared refuse to answer
questions on books. After all, Nancy Reagan's astrologist popped up in
- what else? - a book. Written by ex-Reagan Chief of Staff Don Regan,
who was a known enemy of Mrs. Reagan.

No one would have stood for the no-books nonsense if Reagan's team had
tried it. But McCurry did, and only a few members of the White House
press corps protested - everyone else just giggled or rolled over and
played dead.

Which does show you something about the degree to which the Clinton
White House has perfected the art of stonewalling.

The Clintons will be back in New York next week, of course, to pass the
cup for still more money for the broke Democratic Party. Word is it'll
be a unique Clinton husband-and-wife tag-team effort.

First, on Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton is slated to star at a Women's
Leadership Forum. Next day, the president passes the cup.

There's also supposed to be a "message event," but no word on what it
might be. That's the supposed policy event on which the White House
likes to piggyback fund-raising trips.


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Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express
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