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HILLARY CLINTON'S BIGGEST COVER-UPS Ofall the Hillary Clinton scandals right to the left. But it stops far short of "opened my eyes and heart to the and €over-ups^none is^nore significant explaining her involvement with needs of others..." Her conservative thanher attemptto whitewash her own extreme left-wing groups and views persisted, however, into the time personaltransformation fromGoldwater individuals in league with America's that she entered Wellesley College in girl to Marxist. No mainstream media enemies. 1965, where she served as president of organization has examined how she is The book says that Hillary was the thecollege's YoungRepublicansduring determined in her new book to keep daughter ofa staunch Republican and her freshman year. However, she says people in the dark about what thatshe beganhaving more doubts about thewar against communism Hillary biographer, the late The media haven't asked Mrs. Clinton Barbara Olson, described as her about her work for a Communist Party in Vietnam—doubts fed by a "roots in Marxism." lawyer and why her book neglects to Methodist magazine she was "In her formative years," mention it. receiving at college, as well as explained Olson, "Marxism reports in the New York Times. was a very important part of her ideology..." that, in high school, she read Senator Defending The BlackPanthers Olson's important 1999book.Hell Barry Goldwater's book. The to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Conscience of a Conservative, and She moved on to Y ale Law School Hillary Rodham Clinton (Regnery wrote a term paper on the American in 1969, whichwas a hotbedofactivity Publishing, Inc., 1999), remains the conservativemovement. Shededicated on behalfofthe violently racist Black best account of Hillary's communist it to her parents, "who have always Panther organization. She writes that, connections and emergence as a taughtme to be an individual." She was "The world and its realities came "budding Leninist" who "understood a Goldwater supporter in 1964and had crashing down on Yale in April 1970, the Leninist concept of acquiring, "strong anti-Communist views," she when eight Black Panthers, including accumulating and maintainingpolitical says. She also got deeply involved in party leader Bobby Seale, were put on power at any cost." the United Methodist Church, which trial for murder in New Haven. As an example, Hillary's book Thousands of angry protesters, gripes that the end to her illegal closed- convinced the Panthers had been set door health-care task-force meetings, up by the FBI and government where a socialized medicine scheme prosecutors, swarmed into the city. was hatched, was the result of her Demonstrationsbrokeoutinandaround opponents citing an "obscure federal campus. The campus was bracing for law" in court. Hillary, a lawyer, never a huge May Day rally to support the wanted the law to get in her way. Panthers when I learned, late on the night ofApril 27, that the International LeavingThe GOP Law Library, which was in the basement of the law school, was on Hillary's book, Living History fire. Horrified, I rushed to joina bucket (Simon & Schuster^, does attempt to brigade offaculty, staffand students to explain her move from the political BarbaraOlson's Book put out the fire and to rescue books damaged by flames and water." Treuhaft."Flahertynotesthat Treuhaft working through the CPUSA had So LivingHistoryportrays Hillary told Herb Caen of the San Francisco provento be ineffective in establishing as someone who didn't participate in Examiner, "Thatwas the timewe were a communist America. The British the pro-Pantherdemonstrations butjust representing the Black Panthers, and newspaper The Independent said that tried to save some books from a fire. she worked on that case." Treuhaftand Mitfordcontinuedtosing the Internationale, once the Soviet PantherJustice Don't Ask, Don'tTell national anthem, after they left the party. Former sixties radical David Mrs. Clinton's involvement with Barbara Olson reported, "Hillary Horowitz saysthat both Hillaiy Rodham Treuhaft is no secret, although Hillary has never repudiated her connection and Bill Lann Lee, who later became clearly doesn't want to talk about it. A with the Communist movement in President Clinton's head of the U.S. NewYorkTimesobituaryofTreuhaft, America or explainedher relationship Justice Department's Civil Rights who died in 2001, said that he had with two of its leading adherents. Of Division, helped organize the pro- "accepteda youngYale lawyer named course, no one has pursued these= Panther demonstrations at Yale. Hillary Rodham (now Senator Hillary questions with Hillary. She has shown Others sympathetic to Hillary contend Rodham Clinton) as an intern." A she will not answer hard questions that she was merely among a group of Britishnewspaper, the London Times, abouther past, and she has learnedthat lawstudentswhomonitoredthetrialon said that "generationsofliberal lawyers she does not need to—remarkable in behalf of the ACLU, which was were groomed under his [Treuhaft's] an age when political figures are concerned that law enforcement was tutelage, including a young Yale law allowed such little privacy." violatingthe civil liberties ofmembers student named Hillary Rodham." oftheparty.ButHillary saysnothing in These two obituaries are Anti-Anti-Communist her book about even this role. posted at a website in honor of What is not in dispute is that she Treuhaft's famous wife, British Inherbook, however, Hillarydoes served on the Board ofEditors ofthe author Jessica Mitford, herself a write about some of her radical Yale Review of Law and Social member of the CPUSA whose associates. She notes a meeting in Action, a "progressive" alternative to lobbying of Bill 1969 with David the school's traditional review, and Clinton on the death MixneroftheVietnam that its fall 1970 issue was devoted to penalty issue was Moratorium the trial and glorifying the Panthers. reportedly facil Olson noted that Hillary Committee, an anti- itated by Hillary. has never been asked to Vietnam war protest The RedLawyer The Harvard Law explain her involvement group that came under Bulletin said about with the communist investigation by the Treuhaft: "He be During the summer of1971, Mrs. movement. House Internal Secur Clinton writes in her book, she was a longed to and served ity Subcommittee for law clerk at the Oakland firm of as attorney to the its involvement with Treuhaft, Walker and Bumstein. "I Communist Party of communistsandback spentmostofmy timeworkingfor Mai the United States for many years and ing from Hanoi. Mixnerwouldgo on to Bumstein researching, writing legal defended the civil rights ofgroups such becomea leadinghomosexual activist, motions and briefs for a child custody as the Black Panther Party, Vietnam adviser to and friend of President case," she said. In fact, however, the War draft resisters, and members of Clinton.HewascreditedwithdeUvering public record shows thatClintonworked Berkeley's free speech movement." some six million votes to Clinton in for Robert Treuhaft, a member ofthe The London Times said Treuhaft 1992. Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and and Mitford left the CPUSA in 1958 Former conservative David Harvard-trained lawyer for the party. and that "Khrushchev's denunciation Brock's book, The Seduction of Citing public sources, Peter of the crimes of Stalin had been Hillary Rodham, links Hillary with Flaherty's book. TheFirstLady (Vital influential in driving away lots of Robert Borosage, a Yale Law School Issues Press, 1996), says that "Hillary believers." But Khruschev had graduate and one ofthe foimders ofthe was recommendedto Treuhaftby some denounced Stalin's crime in February Yale Review, who would laterbecome of her professors at Yale. She was 1956. TheTimessaidthat"theMitford/ director of the Institute for Policy looking for a 'movement' law firm to Treuhaft idea that the American Studies (IPS), a Marxist think tank. workat forthe summer. As it turns out, Communist ideal should be an Borosage is now co-director of the Hillarywouldcontinueher association indigenous affair never took root," Campaign for America's Future, a and supportofthe BlackPanthercause suggesting they left the party not group trying to move the Democratic while working as a law clerk for because ofwhat Stalindid but because Party further to the political left. Hillary writes about her the Global Nation," that in the next the World Federalist Association involvement with the Children's century"nationhood aswe know itwill (WFA) when itgave Talbott itsNorman Defense Fund, headed by Marian be obsolete," that we would all some Cousins Global Governance Award. WrightEdehnan, but omits anymention day become world citizens, and that In the letter, ClintonnotedthatNorman oftheNewWorldFoundation (NWF). wars and humanrights violations inthe Cousins, the WFA founder, had Hillary followed Edelman's husband, 20th century had clinched "thecase for "worked for world peace and world Peter, as chairman of the NWF. Mrs. world government." government" and that Talbott was a Clinton chaired the group during atime, To help accomplish this, "worthy recipient" ofthe award. 1982-1988,whenit gavegrants to the Committee in Solidarity HillaryAndChina with the People ofEl Salvador, Hillarydoesn'tdiscuss communistChinese afrontgroupforthecommunist financial contributions to her husband's Hillary doesn't discuss terrorists; the NationalLawyers campaignfor re-election. communist Chinese financial Guild, a one-time-identified contributions to her husband's communist front; and the campaignforre-election,butshe ChristieInstitute, an extremeleft-wing Talbott pressed for the use of the admitsthatthe communistdictatorship groupoflawyerswhichpracticed"legal U.S. military to restore an extreme wanted to use her appearance at a tefrorilin" ag^nff citizens; retired ieiiisi, QeirocKea i^ainoiic pncsi "UtNt^ women's^ conference-m military and intelligence officials, and Jean Bertrand Aristide, to power Beijing as "a public relations tool to others who were perceived to be in Haiti in 1994. Confidential improve its image around the world." supportingthe cause offreedomfrom documents from the U.N., Hillary went anyway. She doesn't commimism in Central America. publicized by AIM at the time, said mention that radical feminist and that Talbott and other officials Marxist Bella Abzug played a role in TheCover-UpContinues viewed an invasion as "politically getting her to go. Hillary was a big fan desirable." ofAbzug, having hailed her work and Peter Flaherty writes, "Hillary's Aristide, a Marxist-oriented career in a major speech at the U.N. official biography prepared by the '92 advocate ofLiberation Theology, had FBI files obtainedby AIM identify Clintoncampaignmakesnomentionof been booted from the presidency by Abzug as a member ofthe Communist her stint as NWF chairman, despitethe the military because, among other Party USA. She ran for Congress but factthatsheoversawsome$23 million things,hewas incitingmobstothreaten was opposed by the Socialist Party for in foundation assets. A fewjournalists, to bum to death judges and legislators havingshown"a generalunwillingness like Dan Wattenberg ofThe American ifthey did not do his bidding. tobeoutspokenlycriticalofCommunist Spectator,didreportontheNWFgrants Hillary's book describes this as a actions threatening the peace and during the summer of 1992, but the case of"the electedPresidenf' ofHaiti freedom ofthe world." major mediapaid almost no attention. being returned to power "after a Nottoo far from the five-starhotel Therewas no need for Hillary to defend harrowing year of diplomacy and the where Hillary and the feminists were herself." landing ofAmerican troops." But the meeting inBeijing,baby girls andboys Vaadaa-PoUtics^ Jjy Lynn- werebeing starved-todeath at Chinese- Clinton's radical connections, many Garrison, tells a far different story, orphanages. developed in his trips abroad. Strobe exposing Aristide as an anti-American Pictures of this brutality were TalbottandBillClintonhadbeenRhodes figure not only allegedly involved in smuggled out of the country by Scholars in England together, for murder but drug trafficking. Garrison Human Rights Watch. One showed example, and Talbott and his wife, was an adviser to one ofthe generals an emaciated 11-year-old girl tied Brooke Shearer, "became friends of involved in the anti-Aristide coup. down to a bed, withering away to mine," she writes. Brooke's brother, Thepoliticalreasonsfortheinvasion nothing. A British film about the DerekShearer, anotherYale graduate, can be seen in the make-up of the problem, The Dying Rooms, became a friend ofBill and pro-Marxist "AristideFoundationfor Democracy," showed children tied to wooden economic adviserto Clinton. whose board included left-wing toilets, sleeping in their own Talbott, who also graduated from Democrats such as Reps. Maxine excrement. Yale and is now president of the Waters, John Conyers, and Joseph The brutality reflects the Chinese Brookings Institution, became Deputy Kennedy, and former Rep. Michael policyofonechildperfamily, enforced Secretary of State in the Clinton Barnes. through mandatory abortions, admmistration. Beforethat,hehadbeen Talbott's global left-wing vision sterilization,andoutrightkillings.Hillary acolimmistforTimemagazine, writing was endorsed by President Clinton, calls such a policy "barbaric" in her a July20,1992, column,"The Birthof who had sent a June 22,1993, letter to book but admits that in her speech to the conference she did not criticize says the Bosnian Serbs were attacked More Lies By Hillary China by name. Ironically, all ofthis is because they "were besieging the recounted in a chapter entitled Muslim town ofSrebrenica in a frenzy Dick Morris, a former Clinton "Women'sRights Are Human Rights." of 'ethnic cleansing.'" In fact, political adviser, said on July 21 that ForHillary, the villains are not the Srebrenica, a so-called U.N. "safe Hillary, lured by the drop in Bush's Communists and fellow travelers but haven," was being used to train and ratings, might seek and win the the "extreme conservatives" who refurbishMuslimtroops,and mayhave Democraticnominationnextyear.Her oppose them. She rails against been serving as a base for foreign background will be a problem for her, conservativetalk-radio,suggestingthat terrorists in the region. Hillary but even more damaging are the lies it played a role in provoking the 1994 conveniently ignores the Clinton- she has told about her close fnend, Oklahomabombing.Thisisaridiculous approved "ethnic cleansing" by Webb Hubbell,who wentto prison for charge that Bill Clinton had used in a Croatian forces against the Serbs. stealingfi-om hispartnersandclientsof brazenpolitical attempt to discredit his "I had spoken out strongly infavor politicalopponents ontalkradio. Hillary the Rose Law Firm. takes it further, claiming that executed Hillary says in her book that she bomber Timothy McVeigh was a didn'tknowWebbwasin serioustrouble member of the "extreme right-wing" Hush money for Hubbell is a until November24,1994. That is a lie. She and Bill had been told in March and had ties to "militant anti- show-stopper for Hillary's that Hubbell faced prosecution and government groups." This is an presidentialambitions. exaggeration that borders on fantasy. thatheshouldbeoustedfromtheJustice McVeighmayhaveattendedameeting Department. Theypromptlysoughtand ofa militia group at some time, and he got his resignation. Fearing he would of Bill's leadership of NATO in the did have some anti-government views reveal their darkest secrets, they and bombing campaign to force Slobodan stemming from the violent federal their aides set out to raise money to Milosevic's troops out of Kosovo," a assaultontheBranchDavidianreligious buy his silence. The final OIC report province ofYugoslavia, she says. But compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993. sayshewaspaid $541,750,ostensibly But the evidence developed by the House refused to authorize the forhisservices,but heperformedlittle bombing, makingtheintervention illegal. McVeigh's attorney, Stephen Jones, or no work. andotherexpertssuggeststhatforeign Thebombingcampaign,whichresulted The claim that the Clintons didn't terrorists may have ultimately been in the deaths ofthousands ofinnocent knowHubbell wasindeeptroubleuntil behindthe MurrahBuildingbombing. civilians, amountedto interference in a November 1994 enabled them to say sovereign state that posed no threat to However, the Clinton administration they had nothing to do with the so stopped the investigation and theU.S. Indeed,thebombingbenefited licitation ofhush money because they prosecution with McVeigh and his the Kosovo Liberation Army, a group didn't know that Hubbell faced alleged partner, Terry Nichols, both of linked to al Qaeda. In Hillary's book, prosecution. The more that lie is whom had served in the Army. Jones' though. PresidentClinton "soundedthe publicized the more difficult it will be book. Others Unknown (Public alarm on global terrorism" and tried to for the Clintons to return to the White Affairs, 1998), explores this, and get the "diabolical" Osama bin Laden. House as President and First Mate. terrorismanalystLaurieMylroie,author In Rwanda, she writes, "rape They should have been evicted when of The WarAgainst America (Regan and sexual assault were committed the hush-money scandal broke. Books, 2001), has also cited evidence on a mass scale, tactical weapons in the genocidal violence that raged of a foreign or even Iraqi role in the WhatYou CanDo OklahomaCitybombing. there in 1994." Yet she also notes that Bill later "publicly expressed Send the enclosed cards or your ForeignPolicy Expert? regret that our country and the international community had not owncardsorletterstoDavidMartin of CBS, Barbara Walters of ABC Mrs. Clinton, who abandoned her done more to stop the horror" of and Tucker Carlson of CNN. pro-Palestinianstanceandbecamepro- perhaps one million dead. The Israel when she ran for the Senate, program, Triumph of Evil, noted speaksoutonforeignpolicy,confirming thattheClintonadministrationeven the role ofco-president she assumed in hesitated to label it genocide. domestic and foreign affairs. Her book With this record of devious AIMREPORTis publishedtwicemonthlyby Accuracy In Media, 4455 Connecticut Av defends the Clinton administration's pronouncements, Hillary reportedly enue,N.W., Washington DC 20008, and is free military campaigns on behalf of the wants to run for the White House some to AIM members.Membershipdues are $40 a Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo. She day. year. Dues and contributions to AIM are tax deductible. Corporatemembership is $100. AIMReport

CLIFF'SNOTES July 22,2003

• THISingtheIS liesinHillaryTHE SECONDClinton'sOF TWObook,LivingHistory.AIM REPORTS MosthavefocusedonhertransANALYZING AND EXPOS- parentliesaboutwhenshelearnedofherhusband'saffairwithMonicaLewinsky. Far moreimportant ishowSenatorClinton, apossiblepresidential candidatewithaloveof money and power, has covered up herMarxist roots.Hillary underwent an ideological transformation during the heyday oftheNewLeft on campus that she doesn'twant to talk about. CNNCrossfire co-hostTuckerCarlsonmade headlines by losing a betthat hewouldeathisshoesifHillary's booksolda millioncopies.Hillarythenpresentedhim withabigshoe.Ourbet isthemediawill continueto letMrs.Clinton offthe hook about herrelationship withcommunist lawyerRobertTreuhaft, theBlackPanthers, andthe NewWorldFoundation. Ihopewe losethebet.WesuggestwritingCarlsonaboutpinningHillarydownonthese criticalmatters.

IGNORING HILLARY'SLIES,THEMEDIACLAIMTO HAVENAILEDPRESIDENTBUSHINABIG whopper overIraq. Ralph Naderissaying Bushcanbeimpeached overthis. Themedia drumbeat culminated ina CBS Evening Newsstorybydefense reporter DavidMartin thathasbeenseizeduponbytheleftasproofthat Bushhasbeencaughtinadeliberate lie.ThestoryranontheCBSNewswebsiteundertheheadline,"Bush KnewIraqInfoWasFalse."Theheadlinewaslaterchangedto,"BushKnewIraqiInfoWasDubious."These headlines are false. This is all aboutBush'sstatementin the State oftheUnion address that, "TheBritish govem- menthasleamedthatSaddamHusseinrecentlysoughtsignificantquantities ofuraniumfromAfrica."Theproblem isthattheCIAsignedoffonBush'sstatement withoutconfirming it,andDirector George Tenetsaiditshouldn't havebeeninthespeech.Martin's storyacknowledgedthe President'sstatementwasatleasttechnicallycor rect—^because the British had made such a claim. But British Foreign SecretaryJack Straw insists theyhave "reliableintelligence" onthismatter—not theforged documents whichhavealsobeeninthenews—^which hadnot been shared with the U.S. That'sapparently because it was too sensitive to be providedto the CIA. We suggest writingtoDavidMartinaboutthis,askingwhytheCIAcouldnotbetrustedwiththisinformation. That's thereal story.ItlookslikeanotherCIAfailure. Sincetheendofthe war,IraqiscientistMahdiObeidi,whoheadedIraq's gascentrifugeprogramforenrichinguranium,alertedjoumalistsandformerweaponsinspectorDavidAlbrightto nuclear parts hehad hidden in hisgarden on orders from the former regime. CNN reportsthe CIA was slowto take note ofthis, too. Jack Straw noted that the report by AmbassadorJoe Wilson, who investigatedthe matter on behalfofthe CIA, confirmed that in 1999an Iraqi delegation "soughtthe expansion oftradelinkswith Niger—andthatformerNigergovernmentofficialsbelievedthatthiswasinconnectionwiththeprocurementof yellowcake" oruraniumoxide.UraniumisNiger'smainexport.Sowhyacontroversyover 16wordsintheState oftheUnion? Themedia—andthe liberals—are looking for something touse against Bush.

THEMEDIAAREALSO MISREPRESENTINGTHE SITUATIONIN LIBERIA. THEYSAYLIBERIA was founded byAmerican slaves. False.The American Colonization Society,which wanted the slaves inAfrica for their own good, boughtthe land, financed the settlements there, and ordered the slaves to declare indepen dence. The Liberians made amess ofit,engaging inslavery oftheir own that became aninternational scandal in 1930. The LiberianConstitutionprohibits non-blacks from becomingcitizensor owningproperty. The mediasay LiberianPresident CharlesTaylor is a dictator. He was freely elected in 1997. Tayloris a targetbecausehe interfered with U.N. plans to seize diamond mines in Sierra Leone in 2000. Taylor was supportingarebel group there. A U.N. courtwith a prosecutorappointed by U.N. boss Kofi Annanhas indictedhim. U.S. SUPREMECOURTCHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAMREHNQUISTIS A PRIMETARGETOF Hillary'swrathinherbook. Rehnquist isaconservativewhowasintheconservative dissenting minority inthe recentSupreme Courtdecisions upholding affirmative actionandhomosexual rights. Theattacks onRehnquist reflectHillary'sinterestsinceherstudentdaysincapturingcontrolofthe legalsystemandusingthecourtsto imposetheirradical"vision"ontherestofus.Theyhavelargelysucceededalready. Weonlyhavethreerehable conservatives onthecourttoday—Rehnquist, AntoninScaliaandClarenceThomas.ColumnistRobertNovak notedthatconservativelegalscholarshavedevelopeddeepcontemptforJusticeSandraDayO'Connor,who wasonthev^ongsideofbothcases. HenotesthatwhenPresidentReaganwasconsidering nominating her,there wasdocumentary evidence ofher liberalrecordwhenshewasintheArizonalegislature. ButayoungJustice Department lawyerexamined herrecord andcleared her, leading Reagan totellsocial conservatives, "She's all right."ThatlawyerwasKenStarr, whobecame theIndependent Counsel thatfailedtoholdHillaryresponsible forhercrimes.

THEBARBARAWALTERSPROGRAMABOUT"HILLARYCLINTON'SJOURNEY"EMPHASIZED howHillary wasraised asaRepublican, butsaidnothing aboutheractivities atYaleonbehalfoftheracistBlack Panthers,herworkwithcommunistlawyerRobertTreuhaft,andchairmanshipoftheradicalNew WorldFoun dation, whichpromotedcommunism inCentral America. Hillarycameacross asspiritual, sayingsheprayedon herkneesforGodtosavehermarriage.WesuggestwritingtoMs.Waltersaboutthisglaringomissioninher program. HillarytoldWalters shewasn'trunning forpresident. ButNewsmax.comnowreports that"sinkingpoll numbersforPresidentBush,continuingweaknessintheU.S.economy,andthefailureofaclearDemocratic front-runner toemerge—^all maybefactors leadingMrs.Clintontore-thinkherplansfor2004."Duringasubse quentappearance onBBCChannel 4' s"RichardandJudyShow,"Mrs.Clinton waspressedonwhethershe mightrunandsaid,"Youneverknowwhatmighthappen."

IF MRS. CLINTONWINS THEPRESIDENCY, BILL CLINTONPRESUMABLYBECOMESTHE "Firsthusband,"wherehe' 11 haveanotheropportunitytoevaluateWhiteHousemtems.Hewouldalsohave anotheropportunity toaffectpolicy. InaJune 14article onhowBill Clinton made $9.5 million fi-om speeches in 2002, theWashington Postnotedinpassing thathegot$300,000 from agroup called"theAustralian Council for the PromotionofPeacefulReunificationofChina, which the CentralNewsAgency inTaiwandescribes as a 'pro-Beijing organization.'" Clinton spoke toaconference inAustralia mFebruary 2002 sponsoredbythe council. TheAmerican ForeignPolicyCouncil quotes sources inTaiwan assaymg thatthegroupisa"typical international UnitedFront"operation conductedbyBeijingagainstTaiwan, andthatitsconferences aresubsi- dizedbyBeijingthroughpro-communistindividualsandorganizations. ChinesedissidentWei Jingshenghadurged Clinton topull outoftheconference because itwas afront for the communists. Hesaid Beijingwas spending $1 millionontheconference,includingthefeeforClinton.A spokesmanforthegroupdeniedbeingbackedby Beijing. Ourmediadon'tshow anyinterest inwhetherthe communists inChina arefunnelingmoney toourex- presidentthrough afront group. Hillary isn'tasked about it,either.

A RECENT AIMREPORTNOTED THETHREATTO THEU.S. FROMLATINAMERICA, INCLUD- ing the pro-communistBrazilianPresidentIgnacio "Lula"daSilva. Lulahas sincebeen inthe WhiteHouse talking tradewithPresidentBush,evenastheJulyissueofTheAmericanLegionmagazine washittinghomeswithan article byPaul Crespo entitled"TheOtherAxis ofEvil"—on how theleaders ofBrazil, Cuba andVenezuela are collaborating inananti-American hub. This isanexcellenttreatment oftheproblem. Meantime, theWall Street Journal's Mary AnastasiaO'Gradynoted that Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chavez's"mosttenacious adversary," thedecorated Venezuelan ArmyGeneral Enrique Medina Gomez, hasbeendeniedavisabytheU.S.State Departmenttovisitthe U.S. onthe grounds thatheissuspectedofinvolvement in"terroristactivityNoevidence has been produced forthis sensational charge. The New York Times said thegeneral's visa hasbeen revoked becausehe has calledfor the overthrowofChavez. This is incredible. Chavezshouldbe overthrown. He is a threat tohisown people, thehemisphere and theU.S. Whose side istheState Department on?