October 29, 2001
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Statistically significant chance of abuse of power
This column from insight reminds us that the following people received "random" audits from the IRS during the Clinton Administration:
Juanita Broaddrick, who came forward to accuse Clinton of raping her in 1977
Katherine Prudhomme, who embarrassed Al Gore at citizen forum by asking him to address Clinton’s alleged rape
Bruce Bates, a former director of publications of National Religious Broadcasters
Paula and Stephen Jones, who had an ongoing lawsuit against the president for sexual misconduct. Received audit notice five days after rejecting settlement offer
Margie Gray, a retired businesswoman who criticized the president in an e-mail
Billy Dale, the former director of the White House Travel Office who was fired to create a place for friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton
Christopher Emery, a long-time White House usher who was fired by Hillary Clinton in 1994 during the Travelgate scandal. Ten weeks before his dismissal (presumably for for “disloyalty”), he agreed to submit to an IRS and FBI background check even though he had been checked just three years earlier in 1991. All White House employees are routinely checked every five years
Patricia and Glenn Mendoza. Patricia Mendoza shouted remark at the president during 1996 campaign stop in Chicago
Kent Masterson Brown, an attorney who represented the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons in 1994 to open up Hillary Clinton’s secret health-care task force
William Gazecki, who edited the documentary Waco, the Rules of Engagement
Shelley Davis, a former IRS historian and whistleblower as well as author of Unbridled Power
Every woman who publicly outed/accused Clinton was audited (Flowers, Jones, Broaddrick). If we just look at this alone, the probability of this perfect hit ratio happening "randomly" are roughly 200,000 to 1 (based on 1/100 odds of one being chosen - 3/100 * 2/100 * 1/100). Look at this list, and the list of organizations at the end of the article. If you think the DNA convicted O.J., you gotta at least wonder about this.
Why bring this up now? We just passed into law a significant abridgement of our rights. Our best defense is a long memory of how power is abused, if not by the president or elected leaders themselves, by the people around him.
Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at October 29, 2001 10:09 PM | Technorati inbound links