Would be president John Kerry seems to have a few national security ethics problems before he even gets to the nominating convention.

Or perhaps we can illustrate better with a question: Besides being rabid liberals, what do Joseph C. Wilson IV, Jamie Gorelick, Richard Ben-Veniste, Richard Clarke, and Sandy Berger all have in common? Sure, they all worked for the Clinton fiasco and all are egotistical and brash; but that's not the point. Now they are all helping the Kerry campaign in one way or another -- often behind the scenes. And, as is often the case with the Clinton cabal, not everything they are doing is legal.

That 9-11 Commission, containing Gorelick and Ben-Veniste, turned out to be little more than a joke.

Gorelick lied to the commission by not telling them about her "wall" memo while at Justice. Ben-Veniste is there to protect the Clinton administration. Most other members of the panel seem to be little more than ex-politicians wanting some limelight. Clarke testilied because he wanted the media exposure to sell his book and trash the Bush administration. Berger testified, probably incorrectly, to cover up Clinton administration misdeeds.

So, the commission heard plenty of lies from the Clinton cabal. Wilson has been exposed by both the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee and in a British Parliamentary Inquiry as being little more then a tool of the Democrats, used to cast a bad shadow on the Bush administration. Just another Clinton cabal liar, in other words.

This week we learned just how deep the cover-up really went. As Fox News reported: "Former President Clinton's national security adviser is under criminal investigation for taking highly classified terrorism documents that should have been turned over to the independent commission probing the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, FOX News has confirmed."(1) Sandy Berger's home and office were raided by FBI agents with search warrants and the FBI found documents Berger was not supposed to have.

What was Berger trying to cover up? Simple.

He swiped drafts of sensitive after-action reports concerning the Clinton administration's handling of Al Qaeda terror threats during the December 1999 millennium celebration. Berger ripped off documents that showed Clinton was warned about the Al Qaeda problem and how it may impact our security. Clearly, the Clinton cabal did not want those documents to get to the commission because they proved, unequivocally, that the Clinton administration really screwed up. Can't have that. So Berger stole them.

Problem is, some of those documents were classified above top secret. They were never supposed to leave the archives for any reason.

Some press reports indicate that the Archival staff became alerted when certain documents began to disappear.

After all, these archive workers are responsible for keeping them where they belong, locked up. So, they intentionally marked a few to trap Berger.

Last week, Berger said in a prepared statement:

"I deeply regret the sloppiness involved, but I had no intention of withholding documents from the commission, and to the contrary, to my knowledge, every document requested by the commission from the Clinton administration was produced." Sure they were, because the commission didn't know to ask for the good ones. Anyway, they were missing.

The Clinton cabal's professional prevaricators came out to defend Berger, of course, but they look like clowns doing it. For instance, old Holy Joe (Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.), tried to fluff it off by saying that "unless we learn otherwise, I have to assume that what Sandy said was right -- that any removal of documents was inadvertent. But it is serious."

Their word of favor last week was "inadvertent."

Interesting word, that: "Marked by unintentional lack of care, " it usually means. Not applicable here, in other words. Berger cared enough to steal and destroy documents so others will not know how badly the Clinton administration messed up. Berger cared enough to sneak the documents out of the protective custody of the archivists in his underwear. Which means, Berger cared enough to commit a few major felonies to insure the cover-up.

Next question: How much of this information got to Kerry? We need to know that. Because, being both a lawyer and a senator, Kerry well knows that receipt of any of that secret information is also a felony punishable by a few years hard time.

Anyway, we must always keep in mind that all of the liars mentioned above are working to help Kerry.

Most also expect positions in the administration if Kerry wins. Scary, huh.

1. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,126249,00.html

Send in the clowns. Here come the clowns.

Yeah, the four-day Democratic Party convention will begin at Boston's FleetCenter on July 26, 2004.

Oh wait, it's supposed to be a serious event, I guess. Perhaps that's why they imported those hundreds of extra hookers and the Boston Police have instructions to allow them to sell their wares unimpeded.

But, darn, it's hard to take this convention seriously when the lead speakers remind me of a Bart Simpson quote: "Didn't do it. Didn't see me do it. Can't prove anything."

To start off the show, they've got Hillary introducing Bill Clinton. Now, there's a believable pair, huh. Then comes other clowns like Al the bore Gore and Howard Dean. We can't help but wonder if each will do their famous rendition of a wild-man scream to entertain the delegates. Why not? Democrats seem to like that stuff in political speeches.

And, talk about extracurricular fun, Dennis Kucinich plans his own personal rendition of a clown act(1). Check out his web site: "Congressman Dennis Kucinich is in a unique position as a Democratic candidate -- with Delegates from around the country -- to be the voice inside the Convention on issues such as universal health care, fair trade, the repeal of the Patriot Act, and an end to the Iraq occupation. At the same time, the Kucinich Campaign will participate in and facilitate an inclusive dialogue outside the Convention. The Campaign aims to engage as many people as possible in the Boston Social Forum, the Convention process, and other activities such as workshops, peace vigils and street events to be held throughout the week."

Yet another delusional Democrat, obviously.

In the background, there's a tug of war for Democratic Party controls between the Clinton cabal and the Kerry-Kennedy contingent. This could produce some interesting sidebar stories from the convention -- Hillary throwing another hissy-fit and trashing her hotel room, et cetera. Also, Kennedy and Dodd will be expected to make their famous sandwich with some unsuspecting waitress (or a hooker) at some point. Unknown to the Democrats, a small contingent of budding journalists will be attending the after-hours events with spy-cams, so there may be a few interesting background reports worth mentioning later.

The people of Boston are getting a little upset with the Democrats, finally. The Boston Globe ran a poll that had over 11,000 respondents(2). As reported, 87% said the convention will cost area residents too much trouble, inconvenience and money. Only 12% said hosting the convention was worth it. To top it off, the local economy is expected to lose over $50-million on the deal.

We shouldn't feel sorry for Boston, though. After all, that's the focal point for keeping Kennedy and Kerry in office, so they deserve whatever they get.

The Democrats say they are the party of the working person. So, let's take a moment to examine exactly how they are treating working people for their convention.

First, there's the grumbling from the cab drivers -- who may refuse to pick up delegates at the airport. As reported, the tab from the airport usually runs about thirty bucks. The Democratic Party wants cabbies to accept payment via a "voucher" to be redeemed after the convention. And, the Democrats only plan to pay twenty bucks per voucher.

Then, there's the little matter of an ongoing police and firefighter strike -- although they do report to work. Police and firefighters plan to picket the convention, which should be interesting. At this writing, the mayor is forcing the union into expedited arbitration, causing the police union leadership to say the convention will be picketed even more vigorously as a result.

Unions, of course, support Democrats. The California delegation reported they will not cross the union picket line. Five other states agreed with California.

However, there is a good bit of hypocrisy involved on the part of the union picketers. The unions say the pickets will back off when Kerry enters the convention so he will not be seen as crossing a union picket line.

So, we'll have the popcorn and beverages ready when they send out the clowns. If nothing else, the convention is expected to be a lot funnier than normal television programming.

1. http://www.kucinich.us/convention/convention_why_go.php

2. http://www.boston.com/news/politics/conventions/

The Washington Times published a very interesting three-part series on illegal immigration.(1)

This series should be required reading for those in many states who wonder why their local taxes are so high.

According to The Times, there are an estimated 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens living and working in the United States. Worse yet, they have little or no real fear of ever being detained or deported. Because, the federal government only has a total of 2,300 federal agents assigned to apprehend them.

As reported, if the current roster of 2,300 agents dedicated to pursuing illegal aliens now in the country arrests 500 persons a day, an unattainable goal at current resource levels, it would take from 44 to 66 years to apprehend them all -- and that's assuming that no new illegals enter the United States between now and 2070.

Following the money trail, the Times report states that we pay more than $7 billion annually to educate the children of illegal aliens, $1 billion for health care and emergency treatment and nearly $3 billion to detain illegal aliens in state and local jails.

Which means, we have a real problem and the federal government is doing little to help. Add in the fact that nearly half of the 48 al Qaeda terrorists tied to violent acts in the United States between 1993 and 2001 committed significant immigration-law violations and that problem gets more serious than just monetary expenditures.

We might add, too, that many illegal aliens are, in fact, also terrorists. Anyone who disagrees only needs to take a leisurely walk through one of their neighborhoods some warm evening. Even police fear entering some of those areas, and they have guns.

The point is, it appears that the representatives of the American people are getting a little wayward again.

For instance, the $87-billion (and growing) bill to the American people for Iraq equals over $760 for every taxpayer. Contrast that with the total 2003 federal border security (Coast Guard, Customs & INS) budget of $10.7-billion.

I hate to be inconvenient here, but I find these expenditures to be backwards. If we used $87-billion to protect our borders, language and culture against the massive onslaught of illegal aliens and drugs, we would probably have not have had the "terrorist" problems to begin with. Nor would we have over-burdened budgets for schools, prisons and government subsidized medical care.

And, we would not need all those obnoxious (and unconstitutional) anti-terrorism laws.

Let's back some of that up with information that comes directly from the federal government:

The Bush administration proposed an increase in the fiscal 2003 budget increases for homeland security functions at the Coast Guard, Immigration and Naturalization Service and Customs Service. Therein, the President proposed a total of $10.7 billion for border security in 2004.(3)

Yet, the White House reports(4) that the United States has a 7500-mile land and air border shared with Canada and Mexico, 11.2 million trucks and 2.2 million rail cars cross into the United States, while 7,500 foreign-flag ships make 51,000 calls in U.S. ports annually.

But, the 2003 Budget increased the inspection budget of the Customs Services by just $619 million, for a total of $2.3 billion. Increased funding for the Coast Guard's homeland security-related missions (protecting ports and coastal areas, as well as interdiction activities) were increased by just $282 million, to an overall level of $2.9 billion. The increased Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) budget for enforcement was just $1.2 billion, for a total of $5.3 billion. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement merged recently.)

When compared to what we are giving, as grants to Iraq, this isn't much.

There's an important argument to be made here and it points right back to the Clinton administration.

That is, if the budget was in the black, as Clinton claimed, then we had the money to beef up our national security by protecting our borders. As we now know, Clinton had strong reasons to believe that terrorists from al Qaeda, and other terrorist groups, were planning to attack within the United States. Which means, Clinton had good reason to spend a few billion dollars more on border security and chasing down illegal aliens.

But, the Clinton administration did nothing.

Nothing whatsoever. History will make Clinton pay for that error in judgment. Negligence in office, it's called.

There was a lot of that in the Clinton administration.

The Bush administration has a good start on correcting Clinton's negligence. But more, much more, needs to be done. The three Washington Times articles go far in bringing some of that to light.

1. http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040719-124724-2248r.htm

2. http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0102/012501p1.htm

3. http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0102/012501p1.htm

4. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020125.html

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