-=> Quoting WALTER LUFFMAN to JEAN HALVERSON <=-
 -=> Quoting Jean Halverson to Robert Craft <=-
 
 JH> Are all the media still enamored by Clinton? I  seem  to recall Sam 
 JH> Donaldson kind of gloating when all this Lewinski/perjury stuff
 JH> started  to come out.
 WL> In general, reporters and their editors/new directors/network
 WL> executives are opportunists.  They may like Clinton and prefer
 WL> to show him in the most favorable light, but give them someone
 WL> else they can support...or present sufficient evidence that
 WL> he's lied to them and/or his policies are bad for them and
 WL> their profession...and they'll turn on him.
 
 Maybe like rats deserting a sinking ship?
 
 JH> Why haven't the police been called in?
 WL> Who's going to make the call -- someone in the administration?
 WL> The media themselves?  If any of the Republican leadership in
 WL> Congress, or private individuals (who will almost certainly
 WL> be considered "right-wing extremists") report anything to the
 WL> cops, I suspect the DOJ would work quickly to discredit the
 WL> report.  Also, don't forget that most chiefs of police,
 WL> sheriffs and state-police officials owe a lot of their
 WL> budgets to federal dollars, while federal authorities report
 WL> directly to one or another of Clinton's people.
 Yeah, I'm just not educated about how things really work in our capital.
 
 WL> Besides, the various deaths in question took place in a wide
 WL> variety of locales, which means no one agency has
 WL> jurisdiction over them.  It's a fact that reports from
 WL> small-town departments don't always get into any central file
 WL> network; even when they do, they may not be as complete as
 WL> they should be.  Put it all together, and it's hard for any
 WL> law-enforcement agency to see enough data from all these
 WL> investigations to put together any sort of pattern.
 WL> (Journalists, OTOH, aren't limited to any one jurisdiction.
 WL> If some sharp reporter can get the information and find a
 WL> pattern -- without having his/her credibility destroyed by
 WL> White House spinmeisters first, of course -- he/she could
 WL> simultaneously pick up a Pulitzer Prize and hand the whole
 WL> case to the police, gift-wrapped and ready for action.)
 Either that or end up as the latest addition to the body count.
 Jean Halverson
... The more things change, the more they stay insane.
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