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              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5  Num. 30
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WHITEWATER AND THE "RUNAWAY" FEDERAL GRAND JURY
By Sherman H. Skolnick

What is a "runaway" grand jury? The creature known as grand jury 
comes out of the British common law -- that is, principles of 
law, considered non-statutory, but accepted as fundamental just 
as if written on parchment or etched in stone.

The grand jury was to be an independent body, not under the 
control of the Crown or the Crown's prosecutor. The grand jury, 
as envisioned by British common law, are to meet in secret and 
investigate what criminality is being committed in the district 
and who, if anyone, is to be questioned by them under sworn oath 
as part of a behind-locked-doors probe. The grand jurors, headed 
by a foreman to be selected by themselves, could issue a report 
on crime; or, they can sign a "true bill", an indictment, which 
is the basic charge and accusation by them. (A "no bill" 
supposedly would be a secret badge of innocence or no crime 
suspected or charged.)

Common law items are only mentioned about twice in America's 
organic, written law, the U.S. Constitution. The Bill of Rights 
thereof states, in part, 5th Amendment:

  No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise 
  infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a 
  Grand Jury...

By this language, the Founding Fathers incorporated the historic 
operation and understanding of grand jury, designed to protect 
citizens against arbitrary power of a corrupt, unrestricted 
executive and judicial power. Who mentions these days that any 
citizen has the absolute right to locate the foreman of the grand 
jury, and offer directly to the grand jury, details of apparent 
crimes and documents thereof, and the names of possible witnesses 
and perpetrators. Of course, no one can knock on their unmarked 
grand jury room door, and ask what else is going on inside.

Despite the 5th Amendment adopting this historic apparatus as the 
fundamental law, grand jurors are seldom, if ever, told of the 
historic intention that they be independent. Usually ending up as 
a panel of 23, the grand jurors are to be selected from a cross- 
section of the population of the district. However, in some 
districts, they are selected from a list of illustrious citizens, 
hence the term, "Blue Ribbon Grand Jury".

Since the public is seldom, if ever, told about this, there has 
grown up a custom and practice, whereby the prosecutors control 
the grand jury as if the grand jurors have no fundamental duty to 
be independent, and a built-in power of their own. Prosecutors 
have come to play on the grand jury like a captive organ. Grand 
jurors are cowed and led around by the nose. The prosecutors have 
their own, non-statutory, sort of rule book, as to how to conduct 
grand juries. But the prosecutors' rule books are not the law, 
just arbitrary instruction manuals.

This, in violation of the historic background of the grand jury.


In the Whitewater affair, a special federal judge panel, by 
statute, appointed an Independent Counsel, Kenneth Starr, 
supposed to be separate and apart from the Justice Department. 
Under the law, this was supposed to assure the public that there 
would be an "independent" investigation of possible high-level 
criminality, not a white-wash. Set up in the District of Columbia 
is one of several federal grand juries -- the others, in Little 
Rock -- with Starr as prosecutor. Harvard-educated, and being an 
assistant U.S. Attorney in Sacramento, California, Miguel 
Rodriguez was assigned to Starr's staff. Rodriguez was reportedly 
blocked by Starr and others from probing and calling independent 
witnesses, not necessarily FBI nor forensic experts beholden to a 
political agenda or sponsor. All this, in respect to suspicions 
that White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster, jr. was not 
really a suicide but murdered.

Contradictions and cover ups seem apparent. Was Foster dead near 
the White House and his body moved to Fort Marcy Park, Virginia, 
a federal area with civil war relics such as cannons? Did the 
Park Police, the FBI, the Secret Service, and other government 
and private persons engage in a giant cover-up? Rodriguez's 
supervisor, Mark H. Tuohey III, reportedly helped block 
Rodriguez. Tuohey reportedly is a member of a highly corrupt 
Chicago law firm.

Disgruntled at the apparent interference, Rodriguez resigned 
about March, 1995, and went back to Sacramento. Sources close to 
the Independent Counsel's Office contend that a sizeable portion 
of the office records "walked away" at the same time. Who did it? 
The FBI is in a box on this strange situation. They have been 
asked to surveil, and possibly round-up and arrest, some eleven 
high-profile private investigators, journalists, and researchers, 
who allegedly have access if not actual custody of these secret 
records. Some such data has been blabbed out in various forums: 
radio, small newspapers, newsletters, and major foreign press.

As to the supposedly "secret" records, incriminating as they 
allegedly are, the FBI, Starr, and others are near a checkmate 
crunch. To arrest new custodians of the purported records would 
blow the whole Foster cover-up into the public eye.


Every few decades, federal grand jurors realize they are supposed 
to be, in fact, independent, and they begin to assert that 
independence -- they demand that witnesses of THEIR choice, not 
the prosecutor's, be called; that the prosecutor stop interfering 
with who THEY wish to target for criminality.


In previous stories, this writer has outlined the Chicago 
connection to the Whitewater-Foster mess. Implicated in an 
apparent attempt to conceal the 47 million dollars missing from 
Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, of Little Rock, has been 
Chicago-area attorney, John E. Gierum. His office is in the 
suburb of Park Ridge, same place where Hillary and her family, 
the Rodhams, are from.

In the presence of a witness, Gierum confessed to this writer, in 
January, 1994, that he is a close crony of Hillary and her 
family; that the Clinton White House is trying to "frame" Gierum 
for the secret transfer of 50 million dollars of a 58 million 
dollar contingency fund of the S&L bailout agency, Resolution 
Trust Corporation [RTC]. The fund had been parked by RTC with 
Household International, and their unit, Household Bank -- they 
are successors to the CIA-linked Nugan-Hand Bank of Australia. 
(Background: "The Crimes of Patriots", by Jonathan Kwitny.)

Starr and others on his staff are aware that Bill and Hillary 
Clinton have apparently committed, or are suspected of having 
committed, criminal offenses in respect to the disappearance of 
the 47 million dollars and the secret 50 million dollar transfer 
of federal funds was an attempted cover-up. A source close to the 
Whitewater probe confirms that the 50 million dollar transfer is 
the centerpiece and also that Small Business Administration [SBA] 
fraud is also at the center of the Arkansas mess. Some believe 
Gierum is deeply implicated and that it is no coincidence that he 
has been senior litigation attorney for SBA.

Gierum's confession is a matter of federal court record; he was 
served a copy and did not dispute the same. The court records are 
part of a complex scandal called the Joseph Andreuccetti affair. 
Andreuccetti is a defrauded suburban Chicago caulking contractor 
once represented by Gierum.


Those close to the District of Columbia Special Federal Grand 
Jury contend it has become, in fact, a "runaway" grand jury, 
asserting its independence. In an odd story in *Investor's 
Business Daily* -- not the type of story they usually run -- on 
the front page they headline "The Odd Death of Vince Foster", 
Tuesday, June 20, 1995 edition. With a stated circulation of 
194,000, the newspaper details an apparent foot-dragging of 
details by the mainstream press that may show Foster was 
murdered. The article, an apparent joint project of very 
knowledgeable American and foreign investigators and journalists, 
states about Foster, Clinton White House deputy counsel "He was 
also the highest-ranking executive branch official to die 
violently since the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963."

The story refers to another crusading writer, Christopher Ruddy, 
attempting to break the media cover-up, who quotes a former 
Chicago federal prosecutor, Thomas Scorza, now a professor of 
legal ethics at the University of Chicago. Detailing the exact 
steps how the grand jury in the Foster matter can avoid being a 
"rubber stamp", Scorza is evidently already aware that the D.C. 
Federal Grand Jury is a runaway body showing its historic purpose 
and independence. The steps Scorza details are rarely, if ever, 
discussed in the press. Scorza is also reportedly very 
knowledgeable about the Joseph Andreuccetti affair.

Sources close to this runaway grand jury contend as follows:

(1) that they intend to call as witnesses former assistant 
independent counsel Miguel Rodriguez, presumably to detail what 
witnesses he believed needed to be called and how he was 
stonewalled by Kenneth Starr; and what needs to be done to get 
around the blockade purportedly done by Starr as part of a 
whitewash in the Foster matter;

(2) independent experts, criminologists and forensic and others, 
not dominated by either the G.O.P. or Democratic party apparatus 
or dominated by others interested in a cover-up of what happened 
to Foster;

(3) agents or officers of the Park Police, FBI, Secret Service, 
and other agencies for a proper grilling, not a prior rehearsed 
and arranged stage act.


The D.C. runaway federal grand jury has already indicated, 
considered, mentioned, or decided, to vote a true bill, 
indictments, against the following, among others:

---William Jefferson Clinton, President;
---Hillary Rodham Clinton;
---Janet Reno, U.S. Attorney General;
---the current head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as 
well as key other agents and officials of the Bureau.

They are charged or about to be charged with obstruction of 
justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice in respect to the demise 
of a White House official, namely deputy counsel Foster, 
destruction and concealment of records, and perjury and sub- 
orning perjury among other federal agents and officials.


A secret caucus of Democrats have met recently and have more or 
less reached a consensus: that for the good of the country 
(cynically, actually to avoid destruction of the Democrat party), 
that Clinton should resign. They are urging the President to make 
public statements explaining the CIA's role in dope smuggling and 
gun running through southern states including through the airport 
at Mena, Arkansas. They want Clinton to publicly level with the 
American people: that the gun and dope running was set up for CIA 
by George Bush and Ollie North; that the CIA told Clinton, as 
Governor of Arkansas, to mind his own business, to stay out of 
it, and not interfere in any way with the covert operations group 
of CIA projects.

The Democrats are trying to send a delegation to the Oval Office, 
to persuade Clinton to say that Kenneth Starr, the purported 
Independent Counsel, has been selectively targeting Democrats and 
Starr has been standing on his head to blockade any investigation 
by Starr's office of prominent Republicans, in and out of office, 
past and present, including George Bush and Ollie North.

His own party functionaries want Clinton to accuse Starr of 
covering up for high level criminality of Bush, Ollie North, and 
other prominent Republicans in Congress, past and present.

A purported rationale for the Foster murder cover-up and 
whitewash, and foot-dragging by the mainstream press, involves 
his reported role as part of a super-secret project to use the 
"trap door" in PROMIS computer software to spy on central banks 
and other banks worldwide. Hooked into low-orbit satellites, the 
software was reportedly stolen from the copyright holders, 
INSLAW.

The theft of the PROMIS software, by the way, is tied, some say, 
to the strange death, believed murder, of freelance journalist 
Danny Casolaro. The INSLAW mess, some say, may be one of the 
biggest scandals in American history, involving theft of high 
technology and selling it to sworn enemies of the U.S. -- usually 
considered treason -- done by top officials of the Reagan and 
Bush administrations.

Before becoming part of the Clinton White House and also while 
there, Foster reportedly was the equivalent of a military general 
in the super-secret National Security Agency [NSA] -- spy 
satellites, code-crackers, and such. Was Foster snuffed out for 
so-called "national security" reasons? Hence, was a massive 
stonewalling supposedly justified to protect NSA, NSC, CIA, and 
their worldwide bank and other spying methods and projects?

Some foreign journalists who know a great deal about the runaway 
federal grand jury may have to consult their home country 
government top officials before running some of the foregoing 
details known to such reporters. The bank spying project 
targeted, among others, British and Italian banks, including 
their Central bank. Would British journalists, stationed or 
assigned in the United States, have to get a waiver or exemption 
under the British Official Secrets Act? In order to run a story 
like this or similar? And: is a similar situation true of the 
major Italian press, who know about some of the details of this 
story -- do they likewise need permission of the Rome government?

One of the reasons the British Official Secrets Act may have to 
be considered is, among other things, the National Security 
Agency of the U.S. has a joint secrecy agreement with its British 
counterpart. Also: a major British newspaper article stating U.S. 
President Clinton has been or is about to be indicted, may 
interfere with U.S.-British relations.

A similar circumstance exists as to the U.S. NSA and a similar 
group in the Rome government.

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Late breaking: reliable sources inform Mr. Skolnick that Democrat 
leaders have talked to Clinton and demanded that Clinton resign 
by July 29. These same sources say that Clinton *will* resign.

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Above distributed, not necessarily endorsed, by Brian Francis Redman

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Mr. Skolnick is chairman/founder, since 1963, of the public- 
interest group, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, which 
has for more than 3 decades touched off some of the most profound 
bribery and similar scandals in American history. Since 1971, he 
has been editor, *Hotline News*, a 5-minute recorded phone 
commentary (a regular phone call): (312) 731-1100, changed about 
3 times/week, on 24 hours/day, heard each week by many thousands. 
Since 1991, a regular panel member on a public access Cable TV 
show in Chicago, viewed by hundreds of thousands in Chicago and 
suburbs, 1 hour/week. His commentaries run on Internet, Prodigy, 
and similar computer networks. Office (8 a.m. to midnight, 7 
days/week): (312) 375-5741. 9800 So. Oglesby Avenue, Chicago IL 
60617. Call us before sending FAX please.

Donations to support their not-for-profit work would be 
appreciated.

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