Listserve and The Unicorn - Part Three

Now excerpts from the below last week's cover story overshadowed by the Shadow and
Republican Conventions: [see my conclusions/evaluations/suggestions at end]

"The trouble started, they say, when they told the CIA to go pound sand."
"CIA Agent Lawrence was adamant about getting this information as he was agitated
when BNI personnel refused the request." McLaughlin added that he and his crew
"feared for the life of the informant and his family if this information was
revealed because if the informant disappeared there would be no problem for the
Clinton administration."
"The CIA people cautioned them that any move to confiscate
Pena Gomez's drug money would have to be cleared with the U.S. State Department
first, with the DEA as an intermediary."  "...only the CIA and the Clinton-Gore
State Department would have had both the influence and the authority..."
"It is
an outrageous allegation, that the CIA and the State Department were so intent on
protecting the Dominican drug traffickers in the PRD that they used the FBI and the
U.S. Attorney's Office to destroy the careers of four Pennsylvania narcotics agents".
--------- "...the District Attorney and the U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia
independently chose to take all of the pending BNI cases and, as the cops might
say, "shit-can" them. It was a unique, scorched-earth approach that was also, the
BNI agents claim, the only prosecutorial measure that would ensure a quick and
permanent demise for BNI's investigation of Dominican narco-politics." ---------
"The scandal hit at a time when the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office was
already in a state of general turmoil. The elected AG, Ernie Preate, had gone to
prison for campaign finance corruption. "
"In October 1996, prominent members of Dominican drug trafficking organizations -
people assigned special DEA identity numbers - attended a fundraiser for the
New York Democratic Party at an Upper West Side tavern.  "The guest of honor that
night was Vice President Al Gore."