European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday november 14, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 13 commentary Sydney h. Scha Bergit s hard to laugh when you re so disgusted the members of the Boob Cracy in Washington for their Gutter performance in the Clarence Thomas confirmation process have apparently gotten a lot of voters angry which is sort of a rare phenomenon Given the usual general apathy and determined uninformed Ness of the Public. This time is different it would appear from the opinion polls for Large numbers of people have reacted to the Thomas debacle by openly cursing ail politicians As bums slime and worse. Facing this deluge of disapproval what do the politicians do Why of course they begin a major investigation into who leaked the information that they say forced then to make fools of themselves. The other Guys made me do it a i did no to really want to set the fire. Actually if we were True humanitarians we d feel sorry for our beloved Boob Cracy. So out of touch Are these poor stoned on themselves yahoos that they Haven t the faintest realization that the certain outcome of their investigation is to make themselves even More scorned than they were before. First of All leaks in Washington Are As common As fleas on a hound dog. So any investigation is an obvious attempt to divert attention from the real Issue which is the atrocious unethical behaviour of Congress and the White House. It is behaviour incidentally that no sane Parent would tolerate in a 5-year-old a and we re paying our Washington boobs big Money to conduct themselves in this fashion and thus take us to the cleaners which is Why everyone a so angry. The president George Herbert Walker Bush of Well behaved Yale sent his staff out to orchestrate and spread the Scummy locker room innuendos at Thomas Senate confirmation hearings about Anita Hill the woman who testified calmly and persuasively that Thomas had sexually harassed her his aide when he was head of the Federal Agency that a supposed to enforce Laws against sexual harassment in the workplace. And now that same president contends that the garbage act was All the doing of Congress which he denounces As a a privileged class of rulers who stand above the yet who could be More privileged and protected than a president who hides in the Rose Garden and dispatches his staff to do the Hatchet Job on someone whom he sees As interfering with his Imperial mandate to nominate whomever he pleases and who flouts the Law More than a president who nominates an unqualified Man like Clarence Thomas to the supreme court unqualified quite apart from the allegations of sexual harassment ? after blaming Congress for everything from misconduct to Popery in his barrage Bush said the boobs had better appoint a special counsel to investigate the infamous leaks said leaks being about the Anita Hill information that the Senate judiciary committee had decided to sweep under the Rug until the leaks got into the press and caused a Public Safire Yount Senate 1xak5 ?. A frankly a bubbled Bush a the american people just will not understand it if the Senate fails to bring the leaker or leaders to Why is nobody laughing at these thigh slapping jokes from the True Leader of the Boob Cracy yes his satire is very funny but people Are saying it s hard to laugh when you re so disgusted. On the democratic Side the leaders there have finally recognized that Bush and the republicans Are so much better than they at the Down and dirty. So the party of the Donkey has decided not to return the insults to Bush but instead to deflect the Public s ire by ordering up that leak investigation. A this institution has been injured a said Senate majority Leader George Mitchell a Democrat from Maine. So now naturally they re going to injure it some More by making permanent a instead of Only temporary a laughing stocks of themselves. Mitchells Senate colleagues Democrat and Republican alike were just As desperate As he to Stem the flood of ridicule and embarrassment that has washed Over them since the Thomas hearings. The vote was 86-12 to do the investigation. In a Way it s cleansing to see foolish men run around foolishly trying to escape an enemy that is themselves. They and their president not just this one but certainly not excluding him have disgraced themselves by regularly harbouring and covering up for actual criminals a senators and representatives and Cabinet officers and powerful White House aides who if they were private citizens would most assuredly have been indicted and gone to jail. All you have to do to come to this conclusion is look at the most recent of the evidence such As the Iran Contra record the executive branches failure to pursue the Bocci and savings and loan scandals and the latest Whitewash investigations by the ethics committees of the Congress. Perhaps ridicule is after All the Best answer. Boobs or acids can withstand any assault any criticism any Ignominy a but not laughter. Let us All for our country a health keep laughing at them. C nows Davit s same old Kab a Only with new labels Moscow a a this work is not for me a said Vadim Baratin 54, the handsome and Well liked Gorbachev Man chosen with Yeltsin approval to Reform the Kab. A i done to like secrets but Here you Are dealing with secrets All the the Way to dispose of the burdensome secrets of the monstrous past is to reveal them i suggested during a 2 /2-hour session in his office on Lubianka Square. So i asked him about the Kab family jewels. Did the Kab train Lee Harvey Oswald in Minsk and Send him to Dallas to kill president John f. Kennedy �?o1 checked it. I did not find any evidence to support suspicion that he was our where is the Oswald file �?o1 wanted to give the file to american journalists but your networks Are competing and i will do it through soviet Celestine Bohlen of the new York times promptly offered to take the dossier then and there ending the can Abc rivalry but Baratin demurred. Then Why not just release it to everyone at once and Cut out the Media manipulation a we will do that a in two or three follow up to the Juk murder did the Kab Send its Yuri Nosenko to the . As a false defector to assuage Fri suspicions about soviet involvement a debate about his Bona fides has raged within the Cia for a generation costing careers and perhaps lives. The Kab chief put on a who a Nosenko look professing to be ignorant of the whole affair. Either Baratin has a great poker face or has not been briefed by his Veteran Kab handlers or does not want to know. Then what about the attempted murder of the Pope a did the Kab run that through its bulgarian subsidiary a this information about the Pope was not in the archives a he replied then derogated the search with a i am not interested in studying detective he wants to look ahead to reputable counter espionage crime fighting and anti terrorism cooperating with the Cia on a some rules of the game not no. First lets look Back. The Kab and its successors will remain a cesspool of evil until it comes clean. That does not mean holding up a Dusty file and saying a see this Man could Call a half dozen operatives into his office demand that answers be found from living sources and present the damning cleansing truth in a week a if he were so inclined. He is not. Why does t president Bush ask his Friend Gorbachev for the answers lets try another line of questioning to see if the new Boss of the Kab deserves his Media reputation As Dismantler of the brutal Agency of repression. What happened to the half million people in the Kab network he was admirably forthcoming about half were Border guards spun off into an Independent command. Another separate Agency was created to protect leaders in wartime and one for a communications a which i take to include a big ear. Some 20, xxx Are moving to the russian republics own Kab and foreign spying was made a separate Agency. He whipped out an organization Chart pointed to a figure at the Bottom a 39,492 a and snatched it Back unaware of my photographic memory. That a what a left to him and he says half Are Cooks mechanics and clerks. Behold a a Kab one tenth of its former size. But of the original half million How Many were actually fired a several dozen who were involved in the Putsch. Also veterans with 25 years service on an individual and he wont fill vacant slots. That a Only 36 people plus a few retirees off the payroll out of one half million. The entire Force which struck terror into the heart of a nation for three generations could be re assembled overnight under All Republic or russian command. The crushing Cost remains while the nation pleads for handouts. The soviet Kab chief is a great improvement Over his predecessor and May run his Agency less ruthlessly than Yeltsin s new russian internal Security. But likable Vadim Baratin is a True Gorba Chevite Bobbing weaving talking Reform trying to preserve the system for another Day by pouring the same amount of old Poison into a half dozen new bottles. C the now York times
