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Clinton Campaign Denies Secret Service Vetting of Fugitive
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 Clinton Campaign Denies Secret Service Vetting of Fugitive Donor
After pledging to return $850,000 raised by fugitive fundraiser Norman Hsu, Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign vowed this week to do more rigorous background checks of big donors.
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But some law enforcement officials contend the former first lady -- or someone close to her -- should have known about Hsu's fugitive status, given the routine background checks conducted by the U.S. Secret Service on protected persons.
Media outlets have featured pictures of Clinton, a New York senator, standing next to Hsu during past fundraising events.
The Clinton campaign was planning a September fundraiser before news broke about Hsu's 1991 guilty plea to grand theft in a California court and his subsequent flight to avoid prosecution.
"I would absolutely be shocked if the protective intelligence division of the Secret Service was not fully aware of Mr. Hsu's status as a fugitive," Carl Rowan, a federal agent with both the FBI and the U.S. Marshalls for a decade, said in an interview. Rowan, now president of Securitas, a private security firm, said he has worked closely with the U.S. Secret Service in the past.
"It is standard operating procedure to run the names and Social Security numbers of anyone who will be close to the protectee," Rowan continued. "Besides the safety concerns, the Secret Service works hard to avoid embarrassing situations for the protectee."
The Clinton campaign dismissed this theory.
"Sorry, you are not correct. The Secret Service did not vet Mr. Hsu," Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson told Cybercast News Service in a written statement.
Asked why the Secret Service didn't vet Hsu, Wolfson said in a follow-up statement, "I don't mean to state the obvious, but she's not the first lady anymore."
The U.S. Secret Service would not comment for this story.
However, according to the Secret Service Web site, Public Law 89-186, approved by Congress in 1965, requires the agency to "protect a former president and his/her spouse during their lifetime, unless they decline protection."
The law was changed in 1997 to protect only former presidents for 10 years after leaving office. But that law applies only to presidents elected after that year, 1997. "Therefore, President Clinton will be the last president to receive lifetime protection," the Secret Service Web site stated.
"There are all kinds of levels of background checks that would make law enforcement raise their eyebrows," said Ted Deeds, chief operating officer of the Law Enforcement Alliance of America.
"I'm sure the Secret Service knew he was a wanted felon fugitive. What a scandal it would be if they didn't warn a president or first lady they were standing next to a convicted felon," he added.
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