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How Hillary Handled Hsu Scandal
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 Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject: How Hillary Handled Hsu Scandal |
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 How Hillary Handled Hsu Scandal
It was Clinton-campaign standard operating procedure: when on the defensive, deflect and attack. Earlier this month, Hillary Clinton surrogates invited onto TV talk shows were issued "talking points" in anticipation of awkward questions about the mysterious Norman Hsu.
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A top "HillRaiser"—someone who brings in more than $100,000 for the campaign—Hsu was wanted on an arrest warrant for a 1991 fraud conviction in California. (After failing to show up for a court appearance earlier this month, he was later arrested by the FBI after falling ill and writing an apparent suicide note.) If asked how Hsu's criminal record could have slipped through the cracks in the campaign's vet-ting process for donors, the Clinton supporters were instructed to say they hadn't participated in the vetting. If pressed, they were told to take a none-too-subtle swipe at Clinton's chief rival. "Long before Hillary's presidential campaign took money from Mr. Hsu, Mr. Obama's senate campaign had as well as a bunch of others," read the memo, given to NEWSWEEK by a Clinton supporter who didn't want to be identified revealing internal campaign communications.
Nobody handles campaign message control with more zeal or efficiency than the Clintonistas. (Campaign communications director Howard Wolfson and spokesman Phil Singer distributed the talking points.) Ever since the birth of the "war room" in the 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton operatives have perfected the art of cutting and thrusting, ducking and weaving, via fax and e-mail. Word that the Clinton campaign was returning $850,000 from about 260 donors tied to Hsu came at 6:40 p.m.—just in time to miss the evening news—on the eve of the anniversary of 9/11. But just how did Hsu's shady past escape the notice of Clinton's campaign fund-raisers?
The campaign had reason to beware of shadowy businessmen bearing gifts. In the 1990s, a legal fund set up to help President Bill Clinton had to return (or refuse to accept) at least $640,000 from an Arkansas businessman named Charlie Trie, whose Macau-based business partner had ties to the Chinese government. Hillary's campaign wants to avoid anything that might remind voters of Clinton scandals past. There was, however, at least one heads-up about Hsu. Last June, a southern California businessman warned the campaign that Hsu was involved in a Ponzi scheme. "I can tell you with 100 [percent] certainty that Norman Hsu is NOT involved in a ponzi scheme. He is COMPLETELY legit," wrote back Samantha Wolf, the former West Coast campaign-finance director, according to an e-mail obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
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