Bill and Hillary Clinton head an all-star cast of witnesses in a lawsuit by business mogul Peter Franklin Paul that alleges the former president reneged on a $17 million deal in which he promised to promote a business in exchange for massive contributions to his wife’s Senate campaign.

The potential witness list includes celebrities such as Muhammad Ali, Brad Pitt, Barbra Streisand, James Brolin, Cher, Whoopi Goldberg, George Hamilton, Olivia Newton John, John Travolta, Diana Ross, Shirley McLaine, Michael Bolton, Toni Braxton, Paul Anka and Larry King.

Also on the list are former Vice President Al Gore, the Clinton’s daughter Chelsea Clinton, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, former California Gov. Gray Davis, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terrence McAuliffe, CBS News reporter Mike Wallace and ABC News reporter Brian Ross.

Paul told WND these people, and many others, have direct knowledge of the alleged frauds. He says he explained, for example, in person to actors Pitt and Travolta that his personal contribution of some $2 million for a Hollywood gala and fund-raiser for Sen. Clinton’s Senate campaign in 2000 was done in exchange for Bill Clinton promoting Paul’s Internet business, Stan Lee Media, after leaving office.

Clinton was promised an additional $15 million in stock to join the board of the company, which Paul formed in partnership with famed Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee.

But Paul charges the former president caused the company’s stock to collapse by diverting $5 million promised by a Japanese investor in an attempt to get out of the deal.

Paul has compiled his charges, with documentation on a website.

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Never fails, trust a Democrat with National Security and they will sell you down the river every time. Senior director for intelligence programs under Clinton [appointed by Sandy Berger], Kerry supporter… ‘Failed polygraph, admitted giving reporter information’

CIA officials said the career intelligence officer failed more than one polygraph test and acknowledged unauthorized contacts with reporters. The "officer knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence, including operational information" with journalists, the agency said in a statement yesterday.

The CIA did not reveal the identity of the employee, who was dismissed Thursday, but NBC News reported last night she is Mary McCarthy. An intelligence source confirmed that the report was accurate.

McCarthy began her career in government as an analyst at the CIA in 1984, public documents show. She served as special assistant to the president and senior director for intelligence programs at the White House during the Clinton administration and the first few months of the Bush administration. She later returned to the CIA. Attempts to reach her last night were unsuccessful.

The CIA’s statement did not name the reporters it believes were involved, but several intelligence officials said The Post’s Dana Priest was among them. This week, Priest won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for articles about the agency, including one that revealed the existence of secret, CIA-run prisons in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.

CIA Director Porter J. Goss told the Senate intelligence committee in February that the agency was determined to get to the bottom of recent leaks, and wanted journalists brought before a federal grand jury to reveal their sources. Regarding disclosures about CIA detention and interrogation of terrorist suspects at secret sites abroad, Goss, the former chairman of the House intelligence committee, said that "the damage has been very severe to our capabilities to carry out our mission."

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From Newsmax.com

2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was in Senate re-election mode on Wednesday when she collected the endorsements of top officials from New York City’s two firefighters unions. But at the ceremony announcing their support, rank and file members of New York’s bravest were nowhere in sight.

"Mrs. Clinton chose to make a modest, almost quiet, appearance with about a dozen or so union officials in front of Ladder Company 157 on Flatbush Avenue," reported The New York Times. "The only audience members were hastily alerted reporters and camera crews, clustered on an empty sidewalk, instead of the crush of star-struck voters that often crowd her announced events."

The stealthily arranged ceremony - which was being touted as a major feather in Mrs. Clinton’s political cap as soon as it was over - was undoubtedly kept on the QT to avoid an embarrassing repeat of what happened to Hillary the last time she met with firefighters.

At Paul McCartney’s post 9/11 concert for New York City, an audience of cops and firefighters booed her off the stage as a she struggled to introduce Jerry Seinfeld. The year before, the Uniformed Firefighters Association and the Uniformed Fire Officers Association had endorsed Hillary’s opponent, Rick Lazio.

Mrs. Clinton’s "tireless" work on 9/11 issues is said to have made the difference this time around.

But judging from the sullen expressions sported by even the union chiefs as they bestowed their support on the former first lady, Hillary still suffers from a popularity deficit at the FDNY.

2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is celebrating Earth Day by unveiling her new energy plan and by blaming President Bush’s environmental policies for Hurricane Katrina.

In a fundraising email sent out to donors on Thursday, Mrs. Clinton alleges:

"In the last five years, the Bush administration has left no major environmental law untouched in their push to deregulate, undermining or rolling back decades of regulations put in place to protect our heath.

"The results are all around us," she says, citing "more greenhouse gases, global warming, rising seas, more violent storms like Katrina."

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The ballroom was packed with a who’s who of business when Sen. Hillary Clinton addressed the Chicago Economic Club last week. No doubt about it, this was the address of a presidential hopeful. But unfortunately for Mrs. Clinton, the eyelids grew heavy as she droned on and on.

Sleep, it seems, was the better option to suffering through this odd and curious presentation. On the one hand Clinton acknowledged a growing economy, a stock market at historic highs, strong productivity and profits, and low unemployment, while on the other she called for big-government investment in infrastructure and heavy spending on health care and education. These two hands don’t go together.

The senator argued that “Tax cuts are not the cure-all for everything that ails the American economy,” and that instead we need the “right tax system [and] the right investment, including infrastructure. . . . decisions and policies that only all of us acting together through our government can make to set the stage for future prosperity.” The italics, unfortunately, are mine.

So what we have here is a strong plea for a government-directed economy. This is something that used to be called industrial planning and targeting, at least until the dismal economic performances of France, Germany, and Japan totally discredited those terms. But for Sen. Clinton, government planning is back. Citing a recent report by New York financier Felix Rohatyn and former senator Warren Rudman, Clinton is calling for a “national investment authority” to rebuild the nation. This in her view will solve all our problems related to airports, highways, bridges, hurricanes, and lord knows what else.
She speaks as though Congress didn’t already spend a fortune on the recent highway bill, replete with corrupt budget earmarks that totaled a cool $30 billion in 2005.

Ironically, while Clinton wants to revive big-government spending, a number of respected policy analysts are writing about making public highways private. Topping their list are the Chicago Skyway, the Indiana Turnpike, and toll roads in Texas and Oregon, toll truck lanes in Virginia and Atlanta. These private ventures would pay for themselves and would substitute market decisions for government planning. The Reason Foundation is chock full of similar ideas, including private-sector road and highway plans in California, where voters just rejected a $68 billion infrastructure package because of a political history of pilfered taxpayer funds.

In Chicago, Mrs. Clinton also engaged in a bit of class warfare, telling the assembled businesspeople, “America did not build the greatest economy in the world because we have rich people. Nearly any society has some of those.” Without exactly saying it, she clearly implied tax hikes on the rich and a large-scale redistribution program worthy of any centrally planned economy.

Hasn’t Mrs. Clinton noticed the worldwide spread of free-market capitalism that has become such an enormous wealth creator across the globe — including Eastern Europe, India, China, and the rest of Asia? The economic growth principles of higher after-tax returns for work and investment, deregulation to limit government’s reach, and the privatization of government-run companies have become almost commonplace following the Reagan-Thatcher revolution of twenty-five years ago. But Mrs. Clinton would have us turn the clock back in ways that even her husband didn’t support. She defines her goals in terms of “a middle class life, education, health care, transportation, and retirement.” But all this is nothing more than a massive dose of government spending and regulating — a sure prescription for humongous taxes and a declining economy.

No wonder the Chicago ballroom started to snooze. Clinton’s ideas electrified the audience about as much as a broken plug attached to an old land-line phone.

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton warned a group of business leaders that America’s "red-ink fiscal policies" will make the country less competitive in the global economy.

This economy is booming! And her version of Socialism is the answer?

During a meeting with the Economic Club of Chicago, the New York Democrat says, "I think a return to fiscal discipline, living within our means is essential for our long-term health."

And Democrats are fiscally disciplined?

Clinton says that she supports pay-as-you-go budget rules in the Congress where taxes can’t be cut or money spent unless there are funds to pay for it, calling it "A very old-fashioned idea but one which I hope we can begin to return to."

Tax cuts work - Kennedy did it, Reagan did it and Bush did it and the economy boomed!

Clinton also says the nation needs a better energy policy to reduce its dependence on foreign oil, increase technology into alternative energy resources and ultimately create more jobs.

Liberals will not allow drilling in Alaska, and new refineries built and no exploration and then complain we have to purchase our oil from foreign interests.

On health care reform, the Senator and possible 2008 presidential candidate says the issue is "worth wading in again," and that the private sector should demand more accountability from the insurance industry.

Why is Hillary really so interested in Socialized Medicine? Keyword = Socialism

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that the United States urgently needs to get its fiscal house in order, while New York’s Republican Party chairman suggested the former first lady could perhaps do better creating jobs in Chicago than she has in her adopted state.

"The most basic aspect of infrastructure is getting our economic fundamentals right so that businesses have the level playing field they need to compete," Clinton, a Democrat, said in remarks prepared for delivery to the Economic Club of Chicago Tuesday night. "Instead, we’re running the largest budget deficits in our nation’s history — and we’ve become the world’s largest debtor nation.

Clinton, who repeatedly has criticized President Bush’s economic policies, frequently has noted that her husband left the White House with the nation enjoying record budget surpluses that Bush has turned into record deficits.

In her Tuesday evening speech, she also pointed to strong growth in the 1990s, saying the economy was underpinned at the time by deficit-reduction policies.

"That is why I support pay as you go budget rules that would ensure more discipline as we approach both spending and tax cuts," she said. "And we have to close more loopholes in our tax code, yes, even in the corporate tax code."

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Hillary Clinton: Raise Gas Taxes by $20 Billion

With pump prices crossing the $3.00 mark and family budgets buckling under the strain, 2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton says she has the solution: Have consumers pay even more at the pump by levying a $20 billion tax on the oil companies who "price gouge."

"We need to be able to ensure consumers in New York and across the country that they will not be gouged at the pump," Clinton said on Wednesday.

"To fill the gaps in current law, I joined with colleagues last fall in introducing the ‘Energy Emergency Consumer Protection Act,’" she explained. "This would enable the president to declare an energy emergency, triggering federal gouging prohibitions to protect consumers from being the victims of profiteering."

Mrs. Clinton first introduced her anti-profiteering plan last October, telling an environmental group: "I believe that we need to assess the oil companies an alternative energy development fee to be put into [a] new Strategic Energy Fund. We should design the fee so it is taken solely out of unanticipated profits from the sky high oil prices."

The former first lady predicted that her excess profits tax "could generate as much as $20 billion a year to help retool our economy and deploy new energy strategies."

Clinton said the plan would "ensure that [her tax] is not passed on to consumers," but declined to explain how she intended to prevent oil companies from passing along the extra cost.

Two years ago the top Democrat explained the driving philosophy behind her economic policies, telling a San Francisco fund-raiser that when Democrats finally win back the White House, "We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

A California judge has signaled that 2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton will not be able to avoid being deposed for a civil lawsuit against her husband and others involved in a Hollywood fundraiser for her 2000 Senate campaign, according to a lawyer involved in the case.

Colette Wilson, who represents one-time Clinton fundraiser Peter Paul, tells the New York Sun that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aurelio Munoz indicated last week that any attempt to prevent Mrs. Clinton from giving sworn testimony in the case would be "dead on arrival."

Mr. Paul footed the bill for an August 12, 2000 gala-tribute to the Clintons that raised money for Mrs. Clinton’s first Senate campaign. His lawsuit alleges that in exchange for financing the gala, Mr. Clinton agreed to help him promote his company, Stan Lee Media, once he left the White House - and that Clinton later reneged on the deal.

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