From: an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Clinton Exec Order: Ethics
Date: 28 Jan 1993 14:39:53 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne)
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       Bill Clinton, draft-dodger, drug user, philanderer, quickest
       campaign breaker in U.S. history, has issued an ethics 
       pledge, even though "character isn't an issue".

       Bill Clinton, pledged to cutting the military, forcing gays on
       the military, and insinuating an exile to Bosnia, is always
       issuing a new ethics standard for the military.

       History will NEVER forgive the American people. :)   

       Has it only been a week?

       

ntees and trade negotiators regarding the application of the
> pledges; and
>
>         (3) subject to the prior approval of the White House
> Counsel, adopt such rules or procedures (conforming as nearly as
> practicable to its generally applicable rules and procedures) as
> are necessary or appropriate to carry out the foregoing
> responsibilities.
>
>    (d) In order to promote clarity and fairness in the application
> of paragraph 3 of the senior appointee pledge:
>
>         (1) the Attorney General shall, within six months after
> the issuance of this order, publish in the Federal Register a
> "Statement of Covered Activities," based on the statute,
> applicable regulations and published guidelines, and any other
> material reflecting the Attorney General's current interpretation
> of the law, describing in sufficient detail to provide adequate
> guidance the activities on behalf of a foreign government or
> foreign political party which, if undertaken as of January 20,
> 1993, would require a person to register as an agent for such
> foreign government or political party under the Foreign Agents
> Registration Act of 1938, as amended; and
>
>         (2) the Attorney General's "Statement of Covered
>    Activities" shall be presumed to be the definitive statement
> of the activities in which the senior appointee agrees not to
> engage under paragraph 3 of the pledge.
>
>    (e) A senior appointee who has signed the senior appointee
> pledge is not required to sign the pledge again upon appointment
> to a different office, except that a person who has ceased to be
> a senior appointee, due to termination of employment in the
> executive branch or otherwise, shall sign the senior appointee
> pledge prior to thereafter assuming office as a senior appointee.
>
>    (f) A trade negotiator who is not also a senior appointee and
> who has once signed the trade negotiator pledge is not required
> to sign the pledge again prior to personally and substantially
> participating in a subsequent trade negotiation,
> except that a person who has ceased employment in the executive
> branch shall, after returning to such employment, be obligated to
> sign a pledge as provided herein notwithstanding the signing of
> any previous pledge.
>
>    (g) All pledges signed by senior appointees and trade
> negotiators, and all waiver certifications with respect thereto,
> shall be filed with the head of the appointee's agency for
> permanent retention in the appointee's official personnel folder
> or equivalent folder.
>
>    Sec. 5.  Enforcement.  (a) The contractual, fiduciary and
> ethical commitments in the pledges provided for herein are
> enforceable by any legally available means, including any or all
> of the following:  debarment proceedings within any affected
> executive agency or judicial civil proceedings for declaratory,
> injunctive or monetary relief.
>
>    (b) Any former senior appointee or trade negotiator who is
> determined, after notice and hearing, by the duly designated
> authority within any agency, to have violated his or her pledge
> not to lobby any officer or employee of that agency, or not to
> represent, aid or advise a foreign entity specified in the pledge
> with the intent to influence the official decision of that agency,
> may be barred from lobbying any officer or employee of that agency
> for up to five years in addition to the five-year time period
> covered by the pledge.
>
>         (1) The head of every executive agency shall, in
>    consultation with the Director of the Office of Government
> Ethics, establish procedures to implement the foregoing
> subsection, which shall conform as nearly as practicable to the
> procedures for debarment of former employees found to have
> violated section 207 of title 18, United States Code (1988 ed.),
> set forth in section 2637.212 of title 5, Code of Federal
> Regulations (revised as of January 1, 1992).
>
>         (2) Any person who is debarred from lobbying following an
> agency proceeding pursuant to the foregoing subsection may seek
> judicial review of the administrative determination, which shall
> be subject to established standards for judicial review of
> comparable agency actions.
>
>    (c) The Attorney General is authorized:
>
>         (1) upon receiving information regarding the possible
> breach of any commitment in a signed pledge, to request any
> appropriate
> federal investigative authority to conduct such investigations as
> may be appropriate; and
>
>         (2) upon determining that there is a reasonable basis  to
> believe that a breach of a commitment has occurred or will occur
> or continue, if not enjoined, to commence a civil action against
> the former employee in any United States District Court with
> jurisdiction to consider the matter.
>
>    (d) In such civil action, the Attorney General is authorized
> to request any and all relief authorized by law, including but not
> limited to:
>
>         (1) such temporary restraining orders and preliminary  and
> permanent injunctions as may be appropriate to restrain future,
> recurring or continuing conduct by the former employee in breach
> of the commitments in the pledge he or she signed; and
>
>
>         (2) establishment of a constructive trust for the benefit
> of the United States, requiring an accounting and payment to the
> United States Treasury of all money and other things of value
> received by, or payable to, the former employee arising out
> of any breach or attempted breach of the pledge signed by the
> former employee.
>
>    Sec. 6.  General Provisions.  (a) No prior Executive orders
> are repealed by this order.  To the extent that this order is
> inconsistent with any provision of any prior Executive order, this
> order shall control.
>
>    (b) If any provision of this order or the application of such
> provision is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and
> other dissimilar applications of such provision shall not be
> affected.
>
>    (c) Except as expressly provided in section 5(b)(2) of this
> order, nothing in the pledges or in this order is intended to
> create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
> enforceable at law by a party against the United States, its
> agencies, its officers, or any person.
>
>    WILLIAM J. CLINTON
>
>    THE WHITE HOUSE,
>    January 20, 1993.
>
>  -0-
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