Bush wiretapping agent is arrested.
Private eye to the stars Anthony Pellicano, freed from prison on Friday after serving 2 1/2 years for firearms offenses, was immediately arrested again in a federal wiretap investigation closely watched in Hollywood.
FBI agents searching Pellicano's West Hollywood office in 2002 found computer files containing large volumes of wiretap transcripts and notes, as well as firearms, grenades and plastic explosives in a safe. The weapons discovery led to his guilty plea on felony firearms charges in October 2003 and a 30-month prison term.
Pellicano was taken into custody as he was released from the Taft Correctional Institution near Bakersfield, California, where he was serving that sentence.
Oh wait.. did I say Bush? I meant Clinton.
During two terms of the Clinton administration, Pellicano was one of several private investigators used by the White House to conduct "shadow" operations. Others included Terry Lenzner, founder and chairman of the powerful Washington detective firm Investigative Group International, and San Francisco private eye Jack Palladino and his wife Sandra Sutherland.
But it was Hillary Clinton who hired the "Shadow Team" – some believe to do work that employees of the federal government could not do.
Former congressional investigator Barbara Olson, who was killed Sept. 11, 2001, wrote that, "In the political life of the Clintons, it was she [Hillary] who pioneered the use of private detectives. It was she who brought in and cultivated the professional dirt-diggers and smear artists."
Hillary's detectives engaged in "a systematic campaign to intimidate, frighten, threaten, discredit and punish innocent Americans whose only misdeed is their desire to tell the truth in public," former Clinton adviser Dick Morris charged in the New York Post of Oct. 1, 1998.
In his book, "Hillary's Secret War", author Richard Poe explains that Pellicano's violent career as a private investigator reveals much about the sorts of qualifications Hillary sought in her "Shadow Team."
In the January 1992 issue of GQ magazine, Pellicano boasted of the dirty work he had performed for his clients, including blackmail and physical assault. He claimed to have beaten one of his client's enemies with a baseball bat.
"I'm an expert with a knife," said Pellicano. "I can shred your face with a knife."
Pellicano was deeply involved in Clinton damage-control operations – including efforts to discredit former Clinton lovers Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky.
FBI agents searching Pellicano's West Hollywood office in 2002 found computer files containing large volumes of wiretap transcripts and notes, as well as firearms, grenades and plastic explosives in a safe. The weapons discovery led to his guilty plea on felony firearms charges in October 2003 and a 30-month prison term.
Pellicano was taken into custody as he was released from the Taft Correctional Institution near Bakersfield, California, where he was serving that sentence.
Oh wait.. did I say Bush? I meant Clinton.
During two terms of the Clinton administration, Pellicano was one of several private investigators used by the White House to conduct "shadow" operations. Others included Terry Lenzner, founder and chairman of the powerful Washington detective firm Investigative Group International, and San Francisco private eye Jack Palladino and his wife Sandra Sutherland.
But it was Hillary Clinton who hired the "Shadow Team" – some believe to do work that employees of the federal government could not do.
Former congressional investigator Barbara Olson, who was killed Sept. 11, 2001, wrote that, "In the political life of the Clintons, it was she [Hillary] who pioneered the use of private detectives. It was she who brought in and cultivated the professional dirt-diggers and smear artists."
Hillary's detectives engaged in "a systematic campaign to intimidate, frighten, threaten, discredit and punish innocent Americans whose only misdeed is their desire to tell the truth in public," former Clinton adviser Dick Morris charged in the New York Post of Oct. 1, 1998.
In his book, "Hillary's Secret War", author Richard Poe explains that Pellicano's violent career as a private investigator reveals much about the sorts of qualifications Hillary sought in her "Shadow Team."
In the January 1992 issue of GQ magazine, Pellicano boasted of the dirty work he had performed for his clients, including blackmail and physical assault. He claimed to have beaten one of his client's enemies with a baseball bat.
"I'm an expert with a knife," said Pellicano. "I can shred your face with a knife."
Pellicano was deeply involved in Clinton damage-control operations – including efforts to discredit former Clinton lovers Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky.
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