Real Deal News Vs Fake News

By Catherine Austin Fitts
Solari.com

(Originally published at Scoop Media)

Monday, 18 March 2002, 6:42 pm

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"Nobody gives you power, boy --- you take it" -

Jock Ewing, in Dallas

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A FREE PRESS AND THE RULE OF LAW

As Assistant Secretary of Housing in the Bush Administration, I once advised Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, that we could not do something he had ordered because it was illegal. He said that he did not care, to go ahead and do it anyway.

His general counsel was Frank Keating, now Governor of Oklahoma, who had come to HUD from the Department of Justice. Frank regularly advised Jack that he could make sure that Jack was free to break the law as politically expedient. "Ahh F-- 'em, Jack, by the time they win in court, we will be gone anyway," was one of my favorite Frank Keating quotes. Frank welcomed any opportunity to abrogate constitutional rights, property rights and contract law to help Jack cover up Iran Contra fraud, keep slush fund operations growing, and make life nice for major Republican donors. He had been trained at the Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Agency.

So I changed tactics and said, "But Jack, we will get caught. The bureaucrats will leak what we are doing to the press. The headline will be very bad for us." At that point Jack always relented as he saw the merits to his quest for the Presidency of not getting a bad headline.

That story is the perfect metaphor for my experience as to the role of politicians, the Department of Justice, the War on Drugs, attorneys, major donors and a free press in upholding the rule of law.

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