Show I A2— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday March 21 2002 Q Nation More held in child porn crackdown g©ft WUuotewaifioo'ii'Dms© Prosecutor’s report: Insufficient evidence tti file charge with Bill Clinton then goverWASHINGTON (AP) — nor of Arkansas and Mrs Independent Counsel Robert Clinton final then a lawyer in his concludes Ray “Insufficient evidence Whitewater report that the exists to establish beyond a Clintons’ land venture benefitreasonable doubt that either ed from criminal transactions Governor or Mrs Clinton but there was insufficient evidence to prove the former knowingly participated in the president or his wife engaged ' criminal financial transactions used by McDougal tobenefit in wrongdoing Whitewater” the report said The report released The Clintons’ lawyer David Wednesday also said prosecuKendall called the report “the tors could not rule out the posmost expensive exoneration in sibility that Hillary Rodham Clinton played a role in the history Their investigation was unprecedented in its disappearance and mysterious seven-yelength $70 million discovery of her law firm and records unremitting expense billing '' The intensity But it ends as it report investibegan: with no evidence of wrapped up a six-yers any wrongdoing by the Clin- gation by three different tons” The investigation began of the Clintons’ in 1994 and ended in 2000 finances and detailed the busiPart of the investigation ness transactions they underfocused on a fraudulent took with partners Jim and $300000 federally backed Susan McDougal loan that a Little Rock judge The McDougals were con- claimed he was pressured by victed of crimes and impris- Clinton to make to the oned in the Whitewater connection in McDougals who operated the investigation failed Madison Guaranty with a failed savings and loan S&L they operated “Insufficient evidence also The report said Jini McDoufrom funds exists'to ' used prove beyond a reagal wrongly sonable doubt that Governor the failing S&L to benefit the Whitewater1 venture in Ginton knew of or approved” the loan Ray’s report said Arkansas that he had created ' “There is some evidence that Governor Clinton knew or should have known that Jim McDougal was not conducting Madison Guaranty’s affairs as required by banking rules" it said The report related an ind dent in which the Arkansas banking commissioner told Clinton in 1983 thatjhere were problems at Madison The report said Clinton told the commissioner to do whatever was necessary and not to ' worry about politics The report also focused extensively on Mrs Clinton’s ' legal work on an Arkansas Casland development called tle Grande that was being operated by Jim McDougal and partly financed by his failed S&L The former first lady is now a senator representing New York Mrs Clinton’s legal work on the project wasn’t disclosed until 1996 when her -law firm billing records which had been subpoenaed earlier in the case were found in the White House family residence Prosecutors investigated ar five-volu- ar pros-ccuto- See CLINTON on AS Post-Gazet- dous” te smashed l In the Wonderland Club the laigest child pornography net? 1998-Interpo- woirk ‘ British investigator “horren- - ever uncoveredand seized some 750000 images of children being abused Club members used secret ' passwords met in private' Internet chat rooms and traded-pictureof children being raped or having sex with other children adults and animals ' Some of the children were 2 years old It was in the words of one ' V Wf1 'f'VA included a US military pilot registered nurse a network administration for a publishing company and an artik Customs said Search warrants involving eight people were executed in New York Pennsylvania Ohio Tennessee Nevada Oregon and Alaska From the searches Customs agents seized 12 computers more than 600 CDs floppy disks and external computer drives hundreds of vidn a digital camcorder and a book on how to seduce children the agency said One arrest was made in the United States die agency said The government said thk three of the individuals being targeted in the investigation had been members of the won derland child pornography t broken up in A : Kiddie porn: A scourge By Torsten Ove end Michael A Fuoco Pittsburgh S WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and 10 other countries executed search warrants on people suspected of exchanging child pornography over the Internet the Customs Service announced Wednesday In the United States the tar-- : But it was hardly unique In 1999 the FBI shut down Landslide Productions' a ' Texas online clearinghouse for child pornography that includ- ed such sites rape” Now a new'federal initia- tive “Operation Candyman” has dismantled another large-sca-le AP photo Former President Clinton dances with Argentinian Monica Gonzalez-Bunstduring a dinner in his honor at the conference of the Press Association in La Romans Dominican Republic on Monday er Inter-Americ- an 1998 At the same time search that won’t go away the Pittsburgh FBI “It’s a compulsion for these people It’s not a rational choice crime Law enforcement officials say the exploitation of Children on the Internet is a worldwide phenomenon with new images popping up from the former Soviet Union and Indonesia mixing with homegrown pom often produced by online club for collectors of child pornography This a child's own relative ' “It’s so huge It’s similar to one had some 7000 members Where does it all end? the drug trade” said Detective “Itdoesn’t’ ’said LatTys XLmiaxeyof toe Alkgheny Likar a professor al LaRocbe :CfXUdy OF)L)Police High Tech Crimp Unit wjiq has seen College in Pittsburgh and a former supervisory 'agent for images of sexually exploited warrants were issued by the United Kingdom Canada France Germany Switzer-land Spain Japan Finland Austria and Sweden Customs states have been rounded up in the Candyman probe but only a handful have been pub-lid- y children as young as 6 months “It would belike trying to arrest every junkie and you’re not going to be able to do that no matter how many officers you have “I think this is another crime that is never going to be wiped out You always have side individuals out there willing to pay money for this” Nearly 90 people in 26 identified Ukar said many of the men who view child porn — and almost all die suspects are men — remain attracted to images of child sex through- out their lives often starting at said ' The investigation dubbed Operation Arbis began in November 2001 when agents of the German National Police using evidence gathered from a search warrant discovered that a German man had been exchanging child See SCOURGE on A6 See PORN on A6 -- I If you find r— 1 - aietter ideai I this paper take it in Plug into S &T ?! — & J- - in liv i m c rg- Purchase any selected new Yorkshire Village Townhome and receive'$3600 toward closing costs ' artd a buy down on your interest rate Motorola P280 V- - i $12999 "'f 4 after $5ojoo reltfe & os $17W9 SUP rr j? 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