Clinton Private Eye to Stand Trial

The press has been strangely silent on the political ties of Los Angeles private investigator Anthony Pellicano, who goes on trial next month on weapons charges after he failed to reach a plea bargain with prosecutors in California on Monday.

The Associated Press, for instance, reported the latest development in Pellicano's case without mentioning even once the names of the accused sleuth's most famous clients, Bill and Hillary Clinton.

That's certainly good news for the former president and first lady, since Pellicano offered to plead guilty to one charge of illegally possessing C-4 explosives as long as prosecutors were willing to drop two other charges listed in an indictment against the former presidential dirt digger.

After all, nothing could spoil Sen. Clinton's sub rosa "Draft Hillary" presidential campaign faster than a batch of pesky media inquiries about why one of her recruits was caught with enough Plastique to take out a 747 (according to the FBI).

"Pellicano was arrested last November," noted the AP, "after FBI agents searched his office as part of an investigation into threats made to Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch, who was investigating a possible connection between action star Steven Seagal and an alleged Mafia associate."

Under the circumstances, one would think Pellicano's involvement with Clinton Inc. might at least merit a mention in press accounts, given the number of Bill's female accusers who also say they were threatened.

And while the L.A. gumshoe has never been tied to any of that nasty business, he was enlisted as an "audio expert" in 1992 to "analyze" Gennifer Flowers' audiotapes of her conversations with the future president.

Pellicano's verdict: Flowers' tapes had been "selectively edited." (Truth Verification Labs later certified the recordings as 100 percent authentic.)

The Clintons' "audio expert" popped up later in the midst of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, producing an old boyfriend who helpfully explained to reporters that Monica once boasted she was going to Washington to get her "presidential kneepads."

The full array of charges listed in the indictment of the one-time Clintonista include two felony counts of possessing unregistered firearms and C-4 explosives, along with one misdemeanor count of unlawfully storing a plastic explosive. If convicted, he faces up to 21 years in prison, the AP said.

Of the 91 mainstream media reports on Pellicano's case since it erupted last November, only one, in the New York Post, bothered to mention his Clinton connection, saying only that he "sleuthed for the likes of Bill and Hillary."

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