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The Council for National Policy and Impeachment
Strategy
By Fred Clarkson
The Council for National Policy (CNP) played a key networking role in
promoting anti-Clinton activism and developing impeachment strategies.
In September 1994, the group mailed copies of The Clinton Chronicles video
to all 500 or so of its members with a cover letter urging them to "pass
it on to a friend, relative, business associate, public official or member
of the media, [because] as many Americans as possible should become informed
about the evil which infests the Clinton Administration.
The CNP, which meets quarterly behind closed doors, is so secretive that
the groups Washington office will neither confirm nor deny where, or even
if, the group meets. As CNP founding father Weyrich once put it: "We
are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working
to overturn the present power structure in this country."
CNP members include Sens. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C.),
Don Nickles (R-Okla.) and Trent Lott (R-Miss.), Reps. Dick Armey (R-Texas),
Dan Burton (R-Ind.) and Dannemeyer, former Attorney General Edwin Meese,
Falwell, Pat Robertson, Oliver North, right-wing political strategist Paul
Weyrich, and John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute, which represents
Paula Jones.
In the 80s, the CNP helped coordinate conservative movement support for
the contras in Nicaragua in cooperation with then National Security Council
aide Oliver North. In the 90s, Clinton has become the focus of this sector
of the conspiracist right.
The Citizens For Honest Governments "impeachment organizers kit" explains
that the impeachment resolution introduced by Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) was
conceived at "an impeachment panel discussion" during a CNP "Montreal
meeting in June [1997] and a follow-up discussion in South Carolina." The
resolution itself was introduced in November. While many strands of the
anti-Clinton network lead back to the CNP, this disclosure is the first
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