Flight of Fancy

ON MAY 19, 1993, four months into the Clinton Administration, all seven long-time employees of the White House Travel Office were fired abruptly. Dee Dee Myers, press secretary at the time, told a reporter that the FBI was investigating accusations of criminal conduct against the former staffers.

We now know that the accusations leading to the FBI’s investigation were raised by Harry Thomason (Hollywood producer and Friend of Bill), by Darnell Martens (Thomason’s partner in his aviation-consulting firm and a past consultant to the Clinton campaign), and by Clinton relative Catherine Cornelius. All had a financial interest in the removal of the Travel Office employees. Messrs. Thomason and Martens wanted business from the Travel Office, and Miss Cornelius wanted to run the place.

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ON MAY 19, 1993, four months into the Clinton Administration, all seven long-time employees of the White House Travel Office were fired abruptly. Dee Dee Myers, press secretary at the time, told a reporter that the FBI was investigating accusations of criminal conduct against the former staffers.

We now know that the accusations leading to the FBI’s investigation were raised by Harry Thomason (Hollywood producer and Friend of Bill), by Darnell Martens (Thomason’s partner in his aviation-consulting firm and a past consultant to the Clinton campaign), and by Clinton relative Catherine Cornelius. All had a financial interest in the removal of the Travel Office employees. Messrs. Thomason and Martens wanted business from the Travel Office, and Miss Cornelius wanted to run the place.