Last month, the Heritage Foundation issued a report, authored by analyst Kenneth Weinstein, cataloguing various relationships between the Clinton White House and powerful Washington lobbies. Included was a discussion of the lucrative federal contracts and intimate Clinton ties of liberal PR hack Victor Kamber. Specifically, Weinstein mentioned a possible source of conflict-of-interest: that the Kamber Group had "housed" Back to Business, an organization set up to defend the Clintons from scandal allegations. Wrote Weinstein: "Congress should investigate to determine whether the Kamber Group's Department of Labor contract served, in effect, to subsidize Back to Business."
The Washington Post's Bill McAllister quoted Kamber as expressing outrage. "The Heritage Foundation has crossed the line into legally actionable territory with its knowingly false disparagements," Kamber said. One Kamber vice president said of Back to Business, "We rented them space."
But the Post failed to note that the relationship was in fact more intimate than that, which Tucker Carlson reported in these pages in January 1996. "Like, we don't have an actual Back to Business office," said employee Stacy Beck. Kamber Group senior vice president Lynn Cutler was Back to Business's only officer. The Kamber Group also "handled" all the operations of Back to Business, making Cutler -- bizarrely -- her own client. Back to Business and the White House even had mutual friends, like Asiagate hero Johnny Chung, who gave Back to Business $ 25,000 and with Cutler's help set up a meeting with U.S. ambassador to China James Sasser. Two congressional committees are reportedly looking into Kamber's operations. We look forward to more Kamber outrage, under oath this time.