"Go to the source."
That sums up the view of Franklin Mancuso who has devoted himself to investigating the "real" story behind what the media have called, "The Clinton Scandals."

Frank's Home Page (mirror site) shows how a citizen can get to the bottom of issues by doing what the present media often fails to do - examining the sources before writing the headlines.

Clearly, the source material has to be available and this is where the idea of a "portal" arises. The Federal government maintains archives of Congressional and other documents and provides this information on the Internet. As the amount of information grows, it will become more difficult to cull out items relating to specific issues which are of interest to citizen researchers. Thus, sites such as this one are being created to house collections of source material. This is done not because we fear the Government will purge the information but because we want to make focused source material more readily available to citizens.

It is a fitting coincidence that this portal is the entrance to source data on the various and sundry "Gate" investigations that became the hallmark of the GOP controlled Congress at the close of the 20th Century.

TravelGate - EXTRA! June 16, 2000 - Never Mind!

TravelGate - GAO Report GGD 94-132 - May 2, 1994

Title: "The White House: Travel Office Operations"

This report discusses (1) past operations and oversight of the Travel Office; (2) current Travel Office operations and the extent to which identified problems have been corrected; (3) actions taken in the spring of 1993 that prompted the White House decision to investigate Travel Office operations and fire the employees; (4) actions taken by other agencies during this period, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Internal Revenue Service; and (5) other matters related to the Travel Office situation.

TravelGate - House Report 104-598 - May 29, 1996

Title: "PROCEEDINGS AGAINST JOHN M. QUINN, DAVID WATKINS, AND MATTHEW MOORE." From the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, William F. Clinger, Jr. (R-PA), chairman. It cites members of the Clinton Administration for failure to provide documents requested by the Committee.

FileGate - House Report 104-862 - Sept. 28, 1996

FileGate - Judicial Watch

In which Larry Klayman, Chairman of the Richard Scaife funded Judicial Watch, continues to spend his patron's money trying to "get" First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for "masterminding" FileGate.

Bob Barr joins the fray! - June 25, 1999

Never Mind! - March 16, 2000

TravelGate - House Report 104-849 - Sept. 26, 1996

Title: "INVESTIGATION OF THE WHITE HOUSE TRAVEL OFFICE FIRINGS AND RELATED MATTERS." From the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, William F. Clinger, Jr. (R-PA), chairman.

The portable document file (pdf) version of this 977 page report is rather large (21MB) so we have broken it down into smaller "chunks" for downloading.

ChinaGate - Lab Security

GAO/RCED-97-229 - September 25, 1997

Title: "DOE Needs to Improve Controls Over Foreign Visitors"

GAO/T-RCED-99-159 - April 20, 1999

Title: "Key Factors Underlying Security Problems at DOE Facilities"

ChinaGate II - House Report 105-582 - June 16, 1998

Title: "TO ESTABLISH THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY AND MILITARY/COMMERCIAL CONCERNS WITH THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA" From the House Committee on Rules, Mr. Solomon (NY), chairman.

Portable document file (pdf) & text versions of the 38 page report with minority views. The Committee was established but so far (4/99) no report has been issued.

The Cox Committee Report - May 24, 1999

Title: "REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY AND MILITARY/COMMERCIAL CONCERNS WITH THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA"

Special Report:

TempleGate and The Dung Spitting Contest

Many self-styled media pundits have been vying for the political dung spitting championship for the past ten years.

One of the more recent examples of media dung spitting concerns an April 29, 1996 visit made by Vice President Al Gore to the Hsi Lai Temple compound in Los Angeles