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BUSH TO NAME JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AFTER LAWBREAKING ROBERT F. KENNEDY
Judicial Watch Press Release ^ | 11/17/01

Posted on 11/17/2001 12:26:01 PM PST by Rebeckie

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

11/17/2001

202-646-5172

BUSH TO NAME JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AFTER LAWBREAKING ROBERT F. KENNEDY

“FRIEND” TED KENNEDY CONVINCED G.W. TO HONOR BROTHER

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the non-partisan public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government abuse and corruption, was astonished to learn today that President Bush intends to name the Justice Department after the late Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

“The ethical and legal standards of the Bush administration will sink low if the President carries through with his plan of naming the nation’s top law enforcement agency after someone who spent his tenure in the Justice Department trampling on the civil rights of all Americans. It is widely known that Kennedy urged then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to misuse FBI files to blackmail members of Congress to “overlook” his brother, President John F. Kennedy’s, affair with an East German spy. With the possible exception of John Mitchell and Janet Reno, I cannot think of a worse choice,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel, Larry Klayman.

The Justice Department’s own mission statement says “the Department represents the citizens of the United States in enforcing the law in the public interest” and, yet, Kennedy is perhaps remembered most for three things, the ‘Get Hoffa’ campaign, which ran roughshod over all legal procedures in a personal vendetta against one man, the wiretapping of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., along with the aforementioned silencing of a congressional investigation into President John Kennedy’s affair with alleged East German spy Ellen Romisch.

Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio reportedly refused to shake Kennedy’s hand at Marilyn Monroe’s funeral because of his belief that he and his brother had something to do with her untimely death. Klayman opined, “Joltin’ Joe was right then and George W. Bush is wrong now. As for reports today in The Washington Post that George W. Bush has become a close friend of Senator Ted Kennedy- a politician who many believed murdered Mary Jo Kopeche and was instrumental in convincing Bush to name the Justice Department after his brother Robert…the President should learn to choose better people to be associated with,” Klayman added.


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To: Rebeckie
You must be a close relative of Klayman to continue defending him on a conservative forum.

How could any attorney be so stupid as to think that a department of government could be named after an individual?

No wonder he hasn't won any cases.

41 posted on 11/17/2001 2:07:55 PM PST by bayourod
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To: IM2Phat4U
TROLL!!!

Disruptor!!!

42 posted on 11/17/2001 2:08:39 PM PST by Dog
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To: bayourod
She actually doesn't defend him; she just posts these and then calls anybody who disagrees with the post a Klayman hater and immature.

And she hardly EVER replies.

43 posted on 11/17/2001 2:09:17 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin
Well, we should have predicted this press release. In fact, I though about posting it as a comment last night but I thought that would be mean-spirited to the few Klayman fans who still frequent the forum.

I was foolishly timid. Next time I won't be.

I predict the next press release will be an attack on President Bush's relationship with Vladimir Putin. Klayman will DEMAND to see the agreement on arms reduction, or oil sales, or whatever. You know he will. It was a slow news day, so all he could grind out quickly was this lame attempt at pot-stirring. The big deal will be on Monday when he goes after Bush and Putin.

I am quite eager to see Klaymamn take on Putin. I think Putin would grind him up in 30 seconds flat.

44 posted on 11/17/2001 2:17:25 PM PST by Miss Marple
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To: Rebeckie
Klayman & Klinton (they belong in the same sentence) - they just won't go away, will they!?!
45 posted on 11/17/2001 2:18:25 PM PST by harpu
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To: Theresa
"Larry Klayman needs a shrink!!" SHRINK? - geeez, he needs a proctologist to help him get his head out of his own ass!
46 posted on 11/17/2001 2:21:21 PM PST by harpu
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To: Rebeckie; Howlin; Dog Gone; bayourod
beckie.... do you think President Bush could change the law creating the Department of Justice and just rename it the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice..... in all you investigative skills why don't you lay out just how this will be done..... I'll give you a reference to start from...


47 posted on 11/17/2001 2:25:53 PM PST by deport
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To: deport
Bless your little pea-pickin' heart, deport, you just have to do research and document your opinion with citations of fact!! Poor rebeckie, she is still in college where they rarely teach that skill anymore.

Actually, Larry knows this full well. So why is he releasing something like this? Stupidity? Alzheimer's? Spite? Blackmail from the Clintons? It really does boggle the mind.

48 posted on 11/17/2001 2:34:37 PM PST by Miss Marple
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To: Dog
Actually, dog, you are the one being disruptive on this thread. This is a conservative forum. This thread was posted to point out that our current President (a Republican, who is sometimes a Conservative) was naming a federal building after a crooked Democrat.

I would think that most Conservatives would frown upon naming government buildings after crooked liberals. Those of you who put party ahead of principle decided to disrupt this thread and attack those who dare criticize your new deity.

But remember, it is you who are being disruptive to this legitimate discussion of Bush's unconservative decision to name a government building after a crooked liberal.

I merely reminded folks that Dog's deity had named government property after crooked liberals before. My behavior should not be considered disruptive on any forum that considers itself to be Conservative.

49 posted on 11/17/2001 2:57:25 PM PST by IM2Phat4U
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To: Common Tator
Klayman is about parting the suckers from their money. Always has been. Always will be.

That Is It!
You Got It Nailed!
51 posted on 11/17/2001 3:14:01 PM PST by Fiddlstix
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To: equus
It happened while JFK was still in the Senate; and it wasn't Bobby Kennedy; it was his daddy.

This is the exact event where the phrase "scorched earth policy" was coined; the old man told them that if they exposed JFK that everybody was going down, too.

52 posted on 11/17/2001 3:14:12 PM PST by Howlin
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To: IM2Phat4U
crooked liberals

As in felons? For instance?

53 posted on 11/17/2001 3:26:17 PM PST by Howlin
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To: equus
Supposedly he MARRIED her, right, while he was in the Navy.......I'm know that his daddy went up to the Hill and gave them chapter and verse so "his boy" could be the next president. I heard George Stephanopoulous, of all people, talking about it one day when "scorced earth" came up in some other context.
55 posted on 11/17/2001 4:20:58 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Rebeckie
RFK was killed by a Muslim. If they name the building after Bobby, might not some Muslims take offense? We can't risk that.
56 posted on 11/17/2001 4:37:55 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
So Teddy "murdered" Mary Jo Kopechne? That would mean he killed her with malice aforethought. We'll never know what really happened, but he may have just been drunk. I don't think he intended to kill her.

I think you can take it for granted that Edward was drunk. He had just been to a party where alcohol was flowing like wine (all right, all right). None of the political Kennedys, Jack, Bobby, or Teddy would be likely to come out of that environment sober.

And I doubt that Edward M started out with the intention of becoming a submarine commander. It just fell his lot when his Oldsmobile decided to plunge off Dyke bridge, no doubt of its own volition.

The thing about which a lot of us at the time were incredulous is that Edward M Kennedy left the vicinity of the 'accident', went back to Edgartown (how he got there is another question mark), and at no time prior to discovery of the drowned car reported what had happened to ANYONE who could have helped.

In fact, the evidence was that he seemed to be trying to prepare an alibi, asking some hotel help loudly about the time in order to establish his presence in Edgartown.

I still view Edward M Teddy Boy with total contempt.

But I don't care if the building is named after Bobby boy. He has achieved immortality in the public mind by being assassinated, and nothing will change the public perception.

57 posted on 11/17/2001 5:21:09 PM PST by Ole Okie
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To: Ole Okie
Teddy couldn't go to the authorities right away--they might have tested his blood alcohol level. I believe he tried to get one of his flunkies to take the rap (to pretend that he had been the driver of the car, not Teddy). The whole thing was SOP for the Kennedy clan, but poor Mary Jo paid with her life for her involvement with that bunch.

Bobby wouldn't have gotten the nomination even with his victory in the California primary...Humphrey would have been the nominee anyway. Bobby would have gone back to being senator from New York and maybe the fatal party on Chappaquiddick Island would never have taken place.

58 posted on 11/17/2001 5:40:02 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: IM2Phat4U
" Those of you who put party ahead of principle "

So you aren't a loyal Republican or a Bush supporter, but you claim to be a conservative.

Since no rabid Libertarian would claim to be a conservative, that pretty well puts you in the McCain/Buchanan/Keyes group of sore losers.

What name were you previously posting under?

59 posted on 11/17/2001 6:20:39 PM PST by bayourod
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To: bayourod
Principle is the big word for Keyes folks. Buchananites rant on sovereignity and immigration. McCainiacs just rant that Bush is a weenie.

I vote for a Keyester, myself.

60 posted on 11/17/2001 6:31:26 PM PST by Miss Marple
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