Hey! What time is it? It's time to sue someone!
Posted on 02/12/2002 6:15:54 PM PST by tgslTakoma
Bush Justice Department's Actions Protect Convicted Felon Who Violated National Security Judicial Watch To Appeal Lower Court's Grant of Bush Administration Request
(Washington, D.C.). Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, has been litigating defamation lawsuits against convicted felon Wen Ho Lee and others who, to deflect blame for their own actions, slandered and libeled Trulock. Specifically, as part of a media, public relations campaign, these defendants claimed in widely published reports that Trulock had singled Wen Ho Lee out for prosecution because he is ethnic Chinese, a variation of the O.J. Simpson defense. As a result, Trulock, a hero who blew the whistle on the biggest breach of nuclear security since the Rosenbergs at Los Alamos National Laboratories, lost his job and had his reputation destroyed.
A later government report which issued in Judicial Watch's litigation on behalf of Trulock proved that he had not engaged in “racial profiling.” Nevertheless, Wen Ho Lee recently published another defamatory book making these and other claims, further damaging Trulock, who is now destitute and penny-less. It hit the bookstores on January 15, 2002.
During discovery in the cases brought for Trulock, Judicial Watch obtained admissions from Wen Ho Lee that he had never been discriminated against, and did not even know what racial profiling is. Further, he was forced to admit that the government had valid reasons to investigate him.(emphasis added)
Nevertheless, just days before trial, which was scheduled to begin February 19, the full weight of the Bush Justice Department was used by the administration to intervene in Judicial Watch's private cases for Trulock, to argue that if the trial was allowed to proceed, that national security would be violated.
The lower court granted the Bush Justice Department's request to stop the cases this afternoon, on the eve of trial. Judicial Watch will appeal on behalf of Trulock.
Already, another case filed before the same court, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which was dismissed, has been reinstated by the Fourth Circuit. This reinstated case involves Trulock's claims against former FBI Director Louis Freeh for violating his constitutional rights.
“The Bush Justice Department feared that if the Trulock defamation cases went to trial that it would be embarrassed for allowing Wen Ho Lee to violate national security, and for this reason conjured up a bogus argument, backed by secret CIA affidavits submitted to the court ex parte, that trying this simple defamation case would itself breach national security. This action by the administration amounts to a cover-up of the negligence of the FBI, which allowed Wen Ho Lee to pick the pockets of the American nuclear arsenal. To this day, Lee cannot account for the whereabouts of the secrets he stole,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
When the Democrats are against you, and the Republicans are against you , and the Judges are against you.. you have just been pronounced a dead dead (did I mention Lifeless) DUCK.
Larry Klayman lost another round in court.
Almost all of Judicial Watch's lawsuits are dismissed before they even go to trial.
Someone should sue Klayman to find out the identity of the deep pockets behind him and NewsMax. Could it be McCain? Or Perot?
It makes me wonder if Clinton did much more damage to this nation than we know about. Bush hid it in a hurry, but politically, it would be to his advantage to expose it.
I'm afraid he may be hiding info that would terrify the American people if they knew what Clinton may have really done.
Clinton sold his soul for power, and may have sold more than military secrets. He may have sold all of America ; it's vaunerable areas, it's valuable sites, it's entire network.
Remember, he was training the Chinese military leaders right here in the U.S.
The goverment labratories had an open door policy!
Klayman, whatever we might think of him and his motives, has performed a valuable service for the cause of justice in Washington.
Where have our righteous representatives from both parties been hiding?
Why is our justice department so interested in killing a low level defamation suit?
You might have missed this part when you skimmed through the headline... if you've been paying attention, this was one of several reversals on appeal recently that Judicial Watch has won for its clients. I'm pleased that there are still a few good men willing to stand up for truth and integrity in government.
Because of all the high level info that may be attached to it. Klayman is the wrong man to have on the case. He's too coo-coo.
Our president would be negligent if he were to hide such information from the nation. We are not his children.
Hey! What time is it? It's time to sue someone!
What an idiotic statement. You don't know what you're talking about on this one.
And they can't see their own Blind Partisanship. What a Sick Pair of Parties in charge.
It's my understanding that the government had already intervened and had been allowed by the court to have classification officers present at depositions to protect national security. The same could have been done for the trial.
"Nothing to see here, folks. Just move along...."
It appears to me that you believe Mr.Trulock is a fraud. If otherwise, please introduce Mr. Trulock to a competent attorney. Are there any honest lawyers in DC?
Because we thought they could actually bring justice. They brought nothing, and it was handed to them on a silver platter.
What have they done ? Why even bother with them now?
I'm willing to bet the farm that that is exactly what is going on. Sorry to say, the current administration is covering up so that the masses won't be scared more than necessary. That is why, whenever a post-9/11 plane crash occurs, the NTSB screams 'It wasn't terrorism!! It wasn't terrorism!' and floats every cracked theory there is to "prove" it while the crash is still smoking. This is utterly ridiculous.
I think that GW is covering up for Klinton because he feels a duty to restore the presidency to the dignity that it once had. I'm real sorry that the White House is having a PR problem from the last president, but we need to know the truth of what the last president did. To do anything else is dereliction of duty.
Oh, he's right on. Klayman is a has been. Seriously.
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