Halliburton Responds to Larry Klayman's Supersillyous Suit(My Title)

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[SierraWasp]

12:57PM Halliburton responds to Judicial Watch lawsuit (HAL) by Michael Baron Halliburton (HAL) is off 30 cents, or 2.1 percent, to $13.82, in midday action. The company is out with a press release responding to a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based legal watchdog group. The suit alleges fraudulent accounting practices at Halliburton took place during the period when current vice president Dick Cheney served as its chairman and CEO. Halliburton called the claims in the suit, "untrue, unsupported, and unfounded." The company continued: "We are working diligently with the SEC to resolve its questions regarding the company's accounting procedures. Halliburton has always followed and will continue to follow guidelines established by the SEC and GAAP, General Accepted Accounting Principles."

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Guess who.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

I hope that you are not like that with everything you hear, including the whole Rosewell thing.

[Howlin]

Well, we all know that is not the sole and main reason the IRS is going after Judicial Watch

Well, now just a minute ago you said

To: Howlin

The IRS is not going after JW to get their donor list.

329 posted on 7/11/02 12:45 AM Eastern by FreedominJesusChrist

You need to get your story straight; which is it?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Darn. That was working for a minute. I'll keep hunting.

[Fred Mertz]

One last thing, I find it hard to believe that Cheney or any CEO would have any expertise or spend much time in their accounting dept!

Yeah, it's a tough thing when your bidness entity is judged hourly on the markets.

Revenues, expenses, balance sheets.....I don't get the diff between net and gross....those are really complicated concepts.

Nice try, LiB.

[Texasforever]

LOL, is this a knock knock joke?

[henbane]

In a blast from the past, David Keene has fixed Klayman to the page like a Gypsy Moth pinned to black velvet.

April 18, 2001

	David Keene
	The Right View

Larry Klayman made his name suing Bill and Hillary Clinton every time they turned around. Last week the founder and head of Judicial Watch turned his guns on President George W. Bush and House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas). They are, he intimates, not much better than the Clintons, and unless they straighten up and fly right he is ready to sue, sue, sue.

Klayman, who founded Judicial Watch in 1994 to serve as a conservative “watchdog” over the ethical and legal wrongdoing so much in the news in those days, began suing the Clintons almost immediately, finding the administration what the military calls a “target-rich environment.”

Many of his suits came to naught and some have yet to be resolved, but his efforts unearthed more than a little Clinton wrongdoing that others had missed. It was Klayman, after all, who managed to find John Huang and begin uncovering Bill and Hillary’s involvement with “fundraisers” who were, in fact, operatives of the Communist regime in Beijing.

What’s more, it was Klayman who stepped forward to take the case of the first Bush administration officials whose FBI files had been illegally transferred to the White House and apparently became bedtime reading for the first lady. Hillary and a few of her cohorts continue to be at some legal risk as a result of this and other Klayman-initiated cases.

It’s no wonder that Klayman soon became one of the most hated and admired figures in town. The Clintons and their friends came to despise the man who fast emerged as a watchdog with real bite. Both Clinton critics and Clinton haters came to see him as a hero, a courageous lawyer battling to get at the “truth” that they were firmly convinced would ultimately sink the gang from Arkansas.

Klayman basked in his notoriety, became a regular on cable television and built Judicial Watch into a truly formidable operation. The numbers tell the story. In 1995, Judicial Watch raised less than $10,000, but by 1998 the operation was bringing in more than $11 million a year through advertising and direct mail.

While others were celebrating the fact that with the election of George W. Bush the Clintons would at last be leaving town, Klayman began hinting that the only reason Bush wasn’t anxious to continue pursuing the Clintons in court was that he was contemplating the same sort of activities. Why else, he hinted, would the new president keep saying he wanted to “put this behind us” when there was so much yet to investigate?

Indeed, Klayman began questioning Bush’s ethics even as he was taking office. Things in Washington haven’t changed much, Judicial Watch advertising seemed to be suggesting, but the public should be assured that he and his team of lawyers are still on the job.

Then, last week, Klayman held a press conference damning the Bush administration, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and DeLay. They were, he fulminated at a press conference, engaged in the same sort of illegal activity that characterized the Clinton administration.

He followed this up with a complaint alleging that an NRCC fundraising appeal represented an attempt to “sell” meetings with government officials and was, in effect, an effort to solicit “bribes.” The charges were, to put it mildly, a stretch, but did represent a Klayman declaration of war on the GOP and the president.

Klayman then promised a Judicial Watch “probe” of the supposed “secret deal” that resulted in the release of the 24 American fliers being held by China. “We aim to find out if any secret promises were made to the ‘Butchers of Beijing’ behind closed doors,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. How? By going to court.

Cynics suggest that Klayman pursues his watchdog role because he can’t help himself. This, after all, is a man who sued his mother. Others say his motives are suspect in the NRCC-DeLay case because of a business dispute, but if one takes Klayman at his word, he comes across more as a super litigious Common Cause type than as a conservative.

Indeed, to listen to him, one is forced to conclude that he just happened to be targeting Democrats and liberals during the Clinton years, but is now ready to go after conservatives and Republicans with equal vigor. He even implicitly took credit for the McCain-Feingold campaign finance “reform” vote in the Senate during his press conference attacking DeLay.

The question is whether he can get conservatives or others to continue to write checks to his operation while he attacks DeLay [President Bush, Vice-President Cheney and any other high-profile republican that may generate Democrat cash into the klayman coffers] rather than Clinton. Whether one likes him or agrees with him, Larry Klayman has now put his future and that of the organization he founded on the line.

[Howlin]

I'm going to be like that from now on! If it's good enough for Klayman, it's good enough for us.

All we have to do is SAY it and it's true.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Well, I should have worded that statement better. JW's donor list is not the sole reason the IRS is going after them. The other reasons are purely political.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

No. :) I just had a nice picture of those you are jousting with tonight. I'll have to find it elsewhere, I guess!

[Howlin]

Oh brace yourself. FreedominJesusChrist is going to come right along and tell you all about how David Keene has a real "thing" for Klayman.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Well, David Keene doesn't like consistency and he obviously doesn't like it when a fellow conservative keeps other conservatives accountable for their actions while in public office.

Other than that, I am out for the night. I am tired and hungry.

Have a good night, Howlin.

[Howlin]

That has NOTHING to do with "wording."

You specifically said: The IRS is not going after JW to get their donor list.

And now you're telling deport that is part of it.

[Texasforever]

No. :) I just had a nice picture of those you are jousting with tonight. I'll have to find it elsewhere, I guess!

I don't see a problem. There are pictures of the 3 stooges all over the internet, LOL

[Howlin]

You alwasy run to bed when something that proves you don't know what you're talking about comes up, don't you?

You slandered David Keene before right on this forum.

He has Klayman nailed.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

I am not answering any more of your questionso tonight, let me go to bed!

Good night.

[Howlin]

BTW, Klayman is NOT a conservative anymore, haven't you heard?

He's not one of us.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

You guys slander Klayman all the time on these threads and think nothing of it.

Keene does have issues with Klayman, so what? There is nothing else new here.

I don't really care what David Keene has to say about anything anway. I do care what you and others have to say, though.

Good-night.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Well, I stayed up just to watch Brit Hume's panel snicker at Larry and Judicial Watch....on the rerun. It was wonderful! Even Maira called him a GADflY, but her eyes got really big, and she got indignant about why republicans were now going after Larry.(Sounded exactly like a few right on this very thread!) Fred said, he wasn't aware of any republicans going after Larry! LOL, do you think that Maira reads Fr?

[Howlin]

IF I slander him, call him up and tell him to SUE ME. He won't though; he knows I'd do discovery on him and he'd be ruined.