Posted on 11/08/2001 1:57:39 PM PST by Rebeckie
11/8/2001
202-646-5172
BUSH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BLOCKS RENO DEPOSITION
Latest Obstruction Prevents Scheduled Testimony In Defamation Case Against Accused Spy Wen Ho Lee
Last Minute Gamesmanship No Better than Clinton Justice Department
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today criticized the Ashcroft Justice Department for obstructing a long scheduled deposition of former Attorney General Reno in whistleblower Notra Trulock defamation case against accused Chinese spy and admitted felon Wen Ho Lee. Trulock, the former chief of the Energy Department intelligence operations, is suing Lee and others for falsely accusing Trulock of racial bias while conducting an inquiry into the loss of America nuclear secrets from Energy Department labs. Former Attorney General Reno, who was subpoenaed last month, was expected to testify that Wen Ho Lee charges of racial bias had no basis in fact and that there was a legitimate basis to investigate Lee. The deposition of Ms. Reno was scheduled to take place tomorrow in Miami. Judicial Watch is representing Mr. Trulock in this matter.
Late yesterday afternoon, the Ashcroft Justice Department, through a fax from Assistant Attorney General Robert D. McCallum, Jr., unilaterally decided that Reno (and other witnesses such as former FBI Director Louis Freeh) would not appear as scheduled. Judicial Watch was told by a Justice Department lawyer that this decision was only made yesterday. (The Ashcroft Justice Department had known that Reno would be testifying in this case since June of this year.)
The Justice Department lawyers know they have no legal basis to prevent Ms. Reno from testifying at the last minute. Yet they think they are above the law and are contemptuous of the Court processes. The Ashcroft Justice Department has continually obstructed this case. Indeed, a federal court has already sanctioned them for similar conduct in this case. "Truth be told, in matters that Judicial Watch has been litigating, the ethics and practices of the Ashcroft Justice Department are no better than those of Reno Justice Department", stated Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman.
"No one is above the law. And Judicial Watch will seek appropriate sanctions and plans to ask for an independent investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility into the way the Wen Ho Lee case has been handled. These repeated obstructionist tactics by this Justice Department are most likely to cover up their ongoing negligence concerning the loss of virtually all of our nation nuclear secrets to China and other nations adverse to the United States", added Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
He did NO such thing; remind me not to EVER take any legal advice from you; or any other advice as far as that's concerned; you seem to be a sheeple.
No, they don't.
How about you? You can't even tell us why you are sure Ron Brown wasn't murdered. And you have NEVER answered these few simple questions:
YES or NO? Did Klayman uncovered evidence (or WHATEVER you want to call it PREINVESTIGATION) of many serious CRIMINAL violations in Filegate, Chinagate, Emailgate, etc?
If so, can Klayman do anything about CRIMINAL violations?
If not, who now has responsibility for investigating and prosecuting criminal matters of the sort uncovered?
If the answer is Ashcroft, then can you provide us with ANY indication that he has investigated or is investigating?
If not, then why aren't you critical of Ashcroft ... and Bush, his boss?
Guess you never BOTHERED to go read the depositions they took. Just like you can't be BOTHERED to debate the facts in the Ron Brown case. You RUN from facts, Howlin, just like a democRAT. And if you are not a democRAT, then you are one of the new "move on" Republicans who are indistinguishable from democRATS when it comes to the GOP upholding the law. Too afraid of democRAT "juries" and "media", I guess.
But do you support Howlin's attempt to LIE about the outcome of his cases instead?
We've been over this before. You are so obsessed with what you call evidence, you're lost touch with reality.
You are the one his dishonestly CLAIMED that they were "laughed" out of court. You are the one who defends Clinton and the DNC by trying to discredit the valuable information we learned about their criminal activities thanks to JW. You are the one who RUNS from the facts in the Ron Brown case and the Vince Foster case. You are the one who seems to think that Linda Tripp was lying in her Klayman Filegate deposition. I have no problem with you going after Klayman for his recent behavior. Just stop trying to destroy his PREVIOUS work so that Bush can safely "move on" in the face of credible evidence (or whatever YOU want to call it) that the democRATS committed some mighty serious crimes ... like MASS MURDER and TREASON.
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