Posted on 11/26/2001 9:51:36 AM PST by flamefront
JW VICTORY: FEDERAL COURT RULES COMMERCE DEPARTMENT MUST TURN OVER ATTORNEY DOCUMENTS IN LANDMARK CHINAGATE CASE
Criminal Phase Likely Next for Commerce FOIA Case
Court Ruled Clinton Commerce Department Improperly Withheld Documents – Ex-Clinton Officials Will Be Deposed
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today announced that a federal court ordered that the Commerce Department must turn over attorney documents to Judicial Watch in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit concerning the sale of Clinton Commerce Department trade mission seats in exchange for campaign contributions. It was this FOIA case which first exposed accused spy John Huang to public scrutiny and, according to Fox News, “got the ball rolling” on the Chinagate scandal.
In a November 16, 2001 order, The Honorable Royce C. Lamberth, citing “egregious misconduct by DOC [Department of Commerce] officials in an attempt to withhold certain [FOIA] documents from production,” ruled that the Commerce Department must produce certain documents created by its attorneys concerning the FOIA search. (Through its investigation, Judicial Watch uncovered evidence that the Commerce Department attorneys, working in concert with officials at the Clinton White House, illegally withheld documents concerning the illegal sale of Commerce trade mission seats. Nolanda Hill, late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown’s business partner and paramour, also testified before Judge Lamberth that the scheme to sell the Commerce trade mission seats for political contributions was conceived of by Hillary Clinton and implemented by Bill Clinton and Al Gore.)
In another ruling last week, Judge Lamberth ruled that discovery in the seven year old case will come to a close in 90 days. Other witnesses to be deposed, per the Court’s order, include ex-Clinton White House lawyers Bruce Lindsey and Cheryl Mills. Following the close of discovery, Judicial Watch will ask the Court that Clinton White House and Commerce Department officials who obstructed the court’s orders to produce documents be held in criminal contempt of court. Judge Lamberth has already said that he would entertain such motions.
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An excellent question.
One those who support JW have come to understand a long time ago.
Which is why we support JW, eh?
You really ought to go over to ChaseR's thread & collect yourself some names; then simply ask them, ff.
~Assuming they're willing to knock off the obfuscating, & give ya a straight answer.
So I hear..... I liked Old Friends comment though....
GO LARRY. Just do it. And get your deposition questions lined up carefully. Don't get sidetracked this time in a flurry of words that lead to nowhere and please, oh please Larry, demand direct answers. Do not let ONE ANSWER go the way of the professional spinners you will be dealing with....I am going to pray for ya. Lindsey and Mills are very gruesome people. Willing to lie to win. And willing to humiliate and obfuscate with glee.
I am going to pray that God grants you the wisdom to ask the questions that will lead to real discovery. As well as the wisdom to immediately reflect upon their answers and ferret out exactly what has been said, enabling you to zero in, big time.
No replays of the likes of Harold Ickes threatening to defacate on your rug, or George Stephanopoulis's arrogant and defiant non-responses, culminating in walking out. Get it right, Larry.
And if there is someone in your office who is better in the deposing dept-let us know so that we can pray for this person, too. Go get um. You have worked hard for the right to depose these creeps-make the most of it....make up sweat. You must be prepared, alert, relaxed, intent and extremely direct. The effort to intimidate and humilate will be no less than Ickes or Stephanopoulis, but there will be more support. You are exposing a crime done with the direct knowledge of the top dogs-get your questions down and simple, hard and fast, and take no prisoners. Let them hang themselves.
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