Posted on 01/11/2002 4:26:46 PM PST by Pokey78
Care to back that up? What PROOF do you have of that accusation?
Judicial Watch, Inc. was established in 1994 to serve as an ethical and legal "watchdog" over our government, legal, and judicial systems to promote a return to ethics and morality in our nation's public life.
As a non-partisan, non-profit foundation based in Washington, D.C., and with offices throughout the country, Judicial Watch relies on supporters, like yourself, to help us root out corruption in our government and to make sure offenders are brought to justice.
I don't see anything about only watching the demonrats and letting Republicans slide. Also, if you notice the last part about rooting out corruption, if I'm not mistaken, that's the objective of FR on the homepage.
Let me see, where have I heard that rhetoric before? Oh yeah, John McCain!
Is it because President Bush took donations from Enron? As has been demonstrated, they gave a lot of money on both sides of the aisle.
Is it because Enron bought influence? Some influence...they wound up bankrupt.
Is it because the employees lost money in the 401K while the officers got to sell their stock? This apparently is legal, although reprehensible. It is not President Bush's fault, and O'Neill said they are going to be looking into changing the laws on 401K plans.
Now, if all the hot shot Wall Street people thought this was a good company, and apparently there were a lot who did, how is it that President Bush, who has been running a war and doesn't have time to look at individual stock reports, was supposed to KNOW that they were in trouble?
Oh...when O'Neill got the call? By then the money was gone.
So WHAT is Klayman investigating? Please explain, and it cannot be that Lay was a friend. I have had friends in my life that did some crummy things. I didn't know what they were doing until it had happened, and of course, they aren't now my friends, but nonetheless, I did know them.
lol My commie town wants to build one for almost 1 million dollars. To house up to 6 families. This is our personal war against a Hillary lovin democrat mayor.
Every thing any low-level, part-time government employee or personal friend did always was laid right at the door of the president. Reagan and Bush controlled and manipulated everything friends, family, the world. Clinton had control of nothing, not even his dick. A pertetual victim.
Claims of ignorance, stupidity and SNAFUs were everywhere and accepted immediately. Wow, what a difference a GOP president makes in the energy of the press. Helen Thomas is like a kitten with a ball of yarn.
But Larry Klayman will have not one thing to do with any of it.
My dear child/person, Larry has quite simply CHANGED his "aim" since he's made so many conservatives mad and can't get money from them anymore.
See below:
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, June 10) -- Larry Klayman, leader of the group Judicial Watch, calls himself a conservative watchdog. He denies he is in it for the money and says he is just after the truth about the Clinton Administration.
"I take it to heart when I see the government not telling the truth, not doing the right thing and covering up," Klayman says.
Klayman subpoenaed Clinton fund-raiser John Huang in 1996. This year he forced former Clinton aide Harold Ickes to testify and got Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon to admit under oath he leaked damaging information about Clinton accuser Linda Tripp.
Tax records show Klayman's tax-exempt group, Judicial Watch, was just a shoestring operation in 1996, with total revenues of less than $68,000.
But now it comes out that Judicial Watch received $550,000 in 1997 from the Carthage Foundation, funded by Pittsburgh billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.
Scaife is intensely conservative and intensely anti-Clinton. He gave $2.6 million to American Spectator magazine to dig up Clinton dirt, then cut off the money when it published a story he didn't like.
But Klayman says Scaife's money comes with no strings attached, and Scaife isn't paying them to beat up on President Bill Clinton.
"Absolutely not," Klayman said. "Our cases were filed long before we received any support from the Carthage Foundation."
Klayman has sued the Commerce Department, the Justice Department, the White House, the FBI and even Hillary Rodham Clinton.
He is a frequent guest and dependable Clinton-basher on CNN and other networks, including a network linked to the conservative Free Congress Foundation. Scaife gave it nearly $1.7 million last year.
Clinton allies were silent about the news that Scaife is financing Klayman. Some said they saw nothing wrong. Others suggested they want to avoid any more Klayman subpoenas.
I doubt Enron told Anderson everything, or answered fully every question asked without intent to mislead. We shall see.
That being said, the liberals cleaned the conservatives' clocks (Bob Novak and Cliff May) on Crossfire today. The White House needs to get some directions out to their friends and allies on how to respond to these accusations, so that conservative commentators can be more effective in pointing out all the holes in the Democrats' claims, as well as the hypocrisies of the Democrat accusers such as that of Tony Coelho (for instance, on another program on CNN, Robert Wexler and J.D. Hayworth were debating Enron, and Hayworth gained major points when he pointed out, to Wexler's chagrin, that the latter had accepted money from Enron in the past).
Answer: NADA.
Note to Larry: We've met. I've sent you money. Not any more ... idiot!
But now he is making lies up out of whole cloth. If and when there is ANY evidence against Bush and this administration, I will be the FIRST person to say heads should roll. However, I do think that Klayman should have SOME SHRED OF PROOF/EVIDENCE before he fires off press releases like this; I know it's EXTREMELY picky of me, but that's just the way I am; I happen to LIKE facts.
And Larry ain't got any.
And after four or five years or NEVER WINNING A CASE, most of us wised up.
SO, why is he calling himself a conservative?
That's going to be hard to reconcile with "We've burned it all," IMO........LOL.
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