TRULOCK CASE AGAINST WEN HO LEE DISMISSED AT REQUEST OF PRESIDENT BUSH

Judicial Watch ^ | February 12, 2002 | Press release

[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.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so very much for sharing your first hand experiences!!! Without them, all we can do is speculate.

[KC Burke]

Thank you for your reply.

Klayman carries a lot of baggage with all of his history on this site, first as a hero and then sometimes a goat. As with anyone living on the perifery of the Clinton wrong doing, Klayman has made himself a figure of controversy. As he took your representation when no one else would and you are happy with the effort put forth, I give him a pass on this one. It is a shame that this gets personalized as "Bush" doing something in this article. As you point out, it is the whole culture of government. A pretty astute and mature viewpoint on an issue that affects your livelyhood.

The climate created in government when Clinton came to power was the true source of the problem. Not that it didn't exist before in a small sense, but Clinton made it whole. His team's actions against Aldrich, yourself and others amounted to political war against our traditions, institutions and culture. Because of the efforts of you, and those like you, the initial assault was held from the ridgeline until we common folk could intellectually arm ourselves.

[VoodooEconomist]

Of course, no one should be the least bit suprised. Even before elected, Bush never showed any inclination for cleaning up the corruption of the 1990s.

Pretending to take the "moral high ground," he said he would just "put it behind us." For a religious man, that was quite an assertion ... since immorality cannot be buried ... it always eats away from the inside ... it's just a matter of time.

At any rate, judging by the rampant shilling of the Bush administration on FR, I'd expect the poster of this message to be shot ... as shooting the messenger goes on the Net.

Thanks for the post.

[ntrulock]

Thanks for the support. With all due respect to the poster of #63, Peter Lee is believed to have been guilty of passing nuclear secrets to the Chinese, but not the neutron bomb. That is thought to have come from a case known as TIGER TRAP, involving a scientist from Livermore Lab. It is true that Peter Lee worked at Livermore and at Los Alamos. He passed nuclear secrets to the Chinese in 1985 when he was at Los Alamos. There are a number of tenuous links between Peter and Wen Ho. Both lived in White Rock and there may be FBI records of telephone converstions between the two when Peter was at Livermore. The Justice Department torpeded the case against Peter Lee in 1997 about the time that China president Jiang Zemin visited Clinton in Washington. He got off with a slap on the wrist and the FBI withheld information from Defense officials that might (and I emphasize might) have persuaded Defense to argue for a harsher prosecution. Just one of the many strange aspects of this whole case. Let me add that many people suspect that there is much more to both Peter and Wen Ho Lees' connection to the Chinese than the government is willing to reveal. Most have dismissed WHLee's claim that everything he did was approved by the lab. Maybe it was. That would explain a lot. Note Trulock

[Native American Female Vet]

"Maybe everybody is on the wrong trail here; maybe it would be just as embarrassing to Poppy as to the Toon."

Yep, it is looking that way and in more areas than just this one too.

[Osinski]

Ignorant post as usual.

[Ethan_Allen]

You are a patriot and a gentleman. Thank you, Sir.

[Osinski]

Sometimes I wonder if Clinton has something on Bush that scares Bush away from helping these people out.

Bush isn't scared, he's dirty, as well as that scumsucking slime maggot krinton and his shrew.

[zog]

--OK, swell. So if klayman is out, *exactly* who do you recommend these people suing the government use, or being maliciously charged or threatened by government use? Or do you suggest another tactic? What are some credible non-vague alternatives?

[blackbag]

Thanks for your perspective on this. I salute you for doing the right thing
despite the hardships it has brought.

I am sure you know, gov is bigger then anyone administration. You are correct,
lots of holdovers from the Clinton years still deep in the system with power to flex.
I am afraid that you are caught in a no-win situation.

I am a Klayman fan, although he has at times taken on causes I am diametricaly opposed to.
If your satisfied that he, (Larry Klayman) has done his best for you, then nuff said.

Stay safe, life is short, live in the moment and find your peace.

[Registered]

Sorry, I just had to revive these babies....thanks for the memories Mr. Trulock!

[Registered]

Just a flag for a buddy!

[Native American Female Vet]

Thank you for your comments Mr. Trulock.

"So get off of Klayman's back, on this case, he did everything he could to win...especially when no one else in Washington would touch the case...or me."

[Red Jones]

NewsMax makes money by selling ads, magazine subscriptions & books. I admit that Klayman wears thin, but he and his organization are at least trying to do a lot of good. There is a sea of corruption that we face and Klayman is at least going out to fight it. So, I support him 100%.

[aristeides]

I will keep in mind your comments made from personal experience as a client of Mr. Klayman's. Hang in there!

[Paul Ross]

You're so flagrantly NOT conservative, you had best leave town while the getting is good. This is a CONSERVATIVE web site. So beat it, RAT.

[Ethan_Allen]

Following up on my earlier comment. I've been told that dead center in the Bible is Psalm 118:8 "It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man." It's a theme that runs throughout the Bible. I find it interesting that in my favorite Bible, the verse immediately opposite is this: Psalm 118:22 "The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner."

Interesting articles: Signs of the Times
Discerning the Times

I sometimes think of the Bible as the greatest mystery ever written. Right up unto the end you are kept guessing 'whodunit'? I believe it leaves people a chance to repent and return to God. He wants us to rend our hearts in repentance and turn back to His way. When all is said and done, every word of prophecy will have been revealed exactly as it was written. I hope that Americans will wake up in time, and will not leave God with no choice but to display his wrath reserved for the most wicked offenders. "Luke 7:47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, [the same] loveth little." "Luke 12:48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few [stripes]. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." "1Pe 4:17 For the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel of God?"

Pray for America, and pray that those who do not know Him and who do not walk in His ways will before it's too late.

[Paul Ross]

Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. To wit: Your sanity and common sense also have yet to be proven, and indeed, such appears quite dubious that they can, with your Soviet-style slander.