Posted on 02/12/2002 6:15:54 PM PST by 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.
While it may well be the RAT hold-overs doing the dirty work, I am afraid that the 'move-on' gang can't be absolved of responsibility here. Ashcroft and Bush cannot be totally oblivious to their subordinates actions, as Ashcroft while a Senator, had called for accountability on Wen Ho Lee. Now, suddenly AG, he doesn't lift a finger to help you, but stabs you in the back. That, clearly, shows bad faith on John Ashcroft's part. Now it is unlikely that a change of this magnitude in his deportment was without directions from his superior. That implicates only one person in our Cabinet structure. It does seem likely as a number of others such as Cohen, Prather, etc. have opined, that GWB is running interference for GHWB. The real question is, if GHWB was to 'pass on' would GWB suddenly reverse his cover-up policies (perpetuating Krinton's) or maintain them to avoid taking the hit of having enacted them in the first place or of the likely huge fallout of political-guilt-by-association for his dad's misdeeds.
Didn't he decide that Justice may be blind but she can't be naked?
Even though you didn't win for yourself, by making them just a little more careful you've won something for all of us.
Glad you can keep a healthy attitude in all this, it increases my admiration of you.
I would like in this reply to add that Kimery and another investigator I know published articles in eSources Journal in 1999 stating that Chinese espionage agents were caught red handed stealing the US JSTARS radar (used on AWACS) technology at Tinker AFB.
Their article goes on to say that the FBI and CIA agents involved in the operation were stunned when nothing was done by their superiors in FBI and CIA as well as the HW Bush adminstration.
Upon the investigator's request, I transferred their information to the office of Republican Senator Don Nickles who was to have raised it with George Tenet in a briefing about three years ago. Nickles and his staff to this day will now not tell me if Nickles really gave the info to Tenet even though they told me they wanted it when I offerred the info to Nickles office.
To be associated with the efforts of Aldrich and Trulock and Tripp in the same sentence is a high honor.
They do not seek notoriety or the approval of men, they seek the approval of God in doing what is right to warn others and try to get things changed for the better.
"Man does not live by bread alone."
A wise and godly man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, especially those words recorded in the Bible.
I second Marianne's sentiments. Thank you! And thank you, OKSubmariner for your very fine posts on this thread. There is much to mull over.
No surprise there. FAS (Federation of American Scientists), the pre-eminent organization founded by prominents American scientists to promote sciences, is obvisouly the mortal foe of ignorance.
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