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.
Not as low as you, apparently. The gutter is all yours, I'll not race you to it. Enjoy your "prize".
Many blessings, many prayers.
You are really full of it. The 'premier organization' as you call it happens to be primarily composed of radical, left-wing SOCIAL so-called SCIENTISTS. Ie., poly-sci nitwits with PhD's. Very few 'hard scientists' in the bunch, and of those, THEIR MAIN guys like John Pike, he has been DISCREDITED six ways from sunday. Constantly braying pollyanish consequences, to ANY US deployments of ANYTHING. This is your apostle of light and reason? LOL! You're so full of ignorance it is pathetic. You are a flagrant and flaming liberal, and as such belong in the dust bin of history, right next to Gorbachev.
Now that their dot-bomb money (e.g., Global Crossing for one),is drying up, and their Enron spigot is shutoff, the liberals will really be hurting for private-sector funding, and will naturally be more dependent than they have been for some time upon their misused Federal Grants and programs (e.g., Legal Services Corp., etc.), from whence they will run their operations out of. So I expect their web sites to go out of business sooner than expected. Call it one of the benefits of recession.
Mark
You must be out of your mind, or what's left of it. Check out this list of Nobel Laureates serving as sponsors or board members, vast majority of them are in hard-core scientific fields, where genius-level IQ, impeccable educational attainment, and stellar objectivity are only the pre-requisites.
http://www.fas.org/sponsor.htm
Put your money where your mouth is, show me a list of names that is 10%, even 1% as impressive as the one above, whore associated with any organization or group thats made vile and baseless charges against Dr. Lee.
So I will just note where your precious FAS falls out in a rather summary listing of the 'biggies' as attached below:
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1. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Conservative institute dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of freedom. Each year the Institute publishes books, hundreds of articles and reports, and a policy magazine, The American Enterprise. |
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2. Brookings Institution. This prestigious public policy research organization traces its beginnings to 1916. It functions as an independent analyst and critic and is committed to publishing its findings for the information of the public. |
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3. Cato Institute. Libertarian public policy research foundation covers the complete spectrum of public policy issues. The Institute publishes a quarterly magazine, Regulation, and a bimonthly newsletter, Cato Policy Report. |
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4. Center for Strategic and International Studies. For four decades, CSIS has been dedicated to providing world leaders with strategic insights on--and policy solutions to--current and emerging global issues. |
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5. Economic Policy Institute. Nonprofit, nonpartisan, liberal research organization. Strong focus on economic issues such as employment and wages. |
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6. Federation of American Scientists. Liberal organization dedicated to achieving complete nuclear disarmament, and producing slanted 'science' articles to effectuate that policy. Largely composed of non-scientist issues advocates. Principal 'scientific' spokesman, John Pike, is not generally respected as a scientist after profligate misrepresentations of facts in a variety of defense issues during the Carter and Reagan eras. FAS also addresses a wide range of science and society issues, including those of population, energy, agriculture, medical care, and ethnic conflict, with similar bias. |
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7. Heritage Foundation. Institute whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. |
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8. Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses. An autonomous body to conduct study and research on problems of national security and the impact of defence measures on the economic, security and social life of the country (India). |
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9. Institute for Policy Studies, which, in their own humble words claims: "At a time when other think tanks celebrate the virtues of unrestrained greed, unlimited wealth and unregulated markets, IPS is striving to create a more responsible society...built around the values of justice, nonviolence, sustainability and decency." |
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10. Institute for the Future. Independent, nonprofit research firm specializing in long-term forecasting, alternative futures scenarios, and the impacts of new products and next-generation technologies on society and business. |
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11. Internet Policy Institute. Nation's first institute created to provide objective, high-quality research and analysis on policy issues affecting and affected by the global development and use of the Internet. |
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12. Manhattan Institute. Conservative research institute with a strong focus on urban policy issues. |
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13. The National Center for Policy Analysis. NCPA believes in private sector solutions to public policy issues such as Social Security reform, tax reform, health care, and education. |
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14. The RAND Corporation. RAND provides high-quality, objective research on national security and defense, criminal and civil justice, science and technology, education, health care, and labor. |
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15. Urban Institute. Nonpartisan, liberal research center focusing on social and economic issues such as Medicare, welfare reform, Social Security, at risk teens, and child care. |
Agreed!
This is what happened when FR buried its head in the sand , and became mesmorized with a party and a man.
Man get a clue. Only a prosecutor can charge people with crime. A lawyer can't do that? No lawyer. Not Klayman. Not any lawyer. All a law firm can do is sue someone for damages in CIVIL court. Lawyers can't bring criminal charges. Civil suits can't put people in jail. They are civil... civil people deciding a civil case civily. Civil cases are only about money. At best they could make the Clinton's pay money to the person doing the sueing. That means all that would or could happen if Klayman had won one of the cases against Clinton, is that Clinton would have to pay him money...after years of appeal.
Only the Justice Department can file criminal charges against anyone for a federal offense. Im state courts only elected prosecuting attorneys can get a grand jury to indict for crimes and bring a criminal case. NOt even cops can file a felony case. They have to get a prosecutor to do so. In many cases he has to get a grand jury to indict.
All Klayman can sue for is money to compensate for damages to his clients. His problem is he has never been able to prove damages. He can claim someone damaged his client and ask the court to give them money. If he had won those cases against Hillary and Bill the most it could have cost them was what Bill gets for a couple of speeches. In most such cases such suits end up like Paula Jones suit. Most of the money Clinton paid went to Paula's attorneys. Klayman won none of his cases. Clinton settled with Paula.
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