Dem Probers Eye Rush's Medical File Despite Agreement[Fr mentioned]

tp://www.newsmax.com ^ | Thursday Dec. 25, 2003; 2:23 p.m. EST

[luv2ndamend]

A Democratic Party prosecutor ordered the review of confidential medical records seized from doctors treating number one talk radio host Rush Limbaugh - despite an agreement by his deputy not to do so at a Florida court hearing Monday.

The brazen legal move has Limbaugh's supporters worrying that his medical secrets may now be in the hands of senior Democratic Party operatives working for New York Senator Hillary Clinton and other top Democrats.

During Monday's hearing, Limbaugh's attorney Roy Black asked the court to stay an expected decision granting permission to review the medical data until an appeal could be filed.

During the following exchange among Black, Assistant State's Attorney James Martz and Judge Jeffrey A. Winkoff, Martz indicated that he didn't object to the bid to keep the records under seal pending the judge's ruling.

"I honestly think it's in the purview of the Court to make that decision," replied the Florida prosecutor. "I don't think I have an argument on that."

Despite Martz's apparent agreement that the records would stay sealed until Judge Winkoff ruled, Limbaugh's records were allegedly opened and reviewed on orders from Martz's boss, State's Attorney Barry Krischer, the top talk host charged on Wednesday.

"The state advised my lawyer later in the day, [Monday] that, Barry Krischer, who is the elected state attorney down here, told his investigators to go ahead and open my medical records, despite the requests from my lawyers and the consideration of a stay by the judge. . .

"They couldn't wait; they had to open them," Limbaugh complained. "The state's attorney, Barry Krischer, personally ordered it from what we're told and his investigators began rifling through my medical records."

Contacted by the Palm Beach Post on Wednesday, State Attorney Krischer refused to deny the allegation.

The move shocked the top talk host's fans. Writing on the conservative Web site FreeRepublic.com, one listener worried: "The contents of Limbaugh's medical records are undoubtedly already in Hillary's database."

Kischer is a Democrat who strongly backed Attorney General Janet Reno after she was selected for the job by Mrs. Clinton.

Krischer's decision to press the case against Limbaugh so aggressively drew criticism from one particularly unlikely source.

"There is something odd about the way this case is playing out, the kind of crimes that are being investigated," complained former White House counsel Lanny Davis to MSNBC on Monday. "And it does really look like his celebrityhood . . . has attracted unfair attention."

While Davis disagreed with the notion that Limbaugh was the victim of a Democratic Party witch-hunt, he observed, "It doesn't look like, at the moment, they have a real serious case that smacks of criminal conduct."

"This is about prosecutors leaking to the press. That's wrong. And I agree with Limbaugh on that," he said.

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[deport]

Get a clue dimbulb

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Thanks for the compliment. It speaks so highly of you...

Now was rushie paying 'blackmail' to the Clines as alledged by his Kennedy lawyer? If so, why?

[Cicero]

I'm not a regular Rush listener, but it's obvious that the Democrats have set an extremely high priority for knocking him off the airwaves. Just as Drudge was their Public Enemy #1 during the Monica scandal, Rush is their Public Enemy #1 as we approach the 2002 election. With him out of the way they could do a LOT more spinning of the news. Directly or indirectly Rush reaches a lot of people, and makes it much more difficult for the liberal media to peddle their lies unchallenged.

I must admit I've been very surprised at the way many Freepers have reacted to Rush's problems. He is not a deliberate drug addict, he's a guy who got hooked on prescription pain killers. He didn't go out and buy crack cocaine or heroin. What happened to him could happen to anybody. I don't think people understand the dangers of getting addicted to legitimate medicines, and the difficulty of dealing with the problem. I happen to support the policy of keeping addictive drugs like coke, heroine, and (yes) marijuana illegal, but that's quite another matter from using pain killers because you are suffering from terrible pain, and then getting addicted to it. Add to that a criminal housekeeper and a criminal Democrat prosecutor, and my sympathies are entirely with Rush.

[cricket]

Really too bad someone could not get ahold of Bill Clinton's medical records. Would have been an immense service to our country.

The Rule of Law surely has built in a respect for the 'other', that Demrats too often, greedily violate.

. . .seems to me, almost a kind of rape mentality; as they viciously tear into the private medical records of Rush. . .they couldn't wait. . .yes, and for sure.

These Demrats are beyond disgusting; but then, we already know that.

[kcar]

Rush's drug abuse injured no one but himself. If he was not a popular conservative talk show host this deal would have been settled meekly by now. That, in and of itself, should prove that his prosecution is a witch-hunt launched by the same despicable crowd that thought Clinton's medical records shouldn't be opened to examine evidence of a real assault on someone else's rigths.
The Rats want to lame Rush before the election by touting his hiprocrisy, but in the process are proving their own.
Rush can't be silenced this way. In the unlikely case they did take him out three others would pop up to replace him, (Tony Snow was hit in substitution).

[Helms]

Allow me to play George Bush, Elder, to your Bill Clinton.

Posts like yours reveal no knowledge whatsoever of opiod addiction not to mention Rush Limbaughs almost single handedly responsibility for 1994 and the 2002 Trifecta.

[deport]

What does that have to do with rushie paying blackmail, assuming he did as alledged by his Kennedy lawyer.

That was then.... this is now... Compassion abounds.... or should don't you think?

[wingnuts'nbolts]

It will backfire on the Democrats badly. The choir of democrats who hate Rush and only listen to disrupt, will be gleeful, but the Rush devotees who vote are the ones who will seek to vote their disapproval of the neverending sleaze of the Clintonites. I think a lot of those people are independents, uncommitted voters, moderate democrats, republicans and conservatives.

For the first time this, and listening to a fellow from NY state talk about how poorly Hillary is regarded inher "home state" ,makes me truly see that she is all smoke and mirrors and harshness and really cannot win the nomination or the Presidency, she is through and so is her miserable spouse. She will be lucky to retain her Senate seat and become a female Teddy the Swimmer, Hillary the lightfingered. Rudy may just wipe up the platform with her and she'll be a one term Senator.

[HoundsTooth_BP]

(rushie should be given/shown the same compassion he has dealt out to others over the many years)
Benedict Arnold couldn't have put it better deport. Nothing shouts 'I'm the smartest guy in the room' like half baked truths and twisted slander. Although I suppose in the world you live in the people who are on the receiving end of blackmail are the villians, and no one in an elected office would ever have an axe to grind. I mean, everyone knows that prosecutors wouldn't have political agendas
nor would they ever go after high profile cases to bolster their careers. Your bald faced venom will garner little sympathy for your opportunistic attack on a great American, one who, by the way, has not even been accused of a crime, a little detail you might have missed in your scathing condemnation.

[deport]

You are 100% correct.... He's not been charged and may well not be.... and shouldn't if he's not done anything wrong. Alledged blackmail ..... so sayth the Kennedy lawyer. Not proven at this stage...

[TheOtherOne]

So interesting that one of the biggest shills for Manuel Noriega during the Bush One administration and Clinton during the impeachment, would be crying foul about Democrats now.

Huh? I am not following

[cajun-jack]

a little "bait and switch" perhaps??

[AgThorn]

Party politics aside, if ones medical records can be so easily opened one has to really be concerned about the civil rights damage this represents.... and to think that the Demoncrats, those alledged protectors of civil rights, are the one's doing the violating.

Time to write someone about this ...

[Waco]

The taxpayers of Floriduh may be in for an expensive experience. Good thing plenty of em are transplanted rich northern libs. Give em hell Rush.

[RS]

"If Limbaugh had taken a quarter of the drugs he's alleged to have bought he would have died."

This is getting funny - others have said the 2,000 pills we know of in a 5 month period is no big deal ....

At a quick search for pharmacology of the drugs he bought, it appears he got twice as many as the maximum that is normally prescribed, from the single pharmacy we can see the records of.

[sweetliberty]

I hope Rush sues those responsible.

[NonValueAdded]

Florida State Attorneys ARE elected officials and the office IS party affiliated. So yes, some counties are represented by prosectors "furnished" by the democRATs while others are "furnished" by the republicans.

[deport]

I hope Rush sues those responsible.

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You reckon he'd do that and then have it all drug out in court proceedings...... all those things he's trying to keep private at this time. I doubt it.

But at some point he may well have a good case and then he's got a decision to make.....

[deport]

Florida State Attorneys ARE elected officials and the office IS party affiliated.

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Yep... like that in most states I'd guess. The State Attorney General is a Republican....

[JimSEA]

I don't know. I think Davis genuinely believed that Starr's office was doing the same thing to his boss (Clinton). Davis is liberal but would, like Lieberman, fit the role of loyal opposition.

[RS]

"The taxpayers of Floriduh may be in for an expensive experience."


The judge denied the request to quash the Search Warrents on Monday and the prosecuters informed Rush's lawyers and opened the records. Where is the liability ?