Posted on 11/17/2001 12:26:01 PM PST by Rebeckie
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
11/17/2001
202-646-5172
BUSH TO NAME JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AFTER LAWBREAKING ROBERT F. KENNEDY
“FRIEND” TED KENNEDY CONVINCED G.W. TO HONOR BROTHER
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the non-partisan public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government abuse and corruption, was astonished to learn today that President Bush intends to name the Justice Department after the late Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
“The ethical and legal standards of the Bush administration will sink low if the President carries through with his plan of naming the nation’s top law enforcement agency after someone who spent his tenure in the Justice Department trampling on the civil rights of all Americans. It is widely known that Kennedy urged then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to misuse FBI files to blackmail members of Congress to “overlook” his brother, President John F. Kennedy’s, affair with an East German spy. With the possible exception of John Mitchell and Janet Reno, I cannot think of a worse choice,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel, Larry Klayman.
The Justice Department’s own mission statement says “the Department represents the citizens of the United States in enforcing the law in the public interest” and, yet, Kennedy is perhaps remembered most for three things, the ‘Get Hoffa’ campaign, which ran roughshod over all legal procedures in a personal vendetta against one man, the wiretapping of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., along with the aforementioned silencing of a congressional investigation into President John Kennedy’s affair with alleged East German spy Ellen Romisch.
Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio reportedly refused to shake Kennedy’s hand at Marilyn Monroe’s funeral because of his belief that he and his brother had something to do with her untimely death. Klayman opined, “Joltin’ Joe was right then and George W. Bush is wrong now. As for reports today in The Washington Post that George W. Bush has become a close friend of Senator Ted Kennedy- a politician who many believed murdered Mary Jo Kopeche and was instrumental in convincing Bush to name the Justice Department after his brother Robert…the President should learn to choose better people to be associated with,” Klayman added.
Very few of us here care what Larry "opines."
Not going to happen!
Ah......Yep!
Hey, two out of three of those sound pretty good to me!
Bush needs Teddy Kennedy to get lots of nominations through the Judiciary committee. Kennedys crave fame an imortality more than ideology. I suspect Bush traded a building name for some Teddy votes for nominations.
It is the kind of thing that Democrats have done for generations. They have been good at getting Republicans to trade substance for recognition. Republicans have always lived to regret it.
Naming a building for a Kennedy in exchange for judges we can like, is a very good deal for our side.
Remember Klayman is not on either side in our political syste. He is just a man who has, from day one, been out for greasing his own pocket. I posted over a year ago that Larry was going to swap sides and try to milk Democrats for funds to go after Bush the way he milked Republicans to go after Clinton.
Oh big deal. This is nothing.
Bush needs Teddy Kennedy to get lots of nominations through the Judiciary committee. Kennedys crave fame an imortality more than ideology. I suspect Bush traded a building name for some Teddy votes for nominations.
It is the kind of thing that Democrats have done for generations. They have been good at getting Republicans to trade substance for recognition. Republicans have always lived to regret it.
Naming a building for a Kennedy in exchange for judges we can like, is a very good deal for our side.
Remember Klayman is not on either side in our political syste. He is just a man who has, from day one, been out for greasing his own pocket. I posted over a year ago that Larry was going to swap sides and try to milk Democrats for funds to go after Bush the way he milked Republicans to go after Clinton.
Klayman is about parting the suckers from their money. Always has been. Always will be.
Count me among the Suckers to the tune of $250. Oh well, live and learn!
Wasn't it Gable that said "Marilyn Monroe makes a man glad he was born a man"?
Well, rumor has it, that, GW, offered Teddy, to name the new building the Teddy Kennedy building. The only problem, it couldn't be name after anyone still alive!
This kind offer brought that stunned look out on Teddy's ample face!
It is widely known that this happened BEFORE John F. Kennedy got the nomination for president.
With the possible exception of John Mitchell and Janet Reno, I cannot think of a worse choice,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel, Larry Klayman.
I can.
Sounds like Larry is STILL mad because he didn't get an offer to join this administration.
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