Posted on 04/27/2002 9:19:09 AM PDT by vannrox
ADL found guilty of spying by California court
25-04-2002
By Barbara Ferguson, Arab News Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Arab News — The San Francisco Superior Court has awarded former Congressman Pete McCloskey, R-California, a $150,000 court judgment against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
McCloskey, the attorney in the case, represented one of three civil lawsuits filed in San Francisco against the ADL in 1993. The lawsuit came after raids were made by the San Francisco Police Department and the FBI on offices of the ADL in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, which found that the ADL was engaged in extensive domestic spying operations on a vast number of (Conservative) individuals and institutions around the country.
During the course of the inquiry in San Francisco, the SFPD and FBI determined the ADL had computerized files on nearly 10,000 people across the country, and that more than 75 percent of the information had been illegally obtained from police, FBI files and state drivers’ license data banks.
Much of the stolen information had been provided by Tom Gerard of the San Francisco Police Department, who sold, or gave, the information to Ray Bullock, ADL’s top undercover operative.
The investigation also determined that the ADL conduit, Gerard, was also working with the CIA.
Two other similar suits against ADL were settled some years ago, and the ADL was found guilty in both cases, but the McCloskey suit continued to drag through the courts until last month.
In the McCloskey case, the ADL agreed to pay (from its annual multi-million budget) $50,000 to each of the three plaintiffs — Jeffrey Blankfort, Steve Zeltzer and Anne Poirier — who continued to press charges against the ADL, despite a continuing series of judicial roadblocks that forced 14 of the original defendants to withdraw. Another two died during the proceedings.
The ADL, which calls itself a civil rights group, continued to claim it did nothing wrong in monitoring their activities. Although the ADL presents itself as a group that defends the interests of Jews, two of three ADL victims are Jewish.
Blankfort and Zeltzer were targeted by the ADL because they were critical of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians.
The third ADL victim in the McCloskey case, Poirier, was not involved in any activities related to Israel or the Middle East. Poirier ran a scholarship program for South African exiles who were fighting the apartheid system in South Africa.
At the time, the ADL worked closely with the then anti-apartheid government of South Africa, and ADL’s operative Bullock provided ADL with illegally obtained data on Poirier and her associates to the South African government.
But the conclusion of McCloskey’s case does not mean the end to the ADL’s legal problems.
On March 31, 2001, US District Judge Edward Nottingham of Denver, Colorado, upheld most of a $10.5 million defamation judgment that a federal jury in Denver had levied against the ADL in April of 2000.
The jury hit the ADL with the massive judgment after finding it had falsely labeled Evergreen, Colorado residents — William and Dorothy Quigley — as “anti-Semites.” The ADL is appealing the judgment.
Clintonesque: source not credible. True enough but this happened. You can read about it in the San Francisco Examiner if you wish:
Adversaries Go Inside ADL's Spying Operation
At least check before you imply a story is phony.
As to bringing this up now, we have a real problem in America. Some of the same people who want us to support Israel 100% will not let America defend herself or effectively fight her war on terror. At least 6 Jewish Senators killed a bill allowing us to drill for oil in ANWR. They kill most every other bill which taps our natural resources. How are we supposed to keep our economy going, how are we supposed to fight Saddam with the least loss of American life when American money is going to Saddam to buy oil?
Exposing the ADL, the Simon Weisenthal Center, the liberals in the congress who are working against America and others is important. Pretending these problems do not exist is silly.
One more consideration: Sharon is not a US General and he is not on the front lines fighting America's war on terror. There are two wars going on. What is in the best interest of Israel is not always in America's best interest and vice versa. We can and will be allies. But that doesn't mean America has to do everything Sharon wants. Nor does it mean we should ignore those in the USA who are just waiting to stick a knife in Bush's back even if it means hurting our war on terror.
San Francisco Examiner:
Adversaries Go Inside ADL's Spying Operation
While we are at it, read about how the ADL and other Jewish groups don't mention the vicious antisemitism of Fidel Castro:
Why Do Jewish Organizations Ignore Cuba s Hatred of Israel?
Still don't think the ADL is a threat to freedom? Check out what the ADL did to a couple after they got into a squabble with their Jewish neighbors over a dog:
Judge Slams ADL for Hurting Couple Tarred As 'Anti-Semites'
That one costs the ADL $10 million bucks.
From the ADL Web site:
ADL's Definitive Guide to Extremism in America Now on CD-ROM. Resource Will Be Widely Distributed to Law Enforcement Agencies NationwideNew York, NY, April 15, 2002 … In an effort to assist law enforcement to counter extremists, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has created a CD-ROM version of its comprehensive guide to extremism in America - which will be distributed to law enforcement officials across the country.
ADL's Extremism in America - The CD-ROM is a unique, fully searchable encyclopedia of contemporary American extremism, with detailed overviews of the most significant individuals . . ."
The Simon Wiesenthal Center puts out a similar CD-ROM. Both organization have plenty of time to spy on American citizens and turn information on Americans over the law enforcement but neither is engaged in the fight against Fidel Castro. Neither mentions Fidel's crimes against Jews.
Send an e-mail on behalf of the good Rev. Graham. The "right-wing" (Bible-believing) Christians will continue to support, and pray for Israel and the Jewish people...even if the media/Dems. continues to lie as they have for 50 years about us.
As such, it is a valuable resource to whoever controls it. The big question is: who controls the ADL, and what is their agenda?
So you're for the domestic spying by a private organization?
Ward Connerly said it won't stop up those who are silenced by the technique stand up to it. Conservatives who are called names by the Identity Politics crowd should laugh in their face and throw it right back at them.
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