Supreme Court Takes A Dive On Jefferson Lawsuit
By Tom Fitton
April 8, 2008
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In other words, the Speech or Debate Clause was not intended to allow members of Congress to conceal corrupt and criminal activity. Taking a bribe is not part of the legitimate legislative process. The Supreme Court erred in not hearing this case and overturning the erroneous appellate court decision.
Now the Justice Department is trying to negotiate an agreement with congressional leaders on the terms and procedures to obtain evidence for criminal inquiries from congressional offices. But Congress has the upper hand, along with the crooks in its midst who now have "sanctuary" from the rule of law.
Hillary Clinton FBI File Scandal Reemerges
Judge Royce C. Lamberth issued a ruling (web site) last Monday in Judicial Watch's lawsuit involving Hillary Clinton's scheme (web site) to illegally obtain the private FBI files of prominent Republicans during the Clinton administration. While refusing to force Hillary to testify in the lawsuit at this time, Judge Lamberth left the door open for Judicial Watch attorneys to revisit the issue at a later date. The court seems to have reset the clock on this important litigation, which has been on hold for several years awaiting court action.
Here, in a nutshell, is what scandal is all about (as described in our litigation): In the 1990s the Clinton White House, the FBI, Hillary Clinton and others violated the privacy rights of members of the Reagan and first Bush administrations by wrongly accessing their FBI files, among others. Over 900 of these sensitive files were illegally gathered by the Clinton's Office of Personnel Security (OPS), which was run by the Clinton White House counsel's office. (We think Hillary Clinton masterminded the whole scheme, running the White House Counsel's office and directing the hiring of former bar bouncer Craig Livingstone to run OPS and preside over the theft of the files.)
While the lawsuit is still working itself through the courts, Judicial Watch has already earned some significant victories throughout the course of its "Filegate" investigation and litigation. For example:
As a direct result of our lawsuit, for the first time in U.S. history a President of the United States was found by a judge to have committed a crime. The court held that Bill Clinton criminally violated Kathleen Willey's (web site) privacy rights by releasing her confidential government files to the media in order to smear her reputation when she was making sexual harassment allegations against him.
Through its Filegate investigation, Judicial Watch uncovered another obstruction of justice scandal by the Clinton administration, when Judicial Watch discovered that the Clinton-Gore White House illegally concealed e-mails (web site) from Congress, various independent counsels and Judicial Watch. Judicial Watch's discovery resulted in a six-month evidentiary hearing where top Clinton White House officials were deposed. In addition, our efforts led to investigations by Congress and the Office of Independent Counsel. Unfortunately, the court recently ruled this week that there was no evidence of a conspiracy or obstruction of justice. We respectfully disagree. But, in the same ruling, the court described as "loathsome" the actions of two top Clinton White House officials. One of the two officials singled out by the judge for their loathsome actions is Cheryl Mills, who is, as best as I can tell, general counsel for Hillary's presidential campaign and is on the board of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Foundation.
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