| Printed from JudicialWatch.org Apr 12, 1999 |
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Establishment Continues To Underestimate The Power Of The Courts To Bring Justice To Clinton Administration HUANG KEY TO CHINAGATE SCANDAL, PREVIOUS TESTIMONY TO JUDICIAL WATCH FOUND NOT CREDIBLE; NOW JUDICIAL WATCH HAS HIS DESK DIARIES (April 12, Washington) -- To the Washington establishment, if you are not one of its "chosen persons," such as an independent counsel, the Justice Department, or a Congressional Committee, you have no standing to stand up for the American people. Week in and week out, the Sunday talk shows trot out the same politicians and pundits to tell us what they intend to do the following week. But actions speak louder than words on Sunday talk shows. This has been particularly true with the Chinagate scandal, which Judicial Watch, a citizens public interest group, sparked in 1996 when it uncovered John Huang in the documents which were produced in its lawsuits, and deposed him. Since then, Congress and the Reno Justice Department have never talked to Huang -- who Bill Safire, Bob Woodward and others call the key to the Chinagate scandal. On "Meet the Press" yesterday, Senator Fred Thompson, head of the Committee on Government Affairs which later investigated Chinagate, conceded that Congressional investigations do not work in the modern era, as opposing parties just stonewall, and the media just goes along. He stated: "The media's short attention span, the partisanship that we have and all of that makes it so that you can kind of lay out and demonstrate what you already have...But to find something out is very, very difficult." Thanks to a court ruling of April 9, 1999 (see www.judicialwatch.org), Judicial Watch intends tomorrow to "find something out" about Huang and his role at the Clinton Commerce Department, which not only sold seats on trade missions, but transferred high technology to the Chinese. "The trade missions, which were not discussed in any Congressional report, are the key. They are where money, politics, and American business met foreign agents, such as many of the Chinese now in the news, which led to the compromise not only of our laws, but also our security," stated Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman and President Thomas Fitton. "The Courts are our only hope in getting to the truth of this major Clinton scandal. Thank God for some excellent judges, who put the law before anything else," they added. | |