| For Immediate Release Mar 6, 2001 |
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Clinton Appointee’s Criminal Investigation in New York City Worse Than Bad Joke (Washington, DC) Having been told by the Bush-Cheney White House that it is time to “move on,” it is being widely reported (see www.JudicialWatch.org) that Congressional investigators are quickly shutting down their probes of the illegal bribery, extortion and other acts in the Clinton Pardongate scandal. Former President Bill Clinton is so pleased that he stopped considering whether to do television interviews for damage control, much less provide testimony to Congress. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, the Senator who killed the impeachment trial, has now owned up to what has previously been reported about his efforts to kill the Pardongate investigation. USA Today quotes Senator Lott as saying, “I am inclined to move on,” and with regard to Mr. Clinton’s testimony, “I don’t think we should get into trying to force him to appear.” Predictably, Congressional leaders are now using as an excuse to “bail out” of their investigations the so-called Clinton probe by Clinton-appointed U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White. “As the Wall Street Journal has frequently reported, Mary Jo White is a political hack who has subverted previous investigations of Clinton-Democrat wrongdoing in the campaign finance and Teamsters scandals. Indeed, not one Democrat official has been indicted to date after four years of so-called investigation,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The cowardice of the Republican leadership in the Senate and House is a sad commentary on the ‘State of the Union,’ especially when coupled with President George W. Bush’s stated lack of concern for justice regarding evidence of the Clintons’ massive criminality. It is more apparent than ever that the American people themselves need to take appropriate action to restore the concept that ‘no one is above the law!' Our elected leaders are compromised and thus apparently unwilling to do their duty,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. | |