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| For Immediate Release | |
| Dec 22, 1998 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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Judicial Watch calls on president to denounce Flynt, Carville, and to fire private investigators Los Angeles Times Reports Clinton Approvingly Cited Flynt Letter to Starr Smear Strategy Foretold By Stephanopoulos, Judicial Watch Set To Redepose Clinton Operative Judicial Watch today demanded that the President Bill Clinton call off his dogs. Responding to a Tuesday Los Angeles Times report that Clinton "regaled" a group at the White House with the details of a letter from pornographer Larry Flynt to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman noted that "this is further powerful circumstantial evidence that Flynt is in league with President Clinton." Other media outlets have reported that Flynt, in his effort to destroy Republicans such as Congressman Bob Livingston, is using a private investigative firm in Washington, DC composed of former CIA and FBI agents. "This almost certainly is the President’s private investigative firm IGI, run by Terry Lenzner with the aid of Larry Potts, who left the FBI under a cloud," noted Klayman. "We deposed the Clinton private eyes in our Filegate suit. Lenzner, President Clinton’s private investigator, refused to say whether anyone ever asked him to use FBI files. The President then personally intervened in our lawsuit to try to prevent us from getting answers to this and other key questions. James Carville, who works closely with the White House, produced evidence in our Filegate suit that he was looking at the sex lives of investigators and had a connection to Lenzner. And George Stephanopoulos, who talked of a Clinton "Ellen Rometsch strategy" back in February (a strategy which historically referred to the use of FBI files for political blackmail), will be redeposed on his apparently incomplete document production in our Filegate lawsuit soon," Klayman added. "In the meantime, Clinton should publicly denounce the activities of Flynt/Carville and fire his private investigators," Klayman concluded. "This Oval Office-directed smear machine, which is believed to involve the use of government files, must be exposed and stopped." |
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