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| For Immediate Release | |
| Apr 6, 2000 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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JUDICIAL WATCH WILL BE FILING A MOTION TO COMPLEMENT ITS EARLIER CONTEMPT MOTION OF TODAY OVER E-MAIL SCANDAL This Fraud Concerns Linda Tripp (Washington, D.C.) As revealed by Senator James M. Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) in a press release of today, based upon an earlier hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Reno Justice Department, again running interference for the Clinton-Gore White House, has been sitting on a report concerning the illegal release of Privacy Act materials from Linda Tripp's Pentagon file. At the hearing today, the Inspector General of the Clinton-Gore Defense Department, was forced to admit that the release of the Tripp information was through Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. Recently, Judge Royce C. Lamberth issued an opinion, finding that Linda Tripp's Privacy Act rights were violated. Even more recently, Judge Lamberth also found that the President had committed a criminal violation of the Privacy Act by releasing information from Kathleen Willey's White House file. The information in the Inhofe press release, that the Clinton-Gore Defense Department had concluded its investigation and determined that Kenneth Bacon was responsible for the release of the Tripp file information, was not brought to the attention of Judge Lamberth in Judicial Watch's Filegate lawsuit. Instead, the Judge was led to believe that the investigation was still ongoing. In Judicial Watch's Filegate lawsuit, Judge Lamberth has ruled that evidence of a pattern of abusing the Privacy Act can raise an evidentiary inference that the Clinton-Gore Administration misused the subject FBI files as well. "Senator Inhofe's remarks that, ‘Like in so many other cases, the American people simply can no longer trust the decisions of the Clinton Administration's sad excuse for a Department of "Justice",' sadly fits when it comes to several of the lawsuits before Judge Lamberth, and in particular, Filegate," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. Judicial Watch will obtain the transcript of the hearing before Senator Inhofe's committee and submit it to Judge Lamberth for appropriate consideration," added Klayman. |
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