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| Apr 18, 2000 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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U.S. Court of Appeals to Hear Argument on May 18 Clinton White House Seeks to Appeal Court Ruling that Clinton Violated Privacy Act (Washington, D.C.) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear oral argument on May 18, 2000 (9:30 a.m.) on a Clinton White House appeal of a lower court ruling that Bill Clinton criminally violated the Privacy Act when he released letters to him, stored in government files, from Kathleen Willey government files. The ruling, by the Honorable Royce C. Lamberth, came in the Filegate lawsuit that Judicial Watch is pursuing on behalf of those Republicans and others whose FBI files were illegally taken and misused by the Clinton White House. Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the defendants in this $90 million class action lawsuit and, and according to the Clinton White House's own admission, was also involved in the Willey letter release. "The law is clear. The Privacy Act applies to The White House and Clinton knew this. Nonetheless, Clinton violated this law in releasing Willey's letters from government files in an effort to destroy her reputation. Judge Lamberth, in the context of a discovery order, recognized this and ruled that Clinton and his White House lawyers had the requisite intent for a criminal violation of the Privacy Act sufficient to invoke the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine. We expect the Appeals Court will agree," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. |
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