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| Sep 22, 2000 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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Nuclear Whistleblower Persecuted for Candor Over FBI and Justice Department Incompetence and Coverup (Washington, DC) In the last few days, renowned former Energy Department Counter-Intelligence Director Notra Trulock filed two new lawsuits to protect his rights to speak freely about the gross negligence and coverup by the Clinton-Gore Administration over the historic breach of national security at the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory. Previously, when officials at the FBI illegally broke into his home and seized his computer, Mr. Trulock and his landlord, Linda Conrad, filed a civil rights lawsuit against FBI Director Louis Freeh, and others who were responsible. Earlier this week, Mr. Trulock again filed suit, this time against the FBI, CIA, Energy Department, State Department and White House over their failure to produce documents requested under the Privacy and Freedom of Information Acts. Mr. Trulock has also filed a defamation lawsuit against Wen Ho Lee – the individual who was not racially profiled by Mr. Trulock, but who still cannot account for about 20 backup tapes of sensitive nuclear information which he removed from Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory. Today, Mr. Trulock will enlarge the defamation suit to include Charles B. Washington and Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, alleging that these individuals have defamed him by claiming that the investigation of Wen Ho Lee was the result of racism. Evidence exists that Mr. Trulock recommended that 12 individuals be investigated for possible breach of national security at the Los Alamos Nuclear Lab. Six were Caucasian and six were Asian-American. This fact has not been reported widely by the media. “Mr. Trulock will not stand by as his good name is dragged through the mud as a scapegoat for the incompetence and coverup of the Clinton-Gore Administration and their friends. To the extent that Wen Ho Lee was mistreated, it was not by Notra Trulock, and now that Mr. Lee has received a light plea agreement, it is all too convenient for the Clinton-Gore Administration to now claim that there has been no breach of national security at the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory, but that Mr. Lee’s prosecution was all the result of a racist witch-hunt. This clever strategy seeks to let the Clinton-Gore Administration ‘off the hook’ over the tragic loss of nuclear information jeopardizing our national security,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. “President Clinton is a clever politician and wants to play it both ways. On the one-hand, he tells Attorney General Reno to prosecute Wen Ho Lee to deflect criticism that he has been ‘bought and sold’ by the Communist Chinese, and when his prosecution collapses, he cleverly claims that he is a friend of Asian-Americans and criticizes his own Attorney General for carrying out his wishes. In so doing, the Democratic Party is now able to claim that Chinagate was just a figment of the nation’s imagination,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. |
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