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 For Immediate Release
Dec 15, 2000 Contact: Press Office
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GEORGE W. BUSH EMBRACES HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

Judicial Watch Warns President-Elect To Stay Away


(Washington, DC) Yesterday, President-elect George W. Bush, in a telephone conversation with Bill Clinton, embraced Hillary Rodham Clinton by telling her husband, Bill Clinton, that he “looked forward to working with the Senator from New York.” This has been reported widely in The Washington Post and in other written and television press.

During the campaign, Governor Bush showed little interest in ethics issues and, in fact, stated:
    “While it’s clear that Al Gore engaged in a number of questionable fund raising activities and gave the FBI statements that continue to raise the issue of credibility, the American people are sick and tired of all these scandals and investigations. The best way to put all these scandals and investigations behind us is to elect someone new. I’m running to uphold the honor and dignity of the White House.”

William Safire, in an article entitled “Exegesis of Acceptance” of August 7, 2000, wrote:

    Running against Washington. The Yale graduate and child of privilege assumed, Jimmy Carter style, a hardscrabble pose to assert that his ‘background may lack the polish of Washington.’ And then, following a focus-group distaste for controversy;, he dissociated himself from all investigations into Clinton-Gore scandals, including illegal fund-raising: ‘I have no stake in the bitter arguments of the last few years.’ Republicans on the unpopular ramparts of the rule of law were coolly informed he preferred ‘civility and respect.’

While Mrs. Clinton has thus far escaped criminal proceedings by federal prosecutors, she is a defendant in seven Judicial Watch lawsuits and, in particular, the prime defendant in the ongoing $90-million Filegate class-action case. Testimony from a number of sources shows that she was the mastermind of Filegate and, indeed, has smeared a number of political and other perceived adversaries with information from their U.S. government files. In this regard, she and her husband, Bill Clinton, along with others, engaged in criminal conduct, as found by the Court, when she released information from Kathleen Willey’s official White House file to smear and destroy her. In addition, the award-winning author, Christopher Anderson, in his book Bill and Hillary: A Marriage, has reported that Mrs. Clinton hired private investigators to dig up dirt on and smear two of Judicial Watch’s clients, Gennifer Flowers and Dolly Kyle Browning.

“For these and other reasons, and even to further his professed goal of bi-partisanship, President-elect Bush should not ‘get into bed’ with an individual such as Mrs. Clinton, who lately has been attempting to extort millions of dollars from book publishers, with interests before the U.S. Senate, to publish her memoirs and line her pockets further,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. Click Here

“Judicial Watch will not rest until Mrs. Clinton is brought to justice, pays large damages to Judicial Watch clients, and is thrown in jail where she belongs,” added Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

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