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BUSH BLOCKS RENO DEPOSITION Just hours before Janet Reno was to testify for Judicial Watch in its defamation lawsuit on behalf of Notra Trulock on November 8, she got help from an unsuspecting source—John Ashcroft. In a fax dated November 7, Assistant Attorney General Robert D. McCallum, Jr. said the former Attorney General would not appear as scheduled, claiming among other things that the testimony could involve classified information. McCallum also said FBI Director Louis Freeh, who has been literally running from JW process servers, would also not be made available for deposition. The Justice Department was made aware of the Reno deposition back in June, yet waited until the 11th hour to notify JW and the court of its decision. “As with the Clinton Justice Department, there are those in the Bush Justice Department that believe they are above the law,” said JW Chairman Larry Klayman. “We will ask a federal judge to remind them otherwise.” Trulock is suing accused Chinese spy and admitted felon Wen Ho Lee, the man responsible for the loss of America’s nuclear secrets at Los Alamos Laboratory. When Trulock, who was the former chief of the Energy Department’s intelligence operations, exposed that our nation’s secrets were leaked to the Chinese, Lee falsely accused him of being a racist. Reno was expected to testify that Lee’s charges of racism had no basis in fact (which is consistent with a government report on the incident released in September). “Janet Reno’s testimony is crucial not only to proving Mr. Trulock’s case, but also to exposing the effort by the Justice Department to cover up the loss of virtually all of our nuclear secrets to Communist China,” said Klayman. On November 15, JW filed a motion for sanctions against the Bush Justice Department’s lawyers for obstructing justice in the case.
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