Your Next Lawsuit Is Ready, Mr. Klayman NewsMax copies nearly verbatim a Judicial Watch press release and calls it news. By Terry Krepel Posted 5/13/2000 Here is the Judicial Watch press release on a lawsuit it has filed against Rudy Giuliani: GIULIANI SUED OVER FAILURE TO PRODUCE DOCUMENTS Judicial Watch Seeks Information About Alleged Misuse of NYC Funds for Political Campaign (Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch, Inc., a public-interest law firm which brings cases to uncover and redress government corruption, has filed today a lawsuit against New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani over his failure, despite several requests, to produce documents about his use of city resources, if any, in pursuit of his political campaign for Senate against Hillary Rodham Clinton. Allegations had arisen that Mr. Giuliani, much like Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton, has been misusing taxpayer monies in support of his quest to become an U.S. Senator. Judicial Watch does not know whether these allegations are true or not, but as a public interest watchdog over government corruption, it has a duty to investigate them under the law. When Mr. Giuliani and the City of New York failed to produce the requested documents, Judicial Watch had no choice but to bring suit to obtain them. Indeed, the failure to produce documents, as required by law, raises an inference that Mr. Giuliani may be hiding something. Judicial Watch is pursuing similar litigation with regard to Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Judicial Watch, while nonpartisan, is a conservative public-interest group. "Conservatives have an obligation, as do liberals, to keep their own house in order if they are to maintain the moral authority to tell others, through words and actions, what to do. Judicial Watch did not bring this lawsuit against Mr. Giuliani to prove that it is nonpartisan; this had already been shown on many occasions. Rather, it brought this case because it was the right thing to do, in contrast to the dishonest non-action of many liberal ethics groups to the criminal and treasonous behavior of the Clinton-Gore Administration," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman and President Tom Fitton. Here is the NewsMax story on the same subject: With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Klayman Sues Giuliani Judicial Watch, Inc., a public-interest law firm which brings cases to uncover and redress government corruption, has today filed a lawsuit against New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani over his failure, despite several requests, to produce documents about his use of city resources, if any, in pursuit of his political campaign for the U.S. Senate against Hillary Clinton. Allegations had arisen that Giuliani, much like Mrs. Clinton, has been misusing taxpayer monies in support of his quest to become senator. Judicial Watch does not know whether these allegations are true or not, but as a public interest watchdog over government corruption, it has a duty to investigate them under the law. When Giuliani and the City of New York failed to produce the requested documents, Judicial Watch had no choice but to bring suit to obtain them. Indeed, the failure to produce documents, as required by law, raises an inference that the mayor may be hiding something. Judicial Watch, while nonpartisan, is a conservative public-interest group. "Conservatives have an obligation, as do liberals, to keep their own house in order if they are to maintain the moral authority to tell others, through words and actions, what to do," explained Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch chairman Larry Klayman in a joint release. Yes, NewsMax has mildly tarted up a press release and is masquerading it as a news story by slapping Carl Limbacher's byline on someone else's work. And for some reason, NewsMax lopped off the most interesting sentence in the story -- Judicial Watch's defense of the lawsuit as "the right thing to do" rather than to prove it is not solely dedicated to harassing the Clintons. And certainly nothing to do with the fact that Giuliani is not a "true" conservative in the eyes of groups like Judicial Watch and NewsMax and that a lawsuit like this would send a message to a candidate already beset by health and marital problems to get out of the race. What have we learned from this? That NewsMax is pretty damn lazy when it comes to reporting on people it doesn't hate. And perhaps that Judicial Watch should sue NewsMax for plagiarism. Maybe then some people will believe that Judicial Watch is indeed "nonpartisan."		Send this page to: The latest from

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