Here Donny, read this>>JUDGE: WHITE HOUSE LIED ABOUT HILLARY HEALTH PANEL
In a sharply worded opinion, a federal judge said Thursday that
White House and Justice Department lawyers lied to him while
trying to fend off litigation against Hillary Clinton's
health-care task force, reports SCRIPPS HOWARD on Friday.
Reporter Michael Hedges: "U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth
ordered the Clinton administration to pay $286,000 to a group
that sued the government, the American Association of Physicians
and Surgeons -- money that will come from taxpayers."
Lamberth wrote: "The Executive Branch of the government ...was
dishonest with this court, and the government must now face the
consequences of its misconduct. It is a sad day when this court
must conclude ... that the Justice Department succumbed to
pressure from White House attorneys and others to provide this
court with strained interpretations that were ultimately
unconvincing... It seems that some government officials never
learn that the cover-up can be worse than the underlying
conduct. Most shocking to this court, and deeply disappointing,
is that the Department of Justice would participate in such
conduct."
The doctors' group sued the White House in February 1993,
seeking to open up HRC's health task-force meetings to the
public. Chair Magaziner claimed in a sworn court memo, prepared
by lawyers in the White House counsel's office, that the closed
deliberations were legal because all members of the group were
full-time government employees simply doing their jobs. It
eventually became clear to the judge that many of the 650 fixers
were not, in fact, federal employees... Big surprise!
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