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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (7815)	10/7/1998 9:50:00 PM
From: lazarre	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

JLA, you may be right regarding Klayman being awarded the Medal of Freedom. Orwellian may have fallen a little short in capturing the essence of that irony. From the NY Times, no friend of the Prez: <<< To trade attorneys familiar with his years in private practice, Klayman's rise to prominence has come as a shock. They describe him as a caricature of a combative and suspicious lawyer. "There's a sort of 'fan club' of lawyers in Washington that follow his latest moves, mostly because we can't believe what he gets away with," said Louis Mastriani, a Washington lawyer who's worked both with and against Klayman, and one of few willing to discuss him on the record. "He plays fast and loose and he has no shame." Klayman's behavior has clearly enraged some judges. During a 1992 patent and trademark case, a California federal judge cited a "pattern of misconduct" when ordering Klayman & Associates to pay more than $20,000 of the plaintiff's fees and expenses for "unreasonably and vexatiously multiplying the proceedings." The judge then took the unusual step of permanently banning Klayman from again entering his courtroom. Klayman, who is Jewish, later accused the judge of anti-Semitism. "He kept referring to me as Mr. Schmuckler," Klayman said, adding that a few sanctions in a 21-year career are "no big deal." Getting noticed wasn't always easy for Klayman. Until recently, he kept the names of 600 journalists programmed into Judicial Watch's fax machine and would regularly blast-fax word that he was "available for comment" about the day's news. His group landed on the news media map in 1996, after Klayman's subpoena of John Huang drew the reclusive Democratic fund-raiser back into the center of the campaign finance scandal. The group made more headlines in its suit against the Commerce Department, which revived allegations that Brown sold seats on trade missions to wealthy Democratic donors. Some legal observers fret that Klayman is cleverly pioneering a way to multiply the number of lawsuits targeting politicians and their friends. Witnesses complain that they have spent thousands of dollars in attorneys fees only to be subjected to hours of off-the-topic questions, part of a sprawling fishing expedition for incriminating facts.>>> In another time and place, this guy would have made a fine addition to any of the nifty organs of state sponsored intimidaTIOn of the citizenry---the Stassi would have made a nice fit, I think. Lazarre