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Thursday, January 3, 2002
And justice for none
By Bill O'Reilly
� 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
There is something very wrong inside the Justice Department of the
United States and there has been for some time.
Various newspapers are now reporting that under President Clinton,
the Federal Bureau of Investigation was ordered to stand down on
various terrorist investigations.
One of the most egregious examples is the failure of the bureau to
investigate fundraising organizations like "The Holy Land Fund,"
based in Arizona, which allegedly funneled millions of dollars in
donations to Middle Eastern terrorists.
Although the Bush administration has now frozen the assets of the
fund, it was apparently allowed to operate for 8 years despite the
FBI intelligence that was presented to Mr. Clinton and then-Attorney
General Janet Reno. One bureau source told the press that Ms. Reno
felt any investigation of "The Holy Land Fund" would lead to anti-
Arab sentiment and therefore was opposed to such an investigation.
As always, Ms. Reno will not comment on any aspect of her tenure as attorney general
that is at all controversial.
There is no question now that under Ms. Reno and then-FBI Director Louis Freeh,
Americans were put at great risk. The Wen Ho Lee-Chinese espionage case still has not
been explained, and the fact that the 19 Sept. 11 terro
rists weren't even on the FBI's radar screen is about as frightening as Janet Reno's
passion for political correctness.
The current attorney general, John Ashcroft, has made no attempt to examine Ms. Reno's
bizarre behavior or update the public about the Marc Rich investigation or anything
else. Mr. Ashcroft specializes in looking dour and
stonewalling. While Congress is attempting to get documents about President Clinton's
dubious foreign fundraising and FBI abuses in Boston, Ashcroft is refusing to
cooperate at all.
And this isn't a political issue. Conservative Congressman Dan Burton and liberal
Congressman Barney Frank have actually joined forces to try and pry this information
from Ashcroft's hands. If that's not amazing, then not
hing is.
The truth is that for nearly 8 years, the Justice Department has been corrupt and
inefficient. Janet Reno botched nearly every important decision she had to make
including Waco and Elian Gonzalez. Time after time, Ms. Ren
o refused to approve investigative initiatives sought by the FBI. And time after time,
Mr. Freeh sat in his plush government office refusing to let the American people know
what was happening.
Now Mr. Ashcroft is doing the same thing. There is no reason on this earth why the
public should not know the status of the Rich pardon probe. Or the anthrax
investigation. And what about Enron, Mr. Attorney General � are
you going to look into that? Millions of Americans were hosed while some Enron
executives made millions.
How about a comment on that, Mr. Ashcroft?
For far too long the attorney general and his band of political appointees have held
themselves above public accountability. How many times have we heard the phrase:
"We're not allowed to comment, the case is under invest
igation"?
That, of course, is one big lie. The attorney general can legally comment on anything
but grand jury testimony.
Janet Reno hightailed it out of Washington without clearing up a single controversy.
Now she rides around in her truck asking the people of Florida to elect her governor.
Hey, good choice if you love fascism. Ms. Reno is
the kind of public servant who makes decisions and feels no need to explain them. The
Third Reich would have loved her.
The tragedy of the Justice Department is it is our fault. We Americans simply will not
pay attention to the corruption of this very important part of our government even
after 9-11. We allow the stonewalling, the politica
l correctness and the incompetence.
And it's just a matter of time before we pay the price for our apathy again.
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