The attorney who founded Judicial Watch, the government-watchdog organization that has hounded the Clinton and Bush administrations over alleged ethics violations, says American voters have been "defrauded" by President-elect Barack Obama.
"He promised change. He didn't promise a second Clinton administration," Larry Klayman, who also has founded and now works with Freedom Watch, told WND today. "I think we were defrauded. This was a giant bait-and-switch," Klayman said of Obama's pre-election promises and post-election appointments. Those appointments – which likely include Hillary Clinton as secretary of state – comprise a number of individuals prominent in Clinton's power structure, now taking even more powerful positions in Obama's upcoming Cabinet. "This was obviously the quid pro quo in getting Bill and Hillary on board so they didn't mess up the general election," Klayman said. Among the appointees of whom Klayman was critical was Obama's new chief of staff, Rep. Rahm Emmanuel, D-Ill. Emmanuel "ran political interference for Bill and Hillary Clinton in the Clinton White House," Klayman said. "Then there is Gregory Craig, during the Clinton years an outside lawyer who helped cover up the full details of the Lewinsky scandal and played a crucial role, as the lawyer for the leftist American Council of Churches, in sending Elian Gonzalez back to Castro's Cuba," Klayman said. "Finally, coupled with the likely selection of Chinagate mastermind Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, President-elect Obama has now added insult to injury and even nominated Eric Holder as attorney general," he continued. He described Holder as a "yes man" for former Attorney General Janet Reno in the Justice Department who "not only oversaw the selling of pardons for campaign contributions for the Clinton-Gore administration, he threatened the girlfriend of former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown with criminal tax prosecution to keep quiet about the Clinton administration illegally selling seats on trade missions and national security information to the Chinese, again for campaign contributions." http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81561 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
