• "Filegate"

    From Ross Sauer@1:123/789 to All on Fri Mar 19 02:50:39 2010
    Cue the crickets...


    But Tuesday, U.S. District Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth tossed the case. "After years of litigation, endless depositions, the fictionalized
    portrayal of this lawsuit and its litigants on television," Lamberth
    concluded in a 28-page opinion, "this court is left to conclude that with
    the lawsuit, to quote Gertrude Stein, 'there's no there there.' "

    The plaintiffs, he wrote, "after ample opportunity . . . have not produced
    any evidence of the far-reaching conspiracy that sought to use intimate
    details from FBI files for political assassinations that they alleged.

    "The only thing that they have demonstrated is that this unfortunate
    episode -- about which they do have cause to complain -- was exactly what
    the defendants claimed: nothing more than a bureaucratic snafu."

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030903915.html

    --- Xnews/5.04.25
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