Found on FreeRepublic: For education and discussion. Not for commercial use. Reno's Justice Is Protecting Criminals The Wall Street Journal August 10/1998 Letter to the Editor I read with amusement your July 30 article by Presidential sock puppet Lanny Davis appropriately titled "Why Janet Reno is Right and Everyone Else Is Wrong." Mr. Davis has failed to mention that it was he who vetted Reno's nomination to be attorney general from the White House in February, 1993 and thus helped usher in Reno's Justice. William Safire has reported that Davis's vetting of Reno is proof of his quintessential abilities as a "spinner." I know of the vetting first hand, since Davis interrogated me as the last Republican to run against Reno for the office of Dade County (Fla.) state attorney. What I gave Davis was information, which could be corroborated by multiple sources wholly independent of me, that Reno was unfit to practice law, let alone serve as this country's top cop. And on the issue of her lack of prosecutorial mind set, I told Mr. Davis that in the only debate of our campaign Reno said: "My highest priority as a prosecutor is not to convict the guilty but to protect their rights." National Review verified the quotation. I always though protecting criminals was what defense attorneys do. For six years President Clinton has reaped the benefits of her "highest priority," all because Lanny Davis, who now seeks to justify her obscurantist behavior, helped make her disastrous tenure possible. John B. Thompson Coral Gables, Fla. -------------------------------- Many thanks to The Kid, as I am Jack Thompson, the person who wrote this letter to The Wall Street Journal. What is to be inferred from my assertion that Reno "is unfit to practice law" is what I knew the WSJ would not print but which I state here: Reno is a) a chronic alcoholic with multiple drunking driving pull-overs, and b) a blackmailed predatory lesbian who has used call girls provided by organized crime. Bill Clinton has all this info, via Lanny Davis. Gee, I wonder what Bill has done with it? Jack Thompson at 305-666-4366 From: Jack Thompson (Jackpeace@aol.com) * 08/10/98 07:42:03 EDT ---------------------------------------------- To: Jack Thompson Jack: You are certainly to be commended for having the courage to publically point out Ms Reno's less than stellar character. If as you suggest these claims can be proved then I would respectfully suggest you contact Dan Burton's office. He could use the help. ------------------------------------------ Hey, I contacted Burton's staff one year ago with this information. Maybe now they will listen. Dave Bossie was the problem. Bossie has direct information about five police officers who pulled Reno over for drunk driving. He got the information when he was with Citizens United. As much as I regret what was done to Bossie over the Hubbell transcripts, his keeping the Reno information from Burton is totally inexcusable. [Note: Larry Nichols has never trusted Bossie.] Maybe a Freeper other than myself should call him on it. Jack Thompson From: Jack Thompson (Jackpeace@aol.com) * 08/10/98 09:21:45 EDT --------------------------------- Because of the great post on FreeRepublic today of my letter to the WSJ, I am being interviewed by a journalist on all this, and I shall therefore alert my fellow Freepers to the site of the article when it is available. I should also alert you all that Bill O'Reilly on his "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News Channel reported last Thursday night the following: He was attempting to explain why Reno won't name an I.C. on fund raising and he said: "Washington tonight is swirling with rumors about Janet Reno's personal habits." O'Reilly's people called me before that show, and he obviously has some other sources regarding this. The relevance is this: Clinton is blackmailing Reno with the dirt he has on her in her FBI file. Jack Thompson From: Jack Thompson (Jackpeace@aol.com) * 08/10/98 09:26:53 EDT ======================================================== And a followup from CapitolHill Blue: Attorney Says Reno Blackmailed by Sex Tapes ConservativeNews.com August 12, 1998 By Dean Arnold In Monday’s Wall Street Journal, a Florida attorney writes on the editorial page that Janet Reno is “unfit to practice law, let alone serve as this country’s top cop.” Now, for the rest of the story. This high-profile lawyer, Jack Thompson (who has appeared on such shows as Nightline, Crossfire and Good Morning America exposing obscene rap groups like 2LiveCrew), tells ConservativeNews.com that blackmail is the likely reason that Attorney General Reno has unlawfully failed to appoint an independent counsel in the fundraising probe, even in the face of contempt and impeachment charges. Thompson made similar charges against Reno in an interview with radio talkshow host Oliver North: North: Reno should want to step up and...request an independent counsel. Why doesn’t she do it? Thompson: Because she fears something more than the wrath of Bill Clinton. North: Which is? Thompson: What would be released through a back-channel about her personal life that he is aware of. Here is a president who likes to read raw FBI files. Here is a president who has undoubtedly seen what’s in her raw FBI files and it includes some of the stuff I’ve told you about — the mafia connections, about her drunk driving, and about her use of call girls. North: Janet Reno uses call girls? Thompson: Ollie, let me tell you something. I’ve welcomed Janet Reno to sue me for the last decade while I’ve said these things, and more importantly, the Florida Bar — which is filled with politically correct [people], some of them her campaign contributors in the race she ran against me. The Florida Bar has every reason to disbar me if I am not telling the truth. I’ve put my law career on the line by making these allegations. But I have the proof. And I have people independent of me that can prove this.” Thompson’s allegation were originally printed in Chronicles in 1993, a publication by the Rockford Institute. Thompson claimed Reno’s closeted lesbianism alone was enough to keep her compromised. He quoted Richard Gerstein, Reno’s predecessor as Miami District Attorney, a life-long Democrat: “No [closeted] homosexual can be a prosecutor because it gives every defendant the blackmail option.” When Thompson ran against Reno for Miami D.A. in 1988 (and was endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police), she categorically denied being a lesbian. But after her nomination for attorney general, her response to the question was less emphatic. “Mr. Thompson is preoccupied with my sexual orientation,” she told the media. “I am an old maid who has a strong affection for men.” Days later Queer Nation “outed” Reno and a spokesman said, “Many homosexuals in Miami have contacted us and told us that Reno’s lesbianism is common knowledge among the gay community.” NOW’s Patricia Ireland responded to the outing by saying, “Ms. Reno should not be judged on the basis of her sexual orientation.” Thompson says Reno’s sexual preference, per se, is not the core issue. “The issue has always been Reno’s blackmailability because of her closeted proclivities,” he said. In an interview with ConservativeNews.com, Thompson named one call girl he spoke to named Crystal Kazim, who claimed to have received money for sex from Reno at Reno’s home. Thompson said these services were confirmed to him by Ms. Kazim’s escort provider Jay Goldstein, brother of Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein. Thompson passed both of these names on to the FBI before Reno’s appointment to Justice, and the allegations are likely in her FBI file now. Thompson told ConservativeNews.com he shared the details of his concerns with Clinton aide Lanny Davis, who was responsible for examining Reno before the nomination. Thompson says his law school buddy Sam Jones, a law partner with Clinton confidante Bruce Lindsey, also warned the Clintons of Reno’s problems. But Thompson now says he is convinced the administration wanted a “dirty cop” for their attorney general. Thompson, who says Reno is a “predatory lesbian” with a penchant for “aggressive sex,” also claims that organized crime is in possession of videotapes of Reno. He told ConservativeNews.com that several associates of Miami’s premiere call girl operation told him they have “video of Reno in a sex orgy.” In the Chronicles article, Thompson cites apprehension of Reno “by a Broward County police officer in a shopping-mall parking lot in the back seat of a car with a disrobed girl, as related by a homosexual Ft. Lauderdale talk-show host.” Thompson has been in touch with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly recently and with the show’s producer, which may explain’s O’Reilly’s veiled comments last week. In an attempt to explain the failure to name an Independent Counsel, O’Reilly stated that “Washington tonight is swirling with rumors about Janet Reno's personal habits.” Thompson is a resident of Coral Gables, Florida, and received from his legal peers the highest rating possible in both skills and ethics. His efforts against 2LiveCrew resulted in the first ruling in history making a sound recording obscene.