By Larry Klayman

WND

October 20, 2017

 

As I chronicle in my autobiography, "Whores: Why and How I Came To Fight the Establishment!" I was once a proud trial lawyer in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Indeed, as a young 27-year-old attorney in the Reagan DOJ, I was on the trial team that eventually broke up the AT&T monopoly, creating needed and innovative competition in the telecommunications industry. During my time at Justice, I worked closely with special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the investigative arm of the Department. I found them to be generally straightforward and honest people. However, as I discussed in my latest column and in my book, I did find that politics and the so-called "right" connections frequently perverted other cases at my alma mater. That ultimately is why, in large part, I conceived of and founded Judicial Watch on July 29, 1994, to be the People's Justice Department, untainted by the ever-growing reptilian swamp in the nation's capital and specifically its government law enforcement and legal communities.

Today, 23 years after I started Judicial Watch, and 13 years after I also founded Freedom Watch — which now does the heavy legal lifting I used to do at Judicial Watch — the politicized state of DOJ and the FBI has grown to cancerous proportions, underscoring the need for a Freedom Watch. Let me give you a rundown of just how corrupted the DOJ and its FBI have become.