Larry Klayman, Founder of Freedom Watch USA and Judicial Watch, is a public interest advocate who has spent more than four decades fighting government corruption and defending constitutional rights. During his tenure at Judicial Watch, which he founded in 1994, he obtained a court ruling that Bill Clinton committed a crime — the first time any lawyer had done so against a sitting American president.
After running for the U.S. Senate in Florida in 2004, Klayman founded Freedom Watch, which later won a landmark injunction against the NSA’s domestic surveillance program in Klayman v. Obama.
Klayman is a graduate of Duke University (political science and French literature) and Emory University School of Law. He served as a U.S. Justice Department prosecutor during the Reagan administration, working on the trial team that broke up AT&T’s telephone monopoly.
He speaks four languages and is the author of several books, including Whores: Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment, and It Takes a Counter Revolution.
Today, Klayman continues to lead Freedom Watch USA’s public interest litigation, filing lawsuits on behalf of citizens where government is unwilling or unable to act.