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"The public has a right to know whether Senate Democrats engaged in any illegal activity in their campaign to obstruct judicial nominees."


 

 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 31, 2004

Contact: Jeffrey Mazzella

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CFIF Unveils ‘Memogate Lineup’ Ad

"It’s Time to Investigate the Real Issues of Memogate"

Alexandria, VA — The Center for Individual Freedom today unveiled the second in its series of ads on Memogate. In the ad, which features a "lineup" of Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), who are at the heart of the controversy, the Center calls on Democrats and Republicans alike to stop ignoring the content of the memos and calls for a full investigation.

"The time has long passed for Senators on both sides of the aisle to break their silence on the content of these memos," said Jeffrey Mazzella, the Center’s Executive Director. "Allegations of cash for judges; possible attempts to fix pending cases; what more do Senators need to call for an investigation? And what more does the normally watchful media need to begin asking tough questions on behalf of the public?"

Only a tiny handful of the more than 4,760 memos have been released to the public. However, according to one former high-level staffer who has read some of the memos, "the ones made public are the least indicting."

"The public has a right to know whether Senate Democrats engaged in any illegal activity in their campaign to obstruct judicial nominees. And until an investigation into Memogate’s real issues is completed, the cloud of corruption will continue to hang over the U.S. Senate," said Mazzella.

The Center’s "Memogate Lineup" ad, which is running this week in The Hill and The Washington Times, follows its ad last week questioning whether Senator Kennedy obstructed justice in the most important civil rights cases in more than 25 years.

"Senators from both parties, especially those on the Judiciary Committee, want this issue to go away, but it isn’t going to," said Mazzella. "The Center and others who care about fairness in the process will not let up until all questions of impropriety and potential criminal wrongdoing are answered. We are committed to exposing the actions of Senate Democrats and their special-interest puppet masters," Mazzella concluded.

The Center for Individual Freedom (www.cfif.org) is a nonpartisan constitutional advocacy group that fights to protect individual freedom and individual rights in the legal, legislative, and educational arenas. Since 2001, the Center’s Confirmation Watch project has worked to expose and eliminate the corruption and manipulation that plagues the judicial confirmation process.

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[Posted March 31, 2004]