JW VERDICT: What are some of the toughest FOIA requests made by Judicial Watch?
FARRELL: Judicial Watch’s Clinton pardon investigation comes to mind, where we fought for four years in court to get a hold of the Clinton pardon documents. We won at the district court level; we won again at the appeals court level, but the Department of Justice has defied the appellate court in the sense that they produced the documents we asked for, but they were completely redacted (or blacked out). So they gave us 915 pages of blacked out documents, technically cooperating with what the appellate court order, but obviously defying the appellate court in how they carried out the demands. I think this also shows the complicity between Presidential administrations where one administration will cover for the other because no one really wants to be embarrassed. This is not conspiracy theory stuff, it is just hardball politics. Nobody wants to be exposed so they cover for each other all the time.
