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CJA's January 23, 2015 e-mail --
"Accurate Reporting & Editorializing on Loretta Lynch's Nomination & Confirmation as Attorney General"

CJA's January 23, 2015 e-mail --
"Loretta Lynch Confirmation: What the Senate Judiciary Committee's [Spokeswoman] Wrote to Your Own Reporter -- and What He, in Turn, Has Reported to the Public"

JENNY JIANG / Whatthefolly.com
postings to-date on U.S. Attorney Lynch

CJA's January 17, 2015 e-mail to Executive Editor Jenny Jiang -- "NEWS LEAD: Who will be testifying in opposition at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing to confirm Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch?"

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE/Ryan Lovelace

"Obama's Attorney General nominee Won't Answer Questions About the Executive Amnesty", January 7, 2015 (Ryan Lovelace)

"Questions for the Attorney General Nominee", January 10, 2015 (George Will)

"Eric Holder's Replacement", January 12, 2015 (Ryan Lovelace)

"Loretta Lynch's Secret Docket", January 19, 2015 (Ryan Lovelace)

CJA's January 20, 2015 e-mail to Ryan Lovelace -- "NEWS TIP: US Attorney Loretta Lynch is covering up more than a secret docket -- & so is the Senate Judiciary Committee"

Ryan Lovelace's January 22, 2015 e-mail

CJA's January 22, 2015 e-mail to Ryan Lovelace -- "Excellent, Thank You!..."

"7 Questions about the rule of law for AG nominee Loretta Lynch", January 27, 2015 (Jonathan Keim)

NATIONAL JOURNAL

"GOP Can't Stop a Lame-Duck Attorney General Pick", October 16, 2014 (James Oliphant)

"In Loretta Lynch, Obama Hopes to Find a Less Polarizing Attorney General", November 8, 2014 (Emma Roller, Lauren Fox, Marina Corin)

"Attorney General Pick is Tough on Cybercrime", November 10, 2014 (Laura Ryan, Brendan Sasso, Dustin Volz)

"Lynch's Attorney General Nomination Slipping to 2015", November 18, 2014 (Sarah Mimms)

"Loretta Lynch Walks the Thin Blue Line", December 4, 2014 (James Oliphant)

"Loretta Lynch Versus the Goodfellas", December 13, 2014, National Journal Magazine (James Oliphant)

"Grassley: Lynch Hearing Will Be GOP Forum to Hit Obama on Immigration", January 21, 2015 (Sarah Mimms)

CJA's January 23, 2015 e-mail to National Journal -- "NEWS LEAD: The Senate Judiciary Committee is rigging the confirmation of Loretta Lynch."

CJA's January 23, 2015 e-mail to National Journal -- "Subject: THE MISSING LINK & NOW POSTED!..."

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

"Vitter takes aim at Lynch as Grassley, White House spar over confirmation timing", January 12, 2015 (Dan Friedman)

"Grassley Sets dates for Lynch confirmation hearing", January 16, 2015 (Dan Friedman)

"Guilty plea by pedophile in Brooklyn could boost Lynch nomination", January 23, 2015 (Dan Friedman, John Marzulli)

CJA's January 25, 2013 e-mail -- "Setting Bill O'Reilly & the White House Straight: Reporting on Loretta Lynch's 'record on the merits'" (cc: John Marzulli, Bill O'Reilly)

"Loretta Lynch keeps her late Navy SEAL brother's memory alive during Attorney general confirmation hearing", January 31, 2015 (Dan Friedman, Bill Hutchinson)

LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Attorney general pick Loretta Lynch would be first black woman in post", November 7, 2014 (Tim Phelps, Michael Memoli)

"Iowa's Grassley is first nonlawyer to head Senate Judiciary Committee", November 12, 2015 (Timothy Phelps)

"Georgia prosecutor is Obama's choice for U.S. deputy attorney general", November 22, 2014 (Tim Phelps)

"Attorney general nominee is about substance, not splash, Obama says", November 8, 2014 (Lisa Mascaro)

"Republicans shouldn't play games with Loretta Lynch nomination", November 10, 2014 (Michael McGough-opinion)

"Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch shaped by work on Rwanda panel", January 23, 2015 (Timothy Phelps)

CJA's January 25, 2015 e-mail -- "Is Loretta Lynch's Confirmation a Reprise of the Clarence Thomas Fiasco -- But Worse?"

"Time for Senate to end theatrics and do its job on nominations", January 27, 2015 (editorial)

"Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch may be grilled on Obama policies", January 28, 2015 (Timothy Phelps)

NEWSDAY

"Don't turn attorney general confirmation into immigration fight", Newsday, November 11, 2014, editorial

"Why Loretta Lynch is the right choice for A.G.", November 12, 2014 (George Stamboulidis)

"AG nominee Loretta Lynch played hardball with NYPD monitors, letters show", Newsday, January 24, 2015 (Tom Brune)

CJA's January 26, 2015 e-mail -- "Lynch Confirmation Hearing: A Different Set of Letters & Her Record Pertaining to Evidence of Corruption by Judges and Top Politicians"

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PRESS ALERT:
January 26, 2015

Is Loretta Lynch's Confirmation a Reprise of the Clarence Thomas Fiasco -- But Worse?

It’s not about race, or sex, or her political views. It’s about irrefutable evidence of her corruption as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, both in her first and second terms, as to which NO senator can vote to confirm her for Attorney General.

U.S. Attorney Lynch’s corruption, covering up high-level public corruption by New York’s highest public officers and key state oversight entities – and the deficiencies of her “vetting”, both pre- and post-nomination – are the subject of two FULLY-DOCUMENTED letters to the Senate Judiciary Committee from our non-partisan, non-profit citizens’ organization, Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc. (CJA). Each highlight, in the first instance, the March 23, 2001 complaint of professional misconduct against her that we filed with the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which she was duty-bound to disclose as part of her “vetting”. Did she disclose it? Or did she perjure herself on the “confidential” portion of her Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, in response to its question:

“Have you ever been the subject of a complaint to any court, administrative agency, bar association, disciplinary committee, or other professional group for breach of ethics, unprofessional conduct or violation of any rule of practice? If so, please provide full details.”

The first letter, e-mailed to the Senate Judiciary Committee on December 17, 2014, was not posted on the Committee’s webpage for the confirmation until Friday, January 23th, shortly before 6 pm [http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/executive/pn2136-113] – and only then, most likely, because of inquiries from Washington Times reporter Jim McElhatton recited at the end of his January 22^nd article “Senate urged to ask AG nominee Loretta Lynch about stock fraud case” [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/22/senate-urged-to-ask-loretta-lynch-about-stock-frau/?page=all#pagebreak].

The second letter, e-mailed to the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 6, 2015, has not been posted. It enclosed CJA’s January 5, 2015 letter to President Obama and expressly invited the Committee’s response to what it recited about the Committee’s “vetting and hearing procedures”, including, specifically, its statement:

‘…the press has yet to report to the American People – that the Senate Judiciary Committee’s own vetting is a fiction and its confirmation hearings essentially rigged to ensure confirmation, which it does by excluding opposition testimony from members of the public have dispositive evidence of nominee unfitness, such as corruption and ethics breaches.

At bar, NO Senator can vote for U.S. Attorney Lynch’s confirmation based on the evidence here presented.’” (capitalization in the original).

In support, this January 6, 2015 letter identified that we had “yet to receive any response” from the Senate Judiciary Committee to our December 17, 2014 letter “other than a generic, automated e-mail acknowledgment of receipt, which was solely from the then minority Republican side.”

Today, 20 days later, and with only 2 days until the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Ms. Lynch’s confirmation as this nation’s highest law enforcement officer is scheduled to begin, we still have “yet to receive any response” from the Senate Judiciary Committee to our December 17, 2014 letter – or to our January 6, 2015 letter. This includes to my request to testify in opposition at the confirmation hearing, as to which I left a phone message for Senate Judiciary Committee Chief Nominations Counsel Ted Lehman at 10:40 am on January 23rd.

You can readily judge – within minutes – the duty of Senate Judiciary Committee counsel and investigators to have long ago called me to be interviewed, including under oath, so that the Committee could reject Ms. Lynch’s nomination, without necessity of a hearing. Both CJA’s December 17, 2014 and January 6, 2015 letters – and the dispositive evidence supporting them– are posted on our website, www.judgewatch.org, accessible via the prominent homepage link: “CJA’s Citizen Opposition to Senate Confirmation of U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch as U.S. Attorney General”. Here’s the direct link: http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/searching-federal/lynch/2014-opposition-lynch-ag.htm.

Is the Senate Judiciary Committee going to “invite” me to testify at the confirmation hearing in opposition? What is its criteria for opposition witnesses and who has the Committee already “invited” to testify in opposition? Didn’t those opposition witnesses write letters to the Committee requesting to testify in opposition – and, if so, why are their letters not posted on the Committee’s webpage for the confirmation? Or are there no opposition witnesses?

I am available to answer your questions – and to be interviewed about this MAJOR NEWS STORY, whose far-reaching consequence, beyond rejection of Ms. Lynch’s unworthy nomination, is non-partisan, good-government clean-up of corruption in the Justice Department, the U.S. Attorneys' offices – and in Congress, for starters.

Thank you.

Elena Sassower, Director
Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc. (CJA)
Tel: 914-421-1200
Cell: 646-220-7987
elena@judgewatch.org

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Recipients of Jan. 26, 2015 Press Alert