Prominent Attorney Jack Thompson Tells All About Janet Reno
Media Bypass Magazine
Februrary 1999 Pat Shannan
Prominent Attorney Jack Thompson
Tells All About Janet Reno
©1999 Pat Shannan.
Attorney Jack Thompson
In 1987, Dade County attorney Jack Thompson gave evidence of a criminal
pornography enterprise targeting children to local prosecutor Janet Reno. She
appeared to be sincerely interested and began to pursue it but suddenly backed
off. "I knew she was a lesbian," says Thompson, "and that troubled me as
Christian, but it doesn’t disqualify her as Attorney General or as State
Attorney at that time. The problem is that she is in the closet about it,
which raises the blackmail option." He had acquired the evidence to prove that
Reno had refused to prosecute this case because she had been threatened with
exposure of her drinking and sexual habits if she proceeded.
Thompson was the Republican nominee in 1988 for the office of Dade County
State Attorney, when he first raised this issue publicly. He was running for
what was the most powerful political office in all of south Florida and
called a press conference attended by 21 media entities, charging Reno with
refusing to prosecute the child pornography case because the principals
involved had threatened to expose her lesbianism, if she proceeded. Thompson
bluntly and publicly called it "blackmail" and stated that the citizenry
cannot afford to have any public officials hiding embarrassing situations
because of the susceptibility to those political enemies "who would play the
extortion card."
Anyone, during the days of a free press, making such an inflammatory
announcement would have certainly become immediately newsworthy. The fact that
the State Attorney’s political adversary in the heat of an election was
alleging such a thing should have made frontpage headlines, column one.
Instead, it was totally quashed. The story was spiked by all 21 news entities
and was never read nor heard by the public.
Jack Thompson has never ceased in his efforts to expose the truth. His most
recent exposure is a 60-minute video entitled "The Truth about Janet Reno," in
which he lays out all the disturbing facts. His shocking accusations of not
only the closet lesbianism and alcoholism of the Attorney Generaless but the
duplicity in the cover-up by supposed adversarial Republicans on the Senate
Judiciary Committee may be the biggest political bombshell of the decade. Yet,
even with Thompson’s indisputable documentation, the controlled national media
have continued to ignore the story.
Thompson says that he has been accused by his detractors (i.e. liberal talk
show hosts and the Miami Herald) of being "obsessed with Janet Reno’s
sexuality," but quickly and emphatically retorts with "that part simply isn’t
true." He points out that no public official can afford to be in the closet
with this kind of secret. "The only male in Janet Reno’s life is blackmail!"
If You Can’t Shoot Down the Message, Shoot the Messenger
Liberal Circuit Court Judge Dick Feder (also the chairman of the Florida ACLU)
was persuaded by Reno’s child porno supporters to attempt to dispose of
Thompson and get his license to practice law lifted by having him declared
mentally incompetent because of "his obsession with pornography." Apparently,
Thompson’s only "obsession" was his effective opposition to it.
Jack Thompson, 47, is an unusual package in today’s society. As an ordained
Elder in the Presbyterian Church of America, as well as a holder of a
government-issued license to practice law in the secular state, he faces
challenges to his personal moral code every day. Unlike most attorneys, he
does not hesitate to place his Biblical beliefs higher than his fear of mere
mortal beings in the state and federal judiciaries - particularly those such
as Feder. His embrace of Christianity seven days a week tends to dispel,
somewhat, the ubiquitous belief that the term "Christian Attorney" is an
oxymoron.
Spurned-on rather than cowed by the judge’s dastardly attack and accompanying
innuendo, Thompson suggested to his own attorney that he, Thompson, submit to
a psychological examination by doctors chosen by the Bar Association. The
results were, "Jack Thompson suffers no identifiable neuroses. He is neither
paranoid, nor delusional, nor homicidal; nor suffering from any brain damage.
Mr. Thompson is a Christian who is solely motivated by his religious faith."
Jack Thompson may be the only "officially certified sane" attorney in the
united States. He later collected $20,000 in damages from the Florida Bar
Association, the only such legal victory in the history of any of the state
associations.
Thompson first stumbled across the checkered past of Janet Reno in 1986, when
he became the court-appointed attorney for Ileana Fuster - a defendant in a
child pornography case in which Janet Reno was the State Prosecutor. He soon
learned that Frank and Ileana Fuster had, indeed, molested and exposed dozens
of small children to hard-core porn at the Country Walk Day Care Center.
In the TV movie, "Unspeakable Acts," Janet Reno was portrayed as the
crusading prosecutor who protected the lives of many Miami children with her
"capture" of the defendants. It was this deceptive propaganda which served
to vault her into national spotlight. The record shows that Janet Reno
actually has the worst record in Florida history of bringing sexual abuse
cases to trial.
Not only did Reno eventually back off the Fuster case and refuse to prosecute,
but she apparently leaped at the opportunity to cavort with a new playmate -
this time with the jailed defendant, Ileana Fuster, according to eyewitnesses.
When witnesses told Thompson that Reno had held the hand of Fuster during a
deposition, he became a little suspect. Later he learned that Janet Reno
carried on a lesbian affair with the defendant in the jail cell. While Fuster
was stripped naked on a "suicide watch," Reno visited her alone more than 30
times. Even if there had been no hanky-panky involved (although prison guards
did witness that playful activity and also attested to the fact that Reno
signed Fuster out of jail and took her to dinner), such a private visit by a
prosecutor to a defendant in a criminal case, without opposing counsel
present, is highly unethical and constitutes grounds for dismissal of the
case and even disbarment of the offender.
Miami Police Chief Ken Harms had knowledge of this and other outrageous and
criminal behavior, and he was prepared to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee
investigating Reno’s background, prior to her appointment in 1993, that
"Janet Reno is not qualified to be even an Assistant State Attorney, let
alone the [Chief] State Attorney in Florida or Attorney General of the United
States." He was never called to testify.
Reno a Public Drunk Jack Thompson goes further and publicly accuses Janet
Reno of suppressing at least five DUI arrests of her own in her home county.
One female cop stopped Reno’s car after it was seen weaving down the road.
The officer was shocked to see that the driver was none other than the icon
of the court, Janet Reno, with her shoes removed, stockings torn, and vomited
food stains covering the front of her dress. According to Thompson, the
officer now regrets having driven Reno home instead of placing her under
arrest and taking her to jail.
A Fort Lauderdale police officer found Janet Reno with an underage girl in
the back seat of a car at the Galleria Mall. He, also, was never called to
testify at the Senate hearings. In yet another unrelated case, Miami
businessman Michael Thomas names Reno as "the other man" in the Thomas
divorce case. His wife had previously moved out of their home and into the
home of Reno to pursue a lesbian relationship. Mob call girl Crystal Kazim
has given testimony that on numerous occasions she was Reno’s paid lover.
Janet Reno has evaded the press for a long time, apparently there is a good
reason for this.
Thompson knows that a cover-up reaching as high as the president has long
been in place to protect Reno’s appointment from the very beginning. He knows
it because it was he who informed the hite House. At about the same time,
then- Senator Paula Hawkins told him that she had casually asked an ABA
official why Janet Reno had never been appointed to the federal bench. "I was
told," said Senator Hawkins, "that Janet Reno could never pass the background
check because of her closet lesbianism."
Knowing that a simple fax letter to the White House would almost certainly
disappear into the bowels of the ship of state, Thompson took a more creative
step. A full week prior to the Reno appointment, he had learned from a friend
in the Justice Department that Janet Reno would likely be Clinton’s third
choice after the first two appointments - those of Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood -
had misfired. It so happens that Bill Clinton’s personal attorney is Sam Jones
of Little Rock. (It had been Jones’ job in the 1992 election to "quiet the
bimbo eruption," the sudden surfacing of Clinton’s current and former
girlfriends.) Jones is the law partner of Clinton confidante Bruce Lindsay. He
also was the Vanderbilt law school best friend of Jack Thompson.
Thompson immediately faxed over the documented evidence to Sam Jones. Jones
later confirmed that he had passed it on to Lindsay, who had personally passed
it on to the President. All this was ascertained by Thompson when Lanny Davis
phoned to discuss the details.
"I have been interviewed probably 500 times," says Thompson, "and I have
learned to determine what someone is after. Lanny Davis is the one who has
spent hours on national television trying to tell the people that Bill
Clinton is as pure as the newly driven snow. I could tell he was not trying
to protect Bill Clinton from the repercussions of a Janet Reno appointment.
He was debriefing me to give Bill Clinton a heads-up of what I knew. He
wanted to know what I knew, not because he wanted the truth, but in order to
discredit it."
Clinton, of course, ignored the information, and Reno managed to pass muster.
During the subsequent back-slapping hoopla, Illinois Congress-woman Carole
Mosely Braun congratulated Reno by saying, "This was not a confirmation
hearing, Janet, it was a love-in!" Indeed, it was. According to Thompson,
anyone with anything negative to say was simply barred from the hearings.
Another well-known fraud-fighting attorney, Larry Clayman, founder of
Washington’s "Judicial Watch," was at one time in the same Miami law firm with
Jack Thompson. Clayman wrote to his old friend, "The Washington insiders of
both parties have so much dirt on one another that they regularly checkmate
each other from doing any public work which might inconvenience the black-
mailers on the other side of an issue." The next episode, during the same week
prior to the confirmation, would be a glaring illustration of exactly what
Clayman meant.
Republican Duplicity
Shortly after the Lanny Davis conversation, Thompson received a phone call
from John Bliss, Republican staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee
reporting directly to Colorado Senator Hank Brown. Realizing the sensitivity
of what was forthcoming, and in order to have corroboration, Jack
"conferenced-in" a trusted ally, Mike Thompson (no relation), who is Chairman
of the American Forum. It turned out to be a very smart move. John Bliss has
since denied to the press ever making the call or ever having a conversation
with Jack Thompson or anyone else on this subject.
Jack says, "John Bliss told Mike and me that five Dade County Police Officers
were ready, willing, and able to testify that they, separate and apart from
each other, had pulled over Janet Reno for driving under the influence while
she was State Attorney. She had pressured them not to fill out an arrest
form. They didn’t because they knew to arrest Janet Reno in this community
would mean the end of their law enforcement careers."
The officers were also well aware of the potential political backlash their
testimony before the committee could bring and would agree to come forward
only if a Republican Senator on the committee would first raise the issue at
the hearings. But the Republican Senators -Orrin Hatch, Chuck Grassley, Hank
Brown, Arlen Spector, and Alan Simpson - according to Bliss, "did not want to
mess with that Anita Hill crowd again." After all, Arlen Spector had proven
that Anita Hill had perjured herself at the Clarence Thomas confirmation
hearings in 1991 and had been targeted for a dumping at his next election.
The committee preferred, instead, to "leak" the story to the press.
Thompson went on. "The actual testimony we had on Reno would have made
Clarence Thomas, as alleged, appear as an Eagle Scout. Anyway, Bliss asked me
to go to the New York Times and the Washington Post - he mentioned those two
‘organs of truth’ specifically [said with tongue-in-cheek] - and tell them
that I knew of the five incidents. He said that the Senators wanted ‘media
coverage’ first, so they could lift in their hands the newspaper articles and
say [in front of the TV cameras], ‘We did not want to raise this issue, Ms.
Reno, but it’s now in the public domain and we have no choice.’
"So the police wanted Senatorial cover, the Senators wanted media cover, and
Jack Thompson was supposed to give it all to them."
Actually, he was delighted to do that, but when he asked who the five police
officers were, Bliss would not tell him, saying it was "confidential." For
this reason, Thompson refused to be foolish enough to take such a story to
the national press without first confirming the evidence, and that was the
end of that. The Wall Street Journal has since printed a large piece
revealing that it is habit of the Judiciary Committee to release information
such as this to the press in order to torpedo troublesome nominations which
the committee members themselves do not have the courage to face head-on.
Next, the FBI came visiting with questions about what Thompson knew, but he
says they were more interested in who on the Republican Committee had leaked
the information than they were in its content. He saw the "investigation" only
as an attempt to gain more protection for the current administration.
Put Out the Fire
The following Sunday, Mississippi Republican Senator Trent Lott appeared on
CBS- TV’s "Face the Nation." When the host asked if Lott thought he believed
that Janet Reno’s nomination would be confirmed, the Senator replied that he
wasn’t sure because the committee was looking into some very serious
allegations regarding Reno’s personal life.
That evening, former White House Press Secretary DeeDee Myers called a press
conference to respond that Reno’s last political opponent in Miami, Jack
Thompson, had been spreading some wholly false rumors about Reno and her
fitness to be Attorney General and that Senator Lott had foolishly taken the
bait. Myers said that the real problem was that Reno was a woman. "After that,
all Republican opposition evaporated," said Thompson, "all because nobody on
the panel had the courage to ask Janet Reno whether or not she had a drinking
problem."
Lott and the other Republican Senators wilted. Senator Orrin Hatch, opened
the hearings the next day with an apology to Reno by lambasting Jack Thompson
with, "…your last Republican opponent in Dade County for spreading scurrilous
rumors about you."
Thompson found Hank Brown’s pusillanimous back-pedaling in his opening
remarks to be even more scathing, especially considering that it was Brown’s
own aide, John Bliss, who had called Thompson with the information about
Reno’s alcoholic escapades in the first place, though they both now denied
it.
Ironically, when The New York Times later acquired the story through the
efforts of one its own reporters, the editors spiked it anyway. Reporter
David Johnston of NYT phoned Thompson for confirmation that Janet Reno was on
occasion sending home her Secret Service Agent watchdogs, saying she had no
plans to go anywhere that evening, and then going out to D.C. bars and
getting "falling down drunk." Thompson said indeed he could confirm it -
because she did the same thing in Miami - and gave Johnston the names of two
D.C. private investigators (previously provided by the FBI) who could also
confirm it. Johnston told Thompson that he would break the story, "if his
editors would let him." It never ran.
"They all were cowards," said Jack Thompson. "They knew the story was true."
The behavior of the Republican Senators brought to mind the words of Third
Party Presidential Candidate George Wallace in 1968: "There’s not a dime’s
worth of difference between the Republicans and Democrats at a national
level."
The Weekly Standard calls Reno "the President’s doormat." In an editorial, it
said:
"She is like a gigantic Gulliver tied down by her lies of her own weaving,
unable to make a principled move, because the President and his morally
downsized Lilliputians will not let her. One leak by Clinton’s Lilliputians
that Reno is a drunk, a call-girl preying pervert; and her public life is
over, her reputation shattered."
"The Truth About Janet Reno" is a 60-minute video and can be obtained by
sending $24 to: American Forum, 3205 Riviera Drive, Coral Gables, Florida
33134
Text and photos ©1999 Pat Shannan.
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