FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 31, 2000 Contact: Richard Tomkins (202) 646-5172 TRULOCK SUES FREEH AND HIS AGENTS OVER CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS Heroic Whistleblower Harassed For Revealing FBI Incompetence And Coverup In Chinagate (Washington, D.C.) After weeks of harassment by Director Louis Freeh
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, during which FBI agents unlawfully
entered the home and seized the computer of Notra Trulock, the patriotic
whistleblower of the Energy Department who exposed the Los Alamos national
security disaster -- Trulock has been forced to strike back by filing a
lawsuit for civil rights violations. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District
Court for the Eastern District of Virginia this morning, names Louis Freeh
and other FBI officials and agents as defendants. Regrettably, the suit
proved necessary when Louis Freeh failed to respond to Judicial Watch's
Apparently, the FBI, and other agencies such as the CIA, Energy Department,
and the Clinton-Gore Administration as a whole, wanted to silence Notra
Trulock from telling the truth about their incompetence and coverup of
the most egregious breach of national security in U.S. history at the Los
Alamos nuclear lab. Under the absolutely false pretext that Notra Trulock
had released national security information, FBI officials and agents violated
his civil rights. With the help of Judicial Watch, he will now seek redress
from the harm inflicted upon him. In pursuing large damages and other relief,
Mr. Trulock will be able to take discovery, which will be most
"Judicial Watch will always be there for anyone who dares tell the truth about government corruption," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel, Larry Klayman. Judicial Watch is a public-interest law firm that fights corruption
in government.
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