Freedom

Legal Battle Brewing Over Group's Name

The Washington Post
Larry Klayman, the conservative lawyer best known for repeatedly taking the Clinton administration to court in the 1990s, sued supporters of the Bush administration yesterday, claiming they appropriated the name "Freedom's Watch" for use in a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign in support of the Iraq war. Klayman, who supported the initial invasion but now says he is against the "chaotic" war, accuses what he says is an "arrogant Washington elite" of adopting a name he has used for nonprofit work since 2004. He said he became interested in the name "Freedom Watch" after writers of the television series "The West Wing" created a fictitious group by that name, loosely based on his organization Judicial Watch, which filed a number of lawsuits against Bill and Hillary Clinton. Full story...

Posted by Editor at September 20, 2007 07:36 AM