Eat this you liberal whiners!
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Judge who leaked news of Clinton grand jury denies malicious intent
Copyright © 2000 Nando Media
Copyright © 2000 Scripps Howard News Service
By MEG KISSINGER, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
(August 21, 2000 11:24 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Richard Cudahy, accidental man in the middle of the latest political firestorm, doesn't act or sound like someone singed from the glare of limelight.
"I'm still breathing," said Cudahy, a federal appeals court judge in Chicago, in a telephone interview from his Winnetka, Ill., home on Saturday, where he picked up the phone between errands.
Cudahy inadvertently dropped a political bombshell on Thursday when he mentioned to an Associated Press reporter that a new grand jury had been impaneled by the independent counsel investigating President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
The media and, consequently, many in the public, automatically assumed it was some Republican operative who must have leaked the story in an effort to embarrass the Democrats on the very day that their nominee, Vice President Al Gore, was making his big acceptance speech at his party's convention in Los Angeles.
Actually, Cudahy had mentioned it to the reporter Wednesday evening when he was asked about a one-sentence order that had been issued by the three-judge panel that includes Cudahy.
"I don't think it ever entered my head it had anything to do with what was going on in the convention," Cudahy told the New York Times on Friday.
But when word spread - fast - on Thursday and speculation ran wild, Cudahy got to feeling bad about the notion that the prosecutors in the independent counsel's office would be blamed for the leak. His conscience took over, and he confessed.
"By then, it had escalated to a national emergency," he said Saturday with more than a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
Since then, Cudahy has been hounded by reporters camped outside his chamber and following him as he walked to his car, causing him to nearly trip over microphone wires several times.
Cudahy is an unlikely snitch. Appointed to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1979 by President Carter, Cudahy once served as chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
The grandson of Patrick Cudahy, of meatpacking fame, Cudahy is known for his sharp wit, keen intellect and gracious manners. A graduate of Milwaukee Country Day School, West Point Military Academy and Yale University Law School, he served as chairman of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, and once considered running for mayor of Milwaukee.
In 1989, a study of government records by the Associated Press named him the wealthiest federal judge in the country with a net worth of at least $8.4 million.
Has he been roundly scolded for his loose lips?
"Not as much I probably will be," he said.
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Ha! 'bout like them to blame the Republican party for their own problems..
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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!
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Judge who leaked news of Clinton grand jury denies malicious intent
Copyright © 2000 Nando Media
Copyright © 2000 Scripps Howard News Service
By MEG KISSINGER, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
(August 21, 2000 11:24 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Richard Cudahy, accidental man in the middle of the latest political firestorm, doesn't act or sound like someone singed from the glare of limelight.
"I'm still breathing," said Cudahy, a federal appeals court judge in Chicago, in a telephone interview from his Winnetka, Ill., home on Saturday, where he picked up the phone between errands.
Cudahy inadvertently dropped a political bombshell on Thursday when he mentioned to an Associated Press reporter that a new grand jury had been impaneled by the independent counsel investigating President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
The media and, consequently, many in the public, automatically assumed it was some Republican operative who must have leaked the story in an effort to embarrass the Democrats on the very day that their nominee, Vice President Al Gore, was making his big acceptance speech at his party's convention in Los Angeles.
Actually, Cudahy had mentioned it to the reporter Wednesday evening when he was asked about a one-sentence order that had been issued by the three-judge panel that includes Cudahy.
"I don't think it ever entered my head it had anything to do with what was going on in the convention," Cudahy told the New York Times on Friday.
But when word spread - fast - on Thursday and speculation ran wild, Cudahy got to feeling bad about the notion that the prosecutors in the independent counsel's office would be blamed for the leak. His conscience took over, and he confessed.
"By then, it had escalated to a national emergency," he said Saturday with more than a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
Since then, Cudahy has been hounded by reporters camped outside his chamber and following him as he walked to his car, causing him to nearly trip over microphone wires several times.
Cudahy is an unlikely snitch. Appointed to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1979 by President Carter, Cudahy once served as chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
The grandson of Patrick Cudahy, of meatpacking fame, Cudahy is known for his sharp wit, keen intellect and gracious manners. A graduate of Milwaukee Country Day School, West Point Military Academy and Yale University Law School, he served as chairman of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, and once considered running for mayor of Milwaukee.
In 1989, a study of government records by the Associated Press named him the wealthiest federal judge in the country with a net worth of at least $8.4 million.
Has he been roundly scolded for his loose lips?
"Not as much I probably will be," he said.
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Ha! 'bout like them to blame the Republican party for their own problems..
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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!