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Federal Judge Royce Lamberth is best known for the ease with which he approved dozens of discovery motions that allowed fellow conservative Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch to dig into the public and private life of President Bill Clinton.


Federal Judge Royce Lamberth is best known for the ease with which he approved dozens of discovery motions that allowed fellow conservative Larry Klayman Larry Klayman is the founder and chief representative of the Klayman Law Firm, which is based out of Miami, Florida and Washington D.C., although he is known chiefly as the founder and former Chairman of Judicial Watch, a public interest and non-profit law firm, which attained  of Judicial Watch to dig into Verb 1. dig into - examine physically with or as if with a probe; "probe an anthill"
poke into, probe

penetrate, perforate - pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance; "The bullet penetrated her chest"
 the public and private life of President Bill Clinton. But Lamberth was considerably more strict last March, when he raised procedural concerns about a requested FBI wiretap wiretap n. using an electronic device to listen in on telephone lines, which is illegal unless allowed by court order based upon a showing by law enforcement of "probable cause" to believe the communications are part of criminal activities.  involving a member of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Lamberth's doubts sparked an internal investigation at the Bush Justice Department into the FBI's monitoring of several terrorist organizations, including Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network. That inquiry, officials told The New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Times, "might have hampered electronic surveillance of terror groups."
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Author:GLASTRIS, PAUL
Publication:Washington Monthly
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Date:Oct 1, 2001
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