Shafer: Richard Perle Libel Watch, Week 45

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Good one:

Just 54 days left before the statute of limitations runs out on suing Seymour Hersh.
By Jack Shafer

Tick tock, Dick

As if Richard N. Perle didn't have enough steaming manure on his legal plate with the Hollinger International scandal bursting all about him, this week the neoconservative macher noisily reiterated his 44-week-old threat to sue New Yorker investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh for libel. As you may recall, last March Perle noisily announced in the New York Sun his intention to sue Hersh over a New Yorker feature that probed the nexus between Perle's business dealings and his official capacities as the chairman of the Defense Department's Defense Policy Board.

For Perle's reiteration, I thank him! As we entered the New Year and drew closer to the first anniversary of his original threat to sue Hersh, I had begun to worry that Perle would not provide me with the pretext for a last installment in my ongoing "Perle Libel Watch"* before the one-year statute of limitations ran out.

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If I were in charge of Perle's legal budget, I'd be spending more money on defense than offense these days. This week, the Economist reported that Perle, who is a member of the Hollinger International board of directors, and his fellow board members may "face legal consequences" as the investigation of the plundering of Conrad Black's media company continues. A suit filed by Hollinger shareholder Cardinal Value Equity Partners accuses the Hollinger directors of being "totally quiescent" as Lord Black and other executives "looted" $300 million.

-full story:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2093959

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1. Some day our children will sing songs celebrating what we did

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