{"id":1333,"date":"2004-10-02T02:34:42","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T09:34:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-10-02T02:34:42","modified_gmt":"2004-10-02T09:34:42","slug":"what-is-it-with-neocons-and-libel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/02\/what-is-it-with-neocons-and-libel\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is It With Neocons and Libel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re a litigious bunch: <a href=http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2097188\/>Richard Perle<\/a>, <a href=http:\/\/216.239.39.104\/search?q=cache:-OWg1s6Tp1cJ:www.jewishworldreview.com\/michael\/ledeen091103.asp+ledeen+libel&#038;hl=en&#038;start=9>Michael Ledeen<\/a>, and now <a href=http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000651973>Conrad Black<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>Conrad Black said Friday he will file a $871 million libel suit in Canada against the Hollinger International Inc. special committee that issued a report contending he and other former top executives comprised a &#8220;corporate kleptocracy&#8221; whose &#8220;self-righteous and aggressive looting&#8221; took $400 million in unearned money. <\/p>\n<p>All members of the special committee were served with legal notice of the lawsuit, Black said, including Hollinger International&#8217;s interim Chairman and CEO Gordon Paris. Richard C. Breeden, the former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman who authored the committee&#8217;s scathing 513-page report, was also named as a defendant, along with Paul Healey, vice president of investor relations. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, which will be filed in an Ontario court, will seek Canadian $1.1 billion, the statement said. This is the second libel action Black has filed in Canada against Hollinger International figures. A suit filed in February demands approximately U.S.$675 million in damages. <\/p>\n<p>Breeden&#8217;s report stated that &#8220;Black and (former Sun-Times Publisher F. David Radler) made it their business to line their pockets at the expense of Hollinger almost every day, in almost every way possible. &#8230; Ethical corruption was a defining characteristic of the leadership team.&#8221; The report documented what it said were excessive and unauthorized payments to top executives, and characterized the star-studded Hollinger board as &#8220;inattentive&#8221; to the abuses. <\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Black said the payments &#8220;were justifiable and disclosed by sophisticated and fully informed independent directors.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.cfo.com\/article.cfm\/3149716\/c_3149745?f=home_todayinfinance>See for yourself<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>So is Lord Black going to <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/09\/06\/business\/media\/06perle.html?ex=1096776000&#038;en=0e2b659b4ceda22a&#038;ei=5070&#038;ex=1095505758&#038;ei=1&#038;en=ffac8eb2cc62af1f>sue Richard Perle<\/a>? Or could these two chickenhawks resolve their differences in a more dignified manner, say, a pillow fight? Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re a litigious bunch: Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, and now Conrad Black: Conrad Black said Friday he will file a $871 million libel suit in Canada against the Hollinger International Inc. special committee that issued a report contending he and other former top executives comprised a &#8220;corporate kleptocracy&#8221; whose &#8220;self-righteous and aggressive looting&#8221; took $400 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}