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December 1999
Los Angeles Court Hands Down Final Judgment in Anti-Defamation League Illegal
Surveillance Case
The ADL became a clearinghouse for illegally obtained and retained information.
By Michael Gillespie
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) versus the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) litigation resulting from the 1993 ADL
spy scandal was settled in a California federal court on Monday, Sept. 27
[2000] following nearly six years of legal wrangling.
"The ADL was running a major espionage organization against progressive groups
in the United States." said Hussein Ibish, media director for the ADC, the Arab-
American organization that provided leadership in the class action suit
representing over 800 groups and individuals targeted by the ADL.
The settlement is an important victory in the effort to curtail espionage
activity by the ADL, which, with an annual budget of some $45 million, is still
the best funded American Jewish group and one that, prior to the 1993 domestic
spying scandal, had sought recognition as a national civil rights monitoring
organization.
"Under the permanent injunction issued by Federal Judge Richard Paez, the ADL
is permanently enjoined from engaging in any further illegal spying against
Arab-American and other civil rights groups," said Ibish. The ADL is also
required to provide an annual statement to the court and ADC's legal counsel in
years to come explaining the measures it is taking to remain in compliance with
the court order.
A court-appointed Special Master will supervise the removal of illegally
obtained information from the ADL's files. Those documents will be held by the
Special Master for a maximum period of 10 years, time to allow the adjudication
of other, related civil suits still pending against the ADL. The ADL also will
contribute $25,000 to a jointly administered community relations fund. More
significant was the judge's order to ADL to pay $175,000 for the plaintiffs'
legal fees.
The Arab-American group's lead counsel, Peter Schey of the Center for Human
Rights and Constitutional Law, characterized the ADL's sharing of illegally
obtained confidential law enforcement information with Israeli, apartheid South
African and other foreign and domestic intelligence organizations as
antagonistic to positive social change. "The work the ADL was doing was not
civil rights work," said Schey, "it was anti-civil rights work."
After COINTELPRO, a still-controversial FBI operation to destabilize black
nationalist and other groups in the '60s and '70s, the FBI, state and local law
enforcement authorities were ordered out of the business of gathering
information about legitimate political activity by American citizens. But in
some major American cities, law enforcement files relating to legitimate and
Constitutionally protected political activities that had been ordered destroyed
instead found their way to the offices of the ADL, which quickly became a
clearinghouse for such illegally obtained and illegally retained information.
The absence of the FBI, state, and local police investigators in the field
therefore created a void the ADL rushed to fill, with remarkable success, by
increasing its in-house "fact-finding" assets and capabilities and developing
enhanced working relationships with "official friends''