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Larry Elliot Klayman (born July 20, 1951) is a politically conservative American public interest lawyer and former Justice Department attorney who has been called a "Clinton nemesis" for his dozens of lawsuits against the Bill Clinton administration in the 90s. The founder of Judicial Watch and the government watchdog group Freedom Watch, he has brought legal action against former Vice President Dick Cheney, President Barack Obama,〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Snopes )〕 OPEC, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and the National Security Agency (NSA). In the last case, a federal judge ruled in December 2013 that the NSA's bulk collection of telephony metadata violated the Fourth Amendment. ==Life and career== Larry Klayman graduated with honors from Duke University and received his B.A. in Political Science and French Literature. He received his J.D. from Emory University Law School. In addition to English, he speaks French and Italian.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=NNDB )〕 During the Ronald Reagan administration, Klayman was a prosecutor in the United States Justice Department (DOJ) and was on the trial team that succeeded in breaking up the telephone monopoly of AT&T. In 2004, Klayman ran for the United States Senate from Florida but lost in the United States Republican Party primary, finishing seventh out of eight candidates.〔https://doe.dos.state.fl.us/elections/resultsarchive/Index.asp?ElectionDate=8/31/2004&DATAMODE=〕 After his run for the U.S. Senate, Klayman formed the organization Freedom Watch. He says the name originated from an NBC episode of ''The West Wing'' in which he was caricatured as Harry Claypool.〔(Larry Klayman aka Harry Klaypool of Freedom Watch )〕 Klayman wrote the books ''Fatal Neglect'' and ''Whores: Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment'', and writes a weekly column for the conservative news website ''WorldNetDaily''. Klayman was born to Jewish parents, and identifies himself as "both a Jew and a Christian". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Larry Klayman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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