On Doing Your Own Investigation -- Hogan & Hartson Coworker -- Darrow Leibner

Bob Glen Odle, Esq. was the managing partner at Hogan & Hartson during my tenure at that firm, from mid-September 1985 to late February 1988.

July 7, 1997
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
#136
Washington, DC 20008-4530

Bob Glen Odle, Esq.
Managing Partner
Hogan & Hartson
555 13th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004-1109

RE: Weapons Possession - Intent to Inflict Grievous Bodily Harm/Possible Intent to Commit Murder - D.C. Corporation Counsel Affirmation - Possible Concealment of State and/or Federal Weapons Law Violations

Dear Mr. Odle:

During the period March 1988 to October 1991 I was employed as a legal assistant in the Washington, DC office of the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld ("Akin Gump"). Attorney managers at Akin Gump terminated my employment effective October 29, 1991 upon determining, in consultation with a psychiatrist, that a complaint of harassment I had lodged against several co-workers was attributable to a psychiatric symptom ("ideas of reference") prominent in the psychotic disorders and typically associated with a risk of violent behavior. See Freedman v. D.C. Dept. of Human Rights, D.C. Superior Court no. MPA 95-14 (final order issued June 10, 1996) (name of state court judge redacted at the implicit direction of the Justice Department). In the period immediately after my job termination senior Akin Gump managers determined that it was advisable to secure the office of my direct supervisor against a possible homicidal assault, which it was feared I might commit.

In pleadings filed in the District of Columbia Superior Court, the District of Columbia Office of Corporation Counsel (Charles F.C. Ruff, Esq.) affirmed that Akin Gump personnel had geniune concerns that I might have had plans to procure firearms for an unlawful purpose and possessed the intent to inflict grievous bodily harm or commit murder. Mr. Ruff currently serves as chief White House Counsel to President Clinton (telephone no.: 202 456 1414).

During the period September 1985 to February 1988 I was employed as a temporary legal assistant at Hogan & Hartson, assigned to the Computer Applications Department. From October 1985 to the spring of 1986 one of my coworkers on a document coding project for the client Milwaukee Public Schools was an individual named Darrow Leibner. At that time Sheryl Ferguson supervised the Computer Applications Department; the supervising attorney for the Milwaukee Public Schools litigation was Elliott Mincberg. Darrow Leibner had a brother, Joshua, who also worked at Hogan prior to my tenure, and another brother, Lincoln. I believe that Darrow Leibner's father was a lawyer, and that his brother, Joshua, after leaving Hogan in 1985, obtained employment with the New York Public Schools.

I have been under investigation by the U.S. Secret Service as a potential security risk to President

Clinton, and was interrogated at the Washington Field Office by Special Agent Philip C. Leadroot (202 435-5100) as recently as February 1996, about 16 months ago. Questioning by Mr. Leadroot centered on the issue of presidential assassination.

I have formed the (unsubstantiated) belief that Akin Gump's attorney managers contacted Darrow Leibner in the year 1991 to obtain background information about me in connection with my employment, and that Darrow Leibner may, therefore, possess information pertinent to a criminal investigation conducted by the U.S. Secret Service during the period December 1994-February 1995 relating to the security of the President of the United States.

I request that you provide the FBI information to assist the agency in locating Darrow Leibner: you may contact David M. Bowie, Supervisory Special Agent, Washington Field Office, 202 252 7801. Mr. Leibner was a Hogan temporary employee; he was not employed by a temporary agency.

Enclosed are some additional documents that provide background to the matters discussed in this letter.

Be advised: President Clinton's own lawyer, chief White House Counsel Charles F.C. Ruff, is talking real guns, real bullets, real brain tissue.

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman