European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 19 opinion punitive plantiff rightfully dressed Down t by Marc Fisher the Washington Post Washington he which have held their crease for an impressive two Are still waiting for Roy he can pick them up any a pair of pants May be All Pearson Ever gets out of the hours of Legal work that he put into the drop Trou Case of the cent the Man who turned a alteration into a million lawsuit against his neigh boyhood cleaners was Hung out to dry Mon Day ill a Superior court judge said Pearson failed to prove that the pants custom clean ers has been holding for him since 2005 were not the Hickey Freeman pants he brought in to be let Seuss once wrote a Story about poor empty pants with nobody inside and As Jin Chung held up the pants at a news conference monday outside his shop on Bladensburg Road i wondered whether anyone would Ever again Wear those Lovely Wool the Chung owners of the shop and targets of pearsons Legal must keep the pants until Pear son runs through his inevitable after which its not Clear what will happen to the trousers that managed to Knock away some of Paris Hiltons to today Story Justice is South korean to correspondent Yong Chulsoon told me As he worked on the lat est in a Long series of daily reports on pants across every weve been reporting How could this happen in America every we had More emotion ally explosive Chung broke Down in tears on there was tremendous but we have to the american Legal system is working very the who seemed bewildered and shocked throughout the today were obviously relieved by judge Judith Bart Noff s decision that pearsons Reading of the consumer Protection Law was Jin and Soo Chung could finally laugh about the they offered assurances that the Immi Grant couple will indeed stay in this country despite the financial and emotional trauma of a Legal Odyssey that left them at the mercy of one wildly dissatisfied the Chung told me that if Pearson was to show up in their store once they would take care of his Gar but despite their Legal the Chung still face devastating their attorneys fees Are Well North of said Christopher who handled their Case at a reduced business has suffered Pearson papered nearby Telephone poles with fliers asking residents to come Forth with complaints about the and mannings Law Melinda sos said that even if Bartnoff eventually orders Pearson to pay the Chung Legal theres hardly a Chance that the family will see any Money because Pearson has if Jacquelyn holding the pants that led to a million Jin with his Soo and daughter inlaw Soo speak with the Media at their dry cleaning business in Washington on monday after a judge ruled in the dry cleaners we dont know what pearsons plans Are for his pants or his he want talking but in the people were talking a whole lot about pearsons As you May an administrative Law judge for the is on ice at taking care of unspecified tasks As an attorn Eyad Viser because his term As a judge expired in april and mayor Adrian Fenty asked the panel considering whether to appoint Pear son to a 10year term to hold even if Fenty fills a vacancy on the no decision is expected on pearsons employ ment until Bartnoff decides whether to make the pants Man pay the Chung Legal picture a vast Circle of buc passers sur rounding the with Pearson stand ing outside the scheming to find new ways to keep the torment is the family still living the american the to people wanted to Treyve lost so much in the past two its very hard to answer that came the reply from the couples Soo the family does take cheer from the fact that More than 300 Well wishers have donated to a Legal defense fund and that a tort Reform advocacy group is holding a fundraiser for the in a startling Kum Baya the tort reformers and the trial lawyers association came together to beg one another for share cups of grog and Issue a joint statement deploring pearsons maybe not the begging and the Manning pronounced this a great Day for american and Bartnoff concluded that perhaps Pearson simply forgot which pair of pants hed brought to the there was at the end of this Case no Way to conclude that another Way Ward customer could not come along and ruin another family pretty much on a which remains a frighten ing in Seuss Story of those poor empty a strange thing those pants began to cry those pants began to they were just As scared As i Marc Fisher is a Post Cia seeks clean but still does the dirty work Dan Thomasson Washington the Cia Over the years has been involved in some pretty Dicey like attempted assassination of for eign opening aunt min Nies keeping tabs on Antiwar activists and spying on report ers and probably a whole raft of stuff they never will talk including the Longrus Mored elimination of suspected double How terribly surprising the official disclosure of some time illegal activities by the spy most of which took place during the cold comes Only about 30 years after much of it was publicly revealed during watergate and its immediate aftermath at a time when leaks to hungry investigative reporters were so fast and furious one hardly had time to write that of unless one wanted to talk to sources with pornographic names in underground parking facilities rather than the Normal on the phone or Over a few what goes around in the news business comes around about every decade and be comes sensational so Here we Are in the newest learning once More that the late attorney general Robert Kennedy was intimately involved in the Agency bungled attempts to assassinate Fidel using a third interested the obviously some of the 700 pages of what the Agency likes to Call the family jewels Are new including the wiretap Ping of conversations columnists Roberts Allen and Paul Scott had with a number of senators and House Kennedy sanctioned that eavesdropping just As he did the Bis bugging of the Martin Luther King the purpose of officially shining the Light into the Agency Darker Corners by Cia director Michael Hayden seems to be to Clear up some of the misconceptions about what actually happened and what was rumoured and but there appears also to be an Effort to convince the nation and the Cias leading critics that its conduct since those turbulent Days has improved dramatic particularly Given the fallout War on Good Luck at much of the earlier reporting on the Cias skeletons came about because of an prolonged congressional investigation led by Frank Church of Idaho that led to a near dismantling of the Agency Covert Arm and its month ground intelligence gathering especially in the Middle the Impact of that on what occurred on is fairly news that the despite a congressionally mandated prohibition against Domestic activity in its infiltrated student Antiwar groups Here and spied on activists and thousands of others is rip Van Winkle but what int disclosed and probably never will be is what most longtime observers believe is the company cold War involvement in eliminating agents or double agents on the tip of that iceberg May have been uncovered in the admission that one russian suspected of being a was held prisoner Here for two years in a Cia Safe Edgar Hoover himself suspected the Cia of Domestic assassination the longtime Fri director broke with the Cia in the late 1960s and the rift has been slow to heal All these years it would be too bad if this latest round of disclosures further damages the Cias Abili contributing once again to our vulnerability to terrorism around the a key Factor in the Success of an improbable exercise at can be blamed on Public reaction to the Church a Lack of cooperation with the Fri and the subsequent Reliance on electronics rather than human satellites can do Only so much in a business where the Best Success always has come from personal insinuation into the inner culture and minds of those we must spying is and always will be a dirty business where the Normal ethical considerations frequently Are lost in the desperate need to head off it was True in the cold War and it is even More so it is necessary that gentlemen do read other gentlemen mail and much yet there Are boundaries that no government entity should go and the Agency has been guilty of doing so on More than one lets Hope that in Clearing that up this time the baby Doest go out with the Dan Thomasson is former editor of Scripps Howard news prickly City by Scott Stantis to and  demo my fir Coke o a Kkt Ramftl question