We will get more of this type stuff soon.
On November 19, 1998, Independent Counsel Starr testified before the House Judiciary Committee in connection with the Impeachment of Bill Clinton over charges related to the Lewinsky scandal. Here, for the first time, Starr exonerated both President Clinton and the First Lady of complicity in the FBI files matter, saying “while there are outstanding issues that we are attempting to resolve with respect to one individual [we] found no evidence that anyone higher [than Livingstone or Marceca] was in any way involved in ordering the files from the FBI. Second, we have found no evidence that information contained in the files of former officials was used for an improper purpose.”[24] (Starr also chose this occasion to clear President Clinton in the Travelgate matter, and to say that he had not committed impeachable wrongdoing in the Whitewater matter; Democrats on the committee immediately criticized Starr for withholding all these findings until after the 1998 Congressional elections.[25])
In March 2000, Independent Counsel Robert Ray, Starr’s successor, issued the office’s final report on the matter, as part of a concerted effort to wrap up all Whitewater-related cases before the end of Bill Clinton’s term.[26] Ray determined that there was no credible evidence of any criminal activity by any individual in the matter.[27] It attributed the improper collection of the files by Marceca due to his having an outdated Secret Service list of White House passes, as Marceca had originally claimed.[27] It stated that even though Marceca’s statements were sometimes “contradictory and misleading”,[2] they were “sufficiently transparent”[2] and there was insufficient evidence to prove that Anthony Marceca had made false statements to Congress during his testimony.[8] The report ascribed the FBI files matter to “a failure of process at many levels,” saying that the Secret Service had provided critically erroneous data,[2] and that this was compounded by the White House’s informal process of requesting sensitive information by “inexperienced, untrained, and unsupervised personnel with backgrounds as political operatives.”[2]
Based on an investigation that included the prior fingerprint analysis,[27] the report further stated that:
there was no substantial and credible evidence that any senior White House official, or First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, was involved in seeking confidential Federal Bureau of Investigation background reports of former White House staff from prior administrations of President Bush and President Reagan.
—Independent Counsel Robert Ray, [8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_FBI_files_controversy
Separately from the Independent Counsel investigation, Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, engaged in long-running litigation over the White House personnel file controversy.[28] Judicial Watch’s Cara Leslie Alexander et al. vs. Federal Bureau of Investigation et al. class action lawsuit, filed on behalf of several members of the Reagan and George H. W. Bush Administrations,[29] alleged that Livingstone, along with Anthony Marceca and William Kennedy, obtained the files and then rifled through them. Judicial Watch founder and Clintons antagonist suprême[30] Larry Klayman attracted enough attention with the case to have the recurring Larry Claypool character modeled after him on the television series The West Wing.[31] As late as January 2000, Judicial Watch was filing affidavits in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia under Judge Royce C. Lamberth related to the case.[32] In their $90 million lawsuit,[33] they claimed that the First Lady did, despite her denials, know Livingstone – indeed, that Livingstone had bragged to associates he was very close to both the president and his wife – and that Clinton had personally hired him for the security job.[33] (White House defenders pointed out that Livingstone had a long history of exaggerating his importance and connections.[3]) Judicial Watch also said they had five sources who claimed Livingstone had been hired by and worked under the First Lady,[33] and also discovered some photographs of Livingstone in the vicinity of the First Lady (but not talking with him).[22] In December 2002 Judicial Watch obtained a ruling from Judge Lamberth that recently uncovered White House e-mails be searched for possible evidence in the lawsuit.[34] Klayman said, “Hillary Clinton was the mastermind of Filegate. She will not escape justice.”[34] Klayman and Judicial Watch had a severe falling out in 2003,[35] however, and several years went by with little or nothing happening in the lawsuit.[29][36]
On March 9, 2010, Judge Lamberth dismissed the case.[37] The judge asserted that the plaintiffs, despite years of opportunity, had failed to provide any evidence that the affair was a grand conspiracy rather than a bureaucratic mistake, and said that “this court is left to conclude that with the lawsuit, to quote Gertrude Stein, ‘there’s no there there.’”[37] Nussbaum, one of the defendants, derisively said “No kidding” when informed of the dismissal.[36] Media reports concluded that, fourteen years after the initial events were set in motion, Filegate was finally over.[31][36][37] However, in May 2010, Judicial Watch filed an appeal of the dismissal with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,[38] and the case appears to still be active.[28]