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Finally, that pain in the bazoo Larry Klayman makes a clintonista pay, albeit inadvertently. Too bad it's only Craig Livingstone.

WASHINGTON -- An appeals court ordered the government on Tuesday to reimburse a former Clinton administration official for some legal bills stemming from former independent counsel Kenneth Starr's probe into the Clintons' failed Whitewater land deal.

Craig Livingstone quit as White House personnel security director in 1996 amid congressional protests over his office's collection of FBI files on hundreds of Republicans from the Reagan and first Bush administration. Livingstone has maintained that he did not know that a subordinate ordered the FBI background summaries.

Whitewater prosecutors investigated his handling of the files, and also looked into whether Livingstone removed documents from White House lawyer Vincent Foster's office the day after his 1993 suicide.

Livingstone was never charged with wrongdoing, but he claimed his legal bills topped $235,000.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said Tuesday that he was entitled to about $34,000, for his defense during the investigation of the FBI files.

The court refused to order reimbursement for his fees in defending himself in a civil suit filed by the conservative group Judicial Watch over the FBI files, and penalized him for not adequately documenting his legal expenses. Link

However, it's maddening that tax payers have to pay that slug a single cent.