(re the FBI files) The White House acknowledged this bureaucratic snafu and apologized for it. Nonetheless, "Filegate" was added to Kenneth Starr's list of investigations.
Before the story was put to rest, and FBI agent told the Senate Judiciary Committee staff that his background check of Craig Livingstone was given his job as head of White House personnel security because his mother and I had been friends. In fact Mrs. Livingstone and I didn't know one another, but we had been photographed together once in a large group at a White House Christmas party.
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Sure, Hillary. Craig just appeared on the doorstep, a former bar bouncer and dirty trickster, and it was a good idea to make him head of WH security. Security was really important in the Clinton administration.