Posted on 01/17/2002 10:38:33 AM PST by litany_of_lies
GOVERNMENT ADMITS 1.8 MILLION E-MAIL FOUND AS A RESULT OF JUDICIAL WATCH‚S EXPOSING HIDDEN CLINTON-GORE E-MAIL ˆ RESTORED AT A COST OF OVER $12 MILLION
E-MAILGATE UPDATE
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, said today that the government, in a court filing January 9, 2002, has admitted that it found 1,844,242 e-mail from the Clinton-Gore White House. This e-mail has never been searched in response to subpoenas and documents requests from Judicial Watch, Congress, and independent counsels. The e-mail were restored at a cost to taxpayers thus far of $12,066,346. The e-mail, which is in the custody of the National Archives, must now be searched pursuant to court orders.
Judicial Watch, which is prosecuting the Filegate $90 million class action lawsuit on behalf of those whose FBI files were misused by the Clinton White House, first exposed the e-mail scandal in early 2000 through its client Sheryl Hall, a former top computer official at the Clinton White House, who testified that incriminating e-mail concerning virtually all the Clinton-Gore scandals had never been produced as they should have in response to document requests and subpoenas. Another Judicial Watch client, former White House computer contractor Betty Lambuth, also testified (along with others) that high-level White House officials threatened Northrop Grumman White House computer contractors to keep quiet about the hidden e-mail or face jail and firing. These threats occurred in the middle of the Lewinsky scandal. The scandal was the subject of a months long evidentiary hearing that included the testimony of the late Charles Ruff, John Podesta, and Cheryl Mills. The court is in now considering whether to commence criminal contempt proceedings. A decision is expected soon.
„If not for Judicial Watch‚s heroic clients, this e-mail would have been lost forever. We are confident that the e-mail contains a treasure trove of information concerning Filegate, Chinagate, and, yes, even Enrongate. Any incriminating e-mail will be part of renewed Judicial Watch efforts to put the Clintons in jail,‰ stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
$25,935,456 Direct Public support
$13,297,454 51% Fundraising
$ 4,172,968 16% Educating the public
$ 1,240,262 4.7% Legal action providing representation or acting in capacity of Amicus
Larry is in the fund raising business, not the "exposing government corruption" one.
I agree, no argument on that score ... but untill some of the perps pay a price, be it civil lawsuit awards, or whatever, JW needs a hit ...
An example; remember that Clintonista worm over at Pentagon ... Kenneth Bacon?
The guy who released Linda Tripp's personnel file illegally?
That smarmy little piece of excrement walked away untouched.
LOL Since none of them seem to think that liitle ole constitution means anything anymore, a new law to make them follow the law might help out :-)
Yes, I was being silly
5% of funds spent on what they're supposed to be doing isn't quite down in Rainbow CoalitionPUSH territory, but it's totally unacceptable, which is why they haven't seen money from me in about 2 years.
"Prosecutable" is key, because, having studied law myself, I know there is a lot of lawbreaking which due to cost/benefit of prosecuting, standards of evidence and etc. just are routinely not prosecuted--letting God work things out... On provable really serious matters however, I'm confident Ashcroft will come through. And I say that as someone with libertarian views who sometimes really disagrees with the man.
Clinton was a corrupt small poor state governor who made it big, due to the inneptness of other Democrats at the time... How deep and wide his presidential corruptions were, are coming, and will come to light sooner or later. I suspect he will be seen as a Warren Harding of the Dems in a few years hence.
Republicans and conservatives we must have confidence in our American system and avoid conpiratorial thinking!
It seems that it is well documented that Clinton and his staff upon leaving the White House vandalized and/or destroyed U.S. Government property (property that belongs to the citizens of this country) with complete impunity.
And the Republicans did nothing !!!!
I can tell you from personal experience dealing with the DOJ,that John Ashcroft is no different than Reno.
I must admit, over virtually anyone in the administration, I really trust the honesty of John Ashcroft. I do not believe he is or will be a part of any coverup of PROSECUTABLE offenses done by or under the Clintonistas.
DEFLECTION ... common tactic of democRATS. Instead of addressing the points I made, you try to smear me.
I'll keep my money in my wallet.
Fine. But will you also do the same when it comes time to support the GOP and they STILL haven't investigated ANY of the serious crimes committed by the democRATS? Will you give them a pass even though they are the ones who ACTUALLY have the ball when it comes to CRIMINALLY investigating and prosecuting the clinton and DNC illegalities? If so, would you be any different than the democRATS we call "sheeple"?
Fine. Then here is a simple test case. Last year (on Ashcroft's watch) Riady (of Chinagate fame) told a court under a DOJ agreement (which says that if he lies he looses his plea bargain and might go to jail), that the Clinton and DNC campaign organizations did NOT return the ILLEGAL contributions that he gave them ... AS THEY CLAIMED. Now the DNC and Clinton people already publically admitted that the money they got from Riady WAS ILLEGAL ... which is why they went to great lengths to say PUBLICALLY that they have returned all that money. So IF they did NOT return the money (i.e., the DOJ finds NO PAPER TRAIL indicating they did) shouldn't there be a trial underway charging them with a rather major violation of the law? And IF there is a paper trail indicating that they did return the money, then shouldn't Riady's plea agreement already be REVOKED and he be a fugitive from justice? Either way, someone should now be in jail. Show me how there wouldn't be enough evidence to prosecute in either case. Or show me that there IS an investigation of this matter underway. Otherwise, I'm left wondering if Ashcroft is a crook TOO.
Almost all of the criminal convictions which resulted from Watergate came at the end of the scandal. When John Dean became convinced that he would have to tell the truth, the lies of others came into clear focus. Eventually, as I recall, about 60 people were convicted of various crimes.
I am not an expert on the statute of limitations, but I believe that the clock keeps running if perjury or obstruction of justice occurs.
Klayman was responsible for identifying the specific people who should have known whose email was being searched and how it was searched in response to many subpeonas. Money supplied by me and others was used to conduct depositions which clarified that government workers and contractors had been intimidated into misrepresenting the results of email searches. Court orders were obtained to protect the back-up tapes of the emails in question and to recover the emails.
When the Clinton government made claims that the process could only proceed very slowly, Klayman used funds supplied by me and others to prove to a court that the government had not instituted the most appropriate and timely process for recovering the emails. This resulted, I believe, in the court taking over the process of recovering the emails. Only now are the emails themselves, which were the object of subpeonas issued years ago by Judicial Watch and others, available as a result of the work of Judicial Watch.
Just as happened in the Watergate case, I expect that there will be some key people who will be incriminated by these emails. If several of them decide to risk the Ron Brown/Vince Foster treatment, they will be able to incriminate higher ups.
The criminality of the Clinton gang has been so widespread and so deep that I believe that there will eventually be hundreds of convictions for perjury and obstruction of justice.
Check out these statements by Bob Barr who speaks from personal experience !!!!!!!!
Republicans and conservatives we must have confidence in our American system and avoid conpiratorial thinking!
Not unfortunate. It is an INDICTMENT of the Ashcroft DOJ. THEY should be the ones doing it. Why aren't they?
The problem here is having the government investigate the government - see a problem? (Remember the Waco investigation for example). You'll never get the whole truth. I think they all have too much dirty laundry and will cover for each other. We need an investigation done by those outside of the government, such as Judicial Watch.
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