Posted on 01/22/2002 2:36:58 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
NewsMax.com
Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2002 12:08 a.m. EST
Ashcroft Faces Quandary Over Clinton Scandal Secrets
Sometime in the next three months Attorney General John Ashcroft is expected to decide whether to make public still-secret evidence in an array of Clinton-Gore scandals, including Whitewater, Filegate, Chinagate and the Monica Lewinsky imbroglio.
The evidence comes in the form of nearly 2 million recovered e-mails that Justice Department lawyers will review with attorneys for the former president and vice president.
In a Jan. 9 filing with U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth, the Bush Justice Department revealed that Corbett Technologies of Alexandria, Va., had completed the process known as the "Tape Restoration Project."
"From 189 failed [e-mail] tapes, 53,149 unique e-mails were restored and added to the TRP. In total, the number of unique TRP e-mails is 1,844,242," the DOJ said.
Nearly half the 189 tapes, 71, were blank.
"White House whistle-blowers who have talked to people who have seen this e-mail believe it contains incriminating evidence," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told NewsMax.com Monday.
The e-mails cover critical periods in the late 1990s and were under subpoena by Congress and the independent counsel. Sources familiar with their contents have described them as potentially very damaging.
Judicial Watch first revealed the White House e-mail scandal in 1999, when then-Clinton administration computer expert Sheryl Hall told the legal watchdog group that critical e-mail evidence was being withheld.
After Hall's revelation, another White House computer expert testified he was told to keep quiet or there would be "a jail cell with your name on it."
The restored electronic files also cover illicit Commerce Department trade missions in which tickets allegedly were sold to corporate donors to the Democratic National Committee, and may even contain evidence on Enrongate.
One odd coincidence: Attorney Earl Silbert, who now represents Enron CEO Ken Lay, also represented Clinton Chinagate kingpin James Riady as well as Northrop-Grumman, one of the independent contractors hired by the Clinton White House to help with e-mail retrieval.
"Now the question is will the Department of Justice under Ashcroft divulge what they find?" Fitton said.
A recent Bush executive order shielding materials of past administrations from discovery could be invoked in this case, he warned.
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True, but how many predecessors have inserted themselves so boldly against the policies of their successors. Bill Clinton, just after blaming Americans for the terrorist attacks of September 11, celebrated the anniversary of same by joking about blowing his saxaphone on Letterman's show. Clinton, by leading the democrats' attack against this administration for political advantages, is underming the unity of these United States in our war against terror. He should be exposed as the traitor he is.
AN "I'm really impatient" BUMP!!!
Is anyone surprised. (this calls for another bump in hopes that more lurkers will find this important thread)
Bttt
lol !
A terrific thread from 04/01/2000 by SVTCobra.
I guess I might as well link a related thread to this now?...
Breaking: US Congress Subpoena Orders Ashcroft
To Release Clinton Evidence – Thread 2
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b9a84661c0d.htm
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