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Ashcroft Faces Quandary Over Clinton Scandal Secrets
NewsMax ^ | January 22, 2002 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

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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To: backhoe
Some other poster made a very salient point a while back, that no sitting administration had ever approved of looking back for wrongdoings by its predecessors.

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.

121 posted on 01/23/2003 7:43:21 AM PST by Quilla
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To: rdavis84
CYA is in place, whether it is the lowliest janitor, to the President and his minions. If they release info on previous administrations, they must then have their information available after leaving office. GW does not want people to know him by his deeds, but by his words in public. Just like the #s 42-41 etc.
122 posted on 01/23/2003 10:47:52 AM PST by jeremiah (Sunshine scares all of them, for they all are cockaroaches)
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To: WatchNKorea
Don't count on Ashcroft leaking out anything cause his lips are sealed or else....
123 posted on 01/23/2003 11:09:47 AM PST by goldilucky
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To: MeeknMing

124 posted on 01/23/2003 11:47:07 AM PST by Cindy
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To: MeeknMing
"...Sometime in the next three months..."

AN "I'm really impatient" BUMP!!!

125 posted on 01/23/2003 12:51:47 PM PST by Pagey (Hillary Rotten is a Smug , Holier-Than-Thou Socialist)
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To: WatchNKorea
bump
126 posted on 01/23/2003 2:59:29 PM PST by timestax
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To: goldilucky
"Don't count on Ashcroft leaking out anything cause his lips are sealed..."

Is anyone surprised. (this calls for another bump in hopes that more lurkers will find this important thread)
Bttt

127 posted on 01/23/2003 6:28:28 PM PST by WatchNKorea
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To: timestax
bttt
128 posted on 01/23/2003 6:28:53 PM PST by WatchNKorea
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To: MeeknMing
If he doesn't allow these emails to be in the public domain I suggest he go to San Francisco and get a sex change and rename himself Janet Ashcroft.
129 posted on 01/23/2003 6:36:18 PM PST by John Lenin
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To: WatchNKorea
bump
130 posted on 01/23/2003 7:09:47 PM PST by goldilucky
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To: WatchNKorea
Yeah, one year later...
131 posted on 01/23/2003 9:35:41 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (9 out of 10 Republicans agree: Bush IS a Genius !!)
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To: John Lenin
...get a sex change and rename himself Janet Ashcroft.

lol !

132 posted on 01/23/2003 10:17:21 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (9 out of 10 Republicans agree: Bush IS a Genius !!)
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To: goldilucky
bttt
133 posted on 01/26/2003 1:56:53 AM PST by WatchNKorea
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To: MeeknMing
bttt
134 posted on 01/26/2003 1:57:15 AM PST by WatchNKorea
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To: WatchNKorea
bttt
135 posted on 01/26/2003 6:56:25 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (9 out of 10 Republicans agree: Bush IS a Genius !!)
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To: MeeknMing
RUN HILLARY RUN
136 posted on 01/26/2003 6:59:29 AM PST by Bill Davis FR
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To: MeeknMing
Zip Disk Facts: White House Missing E-Mail Scandal

A terrific thread from 04/01/2000 by SVTCobra.

137 posted on 01/26/2003 7:19:29 AM PST by mrsmith
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To: MeeknMing
I REALLY DO think conservatives must make clear to Bush that this evidence must go forward to trial.

Without sufficient heat, I don't know what will happen.
138 posted on 01/26/2003 7:36:38 AM PST by Quix (21st FREEPCARD FINISHED)
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To: mrsmith
Thanks !
139 posted on 01/26/2003 7:57:00 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (9 out of 10 Republicans agree: Bush IS a Genius !!)
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To: Quix
Yeah. But it seems like it's like CFR. He got slammed to NOT sign it or even veto it, and we all know what happened there. I don't know if he is really trying to change the tone in DC or what is really happening in the background on this clintoon scandal stuff. Aggravating in any case, tho...

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

140 posted on 01/26/2003 8:44:27 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (9 out of 10 Republicans agree: Bush IS a Genius !!)
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