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.
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Bush Administration
Clinton Scandals
But once a lie has been placed in the books as fact, even tenuously, no following administration is likely to discredit it;
probably not even when it would benefit them in the short term.
Exception when the lie was tactical and can be disclosed reasonably quickly by the same person who told it,
(as in, well, yes, Saudi Arabia might have mentioned wanting us out but we didn't want to shake the coalition up...)
And please believe me, I DO have that clue.
For my part I don't like his position on immigration or his all-too-GOP-like insistance on pretending DC is bipartisan.
Otherwise, I'd give him a strong B to B+.
of course, it was an accident, caused by one man's insane belief in God, with illegal, child molesting, gun nut, tendancies.
Not at all the fault of the officer who needed fifty back up goons to knock on the front door, or on the helicopters and tanks roaming the neighborhood, or the screaming rabbits and howling press releases.
None of that stuff, just an accidental bit of self defense.
No one would have died at Ruby Ridge either, if only that dog had been on a leash.
While there is no doubt that the FBI and ATF were involved in these murders,anybody who says Delta Force was is a damn liar.
No, pete. It was admitted that Delta Force was there, "as observers only."
Do I smell obstruction of justice?
There is a huge difference between being a observer,and being a participant in murder,don't you think? The statement I was refuting was the one stating they had been involved in these murders.
This boils down to ONE thing,.. the Dems are frantic because there isn't anything to beat Bush up on. His is doing it ethically ( a concept unkown to the Clinton's ) and quiet expeditiously.
This Democratic scandal.. is only going to be about a very large company trying to get out quick enough to make some dough for the good ole boys'... while screwing over the people who did the REAL work, the layman.
Should be fun to watch. If you enjoy watching nothing. (I do not mean the people/workers who just got screwed out of their retirements and investments.. that is wrong.. criminally wrong, and I pray with all my heart that the higher ups involved will share some cell time with Charles Manson) But the whole reason it is even being directed at the White House..is plain and simple PAYBACK!!! And,.. "We don't like you, the Public does,.. so we GOTTA do something"....
They are making horses ass's of themselves. Hypocrits too. I think this time,...the American Public has been paying a little more attention to it all..and it just won't wash.
The Dems can say good bye to the Senate!!
SHEEEESH...MUD
A FReeper friend of mine got an autographed copy of it for me. I am having as hard a time reading it as I did "Year of the Rat"
Chase; I will bet you 100.00 against a hole in a doughnut, the KKKlintoons will skate on this matter, just like they have on any other accusations.
They must have an album full of some very interesting pictures.
Regards
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