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 For Immediate Release
Aug 18, 1998 Contact: Press Office
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Larry Potts, former head of the Criminal Division at FBI during Filegate, not questioned by Starr

Judicial Watch finds little evidence that Starr had thoroughly investigated Filegate

POTTS REFUSES TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER HE AND LENZNER ARE INVESTIGATING STARR, JUDICIAL WATCH, TRIPP, WILLEY, AND OTHERS

JUDICIAL WATCH TO SEEK STIFF SANCTIONS

Today, Judicial Watch took the deposition of Larry Potts, former head of the FBI's Criminal Division during Travelgate and Filegate, and now a high official with Terry Lenzner's IGI International, one of the private investigators hired by President Clinton to investigate material witnesses and others who have challenged the Administration.

During the deposition, Larry Klayman, Chairman of Judicial Watch, asked if Potts had ever been questioned by Starr in the Filegate and Travelgate investigations. As was revealed during the depositions of many others in Judicial Watch's 90 million dollar class action Filegate suit, the answer was "no." Recently, Judicial Watch learned that Mack McLarty, White House Chief of Staff during Filegate, was not questioned, nor was Terry Good, the Director of the White House Office of Records Management who stored many of Livingstone's FBI files and who was asked to call up files on Tripp, Willey and Lewinsky for use by the White House Counsel's office. Previously, Hillary Clinton was questioned by Starr for only 9 minutes.

"It is clear that Starr has been fixated on Whitewater and Lewinsky. He has not thoroughly investigated Filegate and Travelgate, two of the most serious scandals in the Clinton Administration. Contrary to the calls of some Republicans, like Arlen Specter, Starr should not report on Filegate and Travelgate until he conducts and completes a thorough investigation," stated Larry Klayman.

Finally, Potts refused to answer any questions about whom he has been in contact with at the FBI during his tenure at IGI, as well as whether IGI has obtained materials from Linda Tripp's Pentagon file. He also refused to identify who IGI is investigating, including Judge Starr, Larry Klayman, federal judges and others. Judicial Watch will move for stiff sanctions to force the testimony.



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