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| For Immediate Release | |
| Jan 25, 2000 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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President Clinton Fails to Prevent Questioning of His Private Investigator New Eyewitness Also To Be Deposed: Witnessed White House Official Using FBI Files At Home (Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch, who is representing those individuals whose FBI files were misused in Filegate, yesterday received permission in court orders to question both Bill and Hillary Clinton's private investigator and an eyewitness who saw a White House official using FBI files at home – and loading them onto his laptop computer. The new depositions come in the ongoing $90 million Filegate class action lawsuit filed against Hillary Clinton, the Clinton White House, the FBI and others. The lawsuit is on behalf of those former Reagan and Bush staffers (and others) whose FBI files were improperly obtained by the Clinton White House. President Clinton had personally intervened in the Filegate lawsuit to try to prevent his private investigator Larry Potts, who once was a top official at the FBI, from answering questions about Potts and his investigative firm IGI's contacts with Bill and Hillary Clinton, James Carville, Sidney Blumenthal, and the FBI. Bill Clinton also didn't want Potts to answer if he or his firm had received documents from White House files or from Linda Tripp's personnel file. Clinton had tried to assert privileges to prevent answers to these and other questions, but these assertions were largely overruled in yesterday's court ruling. The Clinton White House and Mrs. Clinton had also tried to prevent the deposition of Leslie Gail Kennedy, the ex-wife of William Kennedy, a former lawyer with the Clinton White House. Kennedy had told Judicial Watch that she witnessed William Kennedy loading FBI files information onto a laptop computer on the kitchen table at their home. Yesterday, the court gave Judicial Watch leave to depose Ms. Kennedy. Linda Tripp had testified that Mr. Kennedy, who had been a law partner of Hillary Clinton at the Rose Law Firm, had the FBI files of Republicans in his White House office and was involved in the uploading of FBI files onto computers at the orders of Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Court rulings and other information on the Filegate case are available on the Judicial Watch Internet site at www.judicialwatch.org. |
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