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| Mar 19, 2000 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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Interview on ABC's "This Week" Confirms Judicial Watch's Criticism That He Did Not Question Key Witnesses, And His Refusal To Meet Personally With White House E-Mail Whistleblowers Ray Also Reveals FBI Files Still In The Clinton-Gore White House Judicial Watch To Sue Ray To Disclose Reasons For Inaction on Filegate (Washington, D.C.) Today, Robert Ray, the Ken Starr deputy who assumed the mantle of Independent Counsel when Starr left, and a lifelong Democrat until his recent "conversion" to Independent, was questioned on ABC's "This Week" by Sam Donaldson and George Will about his recently "completed" Filegate Report. The responses to the questions confirmed the worst fears of Judicial Watch and the American people. First, Donaldson asked if it was true, as Judicial Watch had disclosed, that Ray has not spoken with Linda Tripp about her sworn testimony that she observed FBI files being loaded onto White House computers, and overheard conversations linking this to Hillary Clinton. Ray refused to answer the question by giving a non-response. Second, Donaldson asked if it was true, as Judicial Watch has disclosed, that Ray refused to meet personally with Sheryl Hall and Betty Lambuth, the two whistleblowers who revealed that The White House had suppressed up to 1,000,000 e-mail, [and hidden about 457 disc drives] containing incriminating evidence on Filegate and the other Clinton-Gore scandals. In addition, Hall and Lambuth testified to Judicial Watch and the Court that anyone who spoke about this obstruction of justice was threatened by officials in the Clinton-Gore White House with jail. In response to Donaldson's questions, Ray admitted that he had not spoken with the whistleblowers before precipitously issuing his Filegate Report. Third, George Will asked if the FBI files of Republicans and others were still in the Clinton-Gore White House. In response, Ray admitted that they are still "in a vault" in The White House. Tomorrow, Judicial Watch will file suit against Ray to obtain documentation to find out why the Independent Counsel has rolled over to the Clinton-Gore White House, and not done its job. Could it be based on Attorney General Janet Reno's offer not to investigate charges of wrongdoing by Starr, Ray and their fellow prosecutors, if Ray closed out his investigations? As reflected in other recent Judicial Watch press releases, this proposed "quid pro quo" deal was first reported by The Washington Post's Roberto Suro. |
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