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| Mar 22, 2000 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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Judicial Watch Client Will Detail Clinton-Gore White House Threats and Obstruction To Hide Hundreds of Thousands Incriminating E-Mails Clinton-Gore E-Mails Relate to Filegate, Chinagate, Sale of Commerce Trade Mission Seats, and Lewinsky Scandals (Washington, D.C.) Betty Lambuth, a former contractor for the Clinton-Gore White House, will testify tomorrow to Congressman Dan Burton's Government Reform Committee on the burgeoning Clinton-Gore White House e-mail scandal. The hearing will take place at 10:00 a.m. in Room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Sheryl Hall, the former White House official who first alerted the public to the e-mail scandal, will attend the hearing, though is not yet scheduled to testify. Betty Lambuth oversaw the Northrop-Grumman contractor staff who managed e-mail systems for the Clinton-Gore White House. In May, 1998, Lambuth and her staff discovered that upwards of one million e-mails, due to computer issues, were not being searched by the Clinton-Gore White House in response to subpoenas and document requests. The e-mails contain incriminating information on virtually every Clinton-Gore scandal, including Filegate, Chinagate, the sale of Clinton Commerce Department trade mission seats for political contributions, Gore's involvement in illegal political fundraising, and, of course, the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Rather than fixing the problem and alerting the proper authorities, the Clinton-Gore White House threatened Lambuth and the other contractors with loss of their jobs, arrest, and jail. Judicial Watch has asked Judge Royce Lamberth, who is overseeing the civil Filegate litigation, to have the U.S. Marshals seize these e-mails and conduct an inquiry into this obstruction. The Clinton Justice Department, as noted in a letter sent yesterday to Janet Reno by Congressman Burton, continues to obstruct Judicial Watch's efforts to get at the bottom of the e-mail scandal. Judicial Watch has also been contacted by the Office of Independent Counsel and the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. But none of these offices would make their principals, Robert Ray and Fred Thompson, available to meet with these important witnesses and thus Judicial Watch has declined meetings with their offices. Only Dan Burton bothered to make himself available for such a meeting, showing a level of seriousness in getting at the truth. The Campaign Fundraising Task Force, run by the Janet Reno's Justice Department, is currently negotiating a meeting for Lambuth and Hall that includes the head of that office, Robert Conrad. |
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