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| May 10, 2000 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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Refuse to Testify About Criminal Release of Willey Documents in Filegate Lawsuit Judicial Watch To Move to Force Testimony (Washington, D.C.) Bill and Hillary Clinton claimed the so-called spousal privilege in refusing to provide answers to interrogatories to the Clinton-Gore White House in Judicial Watch's $90 million Filegate lawsuit. The question concerns the criminal release, in violation of the Privacy Act, of documents from Kathleen Willey's government files. A federal court judge had ruled that the release of these documents by Bill Clinton and other White House officials was a criminal violation of the Privacy Act. Nevertheless, in the interrogatory answer (which is attached), the Clinton-Gore White House admitted Bill Clinton discussed the release of the Willey documents with Hillary Clinton (in addition to James Carville, and others). "Judicial Watch believes this claim of spousal privilege in this context is bogus and will be challenging it in Court. In any event, it shows that the Clintons do not want to tell the truth about their obvious role in criminally violating Kathleen Willey's and others' privacy rights," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. Hillary Clinton is a defendant in the Filegate lawsuit. The Court has already ruled that the Kathleen Willey document release is circumstantial evidence that FBI files were improperly used. In another decision, issued today, the Court ordered Mrs. Clinton to certify that she actually searched for documents, setting forth in detail where she looked. The Court found it strange that her responses to Judicial Watch's document requests concerning Filegate referred only to looking for documents in her possession, and not in her custody or control. |
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