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| Aug 2, 2000 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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(Washington, D.C.) The Clinton-Gore Administration's web of deceit over "missing e-mail" connected to misuse of government files on former Reagan and Bush officials and others is finally beginning to unravel in a court of law following years of sleight-of-hand maneuvering. Last month, Judicial Watch demonstrated in sworn testimony and court-ordered technology demonstrations that a planned, concerted effort to keep the court and public from knowing that many thousands of subpoenaed electronic documents were missing. Later, they obstructed and delayed efforts to copy and retrieve them from accumulated data tapes as part of Judicial Watch's $90-million Filegate lawsuit. In the new evidentiary hearing that began Monday, current and former White House workers are relating how they feared for their jobs and physical freedom when higher-up Clinton-Gore operatives directly threatened them with jail if they revealed the scope of the missing e-mail problem or any other matter connected to their retrieval, which had been dubbed "Project X". "This is no small matter," Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman said. "Some of the e-mails are connected to the misuse of government files, a clear violation of the Privacy Act, while others are connected to other illegal actions, such as illegal campaign fund-raising activities by Bill Clinton and Al Gore, the selling of Commerce Department trade mission seats and Clinton's sordid behavior towards women. "These matters must be pursued. They have harmed innocent lives and corrupted our government. We can't just let them drop because Clinton's exit from office is near," he said. The evidentiary hearing, at the Federal Courthouse in Washington, DC, is being presided over by Judge Royce C. Lamberth, who again became an object of attack by the Clinton-Gore White House when he ruled against them by courageously deciding that pre-trial evidentiary hearings must be held. |
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