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| Sep 20, 2000 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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Backup Tape Computer Data from Craig Livingstone’s Office Said Irretrievable By White House Clinton-Gore White House Had Planned to Destroy These Hundreds of Other Computer Back-Up Tapes (Washington, DC) The Clinton-Gore White House claimed last week that computer back-up tapes of computers in the White House office that improperly obtained FBI files were “unreadable.” The admission came in the ongoing $90 million Filegate class action lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch on behalf of the former Reagan and Bush administration staffers and others whose FBI files were illegally obtained by this White House. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a defendant in this lawsuit. The Clinton-Gore White House had been ordered to search the back-up tapes, which store the contents of desk top and other personal computers, of the Office of Personnel Security – the office which obtained the FBI files in question and was run by former bar bouncer D. Craig Livingstone. In allegedly trying to read the tapes, the Clinton-Gore White House has claimed that “the tapes themselves are now unreadable, absent the use of data recovery techniques of which EOP is not currently capable.” The tapes are for the computers of Mari Anderson and Edward Hughes, two assistants who worked for Livingstone. Mari Anderson had admitted that she and others in the office (Craig Livingstone and political operative Anthony Marceca) knew that they wrongly were obtaining the FBI files of Republicans. Importantly, Livingstone claims that Mari Anderson did his computer word processing for him. Through White House whistleblower Sheryl Hall, Judicial Watch discovered earlier this year that the Clinton-Gore White House was planning to destroy these and hundreds of other back-up tapes of staffers, even though the tapes were being sought in Court. (Ms. Hall was also the individual who uncovered the ongoing Clinton-Gore White House e-mail scandal.) “This stinks to high Heaven. The Clinton-Gore White House planned to destroy these tapes and now these Filegate tapes are ‘unreadable.’ We’ll be asking the Court to conduct a criminal contempt inquiry,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. |
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