From: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_sperry_news/20000803_xnspy_us_attorne.shtml WorldNetDaily SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2000 U.S. attorney sat on e-mail threat Told court charges unfounded, though witness confirmed them in phone call By Paul Sperry � 2000 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON -- A U.S. attorney fighting a lawsuit against the White House dropped a Clinton appointee from his witness list after she told him in a phone call that White House officials threatened workers to keep the Project X e-mail scandal under wraps. Just a few weeks later, the Justice Department lawyer -- James J. Gilligan -- signed a court pleading arguing to dismiss Judicial Watch witness' charges of threats as "unfounded." Gilligan may find himself in his own legal troubles over the failure to disclose the serious and relevant information to the court. Kathleen Gallant, the witness Gilligan thought would be friendly to the White House's case, instead testified earlier this week for Judicial Watch. She said Gilligan called her in late February at her office in Chantilly, Va., where she works for high-tech contractor CACI Inc. Gallant, who headed the White House's data-processing division until October 1998, said Gilligan asked her if she cared to be deposed by the defense. After she told Gilligan he might not like what she had to say -- and proceeded to tell him -- he never contacted her again, Gallant said. She said that in their roughly 90-minute phone call, she told Gilligan that top Clinton aide Mark Lindsay ordered her in June 1998 to keep Project X a secret and not even to record anything about the two-year gap in West Wing e-mails, which were under subpoena by Judicial Watch and federal investigators at the time. She also informed Gilligan that White House computer contractors told her in June 1998 that Lindsay and a close confidant of his threatened the technicians to keep quiet. Gallant said Gilligan took notes during their conversation. Gilligan never deposed Gallant. Then on March 6, responding to a Feb. 19 declaration about the threats from former White House computer manager Sheryl Hall, he argued in a pleading to U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth that the charges are "factually unfounded." The pleading also calls the allegations "offensive." Nowhere in the 18-page filing or any of its supplements does Gilligan disclose Gallant's corroboration of the threats -- which he had heard only weeks earlier. The threats are key to Judicial Watch's case, because they bear on whether the White House is acting in good faith in turning over subpoenaed evidence in the discovery phase of the public-interest law firm's $90 million class-action Filegate suit against the White House. Plaintiffs are hoping to find relevant information in the trove of missing e-mail, which still hasn't been searched. Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman has asked Lamberth to order Gilligan to turn over his notes from his February phone interview. He says they may show the extent to which Gilligan knew of the details of the Project X threats and secrecy before he filed his pleading. Asked how many pages of notes he took, Gilligan told WorldNetDaily: "That's for me to know and Larry Klayman to find out." Are you concerned? "No comment," he snapped. As a U.S. attorney, Gilligan is held to a higher standard of disclosure than a personal defense attorney -- such as the first couple's lawyer David Kendall -- and is obligated to tell the court such information. (Kendall attended some of this week's hearings.) Failure to do so is not just malpractice, but possibly a crime, legal experts say, and could get Gilligan in very hot water. Paul Sperry is Washington bureau chief for WorldNetDaily. "Let us make man in our > image." (Genesis 1:26) <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. 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