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found in the filgate section at www.judicialwatch.org
DECLARATION OF M. DENNIS SCULIMBRENE
I, M. Dennis Sculimbrene, wish to make the following statement:
I was a 23-year veteran Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI). For the last 11 years of my FBI career
(1985-1996), I was assigned to The White House where I performed
background checks on White House personnel. I was first detailed
to The White House in 1980. I thus worked in The White House
during 4 separate administrations -- Carter, Reagan, Bush, and
Clinton. I was the senior FBI Special Agent in the White House
when the Clinton Administration commenced.
A March, 1993 report (Exhibit 1 hereto) memorializes an interview
I conducted with White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum, as part of
a background check on Craig Livingstone, Director of the Office
of Personnel Security (OPS). The report states in pertinent part:
The following investigation was conducted by SA M. Dennis
Sculimbrene regarding DAVID CRAIG LIVINGSTONE on 3/1 -3/99...
BERNARD NUSSBAUM, Counsel to the President, advised that he has
known the appointee for the period of time that he has been
employed in the new administration. He had come highly
recommended to him by HILLARY CLINTON, who has known his mother
for a longer period of time....
This report or "insert" is consistent with my standard practice
of accurately reflecting and reporting upon investigative
interviews in my official FBI reports. Following FBI procedures,
which prohibit agents from maintaining notes of interviews (if
the information was not derogatory) for more than ninety days, I
did not maintain handwritten notes of my interview with Nussbaum.
Because potentially conflicting information was uncovered during
the course of Livingstone�s background investigation, I was
required by FBI procedures to interview Livingstone several
times. During the course of one of these interviews, Craig
Livingstone told me of a personal connection between himself, his
mother, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Contemporaneous notes from my
1993 desk calendar corroborate and reflect Livingstone�s account
of his relationship to Hillary Clinton. The purpose of making
this note was to advise my supervisor.
After completing Craig Livingstone�s background check, Associate
White House Counsel William H. Kennedy III called me to his
office to discuss Livingstone. Kennedy indicated his personal
concerns with Livingstone and asked me for an opinion regarding
Livingstone�s continued employment. I offered an opinion, albeit
hesitatingly because my obligations did not include making
recommendations. I told Kennedy that Jackie Dinwiddie, who had
been Director of the White House Office of Personnel Security
during the Carter Administration (then known as the Security
Office), was interested in Livingstone�s position. Kennedy
inferred to me that he was "stuck" with Craig Livingstone as
Director of OPS. I inferred that Mrs. Clinton wanted Livingstone
for the position.
In early March, 1993, William H. Kennedy, David Watkins (Director
of White House Management and Administration) and Jeff Eller
(Deputy White House Communications Director) attempted to
question me about the backgrounds and political views of the
staff of the White House Travel Office. Because the Privacy Act
prohibited me from revealing information about specific persons,
I advised Kennedy, Eller, and Watkins that, based upon my memory
of previous background investigations, I was not aware of any
derogatory information about any persons employed in the White
House Travel Office.
I notified my supervisor about being questioned by Kennedy, Eller
and Watkins. I suggested to my supervisor that The Clinton White
House was looking for an excuse to fire the Travel Office
employees and that the FBI would be "used" to provide an excuse.
Travel Office employees were fired May 19, 1993.
It had been a long-standing policy that FBI agents detailed to
The White House interact routinely with OPS personnel. Beginning
with the Reagan Administration, I also had a mail box in OPS,
where I would receive copies of requests for FBI background
investigations sought by OPS. This procedure avoided unnecessary
investigations sought by OPS. In May, 1993 I was advised that the
long-standing White House policy of providing me with "courtesy"
copies of requests for FBI background files was to be ended and
that I was to avoid liaison activity with OPS. My mail box in OPS
was no longer used. The practice of providing me with copies of
OPS requests for FBI background files would not be resumed until
late fall-early winter of 1994.
During the time from May, 1993 to late fall-early winter, 1994, I
understand that hundreds of FBI files were improperly requested
by The Clinton White House. If standard prior procedure had been
followed, I would have been informed, through documents at least,
that the FBI files of former Reagan and Bush staffers and others
were being improperly requested during this time period.
During Craig Livingstone�s tenure as OPS director, particularly
during the first year, there were instances when I observed the
OPS office unoccupied and the door to its vault, which contained
FBI files and other confidential government information, wide
open. During Livingstone�s tenure as OPS Director, I complained
to my supervisors about the management of OPS, delays in the
clearance process for White House employees and the fact that
many persons, including employees, were being given access to The
White House complex without proper passes.
I testified truthfully at Billy Ray Dale�s "Travelgate" trial in
November, 1995 � a trial which resulted with Mr. Dale being
acquitted. Part of my testimony detailed how, after the
Travelgate controversy had broken, I had witnessed unknown
individuals in the Travel Office going through files and throwing
items away, some of which appeared to be official documents.
Shortly before I testified in the Dale Trial, White House
Presidential Personnel requested that I submit my name as a
candidate for Inspector General of Veteran� s Administration. My
name was officially submitted. Shortly after I testified as a
Defense witness for Billy Dale, former director of the White
House Travel Office, I was advised that I was no longer a viable
candidate. Furthermore, I became the subject of an investigation
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation�s (FBI) Office of
Professional Responsibility Inquiry (OPR) based on one anonymous
letter which was officially discredited. I was so emotionally
distraught that I had to take two weeks sick leave because of my
emotional reaction to this unwarranted and baseless
investigation.
When I returned, I attempted an informal discussion with my new
supervisor. I requested that informal reasonable accommodations
granted in October 1994 when I returned to work after a skull
fracture in January 1994 be continued at that time. At the time
of the informal discussion with my new supervisor (in April,
1996), I still I suffered from cognitive and physical deficits.
Yet the consequence of this conversation was not the continuance
of the informal reasonable accommodation for my medical
condition, but the removal of all work assignments, on April 24,
1996.
Press reports were leaked about my testimony with the U.S. Senate
Judiciary Committee, in late June, 1996. One of the questions
asked of me pertained to my assignment at the time. I answered
truthfully that I had none. The FBI had not assigned me any work
since April. After my testimony, they attempted to assign me work
that conflicted with the recommendation of their own
psychologist.
On June 28, 1996, my White House Pass was canceled, without
written reason, although I requested such. My supervisor at the
time verbally advised that my pass was being revoked for my own
safety and because my presence "made the First Family
uncomfortable." I would note that a request by The White House
for a background reinvestigation regarding myself was made after
I was removed from The White House.
I have no other explanation for the events that I have witnessed
and been subjected to other than retaliation for my testimony at
the Dale Trial and unwillingness to change truthful testimony
that, among other things, links First Lady Hillary Clinton to the
hiring of Craig Livingstone and Filegate.
On July 16, 1996, two FBI agents arrived at my home. The FBI
agents began to question me about the three-year-old insert
(Exhibit 1) memorializing my interview with Bernard Nussbaum.
During the course of the interview, the FBI agents asked me
approximately thirty times if I had any notes of my
three-year-old interview with Bernard Nussbaum. I repeatedly
informed them that I had not maintained these notes, as per FBI
procedures.
Also during the course of the interview, the FBI agents
repeatedly told me that President Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton
and former White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum had contradicted
my three-year-old insert (Exhibit 1). The FBI agents pitted my
credibility against the credibility of President Clinton, Hillary
Rodham Clinton and White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum
approximately four times. While the stated purpose of the
interview was to "clarify" certain issues, my efforts to provide
clarification were rebuffed by the FBI agents.
Based on their actions and on my experience as a law enforcement
officer, I felt the FBI agents were sent to my home and attempted
to intimidate me.
Based on my experience as a FBI agent, and on my considerable
training in security matters, it is considered a violation of
established law and procedure to remove an individual�s FBI
background file, summaries, or raw data from government premises.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and
correct.
Executed on August ___, 1999 _____________________________
M. Dennis Sculimbrene
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