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Did White House smear FBI agent?
Former Filegate investigator presses case
By Stephan Archer
� 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
In a lawsuit related to Filegate, a
former special agent for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation is pressing his
case that a White House "smear
campaign" destroyed his credibility
and forced him into early retirement.
Dennis Sculimbrene retired from the
FBI on Aug. 2, 1996, following an
alleged smear campaign, in which
former White House Counsel Jack
Quinn, former Special Counsel Lanny
Davis and former FBI General Counsel
Howard Shapiro allegedly conspired to
discredit Sculimbrene's undercover
work concerning David Craig
Livingstone, the director of the White
House Office of Personnel Security and
key figure in the Filegate scandal.
Sculimbrene particularly implicates
first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Filegate encompasses Livingstone's
illegal collection of over 900 FBI
documents about various appointees
from the Reagan and Bush
administrations. Although the first
lady had earlier denied knowing
Livingstone, Sculimbrene's
investigation points directly to her
involvement in Filegate.
In Sculimbrene's 1993 investigation, he
interviewed then-White House Counsel
Bernard Nussbaum, who linked
Livingstone's hiring to the first lady.
Sculimbrene then wrote a
memorandum for inclusion in
Livingstone's FBI background
investigation file, stating, "Bernard
Nussbaum, counsel to the president,
advised that he has known the
appointee (Livingstone) 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. ..."
More than three years later, in July
1996, Shapiro discovered the
memorandum, and alerted the White
House Counsel's Office to its existence,
as it contained information damaging
to both the first lady and the president.
Shapiro then notified Congress and the
Independent Counsel's Office about the
letter, since they were investigating
Filegate. After two FBI agents sent by
Shapiro were unable to persuade
Sculimbrene to retract the
memorandum, the alleged smear
campaign began.
In response to Sculimbrene's lawsuit,
filed by Larry Klayman's Judicial
Watch, defendants Quinn and Shapiro
are asking to be dismissed from the
suit, claiming they are protected by the
Civil Service Reform Act -- which
governs disputes regarding
employment relationships between
federal employees and their respective
agencies. Judicial Watch believes
Sculimbrene's claims do not arise out of
a dispute concerning CSRA, and that
Quinn's and Shapiro's requests for
dismissal from the case should be
denied.
As part of the smear campaign against
Sculimbrene, Quinn allegedly sent a
bogus letter to FBI Director Louis J.
Freeh in July 1996, accusing
Sculimbrene of falsifying the
Livingstone memorandum. Another
co-conspirator in alleged defamation
was Lanny Davis, a surrogate and
spokesman for the Clinton White
House. Appearing on CNN's "Crossfire"
in July 1996, and again on CNBC's
"Rivera Live" the following August,
Davis accused Sculimbrene of falsifying
his then-three-year-old memorandum
of Livingstone's ties with the first lady.
Four months after appearing on "Rivera
Live," Davis was formally hired by the
Clinton White House as special counsel
and joined Quinn in the White House
Counsel's Office.
Although the alleged smear campaign
against Sculimbrene was due, in part,
to his interview with Nussbaum,
another White House scandal taking
shape at that time has bearing also. In
May 1993, one month after the
Nussbaum interview, the White House
announced that its Travel Office staff
was being fired for alleged financial
improprieties.
"Travelgate," as the new scandal was
popularly known, became the subject of
congressional hearings, as well as an
investigation by Independent Counsel
Kenneth Starr.
Soon after the firings, Sculimbrene was
walking by the Travel Office when he
observed that the office itself was open
and that a number of unidentified
people were going through files and
throwing them away.
More than two years after witnessing
the strange events in the Travel Office,
and following an accident that nearly
took his life, Sculimbrene testified as a
defense witness at former Travel Office
Director Billy Ray Dale's criminal trial.
His testimony helped clear Dale of all
charges against him and gave both the
FBI and the White House unfavorable
press. However, due to the testimony,
Sculimbrene was the object of repeated
pranks. The current lawsuit names
Quinn, Shapiro, Davis and five
unnamed defendants in regard to these
pranks as well.
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