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WHITE HOUSE ISSUED THREATS
Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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Five Northrop Grumman employees were so intimidated by White
House threats of jail that one was nearly fired when she refused
to tell her own bosses about the administration's failure to turn
over thousands of e-mail messages under subpoena.
Newly obtained information shows the White House threatened to
have the five employees jailed after they found � and reported �
a glitch in the White House computer system that prevented the
discovery of more than 100,000 White House messages involving
campaign finance abuses, Monica Lewinsky, "Chinagate" and
"Filegate."
The threat came from Laura Crabtree, White House customer-support
branch chief, during a June 15, 1998, meeting in her office after
the discovery by Northrop Grumman of the computer glitch,
according to lawyers and others familiar with the growing
scandal. She told the employees the matter was "extremely
sensitive," warned them not to tell anyone about it without
explicit authorization and said the consequences would be a "jail
cell."
One of the Northrop Grumman employees, all of whom worked on a
technical-support contract for the Executive Office of the
President, was given 30 minutes to change her mind or be fired
for insubordination when she refused � as ordered by the White
House � to tell her immediate supervisors about the e-mail
problem.
That employee ultimately told the company's program manager she
would "rather be insubordinate than go to jail."
During the June 1998 White House meeting, Mrs. Crabtree asked
each of the five employees individually if they understood there
were consequences if they spoke out about the e-mail problem,
according to the sources.
The e-mail messages had been sought under subpoena by a federal
grand jury, the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate
Governmental Affairs Committee and the House Committee on
Government Reform as part of several ongoing investigations.
The employees confirmed in interviews Tuesday by government
reform panel lawyers a series of accusations made last month by
Sheryl L. Hall, chief of White House computer operations. She
told The Washington Times that administration officials covered
up the fact that e-mail from August 1996 to November 1998 had not
been surrendered as required by law.
Mrs. Hall said at least 4,000 of the messages related to Miss
Lewinsky, the former White House intern with whom President
Clinton admitted having a sexual relationship, while hundreds of
others included references to the White House's receipt of secret
FBI files; information on the selection of corporate executives
for overseas trade trips; and e-mail concerning campaign finance
activities in the 1996 election.
The glitch was first discovered in May 1998 when Northrop Grumman
employees traced a programming error on one of four White House
servers back to August 1996. The error involved e-mail to and
from 464 White House computer users. The problem was not fixed
until November 1998.
Mrs. Hall, who now works at the Treasury Department, said the
missing e-mail messages were discovered when Northrop Grumman
found that one of the four White House Lotus Notes e-mail servers
handling the mail for 500 computer users was mislabeled and a
White House search of e-mail messages under subpoena was
incomplete.
She said e-mail from that server was not properly managed over a
two-year period � meaning not collected by the mainframe computer
during the subpoena-record search.
The automated-records management system at the White House was
designed to scan e-mail "in-boxes" of every user once every
several minutes and transfer copies of incoming e-mail messages
to a mainframe computer, where they were stored and searched for
production in response to subpoenas, Freedom of Information
requests and other purposes.
The Northrop Grumman employees discovered that because one of the
e-mail servers was named "Mail2" instead of "MAIL2" and because
some components of the system were case-sensitive, the incoming
messages to the users of "Mail2" were not collected between
September 1996 and November 1998.
The effort to fix the problem initially was dubbed "Project X,"
but later changed to the "Mail2 Reconstruction Project."
The Northrop Grumman employees brought the mistake to the
attention of Mrs. Crabtree and Mark Lindsay, head of the Office
of Management and Administration. Mr. Lindsay, who participated
in the June 1998 meeting in Mrs. Crabtree's office by
speakerphone, and Mrs. Crabtree, who now works at the Labor
Department, have been unavailable for comment.
White House spokesman James Kennedy has said the administration
made "a good faith effort to respond in a timely fashion to all
requests for information sought under subpoena."
Northrop Grumman officials have referred inquiries in the matter
to the White House. The firm is a leading supplier of defense
electronics, system integration and information technology. The
White House contract was handled by its subsidiary, Logicon Inc.,
which specializes in information technologies, systems and
services.
On Wednesday, the House Committee on Government Reform asked
White House Counsel Beth Nolan for a meeting to discuss the
matter. The committee issued subpoenas Thursday for a number of
related documents and reports.
Rep. Dan Burton, Indiana Republican and panel chairman, told Miss
Nolan in a letter this week it appeared the White House had "
made a conscious decision to do nothing to solve the problem
posed by so many documents being improperly managed."
He also asked Attorney General Janet Reno why no effort had been
made to investigate the e-mail accusations.
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