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White House E-Mails Investigated
By Kalpana Srinivasan
Associated Press Writer
Thursday, March 23, 2000; 1:21 p.m. EST
WASHINGTON �� The Justice Department has launched a criminal
inquiry into White House computer breakdowns that made it
impossible to search thousands of incoming e-mails in response to
law enforcement and congressional subpoenas, court papers
revealed today.
The investigation, by Justice's campaign fund-raising task force,
will focus on the missing 1996-99 e-mails and allegations that
White House officials threatened contract employees with
retaliation if they revealed the problem, the papers said.
The task force, a House committee and plaintiffs in a civil suit
brought by the conservative legal organization Judicial Watch had
sought e-mails on campaign fund-raising irregularities and other
matters. The task force has been conducting an ongoing
investigation into fundraising.
The papers were filed in the civil action, seeking a delay in the
administration's response on the e-mails so that the case
wouldn't interfere with the criminal investigation.
The White House said last Friday that the computer breakdowns
that prevented the searches were "entirely unintentional." A
former White House contractor has said in court papers that she
was warned not to reveal the e-mail problems.
The contractor, Betty Lambuth, said a subordinate told her some
of the e-mails deal with "Vice President Al Gore's involvement in
campaign fund-raising controversies" and "the sale of Clinton
Commerce Department trade mission seats in exchange for campaign
contributions."
"The task force has begun an investigation into whether subpoenas
issued to (the White House) were fully complied with and whether
persons were threatened with retaliation in order to prevent the
existence of the affected e-mails from becoming known to the task
force," said a court affidavit by Robert J. Conrad Jr., chief of
the campaign fund-raising prosecution force.
Reconstructing the incoming e-mails from 1996-1999 would involve
a costly and time-consuming undertaking: up to $3 million and up
to two years, White House counsel Beth Nolan wrote Friday to Rep.
Dan Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform Committee.
� Copyright 2000 The Associated Press
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