-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! ALL THE PRESIDENT'S SCANDALS E-mail probe gets delayed Barr: Justice 'hiding the truth,' 'opening a sham investigation' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- By Julie Foster � 2000 WorldNetDaily.com Although due to respond yesterday to allegations that White House e-mails relating to "filegate" were wrongfully withheld, Justice Department attorneys defending the White House were granted a private hearing to discuss a stay of the case while a new criminal investigation begins -- an investigation at least one lawmaker calls "a sham." Judicial Watch, a non-profit legal foundation, filed a civil suit several years ago against the administration for improperly obtaining 900 FBI files on former Republican administration staff. The $90 million suit led to the disclosure of thousands of missing e-mails pertaining to the files, as well as many other scandals of the Clinton administration. During yesterday's hearing, Justice Department lawyers requested the case be delayed until after the department's separate criminal investigation into the matter is concluded. Saying he would not grant "an open-ended, indefinite stay" of the civil case, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth scheduled a private meeting with the parties next Thursday to discuss the request. Larry Klayman, president of Judicial Watch, argued that "even a stay of one day would be inappropriate," because the Justice Department is hiding the e-mails "to get past the next election," according to an Associated Press report. The criminal probe, announced Thursday, will focus on the missing e-mails and allegations by some contract employees that they were threatened with arrest if they discussed the computer problem publicly. The announcement came after the Clinton administration said computer errors made it impossible to search thousands of White House e-mails covered by subpoenas from congressional officials and grand juries. Many of the e-mails reportedly hidden from investigators were Vice President Al Gore's messages dealing with campaign fund raising. According to Matt Drudge, editor of the Drudge Report, the New York Times will print excerpts this weekend of White House counsel Beth Nolan's statement that reveals her predecessor, Charles Ruff, has been aware of the computer problem for years. "As Mr. Ruff understood the technical problem at the time, he did not think that the error had an effect on previous searches or that it might affect future searches of e-mail records," states Nolan, according to Drudge. "As a result, Ruff had no reason to believe there was any need to notify investigative bodies of this error." But the administration denies it is using delaying tactics to keep the case from exploding during Vice President Al Gore's bid for the White House. "The allegation that our strategy is to delay is false," Justice Department lawyer James Gilligan told the Associated Press. At least one federal lawmaker says the criminal probe into the crash of White House computers is, itself, a "sham investigation" with the sole purpose of delaying current court proceedings. Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga. "Once again, the Department of Justice is hiding the truth from the American people by belatedly opening a sham investigation at the precise moment when outside investigators are starting to uncover the truth about misconduct in the Clinton White House," said Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga. "The administration now promising an inquiry is the same administration that obstructed several investigations by refusing to turn over potentially tens of thousands of e-mails uncovered in 1998, and threatening outside contractors with jail time if they did not cooperate." "This investigation will not uncover a single new fact," the former impeachment manager continued. "Instead, it will be used as a shield to block successful work by Judicial Watch and the Government Reform Committee to uncover the truth about White House efforts to obstruct justice." "It is truly saddening to again see our once-great Department of Justice being politically manipulated," he concluded. **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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