White House Aide Blumenthal�s E-Mail Deleted
NewsMax.com
Wednesday, May 3, 2000
E-mail messages to the White House aide widely known as "Sid
Vicious" were deleted at the height of the Clinton impeachment
crisis.
Records obtained by House investigators probing the
disappearance of hundreds of thousands of e-mail messages showed
that a large volume of e-mail for Sidney Blumenthal, a top
presidential aide, were deleted from his personal computer in
December 1998.
According to the Washington Post, a memo written by White House
computer expert Daniel Barry on Jan. 6, 1999, said officials
there were discussing deleting Blumenthal�s e-mail from the
permanent archives as well. The Post reported that no reason was
given nor was any final decision made.
A White House spokesman said he had no idea which officials would
have wanted the e-mails deleted from the permanent archives, or
why, but added that he had no reason to think it was Blumenthal.
As for the deletions from Blumenthal's personal computer, the
spokesman said White House aides are encouraged to regularly do
that.
Long suspected of being the source of a number of leaks
concerning the backgrounds of Clinton foes on Capitol Hill,
Blumenthal has repeatedly denied being the source of disparaging
comments to the press about Monica Lewinsky. Asked about that in
a deposition taken for the impeachment trial, he testified: "I
have no idea how anything came to be attributed to a White House
source."
But a long-time friend of Blumenthal�s, journalist Christopher
Hitchens, swore in an affidavit that Blumenthal several times
described Ms. Lewinsky as a "stalker" and President Clinton as
"the victim" of a predatory and unstable young woman, when they
had lunch in March 1998.
"Referring to Ms. Lewinsky, Mr. Blumenthal used the word
'stalker' several times," Hitchens swore. "Mr. Blumenthal advised
us that this version of the facts was not generally understood."
Hitchens also swore he knows of other journalists told the same
story by Blumenthal.
Clinton referred to Ms. Lewinsky as a stalker in a conversation
he had with Blumenthal shortly after the affair became the
subject of news reports. Blumenthal said he never passed that
story around. Republicans have suspected he talked to the press
to try to discredit the former White House intern.
Republicans believed Blumenthal was responsible for leaking
stories about Ken Starr, his staff and Henry Hyde, and they
believed Blumenthal was behind the story in Salon magazine about
Mr. Hyde's extramarital affair 30 years ago. Blumenthal denied
the allegations.
Blumenthal ran afoul of a federal grand jury investigating the
Lewinsky scandal. On Feb. 26, 1998, Blumenthal stepped outside
the courthouse and blasted Ken Starr for focusing on his contacts
with reporters. But by reading the grand jury transcripts, ABC�s
"Nightline" discovered Blumenthal misled reporters.
Transcripts showed that prosecutors pressed Blumenthal not about
his contacts with the media, but with the president, the first
lady and other top White House politicos and about the messages
that they wanted Blumenthal to spin into the media.
It was later reported that prosecutors, restricted by grand jury
rules of secrecy, could do nothing to counter the public
perception left by Blumenthal�s false recounting of his grand
jury appearance - a perception fanned by many in the media. The
grand jurors, however, were infuriated and even four months
later, when Blumenthal returned, they took the unusual step of
admonishing him in person.
Blumenthal joined the White House communications team in 1997
after writing articles favorable to President Clinton. He had
written for The New Yorker magazine, the Washington Post, New
Republic and Vanity Fair. He met the Clintons in the 1980s at a
Renaissance weekend and became close to them while covering the
1992 presidential campaign. He is as close, if not closer, to
Hillary Clinton than he is to her husband.
He was frequently accused of being too close to the president,
and journalists complained that he often urged them to kill
negative stories about Clinton.
After Blumenthal was hired as an assistant to the president, the
New York Observer wrote, "the long-time cheerleader for Bill
Clinton will now get paid by the White House for his boosterism."
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