With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Wednesday June 14, 2000, 12:33 AM EDT
Gore's E-mail Lost? Tell it to L. Jean Lewis
When the White House announced last week that Vice President Al
Gore's e-mail for eleven key months before and just after Bill
Clinton's impeachment had been "lost forever," no one could have
been more astonished than L. Jean Lewis.
Lewis was the Resolution Trust Corporation investigator who
uncovered the series of land flips, insider deals and check
kiting scams at Little Rock's Madison Guarantee Savings and Loan
that became known as the Whitewater scandal.
Way back in 1992, she wrote the very first Whitewater criminal
referral naming Bill and Hillary Clinton as witnesses to and
possible beneficiaries of bank fraud. A year later, after the
explosive document made its way up the bureaucratic food chain,
Lewis' Whitewater probe set off the Clinton White House's smoke
alarms.
By 1995 the scandal uncovered by Lewis was comsuming the White
House. Hillary Clinton's chief of staff Maggie Williams admitted
privately that the first lady was now "paralyzed" with fear.
What's more, Jean Lewis was about to get her chance to tell what
she knew to the Senate Whitewater Committee.
Thanks to the RTC prober, not only would Americans be introduced
to names like Castle Grande, Flowerwood Farms and the Master
Marketing Corporation, but Lewis' account provided the first
glimpse of a White House willing to pull out all the stops to
shield itself from Congressional oversight.
Once Senate Republicans called Lewis to testify, Clinton
strategists realized they'd have to do something to stop her. And
the way they and their Congressional allies decided to do it was
to go after her e-mail.
Democrats on the Senate Whitewater Committee subpoenaed all
Lewis' relevant written correspondence, some of which she had
stored on computer disks. Also on those same disks: private
letters that had nothing to do with her investigation.
Lewis had simply deleted the personal mail and handed the disk
over to Democrat staffers. Just like Vice President Gore, she
presumed that her deleted mail was "lost forever."
But thanks to White House ingenuity, it turned out she presumed
wrong.
When it came time to cross examine Lewis in televised hearings,
chief Democratic Whitewater counsel Richard BenVeniste hit the
RTC prober with embarrassing revelations gleaned from private
letters that had nothing whatsoever to do with Whitewater.
Some of the information was about her teenage stepson, who was
humiliated before the world in an attempt to discredit Lewis.
Other tidbits revealed that Lewis had a political dislike for
Bill Clinton even before she began looking into Whitewater -- and
had once even considered marketing a line a anti-Clinton
T-shirts.
Suddenly the investigator with a spotless record and a personnel
file folder full of commendations was being smeared as a
"Clinton-hater" and a "gold digger" whose testimony was so
hopelessly tainted by bias that it could net be taken seriously.
Confronted with the embarrassing information, a stunned and
shaken Lewis asked BenVeniste how he managed to get his hands on
her deleted personal correspondence. His reply: "I don't know how
they do these things, but I'm told they can do it."
Whitewater Committee Democrats later explained that they had
hired several computer experts to examine Lewis' files. The
technicians were able to "reverse delete" the disks and voila:
The RTC investigator's private correspondence had magically
appeared.
Lewis, who suffered from high blood pressure, was so rattled by
the invasion of privacy that she collapsed right there at the
witness table and had to be taken to a doctor.
Though nothing Clinton's allies had unearthed about Lewis
compromised her testimony or the evidence she presented in any
way, White House spinmeisters made no secret of their joy that
the woman who started Whitewater had been damaged.
"The left is very good at retrieving information when it needs to
be," Landmark Legal Foundation President Mark Levin told
NewsMax.com on Tuesday. Landmark represented Lewis at the time
of her testimony.
Having personally witnessed the lengths to which the White House
went to get Lewis' deleted files, Levin is mystified over claims
that Gore's e-mail is beyond the reach of even the experts they
sicced on his former client:
"I don't even understand their position. Because short of taking
his computer and throwing it into the Potomac River -- and doing
the same with the data from the server company -- I don't know
how this stuff can be lost forever."
Levin remembers that Committee Democrats refused to explain how
they managed to "reverse delete" Lewis' files, even after he
filed an ethics complaint over the stunt. They did tell him that
the technological feat "was not that difficult," he recalls.
"Maybe we should ask Richard BenVeniste to help find Al Gore's
e-mail," Levin suggested.
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