http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2000/7/10/230409 With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Tuesday July 11, 2000; 12:03 AM EDT Judge Orders Search for Vince Foster's Computer Hard Drive As part of a ruling on Monday ordering a full evidentiary hearing into missing White House e-mails, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth told the Clinton administration to search for the hard drive in the computer used by the late Vincent Foster, the deputy White House counsel who was found shot to death in a Virginia park seven years ago this month. "The court will also order the search of Vincent Foster's hard drive due to the fact that there is evidence that Foster as deputy White House counsel at the time of the underlying events in this case had a supervisory role over both then-associate White House counsel William Kennedy and the director of Office of Personnel Security at the time, Craig Livingstone," Lamberth wrote. The search order came in response to Judicial Watch's $90 million Filegate lawsuit, after the White House failed to produce thousands of missing e-mails deemed relevant to several congressional an independent counsel investigations more than 20 weeks after their existence came to light. Questions about Foster's computer hard drive have swirled for years. In his 1996 bestselling book Unlimited Access, former White House FBI agent Gary Aldrich revealed that by the time Whitewater investigators finally got around to looking for the drive, it had been deliberately destroyed. Aldrich related what a computer expert from the White House Information Resources Management Division had told him about how this key piece of Whitewater evidence was lost: "Foster's computer had been taken out of his office after his death because it wasn't being used, and someone else needed it. But when it was turned on, when someone tried to use it, it wouldn't 'boot up' -- the hard drive wouldn't function.... "The computer repairman didn't know the history of the computer, that it had been Foster's computer, so he simply took the old broken hard drive out and installed a new one. He programmed the new drive and took the old hard drive back to the shop and tossed it into a scrap barrel..... "One of the guys testified about it to Kenneth Starr's group or was interviewed about it; I don't know which. Staff knows about it, but I don't think anyone knows who 'did' the hard drive..... "There's only one way I know of to destroy a hard drive. You turn on the computer and order it to perform a function of some kind, and while the hard drive is working to finish the function, you pick up the case and you drop it sharply on the floor, or on some other hard surface. The disk will usually self destruct on impact...." While Foster's original computer hard drive may be lost forever, back-up disks or archived tapes with the same information may still exist. Judge Lamberth's order places that evidence within the purview of the Judicial Watch lawsuit. And even if Foster's own computer records are completely gone, information he shared with others in the White House counsel's office may still be retrievable. The court's order also covers computer hard drives for those with whom Foster worked closely in the counsel's office, including William Kennedy, Linda Tripp, Betsey Pond, Deborah Gorham, and Bernard Nussbaum, Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton told NewsMax.com late Monday. All Rights Reserved © NewsMax.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
