ALL THE PRESIDENT'S SCANDALS
'Jail cell with your name on it'
White House worker threatened with 'full weight of the government'
By Paul Sperry � 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON -- A White House official threatened to punish
contractors with "the full weight of the government" if they
talked about missing West Wing e-mails under subpoena, a computer
contractor testified yesterday in federal court.
Northrop Grumman e-mail expert Robert Haas shed more light on
what took place during a controversial June 1998 meeting between
contractors and White House officials over gaps in e-mail
records.
The meeting is central to fact-finding hearings in a federal
lawsuit against the White House, as well as to two criminal
probes into charges officials hid evidence from investigators.
Prosecutors are trying to establish if, in fact, the White House
threatened the workers as part of an alleged "cover-up."
Haas said that during the June 15, 1998, meeting a top Clinton
aide told him and four other Northrop Grumman workers the e-mail
crisis was "top secret." At the time, Congress and Independent
Counsel Kenneth Starr were subpoenaing White House e-mail.
Haas said White House official Mark Lindsay announced over a
speakerphone that they could "not tell our wives or anyone."
Lindsay denies even implying they should keep it a secret.
Nonetheless, Congress and investigators were kept in the dark
about the "Project X" problem for nearly two years, although a
former White House computer manager says she briefed a House
lawyer about it in November 1998.
The White House has put Lindsay in charge of monitoring a
court-ordered search for the missing e-mail, one that's been
hamstrung by technical setbacks and delays over the past four
months.
Haas, a nine-year White House veteran, said Lindsay's order was
jarring. He says it was the first time in his marriage anyone
had told him not to talk to his wife.
After Lindsay hung up, his confidant Laura Crabtree Callahan put
a sharper point on the warning, Haas says. She said they'd not
only lose their jobs if they talked, but also go to jail.
He said she told the non-government technicians that the White
House would use "the full weight of government to make sure we
never work in government or this town again," Haas recalled.
What's more, Haas said she told him "there will be a jail cell
with your name on it."
He said he was sure Callahan, a former White House computer
program manager, was speaking for Lindsay. He didn't say if
Lindsay made threats.
Sandi Golas, another Northrop Grumman contractor, testified
earlier yesterday that she couldn't remember if the jail threat
was made before or after Lindsay got off the speakerphone. A
third contractor also recalls hearing the jail threat.
Callahan denies making any threats. She said Haas must have an
"overactive imagination."
Lindsay denies suggesting disciplinary action of any kind.
But Haas says the "jail cell" remark was so clear it made his
"head spin."
Haas is a key witness because he was tasked with sampling some of
the unrecorded Monica Lewinsky e-mail to get an idea of their
volume.
And other White House workers swear he told them he eyeballed
some of the more sensitive e-mails in the unarchived trove.
They say he read messages related to Filegate, Chinagate and
other White House scandals.
Not so, Haas testified. He said he didn't even "skim them,"
claiming he couldn't if he wanted to because he could only read
headers and not the text from the computer "view" he was
searching in.
As a Lotus Notes systems administrator, however, Haas had
passcode access to the affected e-mail server and could have
opened files, and no one would have known.
Former White House computer manager Sheryl Hall swears Haas not
only peeked into non-Monica files, but kept some of the "secret
files" on his computer.
Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman, the lead litigator in the
class-action Filegate suit, insinuated that Haas, who still works
in the White House, was not being candid out of fear for his job.
He noted that lawyers for the White House met with Haas before
his testimony, ostensibly to coach him.
Haas swears he's not afraid. But well-placed White House sources
say privately that Haas fears the White House will strip him of
his security clearance if he admits snooping in other e-mail
files.
Also, sources say Haas recently worried aloud that he's afraid
operatives will try to seize his home computer along with his
expanded storage Zip drive.
Last month, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the
hearings into the threats and other signs of obstruction.
Judicial Watch claims the White House is stalling the production
of e-mails past the election. It has asked Lamberth to turn the
search project over to Ontrack Data International Inc., which has
proved in a court demonstration that it can do the job 25 times
faster.
Earlier this year, when the Project X scandal broke, the White
House passed up a speedier proposal from Ontrack -- one of the
best data-recovery outfits in the business -- so it could award
the contract to a small, inexperienced minority vendor.
Then, in a March meeting, the White House matched the green
contractor with a subcontractor stacked with former White House
officials who figure prominently in Project X, as first reported
in WorldNetDaily.
Federal rules prohibit the government from picking a prime
contractor's subs. They also prevent it from entering into
contracting deals where there's so much as an "appearance" of a
conflict.
Terry Misich, the Army detailee the White House put in charge of
managing the project, admitted in an earlier hearing that the
prime contractor, ECS Technology Inc., does not have much
computer-forensics experience. He also acknowledged that
subcontractor SRA International Inc. employs two ex-Clinton
appointees tied to the e-mail fiasco.
After the last round of hearings, lawyers for the White House
announced Misich will be stepping down as project manager "for
personal reasons."
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