-Caveat Lector-
Group wants court to oversee Clinton e-mail transfer to archives
By Greg Toppo
Associated Press
1/12/2001 16:13
WASHINGTON (AP) A conservative legal group that has fought for
access to thousands of lost Clinton administration e-mails wants
a judge to oversee the transfer of the restored files to the
National Archives after Clinton leaves office.
Judicial Watch has dogged Clinton with lawsuits throughout his
two terms, most recently taking the administration to court to
force production of the e-mails. The group on Friday asked U.S.
District Judge Royce Lamberth to appoint a special master to
oversee the transfer of the records to the archives. Such a
transfer is required under the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
''We need to know how these materials are being dealt with,''
Larry Klayman, the group's general counsel, told the judge.
Lamberth said he would rule on Judicial Watch's request on Jan.
17.
A 1998 problem with the system prevented thousands of incoming
e-mail messages from being archived. As a result, the e-mails
were not reviewed by White House lawyers to determine whether
they should have been turned over to investigators probing cases
that included the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Whitewater and
campaign fund raising.
Lamberth last spring ordered the Clinton administration to
restore and produce the e-mails. Judicial Watch wanted access to
the files before the 2000 presidential election, but
administration officials last fall told the judge that few of the
messages could be restored by Nov. 7.
Among the few e-mails reconstructed were messages showing that
Vice President Al Gore's staff referred to a now-infamous event
Gore attended at a Buddhist temple as a fund-raiser. The staff
also referred to White House coffees a few hosted by Gore as
fund-raisers. Gore has said he does not regard the temple event
and the coffees as fund-raisers.
According to a contractor overseeing the e-mail reconstruction,
2,041 of 4,508 computer backup tapes containing the messages have
been catalogued, with nearly 1.5 billion e-mails processed. Of
those, about 2.6 million are now in a readable database.
The archives and the White House Office of Administration have
agreed to a plan by which the Office of Administration will fund
and oversee completion of the restoration after Clinton leaves
office. White House lawyer Henry A. Azar Jr. told the judge the
agreement ensures that the materials are preserved.
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