-Caveat Lector-
Many Gore Office E-Mails Won't Be Recovered
By Pete Yost
Associated Press Writer
Apr 18, 2001 - 07:26 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - It will be impossible to restore much of the White
House e-mail traffic in the office of former Vice President Gore,
despite a yearlong effort in which technical experts recovered 3 million
missing messages from computer tapes, recently filed court papers
reveal.
The latest twist in one of the long-running controversies of the Clinton
administration was disclosed in a computer contractor's three-page
declaration filed in a lawsuit in federal court.
Because of a computer glitch that wasn't publicly revealed until the
final year of Clinton's presidency, the White House never reviewed many
of its computer messages to see if they should be turned over in
criminal probes and congressional inquiries of campaign fund-raising,
the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Whitewater and other matters.
The April 6 declaration by a technician from Vistronix Corp. says that
due to unspecified problems the computer contractor could not extract
e-mails from 189 computer backup tapes.
Sixty-three of the "problem" tapes - fully a third of them - were from
Gore's office.
The 189 tapes represented only 5 percent of all the tapes used in
reconstructing e-mails in the past year.
Efforts to reach Gore's spokeswoman Wednesday night were not successful.
The court papers also showed that the universe of messages that was
never properly archived and therefore was never searched to see if they
were relevant to various investigations is far more vast than the
Clinton administration ever suggested.
The reconstructed database "currently includes 3,075,513 unique
non-duplicative e-mails, out of more than 2.9 billion processed from the
relevant tape population," the declaration states.
Computer contractors did recover many of the messages from Gore's office
and a batch of them was turned over to investigators last year at the
Justice Department when contractors were only partly through the
reconstruction.
The Gore campaign released those e-mails publicly, saying they contained
"nothing of significance," while the Bush campaign said the messages
called Gore's credibility into question in regard to campaign fund
raising. Some of the messages related to Gore's attendance at a
fund-raising event at a Buddhist temple in California. Gore said he
didn't realize the event was a fund-raiser.
The e-mails created by hundreds of staffers at the Clinton White House
are in the custody of the National Archives, and the White House Office
of Administration in the Bush administration is overseeing the effort to
reconstruct the material.
The contractor's declaration was filed in a case brought by Judicial
Watch, which sued the Clinton administration repeatedly on a variety of
issues. The e-mail issue arose in the group's class-action lawsuit over
the Clinton White House's gathering of FBI background files of
appointees from the Reagan and Bush administrations.
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said the government so far has
turned over just one e-mail in the group's lawsuit.
AP-ES-04-18-01 1925EDT
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