-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ELECTION 2000 Hillary's campaign on taxpayer's dime? White House workers say she ordered military to equip N.Y. HQ to cut costs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- By Paul Sperry © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON -- Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has used the White House military to equip her New York campaign headquarters and staff with phones and computers at taxpayer expense, claim reliable sources in the White House. Also, the White House office that processes orders for such equipment, and determines which costs are billed to the first lady's campaign, is controlled by a former Democratic National Committee official who was transferred to the White House as Hillary tested the waters for her Senate bid. The same office -- known as "Room 1" - handles reimbursements for her political travel aboard military aircraft. "Government assets are being used there" in New York, one White House employee told WorldNetDaily. "They got them through the military." The worker, who requested anonymity, says the White House Communications Agency, which is staffed by the military but controlled by the president, has provided palm-sized cell phones and other equipment. Some two dozen staffers work in Hillary's 5,500-square-foot Manhattan office alone. Some have been working there with computers and phones since July 1999. She has just one special assistant who travels with her in her role as first lady, a spokeswoman says. She also maintains a Secret Service detail, as well as military advance people. A White House computer operator says WHCA (pronounced "woka") also has supplied Compaq Pressario laptops. "They handled laptops for the New York headquarters," said the employee, who wished to go unnamed. "But they are not allowed to use those laptops for campaign purposes." "She's got White House equipment in New York being paid for by the White House. That can be proven," said another source close to White House computer operations. A White House spokeswoman for the first lady insists such expenses have been billed to the campaign. "Anything that's campaign-related is paid for by her campaign, and anything that's official is paid for by the government," said Erika Batcheller in the first lady's press office. She also said she "would be shocked" if WHCA provided equipment to Hillary's New York operations. Asked to check with WHCA, Batcheller said she would, but didn't get back. Calls to WHCA were steered back to the first lady's press office. Hillary's Senate campaign marks a first for a first lady, and it has raised questions about how her bills are broken out between her official duties and her political activities. She has already drawn fire from Congress for shorting the treasury $779,465 in travel expenses. Her dual-hatting has frustrated GOP foe Rick Lazio, who's complained she has taken advantage of White House resources. The White House is "100 percent" behind Hillary's campaign, Lazio's chief strategist Mike Murphy has charged, and it's "using your money" to help her get elected. Hillary has lagged Lazio in fund-raising throughout the campaign. It wouldn't be the first time that White House equipment and staff have been used by the first couple -- or the vice president -- for personal or political purposes, White House sources say. Just recently, Vice President Al Gore asked a Northrop Grumman contractor to work on his personal laptop, an IBM Think Pad. Gore had the contractor configure it so he could interact with his White House Lotus Notes e-mail, according to the White House computer employee. "The EOP (Executive Office of the President) load wasn't for a government computer," the employee said. "It was for a personal computer." He also says aides to President Clinton have twice sent a White House computer worker to Hope, Ark., to set up loads on computers at his presidential library, so employees there can get back into the EOP system. In 1993, moreover, White House computer operators were asked to install a computer for Chelsea Clinton in the residence. "We said no -- she's a child, not an official," the source said. Sources also contend the first lady is taking advantage of security and intelligence personnel at her disposal. A White House employee who works on security matters says that some 85 Secret Service and CIA agents have been assigned to New York since Hillary launched her campaign. CIA spokeswoman Anya Guilsher says she was "not able to validate" that agents have been reassigned there. Any equipment issued to Hillary is processed through Room 1 in the Old Executive Office Building. "They've ordered equipment in Mrs. Clinton's name or her staff's name and they just say they are using it for things related to her function as first lady," a White House staffer said. "But it's ended up being used by campaign workers." "Her people have dealt directly with Room 1 for getting things for up there in New York," the source added. Brad Kiley, the ex-DNC official, oversees Room 1, and is deputy to Mark Lindsay, assistant to the president for management and administration. Both work above Room 1 in Room 145 of the Old Executive Office Building. Together, they control Room 1, which is the central processing office for all White House operations. But Kiley is the "immediate boss over Room 1," a source said. Lindsay, a lawyer, found himself in hot political water recently. Testifying before Congress earlier this year, several computer contractors accused Lindsay of threatening them with jail if they talked about a stash of subpoenaed e-mail denied prosecutors during the Lewinsky scandal. Lindsay has denied the charges. Before joining the White House, Kiley was the DNC's director of operations. He was revenue director for the 1997 Presidential Inaugural Committee and was the director of finance and administration at the 1996 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Lindsay also had to answer to Congress this July when it found out that Hillary, who flies on military aircraft, has billed only $145,611, or 16 percent of her total $925,076 in campaign travel costs, to her campaign. It's Lindsay's job, as well as Kiley's, to see to it that her campaign repays the government. A staffer said Kiley "went ballistic" when Congress revealed how much of Hillary's political travel taxpayers have been underwriting. Col. Jake Simmons heads the White House Military Office that runs the White House Communications Agency. He also is a deputy to Lindsay and works out of OEOB. "With him in that position and Lindsay being his boss, it's not hard to see how Mrs. Clinton was able to get that equipment up there," a staffer said. Simmons also had a recent run-in with Congress. A 1996 audit of WHCA turned up mismanagement in the agency. It found it has been providing the White House services and equipment that are outside the scope of its mission. Services provided to the first lady and her staff, for example, include photo development and framing and news wire services, such as Associated Press and Reuters. WHCA, which provides advance for the first lady's trips, also handles telecommunications for the first lady and Secret Service. The audit also found that WHCA, under Simmons, couldn't account for equipment, and failed to submit spending requests. It had acquired a great deal of equipment, but hadn't properly accounted for it. For example, $555,000 worth of computers hadn't been recorded in its unit property book. The report also said the agency has been controlled by White House political appointees and not the military, and they've gotten used to using WHCA for non-military jobs because they are not held accountable for the expense. There's also other evidence WHCA has been politicized by the White House. 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