No surprise here:
Clintons Accused of Dodging Impeachment II
NewsMax.com
December 16, 1999
The president and first lady are accused in a court filing of dragging their heels in the "Filegate" scandal to avoid a possible second impeachment.
According to a story in Thursday's issue of the Washington Times, a former White House computer specialist has filed a brief in United States District Court in Washington charging:
• A member of the White House counsel's office told her in mid-1999 that "our strategy" for responding to a Filegate lawsuit was to "stall" because "we had just a couple of more years to go."
• Larry Klayman, the Judicial Watch attorney who filed the legal brief Dec. 7 for ex-White House staffer Sheryl Hall, called it "part of the pattern intended to allow the Clintons' conduct to go unanswered during their term in office, which could have serious consequences including a possible second impeachment proceeding."
• A few days later, Klayman also filed a separate lawsuit for Hall against first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Democratic National Committee.
• It charges that in 1993 Hall "was assigned responsibility for developing the software for a new, taxpayer-financed master database that Mrs. Clinton and the DNC sought to establish for partisan, political purposes, including campaign fund raising for the DNC and the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign."
• When Hall complained it violated the Hatch Act, which forbids certain political activity by federal employees, Marsha Scott, then-director of the White House correspondence office, told her to "use her imagination" to get around the law.
• Scott then sent a memo to Hillary Clinton and Bruce Lindsey, a senior advisor to President Clinton, calling Hall disloyal.
• "Shortly thereafter," Hall's staff was cut by 10 and she was removed from the database project.
• Hall was forced to quit her job three months ago because of acts "undertaken at the direction of Mrs. Clinton and in retaliation" for her "challenging the unlawfulness" of the White House office database.
The original Filegate lawsuit charges the White House and FBI "willfully and intentionally" violated employees' rights under the Privacy Act by placing more than 900 confidential FBI files in the White House.
Klayman said, "Ironically, by attempting to delay the lawsuits, the Clintons will no longer be able to rely improperly on White House lawyers when they leave office."
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