Here is a gem of right wing trash for you:
Courts Told of White House Vandalism Week Before Clinton Left
Wes Vernon
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2001
WASHINGTON – Federal courts were notified as early as Jan. 12 (more than a week before Bill Clinton left the White House) of reports that "wholesale destruction of property was occurring on Clinton-Gore White House premises," according to a motion filed in U.S. District Court.
Judicial Watch, a public watchdog group, says in the complaint that the court was advised as early as Jan. 12 and at a Status Conference on Jan. 17 that a whistle-blower had revealed that "the hard drives of computers containing relevant e-mail evidence were being destroyed by wiping them clean."
Additionally, Judicial Watch had received "information also that laptop computers and phone equipment were also stolen." Until now, the focus has been on destroyed property, rather than goods actually stolen, in the vandalism of the White House and the Executive Office Building next door.
Clinton Justice Department Denied Vandalism
And we learn that the Clinton Justice Department had denied that any vandalism was going on.
"The vandalism occurred despite ‘new assurances’ from the Clinton-Gore Justice Department lawyers – and in particular James Gilligan, Esq. – that it was not [occurring]."
The complaints, filed by Judicial Watch’s general counsel and chairman, Larry Klayman, charges that "Mr. Gilligan and his colleagues have repeatedly provided misleading assurances to this court without proper factual bases to do so, and are themselves now subject to requests by Plaintiffs for orders to show cause."
In legalese, that’s a way of saying that by misleading the court, Clinton Justice Department attorneys now bear a part of the responsibility.
Klayman’s complaint was filed in the court of Judge Royce C. Lamberth, a jurist who has never blinked when Clinton White House lawlessness has come to his attention. For that, ex-President Clinton had spread the word among congressional Democrats to warn that Lamberth can forget about any confirmation to the Supreme Court should he be nominated by a future president. However, the Clinton routine of ruling by threat has failed to cow the judge.
Judicial Watch wants the perpetrators of the vandalism and theft to be tracked down and held accountable under the law. "It is a criminal complaint," says Klayman. Clinton’s weak hints of possibly paying for the damage apparently are not being taken at face value by Judicial Watch any more than skeptical Americans took at face value the assurance three years ago that "I did not have sex with that woman."
In an interview with NewsMax.com, Klayman expressed disappointment at the "Let bygones be bygones" attitude of President Bush toward his predecessor.
"It is unfortunate that George W. Bush is not interested in the Clinton scandals," he said, "It is unfortunate that President Bush is not interested in investigating Chinagate. It is unfortunate that the president does not want to investigate and pursue the Clinton vandals."
"One wonders what [Attorney General nominee] John Ashcroft will be allowed to do when he arrives at the Justice Department."
Klayman went out of his way to say he had great respect for Ashcroft. But he hopes Bush will allow him to do his job.
The Judicial Watch general counsel went on to say there was nothing his organization could do about certain questionable pardons during Clinton’s last day in office.
But his complaint, filed Friday and ignored by the media until now, does cite the pardon of such high-rolling Democratic party donors as Marc Rich and the looting of property on Air Force One as examples of why "even liberal publications like the Washington Post have now officially branded the Clintons and their administration the most slimy and corrupt in American history."
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