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Last time Clinton got into big trouble, gold rallyed. This story is edging into the major media. White House killed 'Project X' story? CNN, ABC spike reports after taping interviews with e-mail whistle-blower -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Paul Sperry ¸ 2000 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON -- CNN and ABC News have canceled plans to air interviews with a veteran White House computer manager who says that first lady Hillary Clinton's office was behind a scheme to hide more than a million e-mail messages from investigators, a source says. Sheryl Hall, a career federal worker who ran the White House's computer and phone systems from 1992 to 1999, taped interviews with both networks after making the explosive charges in court documents filed last month. After taping the segments about three weeks ago, "she still hasn't been on TV," said a source close to Hall. "She was assuming it would have aired by now and, when she got a follow-up phone call from someone (at one of the networks), she asked when it would be (aired)," said the source. "They said it (the story) was being quashed." Apparently both interviews are "being suppressed," said the source, who wished to remain anonymous. "Why have none of her interviews been aired?" The Hall confidant suspects White House pressure. Before the last election, the White House leaned on ABC producers to cancel a scheduled interview with former White House FBI agent Gary Aldrich, who charged, among other things, that the White House was hiring drug users over his and another agents' vetoes. Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos reportedly later boasted of having had the story "killed." Stephanopoulos now works for ABC News as a political commentator and occasional correspondent. Also, CNN news division chief Rick Kaplan is a close friend of the first lady and plays golf with the president. Kaplan worked for ABC at the time the Aldrich story was spiked. State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin, moreover, is married to CNN foreign correspondent Christianne Amanpour. Attempts to reach the networks for comment were unsuccessful. Calls to the White House were not returned. In U.S. District Court affidavits, Hall swears that the White House obstructed justice by covering up the fact that mainframe computers (cont)worldnetdaily.com