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To: Carolyn who wrote (1664)	11/5/2000 8:50:38 PM
From: Cisco	Respond to of 1719

WHITE HOUSE WARNED NOT TO DESTROY EVIDENCE; INDEPENDENT COUNSEL WEIGHS CLINTON INDICTMENT Exclusive The White House has been warned not to destroy evidence that would be used in any criminal prosecution of President Bill Clinton, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The Office of the Independent Counsel has warned the White House in recent weeks that any attempt to "alter, delete or otherwise corrupt" information stored on computer hard drives which are owned by the United States government would be viewed as calculated obstruction in an ongoing grand jury investigation. The warning was issued before the presidential election amid concern that White House documents and computers which have been kept from investigators would be trashed by Clinton staffers if Texas Governor George W. Bush were to be elected. "You just can't delete information off of a computer hard drive, you pretty much have to destroy the computer," one senior congressional member -- who has also warned the White House in recent weeks -- told the DRUDGE REPORT. "If we hear about, say, the sprinkler system accidentally going off right after the election, I think there will be serious suspicions that a cover up is going down," said the ranking Republican who asked not to be named. [Hard Drive Mystery? A large volume of e-mail for White House aide Sidney Blumenthal was deleted from his personal computer in December 1998 at the height of the impeachment crisis. The White House later explained that an e-mail loop had occurred from a note sent to Blumenthal from the U.S. embassy in England. "A great volume of that same e-mail ended up being repeated over and over and over again and it grew into a large mass. As a result, Mr. Blumenthal's computer failed," Michael Lyle, Director of White House Office of Administration explained under oath.] MORE Independent Counsel Robert Ray is known to be close to a decision on whether to ask a Washington grand jury to indict Bill Clinton on criminal charges surrounding events that lead to his impeachment. Ray impaneled a new grand jury in July to help decide whether the president should be indicted on charges he committed perjury or obstructed justice. "If they had asked if he committed perjury, I would say yes," the forewoman of the original Lewinsky grand jury told stunned reporters after being dismissed last year. Freda Alexander revealed that she would have voted to indict Clinton for perjury if prosecutors had asked her to. Ray has said the decision whether to prosecute will not be affected by who wins Tuesday's election. Other factors could influence the decision, such as "whether there's a substantial federal interest in bringing a case," he said. "There should be no doubt, the White House destroying evidence after Election Day would push Ray over the top," said a lawyer with ties to the independent counsel. Developing... drudgereport.com Are you home yet?