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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (2943)	1/24/2001 10:50:17 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

If it's true, it should be in the Washington Post. If it's even half true, it will be in the Washington Times. I don't see it either place yet. I'll watch for it in the local TV news, too. Karen

To: Rambi who wrote (2943)	1/25/2001 12:42:45 AM
From: Constant Reader	Respond to of 82486

It seems your report is at least 50% true (per Karen's formula), as that vandalism and the looting of Air Force 1 are reported in the Thursday edition of the Washington Times: Stripped bare The curators were warned to count the silver when the Clintons left the White House, and the Air Force, as it turns out, should have listened, too. Now that Bill Clinton is gone — after the longest goodbye anyone remembers — an Air Force steward tells us about the former president's "official" farewell flight to New York on Inaugural Day. The presidential plane was "stripped bare." Since Air Force One is the plane only of the president, the designation of the Boeing 747 was changed from Air Force One to "Special Air Mission" and by the time Mr. Clinton boarded he was no longer the president. As a courtesy of President Bush, the plane was nevertheless equipped with all the presidential amenities Mr. Clinton had grown accustomed to during his two terms in office. But not for long. Missing from the plane on arrival in New York, Inside the Beltway is told, was all the porcelain china, silverware, salt and pepper shakers, blankets and pillow cases — most of it bearing the presidential seal. What most astonished the military steward was that even a cache of Colgate toothpaste, not stamped with the presidential seal, was snatched from a compartment beneath the presidential plane's sink. (The good news, we suppose, is that there was no halitosis on the return flight to Washington.) Clinton's children Several rooms of the White House's Old Executive Office Building were "vandalized and trashed" by one or more departing members of the Clinton administration, White House officials were informed in a morning meeting yesterday. That's what one White House official who was there told this column, after we reported yesterday that several computer keys had been vandalized by a "prankster." "This was vandalism, not a prank," said the official. Meanwhile, reader Dennis B. Turner asks: "Are these rather childish individuals going to be prosecuted? They have openly destroyed government property, which I believe is a federal offense. As a taxpayer, I am none too happy about paying for this childish behavior."