To: Jim S who wrote (6072 ) 9/16/1998 7:43:00 PM From: Who, me? Respond to of 13994
Probe urged of White House aide House members investigating use of White House database Robert Windrem NBC NEWS WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 - The House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee, which has been investigating the use of White House database, will recommend later Tuesday that Attorney General Janet Reno investigate White House deputy counsel Cheryl Mills for possible perjury and obstructing its investigation, sources tell NBC News. MILLS AND Bruce Lindsey serve as deputy counsels to White House counsel Charles Ruff. The subcommittee, chaired by Rep. David McIntosh, R-Ind., has been investigating the database -known as the WHODB - for nearly two years. DONORS REWARDED? It has charged in the past that the White House used the database to reward Democratic donors and that the taxpayers were charged more than $1 million that should have rightfully been charged to the Democratic National Committee. Mills, a veteran Clinton aide who wrote legal opinions on the use of the database, was questioned by the committee for two days last November. She was asked about the committee's requests for critical documents in 1996. Specifically, McIntosh's subcommittee is charging that Mills deliberately withheld for six months "handwritten notes reflecting the president's desire to integrate the White House database with the DNC database" and then lied about it. Committee members contend that such integration constitutes theft of government property. MORE TESTIMONY SOUGHT Sources on the committee say testimony from others in the White House will be provided to the Justice Department. Among those whose testimony will be turned over are Marsha Scott, a long-time Clinton confidant and White House aide from Arkansas, and her assistant in the development of the database, Erich Vaden. The report is expected to be turned over to Reno's office Wednesday and likely will probably be made public as well.