Clinton's Latest Victim

Clinton's Latest Victim
by Linda Prussen-Razzano

Betty Lambuth's story epitomizes the rank corruption of the Clinton administration. An employee of Northrop Grumman, she was part of the task force contracted by the White House to search out records in response to numerous subpoenas from various agencies investigating the many Clinton scandals. According to her affidavit, submitted by Judicial Watch's Larry Klayman to U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth last week, she discovered that numerous e-mails were not being properly recorded by the White House computer system. When she brought this matter to the attention of White House personnel, White House Office of Administration Director Mark Lindsay threatened her.

Quoted by ABCNews.com, she reported that "Lindsay said that if I or any of my team who knew about the e-mail problem told anyone else about it we would loose (sic) our jobs, be arrested and put in jail."

Further, the files stored on individual computers were often unchecked. Sheryl Hall, a former White House computer specialist, offered a similar statement in her affidavit, including information which suggested the White House had plans to delete many of the stored files on individual computer systems.

Judge Lamberth is not taking this matter lightly. He not only called for the names of those responsible for maintaining the records, but also suggested he would "hang" anyone who deleted or misplaced files. He further refused to force Larry Klayman to submit to White House counsel a complete list of whistleblowers against the Administration.
It's about time.

White House personnel are trying to dismiss these latest revelations as "old news," or yet another "snafu." Using the highest powers of government to threaten and intimidate people is not a "snafu," it's criminal. They offered the same blasé answer to questions about Maria Hsia's felony convictions on illegal campaign fundraising -- as if the words "no controlling legal authority" had never been uttered. Further, portions of the LaBella memorandum to Attorney General Janet Reno have found their ways into the mainstream media, and they reveal a pattern of obfuscation and ignorance that is, quite simply, dangerous. LaBella implied, in the harshest of terms, that Janet Reno was ignoring evidence that directly implicated the White House, including First Lady Hillary Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, in the illegal fundraising schemes.

How many snafus has this administration allowed to happen under their watch? Some of the most alarming have been reviewed in this column over the last year, but bear repeating:

Some 900 FBI files miraculously appeared at the White House, the majority of which were on top ranking Republicans.
The firing of Billy Dale and other White House travel office employees. Billy Dale was exonerated of all the charges against him in less than four (4) hours; however, he was financially ruined and his reputation was destroyed in the process.
President Clinton signed a waiver that allowed Johnny Huang a position at the Commerce Department without benefit of a FBI background check, giving him access to Top Secret materials. He was granted clearance several months before he began officially working at the White House, and retained it even after he officially left his position at Commerce.
Ira Sockowitz was allowed to leave the Commerce Department with top secret files in his possession and retained his clearance after he left the White House.
President Clinton signed a waiver allowing Poly Technologies, a Chinese front company, to import 100,000 weapons in violation of Clinton's own gun ban.
The White House's interference in the Long Beach Naval base transfer. The White House pushed for the Chinese Ocean Shipping Company(COSCO) to purchase the base, despite the fact that COSCO ships were caught smuggling drugs and illegal aliens, were caught paying bribes to avoid paying tariffs, and were caught in a sting operation (known as Dragon Fire) for attempting to sell 2,000 fully automatic AK-47s to California street gangs.
Via Executive Order, President Clinton overrode Comsat's decision not to transfer all satellites to the Commerce Department, and also allowed Commerce control of hot engine technologies.
The Clinton administration ignored China's direct violation of every non-proliferation treaty it had ever signed. Despite repeated violations, sanctions were imposed only twice against individual companies, never against China as a country.
The Clinton administration accepted millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions from suspected Chinese spies and drug runners. Some of the contributions were solicited and accepted directly in the White House itself.
The Clinton administration repeatedly lied about suspected espionage at the nuclear labs. A report detailing the suspected espionage of Peter Lee was provided to the White House in 1998. As late as March of 1999, the White House insisted it had no knowledge of spying, even though Peter Lee was convicted in March of 1998 for divulging classified nuclear submarine tracking secrets to the Chicoms in 1997.
Despite the release of the bipartisan Cox Report in March 1999 -- which detailed the dangerous and haphazard way in which dual-use technology transfers were being made to Communist China -- President Clinton signed a waiver in May 1999 allowing China to purchase fuel and separation technology for Iridium satellites.
The Clinton administration started a national smear campaign against Clinton paramour Monica Lewinsky, by alleging that she was a deranged "stalker" who would claim a relationship with this President, even though "he couldn't do that."
In January of 1998, in response to discovery documents by Paula Jones's attorneys, the Clinton administration denied any knowledge of letters or correspondence pertinent to Kathleen Willey, only to release said documents to the press after Willey's televised interview in March 1998.
Attorney General Janet Reno approved the attack on the people at Waco. The Justice Department denied any use of pyrotechnic devices, only to have those devices later discovered by the Texas Rangers. When Assistant Attorney William Johnston attempted to bring this to Reno's attention, he received threatening faxes from the Justice Department. He later resigned.

The list of "snafus" goes on, of course, but I am sure you get the point.

We can add this latest, as well as the intimidation that accompanies it, to the list of "accomplishments" from "the most ethical Administration in history."