House To Question Computer Expert
By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House officials will be asked to explain
to lawmakers why they abandoned plans to retrieve thousands of
missing e-mails that might have been of interest to investigators
examining a variety of allegations against the Clinton
administration.
The House Government Reform Committee today will question a White
House computer expert, Karl Heissner, who in early 1999 outlined
a way to fix the problem of recovering large amounts of e-mail
that had not been placed into a searchable archive. Heissner's
steps weren't acted on at the White House.
The committee also will hear from Michael Lyle, director of the
White House Office of Administration, and Robert Raben, assistant
attorney general for legislative affairs.
Lyle's office dealt with the e-mail problem beginning in June
1998 and passed on information about it to the White House
counsel's office, which was responsible for producing documents
to congressional investigators, the Justice Department and
Independent Counsel Ken Starr.
Raben will be questioned about committee chairman Rep. Dan
Burton's request that Attorney General Janet Reno appoint a
special counsel to investigate the e-mail controversy. Reno has
not responded.
White House Counsel Charles Ruff will testify Thursday.
On the eve of today's hearing, the White House dropped a
potential executive privilege claim and turned over to Congress
several handwritten notes from lawyers that were being sought by
investigators in the controversy over missing e-mails.
''We are making these seven documents available today to your
committee,'' White House counsel Beth Nolan wrote Burton. ''We
are not waiving the right to assert executive privilege or
attorney-client privilege with respect to future requests.''
At issue were handwritten notes by White House lawyers involving
discussions they had with computer experts about the missing
e-mail since the controversy first erupted earlier this year.
The White House initially declined to turn over the memos, saying
they included the ''mental impressions'' of presidential lawyers
and may be protected by the president's right to keep
confidential the advice he receives.
The White House did not formally invoke the executive privilege,
instead listing the documents and saying they were subject to
such a claim. Burton, R-Ind., criticized the maneuver as ''legal
mumbo-jumbo.''
The congressional committee as well as federal prosecutors are
investigating why the White House, after discovering a glitch in
1998 that kept e-mails from being properly archived, did not
immediately retrieve the missing messages to determine if they
should have been turned over to investigators under subpoenas
issued in investigations from Whitewater and impeachment to
political fund-raising.
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