From: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31012-2000Jun20.html Offer to Back Up Gore Records Rebuffed, Aide Says By George Lardner Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 21, 2000; Page A12 Vice President Gore's top information expert told White House computer specialists in 1993 to "get lost" when they offered to back up Gore's electronic records on tape so they could be kept for "potential legal proceedings," a White House aide said yesterday in a sworn statement. In an affidavit filed in federal court here, the White House aide, Howard Sparks, said the rebuff came from Michael Gill, a Gore political appointee, who emphasized that the vice president's office "would take care of its own records." Sparks, a civil service career employee who still works at the White House as a computer network specialist, said in the statement that if the advice of the White House's Office of Administration had been followed, the year's worth of Gore office e-mail that was found this month to have been lost would still be in existence. He added that Gill, who has since left Gore's staff, was sometimes known as "the Mad Deletor," a nickname that "referred to his propensity to delete electronic records as a method of dealing with computer-related problems." Sparks, who joined the White House in 1987, did not elaborate or cite specific examples. The affidavit was submitted as part of a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch on behalf of White House employees of the Reagan and Bush administrations whose FBI files had been improperly obtained by the Clinton White House. Attempts to reach Gill were unsuccessful. A spokesman for Gore, Jim Kennedy, said he could not comment in detail on the affidavit, but noted that Gore's office did make its own backup tapes and that "these tapes exist, with the exception of one year due to a technical problem." Sparks said he and a colleague, Jim McDonald, then head of the Office of Administration's Information Systems and Technology Division, met with Gill in 1993 and "carefully explained" to him the legal requirement that Gore's office manage its electronic records. But when they told him the Office of Administration could do this by backing up the Gore office records onto White House backup tapes, Sparks said Gill "essentially told us to get lost, that the Vice President's Office would take care of its own records." Sparks said he and McDonald let the matter drop, "being in no position to contradict a top political aide to the new Vice President." Sparks said in his affidavit that he felt he had been the target of White House retaliation in the past because of his objections to the development of a White House database that he regarded as illegal because it involved the use of taxpayer resources "to track political contributions and other improper information." He said he was "idled" for about two years and given "little or nothing to do." The White House has had its own records management problems and is undertaking a $10 million effort to reconstruct hundreds of thousands of electronic messages, including Gore's. © 2000 The Washington Post Company ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html <A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
