-Caveat Lector- Wednesday October 11 4:26 PM ET Ray: White House Lawyers Hold Facts By GREG TOPPO, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Independent Counsel Robert Ray's office has accused a former White House attorney of ``inaccurate testimony'' and suggested to a judge that presidential lawyers made it difficult for investigators to find subpoenaed documents. Ray's office took the rare step of intervening in an unrelated civil case involving missing White House e-mails to draw the judge's attention to the practices of President Clinton's lawyers during the 1998 investigation that led to his impeachment. Though not a party to the lawsuit, ``this office has an obligation to assure that inaccurate testimony is corrected,'' Deputy Independent Counsel Jay Apperson wrote in a letter dated Oct. 5. The letter was made public Wednesday. In the letter, Apperson challenged the veracity of former White House lawyer Michelle Peterson's testimony in the lawsuit, and urged U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth to take ``appropriate action.'' Peterson testified that White House lawyers always produced subpoenaed documents to investigators ``as soon as anything was found.'' And whenever requested documents turned up belatedly, White House lawyers would ``explain why they hadn't been found before,'' Peterson testified. But Apperson wrote that Peterson knew this wasn't the practice of White House lawyers. He said she was ``personally involved in the failure to disclose to this office the belated discovery of an important document'' during the Monica Lewinsky probe. That document revealed that White House officials were concerned that Lewinsky had been engaged in ``extracurricular activities'' inside the White House before they transferred her to a job at the Pentagon. The memo became an important piece of evidence in the report prosecutors sent Congress that initiated impeachment proceedings against Clinton. Apperson told the judge that Peterson ``made no effort to disclose'' the belated discovery of the document, ``delayed production of the document for over a week following its discovery'' and then placed it in a package of 970 pages of documents sent to prosecutors handling another case. Apperson suggested to the judge that it was routine for the White House to ``covertly transmit'' belatedly discovered documents without calling attention to them. He sent the judge a 1998 letter in which then-Special Counsel to the President Lanny Breuer acknowledged to the Office of the Independent Counsel that White House lawyers routinely sent newly discovered documents to prosecutors without clearly stating their relevance. The letter also acknowledged that White House lawyers routinely sent belatedly discovered material with documents required by a different subpoena, without indicating that the material had been ordered by a prior subpoena. ``Although we provide you with a production log, we do not invariably and explicitly identify a recently discovered document to you in our cover letter,'' Breuer wrote. An official with the White House counsel's office on Wednesday said he had not seen Apperson's letter and had no immediate response. A phone call to Peterson's lawyer was not immediately returned. Attorney Larry Klayman, whose conservative legal group Judicial Watch brought the e-mail lawsuit, said Apperson's letter shows ``a pattern and practice of obstruction of justice'' by the White House. He has alleged that the administration is dragging its heels in restoring thousands of lost e-mails. Klayman, who has put several administration officials - including Peterson - on the stand since last summer, said Apperson's letter ``just explodes any defense that they have that the e-mail was a matter of good faith.'' A programming error in 1998 prevented thousands of incoming messages - including some from Vice President Al Gore's office - from being archived. As a result, they were not reviewed by White House lawyers to determine whether they should have been turned over to investigators probing cases that included the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Whitewater and campaign fund raising. Ray is investigating whether the White House covered up the e-mail problem in 1998 at the height of the Lewinsky scandal. 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