Whistleblower
Breaking News! White House employee blows whistle on Al Gore!!
6/19/00 - In a stunning sworn statement, a current White House
employee blows the whistle on Al Gore and his staff involving the
storage -- and handling -- of emails into and out from the vice
president's offfice complex -- emails that recently were
discovered were lost due to technical glitches.
The staffer, Howard Sparks, has been at the White House for a
number of years and in a four-page "declaration" obtained by
Insight, he swears not only to having warned Gore's staff as far
back as 1993 about making sure to back up emails on tapes and to
put into place other safeguards, he also reveals that he warned
co-workers that there were legal problems with the old "Big
Brother" computer system officially known as the White House
Office Data Base, or WHODB that Insight first revealed in
exclusive stories years ago.
What is remarkable about Sparks' sworn statements made to
Judicial Watch on June 19, 2000, is that he's still an employee
of the White House in the Office of Administration, or OA, where
he's worked since 1987 and holds the rank of a GS 14 and branch
manager.
Sparks' statement about Gore concerning emails is sure to fuel
speculation concerning the vice president's recent admissions
that his office "lost" or otherwise failed to capture about a
year's worth of emails under subpoena covering the 1997 to 1998
time periods. Gore and staff said they didn't know there were
problems or that they had options other than the systems they
claimed to have used that, admittingly, failed.
But Sparks, in a statement sure to cause great peril to his
employment, says that Gore's top guy way back in 1993, Mike Gill,
dismissed such issues and assured the support staff of OA that
Gore & Company would take care of their email systems separate,
effectively, from that offered by carreer folks like Sparks et
al.
"Mr. Gill did not care about these legal requirements and
essentially told us to get lost, that the vice president's office
would take care its own records," Sparks says in a four-page
sworn statement.
Gore's office has said that this glitch occurred because of a
problem with computers and a failure of support staff to have
established an adequate system to protect such messages on backup
tapes.
Sparks' stunning "testimony" however puts to bed this reasoning
as false given that he claims the Gore camp as far back as 1993
was warned that emails had to be archieved and that, to comply
with the law, they needed to be backed up with duplicate tapes or
other devices. However, this was not done -- a fact acknowledged
recently by Gore himself and his own staff.
Sparks also said that, despite warnings from professional staff
at the White House, Bill Clinton & Company failed to establish
adequate safeguards to both provide and safeguard electronic
communications as required by law.
In essence, the revelations of Sparks to Judicial Watch confirm
previous statements obtained initially by Insigtht from other
White House staff -- both current and former -- that despite
warnings and systems in place, the Clinton/Gore White House
dismissed or otherwise evaded systems to provide for adequate
record keeping of records.
Moreover, Sparks' testimony as an existing and valued employee of
the White House will add substantial credibility to issues raised
by Judicial Watch and others, including the federal Campaign Task
Force and Congress, that the Clinton/Gore White House has engaged
in schemes to avoid proper record-keeping notwithstanding various
laws and orders by courts to maintain such records.
For example, eamils: Sparks and Sheryl Mills (a former manager at
the White House telecommunications office who was, effectively
fired for blowing the whistle about WHODB and as-yet unseen
long-distance telephone records the White House says don't exist)
among others, have filed sworn statements (see Insight's web page
for related stories), that could leade investigators to hordes of
documents that have been under subpoena but never turned over by
the White House.
As with "Project X" involving the White House emails fiasco that
Insight first revealed to the public, it can now be revealed for
the first time that yet another unknown repository of data
concerning White House emails and related communications exists
that federal investigators have no knowledge of, nor does the
White House.
Just as with the the so-called emails involving Project X and the
missing long-distance telephone records the White House has long
maintained don't exist or, at best, claims shows no information,
Insight has been told that there apparently exists a secret
database of previously unknown information that, technically,
should have captured EVERY single communication INTO AND OUT FROM
the White House, the Executive Office of the President, and the
offices of Vice President Al Gore.
This potential "unknown" trove of treasures is located in the
automatic back up tapes of the computer systems' firewall,
Insight is told. "It is something that no one would have
bothered to have considered because it is purely a technical
matter," an insider tells Insight.
"But, unless its tapes have been erased, every single bit of data
that went into or out from the White House [complex] would be
automatically stored by the computer sytem on the firewall backup
tapes that automatically are stored," said an expert familiar
with the White House computer systems. "Only a few people know
about these particular tapes and, unless they have been
overwritten, they exist somehwere ... they can provide unique
data.:"
The Sparks declaration is now among a growing list of statements
from current AND former White House staff with no axes to grind
who reveal information contrary to that which White House
officials have either given to the press or to federal
investigatgors, whether at the law enforcement level or in
Congress.
Besides Sparks and Hall, Betty Lamburth has given a statement
providing information contray to the White House position, as has
a former senior lawyer at the White House.
Given the late stages of the Clinton presidency, it's unknown
what, if any, consequences may arise from statements such as
those provided by Sparks. However, for Gore, such sworn
statements can only riase problems as surely as the campaign
season moves towards the conventions and more people line up to
spill the beans.
By: Paul M. Rodriguez
Editor
Insight
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