-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Gore vandalism has paper trail White House staffer: Computer damage reflected in flood of requisition orders ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- By Paul Sperry © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON -- A career White House employee who helped replace computer keyboards broken by departing Clinton and Gore staffers in January says President Bush could document the vandalism through requisition orders. Some 100 keyboards had to be replaced during the transition. Democrats and former Clinton aides have challenged Bush to prove charges that spiteful former aides trashed the White House before the inauguration. Bush's spokesman Ari Fleischer finally detailed the damage for the press this week. He says that, among other things, 100 keyboards were broken, 10 phone lines were cut and several brass emblems with the presidential seal were removed from doors. Most of the damage was done in the Eisenhower Building, or Old Executive Office Building, where Vice President Al Gore and his staff kept offices. Fleischer, hard-pressed to show a paper trail backing his damage assessment, says the White House did not keep detailed repair records. But the White House employee says that at least the computer vandalism is reflected in an unusual surge in requisition orders for keyboards at the time. "You'd see it in the requisition orders," he said in an exclusive interview with WorldNetDaily. "It's not like we'd throw away a bunch of keyboards one day," said the employee, who requested his name be withheld. "They were damaged beyond repair and we had to replace them." The employee, part of the White House computer staff, says that Clinton aides did not stop at removing the "W" -- Bush's famous middle initial -- from keyboards, which would otherwise be a relatively harmless and humorous prank. But he says they also gouged out the contacts beneath the plastic keys, rendering the keyboards useless. "The membranes were jabbed out underneath," he said. He says most of the keyboards were made by Microsoft and included ergonomic features. A CompUSA salesman handling government accounts in the Washington area priced for WorldNetDaily a similar Microsoft ergonomic model at $33, including the government discount, or $39.99 retail. Costs from maintenance and repair of White House offices and equipment during the transition were paid out of General Services Administration's transition fund. GSA has offices in the White House complex. Clinton supporters pooh-poohed Fleischer's damage assessment because they said it relied on the five-month-old recollections of White House workers. But the assessment jibes with earlier, contemporaneous accounts by White House workers tasked with assessing and repairing the damages. Those workers -- interviewed by WorldNetDaily in January within days of the vandalism -- include the computer employee who helped replace the keyboards while setting up new Bush aides at their work stations, a phone-operations manager who helped survey phone-line damage, including in the West Wing, and a GSA building manager who was involved in supervising the custodial crews. In terms of damage, "there was never anything like this" in previous administrations, said one career worker. "The money will come from taxpayers," said another. Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., has asked Congress' investigative arm, the General Accounting Office, to consider reinvestigating the vandalism charges. GAO had closed its investigation because Bush officials, wanting to "move on" from the Clinton scandals, had produced no proof of vandalism, while at the same time privately ordering career workers to clam up, WorldNetDaily has learned. 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