.............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.html From: American Patriot Friends Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "\"American Patriot Friends Network\"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NEW WHITE HOUSE WHISTLE BLOWER CLAIMS INTIMIDATION Date: Friday, May 12, 2000 5:55 PM NEW WHITE HOUSE WHISTLE BLOWER CLAIMS INTIMIDATION Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:29:59 -0400 From: "Steven Hoffman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] DECLARATION OF KATHLEEN GALLANT I, Kathleen Gallant, hereby state as follows: 1. I have personal knowledge of the matters attested to herein. 2. From January 12, 1998 through October 13,1998, I was the Associate Director for the Information Systems and Technology Division (IS&T) of the Executive Office of the President's Office of Administration (OA). This position was a political appointment. Among my duties, I was responsible for the operational support for many of the computer systems for the EOP. I currently run an $85 million major business group of an information technology company in Northern Virginia with annual revenues of $500 million and approximately 4500 employees. 3. In approximately June 1998, I came to learn of Project X, or the "Mail2" problem, which was the failure of the Automated Records Management System (ARMS) to capture incoming Internet e-mail to White House staff, which resided on the Mail2 computer server. I learned in June 1998 that the problem with the email began in August 1996. As a result, this incoming email, which numbered in the hundreds of thousands, was not searched by the ARMS system in response to subpoenas and document requests. I personally never saw any emails nor was I aware that any had been printed or shown to anyone. 4. I also understand from the public record that Mark Lindsay of OA has also been alleged to have made threats to the contractors over Project X in order to keep it secret. Based on my experience in working with them, I am confident that both Crabtree and Lindsay are capable of conveying those threats to the contractors and others. Certainly, the contractors acted, in their numerous interactions with me as if they had been threatened. On several occasions, Mark Lindsay told me not to record anything of controversy in email communications. It was clear to me that he did not want me to create any records that might embarrass or cause legal implications if recorded by the ARMS system. 5. I was first briefed on Project X one day in a meeting in the office of Paulette Cichon (then Deputy Director for Information Management at OA and my supervisor) with Ms. Cichon and Betty Lambuth. Ms. Lambuth, who was extremely nervous, at first refused to tell me what concerned her. Only after Lindsay came into Ms. Cichon's office during the meeting and gave Ms. Lambuth permission to brief me, did she divulge to me what she knew about the Project X email problem. At that time I was not aware of the threats to Ms. Lambuth and the other Northrup Grumman employees. 6. Shortly thereafter, I learned from contractors Betty Lambuth, Robert Haas, John Spriggs and Sandy Golas (all of whom I interacted with regularly) that Laura Crabtree, who worked for me, had threatened them with jail if they gave information about Project X to unauthorized persons. 7. I quickly realized the impact the Project X issue would have on email searches in response to subpoenas and document requests (the searches were incomplete) and took several management steps to try and correct the problem. I know that Mr. Lindsay and the rest of the OA management, such as Ada Posey and Virginia Apuzzo, were also aware of the implications of Project X as it related to the accuracy of email searches. 8. Having seen a document in mid-June of 1998, showing that Charles Ruff, then White House Counsel, was to be fully briefed on the Project X email problem, I concluded that it was no longer "classified" and could be discussed more openly within OA. In fact, I ordered that the term "Project X" stop being used by OA staff and that a more descriptive term "Mail2 reconstruction" or variation thereof be used. At this time Ms. Crabtree was removed from the project, in an attempt to reassure the Northrup Grumman employees that they would not be subject to any future threats. 9. The first action I took was to order that the procedure that was used to create "user id's" be corrected to prevent any more users from having email that would not be properly captured by the ARMS system. 10. I held several meetings with the Northrup Grumman staff (Sandy Golas, Bob Haas and John Spriggs) who were familiar with Lotus Notes (the computer system upon which emails were transmitted), and the ARMS system. Because of Crabtree's threats the contractors said they did not want to work on the Project X problem. 11. Steve Hawkins, their Northrup Grumman supervisor, also told me that his staff reported that Crabtree had threatened them over Project X. Hawkins also told me he had a meeting with Lindsay in which he and Lindsay disagreed strongly about the Project X email secrecy. Given the fact that I thought the Project X issue should be quickly fixed, I was anxious to persuade the contractors to work on the project and resolve the problems. To that end, I suggested to Steve Hawkins that the employees who worked directly for Northrup Grumman consult with the company's legal counsel about the threats to reassure them that it would be acceptable for them to work on the project. I was told that this consultation did take place. 12. Also, once I became aware of the need for additional hardware to solve the Project X problem, I requested that Mark Lindsay and Ada Posey take action to determine if National Security Council (NSC) funds allocated by law for the ARMS system as it related to NSC (as a result of the Armstrong v. EOP litigation), which still had a large amount of unspent funds, could be directed to shoring up the ARMS system. This would have allowed OA to rectify the Project X problem (reconstructing the uncaptured email to the ARMS system and fixing the "glitch" that caused the ARMS system to not capture the incoming email in the first place). 13. Despite my repeated requests, and the vocal and written concerns of OA computer specialist Daniel Barry (as confirmed in recently publicly released emails from him) and Jim Wright (who supervised Barry as head of the EOP Data Center), nothing of consequence was ever done to reallocate funds, and therefore no funds were available to purchase the equipment needed to rectify the email problem. In fact, when I left OA in October 1998, the incoming emails to those users on the Mail2 server were still not being captured by the ARMS system, resulting in hundreds of thousands of uncaptured emails remaining effectively hidden from investigators. It appeared to me that Lindsay, his supervisors and other White House officials simply did not want the problem to become publicly known so they would not have to search the two years of uncaptured email in the middle of the Lewinsky and other ongoing criminal inquiries, such as those concerning campaign fundraising and Filegate. 14. I am aware of testimony and reports that six months of the Project X email resident on tape was overwritten and likely lost. In March or April 1998, faced with a lack of funding to purchase sufficient tapes to maintain the backup system, I authorized OA staff to recycle older backup tapes and use them again. It was our intent to have a rolling active archive of two years of tapes at all times. It was in that context that some of the Project X email tapes were overwritten. At the time that I ordered the reuse of old tapes, I was under the impression that the ARMS system was capturing all the email. Given my respect for the law and my basic professionalism, I would never have authorized the recycling of the tapes had I known that, in doing so, that the only remaining copies of any emails would have been lost as a result. The public record shows that Betty Lambuth believes that backup tapes from the time period of June through September 1997 were recycled and overwritten. If, in fact, these tapes were overwritten, I can only surmise that someone picked up tapes from the middle of the year instead of using ones dated prior to January 1997. Once the Project X problem became known, we stopped using the existing tapes and I authorized the purchase of new tapes. All available funds were used to purchase new tapes so that we could continue to backup the EOP systems. 15. In February 2000, I was contacted by James Gilligan, an attorney with the Department of Justice. Mr. Gilligan and I had met once before during my tenure at OA, and he said that he wanted to ask me questions and possibly depose me about the email problem. I told him that I would be happy to answer his questions but that he ought to hear my answers before deciding to depose me as I wasn't sure he would like what I had to say. I never met with Mr. Gilligan, nor have I been contacted by him again. Nor have I been contacted since then by anyone in the Department of Justice or the Office of Independent Counsel. I swear under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on May 10, 2000 in Washington DC. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Contempt of Congress http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/lexico/liv/c/Contempt_of_Congress_.html ================================================================== "It is essential to liberty that the government in general should have a common interest with the people, so it is particularly essential that the branch of it under consideration [legislative--House] should have an immediate dependence on, and an intimate sympathy with, the people. 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