-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- from: Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.campaignscoop.com/insight/item50.shtml">Insigh tMag.com - Insight Magazine</A> ----- Insight is, I believe, operated by the Washington Times; which is operated by the Moonies; which is operated by . . . As always , Caveat Lector. Om K ----- White House E-Mail Dance White House Counsel Beth Nolan raises as many questions as answers on who knew what and when regarding the "lost" emails everybody is chasing. The testimony of White House Counsel Beth Nolan March 30 is sure to cause much angst at the Executive Office of the President once Republicans on the House Government Reform Committee figure out they've been caught in circular debates on who knew what and when. For example, Nolan told the panel towards the end of her sworn testimony that there was "no truth" to reports first published in Insight in December 1998 and January 1999 that a secret stash of detailed long-distance records existed at the White House going back to 1992. "No such records exist," Nolan testified, relying on statements by her staff. She also testified that concerning the "lost" emails that the White House and her office only recently found out the extent of the problem when news reports surfaced in mid-February. The problem for Nolan and others at the White House is that in December 1998 a senior White House spokesman told Insight they knew about the "big problem" back then, as well as a "reconstruction project" to determine if any "lost" emails were not turned over as required by numerous subpoenas. In fact, when Insight first broke the emails story -- plus the telephone records matter -- back in December 1998 and January 1999, White House spokesmen and the White House chief of staff's office told Insight that while some of the recovered emails were duplicative, some of them appeared not to be. And, if so, they would be turned over immediately to investigative bodies. Yet, Nolan testified March 30 that only since this February has the White House begun working on the emails issue notwithstanding that they were first discovered in or about June 1998. She also testified that senior officials thought the issue of emails had been resolved when first discovered in mid-1998 notwithstanding statements to Insight nearly six months later in the same year from press spokesmen and the White House chief of staff's office that they knew they were working overtime to fix the problem and get a handle on the mess. But, according to Nolan in her sworn testimony March 30, it was only in late March that the White House knew it had a big problem and only then did it hire a contractor to reconstruct the emails. "You can't have it both ways," says a White House aide troubled by Nolan's testimony. "The problem she and the White House face," said a high-level computer programmer familiar with the Executive Office of the President email fiasco is that "they've been working since at least August 1998 'reconstructing' the emails. So can they say they only now are doing it?" Indeed, this is a question many a contractor with the Northrup Grumman company has been asking in private given that many of the firm's employees not only have been familiar with the email issue for nearly two years, but also have worked on "Project X", the name given to the secret reconstruction plan uncovered by Insight in December 1998. "What have they been doing all this time," asked a second computer expert who also is familiar with the White House computer systems. "They have been reviewing them for a long time and comparing those emails to the many batches turned over to investigators," this second computer expert tells Insight. "How can she [Nolan] say otherwise now?" Yet Nolan, along with representatives of the Justice Department and the federal Campaign Task Force plus the Office of Independent Counsel Robert Ray have told the committee and, separately District Court Judge Royce Lamberth, that only recently has anyone realized they had such missing or lost emails in their possession. Lamberth is the federal judge who is hearing a variety of cases filed by Judicial Watch, the legal watchdog group that is pursuing allegations of wrongdoing by the Clinton/Gore reelection committee, the Commerce Department, and the matter of hundreds of FBI files improperly turned over to the White House. The latter case is called Filegate. When Insight asked several federal law enforcement officials familiar with the email and telephone controversy if Nolan's testimony was accurate, here's what one source said: "She's wrong. When we first read your stories we tried to ask the White House if it was true that emails and telephone records existed. And we were told yes but that, concerning the emails, they were just duplicative." "When we asked them about the long-distance telephone records during at least one meeting with [FBI] agents present with White House lawyers and some aides, they told us they were aware there may be such telephone records but we needed to refine our requests." Insight asked this federal lawman and others who have spoken to the magazine on the condition they not be named what happened when they got stonewalled. They all said that they could not get backing from higher ups at the FBI or the Justice Department to pursue the matters. "It was a joke," said one federal lawman, echoing the comments of several other current and former federal law enforcement and Justice Department officials. When Insight first broke the story several years ago about a secret computer system called WHODB (White House Office Data Base), the White House denied it existed then admitted it did but downplayed its functions, then finally confirmed that it kept detailed information on hundreds of thousands of people. Just as Insight's sources had told the magazine. The same pattern is occurring again on the emails and telephone records that, ironically, several news organizations were aware of but decided not to pursue because the White House, as it did with the WHODB story, downplayed the significance of the articles. As the sources and whistleblowers on WHODB were proved right, so too are Insight's sources on the emails and soon on the telephone records that Nolan claims don't exist. "I've seen them, I've thumbed through them and I can tell you they are quite detailed and extensive," a well-placed source tells Insight. "The FBI knows about them and has seen some of them as have White House staff, so I don't know why she [Nolan] said that," the source continued. "The White House counsel's office knows they exist," the source added. In fact, Insight can now reveal -- for the first time -- that it has reviewed hundreds of pages of the telephone records going back to 1992. And Insight also has obtained many of those documents that show odd patterns of calls during many of the same months that the White House and the Clinton/Gore reelection campaign committee was raising significant amounts of money. Nolan's testimony, therefore, raises difficult legal issues for the new White House counsel and so too some of her staff and other White House aides who may have misled her into giving possible erroneous testimony to the panel involving the emails and now, the matter of those very detailed long-distance telephone records that don't exist. Nolan also will have to explain to the committee why she has referred to only one mail server concerning the emails when, Insight has learned, there are up to 5 mail servers that also handled emails. According to Insight's sources, these other mail servers also may have had some of their emails misplaced or otherwise not properly stored as to be responsive to subponeas. Finally Insight can reveal that, contrary to testimony and other statements by a variety of White House officials, back up tapes and records apparently have been secretly housed in an off-site facility under contract to the White House. 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