[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2803]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                WHITE HOUSE E-MAIL CONTROVERSY CONTINUES

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, the White House e-mail controversy 
continues. Five Northrop Grumman employees were so intimidated by the 
White House threats of jail that one was nearly fired when she refused 
to tell her own bosses about the administration's failure to turn over 
thousands of e-mail messages under subpoena.
  Newly obtained information shows the White House threatened to have 
the five employees jailed after they found and reported a glitch in the 
White House computer system that prevented the discovery of more than 
100,000 White House messages involving campaign finance abuses, Monica 
Lewinsky, Chinagate, and Filegate.
  Mr. Speaker, the Justice Department does not even appear to be 
interested, does not want to check these e-mails for information about 
the campaign finance scandal.
  Why has Janet Reno, the attorney general, been so silent on this 
matter?

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