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From: [e-mail] ( BOB HOOKER)
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In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Brian Rush ) writes:
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>
> Get a brain, and try a little honesty before you post.  From the first
> time this issue came out, the Rep. party has said that is was the
> (democratic run) State Department which did those things, and the
> whitehouse was NOT involved.  And finally, the liberal press is forced
> to admit it.  Just yesterday, the (extremely liberal) LA times said so.

I think you have messed your brain up with your ass.  If you read back
alittle you will notice that the person who was fired for doing the
searches was a former Bush campaign organizer.  Or maybe the Democratic
party decided to leak information about Clinton that could hurt him.

Well here is alittle liberal news to wake you up;

"WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The State Department official fired for her role
in the search of Bill Clinton's passport files said the request for
information on Clinton came from the White House, Newsweek magazine
reported.
    Elizabeth Tamposi said a State Department colleague who claimed to be
acting at the behest of a top White House official asked her to dig up
information on the Democrat even before news organizations requested the
files, Newsweek reported Sunday.
    Both the colleague and the White House official deny the claim.
    White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater declined to answer any
questions Monday on whether White House chief of staff James Baker or
his key assistant Margaret Tutwiler, or anyone else in the White House
for that matter had anything to do with the search for the Clinton
files.
    ``The inspector general is looking into it,'' Fitzwater said. ``We'll
await the outcome of the inspector general's investigation. We have full
confidence in him in this matter.''
    Tamposi was described by the Bush administration as the official
behind the search, which came as the campaign tried to play up Clinton's
trip to Moscow in 1969 and his anti-war activities in London.
    She told Newsweek that Steven Berry, the State Department's liaison
to Congress, asked her on Sept. 28 to see if the files backed up rumors
that Clinton once considered renouncing his citizenship to avoid the
draft."

"    WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The State Department official who was dismissed in
the wake of the scandal over the search of President-elect Bill
Clinton's passport files said a higher-ranking political appointee knew
of the search, a report said Saturday.
    Elizabeth Tamposi, former undersecretary of state for consular
affairs, has told investigators that the search was approved by John F.
W. Rogers, the undersecretary for management, sources told The New York
Times Saturday.
    Tamposi told investigators Rogers ``raised no concerns or objections,
nor did he suggest any alternative procedure'' when she told him of the
file inspection on the day she learned of it, Sept. 30, the newspaper
said.
    A separate report Saturday in The Washington Post said Tamposi
ordered Clinton's passport records delivered to her house that same
night after the papers were discovered by her deputies at a National
Archives warehouse.
    The Bush administration has described Tamposi as the official behind
the search, which occurred as the Bush campaign tried to play up a trip
Clinton took to Moscow in 1969 and his anti-war efforts while a student
in London.
    The State Department has acknowledged its officials acted improperly
by expediting media inquiry for Clinton's records ahead of other
requests made under the Freedom Of Information Act.
    Rogers, a former businessman, worked in the Reagan White House under
then-chief of staff James Baker and also in the Treasury Department when
Baker was secretary there. His post of undersecretary for management is
one of four ranking beneath the deputy secretary and secretary in the
State Department hierarchy.
    Both newspapers cited sources close to an investigation being carried
out by Sherman Funk, the State Department's inspector general. Funk is
probing the search of Clinton's passport files, as well as those of
Clinton's mother and independent presidential candidate Ross Perot. His
report is expected to be made public next week.
    The New York Times said Tamposi has told investigators that the
search was initiated by Carmen A DiPlacido, the acting deputy assistant
secretary of state, and that she was consulted after it began, not
before.
    Tamposi's lawyer, Thomas C. Green, said his client never authorized
the search of the files of Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelley, or Perot.
``The suggestion that she had anything to do with those searches is
absolutely false,'' Green said.
    The Washington Post reported that Tamposi told investigators she had
the files delivered to her home the night of Sept. 30 in order to keep
the records secured after having been told they appeared to have been
tampered with.
    The Post quoted an administration official who said Tamposi showed
``appalling judgment'' by having the files at her home and said the
action could have been grounds for her dismissal had Bush not accepted
her resignation this week.
    Contrary to the Times' account, the Post said Tamposi told
investigators she informed Rogers of the files and her concern they had
been tampered with one day later, on Oct. 1, a step that set off ``a
chain of events that led to a brief FBI investigation into alleged
tampering,'' the Post said.
    The Post said the FBI determined there was no evidence to support the
tampering allegation.
    The newspaper cited other sources who said investigators have
uncovered evidence that contrary to Tamposi's claims, she discussed the
political implications of the files with associates, including Steven K.
Berry, assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs.
    On Friday it came to light that the FBI has begun a criminal
investigation into whether the State Department illegally monitored
telephone calls, several of which may have dealt with the rifling of
Clinton's passport files.
    State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said that when Acting
Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger learned of the practice Oct. 14,
which sometimes occurs with telephone calls placed through the
operations center at Foggy Bottom, ``new instructions were issued
immediately.''
    Monitoring telephone calls, which is permitted under law if one party
is aware of it, has been addressed in Funk's investigation of why
Clinton's files were looked into in the midst of a presidential race.
    The Post reported Friday that the State Department operations center
monitored telephone calls between Tamposi and administration officials
in which she had ``political discussions'' concerning the passport-file
searches.
    ``The FBI is looking into the past practices of the operations center
personnel concerning the monitoring of telephone calls,'' Boucher said.
``This matter is an offshoot of the administrative investigation into
the Department's handling of Freedom of Information Act requests
relating to passport applications.''

""

    WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The FBI has begun a criminal investigation into
whether the State Department illegally monitored telephone calls,
several of which may have dealt with the rifling of President-elect Bill
Clinton's passport files.
    State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Friday that when
Acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger learned of the practice
Oct. 14, which sometimes occurs with telephone calls placed through the
operations center at Foggy Bottom, ``new instructions were issued
immediately.''
    Monitoring telephone calls, which is permitted under law if one party
is aware of it, has been addressed in State Department Inspector General
Sherman Funk's investigation of why Clinton's files were looked into in
the midst of a presidential race. The report is expected to be made
public next week.
    Elizabeth Tamposi, who President Bush dismissed as assistant
secretary of state for consular affairs on Tuesday, and others under her
direction allegedly rummaged through the passport files of Clinton,
Clinton's mother and independent candidate Ross Perot.
    The Washington Post reported Friday that the State Department
operations center monitored telephone calls between Tamposi and
administration officials in which she had ``political discussions''
concerning the passport-file searches.
    ``The FBI is looking into the past practices of the operations center
 personnel concerning the monitoring of telephone calls,'' Boucher said.
``This matter is an offshoot of the administrative investigation into
the Department's handling of Freedom of Information Act requests
relating to passport applications.''
    Tamposi has maintained that the file searches, which occured at
embassies in Oslo and London and at a record-storage facility in
Maryland, were conducted in response to Freedom of Information Act
requests from the media.
    The most recent disclosure, which has further tarnished the normally
pristine image of the diplomatic corps, sheds light on a practice that
Boucher said was banned in 1982 by then Secretary of State Alexander
Haig.
    The State Department operations center, which has been around for 30
years, places telephone calls to administration officials or foreign
dignitaries. Personnel there will take notes on a conversation if
requested to do so by one of the parties, Boucher said.
    ``It's more than just a switchboard or a communications center,''
Boucher said. ``Their job is to keep principals informed of what's going
on and to help people in the department do their business, especially in
off-hours.''
    They are not supposed to monitor the telephone calls without the
express consent of one of the participants, he said, which is what
allegedly occured with Tamposi's conversations.
    ``The real issue here is whether they should or did stay on the line
without the consent of one of the parties,'' Boucher said.
    Although Haig had banned unapproved monitoring, he said, apparently
``things got kind of loose.'' Eagleburger issued a new policy re-
enforcing the rule that one party must request the monitoring when he
discovered the slippage, Boucher said.