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WHILE CASPAR WEINBERGER AND FIVE OTHER SUSPECTS IN the Iran-contra affair got pardons for Christmas, the Santa in the White House was not so generous to everyone. CLARK CLIFFORD, 85, the onetime Defense Secretary indicted for helping the Bank of Credit & Commerce International secretly buy two U.S. banks, received coal in his stocking. He was up for consideration, but counsel C. Boyden Gray recommended against a pardon, and Bush agreed. Reason: Clifford's indictment suggests he reaped a bundle from his B.C.C.I. connection...
...destroy electronic messages created in the course of running the government? That issue came to a head last week when a federal judge barred the Bush Administration from erasing computer tapes containing E-mail dating back to the Reagan era -- including electronic memos that are relevant to Iran-contra and might implicate officials in the Iraqgate and Clinton passport scandals...
...specifically rejected the argument that all substantive E-mail had been saved in computer printouts. The paper versions, Richey noted, omit who received the documents and when. "What government officials knew and when they knew it has been a key question in not only the Iran-contra investigation but also in the Watergate matter...
...computer system, even for the boss. System administrators need to have access to everything in a computer in order to maintain it. Moreover, every piece of E-mail leaves an electronic trail. Though Oliver North tried to delete all his electronic notes in order to conceal the Iran-contra deal, copies of his secret memos ended up in the backup tapes made every night by White House system operators. "The phrase 'reasonable expectation of privacy' is a joke, because nobody reasonably expects any privacy nowadays," says Michael Godwin, general counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a not-for-profit group...
...dogged persistence--and, yes, his anger and vindictiveness--make Lawrence Walsh the true hero of the Iran-contra affair...