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...White House says Marceca obtained the confidential files by mistake because the Secret Service had supplied him with an inaccurate list of holdovers from the previous administration. "The Update Project," as the effort was known, has been described as a routine attempt to create new security files for people from earlier administrations who might still need access to the complex. But the vast majority of people on the list were low- and mid-level staff members who hadn't been inside the place in years. Raising further suspicion was the presence of former staff members from Clinton's travel office...
...Bureaucratic Snafu. Clinton and his team are insisting it was all just an "inexcusable mistake," as chief of staff Leon Panetta called it last week. It began, in this version, with a rogue computer program that produced the erroneous Secret Service list of people whom Marceca investigated, beginning in August 1993. For each name, he sent an unsigned request form to the FBI, which responded with a confidential report. Both Marceca and his FBI contacts apparently failed to question the accuracy of the list he was working from, and his supervisor, Livingstone, failed to supervise the exercise. Marceca says...
...Administration's darkest moments. On the day of the travel office purge, in May 1993, he wrote the memo barring the workers from the White House. When Vincent Foster committed suicide, in July 1993, he accompanied associate counsel William Kennedy III to identify the body. The next morning, two Secret Service agents said, they saw Livingstone leaving the elevator that connected to Foster's office suite with a briefcase and box of loose-leaf binders (Livingstone denied removing documents from Foster's office). Because of these provocative appearances, Livingstone was deposed by various investigatory panels, including the Senate Whitewater Committee...
...have filed a suit asking that all commandos still alive be paid $2,000 for every year they served in prison--an estimated total of $11 million. Two weeks ago, the case broke open when a federal claims court forced the CIA and the Pentagon to declassify secret payroll rosters and memos. The documents show that the U.S. government had declared the commandos dead even though it knew many were still alive. The money saved by withholding the benefits was used for other operations...
...documents confirm that most of the commandos should never have been sent on the missions in the first place. North Vietnam's Hanoi agents "had penetrated the operation from the beginning," says Sedgwick Tourison, a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst who has written a book on the operation (Secret Army, Secret War; Naval Institute Press). For three years, the agency's Saigon station continued to send teams into North Vietnam even as evidence mounted that the North Vietnamese seemed always to know where and when they were coming. Some captured radio operators, ordered by the North Vietnamese...