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Article: White House issued threats.
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 10, 2000
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Five Northrop Grumman employees were so intimidated by 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."
The threat came from Laura Crabtree, White House customer-support branch chief, during a June ...