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Article: Lawmaker Suggests Obstruction in Late Delivery of Memo on White House Database
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- October 31, 1997
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A key House investigator said yesterday he suspects the White
House counsel's office of obstructing justice by withholding a memo
suggesting that President Clinton wanted to share a taxpayer-funded
database with the Democratic Party, a violation of federal law.
Rep. David M. McIntosh (R-Ind.), who has been leading an
investigation into the "White House database" for more than a year,
said the counsel's office had had the memo since September 1996, but
that "somebody, a senior official at the White House, made a
decision not to give it to us."
"This means I'm going to have to open another investigation
about obstruction of justice," McIntosh said. "We will also have to
reopen ...