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Article: Debased White House database
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 9, 1997
CopyrightCopyright 1997 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Money corrupts, and political money corrupts politically. This
variation on an old dictum applies to the Clinton administration's
pirouettes across the boundary that is meant to separate official
White House activities from partisan fund-raising.
Perhaps the most flagrant and instructive flouting of the legal
separation between government and nongovernment realms has been the
reported use of a White House office database, known in the jargon as
WHODB, by the Democratic National Committee. A former finance chief
at the DNC has embarrassed the administration by acknowledging the
party organization's common use of the database to identify major
donors.
The database included files on more ...