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RAIN 08/24:Presidential libraries and email (again)



The Daily Herald 8/21/00
Prospect Hts. will hand over financial records to county
http://www.dailyherald.com/d/newsfront/local/localcook/dhhtm/10rest.htm

by Chris Clair
Prospect Heights officials are preparing to mail copies of annual financial 
reports dating back to 1991 to the Cook County Treasurer's Office. 
The copying and mailing is necessary because, although Prospect Heights says 
it has sent the reports every year, Jim Allen, a spokesman for Cook County 
Treasurer Maria Pappas' office, said records kept before Pappas took office 
in 1998 are not reliable. 
What the treasurer's office does know is that as of last month it had not 
received Prospect Heights' annual financial report for 1998. Allen said a 
letter of non-compliance was sent out. 


Lawrence Eagle-Tribune 8/23/00
Accused’s computer files searched
http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20000823/FP_003.htm

by Jeffrey Klineman
MIDDLETON -- A search of the memory banks of computer equipment owned by 
accused child molester Christopher J. Reardon may have turned up new victims 
and crimes, according to investigators. 
Police seized hard drives, software, computer disks and other tools, as well 
as forensic evidence and videotapes, from Mr. Reardon's River Street home and 
his office in the rectory of St. Agnes Church when they arrested the 
28-year-old youth leader and swim coach in June.
But they needed additional search warrants to look within the depths of the 
computers' memory for pictures, messages and files that may give them 
information about crimes committed by Mr. Reardon beyond those detailed in 
the 122 indictments he already faces. 


Nando Times 8/23/00
Clinton aide denies threats over missing White House e-mails
http://www.nandotimes.com/no_frames/politics/story/0,4457,500242746-500358332-
502096637-0,00.html

by Greg Toppo
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (August 23, 2000 1:03 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - A top 
Clinton administration official rejected allegations that he threatened White 
House computer technicians with jail time and the loss of their jobs over 
lost administration e-mails. 
At a court hearing Wednesday, attorney Mark Lindsay, the assistant to the 
president for management and administration, reprised testimony he gave to 
Congress last spring, saying claims that he threatened employees were 
"absolutely not true." 
He also said he doesn't recall meeting for more than a few seconds with Betty 
Lambuth, the White House contract employee who made the allegations, and said 
he never told her to keep quiet about some e-mails that might not have been 
saved. 


Salon.com 8/23/00
Are British bobbies reading your e-mail?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/08/23/british_carnivore/index.html

by Wendy M. Grossman
| LONDON -- Americans are used to thinking of Britain as the source from 
which most of the principles of our democracy flow, a country for which these 
principles are so innate it doesn't even need a written Constitution. The 
reality is increasingly different. 
Compare and contrast. On July 14, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that 
the FBI was using an Internet wiretapping system known as Carnivore to 
intercept and access e-mail. By July 24, FBI assistant director Donald Kerr 
was explaining Carnivore to Congress. By Aug. 15, a federal appeals court had 
ruled, in response to a suit from the Electronic Privacy Information Center 
and others, that law enforcement officers must get a Fourth Amendment search 
warrant before they can have access to "packets from which call information 
has not been stripped." The ruling, it seems, makes Carnivore illegal. In 
Britain, on the other hand, on July 28 the Regulation of Investigatory Powers 
Act (RIP) became law, requiring all Internet service providers to install and 
maintain interception equipment for the benefit of law enforcement. Yes, 
agents will have to get a warrant. But that warrant will be issued by the 
politician at the head of the Home Office (Britain's equivalent to the 
Justice Department), not by a judge. 


Digitalcity.com 8/23/00
Dow fires e-mail violators
http://home.digitalcity.com/houston/news/article.dci?provider=metronetworks&ca
tegory=News&article=562349

Dow Chemical Company has fired nearly 40 workers and disciplined others at 
its massive Freeport plant for violations of its zero-tolerance policy toward 
sending and receiving E-mails with violent or sexual content on company 
computers. 


Washington Post 8/23/00
Severance document’s authenticity questioned
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7058-2000Aug22.html

by Avram Goldstein
Public Benefit Corp. officials are investigating whether deposed chief 
executive John A. Fairman may have used a questionable document last year to 
persuade the agency to increase his severance pay, according to memos and 
interviews.
The document was found this month in the agency's files, along with an 
authentic, but less generous, 1997 agreement. Two weeks ago, Fairman's 
attorney filed a copy of the more generous version with an arbitration panel 
as he pursued severance benefits.


St. Louis Post-Dispatch 8/23/00
Kennedy Library releases more papers
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/National/D15BA2486C414DCB86256944
007EF241?OpenDocument

Tatsha Robertson
The Boston Globe
BOSTON -- Thousands of pages of classified material, documenting foreign 
policy issues during the Kennedy presidency, were released Wednesday by the 
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.
More than 4,500 documents were opened to the public, including memos between 
Kennedy and his National Security Council adviser, McGeorge Bundy, and US 
efforts at political subversion in Cuba, according to Maura Porter, an 
archivist at the library.
While library officials said the material will provide the general public 
with a look into the inner workings of the government, they expect the 
information will be far more useful to historians.


Minneapolis Star Tribune 8/23/00
Task force recommends changes to state’s open records laws
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=82369851

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A task force is recommending that the Legislature 
clarify Wisconsin' s open records laws, contending several judicial 
interpretations have made their implementation " cumbersome." 
The committee draft report recommends the Legislature make it clear that 
portions of public employees' personnel records aren' t covered by the open 
records laws. It urges lawmakers to create an expedited process for judicial 
review when other portion of their records are requested. 
It also asks legislators to clarify that provisions in the law requiring 
notification prior to the release of some personal records only applies to 
public employee personnel records. 


Dallas Morning News 8/23/00
For the record
Archivist to lead search through millions of Clinton items for presidential 
library
http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/152889_arlibrary_23te.html

by Suzi Parker
Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – More than 75 million personal and official papers, 1.85 
million photographs and more than 75,000 gifts have been given to President 
Clinton over the last eight years. 
David Alsobrook's first assignment is to go through it all. 
"It's mind-boggling how much stuff there is," Mr. Alsobrook said Tuesday. "It 
could be terrifying, but we will deal with it in sections." 
Mr. Alsobrook, 53, now director of the George Bush Presidential Library in 
College Station, will move to Little Rock this fall to lead a team of 
archivists through the first phase of the massive Clinton Presidential 
Materials Project. 
This week, he is attending meetings about the Clinton project in Washington. 
On Wednesday, he plans to see some of the items for the first time. 
"I've heard reports of how much stuff there is," said Mr. Alsobrook. "I'm in 
awe of it already, and I haven't even seen anything." 



Peter Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com

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