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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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