Livingstone Resigns, Denying Ill Intent [CLINTONISTA FLASHBACK]

The Washington Post ^ | June 27 1996 | George Lardner Jr. and Susan Schmidt

[Enchante]

The Clinton White House's beleaguered director of personnel security, Craig Livingstone, announced his resignation yesterday, saying he took responsibility for the unjustified collection of FBI files on hundreds of Republicans. But he denied any malign intent.

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The testimony of Livingstone and four others about how the White House personnel security office improperly collected hundreds of confidential FBI background files in 1993-1994 was an embarrassing occasion for the White House, which has endured three weeks of building criticism over the affair. Livingstone and his aide, Anthony B. Marceca, were portrayed as incompetent, inexperienced and wholly unsuited to their sensitive work.

But at the end of nine hours of testimony, the Democrats appeared for the moment to have staved off Republican attempts to portray the FBI files episode as a Clinton administration effort to dig up political dirt on GOP luminaries such as former White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater and former secretary of state James A. Baker III. Livingstone and others continued to portray it instead as a bureaucratic disaster that arose from an outdated Secret Service list.

[Enchante]

Just a reminder of one of the many Clintonistas-are-scumbags scandals that needs to be refreshed when Hillarity's campaign heats up.....

[martin_fierro]

Just who hired that fat f*ck, anyway?

[Trteamer]

And just what job did he resign from?

[Enchante]

Neither Kennedy nor anyone else, however, was able to explain how Livingstone, who had worked for the Clinton Inaugural Committee, got his job. Both Kennedy and Nussbaum said Livingstone was already in place – in effect acting director of personnel security – when they arrived at the White House in late January 1993. Kennedy testified that Vincent Foster, the deputy White House counsel who later committed suicide, had "identified" Livingstone "to this position when I arrived."

[SAMS]

I don't think we EVER got an answer to that question, did we?

[kittymyrib]

Ah yes, the good old Clintoon days when ethics were not in fashion, Mz. Pelosi. And we never heard a peep out of you.
By the way, who DID hire Craig Livingston? And whatever happened to him after the Clintoons left the White House?

[Rhetorical pi2]

He was not inept. He was the fall guy for the Clinton's efforts to collect damaging information on Republicans.

This guy was a campaign operative who was paid to go to the site of George H.W. Bush campaign speeches, dress in a chicken suit and divert attention away from the candidate.

This was just one of many sleazy, illegal, and immoral acts of the Clinton administration.

[martin_fierro]

[potlatch]

Another one taking the fall for the Clintons!

[BW2221]

I know news is slow because it the holiday season, but we've been getting some dumb posts. This ranks right up there with yesterday's (which was actually dated back to October) about DeKalb County (GA) schools refusing to turn the heat on before Nov. 1.

[freekitty]

"Ah yes, the good old Clintoon days when ethics were not in fashion, Mz. Pelosi. And we never heard a peep out of you.
By the way, who DID hire Craig Livingston? And whatever happened to him after the Clintoons left the White House?"

Actually, I believe it was Hillary Clinton herself who hired him.

[BenLurkin]

And where is he today?

[kcvl]

bttt

[BenLurkin]

FBI files and another set of keys to Vince Foster's car.

[kcvl]

Just who hired that fat f*ck, anyway?

Hillary Rodham Clinton, that's who!

[doug from upland]

I'm still trying to find him.

[Suzy Quzy]

WHERE is that fat pig now, I wonder?? He TOOK the FBI FILES to HILLARY!!

[popdonnelly]

Livingstone takes full responsibility. What a bunch of bull! Who told him to get the files?