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The Filegate matter revolves around one unanswered question, ''Who hired Craig Livingstone?''<ref> director of the White House's Office of Personnel Security </ref><ref>http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,6984,00.html </ref>

The Filegate matter revolves around one unanswered question, ''Who hired Craig Livingstone?''<ref> director of the White House's Office of Personnel Security </ref><ref>http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,6984,00.html </ref>

Livingston was a bar bouncer who worked on the 1992 dressed up in a chicken suit tom stalk then sitting [[President George H.W. Bush]] and call out "Chicken George". After the inauguration, Livingstone went to work as the Director of the White House Office of Personnel Security and illegally requested and received from the [[FBI]] background files on former [[Reagan]] and Bush Sr. White House staffers. Livingstone was the perfect [http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,6984,00.html patsy] for what happened next. That the files were illegally procured there is no doubt. That a [[DNC]] operative illegally downloaded copies to a flashdrive there is no question. That the files contained half-truths and innuendos, similar to the abuse the country just suffered two years earlier in the [[Clarence_Thomas#Appointment_to_the_United_States_Supreme_Court|Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill]] hearings there is no question;  that innocent lives and careers were affected there can be no doubt. It was intended to be the political equivalent of the [[Katyn massacre]]-a decapitation of the future leadership of the Republican party. And young White House staffer thinking of running for Congress in the future had to brace himself for whatever lies and innuendo may be thrown at them out of an FBI background check.<ref>http://fas.org/irp/congress/1996_rpt/fbirep.htm </ref>

Livingston was a bar bouncer who worked on the 1992 dressed up in a chicken suit tom stalk then sitting [[President George H.W. Bush]] and call out "Chicken George". After the inauguration, Livingstone went to work as the Director of the White House Office of Personnel Security and illegally requested and received from the [[FBI]] background files on former [[Reagan]] and Bush Sr. White House staffers. Livingstone was the perfect [http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,6984,00.html patsy] for what happened next.  

 

That the files were illegally procured there is no doubt. That a [[DNC]] operative illegally downloaded copies to a flashdrive there is no question. That the files contained half-truths and innuendos, similar to the abuse the country just suffered two years earlier in the [[Clarence_Thomas#Appointment_to_the_United_States_Supreme_Court|Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill]] hearings there is no question;  that innocent lives and careers were affected there can be no doubt. It was intended to be the political equivalent of the [[Katyn massacre]]-a decapitation of the future leadership of the Republican party. And young White House staffers who served President's Reagan and Papa Bush who may be thinking of running for Congress had to brace themselves for whatever lies and innuendo may be thrown at them out of an FBI background check.<ref>http://fas.org/irp/congress/1996_rpt/fbirep.htm </ref>

In the end of coarse, no one was ever held accountable for the abuse and lives destroyed. But all fingers pointed at the new First Lady who was rapidly getting a national reputation for the use of [[dirty tricks]], private eyes, and outright thugs to harass, discredit, intimidate, and blackmail her perceived political enemies or those who stood in the way of her raw ambition for power.

In the end of coarse, no one was ever held accountable for the abuse and lives destroyed. But all fingers pointed at the new First Lady who was rapidly getting a national reputation for the use of [[dirty tricks]], private eyes, and outright thugs to harass, discredit, intimidate, and blackmail her perceived political enemies or those who stood in the way of her raw ambition for power.