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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 campaign dressed as a chicken to stalk then [[President George H.W. Bush]] calling him names. After victory Livingstone headed up the White House Office of Personnel Security. Livingstone 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 followed. Big, stupid, partisan, willing to make a fool of himself and loyal to the end, Livingstone nearly fit the bill as the perfect Clinton surrogate.

Livingston was a bar bouncer who worked on the 1992 campaign dressed as a chicken to stalk then [[President George H.W. Bush]] calling him names. After victory Livingstone headed up the White House Office of Personnel Security. Livingstone illegally requested and received from the [[FBI]] background files on former [[Reagan]] and Bush Sr. staffers.  

 

Livingstone was the perfect [http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,6984,00.html patsy] for what followed. Big, stupid, partisan, willing to make a fool of himself and loyal to the end, Livingstone nearly fit the bill as the perfect Clinton surrogate.

   

   

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 suffered only two years earlier in the [[Clarence_Thomas#Appointment_to_the_United_States_Supreme_Court|Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill]] hearings there is a near certainty;  that innocent lives and careers were affected for the coming decades is unquestionable. It was intended as the political equivalent of the [[Katyn massacre]]-a decapitation of the future leadership of the Republican party. Any White House staffers who served Presidents Reagan and Papa Bush who may think of running for Congress one day 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>

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 suffered only two years earlier in the [[Clarence_Thomas#Appointment_to_the_United_States_Supreme_Court|Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill]] hearings there is a near certainty;  that innocent lives and careers were affected for the coming decades is unquestionable. It was intended as the political equivalent of the [[Katyn massacre]]-a decapitation of the future leadership of the Republican party. Any White House staffers who served Presidents Reagan and Papa Bush who may think of running for Congress one day 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>