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- THE WEEK, Page 17NATIONFile Under Fired
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- A search for dirt on Perot and Clinton costs an official her
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- The passport-file scandle at the U.S. State Department has
- claimed a victim. Swamped by allegations that her subordinates
- searched the passport records of Ross Perot, Bill Clinton and
- Clinton's mother Virginia Kelley during the presidential
- campaign, Assistant Secretary of State Elizabeth M. Tamposi was
- forced to resign her post. Tamposi released a statement saying,
- in part, "I took no action that I deemed wrong or
- inappropriate." Not only that: she has reportedly told auditors
- that political appointee John F.W. Rogers, Under Secretary of
- State for Management, approved the search of Clinton's files.
- Investigators are also examining whether anyone from the White
- House or the Bush re-election campaign was involved. Commented
- Clinton: "If I catch anybody using the State Department like
- that when I'm President, you won't have to wait until after the
- election to see them gone."
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