To enforce the order of an agency that relied on the testimony of a pediatrician who never even saw Eli n Gonz lez, and which never heard from either of the psychiatrists who did examine him in person. But lawless behavior is typical of this administration. This is a president, after all, who lied under oath in a federal courtroom. What is odd is that the Clinton crowd is full of lawyers, very often graduates of the elite law schools, natural leaders of a profession supposedly devoted to justice and fairness. Yet again and again they have shown their contempt for the rule of law.
Examples abound, to the point they are no longer headline news.
The E-mail messages were not properly stored in White House computers, a problem that administration officials knew about two years ago but did not disclose at the time to Congress, the Justice Department, or outside prosecutors. Two former White House contract employees have signed affidavits that Clinton White House appointees told them in June 1998 they would be jailed if they disclosed that messages were missing. A White House computer specialist said in an affidavit that plans were afoot several weeks before this March to destroy existing C drive tapes. A lawyer who failed to make such a disclosure in a routine federal civil case would be in deep trouble and might be well advised to retain criminal counsel. The Clinton White House seems unperturbed.