The Clinton EPA, under Carol Browner, was just as crooked as the Justice Dept:

A federal judge held the Environmental Protection Agency in contempt Thursday for destroying computer files during the Clinton administration that had been sought by a conservative legal foundation. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth also ordered the EPA to pay the Landmark Legal Foundation’s legal fees and costs because the agency disobeyed his order to preserve the electronic records of former chief Carol Browner.

Lamberth had issued a protective order on Jan. 19, 2001, the day before the Clinton administration ended, instructing the EPA to preserve all documents that might be relevant to a Freedom of Information Act request by Landmark for documents about the agency’s contacts with outside groups.


Browner had testified she asked a technician to delete her computer files the same day Lamberth ordered them preserved.
The former EPA administrator said she usually didn’t use her computer for work or e-mail, hadn’t been notified about the court order, and had just wanted to remove some computer games her son had installed on her work computer. Browner’s attorney, Robert Trout, said his client had wanted to ensure her work computer was appropriately formatted for her successor in the Bush administration

That was very nice of Browner. Why the stooges leaving the Whitehouse were destroying computers and phones, Ms. Browner wanted to ensure that Christie Whitman had a perfectly formatted PC. Bullshit. The Clinton Administration, in the last days, pushed through numerous environmental and OSHA EO's. Most would never have made it through any scrutiny.