I didn’t take the ‘W’ key off these keyboards!
Many years later, former president Invoice Clinton has spoken out about allegations that his employees broken the West Wing forward of his administration’s 2001 exit from the White Home.
As a spurn to the incoming George W. Bush — to make it more durable for staffers to sort his identify — ‘W’ keys on keyboards went lacking at an exponential charge, in keeping with studies from the time.
Some have been discovered glued to doorways, whereas others have been swapped with different keys, Bush staffers moaned to the Normal Accounting Workplace, who carried out a year-long investigation into the matter.
Clinton, 78, fumed in his new memoir “Citizen: My Life After The White House” that he “didn’t know” in regards to the “mischief.”
“The whole thing bothered me because I had made it clear that I wanted a smooth, cooperative transition and we had done exactly that,” he wrote.
“Within a few days some people finally went on the record to say that either no damage had occurred or that the allegations of ‘W’ mischief were greatly exaggerated.”
However the orgy of pilfering didn’t cease there.
The presidential aircraft was reported to have additionally been “stripped bare” throughout Clinton’s final flight by souvenir-hunting members of the outgoing administration’s employees .
China, silverware, and salt and pepper shakers, have been among the many gadgets that allegedly went lacking.
Graffiti on the partitions, obscene telephone messages, submitting cupboards glued shut and pornographic footage left amongst clean paper masses in printers, have been additionally among the many injury allegations given to the GAO.
In the meantime, the contents of desk drawers have been “dumped on the floor” whereas glass desk tops have been “smashed” and rotting meals was left in unplugged fridges, in keeping with the allegations.
And “six to eight 14-foot trucks were needed to recover usable supplies that had been thrown away,” the GAO stated in its 2002 report.
Clinton’s employees brought on about $15,000 price of “damage, theft, vandalism and pranks” and a few incidents comparable to eradicating keyboard keys, putting glue on desk drawers and leaving obscene voicemail messages “clearly were intentional,” the GAO discovered.
Intentional injury would represent a prison act underneath federal regulation, however nobody was prosecuted for the incidents.
Clinton who was impeached by the Home of Representatives in 1998 when it emerged he’d lied a couple of relationship with then-22-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky, additionally opened up in regards to the affair within the e book.
