Talk:White House FBI files controversy

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[edit] Article name

I've moved the article from White House personnel file controversy to White House FBI files controversy because these weren't the regular "human resources" type personnel files involved, but rather FBI background reports. "FBI files" is also the term that both the Congressional investigation and the Independent Counsel reports used for the matter. Wasted Time R 13:57, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Did Craig Livingstone edit this article?

This edit from June 1, 2007 - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White_House_FBI_files_controversy&diff=134978620&oldid=130442673 - by User:Craiglivingstone, claims to be "written by the subject" of Filegate. There's no way of knowing if it really is the Craig Livingstone, of course, but my gut feeling is that it may well be. At the time, this article was incomplete and both inaccurate and slanted in places. User:Craiglivingstone's changes included some clarifications that were useful and correct (the outdated Secret Service list being the genesis of the affair), some that need corraboration (the actual number of files was 647?), and some that are contradicted by other news sources (the lack of salacious material in the files). User:Craiglivingstone's changes also sought to pin charges that Livingstone was unqualified for OPS Director on "right-wing media and conservative talk radio," but in fact plenty of mainstream media sources as well as the Independent Counsel report came to the same conclusion.

In any case, these changes were (improperly) wholesale reverted by User:Telecineguy. In apparent frustration, User:Craiglivingstone then made this edit - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White_House_FBI_files_controversy&diff=135156682&oldid=135029407 - to remove most of the article. This was also (properly) reverted by User:Telecineguy.

I have subsequently greatly expanded the article, and the parts of User:Craiglivingstone's edits that were useful and correct (from what I can tell) are now reflected in the article. Wasted Time R 15:48, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Missing files

The article omits crucial evidence, such as how many months the files were "missing", and where they were eventually "discovered" (in Hillary's bedroom).--dunnhaupt (talk) 16:31, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

You're confusing this with a separate Whitewater controversy matter, the discovery of the missing Rose Law Firm billing records for Hillary. Wasted Time R (talk) 16:44, 27 April 2008 (UTC)