April 20, 2002

THEY TREATED OUR HOUSE ABOUT LIKE THEY TREATED US:

Damage to White House cited (Joseph Curl, 3/19/02, THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
The General Accounting Office has found that departing Clinton aides vandalized the White House and Old Executive Office Building, stealing two historic doorknobs, scrawling obscene graffiti on walls and inflicting $14,000 worth of damage.
  
Those who have seen the GAO report, a preliminary document, say as many as 75 computer keyboards had to be replaced — at a cost of more than $5,000 — because Clinton staffers had broken off the W keys, a jab at George W. Bush, the winner of the bitterly contested 2000 presidential election, who was often referred to during the campaign as W.

Two historic doorknobs were stolen from the Old Executive Office Building along with a presidential seal, valued at $350, said the sources, who could not detail how the rest of the damages were inflicted. Chairs and telephone tables were broken, desks were overturned, garbage was strewn in offices and telephone lines were cut, the GAO report says, but does not, in each case, attribute the acts to vandalism.

Democrats dismissed the findings of the investigation — which they say cost about $200,000 to conduct just to find $14,000 in damages...


Hopefully someone hosed down the Oval Office before W moved in. Posted by Orrin Judd at April 20, 2002 6:24 AM
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