March 16, 2000 - No Credible Evidence in FBI Case

By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Independent Counsel Robert Ray said Thursday there is no credible evidence of criminal activity in the White House's improper gathering of hundreds of FBI background files of former Republican appointees. There is also no credible evidence that former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum lied to Congress regarding the controversy in 1996, Ray said, adding that his office was ending both investigations with no prosecutions.

The prosecutor's office determined that ''there was no substantial and credible evidence that any senior White House official, or first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, was involved in seeking confidential Federal Bureau of Investigation background reports of former White House staff from the prior administrations of President Bush and President Reagan.''

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