JUDGE REJECTS BUSH TRY TO DESTROY RECORDS

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, January 15, 1993                   TAG: 9301150270
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The Washington Post
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short
JUDGE REJECTS BUSH TRY TO DESTROY RECORDS
A federal judge Thursday rejected a last-minute Bush administration attempt to begin destroying most computerized White House records and warned in a sharply worded order against any effort to evade his mandate.
The National Security Council had been planning to start erasing the records on its computers today in order to provide a "clean slate for the incoming administration" of President-elect Clinton, according to court papers.
U.S. District Judge Charles R. Richey ordered the National Archives last week to prevent the erasure of NSC data and other computer records in the executive office of the president, but the administration asked for a stay of the ruling.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB