Judge Refuses to End Missing E-Mail Probe

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth said he wants to hear testimony from former White House Counsel Charles F.C. Ruff in a case involving thousands of lost Clinton administration e-mails. Lamberth denied a government request to end the seven-month e-mail inquiry, saying he hopes Ruff can explain why officials didn’t divulge a test of the White House e-mail system in 1998, four months after a problem was found. A computer glitch that year prevented thousands of incoming messages from being archived. As a result, they were never reviewed by White House lawyers to determine whether they should be turned over to investigators in cases involving the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal, the Whitewater development and campaign fund-raising.