Judge Demands White House E-Mails

The White House has 20 days to produce e-mails from President Clinton, the first lady, and 31 Oval Office aides about some very sensitive issues.

CBS News White House Correspondent Peter Maer reports a federal judge has ordered the White House to hand over any e-mail traffic about FBI files on Reagan and Bush appointees - and about the cases of Lewinsky scandal figure Linda Tripp and presidential accuser Kathleen Willey.

The conservative legal group Judicial Watch wants the e-mails as part of a lawsuit accusing the administration of routinely attacking its political enemies by using concidential material protected by the Federal Privacy Act.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered e-mails produced in the "Filegate" case of hundreds of appointees from the Reagan and Bush administrations whose FBI background files were gathered by the Clinton White House.

The judge is also allowing Judicial Watch to delve into two side issues: the use of information from Tripp's Pentagon personnel file and the White House's release of personal letters by Willey.

While calling for a search of White House computer archives, Lamberth said he will deal later with the problem that 100,000 or more e-mails were not archived and are being reconstructed from computer back-up tapes.