Mr. Fabiani said the report vindicated the White House because the F.B.I. did not find fingerprints from any of the Clinton aides who Republicans have suggested might have spirited the records out of Mr. Foster's office after his death.
Mr. Chertoff said Mrs. Clinton's fingerprints could have been left in 1992, the year she said she handled the documents.
While Mr. Fabiani said he found cause to celebrate the report, Mr. Chertoff emphasized that the absence of someone's fingerprints on a document did not prove that person had not handled it.
The discovery of a limited number of fingerprints on the documents deepens the mystery of who may have concealed the records from investigators.
Mr. Chertoff said only the President and Mrs. Clinton and one or two of their friends would have been interested in the documents and would have had access to the Book Room.
If someone else moved the documents into the Book Room, they may have failed to leave fingerprints.
In addition to Mrs. Clinton's fingerprints, the bureau found those of Mr. Foster, who reviewed the documents in 1992; Carolyn Huber, a White House official who discovered the documents; Marc Rolfe, an employee of the law firm that took custody of the documents after they were discovered in the White House; Sandra Hatch, a secretary in the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., where the documents were first produced, and Millie Alston, a White House official who had also worked at the Rose Law Firm.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/05/us/hillary-clinton-s-fingerprints-among-those-found-on-papers.html
Mr. Chertoff said Mrs. Clinton's fingerprints could have been left in 1992, the year she said she handled the documents.
While Mr. Fabiani said he found cause to celebrate the report, Mr. Chertoff emphasized that the absence of someone's fingerprints on a document did not prove that person had not handled it.
The discovery of a limited number of fingerprints on the documents deepens the mystery of who may have concealed the records from investigators.
Mr. Chertoff said only the President and Mrs. Clinton and one or two of their friends would have been interested in the documents and would have had access to the Book Room.
If someone else moved the documents into the Book Room, they may have failed to leave fingerprints.
In addition to Mrs. Clinton's fingerprints, the bureau found those of Mr. Foster, who reviewed the documents in 1992; Carolyn Huber, a White House official who discovered the documents; Marc Rolfe, an employee of the law firm that took custody of the documents after they were discovered in the White House; Sandra Hatch, a secretary in the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., where the documents were first produced, and Millie Alston, a White House official who had also worked at the Rose Law Firm.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/05/us/hillary-clinton-s-fingerprints-among-those-found-on-papers.html
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