Hillary Clinton's secret files.

[calteacherguy]

Papers? I Don’t See Any Papers.
He says he's 'pro-disclosure,' but Bill has kept Hillary's White House files under wraps.
By Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK
Oct 29, 2007 Issue

When author Sally Bedell Smith was researching her new book about Bill and Hillary Clinton's White House years, she flew to Little Rock to visit the one place she thought could be an invaluable resource: the new William J. Clinton Presidential Library. Smith was hoping to inspect records that could shed light on what role the First Lady played in her husband's administration. But Smith quickly discovered the frustrations of dealing with a library critics call "Little Rock's Fort Knox."

An archivist explained to Smith that the release of materials was tightly controlled by the former president's longtime confidant Bruce Lindsey. Could she look at memos detailing the advice Hillary gave Bill during debates over welfare reform? Smith asked. No, the archivist said, those memos were "closed" to the public because they dealt with "policy" matters.

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The lack of access is emerging as an issue in Hillary's presidential campaign: she cites her years of experience as First Lady as one of her prime qualifications to be president. Like other Democratic candidates, she has decried the "stunning record of secrecy" of the Bush administration; her campaign Web site vows to bring a "return to transparency" to government. But Clinton's appointment calendar as First Lady, her notes at strategy meetings, what advice she gave her husband and his advisers, what policy memos she wrote, even some key papers from her health-care task force—all of this, and much more documenting her years as First Lady, remains locked away, most likely through the entire campaign season.

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documents NEWSWEEK obtained under a FOIA request (made to the Archives in Washington, not the Clinton library) suggest that, while publicly saying he wants to ease restrictions on his records, Clinton has given the Archives private instructions to tightly control the disclosure of chunks of his archive.

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Archives officials say Clinton is within his legal rights. But other Archives records NEWSWEEK reviewed show Clinton's directives, while similar, also go beyond restrictions placed by predecessors Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, neither of whom put any controls over the papers of their wives. This undoubtedly reflects the larger policy role Hillary played in her husband's administration. Still, some analysts are surprised at the broad range of documents Clinton asked the Archives to withhold. "It does sound pretty expansive. You start to wonder what's not included," says Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy.

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[MichiganVote]

1. And the papers of Papa Bush that sonny boy put a disclosure ban on....

This is just so much BS.

[calteacherguy]

2. .

"Clinton's directives, while similar, also go beyond restrictions placed by predecessors Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, neither of whom put any controls over the papers of their wives."

[aquart]

3. Comparing Barbara Bush to Hillary Clinton?

When did Barbara run for president? When did Nancy? Comparing apples and astronauts. One is found in a sheaf of recipes, the other soars.

[razorman]

5. True. That's why other first ladies' papers are irrelevant.

However, Mrs. Clinton is running for office by touting her experience. But, by not releasing data that would prove or disprove it, she is giving no reason for the public to vote for her on that basis.

[hijinx87]

4. I suspect

that this is getting caught up in an "executive privilege" argument,
which bush* created by changing the rules governing FOIA disclosures
in the first place.

he was trying to cover his own stuff up for posterity.

[MethuenProgressive]

6. "Archives officials say Clinton is within his legal rights."

Conspiracy theories like this are sooooooooo laughable.
ooo look! It's Hillary's Black Helicopters and... ELVIS!!

[Bitwit1234]

7. You know these type of things are so sickening

President Clinton's papers are in the NARA pertaining to government. They are there because of the President Papers Law (or whatever it is called) made more secure because of Bush's Executive Order 13,233. HE SAID IN THAT ORDER.....PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS CAN NOT BE RELEASED UNLESS UNDER AN ORDER FROM THE INCUMBANT PRESIDENT.

So these people are "supposed" to be journalist. They are "supposed" to know what they are writing about. They are "supposed" to know at least some of the laws.

But is seems to me they, like the people here that post their trash, are a bunch of fools. But maybe not. They post their lies and you see they get people to believe them.