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Hunter Hillary Clinton Blasts Shotgun-Gate Stonewalling
An angry-sounding New York Sen. Hillary Clinton blasted the White House yesterday for failing to disclose details about Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident over the weekend, complaining that Bush administration officials were stonewalling on "legitimate requests for information." "The refusal of this administration to level with the American people on matters large and small is very disturbing, because it goes counter to the way our constitutional democracy . . . is supposed to work," said Mrs. Clinton, who has claimed in the past to have duck hunting experience herself. The top Democrat - who as first lady withheld subpoenaed documents from Whitewater investigators for two years and refused to turn over a suicide note from a top aide after he had killed himself - said the Bush administration's propensity for secrecy goes "from the top all the way to the bottom." "A tendency of this administration -- from the top all the way to the bottom -- is to withhold information," she fumed. "Putting it all together, going back years now, there's a pattern and it's a pattern that should be troubling," Clinton complained. The former first lady didn't mention her own hunting days, which she referenced during a May 2002 campaign swing though upstate New York. Challenged on her anti-gun positions by Fort Ann resident Holden Clous, Mrs. Clinton countered that she had been a hunter in her younger days. "It was ducks and it was a long time ago," she later explained to Newsday.
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