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Clinton Library Stonewalling Document Requests
Dozens of reporters, historians and others have filed requests for documents from the archive of the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock. But 16 months after the library began accepting applications for material, no major requests for sensitive documents related to Hillary Clinton’s years as first lady have been honored, a Newsday investigation found. "I haven’t received any documents or even a note indicating that they’re searching the records,” said Jeff Gerth, a former New York Times reporter who filed a request for documents in January 2006 for a Clinton biography. With Hillary Clinton seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, researchers are seeking undisclosed details from the Clintons’ eight years in the White House.
Story Continues Below But the Clintons’ longtime personal lawyer Bruce Lindsey has control over the 138-million-page archive’s documents and can reject any request. According to a list of Freedom of Information Act requests obtained by Newsday, the documents sought include almost all of Hillary Clinton’s files as first lady, her daily White House schedules, office diaries, day planners and telephone logs, as well as files related to Clinton scandals including Whitewater, Travelgate and Monica Lewinsky. Of the first 54 requests that were acted upon up until last November, only four were granted. Since then about 500,000 pages of documents have been released, but none of them have contained any potentially sensitive material. Officials at the library blame the delay on the sheer volume of requests. "This is a tremendously complex and convoluted process,” the library’s supervising archivist, Melissa Walker, told Newsday.
"We review documents line by line, document by document, not box by box. It takes a lot of time.” Tom Fitton, executive director of Judicial Watch – a conservative group that has asked for Hillary documents – complained: "We’re getting nowhere.”
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