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Hillary’s First Lady Records Locked Up
Nearly 2 million pages of documents covering Hillary Clinton’s eight years as first lady are locked up at her husband’s presidential library – and they’re not likely to be released until after the 2008 election. The documents consist of calendars, appointment logs, memos and other records and are in the custody of federal archivists at the library in Little Rock, Ark. While some records have already been made public, others have been censored by archives staff "because they include confidential advice and must be kept secret under a federal law called the Presidential Records Act,” the Los Angeles Times reports. "Political consultants said that if Hillary Clinton’s records were made public, rivals would mine them for scraps of information that might rattle her campaign.”
Story Continues Below But the conservative group Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit in July against the National Archives, which has jurisdiction over presidential libraries, demanding the release of Hillary’s diaries, telephone logs, daily planners and schedules. In the suit, Judicial Watch asserted that it had submitted its request for records more than a year ago and had received virtually nothing. The Clinton library’s chief archivist Melissa Walker, who heads a staff of 11, said: "We’re processing [requests] as fast as we can.” But Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive – a research institute at George Washington University – told the Times: "There’s no reason why a load of a few hundred FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] requests should absorb 11 full-time people perpetually.” The records that have been made public do reveal "tantalizing details” about Hillary’s years in the White House, according to the Times. One memo from 1993 discusses a plan to compile reports on members of Congress and their positions on healthcare. Another memo, discussing a fundraising event for Sen. Ted Kennedy, who was then running for re-election against current GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, stated: "Romney, a millionaire business consultant with no political experience, is a Mormon. His religion is a delicate issue, which Kennedy himself has not raised but other Democrats have.” © NewsMax 2007. All rights reserved. Editor's note:
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