Clinton Library Stonewalling Document Requests

NewsMax ^ | 3/19/07 | NewsMax

[wagglebee]

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.

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.”

[wagglebee]

I wonder what type of business the massage parlor is doing.

[wagglebee]

Ping

[Freee-dame]

"I haven’t received any documents or even a note indicating that they’re searching the records,”

They probably aren't. They might be evil, but they aren't stupid.

[digger48]

Sandy Berger's already been there.

[wagglebee]

No doubt!

[theDentist]

Maybe we can get a FOIA request to Bill...? :-)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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.

Sandy Berger has the offending documents stuffed in his socks.

[SpaceBar]

It would be instructive to know the Clinton Library's status as an organization (nonprofit, private etc), and the impact that has on their legal obligations to provide requested documents.

[Don Corleone]

It would be instructive to know the Clinton Library's status as an organization (nonprofit, private etc), and the impact that has on their legal obligations to provide requested documents.

Can you say,"no controlling legal authority?"

[Frwy]

Su Prise, Su Prise, Su Prise. White trash.

[rockinqsranch]

Clinton Library Stonewalling Document Requests

So what's new?

[unkus]

The Clinton organization could teach a lot to La Costra Nostra. That's the Mob for you people in Rio Linda.

[upchuck]

The pundits are right... it does look like a mobile home (trailer) on stilts. Ugly.

[rockinqsranch]

Who's from Rio Linda?

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

They may show up just like the billing records.

[reagan_fanatic]

It's not that they're stonewalling, it just takes some time to retrieve the documents since they have them in rusty file cabinets behind the private video booths and the DVD sections.

Oh, and the sticky floors aren't helping either.

[unkus]

Rush mentions people from Rio Linda when he is sometimes putting a point across. Sarcasm was my point.

[unkus]

That old rusty bridge in the background is nice looking too. Look at the huge crowds and all the traffic in the photo.

[Yo-Yo]

Another view:

[stylecouncilor]

ping