Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

DRUDGE: Lawsuit Filed for Clinton Library Records concerning Hillary
The Drudge Report ^ | July 18, 2007 | Matt Drudge

Posted on 07/18/2007 9:56:46 AM PDT by jdm

Washington, DC – Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption announced today that it filed a lawsuit on July 16, 2007 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration to obtain access to the following records from the Clinton Presidential Library: “First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s calendar, to include but not limited to her daily office diary, schedule, day planner, telephone log book, and chronological file.” The Archives, which operates and maintains Clinton Presidential Library records, failed to respond to Judicial Watch’s April 5, 2006 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

“Judicial Watch has a clear statutory right to have the Library search for and produce all non-exempt records responsive to its April 5, 2206 FOIA request within the time frame required by the [law]. The Library also is required to produce an index of any responsive records it seeks to withhold from Judicial Watch under the claim of exemption,” Judicial Watch wrote in its court filing. “Although more than 15 months have passed since Judicial Watch served its request, the Library has failed to do either.”

Judicial Watch is seeking Mrs. Clinton’s records from January 1, 1993 to January 20, 2001, the approximate time period during which she served as First Lady.

On January 20, 2006, more than 80 million pages of documents and 20 million e-mails from the Clinton administration were supposed to be made available to the public, yet only a portion have been released. Judicial Watch believes these documents potentially contain a treasure trove of previously undisclosed information. (Judicial Watch has made a number of requests to the Clinton Presidential Library concerning various Clinton administration scandals.)

“Given Mrs. Clinton’s current status as a presidential candidate, if not the front-runner for the Democratic Party’s nomination, the public interest in her tenure as First Lady is undeniable,” Judicial Watch stated in its lawsuit. “Because Mrs. Clinton seeks our nation’s highest office and may well be the next President of the United States, the public interest weighs heavily in favor of enjoining the Library from continuing to withhold the records at issue.”

“This lawsuit is a first step in obtaining access to new documents about Hillary Clinton’s role in the Clinton White House. With Hillary Clinton aggressively pursuing the presidency, uncovering the truth about her activities in the White House is just as relevant today as it was during the Clinton era,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The law requires the timely release of these and other Clinton White House documents. The court should compel the Archives to comply with the Freedom of Information Act and quickly release these records.”

END


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008; blackhelicopters; clinton; clinton2008; conspiracy; corruption; getalife; hillary; illegalfbifiles; joke; judicialwatch; lawsuit; nationalhealthcare; records; revisionisthistory; scam; stalinisttactics; starkravingsocialist; stonewall; tinfoil; whackjobs; youcanthandletruth
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-33 next last

1 posted on 07/18/2007 9:56:47 AM PDT by jdm
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: doug from upland

Time to turn the heat up on Hillary.


2 posted on 07/18/2007 9:57:21 AM PDT by jdm
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jdm
Judicial Watch, ...

I stopped reading right there.

3 posted on 07/18/2007 9:57:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jdm

Can we find somebody better than Larry to do it?


4 posted on 07/18/2007 9:57:50 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator
I stopped reading right there.

Amazing. That's the same point where I abandoned all hope.

5 posted on 07/18/2007 9:59:30 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If Fred Thompson had been at Thermopylae, the movie would have been called 1." - IMAO)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: jdm
I hate to be naive...

but couldn’t they just destroy them?

6 posted on 07/18/2007 9:59:47 AM PDT by bannie (The Good Guys cannot win when they're the only ones to play by the rules.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jdm

“I don’t recall where they are”


7 posted on 07/18/2007 10:00:18 AM PDT by Jeffrey_D. (The only thing I love more than my FreeperFriends is my God, Family and Country !!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tijeras_Slim

Can we find somebody better than Larry to do it?
:::::
The freakin’ political cowards that we loosely call REPUBLICANS should have been doing this job A LONG TIME AGO. They should have buried the Clintons into the tar pits of history when they really had the chance....that is WHO should have really been doing this job.

Kudos to Larry for trying -— carrying the Repubs water for them.


8 posted on 07/18/2007 10:01:11 AM PDT by EagleUSA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: jdm
"Yes, they're in my pants!"


9 posted on 07/18/2007 10:02:15 AM PDT by gunservative
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jdm
Good luck finding those files...

Files? What files?
10 posted on 07/18/2007 10:02:50 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Never Forget!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jeffrey_D.

check the same place where she hid the billing records - might be there


11 posted on 07/18/2007 10:03:31 AM PDT by sloop
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: jdm

Anybody wanna bet that the records will suddenly “disappear” until at least after the elections next year?


12 posted on 07/18/2007 10:04:55 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DustyMoment

Only to reappear inside the trunk of some tornado ravaged car...


13 posted on 07/18/2007 10:06:27 AM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will CNN news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator
I stopped reading right there.

The only thing they'll get from the Clinton's... is belly-laughs.

14 posted on 07/18/2007 10:06:33 AM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: EagleUSA

Larry Klayman hasn’t been with JW for years now. They fired the nut bag.


15 posted on 07/18/2007 10:06:55 AM PDT by AGreatPer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: jdm

With Hillary Clinton aggressively pursuing the presidency, uncovering the truth about her activities in the White House

Is that all? Clinton Library only stocks Larry Flint Publications, all else must be wrestled away Sandy Berger.


16 posted on 07/18/2007 10:07:22 AM PDT by Son House (>Every Democrat plan leaves Troops in Iraq, they need to answer for that.<)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Son House

all else must be wrestled away Sandy Berger.

Should be

.all else must be wrestled away ‘from’ Sandy Berger.


17 posted on 07/18/2007 10:08:57 AM PDT by Son House (>Every Democrat plan leaves Troops in Iraq, they need to answer for that.<)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: jdm

If they get the records, watch for lots of evidence to surface of the quid pro quo Presidential pardons given by Clinton as a result of the huge contributions to the library.


18 posted on 07/18/2007 10:10:01 AM PDT by TommyDale (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator; NeoCaveman
Oh, is Judicial Watch a joke? They're really on Clinton's side? I really should do more research before I post something like this as 'breaking news,' if - in fact - this lawsuit won't amount to anything substantive anyway.
19 posted on 07/18/2007 10:12:44 AM PDT by jdm
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: jdm

20 posted on 07/18/2007 10:13:05 AM PDT by Juliets Dad
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-33 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson