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The First Look At Hillary Documents
Captain's Quarters ^ | Jan. 17, 2008 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 01/17/2008 7:56:25 PM PST by jdm

Judicial Watch has tried to gain access to the records from Hillary Clinton's task force on revamping the American health-care system, and has been met with considerable resistance. After seeing the first batch released by the Clinton library, one can certainly understand why. In a press release from Judicial Watch earlier this evening, they excerpted some explosive passages within the documents, passages which will create some uncomfortable questions for Hillary on the campaign trail.

First, an internal critique of Hillary's plan marveled at the unprecedented scope of government control over a private industry -- at least in peacetime:

A June 18, 1993 internal Memorandum entitled, “A Critique of Our Plan,” authored by someone with the initials “P.S.,” makes the startling admission that critics of Hillary’s health care reform plan were correct: “I can think of parallels in wartime, but I have trouble coming up with a precedent in our peacetime history for such broad and centralized control over a sector of the economy…Is the public really ready for this?... none of us knows whether we can make it work well or at all…”

The other two excerpts paint the effort in an entirely new and darker light. First, Senator Jay Rockefeller proposed that the federal government conduct smear campaigns against the opponents of the plan:

A “Confidential” May 26, 1993 Memorandum from Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) to Hillary Clinton entitled, “Health Care Reform Communications,” which criticizes the Task Force as a “secret cabal of Washington policy ‘wonks’” that has engaged in “choking off information” from the public regarding health care reform. The memorandum suggests that Hillary Clinton “use classic opposition research” to attack those who were excluded by the Clinton Administration from Task Force deliberations and to “expose lifestyles, tactics and motives of lobbyists” in order to deflect criticism.

Rockefeller had allies in mind for this effort:

Senator Rockefeller also suggested news organizations “are anxious and willing to receive guidance [from the Clinton Administration] on how to time and shape their [news] coverage.”

Wow. Media Matters should contact Rockefeller to disabuse him of the myth of the liberal-biased press!

Some might wonder about the notion of the White House digging up dirt on its critics in order to shut them up. Of course, this memo came from Rockefeller to Hillary, and no one can say whether she responded affirmatively or scolded Rockefeller for his dangerous suggestion. We can say that the suggestion came up earlier:

A February 5, 1993 Draft Memorandum from Alexis Herman and Mike Lux detailing the Office of Public Liaison’s plan for the health care reform campaign. The memorandum notes the development of an “interest group data base” detailing whether or not organizations “support(ed) us in the election.” The database would also track personal information about interest group leaders, such as their home phone numbers, addresses, “biographies, analysis of credibility in the media, and known relationships with Congresspeople.”

Anyone remember Craig Livingstone and the 700 FBI raw-data files that the White House obtained illegally? The story broke in 1996, but the files got accessed in 1993 by the former director of the White House Office of Personnel Security. Judicial Watch sued over the case, attempting to uncover the reason the highly-confidential files were requested by the Clinton White House.

Even without that, the idea that the government should essentially spy on its critics as a means to extort their silence or to discredit them publicly is completely noxious. If nothing else, Rockefeller should have to answer for his proposal, and Hillary should produce her response to it. Voters should pay particularly close attention to this and remember how the Clintons worked and how they would undoubtedly work again if allowed back into the White House.

NOTE: Judicial Watch's website is down for some reason at the moment. I'll link to the specific documents when the site comes back up.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; clinton; corruption; democratparty; documents; elections; hildabeast; hillary; hillarycare; hillaryclinton; hillaryscandals; hillarysecrets; hrcjw; judicialwatch; shadowparty; socializedmedicine; stophillary; transparency; villainy
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To: kcvl; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SunkenCiv
Senator Rockefeller also suggested news organizations “are anxious and willing to receive guidance [from the Clinton Administration] on how to time and shape their [news] coverage.”

Now that is just real interesting.....

41 posted on 01/17/2008 10:48:38 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Of course. They already shape (iow, spin, distort, suppress) the news along the lines demanded by Senator Clinton and her coterie. Thanks Ernest.


42 posted on 01/17/2008 11:02:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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To: jdm

It’s kinda strange..this comes out and their site is down..

Weird..


43 posted on 01/17/2008 11:06:40 PM PST by alaskamomma
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To: doug from upland


VIDEO: Bill Clinton heated over Vegas voter lawsuit...

RAW: SHOWDOWN WITH REPORTER...

NYT THURSDAY: BILL CLINTON FEELING THE HEAT, LOSING TEMPER... DETAILS... DEVELOPING...

NV: Bill Clinton, Stumping and Simmering
The New York Times ^ | January 18, 2008 | PATRICK HEALY
Posted on 01/17/2008 11:03:45 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

44 posted on 01/17/2008 11:07:03 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: jdm

When all Clinton’s papers, the both of them, are available, even the left will wonder how they avoided prison time. Nixon is going to look like Mother Teresa compared to them, before this is all over.


45 posted on 01/17/2008 11:13:54 PM PST by DoughtyOne (< fence >< sound immigration policies >< /weasles >< /RINOs >< /Reagan wannabees that are liberal >)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I wonder if he is using cocaine again.


46 posted on 01/17/2008 11:28:55 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: doug from upland

AGAIN...?


47 posted on 01/17/2008 11:38:36 PM PST by oneolcop (Take off the gloves!)
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To: doug from upland
Cavuto had some psycho-Babble gal on his Business Show today looking at the tape and she was defending Bill as just looking tired and stressed out from the campaign...
48 posted on 01/17/2008 11:47:52 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: jdm

bump


49 posted on 01/17/2008 11:58:50 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: oneolcop

There are several witnesses to his cocaine use.


50 posted on 01/18/2008 12:26:31 AM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: jdm

BFLR


51 posted on 01/18/2008 1:32:36 AM PST by alwaysconservative (Now NV Democrats know what it feels like to be told to put some ice on that. . .)
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To: jdm

“Whose initials could be P.S.?”

Patti Solis ?


52 posted on 01/18/2008 1:51:44 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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To: LiteKeeper
Hillary is a socialist...through and through.

More like a Marxist-Totalitarian... who relies on a Cheka-style, secret police and total control of the media.

53 posted on 01/18/2008 1:58:22 AM PST by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: ConservativeMind; All
It’s kind of interesting. Barely a couple hours go by and a bus in Nevada loaded with casino workers injures 40 occupants. This, after Bill Clinton and Hillary are trumped by a judge saying the voting can occur in apparently Obama-favorable casinos to help casino workers vote. It appears the Clintons try their very best to physically attack their adversaries. Just ask the dozens of people murdered in their wake in the prior several decades...

In the category of 'what goes around comes around', I'm still half expecting God to put His exquisite sense of humor on display and allow Hiliarly's campaign to end the same way that the campaign of the LAST junior Senator from New York running for President did.

Think '1968'.
54 posted on 01/18/2008 2:17:37 AM PST by mkjessup (Where's Duncan Hunter you ask? BLACKLISTED for telling the truth on the "KENNEDY WING of the GOP!")
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Bookmark!


55 posted on 01/18/2008 2:34:15 AM PST by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Wow, Rockefeller's comment shows yet again that the 'Rats and MSM are loyal close allies pretending to operate independently. MSM opinion-makers looking for the Clintonistas to orchestrate their media campaigns on behalf of Hillarycare, are they? What a surprise.....

Then there is the rare instance of semi-honest cognition within the Hillary camp -- of course such politically correct thoughts must be ignored and suppressed:

“P.S.,” makes the startling admission that critics of Hillary’s health care reform plan were correct: “I can think of parallels in wartime, but I have trouble coming up with a precedent in our peacetime history for such broad and centralized control over a sector of the economy…Is the public really ready for this?... none of us knows whether we can make it work well or at all…”
56 posted on 01/18/2008 3:31:31 AM PST by Enchante (Democrat terror-fighting motto: "BLEAT - CHEAT - RETREAT - DEFEAT - REPEAT")
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To: jdm

Judicial Watch website is still down 8+ hours later..... mere “technical problems” or something more nefarious? I don’t think I have a tin foil hat, but when a website revealing such damning Clintonista docs disappears so quickly, inquiring minds want to know what’s going on....


57 posted on 01/18/2008 3:33:12 AM PST by Enchante (Democrat terror-fighting motto: "BLEAT - CHEAT - RETREAT - DEFEAT - REPEAT")
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To: Enchante
Just went to Judicial Watch and this is what appears:

What is Drupal and do you have to install it to see the site?

Unable to connect to database server If you still have to install Drupal, proceed to the installation page. If you have already finished installed Drupal, this either means that the username and password information in your settings.php file is incorrect or that we can't connect to the MySQL database server. This could mean your hosting provider's database server is down. The MySQL error was: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2). Currently, the username is jwadmin_drupal51 and the database server is localhost. Are you sure you have the correct username and password? Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname? Are you sure that the database server is running? For more help, see the Installation and upgrading handbook. If you are unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your hosting provider.

58 posted on 01/18/2008 5:00:23 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Officially Fredbacker1 but don't know how to change my name)
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To: Loud Mime

Looks like the Judicial Watch web site wasn’t prepared for the traffic.


59 posted on 01/18/2008 5:16:53 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: jdm

Noxious is an accurate descriptor of this activity. Sickening.


60 posted on 01/18/2008 5:17:29 AM PST by SueRae
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