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Judicial Watch: Obama ‘intended to leave no paper trail’
The Hill ^ | 03/26/08 | Klaus Marre

Posted on 03/26/2008 11:55:47 AM PDT by Anti-Hillary

The president of a prominent watchdog group said Wednesday that he believes Democratic presidential frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) “intended to leave no paper trail” during his time in the Illinois Senate.

Judicial Watch, which has been seeking access to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) records from her time in the White House, argued Wednesday that the Illinois senator, who has criticized the former first lady for a lack of openness, has his own “records problem.”

“The more we learn about the Illinois Senator, the more obvious it becomes that he is anything but the ethically upright outsider he purports to be,” said Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch.

The group rose to prominence when it repeatedly took on former President Bill Clinton during his time in office. It also sought records from the Bush administration regarding Vice President Dick Cheney’s energy task force.

In a statement, Fitton noted that his group has sought access to Obama’s records as a state senator and questioned whether the presidential candidate has been forthcoming with regard to what happened to those documents.

However, he said that “nobody knows where they are, if they exist at all” and claimed that “Obama’s story keeps changing.”

The senator’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Fitton argues that Obama’s public accounts of what happened to his records do not mesh with information from the Illinois Office of the Secretary of State. He added that the Judicial Watch investigation “suggests” that the senator could have had his records archived in a way that would grant the public access to them.

“It appears that Obama never kept records of his time in the Illinois state legislature, or he discarded them,” Fitton stated. “Either way, he clearly intended to leave no paper trail.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democratparty; elections; hillary; obama; themkenyansissneaky

1 posted on 03/26/2008 11:55:48 AM PDT by Anti-Hillary
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To: Anti-Hillary

Riding dirty.


2 posted on 03/26/2008 11:57:55 AM PDT by toddlintown (On Obama's moral compass, "N" doesn't stand for "North.")
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To: Anti-Hillary

Don’t other people keep track of state senate activities? Like a secretary?


3 posted on 03/26/2008 11:58:41 AM PDT by Jack Wilson
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To: Anti-Hillary
“Either way, he clearly intended to leave no paper trail.”

Remember, Biden said "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."

4 posted on 03/26/2008 11:59:13 AM PDT by frogjerk (Hope is a theological virtue, not a campaign promise)
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To: Anti-Hillary
Obama is the Manchurian Candidate. He's a blank slate with no real paper trail - or resume voters can look at. Do you want to put someone in the White whom you know nothing about? We put more care into selecting the people we intend to marry or as bosses - our employees. As the next President's boss, we should hire him on the basis of more than just uplifting rhetoric. There's too much at stake and if we're wrong, he can't be fired for four years.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

5 posted on 03/26/2008 12:00:27 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Anti-Hillary

BTTT


6 posted on 03/26/2008 12:01:41 PM PDT by g'nad ( I'muh ballisticatin' fool...)
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To: frogjerk

Biden is obviously a guy it’s easy to razzle dazzle.

They all treat BHO like 15 year old girls who just discovered boys.


7 posted on 03/26/2008 12:04:26 PM PDT by SMARTY ('At some point you get tired of swatting flies, and you have to go for the manure heap' Gen. LeMay)
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To: Anti-Hillary

It is IMPOSSIBLE for a Chicago democrat politician to be anything other than really, really dirty.


8 posted on 03/26/2008 12:06:17 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: goldstategop

This could really get interesting.


9 posted on 03/26/2008 1:15:22 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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