What is Hillary hiding?
IBD wonders about Hillary Clinton’s secrets:
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArti...71983072736809
Two million pages of Hillary Clinton's files as the most active first lady in history are locked up until after next year's election. Candidates are usually proud of their record. Does she have things to hide?
The Los Angeles Times reports that calendars, memos and reams of other records from the office of the first lady in the Clinton administration will stay off-limits to public scrutiny until after the 2008 presidential election, according to federal archivists at the Clinton presidential library.
While former President Bill Clinton has authorized lots of the records regarding Hillary’s secret health care task force in 1993-94 to be publicly available, more than 1,000 pages have been censored, purportedly because they contain confidential advice protected under the Presidential Records Act.
But that act, amended by President Bush in 2001, makes it clear that the ex-president is the one who makes the call.
“Because the former President independently retains the right to assert constitutionally based privileges,” Bush’s order states, “the Archivist shall not permit access to the records by a requester unless and until the incumbent President advises the Archivist that the former President and the incumbent President agree to authorize access to the records or until so ordered by a final and nonappealable court order.”
We can only imagine some of the comments in those 1,000-plus pages that Bill and Hillary consider to be obstacles to their returning to the White House.
Is there outrage over the Republican efforts to prevent her from stopping people from choosing their own doctor? Is there admiration expressed for the socialized health care systems of other countries? France perhaps? Or even Cuba?
Knowing Hillary’s real thinking on health care will be imperative for voters.
Because activists for a government-run single-payer system are hopeful the next election will allow a Democratic president to join with a Democratic Congress and succeed in a massive health reform based on government management.
There are also signs the senator from New York is interested in embracing a free-market-oriented health reform proposal as a means of moving to the center if she becomes her party's choice next year. She has been involved in at least one briefing regarding non-socialist, consumer-friendly reform.
Should she veer right on the issue, Hillary's less guarded thoughts on health care — as contained in the records from her White House years — could be relevant in knowing what she'd do as president.
The conservative Judicial Watch group is now suing the National Archives after waiting over a year, to no avail, on its request for Hil-lary's schedules and diaries.
There's no denying confidential conversations among presidential advisers, including a "co-president" first lady, are protected by executive privilege — a fact lost on many Democrats in regard to President Bush: Two prominent House committee chairmen, Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and John Dingell, D-Mich., are behind a Government Accountability Office lawsuit to scrutinize the deliberations of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force.
For voters in 2008, however, finding out what the first lady was up to a decade and a half ago may mean knowing exactly who the real Hillary is — before giving her the highest office in the land.
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Judicial Watch is now suing the National Archives after getting no action or response on its request for Hillary’s schedules and diaries.
http://www.corruptionchronicles.com/...g_in_whit.html
[b]Recent polls indicate that Hillary Clinton has effectively promoted her White House experience as a strong reason to be elected president yet the New York Senator insists on keeping information from her First Lady Era secret until after the 2008 election.
Although she has swayed many Americans by touting her experience as unique among all candidates, Clinton wants to keep the gory details of that eight-year tenure under wraps and federal archivists are following orders, ignoring hundreds of public records requests in the process.
Nearly 2 million documents detailing Clinton’s White House years are securely locked up in a room at her beloved husband’s presidential library in Little Rock Arkansas. They are, under no circumstances, to be released prior to the 2008 presidential election.
The information includes calendars, appointment and telephone logs, schedules and memos as well as thousands of pages of documents from her work as the country’s miserably failed healthcare reformer.
Judicial Watch has worked endlessly to obtain the records in order to offer Americans the kind of information and transparency they should have on a presidential candidate. More than a year ago Judicial Watch filed a public records request and last month the organization sued.
After all, Clinton has used the information—albeit selectively—to promote her presidential candidacy. Many Americans have evidently bought it, recently indicating in a national poll that the senator is more experienced and a stronger leader than her major rivals for the 2008 Democratic nomination. Incidentally, Clinton didn’t score as high in the poll when it came to most likeable and most honest candidate.
Here’s the complaint. http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive....complaint.pdf
Hillary’s first campaign ad is titled “Invisible,” by the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3xepwid_sY
A fitting description of the papers she’s keeping stashed away from public view ?