Hillary\'s Schedules Heavily Redacted

Hillary's Schedules Heavily Redacted

Newsweek   |   March 20, 2008 08:47 AM


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But anybody looking through Hillary Clinton's newly released White House records for clues as to how she handled this personal crisis will find ... absolutely nothing. The more than 10,000 pages, released by the National Archives in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, purport to be the New York senator's daily schedules for her entire eight-year tenure as First Lady--the first major "document dump" from the Clinton Library in Little Rock.

But the documents include only Hillary Clinton's public schedules, not her private calendar. And even those appear to be heavily redacted to exclude almost anything that might be of interest to historians and the inevitable posse of "oppo" researchers. The January 1996 records show Hillary Clinton appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and numerous other TV and radio shows to promote her just-published book, "It Takes a Village." But they show no meetings whatsoever about the Rose Law firm billing records, no sessions with her lawyers to prepare for her grilling by Starr. The calendar for Jan. 26, 1996--the day crowds of reporters and TV cameramen gathered at the courthouse to watch Hillary Clinton enter and exit the grand jury--is totally blank. "NO public schedule," it states simply, wiping out any reference to one of the more embarrassing public episodes of the First Lady's days in the White House.


 
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- MNmommy I'm a Fan of MNmommy 374 fans permalink
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Did anyone really believe that the records wouldn't be heavily redacted?

For all you casting stones - have you looked through the record pdfs? Lot's of personal info on other folks redacted.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:36 AM on 03/20/2008

Good for her to redact her private travel records. This fishing expedition into Hillary's private life is absolutely ridiculous. Instead of bashing Hillary for redacting her private records, why not ask for McCain's records in his public role as Senator? Or Obama's? Including for his time in the State Senate?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:28 AM on 03/20/2008
- tkk I'm a Fan of tkk permalink

No, no. Now the Obama camp is demanding the release of all Hillary's phone records from the WH years! But, but, where are Obama's state senate records and his Rezko papers? Bwhaaaaaaa!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:41 AM on 03/20/2008

The point here is that she's claiming experience as First Lady that helped her cross that ever important "Commander-In-Chief Threshold". If she's going to claim it, she needs to show proof that she actually DID it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:44 AM on 03/20/2008

And? Where are his travel records? They're not there, I checked.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:23 PM on 03/20/2008
- OlskoolDem I'm a Fan of OlskoolDem 3 fans permalink

Well How about that, so much for transparency more same old same old......

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:22 AM on 03/20/2008
- Schnitzel I'm a Fan of Schnitzel 6 fans permalink

I wouldn't worry; I'm sure the Republicans will be more than capable of filling in those embarrassing blanks should Hillary steal the nomination. I would guess within 12 hours of the closing of the democratic convention.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:55 AM on 03/20/2008

I could care less about anything coming out about the Lewinsky scandal. I think Hillary has a right to not expose her personal feelings about that mess. I do care that she herself has made her record as first lady one of her central issues of "experience" in her own campaign. She raised the issue of experience and took it national in her campaign. She needs to release those records for all of us to see - her trying to hide and redact those records and having to be sued to make them public says plenty to me. Those records are not going to prove her claims of 'experience". Those are the records I want to see and she should be proudly giving us those records if they are indeed true.

That's the issue and it's not a non-issue. Our next President will deal with the Bush/Cheney mess- I want to know if that person can handle the job - Hillary's lack of concern that the American people are given all the facts in order to make that judgement is suspicious at the very least.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:49 AM on 03/20/2008

I think the fact that Hillary had to be sued to release any records tells us all something very important.
The official records would portray a diffent scenario than the one she is trying to sell us right now.

I really don't care about her personal feelings in the Lewinsky episode. I'm willing to say that is personal. I do care about her so called "experience" issues and dealings that she has herself made an issue in this campaign. To release a bunch of redacted records does not give me that warm and fuzzy feeling about her "experience" record. It seems the NAFTA meetings alone portray a different story than the one she is telling us all now.

If Hillary is so secretive about her first lady records that she has made the central issue of her campaign of experience then I'm afraid she loses on that record. Are we the American people supposed to just take her word for it when she is not willing to give us the historical record? One then has to ask why she is not willing to expose the truth of those records.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:37 AM on 03/20/2008

Is hillary hiding something - or is the redacted 5000 pages meant to give the impression that she actually did something that we, the proletariat, are not allowed to know about?

I find it fascinating that a woman who had no security clearance, did not attend the PBD, NEVER read an NIE has anything at all that should be redacted.

hillary is hiding a lot of somethings.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:32 AM on 03/20/2008

WHAT'S NEXT?
HER HEAVILY REDACTED TAX RETURNS?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:25 AM on 03/20/2008

The non-story, as you call it is that hillary didn't do a f*cking thing as first lazy except sit on her duff and act like royalty. So much for 35 years of fighting for truth, justice and the American way!

HAR!

LMAO

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:34 AM on 03/20/2008

What a non story.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:23 AM on 03/20/2008
- ethancorso I'm a Fan of ethancorso 238 fans permalink
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You think that a presidential candidate fabricating a list of 'accomplishments" is a non-story?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:58 AM on 03/20/2008
- Colmore I'm a Fan of Colmore 45 fans permalink

Is this information critical to national security? Where are all the "missing" e-mails from THIS WH? Why dig up this old stuff, there is enough to investigate in this administration. Did anyone die, or lose a limb during this time? It cost the taxpayers what $78 mill. Small change compared to the Iraq fiasco.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:14 AM on 03/20/2008

It is important to dig up this old stuff for several reasons:

1. what did hillary really do. it says that it has 35 years experience fighting the special interests etc.; but it looks like it spent most of it's time eating bon-bons and acting like a queen

2. the 1994 hillary-care cluster*fck has left tens of millions of people without healthcare covereage for the past 15 years because hillary screwed the pooch with secret meetings held behind closed doors with the healthcare lobby. Yet, to the amazement of all, this out and out freakin' disaster somehow makes her laughingly qualified to deliver universal healthcare to the masses. I would like more information about what was done behind closed doors.

3.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:15 AM on 03/20/2008

It's important because she's padding her "35 years of experience" resume with what she essentially represents as a "co-Presidency" with her husband.

The papers will show that, either it wasn't true, and she was a PR-tool, a classic 1st Lady, or that it was true and she was indeed a "co-president", in which case she can't run for a 3rd term.

For myself, I really don't care about her "co-presidency". There was a lot of good in the Clinton presidency, as well as a lot of evil that has come back to bite us in the butt, by enabling the neo-cons in their grasping for "more", on the basis of what Clinton so weakly caved in to. What I care about and I think every voter should base their judgment upon, is Hillary's record in the Senate. On the basis of that record, I cannot accept her as the Democratic Party nominee to anything, let alone POTUS.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:33 AM on 03/20/2008
- julescator I'm a Fan of julescator 19 fans permalink

On the streets of the South Side, where the Black Panther movement, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson flowered, Obama was mocked as a dispossessed newcomer who failed to grasp the historical urgency of the black struggle. "The white man in blackface," a political rival once called him.

Though Obama would later convince many black skeptics of his commitment to justice and equality, he made clear he would not be bound by their antagonism toward the white power structure.

"Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and toward black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us and that white Americans couldn't care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing," he told an interviewer in 1995, before his political career had begun. "But cursing out white folks is not going to get the job done. Anti-Semitic and anti-Asian statements are not going to lift us up. . . . We've got communities to build."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:12 AM on 03/20/2008
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there you go, well said,,,,,,­,,,,,,,,,,­,,,,,,,,,,­,

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:43 AM on 03/20/2008

Communities where his buddy Tony Rezko, known slumlord, was letting his tenants freeze? Are those the ones you are referring to?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:42 PM on 03/20/2008
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