RNC Research Dept: This Week, Newsweek Reports: "Nearly three years after the Clinton Library opened -- and more than 21 months after its trove of records became subject to the Freedom of Information Act -- barely one half of 1 percent of the 78 million pages of documents and 20 million e-mail messages at the federally funded facility are public, according to the National Archives." Longtime Clinton ally Bruce Lindsey has controlled the release of materials and has denied access to records of communication between Hillary and Bill. "An archivist explained to [Sally Bedell] Smith that the release of materials was tightly controlled by the former president's longtime confidant Bruce Lindsey. Could she look at memos detailing the advice Hillary gave Bill during debates over welfare reform? Smith asked. No, the archivist said, those memos were 'closed' to the public because they dealt with 'policy' matters. What about any records that show what advice Bill gave his wife about her 2000 U.S. Senate campaign? Those, too, were closed, the archivist said, because they dealt with 'political' matters." "But documents NEWSWEEK obtained under a FOIA request (made to the Archives in Washington, not the Clinton Library) suggest that, while publicly saying he wants to ease restrictions on his records, Clinton has given the Archives private instructions to tightly control the disclosure of chunks of his archive. ... Another restriction: 'communications directly between the President and First Lady, and their families, unless routine in nature." "But other Archives records NEWSWEEK reviewed show Clinton's directives, while similar, also go beyond restrictions placed by predecessors Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, neither of whom put any controls over the papers of their wives." (Source: Michael Isikoff, "Papers? I Don't See Any Papers," Newsweek, 10/29/07) . . . [Read More]
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