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LawDeeDah

(1,596 posts)
Mon Jan 19, 2015, 07:40 PM Jan 2015

Huge trove of Hillary Clinton White House files set for release

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2015/01/huge-trove-of-hillary-clinton-files-set-for-release-201259.html

Huge trove of Hillary Clinton White House files set for release

A massive collection of documents related to Hillary Clinton's policy work as first lady is set to go public this spring, just as her expected campaign to return to the White House could be ramping up.

The more than 150,000 pages of records come largely from the files of Clinton's policy advisers in her husband's White House and cover topics such as welfare, equal pay, family leave, civil rights, race, poverty and health care reform.

While many Clinton Library records have been released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, the massive new batch was reviewed on the initiative of the library's professional archivists as part of what the National Archives calls "systematic processing."

The Archives formally notified President Barack Obama's White House and President Bill Clinton's representative Bruce Lindsey on Jan. 8. about the planned release. Under a federal law passed last year and signed by Obama, the current and former president have 60 business days to assert executive privilege in an effort to block the release of some or all of the records. That review period can be extended once, for 30 business days, but no further extensions are permitted.

No assertions of executive privilege over historical records are known to have taken place during Obama's tenure, though the White House repeatedly extended its review of some files, resulting in lengthy delays.

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Huge trove of Hillary Clinton White House files set for release (Original Post) LawDeeDah Jan 2015 OP
so? VanillaRhapsody Jan 2015 #1
Two narratives wyldwolf Jan 2015 #4
Doubt there will be anything damaging. hrmjustin Jan 2015 #2
We will see. LawDeeDah Jan 2015 #3
We will but i still doubt it. hrmjustin Jan 2015 #5
over 150.000 pages ? olddots Jan 2015 #6
 

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)
1. so?
Mon Jan 19, 2015, 07:42 PM
Jan 2015

Are we supposed to worry about the fact that she TRIED to get Healthcare reform?

Do you really think there is something there that will damage her????




I might remind you that fully 85% of Democrats support her now....

But do tell us how this is going to turn ALL THAT around!

wyldwolf

(43,870 posts)
4. Two narratives
Mon Jan 19, 2015, 07:49 PM
Jan 2015

Conservatives: aHA! We'll finally get the goods on that extreme socialist Hillary Clintooon!!

Progressives: aHA! We'll finally get the goods on that extreme corporatist Hillary Clinton (hey! Didja know she used to be a goldwater girl? huh? huh? didja? See? I'm smart!)

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