Group Sues To Get Hillary's Records

Conservative Group Wants National Archives To Speed Up Access To Clinton's Papers On Health Care

(AP)  A conservative public interest group has sued the National Archives to obtain records from Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as head of a White House task force on health care during her husband's administration.

Judicial Watch, which has been seeking access to Clinton's White House records since April 2006, announced the filing of the lawsuit on Monday claiming the National Archives has failed to make records available or to indicate when access to the records would be allowed.

The lawsuit comes as Hillary Clinton is facing increased criticism from her Democratic presidential rivals over the number of White House documents from her husband's administration that have not been made public.

The records are held by the National Archives at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark. The Clinton White House documents total 78 million pages and 20 million e-mail messages. The archives had no immediate comment on the suit.

Judicial Watch asked for documents related to the health care task force in a Freedom of Information request last year. The group said the National Archives has said it must review more than 3 million textual records and 2,884 pages of electronic records before responding to the request.

Judicial Watch already has another pending lawsuit against the National Archives seeking to speed up the release of Hillary Clinton's official calendar, schedule, day planner and other related documents.

The National Archives is charged with reviewing Freedom of Information Request for records of past presidents. President Clinton, like other presidents before him, has required that some documents also be reviewed by longtime Clinton adviser Bruce Lindsey. Those documents include non-routine communications between President Clinton and his wife.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said he did not know whether any aspect of his group's request for health care task force documents would be covered by that restriction. In a statement issued Friday in response to reports about the status of documents at the library, Lindsey said that none of the requests that the National Archives has processed and forwarded to him for review involve Sen. Clinton.

President Clinton put Hillary Clinton in charge of the task force early in his presidency to propose an overhaul of national health care policy. The effort eventually failed when it could not muster support in Congress.

Read more about the battle over the Clinton archives in CBSNews.com's campaign blog - Horsreace.

[realpatriot1]

Trueprogress,

s a professor of Women''s Studies you should know that Shirley Chisholm was the first female Presidential candidate, not Hillary. The purpose of primaries and debates isn''t to cut anyone a break, it''s to test the people who will be holding our future in their hands once elected.

The problem isn''t that she''s being pinned down, the problem is that she''s so resistent to being pinned down. I know she''s thinking ahead to the general election and wants to retain the ability to dodge the swift boat attacks, but standing for nothing isn''t thee way to do it.

jack3213,

What truly scares me is that you are so blind and deranged to think that the repubs are the least bit more consistent and smarter than Hillary. What proven leadership do the GOP candidates have? What plans do they have that have a chance to come to fruition? Privatizing social security? Term limits? What?

By the way, head-to0head polls show Hillary(the Dem with arguably the most baggage) kicking Rudy''s sorry but north & south & east & west, "blue state" and "red state" alike.

We are not afraid. We are "noways tired."

[jack3213]

And so the story that goes.. down the rabbit hole it flows.. ( Poor Hilary-NOT) The fact that Republicans play a better game, are the smarter choice, and the most powerful party scares the heck out of Democrats. It is all in the game, and what is fair for one is fair for the other. Since the debate Clinton has fallen, and she will continue to do so. She has not proven she can lead, or develop consistant thoughts or plans, and with all her grandeous promises that will not ever come to fruitation you''d be a fool to vote for more taxes. (Can you even afford the extrodinarily high gas prices??) She has taken money from scam aritsts and stolen from the poor. Support her all you want, it is a wasted vote.

[realpatriot1]

I''m all in favor of speeding up the release of these public records.

I''m also all in favor of speeding up the release of Cheney''s energy task force minutes and finding Karl Rove''s "missing" e-mails.

[jack3213]

It is trully amazing that those who support this "woman" do so with the premise that she is one, not because she is experianced to lead a country. Do you all forget Politics 101..Can you do the job? In Clintons case she will not be able to, not because she is a woman, but because she is not credible, has no previous success in leading business, and is very dishonest, well beyond all the other candidates. Stick to the facts, people, stop thinking outside the box with your next President, it is about leadership not popularity.

[kjvprophet]

They Don''t call him "Doctor No" for no reason. Congressman, Paul never votes for any Bill which he feels is not authorized by The Constitution, regardless of what it is named. Ron Paul "is one of the easiest people in Congress to work with, because he bases his positions on the merits of issues," says Barney Frank, who has worked with Paul on efforts to ease the regulation of gambling and medical marijuana. "He is independent, but not ornery." Paul has made a habit of objecting to things that no one else objects to. In October 2001, he was one of only three House Republicans to vote against the USA Patriot Act. He was the sole House member of either party to vote against the Financial Antiterrorism Act (412-1). In 1999, he was the only naysayer in a 424-1 vote in favor of casting a medal to honor Rosa Parks. Nothing against Rosa Parks. Paul also voted against similar medals for Reagan and Pope John Paul II. He did offer $100 of his own money, though, to help pay for Reagan''s medal, and invited others in Congress to match his offer, but not one Member took him-up on it. Instead, Congress spent YOUR money. He not only routinely opposes resolutions that are unconstitutional, he votes against Bills which presume to advise foreign governments how to run their affairs: He has refused to condemn Mugabe''s violence against Zimbabwean citizens (421-1), to call on Vietnam to release political prisoners (425-1) or to ask the League of Arab States to help stop the killing in Darfur (425-1).

[kjvprophet]

In Congress, Ron Paul is not only known for his lack of ego (a rare quality in Washington), he''s widely admired for his resistance to the influence of special interest groups. Again. They don''t call him "Dr. No" for no reason. He consistanly votes against pork-barrel spending. In a rice-growing, cattle-ranching district, Dr. Paul consistently votes against farm subsidies. In the very district where, on the night of Sept. 8, 1900, a storm destroyed the city of Galveston, and where repairs from Hurricane Rita and refugees from Hurricane Katrina continue to exact their toll, he votes against FEMA and flood aid. In a district that is home to thousands of employees of the Johnson Space Center, he votes against financing NASA. Nothwithstanding this, his constituants in the 14th District of Texas continue to re-relect him. Why? You ask? I think one voter I talked to there summarized it nicely when she said, "We may not like his vote. But we trust his heart." Ron Paul is a man with Presidential-like constitutional integrity and frugal spending principles, which I fully support. That''s why he has my vote.

[jonesforch]

Here we go again jump on Hillary
Posted by starleo146

Tim Russet asked a simply question I would expect ANY wanna-be President to answer...FEMALE OR MALE. Their running for president for crying out loud..Don''t kill the messenger cause a question you did like or she did''nt or could not answer.

[kjvprophet]

What we need is a President who will show us the way. Not the old way. Not the same way, but a NEW WAY. Think about this for a minute. What if we pulled all of our troops out of South Korea? They''ve been there for 50+ years. What if we quit worrying about Iran, but instead, realized that its having a nuclear weapon will not mean the end of the world? What if we pulled all of our troops out of the Middle-East, and brought them all home? What if we realistically addressed the National Debt, and paid attention to REALLY DOING SOMETHING about stopping illegal immigration? These are the ideas of Republican Presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul. He''s a ten term Congressman and a physician who has delivered over 4,000 babies. He''s an intellectual who''s published four books, three of which are devoted entirely to sound economics and one to foreign policy. He was raised on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania as a pious Lutheran, but now he attends a Baptist church. Paul is given to mulling things over morally. Whenever he recollects the helicopter pilots he treated as an Air Force Flight Surgeon (Captain) during the Vietnam War, a war which he now says was "totally unnecessary and illegal," he laments, "They were gung-ho. I''ve often thought about how many of those people never came back." Candidates with the high level of personal integrity and proven track record of adherance to The Constitution, Congressman Paul has always demonstrated only come around once in a lifetime, if we''re lucky.

[kjvprophet]

With the full support of Senators Clinton, Obama and McCain, President Bush recently signed into Law the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007, which, according to Senator Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually "encourage the President to declare Martial Law." It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of Laws that limits the President''s ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic Law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions. Public Law 109-364, or the John Warner Defense Authorization Act (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the President in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency," suspend Congress and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of your Governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder." President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act. In a sense, the two Laws compliment one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad of those who dissent and are stripped of their citizenship, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America.

[vendador]

This is the smartest woman in the world that,along with Hubbel,lost the Rose Law Firm records,and hired THE BUGLAR,Sandy Buglar who stole and destroyed some government documents.

[antoniof123]

Here we go again jump on Hillary but where is judicial watch when Darth Vader Cheney will not turn over papers to the judiciary committee. Don''''t you think it is a funny thing to blasphemer''''s want to take the Clinton''''s down once more and all this came out with a tabloid journalist Tim Russet. This is a sickening thing.

Posted by starleo146 at 02:17 PM : Nov 06, 2007

How true but don''t worry we the middle are swinging the other way and they just don''t get why.

[kjvprophet]

RON PAUL SETS NEW GOP FUNDRAISING RECORD
Freedom is apparently popular, folks. I''m glad it is. In just the last 24 hours (Nov 5, 2007), he raised over $4,200,000 in grass roots donations from his supporters nationwide, beating Mitt Romney''s previous one-day (Republican) record of 3.1 million Dollars. Do the math, folks. Ron Paul certainly isn''t getting any money from the bankers or the military industrial complex like all the sold-out NWO candidates both on the left and the right who pretend to be his equal. He''s getting support from millions of REAL people who share in his Hope For America:

-- No more meddling in other country''s political affairs
-- No more aggressive military actions overseas
-- No more pseudo-wars like the "War on Drugs"
-- No more IRS and unconstitutional income taxes
-- No more Federal Reserve (the group of private banks which owns our government)
-- No more abortion
-- No more U.N. participation
-- No more federal Laws which are not authorized by The Constitution
-- No more federal erosion of State sovereignty
-- No more all-powerful federal government

They don''t call him "Dr. No" for no reason. The Doctor is in! Join us in this 21st Century political revolution at ronpaul2008.com

Remember, folks. Freedom isn''t free.

Thanks to everyone for your support!

[gunownerdan]

Hitlery better keep those papers secret like all good fascists should.
You can''t be a dictator if the people know too much about you and what you want to do!

[starleo146]

Here we go again jump on Hillary but where is judicial watch when Darth Vader Cheney will not turn over papers to the judiciary committee. Don''t you think it is a funny thing to blasphemer''s want to take the Clinton''s down once more and all this came out with a tabloid journalist Tim Russet. This is a sickening thing.