White House Holds Back Clinton Papers

White House Holds Back Clinton Papers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43329-2004Apr1.html?nav=rss_politics

The White House has not turned over thousands of pages of documents from the Clinton administration to a commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, even though the records are relevant to the panel's mission, one of Clinton's attorneys contended yesterday.




Bruce R. Lindsey, who represents the former president on records issues, said yesterday that the Bush administration has turned over about 25 percent of the nearly 11,000 pages of Clinton records that document custodians had determined should be released to the commission investigating the terrorist attack. Lindsey said that as a result, the commission may not have a full picture of the Clinton administration's anti-terrorism efforts.

"I was concerned that the commission was making findings of fact based on an incomplete record," Lindsey said.

White House spokesman Sean McCormack said documents that have not been turned over are not relevant to the inquiry. "We're applying the same standards to documents from our administration and from the Clinton administration," said Al Felzenberg, spokesman for the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, said the panel's executive director, Philip D. Zelikow, and staff counsel Daniel Marcus were aware of the problem and are negotiating with the White House. He said there may be a range of explanations, from duplicate records to disagreements about the relevance of some records.


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Chickenshit fuckers.

Like turning over junior's AWOL military records, after they scrubbed 'em. Like telling folks his business dealings with Harken Oil was open to the public. It wasn't. Like Cheney refusing to turn over the Energy papers. Ken Lay who?
Like daddy bush expunging his cocaine arrest. The Medicare Bill scam that was suppose to cost 395 billion and now its 545 billion. Halliburton, the Carlyle Group. junior has 2.7 million jobs for the American people one day and then the day they say they made a mistake.
No WMD, but we have 600 dead soldiers, for what? Talking to God. Thomas Kean chairing the 911 Investigation is the biggest joke of the decade.

If your not outraged your not paying attention.

www.nytimes.com Hopefully above the fold in tomorrow's print edition.

Bush Aides Block Clinton's Papers From 9/11 Panel
By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID E. SANGER

Published: April 2, 2004

WASHINGTON, April 1 - The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said on Thursday that it was pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration had blocked thousands of pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton's White House files from being turned over to the panel's investigators.

The White House confirmed on Thursday that it had withheld a variety of classified documents from Mr. Clinton's files that had been gathered by the National Archives over the last two years in response to requests from the commission, which is investigating intelligence and law enforcement failures before the attacks.

Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said some Clinton administration documents had been withheld because they were "duplicative or unrelated," while others were withheld because they were "highly sensitive" and the information in them could be relayed to the commission in other ways. "We are providing the commission with access to all the information they need to do their job," Mr. McClellan said.

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So, even if the 9-11 commission investigation was an honest effort (and I doubt that!), Bush* and his henchmen have deprived them of relevant information at every opportunity.

When will the public wake up?

of the obvious, but this tells me there's really something that could make chimpy look even worse than he does now.

Stupid bastards.