Sorry if this is a dupe. I didn't see it here.
Looks to me that these papers will PROVE beyond a shadow of a doubt that Clinton was on top of terrorism like a republican on nepotism. We can't have anything showing that BC knew what he was doing, especially if it makes bushco look all that much worse in comparison.
The New York Times
April 2, 2004
Bush Aides Block Clinton's Papers From 9/11 Panel
By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID E. SANGER
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.
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The commission and the White House were reacting to public complaints from former aides to Mr. Clinton, who said they had been surprised to learn in recent months that three-quarters of the nearly 11,000 pages of files the former president was ready to offer the commission had been withheld by the Bush administration. The former aides said the files contained highly classified documents about the Clinton administration's efforts against Al Qaeda.
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The general counsel of Mr. Clinton's presidential foundation, Bruce Lindsey, who was his deputy White House counsel, said in an interview that he was concerned that the Bush administration had applied a "very legalistic approach to the documents" and might have blocked the release of material that would be valuable to the commission.
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He said he had read through many of the 10,800 pages that were collected and believed them to be valuable to the work of the panel. "They involved all of the issues — Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, terrorism, all of the areas with the commission's jurisdiction," he said. He made his first public complaints about the handling of the documents in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/politics/02PANE.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=