Report: Clinton’s schedule sanitized
When Hillary Clinton’s White House schedule was released yesterday, her campaign declared the documents would outline "the first lady’s activities and illustrate the array of substantive issues she worked on." However, according to Newsweek’s Michael Isikof, the schedule has been "heavily redacted to exclude almost anything that might be of interest to historians and the inevitable posse of ‘oppo’ researchers."
They show no meetings whatsoever about the Rose Law firm billing records, no sessions with her lawyers to prepare for her grilling by Starr. The calendar for Jan. 26, 1996—the day crowds of reporters and TV cameramen gathered at the courthouse to watch Hillary Clinton enter and exit the grand jury—is totally blank. "NO public schedule," it states simply, wiping out any reference to one of the more embarrassing public episodes of the First Lady’s days in the White House…
Equally unrevealing are Hillary Clinton’s schedules for August 1998—a fateful month, during which Bill Clinton was forced to deal with the audacious attacks by Al Qaeda on two U.S. Embassies in Africa even as the Monica Lewinsky scandal was reaching its climax….
When the Clinton campaign claims her White House experiences are substantive and proof of her qualifications to be president, they can’t pick and choose the records released. Moreover, the intentional withholding of information related to highly controversial issues gives the appearance of impropriety regardless of how innocent (or not) it may actually be.
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