A very interesting interview has just been published related to the heavily contested Hillary Clinton files at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.Conservative elements who are demanding a magic wand be waved so that the Library can dump out all Hillary Clinton material before the November 2008 election should read it.
The article is Inside The Clinton Archives by the National Journal Group publication and it was published December 17. The article is basically National Journal's Alexis Simendinger's Q & A with expert Sharon Fawcett, assistant archivist for presidential libraries at the National Archives and Records Administration. According to Sharon Fawcett there are 118 million pages of material to process from the Clinton Presidency. This includes 70 million pages of textual documents and 48 million pages of emails. There are 10 archivists working on this material and they spend 65% of their actual time processing the Freedom of information Act Requests which determine which files are released first. Fawcett stated that one million pages of material are now public. About 100,000 pages of this was processed through FOIAs, 500,000 pages of health care task force records that were released in 1994...
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Just got two FOIAs yesterday from the Reagan Library. It appears I filed a couple FOIAs when I was researching at the Reagan Library.
One is dated 7/16/02, and it is for selected folders from the Coordination Office of the NSC collection. 492 pages in total/ 246 withheld.
The other is dated 7/17/02. It must be even better stuff because of 392 pages all withheld except for 72 pages. The files I asked for are from the Sven Kraemer collection whoever the hell he is.
Such is the world of FOIAs. By the time they process it most is withheld, but it doesn't much matter because you can't even remember what the hell the request was about.
Those conservatives who think they will get the goods on Hillary from the Clinton Library before the election are dreaming.
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Hillary and the UFO Question
Ever since Tim Russert asked Dennis Kucinich the "did you see a UFO" question during the October 30 Democratic Presidential Debate, there have been a flurry of UFO questions to other White House hopefuls.
Barack Obama, for example, was asked moments after Kucinich if he believed there was life in outer space. He carefully evaded by saying, "I believe there is life on Earth."
Bill Richardson, the governor of Roswell has faced the UFO question many times during this Presidential campaign partly because a few years back he wrote a forward to a book about an archeological dig done in New Mexico looking for evidence of the rumored 1947 flying saucer that crashed outside of Roswell, New Mexico. He has replied to all the UFO questions by saying that he doesn't believe in UFOs, but thinks the government did not release all the material on the 1947 crash, and is all in favor of the tourism that the UFO subject has brought to Roswell.
John McCain, in reply to a question if he had ever seen one said he'd never seen one, "but I keep looking all the time." Joe Biden told CNN's...
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