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 theNational 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...[More]
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...
The other day I received three new FOIA replies from the Clinton presidential library. They were all for more files from Hillary Clinton’s first lady files during the Bill Clinton White House days.
I was informed that the library would be reviewing 700 photos from the Hillary Clinton files related to a close friend of the Clintons – singer Carly Simon, who I found has at least a passing interest in UFOs. I was also told that the library would be reviewing 400 pages of Hillary files related to “outer space and NASA.” I hoped that the subject of UFOs might been included, because after all Hillary had wanted to be an astronaut when she was young, and Bill Clinton said she had a deep interest in outer space. The final request was for Hillary files related to evangelist Billy Graham who in his book “Angels: God's Secret Agents” described his belief that UFOs were angels of God. I was told 650 photographs would be reviewed for release.
The FOIA requests were numbered 2007- 1756 to 1758 which means there are 1755 requests ahead of me for 2007 alone. Considering not one of my 2006 requests has been completed I...
As of yet UFOs have not become a part of the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Issues still centre on the war in Iraq, and domestic issues that affect daily well being.
There is a lack of discussion on the issue of UFOs, despite the fact that some of the candidates have been involved with the issue in the past.
John McCain, a leading Republican candidate for President has faced the UFO question in the past, according to Todd Ristau of the Iowa UFO Research Network.
Ristau claimed that during the 2000 presidential campaign, "McCain acknowledged that there are very interesting aspects of the UFO question and he is ready to investigate what he can, after he is elected." He didn't get elected so we will never know what would have happened.
When asked about the 1997 Pheonix lights which had always been held high by researchers as one of the firmest pieces of evidence we are being visited, McCain was less enthusiastic. He stated, “"That has never been fully explained, but I have to tell you that I do not have any evidence whatsoever of aliens or UFOs."
Bill Richardson is a former New Mexico State governor, and...[More]
As of yet UFOs have not become a part of the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Issues still centre on the war in Iraq, and domestic issues that affect daily well being.
Having been in the election trenches many times in the past Hillary Clinton has become religious about the issues that will give her the disenchanted Republican votes needed to win in a close election. Having headed up health care reform in the first Clinton administration she knows good ideas don't always fly, and might even loose voting support.
She and her spin doctors have focused their 2008 election discussion on such issues as immigration reform and border security. This will attract the Republicans who feel the President has not dealt with outsiders taking away American jobs.
Do not be fooled. Elections are about votes - not issues.
religious about the issues that will give her the disenchanted Republican votes needed to win in a close election. Having headed up health care reform in the first Clinton administration she knows good ideas don't always fly, and might even loose voting support.