Schedule This
As reporters browse Hillary Clinton's first lady scheds for insight about her influence over her husband's administration, HRC spokesman Jay Carson asks scribes to note (Spin alert!):
1. President Clinton's representative, Bruce Lindsey, has not asked that any documents be withheld that the Archives has designated for release.
2. President Clinton (via his representative) asked that extensive material be released that the Archives otherwise would have redacted.
3. The release of the more than 11,000 pages of Hillary’s First Lady schedules will underscore what we already know: She worked tirelessly on a wide range of substantive issues for eight years on behalf of the American people.
4. The release of these records further exemplifies President Clinton’s efforts to ensure a full record of his presidency is made public. President Clinton’s representative encouraged the Archives to release significantly more information than required by the Presidential Records Act, as well as more than the Archives originally designated for release. He also completed his review well before the end of the time the Archives allotted.
5. More than a million pages of records from the Clinton Administration have already been made public, and President Clinton has taken steps that independent experts say go beyond all other previous presidents covered by the Presidential Records Act in facilitating public access to the records of his administration.
6. The more than 11,000 pages released today represent a far greater commitment to transparency than we have seen from Senator Obama, who has to this point offered his own constantly shifting explanations for why he will not release his records from the Illinois State Senate.
(JENNIFER SKALKA)
take the time to go in and look at the extremely heavy redactions for reason (b) (6) - undue invasion of personal privacy. A good many of these are the identity of people that HRC had private meetings with. Transparency? I think not
SCHEDULE-GATE part 1:
From the HRC first lady schedules: Working on Nafta
This, from the tail end of an AP story, is the first hint of news I've seen out of Clinton's White House schedules:
She was also involved in helping her husband win congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a deal she now criticizes and says she would try to change.
Her schedule for Nov. 10, 1993, shows her speaking at a NAFTA briefing closed to the media, with 120 people expected to attend.