TWO MILLION PAGES OF DOCUMENTS FROM HRC'S WHITE HOUSE YEARS REMAIN

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PETER NICHOLAS, LOS ANGELES TIMES - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cites
her experience as a compelling reason voters should make her president,
but nearly 2 million pages of documents covering her White House years
are locked up in a building here, obscuring a large swath of her record
as first lady.

Clinton's calendars, appointment logs and memos are stored at her
husband's presidential library, in the custody of federal archivists who
do not expect them to be released until after the 2008 presidential
election.

A trove of records has been made public detailing the Clinton White
House's attempts to remake the nation's healthcare system, following a
request from Bill Clinton that those materials be released first.
Hillary Clinton led the healthcare effort in 1993 and 1994.

But even in the healthcare documents, at least 1,000 pages involving her
work has been censored by archives staff because they include
confidential advice and must be kept secret under a federal law called
the Presidential Records Act. Political consultants said that if Hillary
Clinton's records were made public, rivals would mine them for scraps of
information that might rattle her campaign. . .

A conservative watchdog group called Judicial Watch filed suit against
the National Archives last month, demanding the release of Hillary
Clinton's diaries, telephone logs, daily planners and schedules. In the
1990s, the group filed suits against the Clinton administration that led
to revelations about fundraising practices, including Democratic
campaign donors being tapped for official trade missions. In the most
recent suit, Judicial Watch said it had submitted its request more than
a year ago and had received nothing, save for confirmation that the
library possessed "a substantial volume" of such papers. . .
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