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Aide to President Clinton Clears Mrs. Clinton's Schedules for Release
Posted by Josh Gerstein
Sun, 2 Mar 2008 at 8:47 PM
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A longtime aide to President Clinton, Bruce Lindsey, has finished his review of about 11,000 pages of schedules from Senator Clinton's time as first lady, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton said today. "We've given the records back over to the archives," Mrs. Clinton's communications director, Howard Wolfson, said on ABC's "This Week." "Our say in the process is over, and I assume that they will be releasing them very expeditiously."
Senator Obama's campaign and conservative critics of Mrs. Clinton have complained that Mr. Clinton's team was foot-dragging, but Mr. Lindsey asserted that the delay was chiefly due to short staffing at the National Archives, which runs the Clinton Library. Mr. Clinton was formally notified of the release on January 31.
After the issue was raised again at a debate last week, Mr. Lindsey issued a statement saying his review of the records could take up to 45 days. "I will be recommending that NARA release more information than they currently have designated for release," the aide to Mr. Clinton said.
Mr. Lindsey's action moves the ball out of the Clinton court as Tuesday's key primaries approach, but since the Bush White House must sign off on any release and the Archives has to make final preparations, the timing all but guarantees that the records will not be ready prior to the March 4 contests.
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