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A watchdog group will gain access to thousands of pages of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) schedules from her time as first lady, the group announced Tuesday. Judicial Watch welcomed the decision from the National Archives and Records Administration to release the scheduling documents, but criticized the government agency for saying that release of Clinton’s phone logs would take “one to two years.” The records were released after Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit, citing the Freedom of Information Act to gain access. “We are pleased we are finally getting Hillary’s daily schedules despite the Clintons’ delaying tactics,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And it is ridiculous to expect the American people to wait ‘one to two years’ for the telephone logs of a candidate for the presidency. The Archives needs to get its act together and comply with the law, which requires the timely release of these records.” The Archives said in a brief that President Bill Clinton’s presidential library “completed its exacting page-by-page, line-by-line review of approximately 10,000 of the 30,000 pages of records potentially responsive to [Judicial Watch’s] April 5, 2006 Freedom of Information Act request (“Request”) that is the subject of this action.” “The Library has notified the Presidential representatives of the records scheduled for disclosure and anticipates that it will produce those records to plaintiff Judicial Watch, Inc. in advance of the March 20, 2008 hearing,” the National Archives stated in the brief. |
