Hillary's Story

No one will ever accuse me of being a Hillary fan but right now there is a false start on her First Lady records. The take by some is that she is hiding them by not releasing over 2 million pages

Last week The Los Angeles Times reporter Peter Nicholas noted the contrast between the former first lady’s campaign and the millions of White House documents still being locked up at the Clinton Presidential Library:

"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."

Richard H. Collins over at Townhall feels there is an easy way to fix it.

Hillary could solve this potential problem, and give her campaign a boost, simply by agreeing that transparency is important to her and therefore she is going to do what it takes to get the records released before the election.

But this isn't that simple. What isn’t mention in his column is the fact that both Pres. Bush and Pres. Clinton have to sign off on this before it can even be consider for release. As far as I know neither has. While one can easily say Bill would not sign off just to protect her, one cannot say the say about George.

I think they should be released but this isn’t the same as Kerry not releasing his military records and running on his service record.