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Feds fight disclosure of Hillary Clinton Whitewater indictment drafts
[POLITICO] The National Archives is fighting a lawsuit trying to force disclosure of several draft indictments of  Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzlaand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William Jennings Bryan... prepared by a Whitewater prosecutor in the 1990s. In a brief filed late Tuesday, Justice Department lawyers and the Archives argue that disclosure of the draft indictments would lead to an unwarranted invasion of Clinton's privacy and violate a court rule protecting grand jury secrecy. "Despite the role that Mrs. Clinton occupied as the First Lady during President Clinton's administration, Mrs. Clinton maintains a strong privacy interest in not having information about her from the files of the Independent Counsel disclosed," wrote Martha Wagner Murphy, chief of the Archives "special access" branch that stores records of former independent counsels. "As an uncharged person, Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillaryand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William Jennings Bryan... retains a significant interest in her personal privacy despite any status as a public figure." The conservative group Judicial Watch, which filed suit for the records in October under the Freedom of Information Act, is arguing that Clinton's ongoing bid for the presidency reinforces the public interest in records about her alleged misconduct.
Posted by: Fred 2016-02-04 |
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