Hillary Clinton's Closet Skeletons

Marie's Two Cents (what a great name, by the way) has the dish on yet another brewing controversy around Hillary Clinton.

Go read the blog post for all the details, but the short version is that the Clintons are trying very hard to keep the documentation from the previous Clinton administration secret...at least, until the 2008 election is over.

A telling excerpt:

Nearly three years after the Clinton Library opened—and more than 21 months after its trove of records became subject to the Freedom of Information Act—barely one half of 1 percent of the 78 million pages of documents and 20 million e-mail messages at the federally funded facility are public, according to the National Archives. The lack of access is emerging as an issue in Hillary's presidential campaign: she cites her years of experience as First Lady as one of her prime qualifications to be president. Like other Democratic candidates, she has decried the "stunning record of secrecy" of the Bush administration; her campaign Web site vows to bring a "return to transparency" to government. But Clinton's appointment calendar as First Lady, her notes at strategy meetings, what advice she gave her husband and his advisers, what policy memos she wrote, even some key papers from her health-care task force—all of this, and much more documenting her years as First Lady, remains locked away, most likely through the entire campaign season. With nearly 300 FOIA requests pending for Clinton documents, and only six archivists at the library to process them, Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper says it is "really hard to predict" if any of this material will be released before the election.

Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton is publicly blaming the Bush administration for the slow progress despite conveying private instructions to tightly control his own archives (which include Hillary's).

Some rather obvious questions: why would any First Lady have anything she needed to keep secret? Why are her records locked, as neither of his predecessors' wives records are? What are they hiding?

Just more suspicious behavior (i.e. covering up scandals and shady actions) from people who have a long, detailed history of suspicious behavior. You can expect this to become a bigger issue if Clinton wins the Democrat presidential nomination.

There's my two cents.