Group Files Second Lawsuit to Force Release of Hillary's Records
By: Administrative Account | Source: CNSNews.com
November 6, 2007 11:24AM EST

By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
November 06, 2007

(CNSNews.com) - Judicial Watch, a group that probes government corruption, said it has filed another lawsuit against the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, this time to force the release of records related to the health care task force chaired by former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in her husband's first presidential term.

The National Archives has told Judicial Watch there are approximately 3,022,030 textual records, 2,884 pages of electronic records, 1,021 photographs, three videotapes and three audiotapes that must be reviewed before the Archives can respond to Judicial Watch's April 4, 2006, Freedom of Information Act request.

According to Judicial Watch's complaint, the Archives has failed to provide any of the records -- or say when it will allow access to them.

"Hillary Clinton claimed in the presidential debate last week that 'all of the records' related to her work on health care reform 'are already available.' This is untrue," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

"The Health Care Task Force and most other Clinton White House documents remain largely unavailable to the American people. We hope our lawsuits change that," Fitton added.

In July, Judicial Watch filed a separate federal lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration to obtain access to Hillary Clinton's calendar, daily office diary, schedule, day planner, telephone log book, and chronological file -- documents covering the period when she served as First Lady.

According to a sworn declaration recently filed by the government, some of those office records could be available as soon as January 2008, Judicial Watch said.

The lawsuit filed on Nov. 2 pertains to records from the National Taskforce on Health Care Reform, a "cabinet-level" group chaired by the former first lady and "given primary responsibility for providing advice and making recommendations to the President regarding the national health care reform package."

Judicial Watch has said it needs the documents as part of its investigation into "the corrupt record Hillary compiled while...serving as 'co-president' in the first Clinton administration.

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