Just coincidence? Gross inefficiency? Or is it just a bit more of the cover up tactics that we've come to know so well from the Clintons that is keeping the lid on Freedom of Information Act requests to the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library?It seems that library officials have managed to fulfill several requests from a dude that runs a UFO website but hasn't yet acted at all on earlier requests (we're talking from February of 2006 here) from a USA Today reporter about such issues as Hillary's 1993 health care task force, the Marc Rich pardon, and the Clinton administration's tracking of Osama bin Laden.
Also from that same month, the Clinton library answered a request for photographs of President Clinton's 53rd birthday party but requests that came 9 days earlier from Associated Press reporter Andrew DeMillo dealing with Gen. Wesley Clark, the Oklahoma City bombing, the bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Monica Lewinsky, the Whitewater scandal, current Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe, and former Arkansas Gov. and current Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee have gone unanswered.
Professor of public diplomacy at the University of Southern California, Nicholas Cull, filed the first official Freedom of Information Act requests from the Clinton Library on Jan. 20, 2006 but he's still waiting too. "At the (George H.W.) Bush library, I had records in three months," Cull told Cybercast News Service.
Stonewalling delays. Outright obfuscation. Bureaucratic ineptitude. Slovenly housekeeping. Whatever the excuse, count on a whole bunch of answers that lie within that library to never see the light of day.
