Democrats Involved In Redacted Clinton Healthcare Memos Question Why Documents Are On Lockdown
"Two 1993 memos kept private involve meetings between Hillary Clinton and then-Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), an influential politician who at the time opposed her healthcare plan." (Peter Nicholas, "Clinton No Open Book On Healthcare," Los Angeles Times, 11/11/07)
•"'It's hard to make the case that a meeting with Bob Kerrey in 1993 ought to be redacted, other than for political reasons,' Kerrey said." (Peter Nicholas, "Clinton No Open Book On Healthcare," Los Angeles Times, 11/11/07)
"A three-page memo written to Clinton in 1993 involved an upcoming meeting with Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), who was promoting an alternative to Clinton's healthcare plan. That memo is also being withheld on the grounds that its release would disclose confidential advice." (Peter Nicholas, "Clinton No Open Book On Healthcare," Los Angeles Times, 11/11/07)
•"'I'm for open government and I'm curious as to what's in it,' Cooper said in an interview. 'Good, bad or indifferent, I want it out in the public. These paper records are probably good evidence of what was going on.'" (Peter Nicholas, "Clinton No Open Book On Healthcare," Los Angeles Times, 11/11/07)
"A White House aide wrote a 130-page memo to Hillary Clinton in May 1993, regarding a meeting with Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R-Kan.) and Rep. Dan Glickman (D-Kan.), who was later appointed secretary of Agriculture in the Clinton Cabinet. That memo is being withheld." (Peter Nicholas, "Clinton No Open Book On Healthcare," Los Angeles Times, 11/11/07)
•"Glickman, who has not endorsed a candidate in the presidential race, voiced no objection to the memo being publicly released, saying, 'My life is pretty much an open book. ... I don't think there was anything in the proposal that Sen. Kassebaum and I had that was particularly secret. It was not anything that I would call of national import.'"(Peter Nicholas, "Clinton No Open Book On Healthcare," Los Angeles Times, 11/11/07)
