Newsweek is quick to report that 10,000 plus pages of scheduling documents released this week by the
Clinton Library and the
National Archives have been cleansed of potentially controversial information.
The
Clinton campaign says the 4800 or so pages of redacted information has been withheld to protect the privacy of the individuals who are listed therein but,
Newsweek says, the deletions and omissions are clearly more extensive.
As a result, the documents amount to merely a chronicling of her public appearances; nothing that might be of interest to learn more about
Hillary Clinton's role in her husband's White House.
Among the examples of obvious withholdings given in the piece is January 26, 1996, a day where
Hillary made a widely publicized trip to the federal courthouse to testify in the Whitewater investigation. In the documents just released by the Archives, the only entry for that day say, "No public schedule."
In trying to not to rehash their political woes from the 1990s, the Clintons are likely to start the fire anew. They would have served themselves better by redacting as little as possible from the records.
