Dean's secret files

[BeyondGeography]

Dean's Secret Files
By Jake Tapper
ABCNEWS.com

The official explanation gvien by former Vermont Governor Howard Dean Sunday for why he sealed off 146 boxes of his gubernatorial files from the public for 10 years is that he seeked to protect the privacy of his constitutents.

But four letters obtained by ABCNEWS from Dean's 190 "open" files contain detailed personal medical information about Vermont citizens, perhaps undercutting his argument that his sealed records are to guard against the public dissemination of precisely that kind of letter.

One was a letter written by an HIV-positive gay man marked "extremely confidential." Also included in the "open" files are letters from a state legislator describing intimate information about a constituent scheduled for a hysterectomy; a letter from a Vermont woman regarding the death of her daughter from AIDS; and a note from a woman about her family's troubles after her husband, who has cancer, was suspended from his job.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Politics/WorldNewsTonight/dean_records_040107-1.html

[janx]

1. Those letters should not have been made public.

And Dean has said as much.

The fact that some letters that should not have been made public slipped through the cracks does not mean that Dean's reasoning is faulty or insincere.

[Atlant]

2. Your news is well past 12 hours old. (NT)

[BeyondGeography]

3. Hadn't seen the story anywhere in DU

Is there a dupe thread?

[Debi]

4. Is this the only way you know how to promote your candidate.

Trying to make others look bad? Seems a waste of time, I'm sure the General doesn't have any 'private' documents....like notes on Waco or who he voted for in 2000. But go ahead and sound like the Greek Chours...'Dean is bad, he is icky, we don't like him, vote for me'.

[BeyondGeography]

7. Sorry if you don't like the story

Again, this is a very important topic and it should be part of the discussion here, don't you think?

Jake Tapper's a credible journalist, and he thought it worthwhile. Still waiting for a dupe.

[JNelson6563]

5. Like weeks ago

Several of 'em. It was all the rage, you missed the party.

Julie

[Oreegone]

6. Interesting

First of all it's release all the documents, its BS about privacy concerns you are trying to hide something.

Now it's you shouldn't have released those records, they were personal.
Sorry folks can't have it both ways.

What someone is going to read 12 years of correspondence? It explains why Dean wants to leave the rest up to a judge....hell he wouldn't have time to run for president.

[Moderator]

8. Locking...not LBN....Jan. 7th news...

DU Moderator