Waxman to Probe Clinton files

[illinoisprogressive]

In a concession to Republicans, House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) has promised to ask the National Archives for documents relating to President Bill Clinton’s Office of Political Affairs.

As a result, a Democratic push to investigate the activities of former White House senior adviser Karl Rove and other aides to President Bush could mean fresh scrutiny and publicity for long-forgotten meetings and presentations during the Clinton administration.

In a letter this week, Waxman suggested Republicans satisfy their curiosity by reexamining what he estimates are more than 2 million pages of documents about the Clinton White House and the Democratic National Committee that House investigators amassed in the 1990s.

The extraordinary search was prompted by revelations that Bush aides have conducted political briefings for GOP appointees at federal agencies before big elections. Democrats have complained that the sessions could violate the Hatch Act, which is designed to insulate federal employees from political pressure.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5784.html

[DS1]

1. It won't matter if anything is there or not

The media machine would just love to get back into "Clinton Investigation" mode.

[Clintonista2]

11. Not just the media

Take a look at some of the topics around DU these days...

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2. "In a concession to Republicans ..."

When do we get some concessions? :eyes:

[ShortnFiery]

3. Good. nt

[Bitwit1234]

4. Why in the hell didn't they go after bush's military files.

I guess the democrats show more and more that spine that beginning to be more jellyfish than anything else.

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5. Duh! Because the Republicans didn't demand that. (nm)

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[Bitwit1234]

6. PS Hillary says there is really nothing in them

but she did not want to start the republicans down a road of controversy and that's just what they want a chance to ding and dong. Let em theres nothing there. And I swear to goodness if they come up and start something, I'll find a lawyer and sue the S.O.B.

[jobycom]

7. Hehehe. That Henry Waxman is one shrewd dude.

"Oh, what, we can't see your papers until you see ours? Look, here's ours. Now, where's yours?"

Twiddles thumbs, waiting for next kindergarten-esque excuse.

So, what if they find something on Clinton? Impeach him? Try to make it stick to Senator Clinton? At worst, they'll find that Clinton did the same things Bush did, and then the Republicans can't attack either Clinton without admitting that their own jackass, currently in office, was wrong. More likely, they'll just prove that Bush is the most corrupt piece of shit since Reagan, and that none of Clinton's actions were as bad as Bush's. Then they are hoisted on their own petard.

Go, Henry, go.

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8. Yep, that giving in strategy seems to be ...

The Dems favorite. Give them what they want ... and then claim victory.

I don't know how much more "success" we can take.

[jobycom]

9. You are so far off base you aren't even in the same game. nt

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10. That seems to be the case pretty often.

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[illinoisprogressive]

12. it seems to be a trade off for Rove