...and erase you right back out again.
CAMPAIGN 2008
An Uncluttered Calendar
Clinton's schedules reveal curious deletions
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball | Newsweek Web Exclusive
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But Hillary Clinton's newly released calendar for that day shows no reference to Johnny Chung at all. There is listed, just as Chung testified, an "official photo" session in the Map Room. But the name of the person Hillary Clinton was having her picture taken with has been deleted on the grounds that it would be "an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy," according to the Archives' released record. This may seem odd, given that Chung had spoken openly, many times, about his photo op with Hillary. It may seem even odder given that just a few minutes later the First Lady had another photo session—but this time, the documents identify the person whose picture was taken. It was Eileen Collins, the astronaut.
Equally unrevealing are Hillary Clinton's schedules for August 1998—a fateful month, during which Bill Clinton was forced to deal with the audacious attacks by Al Qaeda on two U.S. Embassies in Africa even as the Monica Lewinsky scandal was reaching its climax.*(The same month, after Bill Clinton gave testimony in Ken Starr's inquiry and finally confessed his relationship with a former White House intern, the Clintons flew off to a vacation in Martha's Vineyard during which Hillary supposedly chastised him for the Monica Lewinsky affair).
Little of this is evident in the schedules released Wednesday. On the contrary, the newly released documents show no public events at the White House—and no public events at an unspecified private residence on Martha's Vineyard. The HRC schedule for Aug. 17, 1998—the day of Bill's grand-jury testimony at the White House—only shows that the Clintons were scheduled to travel to Martha's Vineyard at an undetermined hour that day. Among the very few public events listed on Hillary Clinton's schedules for the entire month of August was a fairly full day of events on the 13th, when the president and First Lady both went to Andrews Air Force base to view the unloading from official transport planes of the coffins of Americans killed in the Al Qaeda bombings of U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/124271/page/1Barack is melting down and Hillary is being gutted.
Gawd, this is going to be an awesome election year. Too bad we have to settle for McCain.
* The Lewinsky scandal "reaching it's climax"???
For a veteran journalist such as Isikoff it's hard to believe this was an accidental and unnoticed choice of words.
