Forget Tax Returns - Bill Clinton is blocking presidential pardon documents release

Archivists say the pardon documents are being withheld based on guidance provided by the former president.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
March 7, 2008, 1:05 pm
A Silence at the Clinton Library
By Tobin Harshaw

Well, this might make people forget the whole tax-return thing … “Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers on pardons that the former president approved, including clemency for fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich,” reports USA Today.

“The archivists’ decision, based on guidance provided by Bill Clinton that restricts the disclosure of advice he received from aides, prevents public scrutiny of documents that would shed light on how he decided which pardons to approve from among hundreds of requests.”

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