Posted on 04/11/2005 7:21:31 PM PDT by wagglebee
The William J. Clinton presidential foundation has decided to scrap a form requiring volunteers at the former chief executive's library in Little Rock, Ark. to sign a restrictive gag order that was good for life.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that the library barred volunteers from ever speaking on the record once they signed a two-page non-disclosure form required before they were permitted to work there.
The paper also reported that the form, which "threatened legal action against volunteers who spoke out of turn," also required the volunteers to alert the foundation if they were ever subpoenaed, and forbade them from filing legal claims "against the foundation if injured."
"Due to your volunteer relationship with the Foundation, any false or misleading information you might provide to others concerning the foundation or its employees or board of directors would have an air of authenticity that would make it particularly damaging," said the long form.
But after the newspaper directed questions about the long form – said to be "far more restrictive" than forms used by other presidential libraries – to New York City, where the former president has an office and is usually to be found, officials there provided a very Clintonesque answer. They claimed they were unaware that the Little Rock facility was using the more restrictive form, according to communications director James Kennedy.
"After being asked about the stricter form by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, foundation officials reviewed it and decided to withdraw the longer nondisclosure agreement. Now both offices will use the shorter form developed by the New York office, and all current volunteers will be covered by it," the paper reported.
Kennedy told the paper some attorney in Little Rock, whom he would not name, drew up the original form. And he declined to discuss specifics about it, stating officials "generally don’t discuss details of our personnel policies and practices."
The new, shorter form, says volunteers cannot "disclose any information acquired while working unless it is publicly disclosed by the foundation." It requires them to get prior permission from foundation officials before granting media interviews, and says only that violations will be grounds for dismissal.
Am I the only one who appreciates the delicious irony of having "Clinton" and "gag" in the same headline?
.... and so does Monica....
I thought Monica had the gag role.
So much for the First Amendment!
I thought Clinton liked the "volunteers" to have their mouths open
The "Clinton gag rule" has been replaced with a new policy, Arkancide. All employees are encouraged to look over the obituaries of former Clinton associates and interlopers.
Screens Out Volunteers with Gag Reflex.
The Clintons have ALWAYS covered their crimes by destroying records and silencing witnesses. Willie still forces Oxford University to hide the records of his rape of another student and Hillie continues to withhold her pro-communist Master's thesis. That's what Berger was doing, hiding/destroying evidence that would incriminate Willie. Willie's library will go back to the lifetime agreement once Hillie's run for the presidency is over. It is easier to keep the criminal activity in secure areas for a couple of years than explain what they are hiding.
""Willie still forces Oxford University to hide the records of his rape of another student and Hillie continues to withhold her pro-communist Master's thesis.""
What?!
Never heard this before. Where did you get this?
"So much for the First Amendment"!
Hey, don't these guys work at a Library? Why would you have to tell them to keep quiet or no job?
Now that gagging is allowed, the Library may get more visitors.
mash this http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Feb1999/022599/clintonwomen022599.htm....its all here..
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