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Clinton calendars full of unexplained private meetings
MSNBC-Deep Background ^ | 3-19-2008 | Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior Investigative Producer

Posted on 03/19/2008 7:07:49 PM PDT by rdl6989

Former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's calendar entries are full of unexplained private meetings on key dates when she and President Clinton were fending off a variety of scandals, the newly released White House records show.

Take Jan. 21, 1998. That's the day when most Americans first learned, courtesy of the Washington Post, that President Clinton had had a relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Mrs. Clinton's calendar entry shows that she left the White House at 7:25 pm that evening and returned 25 minutes later. The National Archives, which released the 17,484 calendar pages today, has excised the reason for the brief trip and the names of any of the people whom Mrs. Clinton may have met. The Archives, working in consultation with President Clinton's representatives, cite privacy concerns in blacking out all details of the trip.

Dec. 22, 2000 also remains a bit of a mystery. That's the day when Mrs. Clinton and the President met in the White House with a New York rabbi who successfully lobbied President Clinton to commute the sentences of four Hassidic men who had been convicted of massive fraud and conspiracy. The commutations were extremely controversial at the time, and photos of the meeting exist. And yet, there's no mention of it in Mrs. Clinton's daily log. The calendar simply lists four separate "private meetings" in the Map Room that day, with no names attached.

On Jan. 4, 1996, the calendars also record four "private" meetings that the First Lady held with her chief of staff, Maggie Williams, and undisclosed others. That's the same day that one of the First Lady's aides discovered a stack of Mrs. Clinton's law-firm billing records in the private quarters of the White House. Whitewater investigators had been searching for the subpoenaed documents for months.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintonlibrary; hillary; hillarysecrets; x42

1 posted on 03/19/2008 7:07:50 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

The dance continues.


2 posted on 03/19/2008 7:09:35 PM PDT by AntiKev (Von nichts kommt nichts.)
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To: rdl6989
“private meetings!!!!” before or after Vince Foster's murder?
3 posted on 03/19/2008 7:10:50 PM PDT by geo40xyz ((McCain, Obama or Hillarybeast possibility of 4 Supreme Court Justices, Gore @UN. The WINNER is?))
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To: rdl6989
"Take, for example, when Al Qaeda terrorists bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, killing hundreds of people. Mrs. Clinton’s schedule does not show any foreign policy meetings in the aftermath of the crisis"

Unintentionally funny quote from this reporter. Why WOULD Hillary have a "foreign policy meeting"? She was the first lady.

4 posted on 03/19/2008 7:11:33 PM PDT by boop (Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
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To: rdl6989
4 More Years!!!!!!!!!!!! Who can say No to that!!!!!!!!!! </sarc
5 posted on 03/19/2008 7:13:55 PM PDT by cmsgop ( Spitzer .."Yes I Can" !!!!!!)
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To: rdl6989

Whew, and this is from DNCNBC.com ? They must be sweating buckets, waiting for the Clinton hitmen to arrive!


6 posted on 03/19/2008 7:16:45 PM PDT by Supercharged Merlin (Only way to get the money out of politics is to get the politics out of money!)
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To: rdl6989

Who did the sanitizing, Bill?


7 posted on 03/19/2008 7:18:22 PM PDT by cardinal4
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To: Supercharged Merlin

8 posted on 03/19/2008 7:19:36 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: AntiKev

9 posted on 03/19/2008 7:21:30 PM PDT by traumer
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To: rdl6989
...Mrs. Clinton's [WELL-SCRUBBED] daily log
10 posted on 03/19/2008 7:27:52 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: rdl6989

Every redacted moment was most likely related to scandal (plotting scandalous activity for the future, or responding to scandals past and present.)

No national security issues there, nothing to hide except her own shame. She was first lady, not President. Her job was scheming and damage control.


11 posted on 03/19/2008 7:28:05 PM PDT by Rocky
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To: rdl6989

Hope you all didn’t really expect full disclosure here. “Private meetings” indeed. As if the White House were her own private property. I know SHE views it that way, but...


12 posted on 03/19/2008 7:30:25 PM PDT by Content Provider
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To: rdl6989


13 posted on 03/19/2008 7:31:22 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: rdl6989

Donations and pardons?


14 posted on 03/19/2008 7:31:22 PM PDT by GOPJ (Obama's Rev shows blacks too can be hateful small minded bigots. Toss white guilt-it's a new day.)
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To: traumer

That was a staged photo op.


15 posted on 03/19/2008 7:32:30 PM PDT by GOPJ (Obama's Rev shows blacks too can be hateful small minded bigots. Toss white guilt-it's a new day.)
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To: rdl6989

I thought Drudge brought us the story of Monica, not WaPo. She should demand a retraction. ;-)


16 posted on 03/19/2008 7:32:38 PM PDT by SueRae
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To: rdl6989
The National Archives, which released the 17,484 calendar pages today, has excised the reason for the brief trip and the names of any of the people whom Mrs. Clinton may have met. The Archives, working in consultation with President Clinton's representatives, cite privacy concerns in blacking out all details of the trip.

No doubt the purpose of the trip was to replenish the ashtray and fine china inventories in the White House Presidential residence, in preparation for giving BJ Clinton the butt kicking of his life...

17 posted on 03/19/2008 7:34:38 PM PDT by Zeppo (Every mighty mild... seventies child... Beats me (Metric - Combat Baby))
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To: rdl6989

I know one person she met with around the lewinsky time frame. Her name is mary beth matthews and she teaches law at the universitu of arkansas. She abruptly canceled class for a week at that time under the pretense that she was finally invited to the lincol bedroom. It was well known that she and her husband were part of the clinton’s damage control team.


18 posted on 03/19/2008 7:36:36 PM PDT by Treeless Branch
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To: rdl6989

What a great time for a reminder of what the Clinton years were like. Obama operatives need to push this to the front pages. Hillary = done.


19 posted on 03/19/2008 7:42:54 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: AD from SpringBay
Hillary = done.

They're doing a great job damaging each other.

20 posted on 03/19/2008 7:45:06 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

Where’s the rest of the thousands of pages of papers? Why just her calendar?


21 posted on 03/19/2008 7:46:09 PM PDT by harpo11 (Rush, had better have a back-up strategy just in case the third term grabbing Clintons win the WH.)
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To: rdl6989

Check Charlie Trie’s and Elaine Kanchanalak’s calendars to see how the gaps correlate.


22 posted on 03/19/2008 7:47:21 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: rdl6989

I think I heard on the news some of these private meeting dates were around the time of her brother’s pardon and Clinton’s brother, Rodger’s pardon. And Mark Rich’s pardon.


23 posted on 03/19/2008 7:49:06 PM PDT by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)
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To: rdl6989

Isn’t it wonderful?


24 posted on 03/19/2008 7:52:48 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: rdl6989
Sounds like the “private meetings” thing is the second coming of the old “I don't recall” ploy.
25 posted on 03/19/2008 7:53:12 PM PDT by The Cajun
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To: Rocky
"Her job was scheming and damage control.

That's right, she was Commander in chief Battleaxe of the Bimbo Eruption Brigade and Operation Destroy Ken Starr while making beaucoup bucks on cattle futures, and reading FBI Files of her political opponents, and serving coffee for the Clinton WH Coffee Klatch Shop, providing maid service for the Lincoln Bedroom, and passing little white envelopes to her husband from Charlie Trie and all the while looking for those darn Rose Law Firm Billing Records and an occasional Federal Grand Jury Testimony.

26 posted on 03/19/2008 7:54:01 PM PDT by harpo11 (Rush, had better have a back-up strategy just in case the third term grabbing Clintons win the WH.)
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To: rdl6989

I couldn’t wait to see what she was doing on July 20, 1993 the day Vince Foster died. She was in LA. She did the Michael Jackson show (not that Michael Jackson) and that evening she flew to Little Rock arriving at 740 EDST. She remained in Little Rock through the funeral on the 23d. She did tour a children’s clinic on the 22nd. Well if she followed the schedule she pretty much had an air tight alibi.


27 posted on 03/19/2008 8:05:06 PM PDT by Harley (Ted Kennedy-inventor of waterboarding.)
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To: harpo11

And don’t forget ruining the lives of the Travel Office employees.

I can’t believe that almost half of the Demonrats think she should be President.


28 posted on 03/19/2008 8:05:45 PM PDT by Rocky
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To: george76

Well....................................................................................................the boobs are wayyyyyyyyy too big.


29 posted on 03/19/2008 8:09:36 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
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To: Rocky
"I can’t believe that almost half of the Demonrats think she should be President."Lunatics, all of them. And, yes, you are right, Billy Dale and the Travel Office employees.

There wasn't any reasonable explanation other than her evil vindicativeness for the wrongs that were committed against innocent and hard working loyal employees.

30 posted on 03/19/2008 8:13:15 PM PDT by harpo11 (Rush, had better have a back-up strategy just in case the third term grabbing Clintons win the WH.)
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To: rdl6989
MUSICAL YOUTUBE REMINDER OF THE 8 YEARS FROM HELL
31 posted on 03/19/2008 8:37:23 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: rdl6989
Clinton calendars full of unexplained private meetings

Oh, this is absurd!!! Clearly she was solving the problems of the world while Bubba was off diddling Monica! That's how she can claim 35 years of experience with a straight face!!!



(Or is it the Botox??)/sarc

32 posted on 03/19/2008 8:43:14 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: traumer

This photo makes me truly sick to my stomach.


33 posted on 03/19/2008 8:44:37 PM PDT by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than any of us will ever fully realize.)
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To: GOPJ

Well, I could have done without seeing them both like that fake dance and...in bathing suits no less???????????????? Yipes...where IS their self respect and dignity?


34 posted on 03/19/2008 8:45:54 PM PDT by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than any of us will ever fully realize.)
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To: GOPJ

Well, I could have done without seeing them both like that fake dance and...in bathing suits no less???????????????? Yipes...where IS their self respect and dignity?


35 posted on 03/19/2008 8:46:07 PM PDT by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than any of us will ever fully realize.)
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To: GOPJ

Well, I could have done without seeing them both like that fake dance and...in bathing suits no less???????????????? Yipes...where IS their self respect and dignity?


36 posted on 03/19/2008 8:46:07 PM PDT by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than any of us will ever fully realize.)
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To: geo40xyz

Vince Foster was labeled as a “camping trip” — with “extra luggage.”


37 posted on 03/19/2008 8:50:54 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Thumper1960; SunkenCiv

25 “private visits” the day before the pardons were issued...


38 posted on 03/19/2008 9:31:33 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Harley
"I couldn’t wait to see what she was doing on July 20, 1993 the day Vince Foster died. She was in LA. She did the Michael Jackson show (not that Michael Jackson) and that evening she flew to Little Rock arriving at 740 EDST. She remained in Little Rock through the funeral on the 23d. She did tour a children’s clinic on the 22nd."

But remember the WSJ published a phone number that was called that night to the WH that mysteriously became inactive? They had a whole editorial about it.

39 posted on 03/19/2008 9:58:31 PM PDT by boop (Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
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To: george76; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Gosh, Hillary’s corrupt? Who knew? Thanks george.


40 posted on 03/19/2008 11:35:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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To: rdl6989

Wonder what she was doing? Oh, yes.....................Arkancide planning.


41 posted on 03/19/2008 11:46:45 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: rdl6989

She was seriously depressed and was seeing her shrink.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933270/posts


42 posted on 03/20/2008 5:56:39 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: rdl6989

Reference bump ...


43 posted on 03/20/2008 6:35:29 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here. ;-)
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To: rdl6989

$he wa$ mo$t likely vi$iting with $upporter$ and con$tituent$.


44 posted on 03/20/2008 8:33:01 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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45 posted on 03/20/2008 8:42:18 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: Rocky

“Every redacted moment was most likely related to scandal (plotting scandalous activity for the future, or responding to scandals past and present.)”

Absolutely. Anybody not smart enough to realize that is just not smart enough to vote.


46 posted on 03/20/2008 9:35:42 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: rdl6989
During the Clinton administration, there was an under-publicized "gang summit" in the midwest. I'm coming up dry on web searches, but as I recall, the room was sealed and so was any reporting or documentation about it.

With Hillary's ties to gang-related legal advice in her younger years, it should be asked: 1) Is there any public record of Bill's gang summit in the '90's, and 2) where was Hillary during the meeting?

47 posted on 04/05/2008 10:55:02 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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