Posted on 03/18/2014 4:31:20 PM PDT by mandaladon
Among the thousands of pages of documents released by the Clinton Library recently, two had this tantalizing notation at the top: “Tape One, Side One.”
That stamp appeared on transcripts of two conversations Bill Clinton had behind closed doors with aides inside the Oval Office. They included the president’s ribald remarks on race, frank talk about gays, and even how to prepare for Y2K. And they were captured on cassette tapes.
All of which raises the question: Could there be “Clinton Tapes” — in the tradition of Nixon, Kennedy and LBJ? Might we hear Clinton in his famous Arkansas twang musing that Rep. Tom DeLay was “probably” to blame for the notorious dragging death of a black man? Could we hear Clinton admit that talking about gays caused his poll numbers to drop? Or that he wishes he could advise Americans to buy shotgun shells before the millennium?
That seems doubtful, as the newly-identified recordings appear to be lost to history. When ABC News asked for copies of the tapes, officials at the Clinton Library (part of the National Archives and Records Administration) said they couldn’t find them.
“The creation of this particular audio tape, its use, and any transcription [aides] chose to make were all done by White House staff prior to the transfer of Clinton Presidential records to NARA, and as such we simply don’t know much more than what can be found by searching the holdings as our Archival staff has done,” library official Diane LeBlanc wrote ABC News in an e-mail.
Transcripts of the remarks provided some of the more tantalizing tidbits from the Clinton Library’s latest batch of previously withheld documents release Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Any old Clinton tapes, or files of any kind, which show Clinton in a bad light are gone.
Anything which might reflect badly on Hillary is gone.
On the other hand, anything which reflects well on Bill or hillary will be made available for the media and the talking heads to mull over.
Why did Sandy Berger smuggle info out of the National Archives? Of course it was to remove info that reflected badly on Clinton. The media was never very interested in him, however. We never found out what he removed.
I believe the Clinton’s have COVERED their tracks from the very beginning..we will learn nothing NEW...
Hillary must pay for BENGHAZI..four American families are still suffering from her actions..
wake up voters...NO MORE CLINTON’S..THAT INCLUDES YOU CHELSEA, YOUR NOT WANTED EITHER...
where is Sandy Berger at???
any one know???
I’d be curious to know what was on those 18 minutes.
She was even filmed stumbling drunk on an airplane and falling down and the press would not dare touch the story.
Just check out her stiff-legged drunk stair climb and face plant after one of her binges in Yemen.
She's always falling down while drunk.
Gee. Am I really the first to point out: “what the hell difference does it make anyway!?” Ha! But seriously, talk with almost any D and they don’t want Hillary. Not at all. A lot of them stay home
Anything that might save us from the commie b*tch from heck and another 4/8 years of the sh*t sandwich diet.
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