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(3:10 p.m. -- See UPDATE below for the Republican response)
"Breathtakingly" misleading. That's what former president Bill Clinton called a question Tim Russert asked his wife at this week's Democratic presidential candidates' debate. And boy was he mad.
"The implication was that in the last few weeks since she'd been a candidate, I had endeavored to cover up records involving her. You agree with that? That's what people thought when they heard that question," Clinton said. "Here are the facts."
He asserts the letter in question is five years old, involves Hillary only incidentally and requests that the National Archives speed up the release of certain documents, not slow it down. Read more about the controversy here.
Clinton made the comments during an appearance Friday morning on the Microsoft campus with CEO Steve Ballmer. To hear Clinton's impassioned defense in his own words, watch this video by P-I reporter Todd Bishop.
UPDATE: Paul Lindsey of the Republican National Committee responded to Clinton's comments this afternoon:
"The only thing that's breathtakingly misleading is Bill and Hillary Clinton's continued distortion of the facts," Lindsey wrote in an e-mail. "All this takes is for the Clintons to release the documents related to their time in the White House instead of regaling the American people with more flimsy delaying tactics and excuses."
Here's a transcript of the exchange between Russert and Sen. Clinton at the Oct. 30 debate from MSNBC.com. Note: according to the transcript, and contrary to what Clinton said at the press conference, Russert said the documents would be released after 2012, not 2009:
Russert: Senator Clinton, I'd like to follow up, because in terms of your experience as first lady, in order to give the American people an opportunity to make a judgment about your experience, would you allow the National Archives to release the documents about your communications with the president, the advice you gave?
Because, as you well know, President Clinton has asked the National Archives not to do anything until 2012.
Here's a full video of the debate:
For more clips from Clinton's appearance in Redmond, see Bishop's Microsoft blog.
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Posted by unregistered user at 11/2/07 3:15 p.m.
Watching Clinton standing in front of the press defending himself and jabbing his finger at the reporters just makes my stomach turn.
The last thing this country needs is 4-8 more years of these slimeballs back in the White House.
Let's please END the Clinton/Bush dynasties and give this country a fresh start.