Archivist: Obama won’t claim privilege over Kagan’s files, to be released starting June 4
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis, APFriday, May 21, 2010
Archivist: Obama won’t block Kagan file release
WASHINGTON — The nation’s official government record-keeper says President Barack Obama won’t try to block the release of documents from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s work in the Clinton White House.
Archivist David Ferriero told senators in a letter Friday that his staff has begun combing through tens of millions of papers and e-mails at Bill Clinton’s presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., to find the relevant files.
Ferriero says his agency will begin turning over electronic copies by June 4 and would do its best to release everything by the time the Judiciary Committee begins Kagan’s confirmation hearings, now set for June 28.
Kagan served as a White House counsel and domestic policy adviser in the Clinton White House.
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