"Today, the Obama campaign released a statement that contained a number of inaccuracies about his state senate records. First, Obama claimed that all his documents "the state considers to be public" are publicly available:
Obama is pleased that all of the records that the state considers to be public are currently available.
The records "the state considers public" are not "currently available." As the Chicago Sun Times reports today, "There is no central repository of records between state lawmakers and state agencies, and Freedom of Information Act requests must be filed to obtain documents, a process that has been taking months."
It also does not speak to the real issue -- the availability of schedules, memos and other documents that Sen. Obama produced during his time in the state senate. These are documents that Illinois' two largest newspapers have long requested but have not received a response.
Today, Obama claims that he is "not in possession" of any documents "that are not available to the general public":
We are not in possession of documents from his time in the state senate that are not available to the general public and any pertinent files were passed on to his successor in the State Senate, Kwame Raoul.
Just days ago, Obama acknowledged he had "remaining documents" and encouraged reporters to make specific requests.
Nevertheless the Obama campaign continues to spread misinformation about the Clinton White House records:
This is as opposed to the millions of documents that should be publicly available from the Clinton White House that currently are not.
The records are under the control of the National Archives, not Bill or Hillary Clinton. And Senator Obama should know it's a matter of federal law that the Archives has to review each page of every record to ensure that confidential, security, and personal privacy information is not improperly released. No one can order the Archives to ignore the law.
More misinformation:
In fact, tens of thousands of documents are currently being kept from public view by a representative of the Clintons and that is just a miniscule fraction of what is available to archivists right now.
President Clinton's representative has cleared for release over 22,000 of the approximately 26,000 pages that had been pending before him. The 3 Freedom of Information Act requests (corresponding to about 4,000 pages) still pending review do not mention Senator Clinton."
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