The Politics of the Clinton Case

Judicial Watch finds out about it in about 2009 and they make a Freedom of Information Act request and find that the government doesn't have the tapes because Clinton never recorded them or archive them. They tried to nudge the National Archives into getting the tapes back from Clinton, but the thing is there's no power in the statute in the Presidential Records Act that allows NARA to seize things. So, you said to yourself, why didn't they go to the Justice Department of Congress? And I think the simple answer is at that period of time, you know, for those of us who remember it well, Obama had just been elected. The Attorney General was Eric Holder who had been Bill Clinton's