Monday, March 5, 2007

Hillary's Thesis

An investigative report on msnbc.com says that, during Bill Clinton's presidency, the Clinton White House asked Wellesley College to prohibit access to Hillary Rodham Clinton's senior honors thesis, even though the college had a policy of making all such documents public. The article states that as a result of a new policy approved by the college's president at the time....

"The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read -- except for those written by either a president or first lady of the United States. So far, that action has sealed precisely one document: Hillary Rodham’s senior honors thesis"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17388372/

Apparently, the document has been available again since Bill Clinton left the White House. Still, while a forty year old thesis seems to be of little relevance today, we should all (regardless of political affiliation) be outraged that people in power can get away with this sort of thing.

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