What’s in the Missing Kagan Documents?
Tina Korbe /
In the nearly 160,000 pages of recently released documents that relate to Elena Kagan, precious little appears about Paula Jones — even though Kagan was intimately involved in President Clinton’s sexual harassment lawsuit in her capacity in the White House Counsel’s office. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) today had something to say about that.
“The people who decide which documents we get are representatives of President Clinton and President Obama,” Sessions told bloggers in a preview to the Kagan confirmation hearings to bloggers. “Would President Clinton want to release something that could cast him in a bad light? Or would President Obama want to release something that could embarrass his nominee?”
Sessions is not the only person to speculate why representatives of Clinton and the White House decided to withhold for privacy reasons more than 1,500 pages of Kagan documents — the pages that include most details about Kagan’s work on the Jones scandal, according to an Associated Press article.