‘Shine a light’ fails to back up claims

In Tristan Reitz’s column that was printed in (Sept. 7’s) IDS, “Shine a Light,” you made a pretty serious error: not checking your facts. In your column, you made the claim that Sen. Hillary Clinton had been “refusing” to release the approximately 2 million documents from her tenure as First Lady. This is not true. The reality is that it takes a long time to sort through documents, and the National Archives (which is in charge of archiving the library) staff is spread thin. It is not at the Senator’s behest that these documents have not been released. Quite the contrary. Very soon after leaving the White House, President Clinton made public all of the documents from Sen. Clinton’s campaign for universal healthcare.\nNext time you make a claim in one of your columns, do your research.