Hillary: Cheney's Troubling Pattern of Secrecy

Looks like Hillary is taking up the challenge to use the Cheney shooting incident as a way to call the administration's practices into question. It's not much, but at least it's getting politically interesting.

HIL BLASTS TEAM BUSH 'PATTERN' OF SECRECY
BY MICHAEL McAULIFF and JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON - The White House's failure to come clean about the vice president's shooting of a 78-year-old fellow hunter is part of a pattern of unacceptable secrecy, Sen. Hillary Clinton charged yesterday.

"A tendency of this administration from the top all the way to the bottom is to withhold information, to resist legitimate requests for information, to refuse to be forthcoming," Clinton (D-N.Y.) said.

"Putting it all together going back years now, there is a pattern that should be troubling," she said, apparently referring to the CIA leak case, Cheney's secret meetings with energy execs and White House refusal to release documents relating to judicial nominees.