Bushtatorships and Double Standards

Atrios commenter Hecate notes:

All I can remember is what happened when Hillary Clinton came across those billing records and turned them over. Didn't they haul her ass over to the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse and make her answer questions before a grand jury for an entire friggin' day? With cameras outside on Monica Beach? And didn't every talking head in the world go on and on and on about all the crimes she'd committed and cook up all kinds of conspiracy theories?

So I did some homework:

In January 1996, a long sought-after copy of billing records from the Rose Law Finn were identified and turned over to prosecutors by Carolyn Huber, a White House assistant to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Ms. Huber, herself a former Rose Law Firm employee, recognized the records and realized that they had been among papers that she had removed six months earlier from the First Lady's book room on the third floor of the White House.



The mysterious appearance of the billing records, which had been the specific subject of various investigative subpoenas for two years, sparked intense interest about how they surfaced and where they had been. Shortly after the discovery of the records, Hillary Clinton made history -- she became the only First Lady ever called to testify before a Grand Jury inquiry. (source: Frontline: Once Upon a Time in Arkansas)

OK, the clock starts now. Who wants to bet on the Bush Air National Guard Subpoena timeframe? My bet? twenty bucks on "Never."