Clinton Museum built-in disincentive

I received a response from the Clinton Museum yesterday — $1,080 for PDFs is daylight robbery, especially when most of that cost is just a built-in disincentive to keep people from requesting bulk records.

We’ve got:

1,350 pages × $0.25/page

• 1,000 × 0.25 = $250.00
• 300 × 0.25 = $75.00
• 50 × 0.25 = $12.50

Total = $250 + $75 + $12.50 = $337.50

So if you went to Little Rock and copied them yourself in the research room, it’d be $337.50.

If you had them copy & send electronically at $0.80/page, it would be:

• 1,000 × 0.80 = $800.00
• 300 × 0.80 = $240.00
• 50 × 0.80 = $40.00

Total = $1,080.00

That’s why narrowing the scope or getting a fee waiver is key here — you’re looking at over a thousand dollars otherwise.

The $0.80/page rate isn’t about actual staff costs — it’s set high because NARA wants you in the research room instead, where you’re already paying to get there and still hit with $0.25/page if you want hard copies.

I therefore wrote to them again as it was clear I was asking for the itinerary and agenda, not a rain forest which is already disappearing.

Subject: FOIA 2025-1058-F – Fee Waiver, Scope Clarification & Request for Document List

Dear FOIA Officer,

I acknowledge receipt of your letter regarding FOIA request 2025-1058-F.

I am concerned by your statement that you have identified approximately 1,350 pages of “potentially responsive” records to a narrowly defined request for information on Tony Blair’s visits to the United States between 1995 and May 1997 involving President Bill Clinton, particularly any itineraries, agendas, and related meetings. TO be frank this meeting covered  dates of less tham one month 2010 Inauguration statements by Mr. Trump specifically dates:

1. May 29, 1997 (Wednesday): Newly elected Prime Minister Tony Blair met with U.S. President Bill Clinton in London, at 10 Downing Street.
2. Blair’s April 1996 U.S. Visit: Strategic Education Dialogue … April 10–12, 1996: Blair travels … talks 1996 Jeffrey Epstein NY, D.C. Active in elite social circles tied to education May 1996 Dunkley

It is difficult to see how a simple itinerary and meeting agenda could realistically produce 1,350 pages. This suggests either:

1. A broad, unfocused retrieval of unrelated records, or
2. That the results may in fact be responsive to a different requester’s FOIA.

Accordingly, I request that you:

1. Provide a detailed list of the specific documents you have already identified and processed as responsive to this request — including document titles, dates, originating offices, and number of pages for each item.
2. Confirm the record series searched, the date ranges applied, and the search terms used.
3. Provide a page count by category (e.g., Presidential Daily Diary, WAVES/visitor logs, Blair House guest records, NSC files, briefing materials, correspondence, photographs).

Fee Waiver Request:
Under 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(A)(iii), I formally request a full fee waiver. The subject matter is of significant public interest, directly relating to Presidential-level diplomatic activity between the U.S. and U.K., and will be used solely for non-commercial, public dissemination purposes through publication and media outreach. If a full waiver is not granted, I request a cost cap of $60 and that processing be paused before exceeding that limit.

Escalation Notice:
If you fail to process and provide the responsive records in accordance with FOIA and the PRA, I will write directly to the U.S. Department of Justice and request that the relevant subpoena for President Clinton be enforced to include these materials. These records are critical to an ongoing matter, and withholding them under inflated page counts or mis-categorisation will be treated as obstruction.

Please confirm:

• That the 1,350 pages are indeed unique to my FOIA request;
• That you will process this request on a rolling release basis with electronic delivery of PDFs;
• When I will receive the full document list for what has already been processed.

I look forward to your confirmation.

Kind regards,
Martin Newbold
martinnewbold.mn@gmail.com

On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM Racheal Carter-Ragan <racheal.carter-ragan@nara.gov> wrote:

Dear Mr. Newbold,

Attached to this email is the FOIA response letter for your request 2025-1058-F.  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely, 

Racheal Carter-Ragan

FOIA Coordinator

William J. Clinton Presidential Library

1200 President Clinton Avenue

Little Rock, AR 72201

• CommentJust Now Clinton Museum built-in disincentive I critiqued the $1,080 fee for PDFs from the Clinton Museum, arguing it discourages bulk record requests. They detail costs for self-copying versus electronic delivery, emphasizing the need to narrow their request or seek a fee waiver, as the large page count seems exaggerated, potentially indicating unrelated records.House Oversight Committee Ramps Up Epstein Investigation
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President Bill Clinton as a “prime suspect” in relation to the Epstein case.

Claims by Congressman James Comer: House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer has described former President Bill Clinton as a “prime suspect” in relation to the Epstein case

New York Post

Subpoenas & Investigation: Both Bill and Hillary Clinton have been subpoenaed by the Republican-led House Oversight Committee to testify as part of a broader scrutiny into their connections with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, scheduled for fall 2025.

The Sun | ElHuffPost | New York Post

House Demands Documents: The committee has also issued subpoenas to the Department of Justice and sought documents connected to the Epstein investigation, with a deadline for compliance set for August 19.

FactCheck.org |The Week | YouTube | MSN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRgldMdqnPs

This news segment reports that the U.S. House Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas to former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of an expanding investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s activities

PRIME SUSPECT

Claims by Congressman James Comer: House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer has described former President Bill Clinton as a “prime suspect” in relation to the Epstein case

New York Post

Subpoenas & Investigation: Both Bill and Hillary Clinton have been subpoenaed by the Republican-led House Oversight Committee to testify as part of a broader scrutiny into their connections with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, scheduled for fall 2025.

The Sun | ElHuffPost | New York Post | The People

House Demands Documents: The committee has also issued subpoenas to the Department of Justice and sought documents connected to the Epstein investigation, with a deadline for compliance set for August 19.

FactCheck.org |The Week | YouTube | MSN|

Martin Newbold, author of The Stealing of Emily: Institutional Fraud and Toxic Judicial Procedures, announces an upcoming exposé examining how late-1990s policy alignments between the U.S. and U.K. coincided with systemic failures that allowed a child—Emily Cathryn Newbold Smith—to be “present on paper, absent in life.”

Update — What’s formally on record (Aug 2025):

• The House Oversight Committee says it has subpoenaed Bill and Hillary Clinton, along with former AGs/FBI directors, and is seeking DOJ records related to Epstein. (Committee release, Aug 2025.) House Oversight Committee
• Chair James Comer has described Bill Clinton as a “prime suspect” in media interviews. That’s Comer’s characterization, not a DOJ designation. YahooYahoo News
• Separate reporting says a birthday note from Bill Clinton to Epstein exists (per Wall Street Journal reporting summarized by The Guardian/Politico). Clinton’s office has long said he “knows nothing” of Epstein’s crimes. The GuardianPoliticoNewsweek
• FactCheck.org recently noted there’s no evidence Clinton visited Epstein’s island “28 times,” countering viral claims. FactCheck.org

What’s not on record:

• No public DOJ filing names Clinton as a defendant or “prime suspect.” The 2019 SDNY case and Maxwell conviction established trafficking crimes but didn’t allege broadcasting/streaming or charge specific third-party “client

The investigation focuses on the 1996–97 window surrounding high-level meetings associated with then-President Bill Clinton and then-Prime Minister Tony Blair. Newbold’s reporting does not allege criminal conduct by those principals. Instead, it raises questions about how the era’s policy choices, procurement, and data practices helped normalize cross-border case handling, closed-material procedures, and record-keeping that could displace children in documents without physical verification.

“Our files show meetings minuted without a child, assessments naming the wrong father, and a trail of reviews in a jurisdiction where Emily never was,” said Newbold. “We are publishing the documents we can, and asking those who hold the rest to release them.”

What the exposé will publish

• Core documents already in hand (e.g., FOI responses, viability assessments, correspondence, registry anomalies) and a verification checklist for any additional records.
• A technical note explaining how remote admin tools (e.g., Citrix-fronted consoles) could separate paper control from physical presence in care and online-platform operations.
• A timeline mapping claimed placements against missing artefacts (travel, GP/school/health records) and formal notices where agencies declined to investigate.

What it is not claiming

• It is not a claim that President Clinton (or named public figures) committed crimes in the U.K. care system.
• It is a call for document release, independent audit, and accountability for officials whose signatures appear on contradictory records.

Call to action

Newbold invites comment from the Cabinet Office, Home Office, Ofcom, the NI Department of Health, and relevant U.S. counterparts. Subjects named in the documents will be given right of reply prior to publication.

About the author
Martin Newbold is the author of The Stealing of Emily: Institutional Fraud and Toxic Judicial Procedures, an investigation into how U.K. systems can convert a child’s life into paperwork and evade scrutiny.

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