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Saturday, January 10, 2004The official explanation given by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean Sunday for why he sealed off 146 boxes of his gubernatorial files from the public for 10 years is that he seeks to protect the privacy of his correspondents. But four letters obtained by ABCNEWS from Dean's 190 "open" files contain detailed personal medical information about Vermont citizens, perhaps undercutting his argument that his sealed records are to guard against the public dissemination of precisely that kind of letter. One was a letter written by an HIV-positive gay man marked "extremely confidential." Also included in the "open" files are letters from a state legislator describing intimate information about a constituent scheduled for a hysterectomy; a letter from a Vermont woman regarding the death of her daughter from AIDS; and a note from a woman about her family's troubles after her husband, who has cancer, was suspended from his job. One of those letters included the name, address, and social security number of the writer. Evidently, Dr. Dean has a different standard of confidentiality than the rest of us. posted by Sydney on 1/10/2004 09:07:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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