of in bill clinton's case as his standing as a former president. >> shannon: so many of these documents say in getting response are so heavily redacted. portions they think would be important to understanding exactly what happened here. they say they'll go to federal court to get the redactions lifted. do you think they'll have any luck and what more do you think we might learn? >> it will be a snail's pace, no doubt about that. they never rush to redact these sorts of things but i don't believe they should be redacted. hopefully we can get to the truth and we need evidence in order to find that truth. at the end of the day the american people are so sick of this smoke and mirror game happening on a regular basis within washington, within our government institutions. they want answers and they want the truth so they can form reasonable opinions about what is happening in the world that they pay -- in the country they pay a lot of taxes in. >> shannon: these freedom of information requests often take a long time to get fulfilled.