explain what the issue is and what the white house is saying about it? well, wolf, the con text is that it the white house itself releasing various documents from the clinton days to show elena kagan s record, and what is really gotten some controversy kicked up here is a memo dating back to 1996, and it was a debate of whether or not a various nonprofit group and volunteer workers would be exposed to legal liability like the national rifle association or the kkk and it is important to know that another clinton aide and not elena kagan wrote this memo and basically saying that the groups could be improperly shielded from legal liability, and some of the democrats on the hill at the time were lumping the nra together with the kkk and kagan who had a copy of the memo had a phone conversation with the debate, and in the margin she wrote about it and referred to the fact that some democrats were calling people like the nra bad guys, and some of the groups in the debate. and what white ho