CLINTON FIRST LADY SCHEDULES DUE OUT TODAY

More than 11,000 pages of Senator Clinton’s schedules from her eight years as first lady are scheduled to be released this morning by the National Archives, which runs the Clinton Presidential Library. Archives officials said almost 5,000 pages have some information deleted on privacy, security, or other grounds. It is not clear what data will be withheld at the direction of President Clinton, who is permitted to restrict information about confidential advice he received as president. An aide to Mr. Clinton, Bruce Lindsey, said he proposed more information for release than the Archives initially recommended.

DEMOCRATIC REVOTE FOUNDERS IN MICHIGAN

Plans for a new Democratic primary vote in Michigan fell apart yesterday after the proposal failed to muster the two-thirds support necessary to win approval in the state Senate. Aides to Senator Clinton accused Senator Obama’s campaign of quietly engineering a stalemate there and in Florida. “We have every reason to believe Senator Obama and his campaign are dragging their feet,” a top Clinton adviser, Harold Ickes, said. Another Clinton aide, Phil Singer, called it “a passive aggressive effort” and asserted that Mr. Obama’s campaign was “essentially going to be an accessory to disenfranchising 2.5 million people.” Both Michigan and Florida were stripped of their delegates for holding primaries earlier than permitted by the Democratic National Committee. However, Mr. Ickes said yesterday that superdelegates from those states might be entitled to vote at the convention in Denver even if the pledged delegates remain unseated.

CLINTON APPEARS WITH JOSEPH WILSON, VALERIE PLAME

With the fifth anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq today, Senator Clinton surrounded herself with two of the people most closely associated with opposition to the war, Joseph Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson. Both Wilsons have endorsed Mrs. Clinton and appeared with her at a news conference in Philadelphia yesterday. A native of that city, Mrs. Wilson was the CIA agent whose outing in the public led to the perjury conviction of Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby. His trial had centered on claims that the Bush administration had disclosed her identity as part of a bid to discredit Mr. Wilson, a diplomat and prominent war critic. The Wilsons, who are suing the vice president and several others in the administration, praised Mrs. Clinton for reaching out to them “in some very dark days.” While each noted their early opposition to the war, Mr. Wilson defended Mrs. Clinton against attempts by Senator Obama to link her vote to authorize the war to President Bush’s decision to invade.

DEMOCRATS POUNCE ON McCAIN QAEDA GAFFE

Democrats quickly pounced on Senator McCain yesterday after he mistakenly said Iran was allowing Al Qaeda fighters into its country and training them to fight in Iraq. “Al Qaeda is going back into Iran and is receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran,” the presumptive Republican nominee said at a news conference in Jordan. Senator Lieberman, who was traveling with him, then stepped in to whisper in his ear, the Associated Press reported. He quickly corrected himself: “I’m sorry; the Iranians are training the extremists, not Al Qaeda. Not Al Qaeda. I’m sorry.” While Iran has been accused of arming and training Shiite Iraqi terrorists, it has not been accused of training Al Qaeda fighters. The Democratic National Committee was not willing to let it slide. “Not only is Senator McCain wrong on Iraq once again, but he showed he either doesn’t understand the challenges facing Iraq and the region or is willing to ignore the facts on the ground,” a spokeswoman, Karen Finney, said.

PRESIDENT CLINTON: ‘RURAL HIT MAN’ FOR HILLARY

President Clinton, who once accused Senator Obama of putting out a “hit job on him,” is now boasting about being the “rural hit man” for his wife, Senator Clinton. He made the comment yesterday in Lawrenceburg, Ind., as he launched a campaign swing through the Hoosier State, the Indianapolis Star reported.