Once the archived records of Senator Hillary Clinton’s White House schedule are ready for release it will be up to former President Clinton and President Bush to decide if either will claim Executive Privilege.

An estimated 10,000 pages of daily schedules from Senator Clinton’s tenure as first lady could be made public as soon as December, though Presidents Clinton and Bush could postpone the records’ release, a National Archives official said yesterday.

“Our hope is to get it done by the end of the year,” the acting director of the Clinton Presidential Library, Emily Robison, told The New York Sun. She stressed that she was only referring to the review and redaction of the records by archivists. Under the Presidential Records Act and an executive order issued by Mr. Bush, Mr. Clinton’s representatives then have 90 days to review the records for materials that could be covered by executive privilege. After that review is complete, Mr. Bush has an unlimited amount of time to make his own privilege assertions.

It is unclear whether the disclosure of redacted versions of Mrs. Clinton’s schedules will ultimately have significance for her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. However, it seems likely that Mr. Clinton’s former aides will have control over the timing of the process just as the nominating contest reaches its peak early next year. The political atmosphere is sure to increase pressure on the former president not to be responsible for any delay.

It would be interesting to see how much information is actually released after the redactions take place, assuming the two presidents agree to release them.

Mrs. Clinton has been in the news a lot this week, but none of it has been good for her.

Do I have Clinton fatigue deja vu?