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whitehouse.gov - 1/22/2009

Executive Order -- Presidential Records

— whitehouse.gov — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United... States of America, and in order to establish policies and procedures governing the assertion of executive privilege by incumbent and former Presidents in ... (more) Executive Order -- Presidential Records

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motherjones.com - 1/22/2009

Obama to Bush: I Can Release Your Records. Don't Like It? Sue.

— motherjones.com — On his first day in office, President Obama is putting former president Bush on notice. The new... administration just released an executive order that will make it very difficult for Bush and Cheney to keep documents from their time in office ... (more) Obama to Bush: I Can Release Your Records. Don't Like ...

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Barack Obama

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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 1/21/2009

The Pro-Cheney Case For A Torture Commission

— rossdouthat.theatlantic.com — As Daniel Larison notes, the one place where Obama explicitly invoked "false choices" in yesterday's speech was... his Bush-rebuking reference to "the choice between our safety and our ideals." This comes a week after Evan Thomas and Stuart Taylor ... (more) The Pro-Cheney Case For A Torture Commission

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Dick Cheney

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Obama, FOIA, and Bush
Political Animal — ... , "Obama has just rescinded the rule that would have let Bush's heirs continue to claim executive privilege over his papers." Is that right? It seems like it. Bush put measures in place to help keep his records under wraps, and Zachary Roth explained , "[I]t certainly seems possible that on his first full day in office, the new president has dealt significant a blow to the Bush administration's efforts to permanently keep information from the public." Good.— ...

A note on presidential records
TigerHawk — Lefty bloggers and journalists are very excited because President Obama issued an executive order making it more difficult for former presidents to prevent their communications and other records from being released to the public. This is thought to be bad news for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, who are presumed to have done all sorts of evil things behind closed doors. Of course, there is always the chance that the quick release of internal documents will operate to discredit some of the critics or criticisms of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, but ...

Obama’s Got Promises to Keep — and He’s Keeping ‘Em
Comments from Left Field — ... can be certain that Obama’s early moves to promote government transparency and accountability will be the subject of discussion and debate for a long time to come. The effect is enormous because of what it suggests: that the Obama administration might be able to apply the new rule “retroactively to previous administrations, making it easier to pry loose records that the Bush White House has fought to keep secret[.]” But could they? According to Anne Weismann, a lawyer for ...

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