Oh. Yeah. Suuuuure they are.
Posted on 08/19/2008 12:57:43 PM PDT by SmithL
The University of Illinois on Tuesday refused to release records relating to Barack Obama's service to a nonprofit group linked to former 1960s radical activist William Ayers.
The university's Chicago campus said the donor of the records that document the work of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge has not yet turned over ownership rights to the material.
The university is "aggressively pursuing" an agreement with the donor, and as soon as an agreement is finalized, the collection will be made accessible to the public, the university said in a one-paragraph statement.
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As the Church Lady used to say, how conveeeeenient. They will probably get permission to make the documents public the day after the election. Can you say, “Pig in a poke”?
No, they are waiting for the offending documents to be removed. Then they will make the collection accessible.
What are the odds we will get to see these documents before the election??
Since there is reluctance to the records to the public, one can assume they are damning... like Obama’s ‘lost’ college thesis.
Oh. Yeah. Suuuuure they are.
How come Barack Obama has no friends his own age? No one from High School or College. Could it be that they couldn’t stand him?
...or how he found his sanity.
Worry one. We might find out what really happened in his past.
Worry two. We might find out what he really means by "change" and "sacrifice".
Unless there is a difference between the State of Illinois FOIA and the Federal FOIA, the records would be exempt from release because they have not been formaly/legally turned over to the university.
Even though the documents are in the posession of the university, they do not have legal ownership until the official transfer is completed.
So much for that bull crap “transparency” the Donks always yap about
See The Corner - “Annenberg Records in Grave Danger” - for more info on this. Something reeks here.
One can only assume that the “donor” is none other than William Ayers.
Below you will find a transcript of the radio interview Chicago talk radio host Jerry Agar conducted with a University of Illinois at Chicago spokesman regarding the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records. Although done quickly, this transcript should be at least 95% accurate, and is probably more so, but if in doubt, listen to the audio interview in my earlier post. Here is the transcript:
Prepared Statement by Bill Burton of UIC library:
“The university library supports the teaching, research and service missions of the university by acquiring, organizing, preserving and providing access to information. The library is open to the public and dedicated to free inquiry. The university has not received ownership rights to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Collection. The university is aggressively pursuing an agreement with the donor. And as soon as an agreement is finalized, the collection will be made accessible to the public.
Question and Answers:
Q: Who’s the donor?
A: I’m not sure I’m at liberty to release that information.
Q: Is the donor Bill Ayers?
A: Not to my knowledge.
Q: Why is this a problem? If they give the material to a library, why would they hold up after giving permission. Your library gave permission to Stanley Kurtz to look at this material. Why was he suddenly shut down?
A: We were only made aware that there was not a formal ownership agreement as recently as he was so informed.
Q: How long can that take?
A: As I said we are aggressively pursuing an agreement with the donor.
Q: Stanley Kurtz I believe points out in his column he finds it hard to believe you would get 132 boxes of material without that agreement being put in place ahead of time?
A: I can’t help what he find hard to believe. But in fact there is no ownership agreement.
Q: Can this be done before the election?
A: I’m sorry.
Q: Can this be done before the election?
A: It can be done very quickly once we have an agreement.
Q: Can the agreement be done before the election?
A: Excuse me, and if it can’t be done we’ll simply return the materials to the owner.
Q: Do you understand that it looks you guys are trying to help someone hide this information from the media?
A: That’s not the case as I just told you.
Q: Thanks for your call.
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By now it shouldn't matter for anyone with a legal vote to give should know that Obama is an anti-American political idiot.
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