Posted on 04/10/2009 2:26:14 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama releases Reagan records By: Josh Gerstein April 10, 2009 04:40 PM EST
President Barack Obama is ordering the release of nearly a quarter of a million pages of records from the Reagan White House that were kept from the public during a lengthy review by President George W. Bush.
The Reagan documents – which include presidential briefing papers, speechwriting research materials and declassified foreign policy records — are expected to be released Monday.
Officials said the Obama administration’s quick verdict on the documents was prompted by an executive order Obama signed in January that gives the incumbent president 30 days to make such a decision, unless he sets a longer period. By contrast, Bush’s executive order on presidential records set no time limit on the White House’s review.
“With regard to the Reagan Administration records, I am writing to inform you that the President has not asserted executive privilege over any of this material,” White House Counsel Greg Craig wrote in a letter Thursday obtained by POLITICO.
“Pursuant to the President’s Executive Order, NARA may release these records — opening close to 250,000 pages of history,” Craig wrote to the director of the presidential libraries unit at the National Archives and Records Administration, Nancy Kegan Smith.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I smell a rat.
This guy just LOVES to release other people’s papers....WHEN IS HE GOING TO RELEASE HIS?
But this putrid dirt bag won’t show his college transcipts or his BC. Obviously, he is hiding the fact that his grades reflect his affirmative action incompetence.
He sure is free with others records. Lets see if der Slickster ever kept any records. We know he set several.
a quarter million reagan records and still no birth certificate.
This effrontery is deliberately provocative. How brazen does this administration have to be, to go about releasing any sort of records, when their man refuses to release anything regarding Himself?
Question here is “who is pulling this puppet’s strings and why?” Everything he does is on someone else’s orders, IMO.
Me too....time to slam Reganomics and Capitalism some more?
He will malign the very policies that can get the economy roaring again, what a socialist a$$
He can release this but WHERE IS HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE!
This guy isn’t about leadership or what’s best for the country, he’s about settling scores kept by the far left wing of the Democrats.
Obama: “What’s this?”
Aide: “Documents describing the triumph of capitalism over the evils of communism and the end of the Soviet Union”.
Obama: “Get rid of them. We have no interest in that sort of thing now”.
LLS
MARCH ON WASHINGTON NOW!!!!
gee, timed perfectly to dominate the weekend news cycle and take peoples attention of the Somali Pirates
Hey Bammy...RELEASE YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE!
My personal first concern here, is national security.
These papers involve foreign policy. And I’m not at all confident this buffoon’s administration is capable of judging what should and should not be released. I would imagine that is decided by security agencies, but the left loves to set new lower limits on what is and is not of a crucial nature.
I wonder what directives were issued by Obama considering these declassifications.
I also wonder what is so important, or what backs Obama’s position today, so that it needed to be outed right now.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.