Seal them up from the air getting into the papers.
Posted on 10/06/2011 12:57:32 AM PDT by Watchdog85
According to Judicial Watch, Rep. Edolphous Towns (D-NY) has introduced the Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011. That bill would do with Obama’s presidential records what Obama has already done to his personal and collegiate records: Seal them up.
In an obvious effort to protect President Barack Obama, a group of congressional Democrats has introduced legislation to create an official process that will allow the commander-in-chief to keep presidential records secret after he leaves office.
Ironically, Obama revoked a similar George W. Bush order in one of his first official acts as president. In 2001 Bush penned an executive order severely limiting public access to his presidential records. Shortly after swearing in, Obama killed it as part of his much-ballyhooed commitment to government transparency. At the time, the new president claimed that he was giving the American people greater access to “historic documents.”
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If the Democrats’ proposed measure (Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011) becomes law, former presidents will be allowed to assert a new “constitutionally based privilege” against disclosing records of their liking. Here is how it would work; the Archivist of the United States would be required to notify the former president, as well as the incumbent, of intentions to make records public. Anything that either the former or current president claims should be kept private won’t be released.
The veteran Brooklyn congressman (Edolphus Towns) who recently introduced the law in the U.S. House has yet to explain why it’s necessary.
This looks like a sign of surrender to me. Why seal up Obama’s records now, if you think he’s strong to get re-elected next year?
And, how many Solyndras and executive directives to punish various enemies may be lurking in those records?
This is going nowhere. He may be able to seal his education records, BC, early legal cases...but his time as President (shudder) belongs to the people of the United States. They are a matter of public record, abysmal as it may be. I can see why the Left would want to bury them but no way, warts and all, they are the PUBLIC’s records.
The dictator that won’t be re-elected, kinda doesn’t make sense, dictators DON”T get re-elected.
They are in like an Alabama tick.
Seal them up from the air getting into the papers.
Otherwise barry sutoro would not be sitting on the crapper at 1600 Pensnylvania Avenue
Well he doesn’t sit there very often now.
He has one on Air Force One and his new bus , and he uses them all over the country as he goes campaigning on our dime, a special one at Andrews where he plays golf, and of course at all of his various and sundry vacation havens, including Camp David.
The most traveled President in history, he doesn’t stay in the White House long enough to take a dump.If the Wookie is there I can’t say as I blame him.
If they seal-up nobama’s records with him in a Leavenworth cell, I’d have no complaint.
This would, no doubt, include any and all references to Fast and Furious, as well as Solyndra and all the other “stimulus” giveaways with their corresponding “contributions” to Dems and Idi Obama.
But what about the new "Pelosi Policy" of having to "pass the bill first to see what's in it?"
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