Posted on 02/21/2009 12:47:30 PM PST by trumandogz
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, siding with former President George W. Bush, is trying to kill a lawsuit that seeks to recover what could be millions of missing White House e-mails.
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BDS strikes again. Even if they are recovered, what purpose would it serve? How many of them are of a classified nature and not subject to FOI anyway?
The Bush haters are getting even more crazy.
Well..., you can’t say that the Obama Administration is against everything that Bush did... LOL...
Leftards never learn.
Only when Obama finds it to his advantage. Oh yeah,...LoL!
Swords have two edges to them usually.
Give in on this intrustion into executive privilege--and they are going to suffer when Judicial Watch gets a hair up its backside.
Sorry Lefties, it may actually be that Obama will have more to hide than Chimp-Bush-Hitler.
Wow, the DUmmies will be pissed.
Those are ‘our’ emails. Sunshine in Gov’t is a good thing.
waddayamean, Obama has already proven he intends to hide everything. Why would he want this to go forward and retrieve anything?! He is setting precedent here people. Do not ask for documents or emails. They have been scrubbed, deleted or shredded.
When asked for his senate records he said he didn’t have any. They may have been tossed he said.
Certainly anything that isn’t a national security secret should be open to public eyes.
Obama is probably afraid of what we can do to him if the case goes forward and the get-Bush minions get their way. Hopefully, Obama will be unsuccessful and he’ll end up delivering more “transparency” than he ever intended to deliver on. That, and the Bush administration will be exonerated when the truth comes out.
I know the emails are “ours”, but the dems want them for mock congressional investigations.
Who gets to decide what the president communicates about with friends, confidants, military people and the like should be made public.
Sunshine laws are all well and good. But a lot of the communications will be of a nature that public release of the information would be harmful to US operations or intelligence gathering operations.
Careful what you ask for. The Law of Unintended Consequences will soon raise its ugly head.
Exactly.
You said — “Only when Obama finds it to his advantage. Oh yeah,...LoL!”
Well, it’s as I thought about Obama. I always thought that his behavior would be “modified” by the actual and real-life requirements of the Office of President of the United States. And, as it is turning out, that is quite true.
Of course, he’s not a conservative, but at the same time, he sure isn’t the kind of liberal that his liberal voters have wanted either. So, his behavior has been somewhat modified from what he campaigned about and what his liberal voters thought he would be doing.
Another instance of that, was when some FReepers were commenting on a story about Obama authorizing some strikes in Pakistan. Many said it was a fluke and/or he didn’t have time to counter-act Bush’s actions there (it was only a few days after Obama’s inauguration).
However, just in the last few days, it has come out in another article that Obama has *stepped up* the campaign in Pakistan to an extent that Bush never had authorized before. In other words, Obama is going “past Bush” in going after the terrorists there. And it’s been a long while after his inauguration now.
I think that many posters here don’t realize the extent to which an candidate is modified by the position of his office, especially with being President of the United States and when you have certain “realities” come home to you.
Another area where I though Obama would be *limited* by realities of the situation, was in the economic crisis area. Sure, there are lots of things to complain about, just on that subject alone, in regards to Obama, but this crisis takes him away from doing a lot of the other things that he might have wanted to do, given a free hand without any pressing crisis on his hands (like this financial meltdown and the Great Depression which will deepen throughout 2009).
Not everything that Obama does is something that Bush and the Republicans wouldn’t do, themselves. And that’s the reality of the situation, too...
Has Obama changed that policy?
Gov't should fear the public and every last word they type. They are accountable to US, this is future CYA.
They are accountable to us. Put yourself in place of one of the visitors and you went at about the same time that a person later found to be engaged in corruption went there.
do you really think that anyone would listen to your protestations of innocence? No one would. Because of the vagaries of scheduling, you would be painted as corrupt along with the other guy.
Be Careful What You Ask For, You Might Just Get It.
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