[OldDeckHand]

No. Obama signed an almost identical order - practically verbatim - to the one that Reagan signed in 1989. Obama is restoring the policy to what Reagan had established, but that Bush 43 revoked with his EO on Jan. 21,2001 In actuality, Obama's EO - like Reagan's - is slightly more transparent than what Bush 43 had installed.

Reagan's original order may be found here.

There are plenty of things to be critical of Obama over, but this isn't one of them.

[mnehring]

I think with all the ‘birther’ stuff going on, people read into it what they expected to see even though it has no impact on personal records.