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To: sr4402
Asked about an executive order restricting release of presidential records that Bush issued in 2001, Weinstein expressed distaste for it as a private citizen.

Agreed. Executive Order 13233 is a bad thing. It violates 200 years of precedent - beginning with Geo. Washington - on the question of presidential papers.

To those interested, do a Google on "Executive Order 13233", and read it, bearing in mind that by precedent, presidents have for the most part had control over their adminsitration's papers throughout U.S. history. Some limiting statutes have been put in place since Watergate, but the changes have been gradual and mostly supportive of the precedent.

Executive Order 13233 turns that entire relationship upside-down.

10 posted on 07/26/2004 5:39:28 AM PDT by angkor
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To: angkor

Is this not a violation of our form of open government?
Why hasn't this been challenged?


70 posted on 07/26/2004 9:56:28 AM PDT by mabelkitty
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