Obama's Chicago thugs racing to shred paper.
Posted on 09/08/2008 11:56:44 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
As most observers predicted at the time, records from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge where Barack Obama served as President of the Board and terrorist William Ayers as head of the action arm of the organization were almost certainly scrubbed; the result of a tip from the University of Illinois to the Obama campaign:
The President of the University of Illinois, B. Joseph White, and the University Counsel of the University of Illinois, Thomas Bearrows, contacted Kenneth C. Rolling, the former Executive Director of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) and a professional colleague of Barack Obama for many years, prior to the release of CAC records to the public late last month and offered Rolling an opportunity to recommend to the University which records of the CAC held at the University's Chicago campus (UIC) should be restricted from public access. In response to Rollings' detailed request to prevent public access to certain CAC records Bearrows replied "as promised, we will carefully consider the concerns that you identify..."
The request is described in documents released by the University last week pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by a third year law student in Chicago. The law student who initiated the FOIA request provided Global Labor with the documents.
Emails sent by Rolling to Mr. Bearrows, states:
“I’m writing to follow up on part of the discussion held yesterday re: my concern for protecting confidential information that may be in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge archive/files located at the library at the UIC. (The conversation included President White, Tom Hardy [Hardy is the University's Executive Director for University Relations], you and myself.)…I’m following up on the offer from Pres. White and you made during our discussion yesterday, for me to recommend pieces of information in the files that should be considered confidential and restricted for access by the public.”
Clearly, Rolling was being invited to scrub any records he felt was "confidential" - an open ended definition that Rolling almost certainly took advantage.
As Steve Diamond reports on his blog in this extraordinarily long and detailed post, this sort of thing is highly unusual:
It is, however, highly unusual to allow someone who once worked for a donor to change the terms of the gift such that the records originally deposited with the University for public review are no longer available. That amounts to a revocation of the original gift and re-gifting the now restricted set of documents to the University. However, for such an action to be valid the individual engaging in the revocation would need both the authority of the donor organization and the donee University. That would not have been possible with respect to the CAC because it had ceased operations and dissolved.
One wonders why the U of I felt it necessary to contact an Obama associate in the first place and then change the terms of the gift. If there is an innocent explanation, the University should give it. But it is very hard to see how this is anything except partisans at both the U of I and the Obama campaign working together to scrub records that may have had extremely damaging information about the relationship between Obama and William Ayers.
Hat Tip: Ed Lasky
Shades of Sandy Burglar...
Now the only question is whether or not the Toons got there first....
Obvious to everyone. First they agree to allow investigation of the files, then they say no. A few weeks later, they say yes again.
These people much think we were born on a banana boat.
I’m sure the same thing happened with his birth records.
The records were Bergerized.....no surprise at all.
MSN : “Nothing to see here, move along, move along”
Looks like Obama is running scared with the investigators right on his heels.
Just a simple list of the actions by Obama to prevent access to these records is newsworthy in itself.
My short list of obstructions would include:
1. Mayor Daley says the records are closed.
2. Obama asks DOJ for injunction against 527 ad
3. Obama tells supporters to go after WGN radio host Milt Rosenberg.
4. Obama operative had access to files before release.
What else did I miss?
Rumor: I heard that someone high up inside Annenburg is NOT a fan of Obama. This could get really good.
Just more confirmation that The One is just another shady character connected with the Chicago political machine.
LOL. It’ll come out before Election Day. It’s just a question of who does the leaking....
Does the fact that the original gift (and I guess the revised gift) was given “tax-deductible status” (at both the Federal and State levels) give the public a “right to know” and/or “review” the product of that gift? That would seem to be logical...
If memory serves me correctly, the FOIA allows for certain national security omissions and potential personal attorney/client privileges or medical omissions.
What would the Chicago Annenberg Challenge documents contain that would warrant subject information to be omitted per FOIA? I thought the purpose of the FOIA was to provide rights to all information. Anything less would be obstruction and/or Fraud.
I won't be offended if my understanding is wrong. Please explain how they can get away with this overt censorship (besides oversight being obviously and intentionally oblivious).
Proof right here that Obama cannot be trusted. People would be electing a lie.
If you have nothing to hide, you never try to hide things.
By the way, what was he doing during the Columbia days and why does no one remember him?
We need answers.
Too bad Jack Ryan and ex Jeri could not prevent an FOIA request of their divorce papers stopped. We might not have ever had this Obama problem.
I wonder if Hillary is waiting til the end to dump some ugly un-used oppo stuff when she can blame it on McCain and not get pinned with crushing the Messiah.
And what was he doing in Pakistan ?
“Rumor: I heard that someone high up inside Annenburg is NOT a fan of Obama.”
The thing about criminal organizations is the power of survival. At some point someone will realize it’s time to cut this Obama guy loose - there’s too much at stake for them to go down with this buffoon.
I still think there’s plenty there, no worries.
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