Posted on 04/10/2009 2:26:14 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama releases Reagan records By: Josh Gerstein April 10, 2009 04:40 PM EST
President Barack Obama is ordering the release of nearly a quarter of a million pages of records from the Reagan White House that were kept from the public during a lengthy review by President George W. Bush.
The Reagan documents – which include presidential briefing papers, speechwriting research materials and declassified foreign policy records — are expected to be released Monday.
Officials said the Obama administration’s quick verdict on the documents was prompted by an executive order Obama signed in January that gives the incumbent president 30 days to make such a decision, unless he sets a longer period. By contrast, Bush’s executive order on presidential records set no time limit on the White House’s review.
“With regard to the Reagan Administration records, I am writing to inform you that the President has not asserted executive privilege over any of this material,” White House Counsel Greg Craig wrote in a letter Thursday obtained by POLITICO.
“Pursuant to the President’s Executive Order, NARA may release these records — opening close to 250,000 pages of history,” Craig wrote to the director of the presidential libraries unit at the National Archives and Records Administration, Nancy Kegan Smith.
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Me too and I wonder exactly what he is releasing and if any of them have been doctored.
Good one.
I want to see Carter’s, Clinton’s, Kennedy’s and His (among others)
TT
No law client lists
No grades
No passport stamps
No birth certificate...
...and the mainstream media has NOTHING to SAY...
Its just like this piece of excrement to take a bow for being “open” with another president’s records.
Oh, goody! This will keep the MSM busy looking at the papers so they won’t have to cover the real news. Pirate, here’s you chance.
Yes, I think if is obvious that his grades were mediocre. Since he won't release them, he must be embarrassed.
And Clinton’s papers?????
“WHEN IS HE GOING TO RELEASE HIS?”
When you’ve got no record, you’ve got no records to release.
Hope someone read through these better than anyone read through the stimulus package.
Is this the reason 0bama is using the Somali terrorist/pirate event?
You get the neocon1984 "Carpenter's Award" for hitting the nail exactly on the head.
Wait until someone in the future releases his. this man has a LOT to hide.
Excellent question.
Is that a trick question?...
LLS
Must be something he wants the reporters to find..............................
Mighty honored!
I know someone who traveled with him and lets just say there was never a shortage of women present.
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