Yes, but isn’t there a “natural security” predicate required to invoke this EO? And even at that, the decision can be appealed, which may cause even more news than the fact itself.
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davidfarrar
I don't know. All I can say about this is there are people who believe that the same EO that restricted access to Bush documents also restricted access to Obama's, just based on previous discussions on this subject.
But that seems pretty odd since Bush's documents would be eight years of presidential papers, and Obama's just civilian documents, and some records held by the government, i.e., IRS, draft registration, passports, etc. Of course one could see why he might want those sealed.