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Letter Surfaces of Obama Foundation Admitting in 2018 They Keep Classified Documents in Unsecured Storage at Furniture WarehouseSeptember 21, 2022 | sundance | 12 Comments“Hoffman Estates” is a previously abandoned Chicago area Sears furniture warehouse. The Obama Foundation leased, then re-upped the lease, to use the facility to store all the paper documents from the Obama administration {Location Link}.The Obama administration told the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) they were going to upload the documents into a digital form for use in the Obama library. The paper documents were, still are, held at the Hoffman Estates warehouse while this...

Woodrow Wilson. Here's Why. If you wanted to identify, with confidence, the very worst president in American history, how would you go about it? One approach would be to consult the various academic polls on presidential rankings that have been conducted from time to time since Harvard’s Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. pioneered this particular survey scholarship in 1948. Bad idea. Most of those surveys identify Warren G. Harding of Ohio as the worst ever. This is ridiculous. Harding presided over very robust economic times. Not only that, but he inherited a devastating economic recession when he was elected in 1920...

White House reporters are keeping quiet about an off-the-record lunch today with President Obama — even those at news organizations who've advocated in the past for the White House to release the names of visitors. But the identities of the lunch's attendees won't remain secret forever: Their names will eventually appear on the White House's periodically updated public database of visitor logs. The White House posts them with a three-month lag, so records of August visits won't be available until late November. (Although, since many of those invited already work in the White House every day, their lunch visit may...

In the first quarter of this year, freshman Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), once again demonstrating remarkable fund-raising ability, raised more than $1 million -- all for Democrat Senate colleagues who are up for re-election in 2006. The biggest beneficiary of Obama's assistance is Sen. Robert Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat elected to the Senate in 1958 who may be the No. 1 target of Republicans this cycle. "Senator Robert Byrd was one of the first senators I met with when I came to the Senate three months ago,'' Obama wrote in an e-mail sent out on behalf of the political...

PEKIN, Ill. (AP) U.S. Sen. Barack Obama urged Congress Monday to end a two-year stalemate that has stifled production of ethanol, a corn-based fuel additive that he says could create more than 200,000 new jobs and ease the nation's dependance on foreign oil. The freshman Democrat says higher ethanol production targets should be broken out of a federal energy bill that has repeatedly stalled over disputes about drilling and liability for water supplies contaminated by the gasoline additive MTBE. Boosting ethanol production has broad, bipartisan congressional support, but has been ``held hostage'' by other concerns over the energy bill, Obama...

CHICAGO – U.S. Sen. Barack Obama suggests the Bush Administration is headed in the wrong direction on funding Amtrak. Just a few blocks east of Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta’s news conference defending proposed cuts for Amtrak, Obama was suggesting the White House is on the wrong track, again. The proposal has been made before. Ideologically, Obama says, the Bush White House is simply opposed to federal subsidies for rail systems. But, at a time when the U.S. is trying to reduce its dependency on foreign oil, Obama says Amtrak’s passenger rail system should be getting more White House support, not...

Sen. Obama The Swing Vote On Environmental Bill VIDEO: Mike Flannery reports. Feb 14, 2005 5:53 pm US/Central CHICAGO (CBS 2) It may be the toughest vote yet for Senator Barack Obama. He is the swing vote on the Bush Administration's Clear Skies Act. The power generating industry claims it would reduce pollution, but environmentalists call that "clear lies.” What was coming out of smokestacks at the coal-fired Crawford power generating plant Monday afternoon contained significantly less pollution than what was pouring out just a few years ago. All sides to the current debate agree on that. What they disagree...

"I'm not going to be predisposed to working on the administration's priorities if they're not interested in helping out Illinois veterans," Obama said. The freshman Democrat plans to hold town hall-style meetings with veterans in Evergreen Park on Friday and Springfield on Saturday to prepare for confirmation hearings for Jim Nicholson, the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican who was recently nominated by President Bush to be secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department.

NEW YORK -- Newly elected Illinois Sen. Barack Obama made the cover of this week's Newsweek magazine for its "Who's Next" issue of people predicted to make news in 2005. The magazine said it picked the Hyde Parker because he will make most short lists for vice president in 2008 and he has the "star power" to work with the GOP on bridging red state-blue state divisions. Obama, in an interview, said he wants the party to reconnect to its moral tradition: "This shouldn't be hard to do. Martin Luther King did it. The abolitionists did it. Dorothy Day [of...