Dems Want Law To Keep Obama Records Secret
Last Updated: Tue, 10/04/2011 - 12:42pm
In an obvious effort to protect President Barack Obama, a group of congressional Democrats has introduced legislation to create an official process that will allow the commander-in-chief to keep presidential records secret after he leaves office.
Ironically, Obama revoked a similar George W. Bush order in one of his first official acts as president. In 2001 Bush penned an executive order severely limiting public access to his presidential records. Shortly after swearing in, Obama killed it as part of his much-ballyhooed commitment to government transparency. At the time, the new president claimed that he was giving the American people greater access to “historic documents.”
It was the right move. The Bush Administration did indeed demonstrate a disappointing penchant for secrecy and Judicial Watch was a frontrunner in the effort to make records public. Examples include: The Dick Cheney Energy Task Force records that JW pursued before the United States Supreme Court; Attorney General John Ashcroft’s order advising government agencies to withhold all discretionary disclosures; invoking executive privilege to block the House Government Reform Committee’s probe of the Campaign Financing Task Force.
If the Democrats’ proposed measure (Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011) becomes law, former presidents will be allowed to assert a new “constitutionally based privilege” against disclosing records of their liking. Here is how it would work; the Archivist of the United States would be required to notify the former president, as well as the incumbent, of intentions to make records public. Anything that either the former or current president claims should be kept private won’t be released.
The veteran Brooklyn congressman (Edolphus Towns) who recently introduced the law in the U.S. House has yet to explain why it’s necessary. What’s certain is that Obama has failed miserably to keep his promise of running the most transparent administration in history. For examples read highlights from Judicial Watch’s testimony before Congress earlier this year. JW was invited to testify in separate House and Senate hearings during “Sunshine Week,” a national initiative by the news media, nonprofits and other organizations to promote government transparency and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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Permalink Reply by Jim Coles on -
Yeah, well, that one stands very little chance of passing the House...consider it DOA...Once Obamaramafofan-ah leaves offiice there should be hundreds of lawsuits demanding full release of his historical records...and if he is what I think he is, he should be charged with identity theft & fraud -- for openers...Once the courts are into criminal proceedings every record will be opened...
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Permalink Reply by David Swanson on
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NO
NO
NO
NO
And finally... NO!
I want his entire life laid out in front of the American people so We The People can see for ourselves the evil he represents.
If and when the truth comes about Obama, the revolution/marxist/progressive movement will be shown to a complete fraud and will put them out of business for good. So you can see why this is so important to these Bastards.
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Permalink Reply by msamericanpatriot on
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How about making that final no a HELL NO!!
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Permalink Reply by David Swanson on
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Hell No!
That even feels better when reading it. Thanks!
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Permalink Reply by msamericanpatriot on
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Your welcome buddy.
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Permalink Reply by GRINGO LUCERO on -
There won't be any secrets if a certain writer by the name of Ulsterman has anything to say about it. I attended our local Dennis Prager get together last night and we were certainly told of some insightful things regarding the intensity of domestic interaction at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Soros may have to buy some strong rope the heck with the invisible strings and als perhaps a strong muzzle for the distaff member of the maladroit melange......a continuing saga if GOD grants us another sun rise.
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Permalink Reply by Cristi Ritchey on
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They are really getting desperate. If Obama is taken down for this, he will be accompanied by hordes of politicians and media who abetted the crime.
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Permalink Reply by Debrajoe Beatty on
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Obama does not want the public to know how he has punished his "enemies" and rewarded his "friends". Fight this, make his records public for all the world to see.
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Permalink Reply by GRINGO LUCERO on
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LET'S RENT A BIG SCREEN BILLBOARD and Put it up on I -10
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Permalink Reply by 2o01bjnze0cg8 on
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I think he may be more worried about the whole world proving him to be the biggest and most despicable illegal alien of all. May his 72 virgins all be lesbians - or better yet - shemales! Take care Debrajoe - Eagle.
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Permalink Reply by Gary Swartz on
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Achmad, from Jeff Dunham, says it is 'a 72 year old virgin'. Slight mistranslation.
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Permalink Reply by msamericanpatriot on
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Or worse yet SHOT GUN WIELDING NUNS!!
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