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To: NOW who wrote (133578)11/8/2001 7:42:12 PM
From: robnhood  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
Yeah,, and how bout this--- We want the right to lie to you at will----
<< (President Should Not Control Release of Executive Branch Records, SPJ Says) ID#159270:
Copyright © 2001 Caper/Kitco Inc. All rights reserved Last week, the other shoe dropped, as the current President Bush issued his order requiring the Archivist of the United States to notify former Presidents of requests for records under 2204 ( c ) ( 1 ) and allowing former Presidents to authorize the withholding of those records, with or without the concordance of the sitting president.
The Society of Professional Journalists believes this executive order represents an abuse of presidential authority and violates the spirit, if not the letter, of federal law. Further, we assert that President George W. Bush has a clear conflict of interest in this matter for two reasons:
1 ) The only presidential records scheduled for release during his current term are from the administration of his father, George H.W. Bush.
2 ) Many of the current President Bush?s top advisers also were in the inner circle of the former President Bush.
The Presidential Records Act, in concert with the federal Freedom of Information Act, clearly is intended to guarantee accountability and accurate scholarship of the top level of the Executive Branch. The fact that the Act allows a 12-year waiting period for the release of presidential records is adequate to protect national security and personal reputations.
In our view, the November 1 Executive Order appears to be an attempt to avoid public accountability for a past administration. Presidential records should be released as scheduled under the law. Congress and the American public deserve no less.
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