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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (246583)	4/9/2002 10:32:27 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

EXECUTIVE ORDER 13233 MSI, Here's more grist for the mill on Devious Executive Secrets(SM), courtesy of BushCountry(TM) LLC: guerrillanews.com <Snip> In a move that would make Orwell spin in his grave, last November, while the country and the world was still reeling from 9-11, Bush quietly signed Executive Order No. 13,233. He called it, showing rare irony, the Further Implementation of the Presidential Records Act. Instead of “furthering” the act, the order did the opposite, effectively gagging the release of tens of thousands of pages of Presidential records, allowing an incumbent president to withhold a former president's papers even if the former president wanted to make them public, and making it supremely difficult for the average citizen to request records. For instance, by signing the act Bush locked up 68,000 pages of records from the Reagan administration, conveniently putting the lid on anyone who wanted to look into just what his daddy was up to back in the Iran-Contra days. <Continues.....>