[NEWS] Change
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:53 am
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It's a little loaded, and has a specific agenda. Edits "[]" added. Basically if one request information 12 years after an administration ends the current administration cannot withhold records by vetoing the request. FYI, Executive Orders are unConstitutional. It is the role of the legislative to make laws, and the role of the executive to enforce them. It seems he will be doing a lot by executive order. A king with his royal edicts; good repeal though.
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Moving quickly to undo the Bush administration's regime of secrecy, President Obama on Wednesday repealed a 2001 executive order granting former presidents, and even vice presidents, the ability to keep documents secret long past the 12 years allowed by law.
...Scott L. Nelson, a lawyer for Public Citizen who has litigated cases against the executive order, said the new order doesn't immediately free up a bunch of records, but "takes away the hanging threat that that veto power might be exercised [to protect records]."
It's a little loaded, and has a specific agenda. Edits "[]" added. Basically if one request information 12 years after an administration ends the current administration cannot withhold records by vetoing the request. FYI, Executive Orders are unConstitutional. It is the role of the legislative to make laws, and the role of the executive to enforce them. It seems he will be doing a lot by executive order. A king with his royal edicts; good repeal though.