Reply #22: Mafia power to suspend the release of the Presidential Papers

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(now that took some serious strong-armed power - and was one of the initial crimes after bu$h* was put into office)

Published on Monday, October 10, 2005 by the New York Times
Bush's Veil Over History
by Kitty Kelley

WASHINGTON - SECRECY has been perhaps the most consistent trait of the George W. Bush presidency. Whether it involves refusing to provide the names of oil executives who advised Vice President Dick Cheney on energy policy, prohibiting photographs of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq, or forbidding the release of files pertaining to Chief Justice John Roberts's tenure in the Justice Department, President Bush seems determined to control what the public is permitted to know. And he has been spectacularly effective, making Richard Nixon look almost transparent.

But perhaps the most egregious example occurred on Nov. 1, 2001, when President Bush signed Executive Order 13233, under which a former president's private papers can be released only with the approval of both that former president (or his heirs) and the current one.

Full Story:
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1010-20.htm
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