Obama releases Reagan records - Democratic Underground

Source: Politico

President Barack Obama is ordering the release of nearly a quarter of a million pages of records from the Reagan White House that were kept from the public during a lengthy review by President George W. Bush.
The Reagan documents – which include presidential briefing papers, speechwriting research materials and declassified foreign policy records — are expected to be released Monday.

Officials said the Obama administration’s quick verdict on the documents was prompted by an executive order Obama signed in January that gives the incumbent president 30 days to make such a decision, unless he sets a longer period. By contrast, Bush’s executive order on presidential records set no time limit on the White House’s review.
“With regard to the Reagan Administration records, I am writing to inform you that the President has not asserted executive privilege over any of this material,” White House Counsel Greg Craig wrote in a letter Thursday obtained by POLITICO.

“Pursuant to the President’s Executive Order, NARA may release these records — opening close to 250,000 pages of history,” Craig wrote to the director of the presidential libraries unit at the National Archives and Records Administration, Nancy Kegan Smith.
A smaller batch of 797 pages from President George H.W. Bush’s presidential library on the topic of Saudi Arabia also has been cleared for release Monday.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21121.html

You literally made me LOL on that one...

lately.

Dirty secrets exposed to the light of day.

will not be released.

all the black marker fumes they breathed")

just as he told us he was.

He knew nothing about Iran-Contra. Why should he, he was only a former head of the CIA.

take it with a grin.

Open up your heart 
and let the sunshine in.

duplicates that won't delete!

If that attempt fails, Monday could be very interesting.

I remember exactly where I was the evening the news broke and I remember saying "They're hitting the shredders as we speak." Those records are as sanitized as they could possibly be.

Nothing to see here... move along.

We might be surprised what they missed.

Some covert actions are not even documented. However some information regarding certain CIA activities during the 60s was revealed due to the accounting documents no one thought to get rid of.

to tell future prosecutors... Hoods optional.

... I can't wait to see what other lies and horrors the corporate media has been trying to cover-up about the Reagan era.

Carter is the one who started the arming of Bin Laden by authorizing the CIA's Operation Cyclone to purposely lure the Soviets into invading Afghanistan so we could keep their opponents armed, effectively creating the Soviets' own Vietnam.

Reagan implemented it.

For simply continuing a Carter program?

We can criticize him for not canceling it for sure. But if we do Carter deserves his fair share of the blame for creating it. Carter would have supplied the funds if he had been reelected.

Bet you it will all be much ado about nothing. They will hide the worst away with bushes emails.

In other words this will be a farce.

He can do that, because he's much thinner by now.

Funny, but really harsh.

Let us see how St. Ronnie screwed over the majority of Americans. The time has come for the truth to be known.

:dem:

-Laelth

it is not all blocked out with real thick ink so it is not readable. It will be interesting to read if it is not the weather forcast for the day. Lets hope it is something good and not how much money went to research star wars.

I'm admittedly skeptical how much will be released - and how much won't be classified for "national security".

If it's a bunch of pages where half the stuff is blacked out, it'll be useless. Then again, the Obama people could be pissed over Cheney's recent deranged outbursts. Maybe these documents will reveal some juicy details. Then again, most likely I'm sure all that was shredded long ago...

This seems to be a good start - Let's hope this begins a new era of transparency that's much needed.

Not if Rush/Rove/Cheney/Beck/Hannity/Scarborough have anything to say about it.

Like mushrooms, BS just grows in the dark. Turn on the high beams!!

Lickin' my chops.... this is gonna be real good.

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If there were, they would not still be around, much less be released.

But nothing outright incriminating. That shit probably saw a shredder long ago.

I doubt if anything much is left!

why we needed to go into a sovereign foreign nation and blow it back to the Dark Ages have any qualms or reservations about destroying evidence of wrong doing by the old fart that is the idol of their party or of the father of their 'president'? Does anyone beside me think that they would have to be crazy to leave evidence of any REAL criminal acts around for the time Dems reclaimed the government?

edit: Not condoning it. Just saying the party of liars and criminals wouldn't hesitate a heartbeat to commit what they would see as just another necessary act to protect themselves.

"A smaller batch of 797 pages from President George H.W. Bush’s presidential library on the topic of Saudi Arabia also has been cleared for release Monday."

Do these memos contain information about Saudi Arabia's oil reserves? Being in the center of triangle that consists 80% of oil left on this planet.

:woohoo:

Grenada was to deflect attention from the massacre of US Marines in Lebanon two days prior.

KAL-007 was part of a large operation involving the Space Shuttle Challenger which recorded how the USSR would "turn on". A lot more blood is on that grade B actor's hands than you think.

right when they think they've got him backed into a corner, he comes back with the knock-out.

there are some angry, scared people huddling in debugged offices right now... :-)

and this is just the beginning. precedent and all.

They say Reagan planned all along to create an arms race that would bankrupt the Soviet Union. Perhaps there will be something that debunks that myth once and for all.

.... selling weapons to the Ayatollah Khomeini and putting that money
into Swiss Bank Accounts to pay for a bloody war in Central America
against a people who never did anything against us and at the same
time running cocaine into Florida on "Southern Air Transprt," aka
Air CIA, with Marvin "Mr. 9-11" helping to run the show.

or H.W.'s Paris 1980 visit w/ the Iranians

And hope that it helps uncover some more of the right-wing's criminal activities.

I doubt what really happened to CIA Director William Casey on the day he was to testify will be in there but this can only be good just the same.

"conspiracy theories" will turn out to be true also, including all the assassinations of key RW enemies like JFK, Martin Luther King and Sen. Paul Wellstone. And can I include the Gore '00 defeat, Kerry '04, and 9/11. I sure love, love, love me that Obama some.

...always.

The I-Want-A-Fucking-Pony crowd should learn the discipline of incrementalism.

Watch their legend, Ronny Reagan
finally take a, de-serv-ed fall.

meanwhile we hope we don't have to get the duct tape out

Let the Clinton blaming begin!

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Interesting that it's info on SA that's cleared from Poppy's library.

This could be very interesting.

At last. Thank you, President Obama.

under Obama with the TARP and the failure of the Obama administration to prosecute the crimes of the Bush administration.

but it turned out it was merely hair dye that had dripped on the pages.

nothing of significance. Not even Nancy's astrologer's phone number or Ronnie's favorite Crayola color.

Talk about your Burn Notices.

The records have been purged and cleaned and shredded.

And, the masses don't believe actual records, they believe what they are told, what they want to believe.

The "juicy" stuff.

From the article:

"However, there were indications that the most contested presidential records from the Reagan era might not be among the roughly 250,000 pages cleared for release by Obama.

Nelson’s group fought a court battle for about a dozen documents, including memoranda about possible pardons for Iran-Contra figures such as Oliver North and John Poindexter. Representatives of former President Reagan objected to the release of those documents and were backed up in almost all instances by lawyers for President Bush. A federal judge ruled that the requesters’ had no legal grounds to overcome the incumbent president’s assertion of privilege.

Craig’s letter says Reagan’s representative approved of the release of the documents the White House cleared on Thursday, making it unlikely the files contain the same records that led to the court battle. A representative for the elder Bush also consented to have his documents released, officials said."

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Republicons are the party of the occult -- for their actions cannot stand the Light of Day.

you can start here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occult

After you learn the true meaning of the word you can consider this:
Not all that study occult wisdoms are of the dark side..just so you understand and stop painting everyone with the same brush.

While the republican party seems to be a Cult, and an evil one at that, I would not say they had studied much of the occult because if they had, they would hardly chose the losing side now would they? The Darkness cannot stand before the Light.

If you don't know anything about the occult secrets, how will you battle them?

I have studied for over 50 years all of the Metaphysical, occult, nature-based and religious information I could get my hands on. First to understand myself and my own experiences and then to try to understand everything else about this wonderful journey we call a life. That may make me an occultist/shaman/witch/Wiccan/Native American Medicine/Hinduism/Buddhist/Zen/Chinese Thought/New Physics/psychic/Religious Scholar/Druid/Baptist/Mormon/New Age/Protastant/Islamic/Born Again/Adventist/Catholic/etc,etc,/put your favorite label here person, but it cetainly doesn't make me evil. Nor a Republican

"And I ran the mostest OPEN guberment ever. Smirk."

- xCommander AWOL Bush (non-oggultist)

Ooooh. Someone is being fucked over.	MrPerson	Apr-10-09 06:00 PM	#1
Seriously	Kixel	Apr-10-09 07:51 PM	#22
We'll soon see why Cheney the Dick and Karl the Rover have been so loud	LynnTheDem	Apr-10-09 06:02 PM	#2
Certainly makes sense that that's what's going on, doesn't it? nt	JerseygirlCT	Apr-10-09 07:31 PM	#19
Did you read the article? The most important documents probably	JDPriestly	Apr-11-09 02:12 AM	#64
Meanwhile stocks of Magic Marker maker soar. ("Redaction clerks file for disability from	FailureToCommunicate	Apr-11-09 10:48 AM	#77
i never knew that Gorbachev was a Pisces!	CreekDog	Apr-10-09 06:02 PM	#3
LOL!	Anarcho-Socialist	Apr-10-09 06:11 PM	#6
LMAO!	mitchum	Apr-10-09 08:05 PM	#27
LOL! Kudos.	No Elephants	Apr-11-09 04:54 AM	#67
These papers no doubt will PROVE that Poppy was "out of the loop" on Iran-Contra,	Sal Minella	Apr-10-09 06:09 PM	#4
And the VP of a man suffering from Alzheimer's.	jwirr	Apr-10-09 09:18 PM	#33
Let the Sun shine. nt	BootinUp	Apr-10-09 06:10 PM	#5
in	earcandle	Apr-11-09 12:40 AM	#52
The hippy version was better. nt	awoke_in_2003	Apr-11-09 05:19 PM	#88
oh my	earcandle	Apr-11-09 12:40 AM	#53
There'll be furious scrambling over the weekend to try to stop this	DavidDvorkin	Apr-10-09 06:18 PM	#7
they've been burning and shredding for 8 years. Wonder what's left	eowyn_of_rohan	Apr-10-09 08:30 PM	#30
True. That's something to worry about.	DavidDvorkin	Apr-10-09 11:42 PM	#49
We already know they destroyed records when Iran-Contra broke	Gman	Apr-11-09 12:13 AM	#51
Nothing about the Bush administration ever indicated competence.	caseymoz	Apr-11-09 12:44 AM	#54
There's a positive angle!	eowyn_of_rohan	Apr-11-09 01:24 AM	#58
Exactly.	siligut	Apr-11-09 10:24 AM	#74
A large carbon footprint?	FailureToCommunicate	Apr-11-09 10:41 AM	#75
Maybe that is why Bush is having a "Reunion" with fellow staffers in Texas.	glinda	Apr-10-09 10:39 PM	#40
Warming their hands over the bonfire of public documents while coordinating their story	FailureToCommunicate	Apr-11-09 10:44 AM	#76
Has it been 21 years already?	RUMMYisFROSTED	Apr-10-09 06:20 PM	#8
Does it ever nt	Wetzelbill	Apr-10-09 08:04 PM	#25
Ollie! Ollie! Ooooh noes......n/t	monmouth	Apr-10-09 06:26 PM	#9
Well, well, well! Guess this President will be keeping the RW busy for a while.	FrenchieCat	Apr-10-09 06:31 PM	#10
hahahah - Cheney is soaking in tub of blackwater right now	tomm2thumbs	Apr-10-09 06:39 PM	#11
These papers will make very interesting reading....	vinylsolution	Apr-10-09 06:42 PM	#12
I love the pic, but	DissedByBush	Apr-10-09 10:50 PM	#44
The operative words of your post are "Reagan implented it." The pic is accurate.	No Elephants	Apr-11-09 05:03 AM	#68
So you criticize Reagan	DissedByBush	Apr-11-09 11:57 AM	#83
They are only going to allow a selective few documents to be shown.	sellitman	Apr-11-09 11:11 AM	#80
Ronald Reagan must be turning over in his grave.	Ian David	Apr-10-09 06:49 PM	#13
That's harsh.	stevedeshazer	Apr-10-09 07:24 PM	#18
Let the light of day shine.	Laelth	Apr-10-09 06:59 PM	#14
This will be good...	santamargarita	Apr-10-09 06:59 PM	#15
It will be interesting if...	jamesinca	Apr-10-09 07:09 PM	#16
Exacfly what I was thinking	fujiyama	Apr-11-09 05:04 AM	#69
The Reagan Sainthood might crumble before our eyes?	graywarrior	Apr-10-09 07:16 PM	#17
Let history replace myth.	L. Coyote	Apr-10-09 07:57 PM	#23
YES	mdmc	Apr-11-09 01:16 AM	#57
OMG	Joanne98	Apr-10-09 07:37 PM	#20
get the popcorn ready	flying_wahini	Apr-10-09 07:48 PM	#21
cute	earcandle	Apr-11-09 12:45 AM	#55
Deleted message	Name removed	Apr-11-09 01:43 AM	#59
Does anybody really think there is anything incriminating in anything being released?	katandmoon	Apr-10-09 08:02 PM	#24
probably some juicy stuff	Wetzelbill	Apr-10-09 08:05 PM	#26
After 8 years of Bush's team perusing them	downindixie	Apr-10-09 10:22 PM	#37
Exactly. Why would guys who BLATANTLY LIED to the public's face about	acmavm	Apr-11-09 01:07 PM	#85
Nope.	Grateful for Hope	Apr-10-09 08:17 PM	#29
Peak Oil	freedomnorth	Apr-10-09 08:13 PM	#28
Hopefully how Reagan invaded Grenada, KAL 007 are there.	RedCloud	Apr-10-09 08:38 PM	#31
this is one of the things I love about Obama	CitizenPatriot	Apr-10-09 08:43 PM	#32
Myth that needs debunked	creeksneakers2	Apr-10-09 09:19 PM	#34
oh please put some light on the .....	Botany	Apr-10-09 09:44 PM	#35
very interesting....	unkachuck	Apr-10-09 09:51 PM	#36
.	XemaSab	Apr-10-09 10:31 PM	#38
Thank you, Pres. Obama . . . !!! Like it--!!!	defendandprotect	Apr-10-09 10:37 PM	#39
"Would you like a brain aneurysm with your coffee, Mr. Casey?"	Cetacea	Apr-10-09 10:40 PM	#41
Maybe that , and all the so-called	disndat	Apr-11-09 11:10 AM	#79
This is why I trust this President to do the right thing.....	Aviation Pro	Apr-10-09 10:47 PM	#42
Please Mr. Prez don't let them dig up that dead Mother Fu cker Reagan	pitchforksandtorches	Apr-10-09 10:48 PM	#43
Jelly beaners, jelly beaners, jelly beaners one and all...	TommyO	Apr-10-09 10:53 PM	#45
and on the third day he rose again. Easter Monday is a good day to do it	Rosa Luxemburg	Apr-10-09 10:59 PM	#46
...........	northofdenali	Apr-10-09 11:09 PM	#47
This is fantastic news!	City Lights	Apr-10-09 11:14 PM	#48
Deleted message	Name removed	Apr-11-09 01:44 AM	#60
Nice.	redqueen	Apr-10-09 11:45 PM	#50
Time for the secrets from the Reagan era to see the light of day	Politicub	Apr-11-09 12:47 AM	#56
Mostly Steve and Eydie	CreekDog	Apr-11-09 01:45 AM	#61
suh-weet!	frylock	Apr-11-09 02:00 AM	#62
This is just a distraction from the terrible corruption that is continuing	JDPriestly	Apr-11-09 02:11 AM	#63
At first it appeared that the records were mostly redacted,	Norrin Radd	Apr-11-09 04:49 AM	#65
Yaaahh he through us a bone.	pam4water	Apr-11-09 04:51 AM	#66
This is a total non-event. The "lengthy review" by Bushco sanitized Rayguns records. We'll learn	No Elephants	Apr-11-09 05:09 AM	#70
All right!! Another wall torn down!!	SalmonChantedEvening	Apr-11-09 07:20 AM	#71
Here's what they'll look like:	progressoid	Apr-11-09 07:59 AM	#72
What does it matter?	merh	Apr-11-09 09:29 AM	#73
Not so fast...looks like some will be "withheld"...GRRRR!!!	SHRED	Apr-11-09 10:56 AM	#78
Ondoing Republicon OCCULTISM	SpiralHawk	Apr-11-09 11:12 AM	#81
excuse me but you need to do some homework	winyanstaz	Apr-11-09 03:16 PM	#86
"I did not have occultism with SpiralHawk. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL Bush	SpiralHawk	Apr-11-09 05:14 PM	#87
does that include "Bedtime for Bonzo?" . . . just wonderin' . . . n/t	OneBlueSky	Apr-11-09 11:54 AM	#82
what's he got to say on cheney's records? nt	tomp	Apr-11-09 12:17 PM	#84
They've only had a quarter of a century to sanitize these records.	Vidar	Apr-12-09 10:35 AM	#89