In an obvious effort to protect President Barack Obama, a group of congressional Democrats has introduced legislation to create an official process that will allow the commander-in-chief to keep presidential records secret after he leaves office.
Ironically, Obama revoked a similar George W. Bush order in one of his first official acts as president. In 2001 Bush penned an executive order severely limiting public access to his presidential records. Shortly after swearing in, Obama killed it as part of his much-ballyhooed commitment to government transparency. At the time, the new president claimed that he was giving the American people greater access to “historic documents.”
It was the right move. The Bush Administration did indeed demonstrate a disappointing penchant for secrecy and Judicial Watch was a frontrunner in the effort to make records public. Examples include: The Dick Cheney Energy Task Force records that JW pursued before the United States Supreme Court; Attorney General John Ashcroft’s order advising government agencies to withhold all discretionary disclosures; invoking executive privilege to block the House Government Reform Committee’s probe of the Campaign Financing Task Force.
If the Democrats’ proposed measure (Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011) becomes law, former presidents will be allowed to assert a new “constitutionally based privilege” against disclosing records of their liking. Here is how it would work; the Archivist of the United States would be required to notify the former president, as well as the incumbent, of intentions to make records public. Anything that either the former or current president claims should be kept private won’t be released.
The veteran Brooklyn congressman (Edolphus Towns) who recently introduced the law in the U.S. House has yet to explain why it’s necessary. What’s certain is that Obama has failed miserably to keep his promise of running the most transparent administration in history. For examples read highlights from Judicial Watch’s testimony before Congress earlier this year. JW was invited to testify in separate House and Senate hearings during “Sunshine Week,” a national initiative by the news media, nonprofits and other organizations to promote government transparency and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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This is crazy! The only explanation is that they are afraid that many of them will be implicated and go down with Obozo when all of his misfeasance becomes known. To wit, I say bring it on. The best disinfectant is SUNLIGHT! Lord only knows it is way past time that we did some major disinfecting in American politics. WE should never again look down our noses at Banana Republics or African countries with their despotic regimes, especially after this abomination named Obama. To do so is like the pot calling the kettle black. It can't happen soon enough in my mind, as it physically sickens me to watch the nation I served go down the tubes.
Well, Obozo, our Liar in chief has commited multiple Felonies in office, for which he should be impeached, but Congress says, "duh" and will not act in any way! Even his SS card from Mass, is nopw being covered up as it too is a FELONY..Donating money to a US listed terrorist org. is TREASON, donate %50.00 snd see how long your free…yet Obozo gave Hamas, US listed as terrorist Org, 20.3 MILLION!! That is TREASON!…The "supreme"Court will not hear an elgibility charge, as they knoiw he is not elgibile to be pres!! as CORRUPT as Obozo!!
YOU ARE SO VERY RIGHT! There is so much CORRUPTION in this present administration, no wonder they want to hide it because once all the info is leaked out, there will be plenty of people who will be indicted for treason. No, they don't want that to happen. Hopefully, the House can see right through that crooked congressman's intentions and vote that sucker down. Sorry, in this United States, every President needs to be held ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS ACTS WHILE ACTING PRESIDENT. If they are losers and do stupid things, then they will pay for those decisions. If they are moral, honest men, they have nothing to worry about. Guess, it tells Americans just what kind of person that President really is by how hard he would fight to make that Law a reality. bet bho is supporting that one 100,000%! He's "Mr. Loser of the World"!
See Executive Order # 13489
Obummer isn't talking when it comes to a REAL birth cerrificate – so what makes you think he would make all his records Transparent after he leaves his office?! Am sure America will get MORE information from his records than any other POTUS in History! And all underhanded and full of illegalities to boot!
Who the hell do these people think they are???????? The POTUS is supposed to be accountable to the people – he isn't supposed to be some monarch who is above it all!
LOL… Communists are only accountable to the Revolution!
This is the same guy Obama who is calling the pot black, while insisting Bush documents become common knowledge he and his minions want to protect their Anti-American dictates from the American peoples ability to know what has been actually going on within this most desastrous administration.
Of course the Democrooks want-and-need to protect Chief Pinocchio. Otherwise – they could be exposed for aiding and abetting in the most criminal bunch of thugs to ever "occupy" the White House. And just why has Congressman Towns felt the need to introduce his phony "Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011" legislation? Could it be that the self-proclaimed-messiah has so much to hide that should it come out what he's done to America and its people would qualify him for "life in prison" and take away his cushy pension, protection and all the other goodies one gets for a lifetime from having held this office? This really would reduce "Moochelle" to shopping at Target and staying at Motel 6 instead of bilking taxpayers to fly her around the world in luxury for stays at resort vacations in swanky hotels while dining at five-start restaurants. Now – this "new lifestyle" would be "shared sacrifice" like the Community Organizer Agitator is demanding of the "legal" residents of the country. Not that he himself isn't legal – somewhere!
She wined and dined at our expense, and treated her family and friends at the same time the country was sinking into debt. Great leaders they are NOT!
she wined & dined to the tune of almost half a million dollars & they claimed it was business & listed the little moochers as business assoc. We have organized crime in the white house & no one does a dam thing about it
Hang the whole bunch of them!
Obama should be subject to ALL the laws of this country. When the score keepers tally up all the laws Obama is guilty if breaking, he should be charged,prosecuted and jailed for his crimes. All the members of congress who are behind this crap legislation need to pack their bags come the election in 2012. You the voter has that ability to make it so. When the House and the Senate are cleared of the socialist party members…there are 70 of them, then healing the damage Obama and his administration has done can start.
After he is convicted and sentenced of being a traitor the info. should be all let to hang out! Any one connected to this abomination should be tried for being a traitor too. They should be made an example so no one gets the idea that they can do the same thing even though the U.S. population has been so dumbed down that it will probably probably happen again in the near future! Just look at the average dunce demonstrating in the streets now, maybe two years of hard labor would teach these numbskulls something besides being commie stooges!!
OH HELL NO!
This just goes to show how Bush '43 and Obama are slowly but surely clamping the screws on the American people, and of course, they don't want that to be public!
Edolphus Towns your a punk!
He has already kept too much a secret, & our Republican Reps in Congress, have let him get away with it. But the corrupt people in congress will more then likely go along with this shameful act.
If Obama doesn't get his wish, look for a mysterious bon fire in DC, sometime between November 2012 and January 2013.
I cannot see the slightest reason why we should allow a Marxist President to keep his records locked up.
That is especially so since many of his actions and policies are un-American.
Let's see if the Republicans support this or at least which Republicans
It's not going to help, he is going to be outed no matter how hard they try and cover up this fraud they so willingly were complicit in. What they want is to not have to go to jail like he will because the 8X10 cell he will be in is going to be crowded.
His records needs to be made public now so that the people can decide for themselves if
he is eligible to be president.
He once said if you can't tell the truth, then you have something to hide.
So he must have something to hide.
What a hippocrit this Obama has proven to be so many times, over and over so many broken
Campaingn promises and outright lies to the people who voted for him what a cutthroat politician
And lowlife..his hidden agenda is surfacing…he is a sores puppet…a tool of the rothchild zions..
And we are bearing it's wrath…but fear not if something unforeseen were to happen to mr fake we stll
Have Diamond put my foot in my mouth Joe B…..
An awful lot of Democrats in Washington D.C. need a change of address to Leavenworth, Kansas! Just think such a long distance move for free, then free room and board in Leavenworth for a good many years! Well the Demos like freebies at public expense, I think we should accomodate them!
“Ironically” ? This will pass this time. Still have your tingles for party hats?
Ten million, 20 million, 30 million, 40 million… Hello Sharia flag, for English please press 2!
http://www.reformdc.com
P.S. Did you vote this week at “you cut”? http://majorityleader.gov/YouCut/
If the Repubs allow this to happen, their political life will be shortened to the level of the bottoms of their shoes.
If Obama's records were made public,MANY people would be exposed as misprisioners of treason and fraud.
If they didn't break the laws of the Constitution that they all swear to uphold and protect……they wouldn't need to hide from anyone finding out the truth.
What records? He does not have any records. He does hold a recorded though, raising the debt faster in three years than any other president in history.
Oh his documentation to support his lies,becuase that is all we will ever see from him.
Barry is a liar Health scare Bill ABORTION PILL is FREE, Illegals are covered. Death Panels will follow. That Congressman that said "You Lie" was correct. and Barry owes us, him and President Bush a apologizes as he walk out of the White House for his last time. TOMORROW.
The dems sure don't want american to know that they were in on his coverup.
What are the Democrats afraid of, the word "transparent" or the phrase "aiding and abetting"?
The fact that the Democrats are trying to hide Obama's records makes it all the more obvious that this corrupt individual is not who he says he is. Only its a little too late. The Republicans had a chance to look into it during Obama's campaign, when rumors were floating around, and they chose to ignore it. Unfortunately, the Republicans in Congress are just as guilty as our Imposter in Chief.