BUSH JR is trying to make sure public documents do not
become declassified EVER for all time forward, particularly those of BUSH SR.
Their inquisition extends to released documents in order to re-classify them. ?? "Declassification in Reverse" ??
Presidential Records Act and Executive Order No. 13,233 (the "Bush Order"),
FINDINGS REGARDING ADMINISTRATION OPENNESS/SECRECY AGENDA
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB84/findingsop...Presidential Records Act - When, on January 20, 2001, the Presidential Records Act ("PRA"), 44 U.S.C. § 2201 et seq., 12-year restriction period for records containing confidential communications among President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George H.W. Bush, and their advisers expired, the Bush White House first directed the National Archivist to withhold the records while it "studied" the matter, and then, on November 1, 2001, President George W. Bush promulgated Executive Order No. 13,233 (the "Bush Order"), which purports to give binding directions to the Archivist about how to administer presidential and vice presidential records under the PRA. The Bush Order turned the PRA's public access requirement on its head by granting former Presidents, Vice Presidents, and their "representatives" veto power over any release of materials by the Archivist simply by claiming executive privilege, regardless of the merits of the claim. Only with the "authorization" of a former President or Vice President does the Bush Order permit the Archivist to disclose any presidential or vice presidential records.
Reagan, V.P. Bush secrets protected ad infinitum?? by the Bush Order. "Upon the death" of designee ...
Executive Order 13233 of November 1, 2001 - Further Implementation of the Presidential Records Act
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to establish policies and procedures implementing section 2204 of title 44 of the United States Code with respect to constitutionally based privileges, including those that apply to Presidential records reflecting military, diplomatic, or national security secrets, Presidential communications, legal advice, legal work, or the deliberative processes of the President and the President's advisors, and to do so in a manner consistent with the Supreme Court's decisions in Nixon .....
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo/eo-13233.htm The U.S. Intelligence Community's Secret Historical Document Reclassification Program
Declassification in Reverse
The U.S. Intelligence Community's Secret Historical Document Reclassification Program
Edited by Matthew M. Aid -
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB179/index.htmWashington, D.C., February 21, 2006 - The CIA and other federal agencies have secretly reclassified over 55,000 pages of records taken from the open shelves at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), according to a report published today on the World Wide Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. Matthew Aid, author of the report and a visiting fellow at the Archive, discovered this secret program through his wide-ranging research in intelligence, military, and diplomatic records at NARA and found that the CIA and military agencies have reviewed millions of pages at an unknown cost to taxpayers in order to sequester documents from collections that had been open for years.
The briefing book that the Archive published today includes 50 year old documents that CIA had impounded at NARA but which have already been published in the State Department's historical series, Foreign Relations of the United States, or have been declassified elsewhere. These documents concern such innocuous matters as the State Department's map and foreign periodicals procurement programs on behalf of the U.S. intelligence community or the State Department's open source intelligence research efforts during 1948.
Other documents have apparently been sequestered because they were embarrassing, such as a complaint from the Director of Central Intelligence about the bad publicity the CIA was receiving ........
officials at CIA and military agencies have argued that during the implementation of Executive Order 12958, President Clinton's program for bulk declassification of historical federal records, many sensitive intelligence-related documents that remained classified were inadvertently released at NARA, especially in State Department files. Even though researchers had been combing through and copying documents from those collections for years, CIA and other agencies compelled NARA to grant them access to the open files so they could reclassify documents. While this reclassification activity began late in the 1990s, its scope widened during the Bush administration, and it is scheduled to continue until 2007. The CIA has ignored arguments from NARA officials that some of the impounded documents have already been published.
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Raiding the Presidential Libraries
It is now evident that the multi-agency historical document reclassification program was expanded in or about 2003 to include the NARA-run Presidential Libraries, especially a review of previously declassified documents housed at the Kennedy and Johnson Libraries. .............
The Damage Done
The results of the multi-agency reclassification effort since it began have dramatic and disturbing ...since 2001 security personnel from the agencies involved have "surveyed" 43.4 million pages of documents held by NARA ... since 2001 9,500 documents totaling 55,500 pages have been reclassified and withdrawn from public circulation ..........
.... FROM: "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" or "Did BUSH Bungle the Overthrow of Hugo Chavez?"
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