Executive_Order_13233

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When bills like that are passed makes you wonder whats being hidden.

Why wonder, when you can just read the bill. The text of the bill in full is on the official White House website. The OP linked to it. Nothing "hidden" about it at all.

The subject of the bill is the official archivist's procedure in disclosing official information that may be subject to executive privilege.

The fact that no media outlets have (apparently) reported on it is most likely due to it's mundaninity.
 

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When bills like that are passed makes you wonder whats being hidden. Well done mr president.
Uhm did you read it?

The original order by Reagan
Executive Order 12667 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Executive Order 12667 established a procedure for former United States Presidents to limit access to certain records which would otherwise have been released by the National Archives and Records Administration under the Presidential Records Act of 1978. It was issued by President Ronald Reagan on 18 January 1989.

The order under Bush.

Executive Order 13233 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Executive Order 13233[1] limited access to the records of former United States Presidents. It was drafted by then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and issued by President George W. Bush on November 1, 2001. Section 13 of Order 13233 revoked Executive Order 12667 which was issued by Ronald Reagan on January 18, 1989.
The Order was partially struck down in October 2007, and President Barack Obama completely revoked it by executive order on January 21, 2009, his first full day in office. However, as long as no bill is passed by Congress with regard to this issue, any future president is free to issue yet another order to take the place of the revoked order 13233, just as Order 13233 revoked Order 12667.

Executive Order -- Presidential Records
Sec. 6. Revocation. Executive Order 13233 of November 1, 2001, is revoked.

So he's going BACK to the Reagan Era Order.
 

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Mr Obama has been busy. He must have worn out a pen by now signing all of this paper.

Executive Order 13233 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interestingly enough, I can't seem to find a major news bureau reporting this.
Executive Order -- Presidential Records


Neither could I, what's up with that? :irked: :confused: It garnered a brief blurb on the Huffington Post but nothing more. Nothing on CNN or MSNBC sites either; but I did find a paper out of India and one from Australia which covered it.
 

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I think it basically says that anyone can easily rifle through presidential records from decades ago, a la "dead" presidents... and to get "living" ex-presidents artifacts, it's up to the current president, the AG, and who know whom else to hear the case for it and they'll decide.

In other words... don't plan on getting anything from the Clinton or Bush administrations... as you'd have to move legal mountains, per se.