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Originally Posted by aceventura3
To suggest that the Bush/Chaney administration has been more secretive than the typical presidential administration is to ignore history.
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ace.....it only ignores history if you are in an alternative universe.
In this universe, one only need examine: More FOIA restrictions as a result of Bush EO (later overturned by Dem Congress) yet still w/ an average 2-yr back up on requests dues to the Buish EO
More restrictions by revisions to Presidential Records Act as a result of Bush EO limiting access to docs....as well as claim by Cheney that VP is not part of Exec Branch and need not comply with PRA (overturned by court last week)
More restrtictions on "sensitive, but unclassified" docs than any previous Administration
Tens of thhousnds of new "security" designation of previously accessible docs and less "de-classificaiton" of older docs than any previous Administration
Destruction of more than 2 milion WH e-mails in violation of WH administrative policies
More Executive "signing statements" than previous Admininstrations combined.
The list goes on.......
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Last edited by dc_dux; 09-22-2008 at 10:19 AM..
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