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Article: Obama Executive Order limits privilege for presidential records.(GOVERNMENT RECORDS)(Barack Obama)
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- Information Management Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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One of President Barack Obamas first orders of business after moving into the Oval Office was revoking one of George W. Bush's most controversial orders involving presidential records. On his first day in office, Obama signed his own executive order revoking Bush's Executive Order 13233, which gave ex-presidents and their families unprecedented control over the release of White House records.
Bush's November 2001 order gave presidents and vice presidents--and, for the first time, their heirs--wide authority to block the release of White House records for any reason and in perpetuity. The order nullified the 1978 Presidential ...