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| Rep. Edolphous Towns |
Bryan Preston At PJ Tatler reports: 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. According to Judicial Watch, Rep. Edolphous Towns (D-NY) has introduced the Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011. That bill would do with Obama’s presidential records what Obama has
already done to his personal and collegiate records: Seal them up. 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.”
