{"id":198879,"date":"2007-10-02T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/02\/court-decides-that-old-presidential-records-must-be-released\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T02:49:00","slug":"court-decides-that-old-presidential-records-must-be-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/02\/court-decides-that-old-presidential-records-must-be-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Decides that Old Presidential Records Must Be Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/10\/02\/presidential.records.ap\/index.html\">U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly invalidated part of President Bush&#8217;s 2001 executive order, which allowed former presidents and vice presidents to review executive records before they are released under the Freedom of Information Act.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bush did this because Reagan&#8217;s records were to be released, and his dad&#8217;s prints would have been all over Iran-Contra.<\/p>\n<p>It might also show evidence of Poppy Bush negotiating with the Iranians in 1980 to keep the hostages locked up to win the election, but I don&#8217;t think that Bush pere would be stupid enough to let George, Jr. know about that.<\/p>\n<p>Historians should be seeing some interesting stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly invalidated part of President Bush&#8217;s 2001 executive order, which allowed former presidents and vice presidents to review executive records before they are released under the Freedom of Information Act. Bush did this because Reagan&#8217;s records were to be released, and his dad&#8217;s prints would have been all over Iran-Contra. It &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1052,1182,1009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes","category-george-w-bush","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}