A Washington Post analysis of the dispute on the 30 million pages conceded, “As with many issues of government transparency and document-sharing, it’s true that this is not great! You often have to wait years for requested documents, and this appears to be no exception.”īut journalists should be outraged by this perpetual stonewalling. Getty Imagesīut the National Archives blocks access to official records at the behest of every former president and his designated officials.Īlmost all the media coverage of this controversy has ignored or downplayed the dismal failure of the Presidential Records Act to reveal presidents’ records. Getty Images The National Archives was supposed to work with the Obama Foundation on digitizing the archives. The agency issued a statement Friday: “As required by the, former President Obama has no control over where and how stores the Presidential records of his Administration.” Reportedly, 30 million pages of Obama administration records were trucked to Chicago six years ago. The media have largely sainted the National Archives in this ruckus. The Obama Foundation and the National Archives have denied there are any classified documents in those records. Trump has not revealed any source for his allegations that many of the papers were classified and that they had “lots” of “nuclear” material. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!” Trump revved up the controversy Friday when he asserted that President Barack Obama “ kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. Almost six years after the records arrived at a Chicago-area warehouse, that hasn’t happened. The Obama Foundation, working with the National Archives, promised to digitize and put them online. In my Wednesday piece for The Post, I noted that 30 million pages of Obama administration records had been trucked to Chicago. MSNBC’s Joy Reid links Trump having classified docs to US spy deathsĪccusations are flying fast and furious regarding last week’s FBI raid at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

Garland needs to stomp on the dubious leaks and tell the nation what’s in the Mar-a-Lago docsīack in the USSR: Trump compares FBI to Soviets after tax, medical docs taken in Mar-a-Lago raidįoreign nuclear secrets found in Trump raid: report

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