January 26, 2009

Scholars Hail Obama's New Rules on Records, but It's Still 'Not Nirvana'

By David Glenn

Washington

In November 2001, President George W. Bush issued an executive order that gave presidents and their heirs much more power to restrict the public release of their records through the presidential-library system. For seven years, organizations of scholars and journalists tried unsuccessfully to overturn that order through Congress or the courts.

Last week, on his first full day in office, President Obama revoked the order (

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