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Thursday Afternoon Open Thread

By Jeralyn

I'll be working the rest of the day. Here's an open thread for you. Please try to focus on news and policy.

The American Constitution Society (ACS):

A timely new ACS Issue Brief urges the federal government to ensure that records from the Bush administration and future administrations, including e-mails, are preserved for public examination, an issue that was in the news this week as a federal court ruled that a lawsuit on that issue could go forward.

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In “The White House: Off Limits to Historians?” Meredith Fuchs, general counsel of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, notes that historians and political scientists regard presidential records as providing invaluable information in analyzing and understanding governmental policy. Fuchs explains that “over the last eight years, there have been a series of moves by the current Administration that may ensure that records of the White House and the federal offices and agencies that work closely with the White House will not be available to historians.”

The ACS also has a collection of suggestions by various officials and former officials on how to reform the Justice Department. I haven't read them, so I can't say whether I agree with any, but I'm sure they are worth a read.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).