Anonymous ID: 8dc010 March 4, 2019, 12:53 p.m. No.5504673   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4737

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In a lawsuit they filed in US District Court, the environmentalists claim the foundation and the city of Chicago told the public that the land would be used for an official, federal government-run presidential library, and then, after the land was transferred, backed out of doing just that. Last week, the judge in the case ruled that the group that filed the suit, Protect Our Parks, has standing to proceed.

 

Further contributing to the Obamas’ woes has been the awful, piecemeal, and still-incomplete rollout of the plan by the foundation and the National Archives and Records Administration, the federal agency charged with preserving and making available presidential records, to handle Obama’s records. Under the plan, the Obamas will not build and donate to the government what would have been the 14th presidential archival facility, and the National Archives will not make the Obama paper records available for public review. Instead, the foundation will select and pay a private vendor to digitize the records—helping to decide the order in which those records are scanned—and NARA will make them available online. Such a decision has alienated many, most prominently the professionals who have been presidential libraries’ most vocal supporters and patrons: journalists, historians, and archivists.

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/barack-obamas-presidential-library-is-making-a-mockery-of-transparency

Anonymous ID: 8dc010 March 4, 2019, 1:04 p.m. No.5504957   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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By Julie Hirschfeld Davis

April 14, 2017

 

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The White House announced Friday that it would cut off public access to visitor logs revealing who is entering the White House complex and which officials they are meeting, breaking with the Obama administration’s practice and returning a cloak of secrecy over the basic day-to-day workings of the government.

 

The decision — which White House officials said was necessary for reasons of national security — was the latest attempt by President Trump, who has promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington, to shield his activities from scrutiny. It effectively bars the public from knowing which activists, lobbyists, political donors and others are gaining access to the president and his aides on a daily basis.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/us/politics/visitor-log-white-house-trump.html