You know, some of the notes in the author's foreward of the book IBM And 
The Holocaust (Edwin Black) come to mind.  He writes that at one point 
during his research IBM realized that he had enough information to make 
the company look really bad so, in the interest of getting all of the 
facts out there, they opened their archives to him.

I suspect that leaks and hacks will serve a similar purpose in 
pressuring for information to be released ... but the honesty and 
integrity just won't be there, on the part of the politicians.  It's a 
shame to think that a company which actively aided the Nazis may be more 
upstanding than your own elected officials, but there it is.

-D
On 10/4/2013 7:01 AM, Peter Kurilecz wrote:
> History News Network | One Hundred Years to Open All the Presidents’
> Records?
> Federal presidential libraries preserve, protect and make available the
> records of Chief Executives from Herbert Hoover through George W. Bush.
> Because of changes in the 1970s to the laws governing the libraries, the
> records of the most recent presidents will not be fully available to the
> public for a hundred years -- possibly longer. Without significant reform,
> taxpayers will continue to support the newer libraries’ legacy-burnishing
> museum functions and public (often partisan) events while historians,
> journalists, writers, students and the rest of the public are locked out of
> the records.
>
>
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>
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