It has been a weird long ride with the current US administration. We have seen some odd tech security things like the missing email saga and Cheney’s attempt to reclassify this documents as being beyond the reach of the national archive. Well, one of those things has been rectified.
On paper at least.
From CNN:
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found that the records are not excluded from preservation under Presidential Records Act, which gives the national archivist responsibility over the custody of and access to the records at the end of a president’s final term.
The Bush administration had sought a narrow interpretation of the act to allow for fewer materials to be preserved by the National Archives.
“Defendants were only willing to agree to a preservation order that tracked their narrowed interpretation of the PRA’s statutory language,” Kollar-Kotelly said in her order. This position “heightens the Court’s concern” that some records will not be preserved without an injunction.
A very interesting turn of events. I wonder if he/they will comply.