Monday, September 15, 2003
A Word of Advice to the Democratic Candidates for President
The Democratic candidate will get elected who promises to sign–immediately upon taking the oath of office–executive orders that:
1. Release all government documents relating to 9/11, including the ones relating to the Justice Department's decision to switch Attorney General John Ashcroft from commercial to private jets two months before 9/11.
2. Release all government documents relating to vice-president Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force.
3. Reverse the Bush executive order which gave the vice-president the authority to classify documents on his own.
4. Reverse the Bush executive order which changed the laws governing the release of presidential papers, and effectively undermined the FOIA and put his own father's papers out of public reach.
Make this promise now–loudly and repeatedly–and you will not only take the race away from the other Democratic candidates, you'll put the Bush administration on the defensive on yet another front. Because they can't release those documents, and they can't defend not releasing them.
1. Release all government documents relating to 9/11, including the ones relating to the Justice Department's decision to switch Attorney General John Ashcroft from commercial to private jets two months before 9/11.
2. Release all government documents relating to vice-president Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force.
3. Reverse the Bush executive order which gave the vice-president the authority to classify documents on his own.
4. Reverse the Bush executive order which changed the laws governing the release of presidential papers, and effectively undermined the FOIA and put his own father's papers out of public reach.
Make this promise now–loudly and repeatedly–and you will not only take the race away from the other Democratic candidates, you'll put the Bush administration on the defensive on yet another front. Because they can't release those documents, and they can't defend not releasing them.
