Maybe now that the Bush torture period is almost over, it is looking like someone might actually start taking seriously our federal laws. Were they waiting for this presidential term to end so they could (finally) begin pointing fingers?
We will see how Cheney tries to wiggle out of this...
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Cheney Is Ordered to Preserve Wide Set of Records
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/New York Times
Published: September 20, 2008
Filed at 7:41 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge on Saturday ordered Dick Cheney to preserve a wide range of the records from his time as vice president.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is a setback for the Bush administration in its effort to promote a narrow definition of materials that must be safeguarded under by the Presidential Records Act.
The Bush administration's legal position ''heightens the court's concern'' that some records may not be preserved, said the judge.
A private group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, is suing Cheney and the Executive Office of the President in an effort to ensure that no presidential records are destroyed or handled in a way that makes them unavailable to the public...
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