After Bush: Healing America Should Start with Release of Reagan Records on Iran-Contra and Saddam That Bush Suppressed in 2001

Jon Ponder
Pensito Review
Apr. 22, 2008

Writing in Artvoice, Michael I. Niman says that in order to begin healing the nation in the the aftermath of the Worst Presidency Ever, America will need to undergo a process of truth-telling next year not unlike the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in South Africa after Apartheid ended a decade ago.
“George W. Bush spent most of 2001 using legal maneuvers to delay the release of records that would likely have incriminated key members of his administration as well as his father in crimes that took place two decades earlier.”
– Niman
The place to start, Niman suggests, is with the release of tens of thousands of documents from the Reagan-Bush presidency that George W. Bush suppressed by fiat during his first year in office.

Until Bush countermanded it, the Presidential Records Act required that the records of every administration be made public after 12 years, which meant that the Reagan-Bush documents were due for release after January 2001. In the same executive order, Bush also included the records from his father’s two terms as vice president — which was undoubtedly Bush Jr.’s true purpose all along.

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