Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Today on the official white house website, Obama released a memo restricting the use of presidential signing statements, and urging agency reviews of all such actions, old as well as new. Perhaps this could shed light on past abuses of executive powers, and even possibly revert some of the Bush doctrines.
To ensure that all signing [...]
President Obama will announce Monday that he is reversing Bush administration limits on federal financing for embryonic stem cell research as part of a pledge to separate science and politics, White House officials said Friday.
Story on NYTimes
I honestly didn’t think Obama would ever do this.
The Obama administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets Monday, revealing anti-terror memos that claimed exceptional search-and-seizure powers and divulging that the CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes of interrogations and other treatment of terror suspects.
The Justice Department released nine legal opinions showing that, following [...]
Obamas weekly adress (youtube)
Obama To Launch Website For Tracking Tax Expenditures
internationalflights tips news that Barack Obama, in his first weekly address as President, has mentioned plans to set up a website for tracking “how and where we spend taxpayer dollars.” Details about the website, Recovery.gov, are available within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of [...]
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Releases an executive order to overturn Bush Jr’s added secrecy of presidential records.
Link to the order on whitehouse.gov
Short summary: after Richard Nixon’s unpleasant presidency, Congress took steps to open up the office of the President a little bit. Records were to be withheld for 12 years and then generally disclosed to the public, subject to [...]
