Obama has reversed much of Bush/Cheney's secrecy effort

This is pretty neat, if it works as Zack Roth at TPM suggests it might. Watch the video.



I seem to recall that Bush's previous Presidential Order on keeping documents from being released went at least as far back as Bush 41's Presidency, and perhaps included Reagan's. If so, then the Freedom of Information requests from journalists and historians are going to be flying thick and fast.

I'll leave the legal implications to the lawyers and to people like the TPM crew and Emptywheel at Firedoglake. But it seems obvious even to me that stonewalling is going to get a lot harder.