Reagan-Files

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Many journalists argued, that President Bush used the aftermath of the Sep11th attack to hide historic White House documents of the Reagan administration. Reagan issued an order in 1989 that called for disclosure of most of his official papers 12 years after he left office (68,000 pages of confidential messages between Reagan and his advisers). Until 1978, American presidents had complete control over the release of their internal communications. Reagan's records were supposed to be released in January 2001, and historians were eagerly awaiting them. But because of delays ordered by White House counsel Albert R. Gonzales, researchers and the public still had been waiting for a complete disclosure at the end of 2002. The most interesting stuff would be about the Iran-Contra scandal of the late 1980s in which Reagan's aides sold arms covertly to Iran and used the proceeds to illegally fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. In April 2002, the New York Post claimed, that they obtained a log of these files: "The log indicates the concealed papers have nothing to do with Bush's father, the Iran-Contra scandal, or current members of the Bush administration. George W. Bush's order, made about six months ago, allows the sitting president or a former president to block the release of documents that were set to become public 12 years after a president leaves office..." Source: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/46185.htm