... they're hiding Republican crimes.
Mr. Yost,
After reading your article I have to say I feel more confused than before as to what the issues are and where precedence lies. I am politically savvy, a PhD student in cognitive science, and scored high on my verbal SAT but I _still_ can't make heads or tails of your article.
For instance, your article implies that Cheney's lawyer managed to get the visitor logs designated as Presidential Records, subsequently removing them from public access ("Such a designation prevents the public from learning who visited the vice president.").
But the PRA ensures that said logs _are_ kept public -- that Cheney's logs be designated as presidential means they must not be destroyed, must be archived and can be released per FOIA requests. The above quote is either false or misleading.
The rest of the article is similarly obfuscatory. The crying shame, however, is that this kind of article needs to be even clearer than the rest, given that the US VP might be breaking the law, which is presumably of vital national and international interest.
Yours sincerely,
[me]
UC San Diego
Mr. Yost,
After reading your article I have to say I feel more confused than before as to what the issues are and where precedence lies. I am politically savvy, a PhD student in cognitive science, and scored high on my verbal SAT but I _still_ can't make heads or tails of your article.
For instance, your article implies that Cheney's lawyer managed to get the visitor logs designated as Presidential Records, subsequently removing them from public access ("Such a designation prevents the public from learning who visited the vice president.").
But the PRA ensures that said logs _are_ kept public -- that Cheney's logs be designated as presidential means they must not be destroyed, must be archived and can be released per FOIA requests. The above quote is either false or misleading.
The rest of the article is similarly obfuscatory. The crying shame, however, is that this kind of article needs to be even clearer than the rest, given that the US VP might be breaking the law, which is presumably of vital national and international interest.
Yours sincerely,
[me]
UC San Diego
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