FYI: The Presidential Records Act allows for access to Presidential records through #FOIA beginning 5 years after the end of the administration, "but allows the President to invoke as many as six specific restrictions to public access for up to twelve years."
https://twitter.com/DanEggenWPost/status/1350571248879808515
Not sure how many people are aware what was behind the passage of the Presidential Records Act in 1978: Congress wanted to prevent Nixon from destroying, selling, or taking a huge tax break for donating his records & the WH conversations he secretly taped
So Congress passed legislation establishing that all Presidential records relating to the duties of the office belong to the American people.
In 2013, Elijah Cummings introduced a bill to amend the Presidential Records Act that expanded the definition of federal records to include electronic records (and other changes to the law)
It was passed by the House & Senate in 2014
congress.gov/bill/113th-con…
It was passed by the House & Senate in 2014
congress.gov/bill/113th-con…
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