George W. Bush Quotes
The effective functioning of our constitutional democracy depends upon the participation in public life of a citizenry that is well informed
The Bush presidency was the most secret presidency in history up to its time with less information available to the public than other administrations in modern times.
George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, Son of President George W. Bush, Executive Order Encouraging Government Agencies to Cooperate With public Freedom of Information Act Requests, December 14, 2005
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The response to the newspaper was required by law to be made promptly to the Journal’s Freedom of Information Act Letter Request. The failure to find the documents was not that unusual. However the legal request was properly made by the newspaper almost 15 years earlier. The original letter was send in October 1989. It took the CIA 15 years to say that they had not found any relevant documents. Incredibly enough this was not the oldest outstanding pending Freedom of Information Request. One had been submitted to the FBI in 1987 that had not then been responded to yet.
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was born into the Bush family; his father, George H. W. Bush, was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
