Bush Attempting to Replace U.S. Archivist

[Dover]

Bush Attempting to Replace U.S. Archivist

http://hnn.us/comments/33519.html

Concern is growing within the archival and historical communities regarding the Bush administration's hoped for "fast-track" process to replace Archivist of the United States John Carlin with one of its own choosing -- historian Allen Weinstein.... Their goal -- place Weinstein in the position prior to the November election.

According to Hill insiders, the effort to replace Carlin is coming from the highest levels of the White House. Reportedly, Karl Rove who is widely viewed as one of the president's chief political advisors, if not his political mastermind and, Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President, want their own archivist in place for two overarching reasons: first, because of the sensitive nature of certain presidential and executive department records likely to be opened in the near future, and second, because there is genuine concern in the White House that the president may not be re-elected.

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...Carlin stated that he was not resigning and he would not submit his resignation until a new archivist is appointed. There is no indication that the White House has any cause-related reason to replace Carlin and no reason was communicated to Congress when Weinstein's nomination was advanced formally last week. Some observers speculate that by refusing to resign until a new archivist is in place, Carlin is tacitly protesting what Hill insiders consider his "premature" removal.

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Allen Weinstein possesses both strong Republican political connections and scholarly qualifications. In the past he has served as a foreign policy adviser to Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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Weinstein's nomination has been characterized by former National Security Archive founder and director Scott Armstrong as "the most cynical appointment of an Archivist possible. He has a very clouded, very complicated, self-promoting, neo-con, politically manipulative record....While he uses historical documentation in his work, he is very selective in his use."

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[pfitz59]

1. Evidence Eliminator AKA Bush Archivist!

They know the new Nuremburg trials are pending, and want to rewrite the record. How transparent can they be?

[notbush]

2. I wouldn,t get in a tizzy about this possible position change.

Carlin, former governor of Kansas, my home state had virtually no experience in this line when he was appointed by the Big Dog.
Positions like this are often used to reward party members of have been loyal and worked for the cause.
Interestingly, John Carlin was a dairy farmer before entering politics.

[Dover]

6. I doubt Bush will be successful. But I think their record of secrecy

is certainly worth all the "tizzy" that can be generated to illuminate this effort.

[JoFerret]

20. I am all for more than a tizzy.

These kinds of shifts can be very significant.

[54anickel]

3. They really do have a lot to hide, don't they? n/t

[Prodemsouth]

4. What was that about Governments that try to hide stuff...

n/t

[dweller]

5. 'genuine concern in the White House

that the president may not be re-elected'

Can't be, wasn't elected in the first place. But you can bet he'll be forever portrayed in uniform, strutting across the USS Lincoln, Mission Accomplished banner in the background, if this Weinstein is appointed.

revisionism at its finest.
dp

[Just Me]

7. BWAHAHAHAAH,....historical revisionists,....

,...they are worst than those faux "communists" they created as an enemy!!!! Un-f*ckin-believable!!!!

They just keep on proving that they are anti-democracy control-freaks!!!

[Dover]

8. Some areas of concern to the Bushies.......

...Though it is not widely known, in January 2005, the first batch of records (the mandatory 12 years of closure having passed) relating to the president's father's administration will be subject to the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and could be opened. Another area of concern to presidential officials relates to the 9-11 Commission records. Because there is no mandatory 30-year closure rule (except for highly classified White House and Executive Department records and documents), all materials relating to the commission are scheduled to be transferred to the National Archives upon termination of the Commission later this year. These records could be made available to researchers and journalists as soon as they are processed by NARA.

[havocmom]

14. Have always wondered if part of the reason they were so hot to invade

Iraq was to destroy any information Saddam had on Poppy that he was holding against them.

Remember early on right after the initial stage of the invasion, there was concern about a convoy heading toward Russia? Not long after that, Poppy was also in Russia.

I maintain they had a paper trail to clean up and they knew it. Saddam was no threat to the world but may have been a big threat to the neocons and BFEE.

[feloneous cat]

9. Okay so Weinstein is...

"... a very clouded, very complicated, self-promoting, neo-con, politically manipulative....While he uses historical documentation in his work, he is very selective in his use."


But aside from that, what is the problem? :P

[newyawker99]

19. Hi feloneous cat!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[nodehopper]

10. well, if this isn't straight out of 1984, I don't know what is

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. Carlin was a Great Democratic Governor of Kansas, and I am

glad to see he has the balls to say no to these creeps.

Go, John, go.

[Just Me]

13. Carlin is evidently an advocate of "facts",...

,...which these power-mongers seek to unseat.

[FlashHarry]

12. "A revisionist historian, I call him."

Perfect!

[Voltaire99]

15. Down the memory hole

Just when this filthy crew have you believing they can't top the last debauchery, they still manage to do.

[w4rma]

16. This is worth filibustering, imho.

A big time political issue can be made out of this AND it is important that Bush is not allowed to white-wash his activities.

[DeepModem Mom]

17. Absolutely!

Changing history is a hallmark of the kind of regimes that have no place in a democratic system.

[MetaTrope]

18. Delay will cost the GOP money

They're paying for that rental truck full of document shredders by the day, you know.

[Tellurian]

21. What a Surprise?

Not only will they be looking to: edit, shred, correct, modify, adapt, revise, cut, splice, eliminate, delete,rewrite, alter, amplify, analyze, annotate, arrange, assemble, assign, blue-pencil, boil down, butcher, censor, check, choose, compile, compose, condense, copy, correct, discard, doctor, draft, emend, excise, feature, fine tune, finish, fly speck, go over, make up, massage, polish, prepare, prescribe, proofread, publish, put together, rearrange, recalibrate, rectify, redact, regulate, rehash, rephrase, report, revise, scrub, select, set up, strike out, style, tighten, trim, abridge, ban, black out, blacklist, bleach, bleep, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, clean up, conceal, control, cork, criticize, decontaminate, delete, examine, excise, expurgate, expunge, exscind, inspect, launder, narrow, oversee, purge, purify, refuse transmission, repress, restrain, restrict, review, revile, sanitize, scissor out, squelch, sterilize, strike out, supervise communications, suppress, withhold, abridge, accumulate, amass, anthologize, arrange, assemble, bring together, collate, collect, colligate, collocate, compose, concentrate, congregate, consolidate, cull, draw together, edit, garner, gather, glean, group, heap up, marshal, muster, organize, put together, recapitulate, unite, disperse, dissemble, scatter, separate, abate, abbreviate, abridge, become smaller, clench, compress, confine, constrict, consume, curtail, decline, decrease, deflate, draw in, dwindle, ebb, edit, epitomize, evaporate, fall away, fall off, grow less, lessen, lose, narrow, omit, purse, recede, reduce, shrink, shrivel, subside, syncopate, take in, tighten, wane, waste, weaken, wither, alter, ameliorate, amend, better, change, clean up, cure, debug, do over, doctor, edit, emend, fiddle with, fix up, go over, help, improve, launder, make over, make right, mend, pay dues, pick up, polish, reclaim, reconstruct, rectify, redress, reform, regulate, remedy, remodel, reorganize, repair, retouch, review, revise, right, scrub, set right, set straight, shape up, straighten out, touch up, turn around, upgrade, annul, black out, bleep, blot out, blue-pencil, cancel, cross out, cut, cut out, decontaminate, dele, destroy, drop, edit, efface, gut, knock out, launder, obliterate, omit, pass up, remove, rub, rub out, rule out, sanitize, snip, squash, squelch, sterilize, strike out, trim, wipe out, both BushI and 2's papers, but they will attempt to incriminate CLINTON making HIM responsible for 911-

[FemaleDemfromMass]

22. Our only hope is

that Bush pissed off Mr. Carlin and he's been sending copies of everything to his home computer!

[Tellurian]

23. Clinton better protect is rear end-

These carnivores are fighting for their lives.

Animals are dangerous when cornered...

even the tinyest squirrel can become a mighty foe, when he goes for your throat.

[SpiralHawk]

24. The Minister of Truth is about to come on the scene

He who controls the past controls the present and the future.

War is peace.

Hate is love.

Ignorance is strength.

Choco-rations may be increased 2 mg. next quarter.

BushCo. loves you.

[PurityOfEssence]

25. The Soviet Union: a country with an ever-changing history

Old joke. Funny. Ha.