Getting records from a presidential library can take longer than their term in office • MuckRock

Getting records from a presidential library can take longer than their term in office • MuckRock: The National Archives and Records Administration's recent announcement that there will be no Barack Obama Presidential Library was met with understandable outrage from historians and transparency advocates, who saw it as a blow to a functioning democracy. However, as the National Security Archive's Nate Jones was quick to point out, this discussion needs to be understood in the larger context of NARA's current failings in the presidential library system, where FOIA requests can take years, even decades.

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