Cheney can't hide his legacy...

An interesting story from LISnews.org:

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction yesterday ordering Vice President Cheney and the National Archives to preserve all of his official records.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's order came in response to a lawsuit filed this month by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The group, joined by several historians and open-government advocates, warned that Cheney might destroy or withhold important documents as the Bush administration winds down if he interprets the Presidential Records Act of 1978 as applying to only some of his official papers. ...

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Being in Canada, I haven't the foggiest if the PM or anyone else is held by law to keep papers, but as a budding archivist, I would be quite disturbed to see these papers destroyed. History will be the final judge of the Bush Administration and their legacy however the loss of papers will definitely affect the optics. As the journalist states later on, Cheney is considered to be one of the most influential vice presidents ever, and his role in the Bush Administration will continue to be examined for years to come.

This also shows how important laws can be in forcing accountability. Who knows if these historians and other groups will truly be successful in ensuring all the Cheney papers remain, but at least someone is looking out for history.