One day after being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, on Jan. 21, 2009, Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13489, “The first order of business Obama took care of on day one of his Presidency was to sign off on an Executive Order that states that only the records he chooses to be made public will be released.
This is the subject that was at the absolute top of his agenda. If this isn’t proof that Obama is hiding something, I don’t know what is.”
Obama didn’t sign an Executive Order sealing all of his private and personal records of birth, schooling, elected service records in the Illinois state Senate. He did not hide them in an Executive Order but in the protection of one that says only the records he chooses to be made public will be released.
The actual wording of Obama’s first Executive Order rescinded an earlier executive order issued by President Bush that severely limiting public access to presidential records after they left office.
By doing this he was gaining points by making a Bush’s Executive Order public and not kept secret while at the same time protecting his own personal records and keeping his critical personal information top secret and not subject to later disclosure by a succeeding presidential EO.
Obama said, “The mere fact that you have the legal power to keep something secret does not mean you should always use it. Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.”
I am sure that this was not the first lie Obama told after becoming the president nor was it his last; but it surely was one hell of a WHOPPER.