The New York Times has just published a post by the A.P. in which a judge has just overturned a Bush Executive order allowing Presidents to prevent the publication of any thing coming out of the executive office. The article is here

Here is a copy:

Judge Invalidates Bush Order on Records

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: October 1, 2007

Filed at 5:58 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge on Monday invalided part of a 2001 order by President Bush allowing former presidents to review executive documents before they can be released under open records laws.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the presidential order eliminated the discretion of the National Archives to control the release historical records. She said the executive order allowed former presidents to delay the release of those records ''presumably indefinitely.''

The ruling was made in a lawsuit filed by the American Historical Association and other organizations, which argued that Bush's Executive Order 13,233 was an ''impermissible exercise of the executive power.''

A bill that would overturn the order is pending in the Senate.

This is another example of a pattern in which the Bushies think they above the law. Thinking an executive order trumps a law is a good way down the road to tyranny.

I also wonder why he thought he needed this power. What is he trying to hide?