Bush loses yet again in court

This time, his executive order giving former presidents review over their executive records before release was ruled out of bounds. In a narrow ruling, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly told the National Archives not to withhold releasing any more records on that basis.

Remember, that executive order was way back in 2001. Standing alone, it seemed bad enough at the time, but in hindsight, it was clearly just the tip of the iceberg in BushCo’s standing privacy issues on their head, namely, by expanding government power to intrude into your privacy while at the same time bloating government determination to make private executive records, discussions and meetings that needed, and were legally entitled to, the sunshine of public disclosure.

Next came Vice President Cheney’s secret energy task force meetings.

Then, after 9/11, came BushCo’s fight against revealing just how much and what sort of advance warning the president had.

Then, over the Iraq run-up, things went further downhill.