Bush Center prepares for open records onslaught in 2014
FOIFT2014-01-14T23:33:29-06:00By Caty Hirst Fort Worth Star-Telegram Originally published Dec. 21, 2013 UNIVERSITY PARK — Though hundreds of thousands of people have visited the George W. Bush Presidential Center over the past six months, the lifeblood of the library — the billions of pages of archives — has yet to open. Presidential records are not available to the public for five years after a president leaves office, but that period is up Jan. 20 for the documents from Bush’s administration. The archives will then fall under the Freedom of Information Act, allowing citizens to request documents on everything from 9-11 to Hurricane Katrina. “That is the D-Day of all [...]