The Presidential Records Act didn't exist for Kennedy and LBJ. It was created post Watergate. They found out Nixon was trying to claim his papers as private,....I think he was going to donate them and claim a giant tax deduction, and they passed a law that only applied to Nixon, then in 1978, they passed the Presidential Records Act.
What you are talking about doesn't apply to the Special Counsel. This is about restrictions of records at the National Archives.
All presidential records are restricted for five years after the end of an administration. The Obama records became available for FOIA on January 20, 2022. Trump's will be available on January 20, 2026.
Your post is about certain other records that get further restrictions, but this all happens at the National Archives. Notice that if you go read the full law you mention, The Archvist is noted several times. The Archivist is the one who manages access to the documents/enforces the restrictions.
For example, if a president restricts a record for 12 years, it will be come available for FOIA after 12 years
OR
upon a determination by the Archivist that such record or reasonably segregable portion thereof, or of any significant element or aspect of the information contained in such record or reasonably segregable portion thereof, has been placed in the public domain through publication by the former President, or the President’s agents.
The Presidential Records Act didn't exist for Kennedy and LBJ. It was created post Watergate. They found out Nixon was trying to claim his papers as private,....I think he was going to donate them and claim a giant tax deduction, and they passed a law that only applied to Nixon, then in 1978, they passed the Presidential Records Act.
What you are talking about doesn't apply to the Special Counsel. This is about restrictions of records at the National Archives.
All presidential records are restricted for five years after the end of an administration. The Obama records became available for FOIA on January 20, 2022. Trump's will be available on January 20, 2026.
Your post is about certain other records that get further restrictions, but this all happens at the National Archives. Notice that if you go read the full law you mention, The Archvist is noted several times. The Archivist is the one who manages access to the documents/enforces the restrictions.
For example, if a president restricts a record for 12 years, it will be come available for FOIA after 12 years
OR
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/44/2204