If the former president himself requests material at the Dallas-based George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, he doesn’t need to worry about anyone tracking his inquiry, according to a ruling issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
A three-judge panel issued an opinion on July 8 in John Cook v. National Archives & Records Administration that concluded: “Archivists and librarians have long refrained from disclosing information about who requests materials from their collections and what materials they are seeking, without the requesting party’s consent. These requests of the former president and vice president at issue here, made for purposes of their private research, perhaps for preparation of memoirs, reveal their preliminary thinking and personal matters. The disclosure of this information would indeed ‘constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.’”
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