One more time...
(Just like the grandkids "One more time... One more time...")
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/07/obamas-sealed-records/
"The idea that any Obama record is sealed is a falsehood, to start. The word sealed when applied to documents ordinarily refers to records that would normally be public, but that a judge has ruled cannot be released without the courts permission. Common examples of truly sealed documents include records of crimes committed as a juvenile or records of adoptions. None of the claims in this message refers to records actually sealed in that usual sense.
In some cases, the records this screed claims are sealed are actually public, and open for anyone to see. Other supposedly sealed records are normally private documents that Obama hasnt released and that other presidential candidates havent released either.
So as with earlier versions, this is little more than an attempt to raise suspicions by asking for records that arent ordinarily made public, without any evidence that those records contain anything derogatory. Well take the claims and questions in the order they appear.
Claims #1, 2 and 4, college records. Obamas college records are not sealed by a court order, as this graphic would have you believe. It would be illegal under federal law (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) for Occidental, Columbia or Harvard Law School to give any former students records to reporters or members of the public without that persons specific, written permission.
Obama hasnt released them, but neither have other presidential candidates released their college records.
George W. Bushs grades at Yale eventually became public, but only because somebody leaked them to the New Yorker magazine. Bush himself refused to release them, according to a 1999 profile in the Washington Post."