The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.
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Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.
I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
Records... a record just shouldn't be that important.
The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.