Proposed law would shield Obama birth records

An amendment to the Presidential Records Act would shield President Barack Obama's birth records - and many others - following his leaving office.

Brooklyn Congressman Edolphus Towns introduced the Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011 (HR 3071), which would keep confidential any records he may choose if given Congressional approval, subject to the approval of the succeeding President.

The bill has 16 co-sponsors at this writing.

A key provision is the procedure whereby a former President could “...except any record (or reasonably segregable part of a record) with respect to which the Archivist receives from a former President or the incumbent President notification of a claim of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure...”

Documents which remain under wraps at this time include Mr. Obama's passport records, kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, University of Chicago articles, Illinois State Bar Association records, Illinois State Senate records and schedules, medical records, and records of his parent's marriage license and divorce.