Archivist vows records will be open and online

The man who successfully sued the FBI for historical files in a 1975 Freedom of Information Act case is now in a position to open historical records to the public.
Allen Weinstein is the ninth archivist of the United States. He will be leading the National Archives and Records Administration and the agency’s Electronic Records Archives project. The $500 million ERA is an ambitious federal effort to save the government’s records, regardless of their format, and make them available on whatever type of hardware and software people might be using in the future.
"It's our moon shot or our Manhattan Project," Weinstein said. "It's got that level of importance."
The soft-spoken former professor was sworn in last February. His new job is to preserve all official presidential and government documents going back to the nation’s founding.