Obama will not release documents about the rezko land deal.

A November 14 Associated Press article quoted Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) saying of his Illinois state Senate records: "I don't have -- I don't maintain -- a file of eight years of work in the state Senate because I didn't have the resources available to maintain those kinds of records." But the article, by Mike Baker and Christopher Wills, went on to report: "While any file from Obama's time in the state Senate would be far smaller, the idea that no papers exist at all is questioned by one historian," and then quoted historian Tyler Pensoneau saying, "It goes in scrapbooks or maybe boxes. I don't think it's normal practice to say it's all discarded." But as the very quote by Obama included in the article makes clear, Obama did not say that "no papers exist at all," nor did he say that "it's all discarded"; he said he did not have the resources to maintain the records for eight years of work. Some records from Obama's state Senate career, as the AP later acknowledged, are available via public records requests from various state agencies.

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