WASHINGTON — The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, making official a policy under Presidents Bush and Obama to reject requests for records to that office.
The White House said the cleanup of FOIA regulations is consistent with court rulings that hold that the office is not subject to the transparency law. The office handles, among other things, White House record-keeping duties like the archiving of e-mails.
.... the Office of Administration responded to FOIA requests for 30 years. Until the Obama administration,.....
White House office to delete its FOIA regulations
The MOST transparent administration in the history of the Universe!!!!!
Of all the administrations we've had in the last 7 years they are by far the most transparent.White House office to delete its FOIA regulations
The MOST transparent administration in the history of the Universe!!!!!
Thank GOD we can blame Bush for this!:lol:White House office to delete its FOIA regulations
WASHINGTON — The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, making official a policy under Presidents Bush and Obama to reject requests for records to that office.
The White House said the cleanup of FOIA regulations is consistent with court rulings that hold that the office is not subject to the transparency law. The office handles, among other things, White House record-keeping duties like the archiving of e-mails.
.... the Office of Administration responded to FOIA requests for 30 years. Until the Obama administration,.....
The MOST transparent administration in the history of the Universe!!!!!
Most transparent administration indeed...
White House office to delete its FOIA regulations
The MOST transparent administration in the history of the Universe!!!!!
Most transparent administration indeed...
White House office to delete its FOIA regulations
The MOST transparent administration in the history of the Universe!!!!!
White House office to delete its FOIA regulations
The MOST transparent administration in the history of the Universe!!!!!
White House office to delete its FOIA regulations
The MOST transparent administration in the history of the Universe!!!!!
Unlike other offices within the White House, which were always exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, the Office of Administration responded to FOIA requests for 30 years. Until the Obama administration, watchdog groups on the left and the right used records from the office to shed light on how the White House works.
"This is an office that operated under the FOIA for 30 years, and when it became politically inconvenient, they decided they weren't subject to the Freedom of Information Act any more," said Tom Fitton of the conservative Judicial Watch.
That happened late in the Bush administration, when CREW sued over e-mails deleted by the White House — as many as 22 million of them, by one accounting. The White House at first began to comply with that request, but then reversed course.
"I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the Executive Branch and not go through Congress at all, and that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America." Senator Obama, 200
Thank GOD we can blame Bush for this!:lol:
Well Obama is continuing with Busk policies- I figured you would see that as a plus for Obama?
Or are you hard core partisan?
Hope and Change
I thought this guy was supposed to be better?
Turns out he's just a different color
Well Obama is continuing with Bush policies- I figured you would see that as a plus for Obama?
Or are you hard core partisan?
Hey man... just figured I'd give some partisan lefties an easy out.
"I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the Executive Branch and not go through Congress at all, and that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America." Senator Obama, 200
Hey, thanks for reminding me of all that whiny sniveling hypocritical BS we had to endure during the '08 election from the narcissistic pathological lying weasel.
They are all the same when it comes down to it. Some worse, some not so.
US politics is not only polarized, it is a regular hate fest for many.
I really think they should have had a parliamentarian democracy.
Don't hold back, tells us what you really think of Obama.
The Free Beacon reports on the news buried in an op-column by AP president Gary Pruitt on the undermining of the Freedom of Information Act by “authorities” (to use Pruitt’s anodyne term) responsible for compliance with it. “We’re talking about this issue now because of Sunshine Week,” Pruitt explains, “created a decade ago to showcase the laws that give Americans the right to know what their government is up to. These days, Sunshine Week is a time to put a spotlight on government efforts to strangle those rights.”
This is a theme, incidentally, that Sharyl Attkisson pursues in detail, naming names and citing incidents, in her invaluable Stonewalled; Attkisson gives us a mainstream media insider’s account of life in the Age of Obama.
In any event, this is news:
In government emails that AP obtained in reporting about who pays for Michelle Obama’s expensive dresses, the National Archives and Records Administration blacked out one sentence repeatedly, citing a part of the law intended to shield personal information such as Social Security numbers or home addresses.
The blacked-out sentence? The government slipped and let it through on one page of the redacted documents: “We live in constant fear of upsetting the WH (White House).”
Pruitt is circumspect about saying it, but the redaction of documents to prevent embarrassment of the White House is not legal under the Freedom of Information Act.
...And one can’t help but wonder what experience gives rise to the fear of the folks at the National Archives. I hear the voice of experience in that fear.
...The Free Beacon picked up on the news in Pruitt’s column here, and Daniel Greenfield concisely comments at FrontPage: “This is what life under tyranny looks like.”
An interesting article, a 'footnote' to the Obama regime mentality:
AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, LIVING IN FEAR
At the National Archives, living in fear | Power Line
Well Obama is continuing with Bush policies- I figured you would see that as a plus for Obama?
Or are you hard core partisan?
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