"'Most transparent' White House ever rewrote the FOIA to suppress politically sensitive docs
BY MARK TAPSCOTT | MARCH 18, 2014 AT 8:45 AM
TOPICS: BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL WHITE HOUSE MORNING EXAMINER BARACK OBAMA FOIA
Photo - It's Sunshine Week, so perhaps some enterprising White House reporter will ask press secretary Jay Carney why President Obama rewrote the Freedom of Information Act without telling the rest of America. (Thinkstock)
It's Sunshine Week, so perhaps some enterprising White House reporter will ask press secretary...
It's Sunshine Week, so perhaps some enterprising White House reporter will ask press secretary Jay Carney why President Obama rewrote the Freedom of Information Act without telling the rest of America.
The rewrite came in an April 15, 2009, memo from then-White House Counsel Greg Craig instructing the executive branch to let White House officials review any documents sought by FOIA requestors that involved "White House equities."
That phrase is nowhere to be found in the FOIA, yet the Obama White House effectively amended the law to create a new exception to justify keeping public documents locked away from the public."...
Wouldn't it be awesome to elect for POTUS an honorable man that would abide by the same rules as the rest of America.
Nixon may have been thrown out, but it seems like most American Presidents believe his theory that if the Presdient does it it isn't illegal.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
When you're the HMFIC it must be easier to believe that you can do whatever you want, never mind laws and the legislative process. Bust out the Executive Orders and "make it so..."
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
