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With a hat tip to Constitutional Insurgent of Libertas and Latte from USA Today (March 16, 2015):
WE THE PEOPLE have lost the power we once had.
Orwellian times.
- Smoking Gun: Irs Official Who Shared Taxpayer Info With White House Visited 155 Times
From the Daily Caller: Embattled IRS official Sarah Hall Ingram made 155 visits to the White House to meet with a top Obama White House official with whom she exchanged confidential taxpayer information over email. Of Ingram’s 165 White House...
- This Is Going Nowhere
So move on. The President can classify any document he wants without review or quertion and said classified documents are protected from FOIA. And before we get crazy on Obama passing such a law it was actually passed under Bush in 2004? 2005? or thereabouts....
- Land Of Obama To Get Gitmo Detainees
No no no. Not Kenya. Sheesh. Newsmax: Illinois Prison to Get Some Gitmo Detainees Monday, 14 Dec 2009 11:39 PM WASHINGTON – The White House plans to announce Tuesday that a rural Illinois prison will be acquired by the federal government to become the...
- I Figure Anyone Writing Here Is Already On Some Kind Of List Somewhere
remember, dissent is no longer the highest form of patriotism, it is now racist and offenders will be persecuted Washington Times: EXCLUSIVE: W.H. collects Web users' data without notice Audrey Hudson (Contact) EXCLUSIVE: The White House is collecting...
- Who Is Vivek Kundra?
Obama Security Breech By The Prowler at The American Spectator WHO IS VIVEK KUNDRA? The Obama Administration is worried that yet another senior appointee has run into potential ethics issues one week into his new job. According to one White House source,...
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White House Above The Law (FOIA)
With a hat tip to Constitutional Insurgent of Libertas and Latte from USA Today (March 16, 2015):
White House office to delete its FOIA regulationsOn we go, marching on the road to serfdom.
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.
But the timing of the move raised eyebrows among transparency advocates, coming on National Freedom of Information Day and during a national debate over the preservation of Obama administration records. It's also Sunshine Week, an effort by news organizations and watchdog groups to highlight issues of government transparency.
"The irony of this being Sunshine Week is not lost on me," said Anne Weismann of the liberal Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW.
"It is completely out of step with the president's supposed commitment to transparency," she said. "That is a critical office, especially if you want to know, for example, how the White House is dealing with e-mail."
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....
WE THE PEOPLE have lost the power we once had.
Orwellian times.
- Smoking Gun: Irs Official Who Shared Taxpayer Info With White House Visited 155 Times
From the Daily Caller: Embattled IRS official Sarah Hall Ingram made 155 visits to the White House to meet with a top Obama White House official with whom she exchanged confidential taxpayer information over email. Of Ingram’s 165 White House...
- This Is Going Nowhere
So move on. The President can classify any document he wants without review or quertion and said classified documents are protected from FOIA. And before we get crazy on Obama passing such a law it was actually passed under Bush in 2004? 2005? or thereabouts....
- Land Of Obama To Get Gitmo Detainees
No no no. Not Kenya. Sheesh. Newsmax: Illinois Prison to Get Some Gitmo Detainees Monday, 14 Dec 2009 11:39 PM WASHINGTON – The White House plans to announce Tuesday that a rural Illinois prison will be acquired by the federal government to become the...
- I Figure Anyone Writing Here Is Already On Some Kind Of List Somewhere
remember, dissent is no longer the highest form of patriotism, it is now racist and offenders will be persecuted Washington Times: EXCLUSIVE: W.H. collects Web users' data without notice Audrey Hudson (Contact) EXCLUSIVE: The White House is collecting...
- Who Is Vivek Kundra?
Obama Security Breech By The Prowler at The American Spectator WHO IS VIVEK KUNDRA? The Obama Administration is worried that yet another senior appointee has run into potential ethics issues one week into his new job. According to one White House source,...