The Anointed One proclaimed that his administration
is the most transparent in American history.
Is this Bizarro World? Can anyone
say Benghazi or Fast and Furious? The Washington
Free Beacon posted the following:
An August 2012 Washington
Post analysis
found that early freedom of information progress by the Obama
administration “stalled and, in the case of most departments, reversed in
direction.”
The number of FOIA
requests denied in full due to exemptions rose more than 10 percent last year,
to 25,636 from 22,834 the previous year, according to the Post’s analysis.
FOIA lawsuits have
also risen
under the Obama administration.
Outgoing
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson used a secret email
address to conduct official business, a possible violation of FOIA laws.
The Obama
administration has also prosecuted a record number of government whistleblowers
and argued against journalistic privilege in court.
It has also jealously
guarded the details of its targeted drone strikes, refusing to even acknowledge
the existence of the program until recently. It repeatedly denied FOIA
requests from the ACLU and the New York Times seeking information on the
program.
“Obama is the sixth
administration that’s been in office since I’ve been doing Freedom of
Information Act work. … It’s kind of shocking to me to say this, but of the
six, this administration is the worst on FOIA issues. The worst. There’s just
no question about it,” Katherine Meyer, a Washington lawyer who’s been filing
FOIA cases since 1978, told Politico
in March. “This administration is raising one barrier after another. … It’s
gotten to the point where I’m stunned—I’m really stunned.”
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