This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed this bill into law on July 4th 1966 in an attempt to placate the citizenry into thinking their government is transparent and accountable. Well, it was a nice attempt.
Past administrations have been recalcitrant in
abiding by this law, but none have been as obstinate and deceitful as Obama’s. Hillary Clinton willfully set up a private
server and used her personal email to circumvent FOIA. She’s not the only one. Does anyone remember EPA administrator Lisa
Jackson? She used multiple non-governmental
emails. You might ask, to what
purpose? It should be obvious. She was trying to skirt FOIA, as did Obama’s assistant
attorney general Tom Perez.
Labor Secretary
nominee Tom Perez used his private email account to leak information about
official business while he was assistant attorney general for the Justice
Department’s Civil Rights Division, the House Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform said in a Wednesday letter to Perez.
Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) said it appears Perez used his personal email account almost 1,200 times since 2009 to conduct official department business, including communicating with organizations such as Planned Parenthood, the New York Times, and Talking Points Memo.
It doesn’t stop there. The secretary of Health and Human Services
also used her private email to conduct government business. And who can forget Lois Lerner from the
IRS? She used hers to plot against Tea
Partiers. This behavior seems to be
endemic. The Daily Signal published a
survey that revealed 33% of federal government employees use their personal
email to conduct business.
Isn’t it ironic that FOIA, the very law the Obama
administration is trying to circumvent, is what revealed their duplicity. If it weren’t for watchdog groups like
Judicial Watch, we wouldn’t know what’s happening in Washington D.C. They are doing the job the mainstream media
refuses to do.
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