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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!!!!!
 
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Most transparent administration indeed...
 
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White House office to delete its FOIA regulations



The MOST transparent administration in the history of the Universe!!!!!

The bolded is deceptive and out of context. This practice, says your link, began during the Bush administration. Blame the court if you don't like this.

In 2009, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that the Office of Administration was not subject to the FOIA, "because it performs only operational and administrative tasks in support of the president and his staff and therefore, under our precedent, lacks substantial independent authority."
 
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They definitely aren't the most transparent, but they did reverse most of the shady stuff started in the Bush Administration.
 
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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!!!!!
Thank GOD we can blame Bush for this!:lol:
 
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Most transparent administration indeed...

They want you to have to come visit the Obama Presidential Library to pay a $2 per page copy charge to get what you want. Obama has no pretense of doing anything now. He is just preparing his exit strategy. Marginalize Hillary to get foundation donors-check; make people come to his library--check. A few more selfies and inspiring photos for kids in the future who know no better about his presidency other than he was black, and he can start packing.
 
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Most transparent administration indeed...

The man stands for transparency and lines in the sand.
 
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White House office to delete its FOIA regulations



The MOST transparent administration in the history of the Universe!!!!!


Perfect timing for BO peep, when the Media is looking at BO knowing about Hillary's emails in 2013 and then going on TV and said yeah, they sent emails back and forth.

That Implausible Denability.....huh?
 
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White House office to delete its FOIA regulations



The MOST transparent administration in the history of the Universe!!!!!

"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
 
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White House office to delete its FOIA regulations



The MOST transparent administration in the history of the Universe!!!!!

While this lack of transparency is troublesome, you quoted the article terribly out of context.

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.
 
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"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

Yeah that was good one.....wasn't it. :lol:
 
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Thank GOD we can blame Bush for this!:lol:

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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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
 
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Hope and Change

I thought this guy was supposed to be better?

Turns out he's just a different color

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.
 
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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.;)
 
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Hey man... just figured I'd give some partisan lefties an easy out.;)

Once a President acquires powers, NSA surveillance is a clear one, they are loath to relinquish it.
 
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"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.
 
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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.



Don't hold back, tells us what you really think of Obama.
 
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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.

I certainly believe it is a superior form of government. Can you see this guy surviving daily Question Period? You are virtually under oath. "You can keep your plan..." wouldn't have been a game changer, it would have been a career ender.

What the Obamacrats don't see, is that Obama is hardly a better president than any of them, they have excused his every misdeed with "What about....?"

He is in fact the lowest in a long line of low.
 
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Don't hold back, tells us what you really think of Obama.

With this psychotic lying SOB it would be easier to count every time he has told the truth.
 
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An interesting article, a 'footnote' to the Obama regime mentality:

AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, LIVING IN FEAR

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.”

At the National Archives, living in fear | Power Line
 
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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



I doubt there is a regime in history that would not like a tighter rein on who knows what about them that they don't control. It began with the advent of "Government Information Offices" which in my early days reporting, were a suspect source on everything, until proven correct. Today, especially in the US, all too often "The White House says..." is reported as gospel. With that to work with, Obama certainly has had it much easier in controlling the message.

One need only look at the incentive he has to tighten the screws: "If you like your plan" starts a whole cavalcade of "problems" he'd rather have not affected his glittering aura around his be-sainted head. He has also been, in my time, the single most aggressive president when it comes to silencing the media. The sneering little fool he had for his first press officer would have been run out of town at the end of whips in Reagan's day; but somehow Jayboy managed to cow them, the same people who claim to be in league with Woodward, Bernstein et al.

So really, the voter has to look in the mirror here, while they've been cheering this ass hole, he's been severing the means with which the few still with backbones can even look at what he's doing. And he has two years to play without fear of ever having to answer for a damn thing.

That really is one sadly ****ed up system.
 
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Well Obama is continuing with Bush policies- I figured you would see that as a plus for Obama?
Or are you hard core partisan?

So his claim that his was going to be the " MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION EVER " was just one of his many, many, many lies.

Hmmm....why do leftist like being lied too ?
 
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