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PROMISES, PROMISES: Little transparency progress - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – Two years into its pledge to improve government transparency, the Obama administration took action on fewer requests for federal records from citizens, journalists, companies and others last year even as significantly more people asked for information. The administration disclosed at least some of what people wanted at about the same rate as the previous year.
People requested information 544,360 times last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act from the 35 largest agencies, up nearly 41,000 more than the previous year, according to an analysis by The Associated Press of new federal data. But the government responded to nearly 12,400 fewer requests.
The Obama administration censored 194 pages of internal e-mails about its Open Government Directive that the AP requested more than one year ago. The December 2009 directive requires every agency to take immediate, specific steps to open their operations up to the public. But the White House Office of Management and Budget blacked-out entire pages of some e-mails between federal employees discussing how to apply the new openness rules, and it blacked-out one e-mail discussing how to respond to AP's request for information about the transparency directive.
AP's analysis showed that the odds a government agency would search its filing cabinets and turn over copies of documents, e-mails, videos or other requested materials depended mostly on which agency produced them — and on a person's patience. Willingness to wait — and then wait some more — was a virtue. Agencies refused more routinely last year to quickly consider information requests deemed especially urgent or newsworthy, agreeing to conduct a speedy review about 1-in-5 times they were asked. The State Department granted only 1 out of 98 such reviews; the Homeland Security Department granted 27 out of 1,476. The previous year the government overall granted more than 1-in-4 such speedy reviews.
The Most Non-Transparent and Corrupt administration to ever stain the Whitehouse........which wasnt at all surprising.....considering it slithered out of the cesspool of corruption that is ****cago.
The article, facts, stats speak for themselves......its a reading of the nightmare this country is living. But the waking moment from this bad dream comes at the end, in the comments section. After reading through a great deal of them, I couldnt find one in support of the most non-transparent president in history. But I found a plethora of people who admitted they voted for Obama, and now realize they only voted for more of the HusSame. Change We Can SEE and Believe In......comes in 2012......when the reign of The Kenyan Tyrant comes to an end.
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......Joe Wilson is owed an apology......
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