Posted on 10/27/2011 11:53:57 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Just prior to taking office, Barack Hussein Obama’s transition team promised the incoming Administration would create ”…a new level of transparency, accountability and participation for American citizens.”
Of course that was before the Fast and Furious debacle claimed several hundred lives and exposed the perjury of an Attorney General.
It was before the Obama Department of Energy bestowed half a billion tax dollars on a bankrupt Solyndra Corporation whose principle investor happened to be an Obama campaign money-bundler.
And it was also before another Obama campaign money-bundler used his influence to have the White House pressure a general into changing his testimony before a congressional committee.
So now, unable to duck, dodge and hide from the citizen journalists who make up the blogosphere and even fighting a losing battle against a select few members of the Regime-owned legacy media, the Department of Justice has decided it is time to legalize the telling of outright lies by the government to the American public.
“A proposed revision to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) rules would allow federal agencies to LIE TO CITIZENS AND REPORTERS (my caps) seeking certain records, telling them the records don’t exist.”
Under current FOIA rules, if a government agency wishes to deny a request for information it must respond to the party making the request by citing the “relevant exception” which allows the denial.
But under Obama’s proposed new rules for the legalization of prevarication and subterfuge, a federal agency may “respond to the [FOIA] request as if the excluded records did not exist…”
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
It is a new level of transparency. It's called opaque.
Your headline doesn’t match your excerpt.
Issa isn’t even mentioned in this article.
—Your headline doesn’t match your excerpt.—
Boy, I’ll say.
I was thinking invisible, like their clothes...
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Ah, “Let them eat cake”. The sheer arrogance of this bunch is breathtaking.
The headline doesn't even match the article at the link.
The headline (both here and at the link) has nothing to do with the article. The article not once mentions Fast & Furious, or anything to do with Gunwalker.
Transparency....that means, (for those in Rio Vista) you don’t get to see anything.
SORRY FR READERS. The story posted on Coach is Right.com does NOT match the headline on Free Republic. I screwed up.
Headline for this piece SHOULD BE:
“Obama DOJ wants to make LYING perfectly legal!”
Out of the mouth of the worlds greatest pathological liar.
Hmmmmm, as a fan of the traditional British penalty for treason I do appreciate the imagery of your title. Time to sharpen the knives and fire up the ol’ hibachi.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
28 CFR Part 16
[Docket No. OAG 140; AG Order No. 3259-2011]
RIN 1105-AB27
Freedom of Information Act Regulations
AGENCY: Department of Justice.
ACTION: Proposed rule.…et seq.
Sec. 16.5 Timing of responses to requests.…
e) Expedited processing.…et seq.
(iv) A matter of widespread and exceptional media interest in which there exist possible questions about the government's integrity which affect public confidence.
Sec. 16.6 Responses to requests.…et seq.
(2) When a component applies an exclusion to exclude records from the requirements of the FOIA pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552(c), the component utilizing the exclusion will respond to the request as if the excluded records did not exist. This response should not differ in wording from any other response given by the component.…et seq.
Dated: March 14, 2011.
Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
Attorney General.
[FR Doc. 2011-6473 Filed 3-18-11; 8:45 am]
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