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Reason No. 1 to reject Obama (white house transparency fraud)
WND.com ^ | October 08, 2012 | Joseph Farah

Posted on 10/09/2012 8:50:13 AM PDT by Perseverando

Exclusive: Joseph Farah looks at book exposing White House transparency fraud

Barack Obama lied in 2008 about so much. He promised so much he had no intention of fulfilling. He deceived the American people with noble ideas he would never carry out.

After four years of witnessing these lies, these broken promises and deceptions, this should be the No. 1 reason to reject Obama at the polls – at all costs.

To chronicle the lies, broken promises and deceptions would fill volumes of books – and there’s no time left for that with the election only weeks away.

So let’s just examine the findings of one distinguished author, Christopher Horner, in his new book, “The Liberal War on Transparency.”

We all remember what Obama said he would do in 2008 – create the most open and transparent administration in American history. He excoriated his predecessor’s White House for its secrecy. He promised a new era of open access to documents and the business of the people in Washington.

He lied.

But he didn’t just miss the mark. It turns out the Obama administration is the most secretive in history and routinely breaks federal laws to keep any damaging information about its operations from seeing the light of day.

That’s what Horner reveals conclusively and methodically in “The Liberal War on Transparency.”

Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute specializing in energy and environmental issues, has filed scores of Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, requests to procure documents from the past three administrations.

What he found was that the Obama administration routinely squelches such requests – by him and others – by forwarding them to the wrong agencies, claiming those filing the requests would be forced to pay huge fees for the documents to be processed or just

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fraud; transparency

1 posted on 10/09/2012 8:50:18 AM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

I want to see this administration hounded until the end of time to investigate/indict/punish them for all they have done over the past 4 years.

I hope I live long enough to get even a little satisfaction.


2 posted on 10/09/2012 10:01:34 AM PDT by kevslisababy
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