'Most transparent' White House ever rewrote the FOIA to suppress politically sensitive docs

The Examiner ^ | MARCH 18, 2014 AT 8:45 AM | Mark Tapscott

[Texas Fossil]

It's Sunshine Week, so perhaps some enterprising White House reporter will ask press secretary Jay Carney why President Obama rewrote the Freedom of Information Act without telling the rest of America.

The rewrite came in an April 15, 2009, memo from then-White House Counsel Greg Craig instructing the executive branch to let White House officials review any documents sought by FOIA requestors that involved "White House equities."

That phrase is nowhere to be found in the FOIA, yet the Obama White House effectively amended the law to create a new exception to justify keeping public documents locked away from the public.

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"FOIA is designed to inform the public on government behavior; White House equities allow the government to withhold information from the media, and therefore the public, by having media requests forwarded for review. This not only politicizes federal agencies, it impairs fundamental First Amendment liberties," Cause of Action explains in its report.

[Texas Fossil]

Unfortunately, that is about how they use the word.

Transparent = stealth/cloaked

[Lumper20]

There is only one way to deal with these crooks, thugs, and liars. Appoint a special prosecutor and start impeachment.

[TBP]

They’re transparent, all right. We can see right through them.

[GOPJ]

Yeah, I’m sure the New York Times is all over this story.../s

[beelzepug]

Maybe we could bribe the pilots into turning off the transponders and taking the plane to North Korea.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Texas Fossil.

[GOPJ]

The AP’s on to Obama.... prayers for them...

[Texas Fossil]

hee hee hee

fitting?

[piasa]

Greg Craig bump... guy turns up in Russia/donkgate

[Texas Fossil]

My, I’m impressed. You dug deeply to find the article I posted in 2014.

This stuff has been cooking quite a while.