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Support Grows For Judicial Memo Whistleblower (MemoGate)
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| 12-03-02
| By Jeff Gannon
Posted on 12/03/2003 6:37:14 AM PST by jmstein7
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To: ClintonBeGone; Mr. Bird
You may not care about this particularly, but the Department of Justice publishes a book each year called the
FOIA Guide. For the most part, it is the difinite handbook for FOIA within the Executive branch. Here is the url for the May 2002 edition:
http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/procereq.htm#entities
It says in part (very near the beginning) that:
Entities Subject to the FOIA
Agencies within the executive branch of the federal government, including the Executive Office of the President and independent regulatory agencies, are subject to the FOIA. However, the FOIA does not apply to entities that "are neither chartered by the federal government [n]or controlled by it."
Thus, it is settled that state governments, municipal corporations, the courts, Congress, and private citizens are not subject to the FOIA. Nor does the FOIA apply to a presidential transition team. (footnotes removed; emphasis added)
To: seamus
He will be replaced next year, at least as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, by Arlen Specter. You'll be pining for the days of Hatch before the snow melts. Great. The other cum laude graduate of the Neville Chamberlain School of Appeasement.
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posted on
12/03/2003 7:51:37 AM PST
by
ctonious
To: jmstein7
Hatch is a ...[fill in the blank]
To: ClintonBeGone; Mr. Bird
To: jmstein7
"This guy should be given a medal -- he's a hero, he saw wrongdoing and did something about it." There is no greater crime in a bureaucracy than disloyalty; for this guy to have told tales out of school, however true those tales were, is unforgivable. Even the fact that the Wall Street Journal says he's not their source will not save him, since being innocent when your boss has already declared you guilty makes the boss look bad, which is the ultimate disloyalty.
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posted on
12/03/2003 8:11:49 AM PST
by
Grut
To: ClintonBeGone
Don't be so hasty: this is a setup if I ever saw one. If Hatch and the GOP get "incensed" over leaking of these memos, the Dems will be exposed for theirs and (I'd bet) have far more dirty laundry. This is the old "Lazio handshake" maneuver, pulling them out in public.
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posted on
12/03/2003 8:17:03 AM PST
by
LS
To: LS
Don't be so hasty: this is a setup if I ever saw one. If Hatch and the GOP get "incensed" over leaking of these memos, the Dems will be exposed for theirs and (I'd bet) have far more dirty laundry. This is the old "Lazio handshake" maneuver, pulling them out in public.
I hope you're right, but I don't think so. When EVER has the GOP gotten the upperhand in these type of situations?
To: Tired_of_the_Lies
Thus, it is settled that state governments, municipal corporations, the courts, Congress, and private citizens are not subject to the FOIA. Nor does the FOIA apply to a presidential transition team. (footnotes removed; emphasis added)
Yes, that is consistent with what I said earlier. I don't think anyone was (or should have) implied that the federal FOIA applies to the states. Each state has its own version.
To: ClintonBeGone
It's an 'FBI-file' thing, I think.
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posted on
12/03/2003 8:27:50 AM PST
by
expatpat
To: expatpat
It's an 'FBI-file' thing, I think.
LOL I can't imagine what would be in the FBI file of a guy that doesn't even drink caffine.
To: ClintonBeGone
Two words: Pentagon Papers
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posted on
12/03/2003 9:38:17 AM PST
by
jmstein7
To: seamus
All the more reason to be sure Arlen doesn't get re-elected.
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posted on
12/03/2003 10:49:50 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(DEMS INHABIT A PARALLEL UNIVERSE)
To: OldFriend
This was my question to White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan at today's briefing:
Q: Memos from the Senate Judiciary Committee that were leaked to The Wall Street Journal show that Democrats opposed Miguel Estrada, and I quote, "because he is Latino," and Priscilla Owen, "because she is a woman from
Texas." Is the White House going to call for an EEOC investigation into the unlawful racial and sexual discrimination against these nominees?
MR. McCLELLAN: I don't know about the specific reports, but the President appoints people who he believes is the best individual for that position. And he appoints people of -- people that have a conservative judicial view that will interpret the law, not make law, from the bench. And that's the President's views and Congress needs to act to vote -- or the Senate needs to allow up-or-down votes on all of his nominees, and that's what we're continuing to do,
that's where our focus is. The Senate needs to fulfill its responsibility to allow all individuals that the President has nominated to judicial positions to receive an up-or-down vote.
There are also a number -- Congress will be coming back in town next week, there are a number of nominations, some hundred nominations that are pending out there, beyond just judicial nominees, that the Senate has yet to act on. And we would encourage the Senate, when they return, to move forward and act on those nominees. These are a number of important positions.
To: Jeff Gannon
You teed him up -- you would think that he would have wanted to knock that one out of the park.
The new tone has to go.
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posted on
12/03/2003 3:49:18 PM PST
by
jmstein7
To: jmstein7
agreed. too wimpy.
To: Jeff Gannon
Maybe you should ask him this next time: Mr. McClellan -- do you believe that YOUR interest in "making nice" with the Democrats and maintaining the "new tone" outweighs the PUBLIC'S interest in knowing if their elected Democrat Senators are engaging in corrupt and unethical behavior?
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posted on
12/03/2003 5:21:57 PM PST
by
jmstein7
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