Obama Administration Denies Public Access to Fannie and Freddie Documents

Right Side News ^ | February 18, 2010 | Tom Fittion

[RightSideNews]

Just last month the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the agency responsible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, responded to our FOIA lawsuit by telling us that all of the documents we seek are not "FOIA-able"! Here's the exact language the Obama agency used in its recent court filing: "...Any records created by or held in the custody of the Enterprises reflecting their political campaign contributions or policies, stipulations and requirements concerning campaign contributions necessarily are private corporate documents. They are not 'agency records' subject to disclosure under FOIA."

[Ann Archy]

WELCOME TO THE USSR!!!

[Mrs. P]

Gotta give Sandy Berger a chance to get over there first.

[Diogenesis]

The orders are from David Gregory’s wife.

YOU WILL NOT HEAR ABOUT THIS ON THE MSM NEWS.

[Recon Dad]

Tom Fitton was at the Tea Party in Nashville, he’s doing the hard work keeping these bastards feet to the fire.

Next stop a Federal court near you.

[mewzilla]

This also helps Andrew Cuomo in his run for NY gov.....

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Hope!

Change!

TRANSPARENCY!!!!

[Steely Tom]

The courts will have something to say about this. A delaying tactic only.

[Da Coyote]

Bull Obama.

It’s time for some insiders to start getting these documents to the public.

I want to be there to witness the incarceration of Obama and his loons.

[SoFloFreeper]

"You don't need to know, little person. By the way, we will now have full access to your medical files."

--the Federal Government Bureaucracy

[conservativemusician]

When did Fannie and Freddie become “private” corporations?

[lowbridge]

bump

[bossmechanic]

This is just so much BS!!! These little fifedoms of preferential party finance and influence have got to be exposed. It’s not their damn money! If they aren’t willing to open their books, THEY ARE HIDING SOMETHING!
And it’s got to stop. A legitimate democracy cannot/should not be run in the shadows.

[fuzzybutt]

What a maroon Oputz is to be sure!

[Daisyjane69]

I pray, if there is a merciful God in heaven, that the Republicans take over both houses of Congress in November. In order to shine the light on the corruption that started last year....

(I’m Catholic, ever optimistic!)

[facedown]

When did Fannie and Freddie become “private” corporations?

"The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) (NYSE: FNM), commonly known as Fannie Mae, is a stockholder-owned corporation chartered by Congress in 1968 as a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE),...

They are pretend corporations, "owned" by the public but wholly controlled by the government.

[mirkwood]

Obama transparency:

[thedilg]

They are pretend corporations, “owned” by the public but wholly controlled by the government
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Privately owned but government controlled. It that not the definition of “Fascism”?

[hoosiermama]

Here we go again....Judicial obstructionists.

[maggief]

http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/225583-pair-of-op-eds-criticize-cuomos-bank-of-america-suit

The Wall Street Journal was the first to criticize Cuomo, probing his record as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1997-2001.

While at the HUD, Cuomo required Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy $2.4 trillion in mortgages over a 10-year span. Cuomo said that meant affordable housing for 28.1 million low- and moderate-income families.

“Fannie and Freddie’s purchases of subprime loans skyrocketed,” the editorial says.

“The problem wasn’t merely that the Cuomo HUD was raising the volume of loans for which taxpayers would be on the hook. It was also encouraging a dangerous decline in underwriting standards at these government-sponsored enterprises “