Posted on 03/18/2016 3:56:34 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The Obama administration set a record for the number of times its federal employees told disappointed citizens, journalists and others that despite searching they couldn't find a single page requested under the Freedom of Information Act, according to a new Associated Press analysis of government data.
In more than one in six cases, or 129,825 times, government searchers said they came up empty-handed last year. Such cases contributed to an alarming measurement: People who asked for records under the law received censored files or nothing in 77 percent of requests, also a record. In the first full year after President Barack Obama's election, that figure was only 65 percent of cases.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Friday he was not familiar with the figures showing how routinely the government said it can't find any records, although the Justice Department also highlighted them in its own performance report. Earnest said federal employees work diligently on such requests, and renewed his earlier complaint that the U.S. records law has never applied to Congress since it was signed into law 50 years ago by President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat.
"Congress writes the rules and they write themselves out of being accountable," Earnest said. He urged reporters "to continue the pressure that you have applied to Congress to encourage them to subject themselves to the same kinds of transparency rules that they insist other government agencies follow."
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/26/eric-holder-aka-lew-alcindor.html
To file a FOIA request you need the name of the person, gee why would the AG use an AKA?
How can anyone not hate this government.
I would think all government documents are created and maintained electronically at present
I would think it was implemented mostly by microsoft word ad excel
I was thinking of something more sophisticated like automatically keeping a copy of all information generated on government machines, and making available via search tools, with all manual processes removed that can be corrupted. Kind of like what the NSA does to us, except to all non classified information.
Let any US citizens, who isn’t a democrat too, try that excuse when audited or investigated.
“Failure to find...” Yeah, right.
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