President Obama promised us
open and transparent government. Like most of his promises, they come with an expiration date.
In fact a provision in the Freedom of Information Act law that allows the government to hide records that detail its internal decision-making has been invoked by Obama agencies more often in the past year than during the final year of President George W. Bush.
Major agencies cited that exemption to refuse records at least 70,779 times during the 2009 budget year, compared with 47,395 times during President George W. Bush's final full budget year, according to annual FOIA reports filed by federal agencies.
And that's not all.
In all, major agencies cited that or other FOIA exemptions to refuse information at least 466,872 times in budget year 2009, compared with 312,683 times the previous year, the review found. Agencies often cite more than one exemption when withholding part or all of the material sought in an open-records request.
How's that Hopenchange working out for everyone?
3 comments:
This UnAmerican president has now taken the Flag away from our service personnel in Haiti. This person is not an American. He may be a male but he is not a man. It's time to fire his sorry butt and send him home. Where ever that is. It is not here.
Gerry N.
....after the Haiti prime minister asked him to because it looked like we Americans had captured the airport. Nitpicking.
Then the Iwon should have told the American Armed forces to pack up all our property, food and water included, and leave. Allow the Haitians to stand up and take care of their own. If The Europeans, the UN, the sundry NGO's and Sean Penn want to step in and do it, God Bless 'em.
It is far past time for us to stop being the World's Sugar Daddy. If they want our help, fine. Write a contract spelling out what we will do, when, where, and how they are to pay for it. If payment is not forthcoming as per the contract, we will go in, square things away and see to it that the money is paid back in full and on time. If that means annexing Haiti as a territory until the debt is discharged, so be it.
I haven't voluntarily contributed one red cent to the ingrateful Kleptrocracy that is Haiti and I won't.
Gerry N.
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