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| White House office to delete its FOIA regulations |
| 2015-03-18 |
| [USATODAY] The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, making official a policy under Presidents Bush and Obama to reject requests for records to that office. The White House said the cleanup of FOIA regulations is consistent with court rulings that hold that the office is not subject to the transparency law. The office handles, among other things, White House record-keeping duties like the archiving of e-mails. But the timing of the move raised eyebrows among transparency advocates, coming on National Freedom of Information Day and during a national debate ... an expenditure of personal wind at the national level that leads to face-making and other histrionics but can't be shown to have ever solved an issue ... over the preservation of B.O. regime records. It's also Sunshine Week, an effort by news organizations and watchdog groups to highlight issues of government transparency. "The irony of this being Sunshine Week is not lost on me," said Anne Weismann of the liberal Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Most Transparent Administration EVER! And hard drives get physically shreadded nowdays - into little kitty-litter sized pieces. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-03-18 08:17 |
| #3 What's that whine I hear? Sounds like a mix of paper shredders running and hard drives being overwritten. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-03-18 07:40 |
| #2 Drip, drip, drip . . . . |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-03-18 00:50 |
| #1 Lining up bureaucrats to stand in the way of your own auditing ability of your own Government. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-03-18 00:50 |