[WASHINGTONTIMES] The White House showed "bad faith" in how it handled an open-records request for global warming data, a federal court ruled Monday, issuing yet another stinging rebuke to the administration for showing a lack of transparency.For President B.O., who vowed to run the most transparent government in U.S. history, Judge Amit P. Mehta’s ruling granting legal "discovery" in an open-records case -- the third time this year a judge has ordered discovery -- is an embarrassing black eye.
In this most recent case, the Competitive Enterprise Institute was trying to force the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to release documents backing up Director John C. Holdren’s finding that global warming was making winters colder -- a claim disputed by climate scientists. Mr. Holdren’s staffers first claimed they couldn’t find many documents, then tried to hide their release, saying they were all internal or were similar to what was already public.