Why did President Obama rewrite the Freedom of Information Act without telling the rest of America?
An April 15, 2009, memo from then-White House Counsel Greg Craig instructed the executive branch to let White House officials review any documents sought by FOIA requestors that involved “White House equities.” You might rightly ask,
What the heck are White House Equities?
That phrase is nowhere to be found in the FOIA, yet the Obama White House effectively amended the law to create a new exception to justify keeping public documents locked away from the public.A serious breach
The Greg memo is described in detail in a new study made public today by Cause of Action, a Washington-based nonprofit watchdog group that monitors government transparency and accountability.
How serious an attack on the public’s right to know is the Obama administration’s invention of the “White House equities” exception?
“FOIA is designed to inform the public on government behavior; White House equities allow the government to withhold information from the media, and therefore the public, by having media requests forwarded for review. This not only politicizes federal agencies, it impairs fundamental First Amendment liberties,” Cause of Action explains in its report.
Equities are everything
The equities exception is breathtaking in its breadth. As the Greg memo put it, any document request is covered, including “congressional committee requests, GAO requests, judicial subpoenas and FOIA requests.”
And it doesn’t matter what format the documents happen to be in because, according to Greg, the equities exception “applies to all documents and records, whether in oral, paper, or electronic form, that relate to communications to and from the White House, including preparations for such communications.”
Essentially, the change gives the White House effective carte-blanche to decide what information it wants to divulge and how to present it, but perhaps just as sinister, the change means FOIA deadlines are a thing of the past. Since the White House equities exception took effect, it may potentially be impossible for some requests to meet the 20-day mandatory response deadline.
Is this actually “the most transparent administration in history?”
Source: Washington Examiner
With all of redactions and blackouts they use, even if you did get documents through the FOIA, they were unintelligible. What did this really change….nothing.
$#%&!@* obama he sucks
If you could actually get info with the FIOA, we would know where they buried Hoffa and who killed Kennedy and the truth about aliens. Think about it, if they don’t want the public to know something, your not going to know.
Buy your own coverage, thats what other americans do…The insurance companys are in buisness to make profits, not to take care of peoples personal problems..
What you all need to fight on is the 60billion us dollars the Obamas gave Kenya, and these other countrys, Like Mexico was given 3billion + for the homeless in mexico, know there taling two billion to give to take care of illlegal children and there releatives to stay in the USA, so whos gtting screwed……buy the dope party..
heres my plan for America citizen familys: you are my vote: you are my campaigners…: Remember people wil disgrade me as not to be qualified; so who qualified them..they did, and brained washed the American people.
flooding America with Illegals/ illegal children, robbing American familys…/the dope party is made up with Brittish brain-washing the American public, know they bring illegal children to build a new American public, consuming the wealths of American familys..
world news = June 29-2014…./two billion us dollars to aid and care for illegal children……?????
{As the US PRESIDENT}with your VOTE : i can rid povertys in America. / notes of what your vote can impower me to do for America../ Stoppining policies that change contracts of inlistment. ; notes : IM A LEGAL US CITIZEN; I DON’T BE LONG TO NO PARTY OF DOPERS; PER THE US CONSTITUTION IM THE ONLY ELGIBLE PERSON IN AMERICA TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT OF THE USA…. VOTE FOR ME ILL MAKE EVERYONE IN AMERICA A MILLIONAIRE..,AND HAVE A HOME..ON SET TERMS TO BUILD AMERICA.. ALL AMERICANS INCLUDDING FEDERAL EMPLOYESS, STATE EMPLOYEES.. I WANT PEOPLE TO WORK ONLY IF THEY LIKE THERE JOB, AND THERE DOING IT LEGALLY WITH HONESTY…AND HAVE HONORABLE INTENTIONS AND RESPECT FOR US CITIZENS..
THE VA SHOULD HAVE PAID ALL ‘WW11 VETERANS AND THERE FAMILEYS, AND ALL THOSE THAT WERE CUT OUT OF HELP AFTER WW2, ALL KOREAN VETERANS AND FAMILYS SHOULD HAVE BEEN PAID BENNIFITS AFTER THAT WAR, ALL VIETNAM VETERANS AND FAMILYS SHOULD HAVE BEEN PAID THERE BENNITS WITH OUT QUESTION, OR DEATH DRUGGING..
LAST WEEK, V PRESIDENT GAVE $250MILLION US DOLLARS TO THE HOMELESS OF MEXICO; TIMES THAT BY 11 =$3,750,000.00= 3+BILLION MEXICAN PASOS…
:IM A LEGAL US CITIZEN; I DON’T BE LONG TO NO PARTY OF DOPERS; PER THE US CONSTITUTION IM THE ONLY ELGIBLE PERSON IN AMERICA TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT OF THE USA…. VOTE FOR ME ILL MAKE EVERYONE IN AMERICA A MILLIONAIRE..,AND HAVE A HOME..ON SET TERMS TO BUILD AMERICA.. ALL AMERICANS INCLUDDING FEDERAL EMPLOYESS, STATE EMPLOYEES.. I WANT PEOPLE TO WORK ONLY IF THEY LIKE THERE JOB, AND THERE DOING IT LEGALLY WITH HONESTY…AND HAVE HONORABLE INTENTIONS AND RESPECT FOR US CITIZENS..
REF;
VAMC’S : FEDERAL EMPLOYEES OF THE “VA, COLLECT THOSE MONEYS IN A BLACK LIST FILES; WHERE WIVES AND THE VETS CHILDREN GET NOUGHTING, NO HELP WHAT SO EVER; SECRET TEAMS EVEN STOCK VETERANS CHILDREN OF THERE DEAD FATHER OR DEAD MOTHER. THAT WAS A VET.. ONE EMPLOYEE OF THE VA IN THE KCMO SYSTEM WAS COUGHT YEARS BACK WAS COLLECTING ON TEN DEAD VETS, HE HAD HIS PHOTO ON ALL TEM VA CARDS, AND MAD UP IN THE SYSTEM HE WAS THERE CONSERVITOR APPOINTED BUY A COURT, WHICH FOUND TO BE FALSE LEGAL DOCCETS; TEN TIMES 100% MONEYS PER MONTH, HOW THE PERSON GOT COUGHT WAS HIS BANK ACCOUNT SHOWED HE PURCHASED REALESTATE WITH THE MONEYS FREE AND CLEAR AND RENTING THEM OUT..AND COLLECTING VA MONEYS ON THE RENTERS FOR MEDICAL AID FOR NON VETERANS..IN THOSE HOMES AS WELL..GETTING MEDICAL HELPS FROM THE VA, FOR NON VETERANS.. USING OTHER MILITARTY VETERANS RECORDS. WHERE VETERANS WERE TRYING TO GET HELP OF THOSE RECORDS..
ALL VETERAN SIGN A FEDERAL CONTRACT OF THE SAME. A CONTRAT IS A ONTRAT OF LAW UNDER THE US CONSTITUIONAL LAW OF AMERICA.. THAT MEANS EVERY VET IS INTITILED THE SAME BENNIFITS; THE ELECTED BUSH-REAGON LAWS ARE BRITTISH LAWS; IRAQI VETS AND SPONCES GET 7000.00 PER MONTH VA MONIES EVEN IN THE MILITRY PAYS, WHOS KIDDING WHO. WHOS GETTING THE LIFE INSURANCE ON THESE VETS, CRIMMINALS OF THE EPLOYEES AT THE VAMCS, MANY OF THE VA DOCTORS ARE TIED UP INTO THE KILLINGS IN THE KCMO AREAS, ON BLACK MARKETING OF MEDICATIONS, AND OTHER TREATMENTS LIKE CANCER MEDS, AN GIVING WATER, INSTEAD OF THE REAL THING, SOME GO THE VETS HOME ON THE WEEK ENDS AND GIVE KILLINGS SHOTS TO VETS THAT HOLD THE LIFE INSURRANCE POLICIES.. NATION WIDE.. IN KCMO, THERES A LAW FIRM THATS NATION WIDE, GETTING VETS TO SIGN FOR THEM TO COLLECT IF AND WHEN THEY DIE ALL THERE BACK MONIES, THATS POLITICS…”’FEDERAL LAW STATES AMERICAN BORN DON’T GIVE UP THERES RIGHTS TO NO ONE..
He’s crazy.
He s a TRAITOR .Will take years to FIND ALL THE THING HE S CHANGED. IMPEACH IMPEACH
No surprise, everything he does is designed to cripple America in some way.
Administration has hijacked our country and our Constitution & the freedoms of the people of United States
He’s hiding something because he’s a $#%&!@*in’ SNAKE !
Because he is one, mentally inane pos, really thinks he’s a damn king.