An administration that trumpeted transparency

[billynomates]

[QUOTEl ] Obaama's record is dismal on so many fronts and now this from an administration that trumpeted transparency. for federal agencies to pretend documents do not exist when requested under FOI[/QUOTE]

A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do.

Under current FOIA practice, the government may withhold information and issue what’s known as a Glomar denial that says it can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records.

The new proposal – part of a lengthy rule revision [1] by the Department of Justice – would direct government agencies to “respond to the request as if the excluded records did not exist."

In a recent case brought by the ACLU of Southern California, the FBI denied the existence of documents. But the court later discovered that the documents did exist. In an amended order [4], U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney wrote that the “Government cannot, under any circumstance, affirmatively mislead the Court.”

DOJ’s draft FOIA rule was first published in March [1], but DOJ re-opened comment [5] submissions in September at the request of open-government groups. The new comment period ended October 19.

The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment. We will update as soon as it does.

This from an administration that trumpeted transparency

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jonswaine blog (NY corr. The Telegraph)O

[Moab]

[QUOTEl ] Obaama's record is dismal on so many fronts and now this from an administration that trumpeted transparency. for federal agencies to pretend documents do not exist when requested under FOI

Dee moron in you is showing .. Obama is powerless against releasing documents considered sensative by the Homeland security Act. Thank you berrry berrry much Bush ...




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jonswaine blog (NY corr. The Telegraph)O[/QUOTE]

[billynomates]

The point was about his administration.

Monday, October 24, 2011
Government Could Hide Existence of Records under FOIA Rule Proposal

by Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica

A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do.

Under current FOIA practice, the government may withhold information and issue what’s known as a Glomar denial that says it can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records.

It's about the Department of Justice! Go read the aricles before making yourself seem even sillier than normal.

[billynomates]

The Department of Justice, the organization responsible for enforcing the FOIA, is the biggest violator of the Act.

While researching the 1982 Tylenol murders, I sent FOIA requests to local, state, and federal law enforcement FOIA officers who clearly had no intention of honoring my requests.
http://americanfraud.com/FOIARequests.aspx

The FOIA requires documents of historical significance to be declassified after 25 years. But my FOIA requests, coming 28 years after the the Tylenol murders, were denied. The reasons given for these denials consisted of bureaucratic rhetoric intended to meet the legal technicalities required to deny the requests. The denials did not stem from any common sense analysis of the effect that the release of the requested documents would have on solving the crimes

Just checked on this. I thought it would be right up your street to seek the truth in this after 29 years! (yes by look of it ALL Govts since have done nothing)!

[billynomates]

So all the information about and evidence of Administrative crimes can be buried, not just classified. And if there’s no acknowledgment it ever existed, like the torture tapes and all those pictures of crimes that were never prosecuted that Obama is sitting on, you can re-write history any way you want

blog in propubla

To refuse to give it is fine but to deny there is that information?????

[billynomates]

As it is now acceptable (and legal) for Government to lie. You will now never know the facts and future historians will never know the true history (They'll know it became legal to lie under Obama's Presidentship but will they know that he wasn't responsible)?

[maverick35]

Old Mav realizes Gypes u should know by now Moab is a A R American well American RIGHT butt even more so A R stands for ALWAYS RIGHT even when she is wrong she is RIGHT and so any way old Mav needs a miracle before it is too late for old Mav RIGHT sorry right... sorry old Mav

[billynomates]

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