PROMISES, PROMISES: Records not so open with Obama
One year into its promise of greater government transparency, the Obama administration is more often citing exceptions to the nation’s open records law to withhold federal records even as the number of requests for information decline, according to a review by The Associated Press of agency audits about the Freedom of Information Act.
No surely not – they drained the swamp, their the most ethical government in history of the universe why this must be an error and I know it has to be much, much better than George W. Bush – after all any transparency that is missing from the Obama administration must have been inherited from the prior administration.
Major agencies cited the exemption at least 70,779 times during the 2009 budget year, up from 47,395 times during President George W. Bush’s final full budget year, according to annual reports filed by federal agencies.
Well damn that can’t be right — there is like no way Bush was more transparent than Obama – no freaking way!
In a new statement Tuesday, Obama noted the release of White House visitor logs and federal data online in recent months said his administration was recommitted “to be the most open and transparent ever.”
70,779 exemption (refusals) under Obama in 2009 – 47,395 under Bush! This guy really has some serious trouble with math doesn’t he?
The AP’s review of annual Freedom of Information Act reports filed by 17 major agencies found that the administration’s use of nearly every one of the law’s nine exemptions to withhold information from the public increased during fiscal year 2009, which ended last October.
The agencies cited exemptions at least 466,872 times in budget year 2009 (Obama), compared with 312,683 times the previous year (Bush), the review found. Over the same period, the number of information requests declined by about 11 percent, from 493,610 requests in fiscal 2008 to 444,924 in 2009. Agencies often cite more than one exemption when withholding part or all of the material sought in an open-records request.
So under Obama there were 11% fewer request for information and more denials -of to keep it simple Obama lied again – oh big shocker there huh?
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