On his first full day in office, President Barack Obama ordered federal officials to “usher in a new era of open government” and “act promptly” to make information public.
As Obama nears the end of his term, his administration hasn’t met those goals, failing to follow the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act, according to an analysis of open-government requests filed by Bloomberg News.
Nineteen of 20 cabinet-level agencies disobeyed the law requiring the disclosure of public information: The cost of travel by top officials. In all, just eight of the 57 federal agencies met Bloomberg’s request for those documents within the 20-day window required by the Act.
“When it comes to implementation of Obama’s wonderful transparency policy goals, especially FOIA policy in particular, there has been far more ‘talk the talk’ rather than ‘walk the walk,’” said Daniel Metcalfe, director of the Department of Justice’s office monitoring the government’s compliance with FOIA requests from 1981 to 2007.
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ReplyDeleteThere must be some mistake-this was going to be the most transparent regime in the history of the country.
ReplyDeleteLaws are for the middle class...
ReplyDeleteNot for high powered democrat socialists.
As I've been telling you --- they OPENLY and arrogantly disregard any law they want to (and there have been may of them). They don't care whether youn like it or not and are not afraid of anything you might say. Protest? You'll get shot, beaten, or "detained". there is only ONE way --- just one -- to change their attitude and return our country to one based on the rule of law and the Constitution. Revolution.
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