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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Biden Stonewalled FOIA Request on Travel Costs

Biden cost taxpayers nearly $1M on trips home to Delaware, golf trips to Arizona

Vice President Joe Biden’s office stonewalled a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for his travel expenses, according to Ronald Kessler’s new tell-all book on the Secret Service, The First Family Detail.

Kessler, a former Wall Street Journal and Washington Postinvestigative reporter, filed a FOIA request in April 2013 with the Air Force for the details and costs of Biden’s personal trips.

“But in what amounts to a cover-up on behalf of the vice president, on June 6, Biden’s office blocked transmitting the results to me and told Air Force officers they were not to comment to anyone about the case,” Kessler writes.

According to Kessler, Biden’s then-deputy counsel Jessica Hertz took over the FOIA case from the Air Force and ordered it not to release the 95 pages of documents it had compiled in response to Kessler’s request.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Isn't Biden special? NOT

Anonymous said...

Transparency in action??????

Anonymous said...

Biden is a POS.

Anonymous said...

And what about the time he dispatched Air force two to take his son to a specialist for his brain tumor.

Anonymous said...

How about his bar tab. Who is paying for that?

Anonymous said...

This VP is totally worthless. Delaware was glad to get rid of him.
Just another spend, spend, spend,
Democrat.