“All agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open government. The presumption of disclosure should be applied to all decisions involving FOIA.” -- President Barack Obama, January 21, 2009
Obama becomes most secretive President in history as denied requests for information hits record
Didn't read the article but I did try to see how many times in a row I could say the le without getting tongue tied. I always screw up schmansparency on the 3rd time.
Transparency Schmansparency Transparency Schmansparency Transparency Schmansschmparency...Dammit!
On this count Obama emulates the brazenness of his predecessor. No peeks.
I tripped on the first one. Schmansparency is apparently tougher than it looks.
My head asplode!
Okay, Libya. …................. President Obama ...............supported .......... the uprising, correct? President Obama called for the removal of ..... Gaddafi. Just wanted to make sure we’re talking about the same thing before I say yes, I agree, or no, I didn’t agree. I do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason ….... no, that’s a different one …................................................. .... I gotta go back, see …................. got all this stuff twirling around in my head. Specifically ........ what are you asking me that I agree or … not disagree with Obama?
Can only get worse as more people ask.
It's funny hearing the party of Grover Norquist and Citizens United arguing about transparency. Still, Obama is a turd.
Yoni is a bit late to the "Obama sucks on civil liberties/transparency" party. And by "a bit", I mean a few years.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/...oring-law.htmlOn 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 do ents 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.
The Bloomberg survey was designed in part to gauge the timeliness of responses, which Attorney General Eric Holder called “an essential component of transparency” in a March 2009 memo. About half of the 57 agencies eventually disclosed the out-of-town travel expenses generated by their top official by Sept. 14, most of them well past the legal deadline.
No President will ever stop, or even slow down, the MIC/surveillance/police/secrecy apparatus (a very well paid group) completely ed up on 9/11 and terrorism, and Human-Americans are, will be indefinitely paying the price for THEIR up.
Yes, Barry was a huge hypocrite on this issue, but given his career, he was as conventional as could be.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 09-29-2012 at 12:57 PM.
Barry Soetoro didn't like his Christian name, so he had it changed to Barack Obama (which means lightning from the heavens in hebrew; aka Satan the Fallen Angel) Fun fact.
@boutons:
Barry normalized the outrages you still excoriate his political opponents for, after promising to change them.
You're the hypocrite, tbh.
@Asshole
The surveillance/secret police apparatus is not micro-managed by Barry's or any WH. It's a govt unto itself, much like the MIC.
Trying to pin its inevitable growth and penetration into Human-Americans' lives specificallhy on Obama is pure bull . He didn't start it, didn't stop, and I guarantee you, GeKKKo wouldn't touch it.
Gone are the days when a Democratic President has any real balls or a damn spine.
RIP JFK
Son, the government was ing up on foreign policy and civil liberties LONG before 9/11, tbh....
Obama kept it going. With you I guess the buck stops at the top only if a Republican is in charge.
I would give him some marks for trying, but it seems little more than lip service. About on par with a lot of his other campaign promises, which is to say not.
(shrugs)
Romney would still be worse, I have absolutely no doubt, since his administration would be populated with former Cheneyites.
I will probably vote for the Green party candidate, assuming she is on the ballot in Texas. I know where my state is going anyway, so I am a bit more free to vote my conscience.
Marks for trying? Obama tried how, please?
My guess he did nothing specifically. It simply runs on its own fuel and logic. The Repugs and their JINO DID rape FISA and build the TSA monstrosity, not Barry.
But the foreign policy that set the stage for these abuses was enacted by decades of corrupt Republican AND Democrat administrations, dumbass......
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