Confession. I was just kidding way back in 2007 when I said Barack Obama sounded like the name of a strongman from a Caribbean banana republic.
Laughingly… I said it laughingly.
A new report says the Obama administration moved to obstruct transparency shortly after the president took office in 2009, the Washington Examiner reported.
President Barack Obama promised a culture of transparency when he took office, but conservative government watchdog Cause of Action released a report Tuesday that says a previously overlooked 2009 memo from then-White House Counsel Greg Craig promoted a culture of opaqueness surrounding requests made through the Freedom of Information Act.
That memo directed executive branch officials to scrutinize any documents sought in FOIA requests that involved so-called “White House equities.” That exception gave the White House more leverage to redact or deny FOIA requests, according to the Cause of Action report.
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