DOJ proposes lying, hiding existence of records under new FOIA rule

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  • What's not clear is whether this needs to pass Congress or will it be yet another Executive Order.
    I'm thinking that it will have to be an Exec Order for it to be able to be enacted. I doubt it could pass the House.

  • So I guess this means congress will be able to pick and choose exactly what rights the public has to know about what information we have always been able to legally know through the judicial system. It's bad enough that we can't find out what kind of communist manifesto this muslim studied under while he and his wildibeest studied in collage and now we can't find out about all his other scams and conspiracies he's run on the nation since he's been in office. Barry Alinsky Soetoro always has an ace up his sleeve. I hope the next POTUS repeals this travesty ASAP when they take office. Everyday he's in office appears to look more and more like a snowball headed for hell.

  • what happened to being the most open and transparent president ever, oh yea solyndra, fast and furious, fisker motors just to name a few.

  • If Bush had been president when this happened the libs would be whining and chanting all over the place but now they are too busy pooping on police cars and demanding communism to "care" about a little thing like this.

  • If the "People's Party" (extra heavy sarcasm) is supposed to be so honest and transparent, then why do they need a revision to the freedom of information act? Oh I know, "It's for the children"

    • Make sure you have an agonized look on your face, and wring your hands well when you say that.

  • So I get it, Liberals can Lie, Hide, Deny, and basically piss in your face if your an American Citizen, However if a conservative tried this there would be screaming, moaning, waling, and agony for the defilers of the constitution. However with Libturds, just another day at the office.

    What a bucket load of cow crap we have in Washington....

  • It could be worse; the new rule could require the government to lie, not just allow it. Apparently the Administration has already implemented the rule, anyway, judging by the river of falsehoods flowing from the White House.

  • Damn, the ACLU is on the right side of things for a change!

    Hey gang, its Goldilocks calling Papa Bear! Home from a day in the Red Lagoon, from where I post occasionally as "PsychoDad@Work," working amongst the leftist Pod People, carefully keeping up my bland grin as a political atheist. Wanted to pass on this lovely tidbit from one especially obnoxious behemoth of a broad, this is a literal quote more or less, that the vast majority of voters are uninformed and just plain stupid, that's why they are "undecided" in polls for so long, and so often vote the "wrong" way. Yes, she really said "stupid." And then leftards wonder at being called elitists. Well, if the vast majority of moderates, the "swing" voters, are just plain stupid, I hardly dare think what straight-ticket Republican voters are! Ironically -or perhaps expectedly- she as the most obnoxious foghorn since Leghorn is also the only one (aside from myself) who is not an atheist - Episcopal I believe, which hardly counts anymore, anyway. She's also the one who once declared that military veterans are dangerous because "they know all about guns." Every day I hear more unadulterated leftist lunacy than I can stomach, I mean stuff I read about but never quite believe that other people really think like that. *sigh* Gotta get out of the Massachusetts SSR and up to the New Hampshire Free State.

    Ya know folks, depending on context and audience, I'll gladly poke fun at the "real" right-wing fringe and conspiracy theorists and the black helicopters and FEMA camps etc etc but the last few months, the more I'm seeing of this administration the more I'm thinking that reality is falling in to line with paranoid fantasy. What IS the real deal with the November communication blackout, anyway????