Most Transparent Administration EVAH!

[Weatherman2020]

Your taxes hard at work keeping you from knowing the truth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.

Obama's final year: US spent $36 million in records lawsuits

 

[Weatherman2020]

There's already a thread on this topic, and it was even dumber than this one.

Of course you think the government spending tens of millions to keep information from the American people they are entitled to see.
Obama is officially the least transparent President in US history.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Your taxes hard at work keeping you from knowing the truth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.

Obama's final year: US spent $36 million in records lawsuits

Yeah Judicial Watch and other rwnj organizations filed countless FOIA requests under Obama. That's why the cost was high. Not because of some insidious plan you rubes are scared of.

Btw, watch as those groups that were working so hard to get at the "truth" go into complete hibernation mode under Dump.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Your taxes hard at work keeping you from knowing the truth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.

Obama's final year: US spent $36 million in records lawsuits

Yeah Judicial Watch and other rwnj organizations filed countless FOIA requests under Obama. That's why the cost was high. Not because of some insidious plan you rubes are scared of.

Btw, watch as those groups that were working so hard to get at the "truth" go into complete hibernation mode under Dump.

FOIA requests to make public what should have already been public. And STILL Obama spent $36.2 MILLION fighting to keep the American people in the dark.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Your taxes hard at work keeping you from knowing the truth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.

Obama's final year: US spent $36 million in records lawsuits

Yeah Judicial Watch and other rwnj organizations filed countless FOIA requests under Obama. That's why the cost was high. Not because of some insidious plan you rubes are scared of.

Btw, watch as those groups that were working so hard to get at the "truth" go into complete hibernation mode under Dump.

FOIA requests to make public what should have already been public. And STILL Obama spent $36.2 MILLION fighting to keep the American people in the dark.

Because groups were spamming FOIA requests for political gain.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Your taxes hard at work keeping you from knowing the truth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.

Obama's final year: US spent $36 million in records lawsuits

Yeah Judicial Watch and other rwnj organizations filed countless FOIA requests under Obama. That's why the cost was high. Not because of some insidious plan you rubes are scared of.

Btw, watch as those groups that were working so hard to get at the "truth" go into complete hibernation mode under Dump.

FOIA requests to make public what should have already been public. And STILL Obama spent $36.2 MILLION fighting to keep the American people in the dark.

Because groups were spamming FOIA requests for political gain.

Why do you need to lie? Oh yeah, you're a Soros stooge.
If the information had already been public as it should have been, there would have been no FOIA requests.
And Obama fighting those requests (and LOSING HIS FIGHTS) is what cost taxpayers, dufus.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Your taxes hard at work keeping you from knowing the truth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.

Obama's final year: US spent $36 million in records lawsuits

Yeah Judicial Watch and other rwnj organizations filed countless FOIA requests under Obama. That's why the cost was high. Not because of some insidious plan you rubes are scared of.

Btw, watch as those groups that were working so hard to get at the "truth" go into complete hibernation mode under Dump.

FOIA requests to make public what should have already been public. And STILL Obama spent $36.2 MILLION fighting to keep the American people in the dark.

Because groups were spamming FOIA requests for political gain.

Why do you need to lie? Oh yeah, you're a Soros stooge.
If the information had already been public as it should have been, there would have been no FOIA requests.
And Obama fighting those requests (and LOSING HIS FIGHTS) is what cost taxpayers, dufus.

Spamming FOIA requests is what cost taxpayers.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Your taxes hard at work keeping you from knowing the truth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.

Obama's final year: US spent $36 million in records lawsuits

Yeah Judicial Watch and other rwnj organizations filed countless FOIA requests under Obama. That's why the cost was high. Not because of some insidious plan you rubes are scared of.

Btw, watch as those groups that were working so hard to get at the "truth" go into complete hibernation mode under Dump.

FOIA requests to make public what should have already been public. And STILL Obama spent $36.2 MILLION fighting to keep the American people in the dark.

Because groups were spamming FOIA requests for political gain.

Why do you need to lie? Oh yeah, you're a Soros stooge.
If the information had already been public as it should have been, there would have been no FOIA requests.
And Obama fighting those requests (and LOSING HIS FIGHTS) is what cost taxpayers, dufus.

Spamming FOIA requests is what cost taxpayers.

Dufus, the courts all said the information should have been public.
Learn to read, Soros Stooge. The cost was in Obama fighting against informing the American people.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Flynn was a foreign agent paid a half a million to sell us out.

A pittance compared to how much the clintons and podesta got from them.

The tactic of blaming others for doing the same thing you've done as cover doesn't work with me.

What's that have to do with Obama spending more than any President in history on keeping information from the American people?

 

[Weatherman2020]

Flynn was a foreign agent paid a half a million to sell us out.

A pittance compared to how much the clintons and podesta got from them.

The tactic of blaming others for doing the same thing you've done as cover doesn't work with me.

What's that have to do with Obama spending more than any President in history on keeping information from the American people?

First that's a title. Second when you start caring about transparency? The answer is you don't and actively defend secrecy. Foh

 

[westwall]

Your taxes hard at work keeping you from knowing the truth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.

Obama's final year: US spent $36 million in records lawsuits

Yeah Judicial Watch and other rwnj organizations filed countless FOIA requests under Obama. That's why the cost was high. Not because of some insidious plan you rubes are scared of.

Btw, watch as those groups that were working so hard to get at the "truth" go into complete hibernation mode under Dump.

FOIA requests to make public what should have already been public. And STILL Obama spent $36.2 MILLION fighting to keep the American people in the dark.

Because groups were spamming FOIA requests for political gain.

Why do you need to lie? Oh yeah, you're a Soros stooge.
If the information had already been public as it should have been, there would have been no FOIA requests.
And Obama fighting those requests (and LOSING HIS FIGHTS) is what cost taxpayers, dufus.

Spamming FOIA requests is what cost taxpayers.

Wrong..FIGHTING legit FOIA requests is what cost the money. What's more, had obummer not been a lying sack of shit the information would have been readily available and not hidden, and locked away from public view.

 

[Kosh]

Obama was transparent, well in his far left religion he was transparent, the rest of course he was not!

 

[flacaltenn]

Mod Message:

Bad start here. Read the OP AGAIN. Confine the discussion to the costs and transparency of FOIA requests and other processes for "open government". .

 

[sealybobo]

Your taxes hard at work keeping you from knowing the truth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.

Obama's final year: US spent $36 million in records lawsuits

The federal government spent a record $3,355,970,000,000 in the first nine months of fiscal 2019 (October through June), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today.

Prior to this fiscal year, the most the federal government had ever spent in the October-through-June period was in fiscal 2018, when the Treasury doled out $3,199,795,700,000 in constant June 2019 dollars. Before last year, the most the federal government had ever spent in the first nine months of the fiscal year was in fiscal 2009, when it spent $3,176,577,910,000.

And that was to get us out of the Bush Great Recession

Trump’s Golf Trips Could Cost Taxpayers Over $340 Million

So I'll see your $36 million and raise you $340 million just so fat ass can golf.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Your taxes hard at work keeping you from knowing the truth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.

Obama's final year: US spent $36 million in records lawsuits

And it has not gotten any better under the new guy, in fact it is getting worse. But you will never admit to such a thing, not with your god in the White House.


Federal government sets new record for censoring, withholding files under FOIA

People who asked for records under the Freedom of Information Act received censored files or nothing in 78 percent of 823,222 requests, a record over the past decade. When it provided no records, the government said it could find no information related to the request in a little over half those cases.

The Freedom of Information Act is getting worse under the Trump administration


FOIA Lawsuits Surge in Trump Administration’s First Year | The FOIA Project

 

[xyz]

There's already a thread on this topic, and it was even dumber than this one.

Of course you think the government spending tens of millions to keep information from the American people they are entitled to see.
Obama is officially the least transparent President in US history.

What countries did he own Obama Hotels and Obama Golf Courses in?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Yeah Judicial Watch and other rwnj organizations filed countless FOIA requests under Obama. That's why the cost was high. Not because of some insidious plan you rubes are scared of.

Btw, watch as those groups that were working so hard to get at the "truth" go into complete hibernation mode under Dump.

FOIA requests to make public what should have already been public. And STILL Obama spent $36.2 MILLION fighting to keep the American people in the dark.

Because groups were spamming FOIA requests for political gain.

Why do you need to lie? Oh yeah, you're a Soros stooge.
If the information had already been public as it should have been, there would have been no FOIA requests.
And Obama fighting those requests (and LOSING HIS FIGHTS) is what cost taxpayers, dufus.

Spamming FOIA requests is what cost taxpayers.

Wrong..FIGHTING legit FOIA requests is what cost the money. What's more, had obummer not been a lying sack of shit the information would have been readily available and not hidden, and locked away from public view.

Since the response to FOIA reqeust have gotten even worse under Trump, is it safe to assume you also think that he is a lying sack of shit?

 

[westwall]

FOIA requests to make public what should have already been public. And STILL Obama spent $36.2 MILLION fighting to keep the American people in the dark.

Because groups were spamming FOIA requests for political gain.

Why do you need to lie? Oh yeah, you're a Soros stooge.
If the information had already been public as it should have been, there would have been no FOIA requests.
And Obama fighting those requests (and LOSING HIS FIGHTS) is what cost taxpayers, dufus.

Spamming FOIA requests is what cost taxpayers.

Wrong..FIGHTING legit FOIA requests is what cost the money. What's more, had obummer not been a lying sack of shit the information would have been readily available and not hidden, and locked away from public view.

Since the response to FOIA reqeust have gotten even worse under Trump, is it safe to assume you also think that he is a lying sack of shit?

That is a laughable assertion. FOIA requests under the obummer admin were record breaking. For someone who claims to be anti statist your whole political philosophy seems to be the exact opposite.

And, most of these are requests filed UNDER THE OBUMMER ADMIN! It takes years for these cases to go through the Courts.......Mr. progressive.

In Obama’s final year, U.S. spent $36 million in FOIA lawsuits
In Obama's final year, U.S. spent $36 million in FOIA lawsuits

Obama administration sets new record for withholding FOIA requests
Obama administration sets new record for withholding FOIA requests

 

[Norman]

Your taxes hard at work keeping you from knowing the truth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.

Obama's final year: US spent $36 million in records lawsuits

The Mueller investigation spent that amount investigating Trump - and nothing.

The current one is indeed the most transparent.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Because groups were spamming FOIA requests for political gain.

Why do you need to lie? Oh yeah, you're a Soros stooge.
If the information had already been public as it should have been, there would have been no FOIA requests.
And Obama fighting those requests (and LOSING HIS FIGHTS) is what cost taxpayers, dufus.

Spamming FOIA requests is what cost taxpayers.

Wrong..FIGHTING legit FOIA requests is what cost the money. What's more, had obummer not been a lying sack of shit the information would have been readily available and not hidden, and locked away from public view.

Since the response to FOIA reqeust have gotten even worse under Trump, is it safe to assume you also think that he is a lying sack of shit?

That is a laughable assertion. FOIA requests under the obummer admin were record breaking. For someone who claims to be anti statist your whole political philosophy seems to be the exact opposite.

And, most of these are requests filed UNDER THE OBUMMER ADMIN! It takes years for these cases to go through the Courts.......Mr. progressive.

In Obama’s final year, U.S. spent $36 million in FOIA lawsuits
In Obama's final year, U.S. spent $36 million in FOIA lawsuits

Obama administration sets new record for withholding FOIA requests
Obama administration sets new record for withholding FOIA requests

Yep, FOIA requests under the Obama admin were record breaking. And now those records are being broken yet again. So, you do agree that Trump is a lying sack of shit? Right???


Federal government sets new record for censoring, withholding files under FOIA

People who asked for records under the Freedom of Information Act received censored files or nothing in 78 percent of 823,222 requests, a record over the past decade. When it provided no records, the government said it could find no information related to the request in a little over half those cases.

The Freedom of Information Act is getting worse under the Trump administration


FOIA Lawsuits Surge in Trump Administration’s First Year | The FOIA Project