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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.
About as transparent as lead...
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