Obama Strips Judicial Watch of Media Status to Hinder Investigation

[AmericanFirst1]

Obama was exposed for illegally refusing to comply with 70% of all FOIA requests.

Again, JW has exposed so many lies, scandals, and even crimes...

Thank God JW has been making so many FOIA requests, which are legal.

JW's not that cool. They haven't been responsible for anything all that major. Anyways during republican Presidencies, they go into hibernation. So don't forget your hero is a paper tiger.

Maybe they are not needed?

 

[AmericanFirst1]

It's hilarious that JW blasts the Obama administration for fighting FOIA requests, while bragging about the record number of FOIA requests they've made.

In the OP's article JW says Obama has spent twice as much money fighting FOIA lawsuits as Dubya the Moron did, but they fail to mention that they had ZERO interest in filing FOIA requests during Dubya's administration. While they obsess over it now.

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So they're so incompetent obama is trying to shut them down as well as your thinking they're a bunch of stooges.????
Come on Old School, I've seen you do better than this.

I never said they were incompetent. They've certainly made a lot of money off of you rubes. Like Ann Coulter, Hannity, etc.

Made it honestly, which can't be said for Hillary.

 

[The Professor]

It's hilarious that JW blasts the Obama administration for fighting FOIA requests, while bragging about the record number of FOIA requests they've made.

In the OP's article JW says Obama has spent twice as much money fighting FOIA lawsuits as Dubya the Moron did, but they fail to mention that they had ZERO interest in filing FOIA requests during Dubya's administration. While they obsess over it now.

You say, “It's hilarious that JW blasts the Obama administration for fighting FOIA requests, while bragging about the record number of FOIA requests they've made.” Apparently, you see an inconsistency between those statements whereas a person of average intelligence would not. Judicial Watch, an organization I financially support, was simple trying to reveal that it had been successful in obtaining information IN SPITE OF THE ADMINISTRATION'S ATTEMPT TO WITHHOLD IT. Now do you get it? I doubt it.

You also said, “...but they [Judicial Watch] fail to mention that they had ZERO interest in filing FOIA requests during Dubya's administration. While they obsess over it now.” Zero interest? I know you're joking.

“In July 2003 Judicial Watch joined the environmental organization Sierra Club in suing the George W. Bush administration for access to minutes of Vice President Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force.[10] After several years of legal wrangling, in May 2005 an appeals court permitted the Energy Task Force's records to remain secret.[ ] Judicial Watch called the decision "a defeat for open government" and Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch said the ruling fit the trend of increasing secrecy in the Bush administration. Judicial Watch was involved in a similar legal dispute with Vice President Dick Cheney in 2002 when the group filed a shareholder lawsuit against Halliburton. The lawsuit, which accused Halliburton of accounting fraud, alleged that "when Mr. Cheney was chief executive of Halliburton, he and other directors inflated revenue reports, boosting Halliburton's share price." As reported by the Wall Street Journal the court filing claims the oil-field-services concern overstated revenue by a total of $445 million from 1999 through the end of 2001.

“In 2006, Judicial Watch sued the Secret Service to force the release of logs detailing convicted former lobbyist Jack Abramoff's visits to the White House. This resulted in the release of a number of documents."

Judicial Watch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Perhaps JW has filed more FOIA requests during the Obama administration because they have been engaged in much more notorious conduct than the Bush administration. Apparently you've forgotten about Obama's scandals such as IRS, Fast and Furious, Benghazi (Obama and Clinton lied about the video being the cause of the terrorist attack), snooping on reporters, paying ransom for hostages, trading traitor Bergdahl for top level terrorist leaders, the many lies about Obama Care, the illegal support of terrorist groups to overthrow the legitimate governments of Libya, Syria and Egypt, the military failures in Iraq and Afghanistan and the infamous deal with Iran. I believe JW had a good reason for each request they made under the FOIA. Perhaps you can enlighten the rest of us by letting us know which specific FOIA requests made by JW during the Obama Administration you consider were totally baseless.

Of course, there is another possibility you have failed to consider. Perhaps Bush was simply more open than the Obama administration and cooperated with requests for information under the FOIA. Obama's claim that his administration is the most transparent in history is one of the biggest jokes of all time. It ranks right up there with such funnies as “If you like your doctor you can keep him” and “If you like your health plan you can keep it.”

 

[JimBowie1958]

Gangster government.

Political operatives within the Obama administration wrongly punished conservative legal group Judicial Watch, stripping it of “media” status and trying to force it to pay higher fees for its open-records requests, the General Services Administration inspector general said in a letter released Thursday.

The GSA botched several high-profile open-records requests, delaying them for months while political appointees got involved, Inspector General Carol F. Ochoa said. The findings come at a time when the administration is facing charges that it is slow-walking open-records requests for Hillary Clinton’s emails, as well as other requests.

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And where are the Republican leaders in Congress to put a stop to it?

The Founding Fathers gave Congress the POWER OF THE PURSE FOR JUST THIS REASON.

WHY DONT REPUBLICANS USE IT?


Because they are COWARDS.