US sets new record for denying, censoring government files

[g5000]

You forgot to check the other half of the equation:

Analysis Reveals Record Number Of FOIA Requests Filed Last Year

 

[Clementine]

Obama must have thought that his lapdog media helping him would make all the minions believe that what was reported is all there was to know. He claimed his administration would be transparent because that is what people want to hear. He never intended to actually deliver and was just pacifying those who want a trustworthy government. If not for FOX news and a few others, Obama may have gotten away with lying about being transparent.

Obama has been more secretive than most and his obedient media refuses to ask tough questions that would expose his gross lack of transparency.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

No matter how "bad" Mr. Obama may be, there are going to be those who side with him regardless. I'm not 100% sure but those who still stand behind him are either themselves racists who will never let go of slave mentality, free loaders who actually believe the Democrats will care for them, very lacking in IQ points or bleeding hearts who are inherently masochistically reaping what they believe they deserve (or combinations of those)

But like it or not, we have to deal with having an abundance of them in our society and they have as much say in affairs as anyone else.
And the Democrats are on a fast track to increasing the legions of their supporters.

But I personally think we need to get over it and accept we are moving in a very bad direction as a nation and stop all the talking and start more doing before that chance also passes. Tyrants, given time, will eventually stop the chatter one way or the other anyway.

What dynamic do you possibly think can stop this socialist trend away from our Constitutional Republic? THAT is what I desperately want to know.

 

[pwjohn]

Once again it is proved without a doubt, the opposite is always the result of the liberals stated intent. Obama promised to be the most open, and the opposite has happened. Then there is his use of the espionage act and treatment of whistle blowers shows that he is not only not the most open but perhaps the most closed administration in history.

US sets new record for denying censoring government files

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the second consecutive year, the Obama administration more often than ever censored government files or outright denied access to them under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.

The government took longer to turn over files when it provided any, said more regularly that it couldn't find documents, and refused a record number of times to turn over files quickly that might be especially newsworthy.

It also acknowledged in nearly 1 in 3 cases that its initial decisions to withhold or censor records were improper under the law — but only when it was challenged.

Its backlog of unanswered requests at year's end grew remarkably by 55 percent to more than 200,000.

The government's new figures, published Tuesday, covered all requests to 100 federal agencies during fiscal 2014 under the Freedom of Information law, which is heralded globally as a model for transparent government. They showed that despite disappointments and failed promises by the White House to make meaningful improvements in the way it releases records, the law was more popular than ever. Citizens, journalists, businesses and others made a record 714,231 requests for information. The U.S. spent a record $434 million trying to keep up.

I guess Obama Must have had something else in mind when he was talking about turning the page.

 

[Stephanie]

oh geeze, another lie by that man who promised the most Transparent Administration EVA. and look how many he duped...that should scare us more