The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects Office of Administration, which is in charge of archiving emails, to the Freedom of Information Act, claiming that court rulings find its office is not subject to the transparency law.
This comes on the heels of Hillary Clinton’s scandal where she stored years of state emails on her private server.
The exemption of the Office of Administration from the FOIA is listed in the Federal Register as a final rule, meaning that there will be no opportunity for public comment.
The timing of this removal brought some questions to the transparency advocates because it was on National Freedom of Information Day and during the debate over the preservation of Obama administration records. And it’s Sunshine Week, a week where news organization and watchdog groups bring issues of government transparency to the forefront.Anne Weismann of the liberal Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said:
“The irony of this being Sunshine Week is not lost on me.”
For 30 years, the Office of Administration has responded to FOIA requests. Until the Obama administration, groups on the left and right used the records to shed light on how the White House works.
“This is an office that operated under the FOIA for 30 years, and when it became politically inconvenient, they decided they weren’t subject to the Freedom of Information Act any more.” Tom Fitton from Judicial said.
CREW sued over e-mails that were deleted by the White House.
A federal appeals court in Washington ruled that the Office of Administration was not subject to the FOIA in 2009.
The appeals court ruled the White House would be required to archive the e-mails and not release them to the FOIA. Now the White House e-mails must be released under the Presidential Records Act, that will be five years after the end of the administration.
The rule change makes it so there will not be a formal process for the public to request the White House voluntarily disclose records. These records include the White House visitor logs.
The White House didn’t say why it waited almost six years to acknowledge the court ruling of regulations.
Brandi Hoffine, a White House spokeswoman says that the administration remains committed to work towards unprecedented openness in government. She stated:
“Over the past six years, federal agencies have gone to great efforts to make government more transparent and more accessible than ever, including by making information available to the public via our Open Government initiative and improving the FOIA process.”
Rick Blum, coordinator of the Sunshine in Government initiative for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press was not happy with ruling. He says the bigger issue is the that the Office of Administration is responsible for record-keeping. With the Clinton e-mail controversy, there should be more scrutiny of the record-keeping practices he thought.
“I think what we’ve all learned in the last few weeks is the person who creates a record–whether it’s running a program or writing an e-mail–is the one who gets to decide whether it’s an official record,” Blum said. “And there ought to be another set of eyes on that. That’s the essential problem.”
The military needs to go in and remove the corrupt government all the way down to the city level then remove all followers of islam from the united states
This from those (him) who promised the most transparent administration ever. Why am I shocked…
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Islam: The so called perverted right of men to subjugate of women and children as part of a violent sex cult has nothing to do with who man is or True God. “Hue man” means light being. Man is a being of light one with the Spirit of infinite being and light that is the Intelligence life force and primordial “I” of each one’s notional ego “i”
To bow 5 times a day in thanks to the moon for granting the right to sexually terrorize peace loving men women and children is abominable horrific. Even Angela Jolie reporting rape as a vehicle to subjugate is too good to actually say it for what it really is, a sex cult perversion.
Yet Globalists and their controlled media drone on that this is the way to peace because Mephistopheles’ so called perfect man is to be emulated.
Why? Because they envision another modern day version of the Ottoman Empire, a dumbed down totally sexually terrorized society that is now upon us that at least some Americans are resisting against total media and corporatist onslaught.
Multiculturalism and racism code for White genocide
https://youtu.be/2zMzeKBEvaQ
Time for the people of Europe to claim asylum Sent from my iPhone
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rIcltV7r-nM
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/02/political-correctness-protects-muslim-rape-culture/
Watch and listen the real history of Islam.
http://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y
http://conservativetribune.com/bombshell-about-mosques/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=PostBottomSharingButtons&utm_content=2015-12-07&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
http://pamelageller.com/2016/01/norway-oslo-police-we-have-lost-the-city.html/
CNN reporter call for mass jihad rape of white women
http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=2749
Feminists starting to get how rape is used as a means of conquest.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/16/old-school-feminist-slams-establishment-calls-for-debate-on-islam-without-political-correctness/
I bet they can’t EXEMPT their sorry asses from bullets! You people up there get some balls and get rid of them.
It’s transparent all right, you see every damn color except white!
How convenient.
Evil tyrant
.AMERICA WANTS TRUMP….Made America Great Again.
That’s illegal in its self. The cannot form any law they don’t obey. All laws apply to all men in the land.