DC court declares official White House visitor logs are NOT subject to Freedom of Information Act
The Freedom of Information Act was intended to allow ordinary citizens to see copies of government records that weren't officially classified. It's pretty much worked as intended.
Ever since the Freedom of Information Act was passed, the official logs of visitors to the White House have been presumed to be just like other unclassified government records, and thus available for public examination.
Ah, but you must remember, citizen, that under the reign of Emperor Obama laws don't mean what they say. The Emperor can change or simply ignore any laws he likes, at his sole whim.
Thus when a conservative organization learned that certain officials had visited the White House a huge number of times in a short period, right before the agency those officials chaired took some critical lawbreaking action, the organization asked for copies of the official WH visitors log.
The Obama administration told them--politely, of course--to fuck off. So they sued in federal court.
Guess what? Last Friday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously ruled that visitor logs for the office of the president are not "agency records" and thus are not subject to FOIA requests.
Yep. And here you thought Obama had solemnly promised that his administration would be the “most transparent in history,” eh? Well that's okay, Democrats: That lofty promise helped get him elected, and that's all that matters.
You may well be wondering how the Secret Service could possibly be considered not a government agency. Cuz, you know, for the court to rule that the logs aren't "agency records," the SS couldn't be a gummint agency, eh?
Well you'll have to ask the magnificent personages who sit on the DC court of appeals.
Oh, that's right: YOU CAN'T. Because you don't have "standing." According to virtually every higher court in the U.S. NO citizen has the legal standing to sue the government to resolve ANY question--from where Obama was born to whether Obamacare is unconstitutional to whether attacking Syria without getting congressional approval is legal.
Your job, citizen, is to shut the fuck up and pay your taxes like a good serf.
"Mine will be the most transparent administration in history" joins the scores of other famous bullshit statements from Obama, like "If you like your doctor and insurance plan you can keep it," and "Your taxes won't go up one dime because of this law." And the claim that the "individual mandate" in Obamacare is either a tax (if they need it to be) or NOT a tax but a "penalty" (if they need it to be that instead).
You Dems getting the picture yet? Nah, probably not. After all, you clearly subscribe to the notion that all that matters is winning.
Ever since the Freedom of Information Act was passed, the official logs of visitors to the White House have been presumed to be just like other unclassified government records, and thus available for public examination.
Ah, but you must remember, citizen, that under the reign of Emperor Obama laws don't mean what they say. The Emperor can change or simply ignore any laws he likes, at his sole whim.
Thus when a conservative organization learned that certain officials had visited the White House a huge number of times in a short period, right before the agency those officials chaired took some critical lawbreaking action, the organization asked for copies of the official WH visitors log.
The Obama administration told them--politely, of course--to fuck off. So they sued in federal court.
Guess what? Last Friday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously ruled that visitor logs for the office of the president are not "agency records" and thus are not subject to FOIA requests.
Yep. And here you thought Obama had solemnly promised that his administration would be the “most transparent in history,” eh? Well that's okay, Democrats: That lofty promise helped get him elected, and that's all that matters.
You may well be wondering how the Secret Service could possibly be considered not a government agency. Cuz, you know, for the court to rule that the logs aren't "agency records," the SS couldn't be a gummint agency, eh?
Well you'll have to ask the magnificent personages who sit on the DC court of appeals.
Oh, that's right: YOU CAN'T. Because you don't have "standing." According to virtually every higher court in the U.S. NO citizen has the legal standing to sue the government to resolve ANY question--from where Obama was born to whether Obamacare is unconstitutional to whether attacking Syria without getting congressional approval is legal.
Your job, citizen, is to shut the fuck up and pay your taxes like a good serf.
"Mine will be the most transparent administration in history" joins the scores of other famous bullshit statements from Obama, like "If you like your doctor and insurance plan you can keep it," and "Your taxes won't go up one dime because of this law." And the claim that the "individual mandate" in Obamacare is either a tax (if they need it to be) or NOT a tax but a "penalty" (if they need it to be that instead).
You Dems getting the picture yet? Nah, probably not. After all, you clearly subscribe to the notion that all that matters is winning.
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