Posted on 11/28/2015 7:51:25 AM PST by MtnClimber
Intrepid reporter Kathryn Watson at The Daily Caller News Foundation just wanted to get copies of administrative subpoenas issued by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC replied to her Freedom of Information Act request with obstruction.
Nobody knows how many administrative subpoenas are issued by government agencies. Administrative subpoenas are warrants for records such as private “papers†and emails. They are issued unilaterally by government bureaucrats, and are impossible to reconcile with the Fourth Amendment’s requirements of "oath and affirmation" of "probable cause" before neutral judges.
Watson and The Daily Caller News Foundation have been doing the work that Congress has failed to do in its oversight functions, and have issued multiple FOIA requests to various government agencies to get a sense of how many of these subpoenas are issued.
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Who knows how many different middle names dear leader has had, but Transparency is not one of them.
One thing we can count on is that the republican party will be all over it and make the dems abide by the law.
After all, they do it to us all the time.
The establishment politicians get drunk on their power. I think the only cure is term limits so they will know they will face the abuses of power they may or may not choose to use.
Needs be real penalties but the same people making the laws abuse them so its a non starter.
The Planners will never draft a plan that eliminates the Planners.
How dare you question us?
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