Posted on 03/14/2017 6:12:00 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.
For a second consecutive year, the Obama administration set a record for times federal employees told citizens, journalists and others that despite searching they couldn’t find a single page of files that were requested.
And it set records for outright denial of access to files, refusing to quickly consider requests described as especially newsworthy, and forcing people to pay for records who had asked the government to waive search and copy fees.
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What I want is a true copy of his birth certificate, all his scholastic records and then I want time to go backwards and we’ll impeach his ***.
How much did they spend on shredders and bleachbit? Not much reason for him to protect records if they stay around for the next administration to release them. He may have wanted to hide some things to protect Hillary during the campaign and no need to hide after. But once she lost everything that makes him look bad had to go.
The most corrupt, treasonous administration in the history of the United States.
Tyranny is expensive.
It’s transparent what the RATs want!
Such a monster has never inhabited White House before.
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