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Obama Closes Doors on Openness
Newsweek ^
| Jun 20, 2009
| Michael Isikoff
Posted on 06/20/2009 3:42:16 PM PDT by Pacothecat
As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding "secret energy meetings" with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for Secret Service logs showing the identities of coal executives who had visited the White House to discuss Obama's "clean coal" policies. One reason: the disclosure of such records might impinge on privileged "presidential communications." The refusal, approved by White House counsel Greg Craig's office, is the latest in a series
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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhoenergy; bhofascism; cleancoal; communism; democrats; economy; energy; gregcraig; isikoff; newsweek; obama; obamasecrets; second100days; transparency
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To: Pacothecat
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posted on
06/20/2009 3:44:48 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Spay or Neuter your liberal today!)
To: Pacothecat
It’s amazing. No ‘Privileged Communications’ for the prior Administration and nothing but ‘Privileged Communications’ for the current Administration.
Ain’t “OPEN” government wonderful! [barf]
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posted on
06/20/2009 3:45:20 PM PDT
by
K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
To: Pacothecat
Wow! While ‘Newsweak’ isn’t exactly eating their own, it’s nice to see them nibbling around the edges of 0bama!
“This reversal of Bush policy was intended to restore a standard set by President Clinton’s attorney general, Janet Reno.”
*SPIT* Worst. AG. EVER.
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posted on
06/20/2009 3:47:53 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Pacothecat
This nut job is acting like these logs are attorney/client privlidged. They are not. We pay this nut jobs salary and he should come across.
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posted on
06/20/2009 3:48:58 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: Pacothecat
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posted on
06/20/2009 3:53:49 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: Diana in Wisconsin
*SPIT* Worst. AG. EVER.As Zero said, "You ain't seen nothin' yet"...just give Eric Holder a little more time.
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posted on
06/20/2009 3:54:12 PM PDT
by
greyfoxx39
(Is there a law that circumvents the use of the launch codes in the event of a CIC (coward in chief)
To: greyfoxx39
“...just give Eric Holder a little more time.”
*SHIVER*
We ain’t GOT much more time, LOL!
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posted on
06/20/2009 3:55:27 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Pacothecat
The all seeing, all feeling, all knowing, Obama has an “Openness Policy”. He will release anything he feels like releasing, and you better like it.
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posted on
06/20/2009 3:55:31 PM PDT
by
norwaypinesavage
(Global Warming Theory is extremely robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it)
To: Pacothecat
Still waiting on Mister Cellophane’s original birth certificate.
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posted on
06/20/2009 3:56:37 PM PDT
by
Julia H.
(Remember when dissent was patriotic?)
To: Pacothecat
Must be an -itch for the left to have to call out their own like Isikoff is doing. He knows the Internet will sooner or later make them do so or just continue their path to irrelevancy. I still hope for the later.
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posted on
06/20/2009 3:58:45 PM PDT
by
The South Texan
(The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
To: Pacothecat
Anyone surprised at the stuff the Obama administration is doing must have helped get them elected by pushing unwinable idealistic requirements.
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posted on
06/20/2009 4:01:26 PM PDT
by
Semper
To: Pacothecat
Surprise, politicians are hypocrites, and Democrats, with no major media to call them out, are masters of hypocrisy.
Will their rank & file buy their lies the next time around?
Of course they will. In fact, they'll lap it up.
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posted on
06/20/2009 4:07:36 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Pacothecat
Ahhah, hypocrisy is thy name, obozo!
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posted on
06/20/2009 4:19:59 PM PDT
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: Pacothecat
Obama’s pol;icy on openness was revealed when he had his birth certificate, college records, etc. sealed inside Cheyenne Mountain.
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posted on
06/20/2009 4:27:00 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
To: lilylangtree
Interesting to see that Clinton’s old lawyer, Greg Craig, is now White House counsel with Obama.
To: Dilbert San Diego
obozo is the clintoon regime redux with all the clintoonians.
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posted on
06/20/2009 4:40:21 PM PDT
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: Jeff Head
YOU FORGOT ‘HOPE AND CHANGE’.
To: Pacothecat
Team Obama is just trying to run out the clock, get whatever legislation they are pimping passed, and get it signed BEFORE the courts force them to release the logs.
They seem to be holding their hands over their eyes, refusing to see that case law on this is clear, and clearly against the WH position.
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posted on
06/20/2009 5:09:47 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
To: Pacothecat
It is not possible to close a door that has never been open.
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posted on
06/20/2009 5:11:51 PM PDT
by
TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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