No header. I told you, I don't know the issue. I come to FR to get informed. You got information, give it. I see your issue now. You're concerned that the executive branch rather than the legislative is entering into these discussions. When I entered this thread I clearly asked why the feds getting into trade means shadow government. You took a real long trip to simply say, it doesn't if it's done by the legislative, but it does if it's done by the executive. Correct?
Hardly a long trip. But if you noticed, the whole article is about how the Executive Branch is abolut the issue of the Shadow Government. This is not a function of normal constitutional channels.
The legislative branch is the antithesis of any such creation...it derives all of its authority from elections. The Executive appears to be going beyond its charter.
And that's confirmed by the documents they did and didn't provide. The ones they didn't provide are not classified...
Yet.
Those withheld documents, since they are not classified...are clearly pivotal and foundational according to the specific references in the documents they did turn over....therefore cannot be legally withheld from the FOIA requests.
The conclusion is inescapable that they are stonewalling. Trying to stretch this out into 2009.
A huge game of "keep-away" like the Xlinton's used to play with investigators of their shenanigans.