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Links:
So much for President Obamas Jan. 21 committment to unprecedented openness in government.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/
Click here for the Issa/Sensenbrenner letter.
This case is not like Dick Cheneys 2005 win-for-White-House-secrecy stemming from the 2001 lawsuit by green groups over Cheneys refusal to release documents from the National Energy Policy Development Group under the Freedom of Information Act.
In that case, a federal appeals court ruled that the NEPDG was not an agency subject to FOIA. But no one accused the NEPDG of conspiring to evade whatever record retention law might have been applicable.
Yes, this is the same Carol Browner who JunkScience.com exposed earlier this year as an official with Socialist International.
Click here for a copy of the Socialist International web page before Browners photo and name were scrubbed.
http://greenhellblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/si_browner_010209.pdf
This country has more Czars than Imperial Russia had.