Judge rules for White House in e-mail controversy [not subject to the Freedom of Information Act]

Yahoo ^

[library user]

Keith Olbermann is going to be so p!ssed on tonight’s show about this. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly will make his “Worst Person In the World” for sure.

[wastedyears]

One set of laws for the White House, one set for Congress, one set for the Senate, one set for SCOTUS, one set for local and state legislators, and the largest and most restrictive for us.

[DesertRenegade]

I’m curious to see how the liberal MSM spins this tonight.

[mysterio]

Bad decision. People lose, future administrations gain a place to hide documents.

[Lord_Baltar]

DING DING DING!!!

We have a Winner!!

[fella]

Information is power. it's Use, partial use and it's withholding are the ways that power is used. To run a nation or a company information needs to be kept secret otherwise it has no power. A completely open government would be powerless.

[antiRepublicrat]

“The White House has acknowledged problems with its e-mail system, while saying that if any e-mail is missing, it can be found on disaster recovery backup tapes.”

The FOIA request looks like it was meant to see if the White House is telling the truth. It wasn't for the emails themselves, but for information about what happened to the emails.

[doug from upland]

I am pretty sure that Melanie Sloan, the Exec Director of CREW was once an aide for Conyers. Overwhelming, they are in the business of exposing Republicans, not Dems.

[mkjessup]

I’m sure the Supremes will quickly overturn this 5 - 4 with Kennedy writing for the majority!

And they will further rule that the White House must provide copies of all email correspondence to al Qaeda, and immediately make Internet access available to all terrorists currently in custody.

[Loud Mime]

I see no way that the court can overturn this decision. There are too many citations regarding the separation of powers in the Federalist Papers and Constituion.

Of course, the judges have to read and understand them first.

[GOPologist]

She was appointed by President Clinton on March, 1997.

[theDentist]

Oh, that’s just icing on the cake, isn’t it?

[TexasRedeye]

Of course, the judges have to read and understand them first.

When did these criteria become necessary for SCOTUS to do anything?

[GOPologist]

*******Oh, that’s just icing on the cake, isn’t it?*****

You are 100% correct.

[HawaiianGecko]

This is a good decision.  There is a difference between shielding the WH from FOIA requests and Justice Department requests.  The former is simply a fishing expedition hoping to find something to blow into an issue during an election season.  In the latter, the Justice department can get anything.  RE: Watergate, Nixon et al.

[TINS]

agreed. I actually hope the Dim congress does something to address this before Bush leaves office so that the Obamination doesn’t have a place to hide its own emails.

Of course, Bush will veto it. We the people are kind of screwed.

[TINS]

and you trust the Justice Department of an Obama administration to actually investigate anything he does? I trust FOIA much more than the Justice Department these days.

[rockinqsranch]

“This is a good decision. There is a difference between shielding the WH from FOIA requests and Justice Department requests. The former is simply a fishing expedition hoping to find something to blow into an issue during an election season.”

Thank you. You Get It.

[Republican Extremist]

I believe in the Seperation of Powers in the Constitution, so it’s a win for all Americans.

[Lord_Baltar]

Really?

So when there’s another Dem President, and his Administration refuses Republican demands for e-mails, you’ll be just fine with that, and publicly defend that action?