Posted on 04/11/2016 12:37:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
As U.S. officials dealt with the fallout of the government’s once-secret “Cuban Twitter” program, they had one thing on their side: notorious delays in the federal Freedom of Information Act.
The government didn’t have copies of the documents, which formed the basis of an Associated Press investigation detailing a program on which taxpayers spent millions. But officials were worried that asking the contractor to hand over copies would risk making the details even more public. […]
USAID’s calculus — realizing that the nation’s public-records law can be so slow as to border on unusable — comes amid new data showing that delays to process requests from the public or journalists worsened under the Obama administration. Last year, the government also set a record for coming up short in finding documents.
The government’s responsiveness under FOIA is widely regarded as a barometer of its openness. President Barack Obama has said his administration is the most transparent in history. …
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And they are just discovering this NOW?
Fast and Furious, IRS, SecState emails and too many others to even count.
It takes a small army of lawyers to get info.
DK
They must be anticipating a GOP presidency and are trying to get back into practice. Well, that says a lot for the future.
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