Freddie Mac records exempt from FOIA (Obama Admin Denies FOIA Request)

Sunlight Foundation ^ | 03/26/2009 | Bill Allison

[BuckeyeTexan]

Bob Secter and Andrew Zajac of the Chicago Tribune report that, while researching what went at Freddie Mac during the period White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel served on the government sponsored enterprise’s board of directors, they were unable to get minutes of board meetings and other information:

The Obama administration rejected a Tribune request under the Freedom of Information Act to review Freddie Mac board minutes and correspondence during Emanuel’s time as a director. The documents, obtained by Falcon for his investigation, were “commercial information” exempt from disclosure, according to a lawyer for the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Freddie Mac executives cooked the books, mismanaged the firm, and ultimately drove it into the ground, costing taxpayers billions of dollars. The “commercial information” exemption is reserved for private companies–Freddie Mac is by no means a private company anymore.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Transparency ... except when it might implicate the White House Chief of Staff?

[IrishCatholic]

Transparency is for enemies of the revolution only.
This article will be reported to the local commissar.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Just another DemocRATik coverup going on in the District of Corruption. The politicians are out of control.

[Commander X]

So much for the most ethical and transparent administration ever!

[NonValueAdded]

“commercial information” exempt from disclosure

I wonder if AIG tried that response with the Banking Queen. /StupidQuestion

[Psycho_Bunny]

“BushHitler Is covering up for the criminal acts of the big business cronies in his administration!!”

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well this is news....

[nkycincinnatikid]

“This is “commercial” information exempt” from the requirements of government transparency.
How many times on this very forum were we Chicken Littles told the same crap before the government assumed all this “commercial” ventures losses.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

In other news...

New Obama Orders on Transparency, FOIA Requests

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related thread:

Will Obama’s Chief of Staff Return Money From Stock Options ...from... Freddie Mac ?

[mo]

Getting to look like the pitchfork brigade is going to have to go and “knock on the door” to get these.....

[org.whodat]

There has been plenty of dealings between aig and Rahm Emanuel,

[calcowgirl]

Just wait until that great black hole of Public Private Partnerships sucks in trillions of taxpayer dollars....
and your are also told to shove it because it is “commercial” information.

Absolutely disgusting.

[Diogenesis]

President Obama's (and Orwell's) United States of America (on deathwatch, March, 2009

Refusing FOIA Requests is Openness
Censorship is Transparency
Censoring Opposing Views is Fairness (Doctrine)
Freed terrorists deserve welfare, healthcare, college, and taxpayer funded IVF
Criminal Illegal Aliens Before American Veterans for Health Care
Criminal Illegal Aliens Before American Children for College
Obama-Controlled Neoslavery is Freedom
Medical Records Held by the State is Privacy
Rationing Healthcare Creates Jobs
Better Healthcare for US Officials is Wonderful
Four Score Missing Nuclear Weapons Computers is Security
A Two-tiered Tax System favoring Politicians is Fair
Eliminating US Military Capacity is Increasing Strength
Freed, Armed Terrorists Make for Improved American Safety
Bow before Zod and ACORN
War is Peace (*)
Freedom is Slavery (*)
Ignorance is Strength (*)

[ * from 1984, Orwell; rest instituted by President Obama ]

[April Lexington]

NO WAY! Add this to the birth certificate request!

[boomop1]

I will eliminate them.

[Doctor Raoul]

More transparancy.

Had these been a request for National Security info, Obama would have hand carried it to bin Laden.

[Lady Jag]

Isn't there anything we can do Constitutionally to take back America?

This administration has taken over the country and the insurgents in the WH and crooks in Congress all need to go.

They are destroying this country and there's nothing we can do but stand on the street with a sign?

[Tex Pete]

[BuckeyeTexan]

Exactly. Transparency when it helps the enemy. Protectionism when it helps their friends.