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Obama Administration Withholds FoIA Requests More Often Than Bush's

Posted by timothy on from the no-conspiracy-necessary-note dept.

bonch writes "Agencies under the Obama administration cite security provisions to withhold information more often than they did under the Bush administration. For example, the 'deliberative process' exemption of the Freedom of Information Act was used 70,779 times in 2009, up from the 47,395 of 2008. Amusingly, the Associated Press has been waiting three months for the government to deliver records on its own Open Government Directive."

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  1. Wager by magus_melchior · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How much do you want to bet that at least 30,000 of those requests were for Obama's birth certificate?

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  2. Re:Biased much? by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    breitbart is utterly irrelevant

    Bullshit. You're giving attention and ad revenue to a political operative. As others have indicated, Slashdot could have linked to a "neutral" reproduction of the AP article.

  3. Re:Biased much? by bonch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    [citation needed]