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Obama Administration Withholds FoIA Requests More Often Than Bush's
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."
I believed Bush when he said it was for our protection, I believe Obama when he says it's for our protection.
What's the matter? Why don't you trust Obama? is it because his skin is black? Seriously wtf guys, he's the President so I trust him and so should you!
Transparency is great, but there are times when it is pragmatic to not be transparent. I don't trust the Republicans not to use this to oppress people. The Dems...well they have their vices, but I don't feel like I personally an being threatened by an oppressive regime. Also, Breitbart is doesn't have much credibility after some of the nonsense that's gotten on there. Breitbart and Drudge are in bed together and are essentially the web's version of Fox News. Hopefully people will get around to realizing that sooner rather than later.
How much do you want to bet that at least 30,000 of those requests were for Obama's birth certificate?
"We are Microsoft. You shall be assimilated. Competition is futile."
This is one more piece of evidence that proves there is no difference between the republicrats or democans. If they were truly concerned about the constitution they would be more transparent, not more secretive. When the government keeps more secrets they are proving they can not be trusted as they are doing things that would not be constitutional. Both parties have demonstrated what George Bush II stated, that the constitution is "nothing more than a god-damned piece of paper." This is why it is imperative to vote libertarian.
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A vote against a Libertarian candidate is
a vote to abolish the Constitution itself.
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.
So, when a right wing source publishes something, the source doesn't matter, but when someone publishes a comment anonymously, it does?
The AC is wrong though. Pudge can read just fine. It's not that he can't understand what his opponents are saying. It's that he can't come up with any valid arguments against them. He deliberately misinterprets or dismisses what people he disagrees with say, so that his lack of a logical argument won't be patently obvious.
Pudge is the poster boy for right wing 'debate.' As with 99.999% of all right wingers, he is lost in cognitive dissonance, holding so many completely contradictory ideas in his head, he simply can not operate logically. And so he resorts to straw men, insults, ad hominems, disingenuous misinterpretation, and appeals to emotion.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
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