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DOJ Drops FOIA Rule To Permit Lying
schwit1 writes "The Department of Justice has canceled a controversial revision to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) rules that opponents said would have allowed federal agencies to lie about the existence of records. In a letter to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley on Thursday, the DOJ wrote that the proposed rule 'falls short' of its commitment to transparency, and it 'will not include that provision when the Department issues final regulations.' The concern now is that the DOJ has been lying for some time and this rule was an attempt to provide cover for past denials concerning the existence of documents."
Right, he's ending the policy now that he's had three years in office. I'd be impressed if he did this in his first 100 days, not when he's running for a second term and his polling numbers are under water.
Still pretty sure there's plenty of blame to go around. This administration has not been very forthcoming when it comes to things like tax payers' money flushed down the toilet propping up "green" companies, where bailout money has been spent, how American made weapons are ending up in the hands of illegal alien murderers, and why there are so many illegal aliens in this country in the first place.
This administration has had ample opportunity to explain its actions and policies to Congress and the people (but I repeat myself) but has chose to delay, obfuscate, and outright lie instead.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
There are two doors. Each guarded by one guard. Both will tell you which door goes where (one to where you want to go, the other to certain doom), but there's a catch. You can only ask one of them, and one always tells the truth while the other always lies. So you ask one of them "If I had asked the other guard which door was the correct door, which door would he have pointed to?", and whichever door he points to, you take the other one. It's a twisted logic, but there you go.
The double negation is superfluous. You need merely ask, "What answer would you give to the question 'Which door is the correct one?'?", and you'll get the correct answer regardless of which guard you asked. The lying guard would lie about his lie, canceling it out.
In general, it is safe and legal to kill your children. -- POSIX Programmer's Guide
I don't see why not. Eric Holder is a total dimwit, whose illustrious career involves having covered up federal involvement in the OKC bombing. He has rather systematically assaulted Americans' 2nd amendment rights since he first entered office.
Obama could show him the door at any time. He pretends to be some kind of Constitutional expert, so it's not like he's out of his element.
Yet he's still there, lying to Congress about shipping guns to drug cartels. Why?
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
um.... nope. If you asked the liar that one he will point you to the wrong door, and you pick the other one. If you ask the truthsayer and he points to teh correct door and you pick the other one... you're dead. You're playing the odds there.
It's in the wording.
By asking the question in the form I gave, the response from the liar would be to point to the death door, since he is indicating not his answer but the answer the other guard would have given and lying about it. The truthsayer would also point to the death door since that is the door the liar (having just demonstrated) would have pointed to. Either way the answer to the question will be the wrong door so you go through the other one.
It's not a double negation. It's a twist of logic.
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
No kidding.
The corrupt, corporate donk sucking politicians in congress would impeach him in no time flat, if the media owned by the same corporate sector even allowed such a reformer to get into the whitehouse in the first place.