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White House Office of Administration Not Subject to FOIA, Says White House
An anonymous reader writes with this story at USA Today: The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, making official a policy under Presidents Bush and Obama to reject requests for records to that office. The White House said the cleanup of FOIA regulations is consistent with court rulings that hold that the office is not subject to the transparency law.
He wasn't ready for the job. He can't work with people - if Clinton managed it with Gingrich, he could have done the same today. Hell, Gingrich was smarter than these boobs today. He has a Nixonian level of paranoia and vindictiveness. Lastly, he has Valerie Jarrett to insulate him from reality. He gives a good prepared speech and has the best political team money can buy, but he's a freaking cipher otherwise and entirely lacks the personal touch unarmed with a teleprompter.
Given the disconnect between his public persona and his actual performance, is it no wonder that most of the promises were broken? The promises were made by Axelrod and Plouffe...
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Nobody reads anymore:
"In 2009, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that the Office of Administration was not subject to the FOIA, "because it performs only operational and administrative tasks in support of the president and his staff and therefore, under our precedent, lacks substantial independent authority."
The appeals court ruled that the White House was required to archive the e-mails, but not release them under the FOIA. Instead, White House e-mails must be released under the Presidential Records Act — but not until at least five years after the end of the administration."
Nothing to see her folks.