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White House Office of Administration Not Subject to FOIA, Says White House

Posted by timothy on from the well-they-certainly-are-transparent dept.

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.

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  1. Most transparent government ever by Karmashock · · Score: 2, Interesting

    am I right guys?

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  2. Re:Transparency in Government is good! by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    those who think the true power browers will ALLOW a 3rd party candidate - you assholes are so out of touch with reality, you are helping to ruin things by giving people false hope.

    the only way to fix this is to totally break it and reinvent it.

    the current US system WILL NOT ALLOW FOR 3RD PARTY CANDIDATES. how long will it take you numbskulls to get this into your heads? america is NOT a free nation and those who run things alternate parties to keep us thinking we have a choice.

    the last few decades have been mostly the same, only with some minor details as differences, to give us the impression that we have a choice.

    we have NO CHOICE. we have not had a choice for decades; maybe not ever.

    "but I voted independant!" you say. yeah, how much good did that do? seriously? what did it accomplish?

    I wish you guys were right, but you are simply out of touch. the big guys control things and its a grand distraction to think that voting A or B (or C!) will have any meaningful impact.

    the sooner we all admit voting and 2party system is fully broken, the sooner we can get real change. until then, your cute 'vote for indie' does nothing at all but make you think you are superior, all the while, still playing the game set out for you by the real power brokers.

    and btw, you will never know the names of the real power brokers. the figureheads are just that; there to give you a reason to rally and fight 'the othe guy' over. but the real purse strings are held by those who are not elected and who are plutocrats, ultra rich who truly control how things go.

    I wish I was wrong! but experience shows that 'voting' has not done a damned thing to restore rights to the people and over time, things continue to get worse for us, not better, no matter WHO we 'vote' for.

    sigh - wish people would see this and stop believing in the fairy tale.

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  3. Re:Transparency in Government is good! by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not having direct power doesn't mean you can't have influence. They were given a decent opportunity comment on specifics of the ACA, and decided to rant about the bill's very existence and "socialism" instead.

    Their direct power level was determined by voters, not by O. You can't blame O for that. I'm thus not clear on what you are faulting O for. What specifically would you do different if you were O?

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