FOIA? Forget it! White House transparency.

AuthorSuderman, Peter
PositionCitings - Freedom of Information Act - Brief article

In June reporters from Bloomberg News filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with 57 federal agencies asking for official records of travel by agency heads during 2011. Although agencies are legally required to disclose such records within 20 days of a request, only eight managed to do so.

In fact, Bloomberg reported in September, only half of the agencies responded at all. Cabinet agencies that work directly under the president were among the worst offenders: Nineteen out of 20 failed to comply with FOIA.

This stonewalling is at odds with President Barack Obama's...

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