BushCo removes FOIA notation from govt websites
September 5th, 2007 | by Dusty | Published in Corruption in Govt | 5 Comments
Seems the Assholes running our federal government have removed every trace of information regarding the Freedom of Information Act from all government websites recently.
This should piss off everyone..and I mean everyone, regardless of party affiliation. It seems our current administration doesn’t want to provide information on how to use the Freedom of Information Act, also known as FOIA, and in fact is trying to keep citizens from accessing such information. From a RawStory article:
Sometime over the weekend, White House computer technicians removed from government Web sites any references to the Office of Administration or its previous compliance with Freedom of Information Act requests.
Where visitors once just found information about how to file public records requests or view annual reports on the Office of Administration’s FOIA compliance, the White House has appended the following admonition:
“The Office of Administration, whose sole function is to advise and assist the President, and which has no substantial independent authority, is not subject to FOIA and related authorities. However, these pages have been maintained due to the Presidential Records Act.”
Two other sites that previously listed the OA as subject to FOIA regulations have since been updated to reflect the opposite position, with similar stark denials of public accessibility at the top of each page.
George Orwell’s book has come alive once again, thanks to the Bush Administration. What we don’t know CAN hurt us.
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September 5th, 2007at 4:14 pm(#)
It FFing sucks! This idiot will not stop and he still has a year and a half to screw us and the world more. Just watch what he is going to do as he speeds the process up because time “may” be running out. If you want to get things going on theRepub debate tonight on Fox feel free. I put in my two cents and you can too. ioposted it on my Blog. I woulldn’t mind being a fly on the wall!
You know, Larry sent me a link I think on yesterdays story that will blow your mind. You think your pissed now, we just keep friggen taking it!
September 5th, 2007at 8:34 pm(#)
Does the idiot think people aren’t going to notice this or is it he just doesn’t care.
I choose the latter.
September 5th, 2007at 10:58 pm(#)
The text on the picture says “It takes an idiot to raze a constitution.” I think some small village in Texas is missing it’s idiot, and I hope he’s returned soon.
September 5th, 2007at 11:43 pm(#)
LOL Earl! I hope so too!
September 6th, 2007at 11:06 am(#)
Bush on Bush to Robert Draper’s “Dead Certain” about STRATEGIC THOUGHT
Iran’s a destabilizing force. And instability in that part of the world has deeply adverse consequences, like energy falling in the hands of extremist people that would use it to blackmail the West. And to couple all of that with a nuclear weapon, then you’ve got a dangerous situation. … That’s what I mean by strategic thought. I don’t know how you learn that. I don’t think there’s a moment where that happened to me. I don’t know that there’s a moment, Robert. I really — You either know how to do it or you don’t.
Think about that for a moment. The press enabled the social promotion of a baffoon unfit to run a taco stand into the White House. Why? The Very Important Professional People at the Post, the Times et al held the accomplished Al Gore to a higher standard than obvious slacker George Bush.
It is said that there is a fool born every minute. Clearly there were no fools born for at least an hour after W was born. Humanity needed that much time to take up the slack.