The AP Makes Freedom of Information Requests to the Homeland Security Department and….”Political Considerations” Determine If the Information Will Be Released or not? – What the Hell? – Newsflash for Everyone in the US Government: You Work for US…NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND! – If A FOIA Request Comes In…..Respond to the Damn Thing!
From the “At Least Half of Official Washington Will be in Prison” by the summer of 2012 if a third-party candidate is elected to the Presidency of the United States, we have this story from the Associated Press on government agencies, the Homeland Security Department in this case, having political appointees deciding on which Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests to approve. No, we are not making this up!
It seems more and more that as the Stupidity of past decisions by Government Leaders continues to pile up and that there have been lots of people stealing BILLIONS OF DOLLARS from the American People (No, we have forgotten the “Great Wall Street Train Robbery of 2008” where the Wall Street Bastards stole BILLIONS from the American People with the FULL COOPERATION of the US Government!), one can only wonder if these Government Folks have been studying the techniques of Hitler and Stalin….
Here’s a Newsflash for the Bastards that are WORKING FOR US in Government on all levels in the United States:
WE THE PEOPLE own the AMERICAN REPUBLIC and you Bastards WORK FOR US! If the Associated Press or any other American sends a FOIA request to anyone in the US Government then that FOIA request better be acted on quickly because remember…
YOU BASTARDS WORK FOR US!
Ted Bridis of the Associated Press has this OUTRAGEOUS story:
Playing politics with public records requests
“For at least a year, the Homeland Security Department detoured requests for federal records to senior political advisers for highly unusual scrutiny, probing for information about the requesters and delaying disclosures deemed too politically sensitive, according to nearly 1,000 pages of internal e-mails obtained by The Associated Press.
The department abandoned the practice after AP investigated. Inspectors from the department’s Office of Inspector General quietly conducted interviews last week to determine whether political advisers acted improperly.
The Freedom of Information Act, the main tool forcing the government to be more open, is designed to be insulated from political considerations. Anyone who seeks information through the law is supposed to get it unless disclosure would hurt national security, violate personal privacy or expose confidential decision-making in certain areas.
But in July 2009, Homeland Security introduced a directive requiring a wide range of information to be vetted by political appointees for “awareness purposes,” no matter who requested it.”
“Awareness purposes?” That sounds something in Hitler’s government would have written and remember Barack Obama promised the most open government in US history!
We have a Newsflash for Barack Obama: Your Administration is the most private in US history and that is because the people around you are more interested in limiting “political damage” and getting you re-elected rather than doing what is right or legal even….
The AP continues…
“Career employees were ordered to provide Secretary Janet Napolitano’s political staff with information about the people who asked for records — such as where they lived, whether they were private citizens or reporters — and about the organizations where they worked.
If a member of Congress sought such documents, employees were told to specify Democrat or Republican.
This, despite President Barack Obama’s statement that federal workers should “act promptly and in a spirit of cooperation” under FOIA, and Attorney General Eric Holder’s assertion: “Unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles have no place in the new era of open government.””
Oh, that “Unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles have no place in the new era of open government” is RICH! Can you say….NOT!
First these Bastards have run up Trillions in Debt that we will never be able to pay back under any scenario and now when the AP makes FOIA requests for information about OUR GOVERNMENT the Homeland Security Department is determining if the information will be released based up “political” considerations….. Now, if that doesn’t Piss You Off…Nothing Will!
Again….YOU BASTARDS AND SOBs WORK FOR US….
….not the other way around! One can only wonder…where the Hell is today’s Teddy Roosevelt when we really need him?
